cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Soil Bacteria to Regulate Phoebe bournei Seedling Growth and Sustainable Soil Utilization under NPK Fertilization
Creators: name: Yang, Zhi-Jian
name: Wu, Xiao-Hui
name: Huang, Lan-Ming
name: Xie, Wei-Wei
name: Chen, Yu
name: El-Kassaby, Yousry A.
name: Feng, Jin-Ling
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Soil bacteria play a key role in the plant–soil system and can regulate the growth of Phoebe bournei seedlings under fertilization. However, there are few reports on how soil bacteria respond to fertilization and regulate seedling growth. This study adopted the “3414” field fertilization experiment, combined with soil microbial sequencing, nutrient contents, and biomass measurement, to explore the changes of soil chemical properties and bacterial structure under different NPK fertilization conditions and to establish the coupling relationship between soil bacteria, soil nutrients, and plant growth. The results showed that NPK fertilization decreased soil pH; increased soil N, P, and K content; reduced bacterial diversity and abundance; promoted the growth of dominant bacterial species; and enhanced Phoebe bournei seedlings’ soil N, P, and K elements. NPK fertilization promoted Proteobacteria growth, especially of three genera (Methylobacterium, Sphingobium, and Acinetobacter) and Actinobacteria, