cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Perceived adherence and associated barriers to the national atopic dermatitis guideline: A survey among general practitioners
Creators: name: Ragamin, Aviël
name: van Halewijn, Karlijn F.
name: Schuttelaar, Marie L.A.
name: Lugtenberg, Marjolein
name: Pasmans, Suzanne G.M.A.
name: Elshout, Gijs
name: Schappin, Renske
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: General practitioners (GPs) have an important role in managing patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). Although pivotal, adherence to dermatological guidelines in general practice has not been assessed. To assess GPs’ perceived adherence and barriers to the Dutch AD guideline. A survey was conducted among 391 GPs in the Netherlands between December 2021 and May 2022. GPs rated their perceived adherence and perceived barriers concerning five key recommendations of the AD guideline, following an existing framework. The correlation between perceived adherence and barriers was investigated using Spearman’s rank correlation. A total of 213 GPs (54%) participated. Perceived adherence rates varied across recommendations (43.7% to 98.1%). Lowest adherence was reported for recommendations concerning topical corticosteroids (TCS). Across all recommendations, patient factors (65.6%; SD 11.6) and lack of applicability to specific patient groups (29.5%; SD 10.5) were reported most frequently as barriers. The overall correlation between adherence and barriers was strongest for knowledge (ρ .55; SD .10) and attitude-related factors (range: ρ .40--.62). GPs’ perceived adherence and barriers vary substantially across recommendations of the AD guideline. In particular, GPs reported lower adherence to recommendations concerning TCS. Next to patient-related factors, strong correlations between adherence perceived by GPs and knowledge and attitude-related barriers suggest the importance of addressing these factors as well to improve adherence.
Local lives, global stage: diasporic experiences and changing family formation practices on the Caribbean island of Saba, Netherlands Antilles
Creators: name: Sullivan, Amy Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Collectively, this body of research delineates the ways that contemporary Saban family life emerged through the creative interplay between past and present experiences of movement, labor, and family forged within the specificities of the on-going Saban Diaspora. Integrative sociodemographic and ethnographic analyses revealed that changes in these relationships have been most dynamic in the black population where non-marital childbearing and growing up in a non-marital home moved from a minority to a majority experience over the past 150 years and where many black women, through partner neglect or personal choice, came to inhabit the emotional and economic centers of their children's lives. Conversely, the social script for forming families in the white community stayed remarkably stable over time and is characterized by same-race marriage before childbearing and an increasingly challenged but still strong belief that women should primarily fulfill their roles as mother and homemaker while their men labor outside the domestic sphere. In addition to these general trends, divorce, multiple marriages, step-parent and half-sibling relationships, child support issues, and an increased prevalence of interracial and interethnic relationships and childbearing over the past 20 years have all added layers of complexity to family life in both communities and are connected to migration and labor experiences in myriad ways. Despite a gradual movement towards non-marital women-centered family forms in the black community and recent diversification of family life in the white community after a prolonged period of entrenched family-building norms, historical fluctuations in family formation patterns and Saban women's own perspectives on family life all show period and cohort-specific effects that are crucial to our understanding of how modern Saban family life evolved within the context of successive labor regimes and associated migration trends. Detailed quantitative and qualitative descriptions of these variations not only place family formation processes in their appropriate historical context but also deconstruct reified notions of "black family life" or "white family life" by showing both the dynamic demographic aspects of how all kinds of Sabans built their families over time and the changes in underlying social, economic, and cultural reasoning that precipitated stabilities and shifts in these processes.
Optimierung von Kathoden und Zwischenschichten für Polymersolarzellen
Creators: name: Hanisch, Jonas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Organische Solarzellen
Kathode
SIMS
Sputtern
semitransparent

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss der Kathode auf die Eigenschaften von Polymersolarzellen. Neben der Untersuchung verschiedener Abscheidearten liegt der Schwerpunkt vor allem auf der Erforschung der Wirkungsweise von Zwischenschichten. Analysen mittels Sekundärteilchenmassenspektrometrie (SIMS und SNMS) erlauben Einblick in die dahinterliegenden Wechselwirkungen und Mechanismen. Die gewonnenen Kenntnisse werden in der Realisierung von semitransparenten Solarzellen eingesetzt.
Anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste for energy production
Creators: name: Nayono, Satoto Endar
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Anaerobic digestion
Organic fraction of municipal solid waste
Food waste
Press water
Potatoes sludge
Co-digestion
Methane production

description: Anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste as such or together with food waste, press water or patatoes sludge was investigated to equilibrate methane production within a day or over the weekend, when no OFMSW was available. A stable co-digestion process could be achieved with COD degradation between 60 and 80 %. The max. organic loading rates were 28 kg COD/L,d. For stable methane production the OLR during Co-digestion should not excede 22,5 kg/L,d.
Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
Creators: name: Kasimova, Zukhra
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is focused on post-WWII Uzbekistan as a space of multifaceted interactions of the local Uzbek population with the war evacuees from European regions of the Soviet Union. This topic, just as the problem of postwar social experiences in Uzbekistan in general, is a major lacuna in historiography. Current work suggests a methodological position revising the dominant colonial and totalitarian paradigms. The author aspires to restore historical agency of the people of Central Asia – the agenda that is rooted in post-colonial theory and historical scholarship. This work argues that Soviet sociocultural identities and experiences were essentially hybrid and explores the hybridity at the level of individual biographies as well as cultural and scientific institutions in post-WWII Uzbekistan. The author’s interpretation of hybridity is informed by the methodology of new imperial history, which is another productive way to transcend the scope of Central Asian Studies and join the global conversation of historians about such topics as human agency and political domination, preservation of tradition and negotiation of differences. This global perspective, firmly rooted in archival research and firsthand knowledge of local realities, is sine qua non of normalizing and de-exoticizing Central Asia, as well as one way of essentially decolonizing the field of Soviet history.
title: Luís Gonçalves Sena
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica sobre Luís Gonçalves Sena na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. Luís Gonçalves Sena in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
title: Sarcoma of the corpus cavernosum of the penis
Creators: name: Matos, Manuel
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Uroradiology & genital male imaging
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 68-year-old male presented with a painless mass on the shaft of the penis. Physical examination revealed a firm, nodular lesion. After a core-biopsy with characteristics compatible with fusocellular undifferentiated subtype of sarcoma of the corpus cavernosum of the penis, and proper imaging staging, the patient underwent surgical excision followed by adjuvant chemoradiotherapy.

description: 68 years, male
Exploring transient pH, oxygen, and dopamine neurotransmission in vivo with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
Creators: name: Ariansen, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Dopamine projections that extend from the ventral tegmental area to the striatum have been implicated in the biological basis for behaviors associated with reward, addiction, and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Many techniques have been employed to monitor these neurochemical and neurophysiological changes. In this study we utilized fast-scan cyclic voltammetry to monitor transient pH and oxygen changes in the striatum of primates. Dopamine release was observed in a small number of locations, but this signal was masked by the overarching pH changes. Oxygen and pH are coupled in the brain through a complex system of blood flow and metabolism as a result of transient neural activity. Indeed, this balance is at the heart of imaging studies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We observed increases in pH to the cue onset and increases in oxygen to predicted reward delivery, respectively. Additionally, acidic pH changes were observed following probability predicted reward delivery and to the cue onset in a small percentage of cases. These findings show that pH, oxygen, and dopamine can be measured in primate striatum and have implications linking blood flow and metabolism to neural activity.
Protocol of a rapid scoping review: Pregnancy during the evolving pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Creators: name: Hasan, Md Zabir
name: Kibria, Gulam
name: Alam, Tasmeer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Respiratory Tract Diseases
subject: Women's Health
subject: Medical Pathology
subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Virus Diseases
subject: International Public Health
subject: Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
subject: 2019 novel coronavirus disease
subject: Clinical features
subject: Coronavirus
subject: COVID
subject: COVID-19
subject: Management guidelines
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Pregnant women
subject: SARS-COV-2
subject: Scoping review
subject: Severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2

description: During the evolving pandemic of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it is imperative to understand the effect of COVID-19 on vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women. This protocol elaborates the strategy of literature search and implementation of a rapid scoping review to investigates the latest published scientific evidence of clinical manifestation and recommendation for management for pregnant women with COVID-19.
Training Quantized Neural Networks with ADMM Approach
Creators: name: Xue, Ma
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in various learning tasks, but their high computational costs pose challenges for deployment in resource-limited scenarios. In this paper, we focus on addressing this issue by quantizing deep learning models, where network weights are represented by a smaller number of bits. We formulate this problem as a discrete optimization problem and draw inspiration from the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers to optimize the parameters in a neural network. We introduce two approaches to quantize neural networks using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers algorithm. The first approach is a gradient-free optimization method for training the quantized neural network. It avoids many problems of gradient descent, such as saturation effects and saddle points. In contrast, the second approach is a gradient-based method to quantize the neural network layerwisely using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers based on a pre-trained neural network. After each layer is quantized, the parameters of non-quantized layers are updated to compensate for the loss of accuracy.
"This Is The Point On Which The Whole Matter Hinges": Locating Black Voices In Civil War Prisons
Creators: name: Newhall, Caroline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The story of military prisons during the Civil War is both tragic and incomplete. While a number of historians have done significant work in analyzing and revising the narratives surrounding military prisons and POWs, in depth examinations conducted from the “bottom up” have only just begun to appear in Civil War prison historiography. As a result, black POWs are largely deemphasized as participants in the conflict, consigned to a passive role as catalysts for political sparring between Union and Confederate officials. However, black POWs were active participants in resisting capture and enslavement, and vocalized their treatment in various mediums, particularly through pension file affidavits. Placing these sources in conversation with white POW narratives and various officials’ discussions of prisoner policy, it is clear that prisons played a far more significant role in the conflict than is currently acknowledged, and black POWs’ experiences were tragically emblematic of the Confederacy’s consistent use of racial violence and subjugation to maintain its existence as a white supremacist power.
Kopplung physiologischer und verfahrenstechnischer Parameter beim Wachstum und bei der Produktbildung der Rotalge Porphyridium purpureum
Creators: name: Roselló Sastre, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Mikroalgen
Flashing-Light-Effekt
LED-Photobioreaktor
Turbidostat-Betrieb
Polysaccharid-Abtrennung

description: Mikroalgen haben ein technisch interessantes Potential für die Herstellung von hochwertigen Naturstoffen wie Pigmente, Polysaccharide, ungasättigte Fettsäuren, Lipide oder Antioxidanten. In dieser Arbeit wurde das Wachstum und die Produktbildung von Porphyridium purpureum unter Hell/Dunkel-Zyklen verschiedener Frequenzen untersucht, da sie eine großen Einfluss auf die Produktivität von außen stehenden Anlagen haben. Das Produkt-Sensing-Verhalten der Rotalge wurde ebenfalls untersucht.
Zur Rheologie und den physikalischen Wechselwirkungen bei Zementsuspensionen
Creators: name: Haist, Michael
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Zement
Rheologie
Bauwesen
Beton
Suspension

description: Gegenstand dieses Buches ist die Untersuchung des Fließverhaltens von Zementsuspensionen. Hierbei wird insbesondere auf die dem Fließverhalten zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen der Partikelwechselwirkung eingegangen. Auf dieser Grundlage wird ein Materialmodell vorgestellt, dass es gestattet, das rheologische Verhalten von Zementleimen unter Kenntnis ausgewählter Zementparameter vorherzusagen.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EYETRACKING AS AN OUTCOME MEASURE FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS IN AUTISM
Creators: name: Greene, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: This project aimed to evaluate a dynamic eyetracking task as a measure of treatment response for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) social skills interventions. Adolescent and young adult participants with ASD completed the eyetracking task, as well as questionnaires and neurocognitive measures of social functioning, before, immediately after, and two months after completing an empirically-validated ASD social skills treatment (SCIT-A). The study compared SCIT-A participants (n = 17) to participants with ASD who received treatment as usual (TAU; n = 22). Reliability of the eyetracking measure was assessed in typically developing controls (n = 22), and results indicated good test-retest reliability (α = 0.86, ICC=0.801). Correlation analyses found no significant relationships between the eyetracking task and measures of social functioning in all individuals with ASD at baseline. Although SCIT-A participants showed a significant increase in visual social attention from baseline to post-treatment, this trajectory was seen the TAU group as well. Findings indicate that the eyetracking task is measuring a unique construct not measured by the comparative social functioning assessments.
Character and rhetoric in Thucydides
Creators: name: Armstrong, Edward John
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Thucydides
subject: Historiography
subject: Sophist
subject: Aristotle
subject: Ancient rhetoric
subject: Classical Greek
subject: Ancient Greek
subject: Ancient Greek historiography
subject: Rhetorical style
subject: Gorgias
subject: Antiphon
subject: Anaximenes of Lampsacus
subject: DF229.T6A8
subject: Thucydides--Criticism and interpretation
subject: Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War--Criticism, Textual

description: Naming and evaluating individuals are two of the numerous well-established methods by which Thucydides characterises individuals. While it is uncontroversial that Thucydides uses these and other methods to characterise individuals, the practical mechanics of these characterisation methods, such as speeches, are understudied. This thesis investigates the characterisation of individuals through deliberative rhetoric in Thucydides’ History with a focus on three specific methods. It demonstrates that Thucydides characterises speakers through his presentation of their rhetoric of emotion, their use of various ‘rhetorical modes’, and intratextual parallels between speeches and their narrative contexts, in addition to previously studied methods such as naming and evaluating individuals. Thucydides presents deliberative speeches such that the way in which each speaker seeks to arouse or suppress the emotions of their audience contributes to their characterisation. Thucydides also characterises individuals through his presentation of their use of sophistic or conventional ‘rhetorical modes’, which include the types of arguments, arrangement, and rhetorical techniques that they employ. Intratextual connections and situational parallels between speeches and their narrative contexts contribute to the characterisation of individuals by facilitating comparisons for the reader that ultimately distinguish each speaker and explain historical events, including the Athenian defeat in Sicily. In three parts that each focus on one of these methods, this thesis examines these characterising methods and their role in the individual characterisation of speakers. It analyses the dialogue and narrative contexts of two isolated speeches and three antilogies: the first and final speeches of Pericles (Thuc. 1.140-144, 2.60-64), the Mytilene Debate (Thuc. 3.37-48), and the Syracuse Antilogy (Thuc. 6.33-40) with close reference to the so-called Redetrias (Thuc. 6.9-23). This thesis thus contributes new perspectives to current conceptions of characterisation, the development of rhetoric, and historical writing during the fifth century BC.
Subspace-Identification zur Modellierung von PEM-Brennstoffzellen-Stacks
Creators: name: Buchholz, Michael
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Black-Box-Identifikation
Polymer-Elektrolyt-Membran-Brennstoffzellen PEMFC
echtzeitfähiges dynamisches Modell
Onboard-Diagnose
Überwachung im Betrieb

description: Der theoretische Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt in einem Vergleich und einer einheitlichen Beschreibung der in der Literatur existierenden Subspace-Identification-Verfahren. Im Anwendungsteil kommen diese zum Einsatz, um PEM-Brennstoffzellen-Stacks in einem für die Anwendung im Automobil relevanten Betriebsbereich nachbilden. Es werden außerdem zwei modellbasierte Ansätze vorgestellt, mit denen im Automobil nicht messbare Eingangsgrößen des Stacks geschätzt werden können.
Untersuchungen zum Einsatz von Reformat aus flüssigen Kohlenwasserstoffen in der Hochtemperaturbrennstoffzelle SOFC
Creators: name: Timmermann, Henrik
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Brennstoffzelle
Methanisierung
APU
interne Reformierung
Kraftstoff

description: In dieser Arbeit werden Untersuchungen an Hochtemperaturbrennstoffzellen-(SOFC) unter Bedingungen durchgeführt, wie sie in elektrischen Bordnetzversorgungssystemen (APU-Systemen) im mobilen Bereich auftreten. Hierzu werden in Messungen Betriebspunkte identifiziert, an denen die Zelle ohne verstärkte Degradation der elektrischen Leistung betrieben werden kann. Mit Hilfe mathematischer Modelle werden der Methanumsatz, der Konzentrationsverlauf der Gase und die Stack-Leistung wiedergegeben.
Testing the speed of gravitational waves over cosmological distances with strong gravitational lensing
Creators: name: Collett, Thomas E.
name: Bacon, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Probing the relative speeds of gravitational waves and light acts as an important test of General Relativity and alternative theories of gravity. Measuring the arrival time of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts can be used to measure the relative speeds, but only if the intrinsic time-lag between emission of the photons and gravitational waves is well understood. Here we suggest a method that does not make such an assumption, using future strongly lensed GW events and EM counterparts; Biesiada et al forecast that 50-100 strongly lensed GW events will be observed each year with the Einstein Telescope. A single strongly lensed GW event would produce robust constraints on the ratio of speeds of GWs and light at the $10^{-7}$ level, if a high energy EM counterpart is observed within the field-of-view of an observing gamma ray burst monitor.
description: 4 Pages. Accepted for publication in PRL
Large-Scale Pattern-Based Information Extraction from the World Wide Web
Creators: name: Blohm, Sebastian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Information Extraction
Data Mining
Pattern Induction
Web Mining
Machine Learning

description: Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machine-processable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner. It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or appropriate visualization. This work explores the potential of using textual patterns for Information Extraction from the World Wide Web.
Architecture and Design Specifications of S&R Platform, V2
Creators: name: Răzvan Gliga
name: Savu, Elisabeta
name: Dascalu, Horia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Search and rescue
subject: Crisis Management
subject: specification

description: This deliverable, which was produced as a part of the task 7.2 (Architecture and Design Specifications of S&R) in WP7 (S&R Platform Design, Development and Service Integration) presents the initial reference architecture for Search and Rescue system. The scope of this reports represents the starting point for future project activities, which are mainly aimed for technical and technological tasks, but also for other task types.
 In this task, the conceptual architecture and detailed specifications of the integrated S&R platform will be derived and documented. The architecture of the S&R platform will describe in detail the integration logic and interfaces between the involved tools and services produced by WP3: Situation Awareness, WP4: Data aggregation, Analysis and Decision Support, WP5: Design and implementation of specialised equipment for first responders, WP6: S&R Component Design & Development
Neighborhood Pollution and Subjective Health
Creators: name: Samuel-Peterson Keah, Niobra
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: In response to a call for more research documenting the association between pollution and subjective health, I use data collected by The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) between 1990 and 2007 to explore the association between neighborhood pollution and subjective health. Using regression analysis, I find that both neighborhood and individual level characteristics contribute to an association between neighborhood pollution and subjective health. Statistically, I also explore gender as a possible modifier in the proposed association and find minimal statistical support. Possible explanations for this finding are discussed in the conclusions. This research gives insight into how pollution may be associated with an individual's well-being. An addition, conclusions expand the implications of my findings on environmental justice campaigns and public health concerns.
Realisierung von Softwareproduktlinien durch Komposition von Belangimplementierungen
Creators: name: Kuttruff, Volker
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Softwareproduktlinien
Softwarekomposition
Aspektorientierte Programmierung
Generische Programmierung
Generierung

description: Softwareproduktlinienentwicklung ist ein Ansatz zur systematischen Wiederverwendung von Softwareartefakten. In dieser Arbeit stellen wir ein Verfahren vor, welches es erlaubt, unterstützte Merkmale einer Produktlinie in Form voneinander abgegrenzter Belangimplementierungen zu spezifizieren und diese zu maßgeschneiderten Varianten der Produktlinie zu komponieren. Das Verfahren vereinigt hierzu Konzepte der mehrdimensionalen Belangtrennung, der generischen Programmierung sowie der Generierung.
Vorausschauende Längsregelung schwerer Lastkraftwagen
Creators: name: Terwen, Stephan
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Modellbasierte Prädiktive Regelung
Nichtlineare Programmierung
Lastkraftwagen
Längsregelung
Kraftstoffverbrauch

description: Diese Arbeit stellt ein Fahrerassistenzsystem vor, welches einen Lkw wie ein geübter Kraftfahrer vorausschauend fährt. Es nutzt die Informationen eines erweiterten Navigationssystems über Steigung, Krümmung und Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen des zukünftig befahrenen Streckenabschnitts. Mit diesen Informationen und den Messgrößen eines Abstandsradars berechnet das System durch eine Modellbasierte Prädiktive Regelung die optimale Wahl des Gangs sowie des Antriebs- und Bremsmoments.
Modeling Aftershocks as a Stretched Exponential Relaxation
Creators: name: Mignan, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay rate of aftershocks has been modeled as a power law since the pioneering work of Omori in the late nineteenth century. Considered the second most fundamental empirical law after the Gutenberg-Richter relationship, the power law paradigm has rarely been challenged by the seismological community. By taking a view of aftershock research not biased by prior conceptions of Omori power law decay and by applying statistical methods recommended in applied mathematics, I show that all aftershock sequences tested in three regional earthquake catalogs (Southern and Northern California, Taiwan) and with three declustering techniques (nearest-neighbor, second-order moment, window methods) follow a stretched exponential instead of a power law. These results infer that aftershocks are due to a simpler relaxation process than originally thought, in accordance with most other relaxation processes observed in Nature.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Invariants of complex and p-adic origami-curves
Creators: name: Kremer, Karsten
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: translation surfaces
moduli space
Teichmüller curves
Mumford curves
p-adic Schottky groups

description: Origamis (also known as square-tiled surfaces) are Riemann surfaces which are constructed by glueing together finitely many unit squares. By varying the complex structure of these squares one obtains easily accessible examples of Teichmüller curves in the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. Different Teichmüller curves can be distinguished by several invariants, which are explicitly computed. The results are then compared to a p-adic analogue where Riemann surfaces are replaced by Mumford curves.
High-throughput and long-term observation of compartmentalized biochemical oscillators
Creators: name: Hasatani, Koshi
name: Leocmach, Mathieu
name: Genot, Anthony J.
name: Estévez-Torres, André
name: Fujii, Teruo
name: Rondelez, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We report the splitting of an oscillating DNA circuit into $\sim 700$ droplets with picoliter volumes. Upon incubation at constant temperature, the droplets display sustained oscillations that can be observed for more than a day. Superimposed to the bulk behaviour, we find two intriguing new phenomena - slow desynchronization between the compartments and kinematic spatial waves - and investigate their possible origin. This approach provides a route to study the influence of small volume effects in biology, and paves the way to technological applications of compartmentalized molecular programs controlling complex dynamics.
Organic Wines and Little Debbies in the New Company Town: The Post-Industrial Politics of Rural Redevelopment
Creators: name: Cotterman, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This qualitative case study examines Saxapahaw—a former textile mill village in central North Carolina that has recently been incorporated into a consumption-based regime of accumulation—as a contested site of rural gentrification, exploring the key insights that the unique social and material landscapes of Piedmont textile mill villages offer the rural gentrification literature, which has by-and-large overlooked the southern United States. I follow Phillips (2002) lead in applying a three-part Lefebvrian approach to unpacking the material, symbolic, and social production of gentrifying rural spaces. By exploring the "sedimentations" (Lefebvre, 1956) left by Saxapahaw's company town period, this project illuminates how the social relations of gentrifying communities have deep roots in previous stages of capitalist production. In Saxapahaw, these enduring legacies include a nostalgic rural lifestyle marketed to new residents and tourists, persistent forms of social inequality, and naturalized structures of power and governance that shape the gentrification process.
Public Policy Effects on Education, Labor Supply, and Housing
Creators: name: Ohannessian, Shogher
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Chapter 1: The Effect of the SSI Student Earned Income Exclusion on Education and Labor Supply Youth with disabilities face financial constraints to attaining post-secondary education and encounter strong labor market disincentives when considering employment opportunities. Encouraging human capital development through employment and education could help young Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients transition off SSI reliance and improve their long-run economic self-sufficiency. I study the effect of the Student Earned Income Exclusion (SEIE), an education- and work-incentive for youth with disabilities receiving SSI benefits. The SEIE enables SSI recipients under age 22 to exempt $1,930 of their monthly earnings from the SSI benefits determination if they are enrolled in school. Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and a regression discontinuity design, I compare changes in SSI recipients’ education and labor decisions in the months surrounding the strict age-22 SEIE eligibility cutoff. I find the SEIE causes SSI recipients to increase school enrollment by 8.6 percentage points and increase employment by 8.4 percentage points. The findings suggest that the SEIE helps relax binding financial constraints for SSI recipients to attend college while revealing a substantial preference for employment among these recipients. Chapter 2: Do EITC eligibility rules encourage college enrollment? EITC benefits are substantially more generous for households with more qualifying children, and children ages 19-23 only qualify if they enroll in college. These eligibility rules result in an implicit college attendance subsidy – up to $4,000 per year. The maximum subsidy is targeted at households earning approximately $20,000, so it represents a large fraction of both total earnings and net tuition. We find no evidence that college enrollment responds to these substantial financial incentives and can statistically rule out moderate effects. Chapter 3: The Effect of Pro-tenant Policies on Land Rents of Mobile Home Parks In the United States, several states have implemented pro-tenant policies with the aim of reducing the likelihood of unjustified evictions by mobile home park owners. This study specifically examines the effect of the resident ownership (RO) policy, which enables park residents to collectively purchase their community as a cooperative. The RO policy offers potential benefits to tenants by safeguarding against redevelopment or unauthorized sales of the mobile home park without their consent. However, there is a concern that the policy may lead to higher land rents if landlords incorporate this factor into rent prices before the conversion to a resident-owned community takes place. This paper analyzes the effects of the RO policy on land rent and finds that it has a small positive effect.
Modellierung von Autoabgaskatalysatoren
Creators: name: Mladenov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Autoabgaskatalyse
numerische Simulation
CFD
reaktive Strömungen
DETCHEM

description: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der numerischen Modellierung von monolithischen Autoabgaskatalysatoren unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener Transportmodelle in Gasphase und poröser Washcoatschicht sowie heterogener Reaktionsmechanismen, die auf Elementarreaktionen aufbauen. Hierbei wird der Einfluss mehrerer Modellparameter auf die Schadstoffumsätze im Katalysator mit Hilfe des Softwarepakets zur Simulation reaktiver Strömungen DETCHEM untersucht.
Ein adaptives Impuls-EVG zum Betrieb von dielektrisch behinderten Gasentladungslampen
Creators: name: Daub, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: dielektrisch behinderte Entladung (DBE)
Betriebsgerät
Simulationsmodell
Pulsanregung
Adaptivität

description: Bei jeder Art von dielektrisch behinderten Entladungen (DBE) spielt das Betriebsgerät eine zentrale Rolle. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, ein Betriebsgerät zu entwickeln, das unterschiedlich große Xenon-Excimer Strahler effizient betreibt und eigenständig auf diese adaptiert. Um diese Arbeit auch mit Simulationswerkzeugen zu unterstützen, wurde ein neuartiges elektrisches Simulationsmodell entwickelt, das nicht nur für Sinusanregung sondern auch für Pulsanregung geeignet ist.
title: Luís Gonzaga
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica sobre Luís Gonzaga na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. Luís Gonzaga in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Grundeinkommen: Idee und Vorschläge zu seiner Realisierung
Creators: name: Presse, André
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Grundeinkommen
Negativsteuer
Negative Einkommensteuer
Negative Mehrwertsteuer
Mehrwertsteuerfreibetrag
Arbeitsteilung
Produktivität
Fortschritt

description: Die Mehrwertsteuer (Umsatzsteuer) ist die Steuer mit dem größten Steueraufkommen. Für sie gibt es noch keinen Steuerfreibetrag. Ein "Mehrwertsteuerfreibetrag" ließe sich auf dem Wege einer "Negativen Mehrwertsteuer" realisieren. Diese orientiert sich an dem Konzept der "Negativen Einkommensteuer", das Milton Friedman 1962 vorgestellt hat. Die Kosten für die Einführung einer solchen "Negativsteuer" belaufen sich auf zehn bis 20 Mrd. Euro p. a. Sie trägt zu einer Stabilisierung der Konjunktur bei.
Solving the inverse problem of electrocardiography in a realistic environment
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: inverse problem of electrocardiography
myocardial infarction
premature ventricular contraction
intracardiac mapping
ECG measurement system

description: Heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Straightforward information about the cardiac electrophysiology can help to improve the quality of diagnosis of heart diseases. The inverse problem of electrocardiography and the intracardiac catheter measurement are two ways to get access to the electrophysiology in the heart. In this thesis six research topics related to these two techniques are included.
Numerische Untersuchung des Wellenpumpenkonzeptes und der mechanischen Herzunterstützung
Creators: name: Perschall, Markus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Wellenpumpe
Strömung-Struktur-Kopplung
numerische Strömungssimulation
Herzunterstützung
Blutpumpe

description: Der Einfluss der mechanischen Herzunterstütung auf die dreidimensionale Strömung im linken Herzventrikel und in der Aorta in Hinblick auf Effizienz, Strömungsstruktur und Auswaschung ist Gegenstand dieser Arbeit. Die Komplikationen von derzeitigen Unterstützungspumpen geben weiterhin Anlass zum Auffinden und Prüfen eines alternativen Konzeptes zur Anwendung als blutfördende Pumpe. Als Vorschlag hierzu wird das Konzept und die Wirkweise der Wellenpumpe vorgestellt.
Ein Modell zur Entwicklung neuartiger chirurgischer Eingriffe am Beispiel der Minimal Traumatischen Chirurgie
Creators: name: Riechmann, Matthias
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Modellierung
Simulation
HNO
Chirurgie
Akustikusneurinom

description: In dieser Arbeit wurde eine neuartige Methode zur interindividuellen Untersuchung anatomischer Gegebenheiten entwickelt und an der lateralen Schädelbasis zur Bestimmung der Durchführbarkeit Minimal Traumatischer Eingriffe angewendet. Das Konzept der Minimal Traumatischen Chirurgie wurde erstmals umfangreich aus sowohl medizinischer als auch technischer Sicht beschrieben. Es wurden neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen, die für eine Umsetzung der Minimal Traumatischen Chirurgie von wichtig sind.
Magnetic Flux and Helicity of Magnetic Clouds
Creators: name: Demoulin, P.
name: Janvier, M.
name: Dasso, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic clouds (MCs) are formed by flux ropes (FRs) launched from the Sun as part of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They carry away an important amount of magnetic flux and helicity. The main aim of this study is to quantify these quantities from insitu measurements of MCs at 1 AU. The fit of these data by a local FR model provides the axial magnetic field strength, the radius, the magnetic flux and the helicity per unit length along the FR axis. We show that these quantities are statistically independent of the position along the FR axis. We then derive the generic shape and length of the FR axis from two sets of MCs. These results improve the estimation of magnetic helicity. Next, we evaluate the total magnetic flux and helicity crossing the sphere of radius of 1 AU, centered at the Sun, per year and during a solar cycle. We also include in the study two sets of small FRs which do not have all the typical characteristics of MCs. While small FRs are at least ten times more numerous than MCs, the magnetic flux and helicity are dominated by the contribution from the larger MCs. They carry in one year the magnetic flux of about 25 large active regions and the magnetic helicity of 200 of them. MCs carry away an amount of unsigned magnetic helicity comparable to the one estimated for the solar dynamo and the one measured in emerging active regions.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Dezentrale, Anomalie-basierte Erkennung verteilter Angriffe im Internet
Creators: name: Gamer, Thomas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Sicherheit
Angriffserkennung im Internet
Dezentrale Kooperation
Realitätsnahe Simulation großer Netze

description: Die mittlerweile unabdingbare Verfügbarkeit des Internets wird zunehmend durch finanziell motivierte, verteilte Angriffe gestört. Deren schnelle und flächendeckende Erkennung als notwendige Voraussetzung für effektive Gegenmaßnahmen ist Ziel dieser Arbeit. Hierzu werden neue Mechanismen zur Identifikation von Angriffen und zur dezentralen domänenübergreifenden Kooperation verteilter Erkennungssysteme entworfen. Zudem werden die für die realitätsnahe Evaluierung notwendigen Werkzeuge entwickelt.
Resonant-state expansion of dispersive open optical systems
Creators: name: Muljarov, E. A.
name: Langbein, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A resonant-state expansion (RSE) for open optical systems with a general frequency dispersion of the relative permittivity, described by a finite number of simple poles, is presented. As in the non-dispersive case, the RSE of dispersive systems converts Maxwell's wave equation into a linear matrix eigenvalue problem in the basis of unperturbed resonant states, in this way numerically exactly determining all relevant eigenmodes of the optical system. This dispersive RSE is verified by application to the analytically solvable system of a sphere in vacuum, with a dispersion of the dielectric constant described by the Drude and Drude-Lorentz models. We calculate the change of the optical modes when converting the sphere material from gold to non-dispersive silica and back to gold, and evaluate the accuracy using the exact solutions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Tissue Reservoirs of HIV-1: Insights from the Central Nervous System
Creators: name: Rackoff, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Cellular and anatomical reservoirs of HIV-1 preclude a cure to infection. Efforts to characterize these reservoirs are an important part of developing a strategy to eradicate all forms of HIV-1. The central nervous system (CNS) is a unique bodily compartment that can support viral replication independent of that in the blood (compartmentalization) and may be an anatomical reservoir of unique viruses. In this ‘proof of principle’ study, we characterized viral sequences (RNA and provirus) from the blood, cerebrospinal fluid, brain, and liver of two infected donors who died with HIV-1-associated dementia and disparate states of viral replication (compartmentalized versus equilibrated). We show that selective pressures exist within CNS and liver tissue to drive expansion of particular viral species. We found macrophage-tropic viral lineages archived in the brain, implicating macrophages as a potential cellular reservoir. By including more donors and tissues, our study provides insight towards HIV-1 reservoirs and cure research.
Surface induced magnetization reversal of MnP nanoclusters embedded in GaP
Creators: name: Lacroix, Christian
name: Lambert-Milot, Samuel
name: Desjardins, Patrick
name: Masut, Remo A.
name: Menard, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the quasi-static magnetic behavior of ensembles of non-interacting ferromagnetic nanoparticles consisting of MnP nanoclusters embedded in GaP(001) epilayers grown at 600, 650 and 700°C. We use a phenomenological model, in which surface effects are included, to reproduce the experimental hysteresis curves measured as a function of temperature (120-260 K) and direction of the applied field. The slope of the hysteresis curve during magnetization reversal is determined by the MnP nanoclusters size distribution, which is a function of the growth temperature. Our results show that the coercive field is very sensitive to the strength of the surface anisotropy, which reduces the energy barrier between the two states of opposite magnetization. Notably, this reduction in the energy barrier increases by a factor of 3 as the sample temperature is lowered from 260 to 120 K.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Kohn-Sham Approach to Quantum Electrodynamical Density Functional Theory: Exact Time-Dependent Effective Potentials in Real Space
Creators: name: Flick, Johannes
name: Ruggenthaler, Michael
name: Appel, Heiko
name: Rubio, Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The density-functional approach to quantum electrodynamics is extending traditional density-functional theory and opens the possibility to describe electron-photon interactions in terms of effective Kohn-Sham potentials. In this work, we numerically construct the exact electron-photon Kohn-Sham potentials for a prototype system which consists of a trapped electron coupled to a quantized electromagnetic mode in an optical high-Q cavity. While the effective current that acts on the photons is known explicitly, the exact effective potential that describes the forces exerted by the photons on the electrons is obtained from a fixed-point inversion scheme. This procedure allows us to uncover important beyond-mean-field features of the effective potential which mark the breakdown of classical light-matter interactions. We observe peak and step structures in the effective potentials, which can be attributed solely to the quantum nature of light, i.e., they are real-space signatures of the photons. Our findings show how the ubiquitous dipole interaction with a classical electromagnetic field has to be modified in real-space in order to take the quantum nature of the electromagnetic field fully into account.
Discrete-Time Accelerated Block Successive Overrelaxation Methods for Time-Dependent Stokes Equations
Creators: name: Yang, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: To further study the application of waveform relaxation methods in fluid dynamics in actual computation, this paper provides a general theoretical analysis of discrete-time waveform relaxation methods for solving linear DAEs. A class of discrete-time waveform relaxation methods, named discrete-time accelerated block successive overrelaxation (DABSOR) methods, is proposed for solving linear DAEs derived from discretizing time-dependent Stokes equations in space by using "Method of Lines". The analysis of convergence property and optimality of the DABSOR method are presented in detail. The theoretical results and the efficiency of the DABSOR method are verified by numerical experiments.
description: 31 pages, 12 figures, 10 tables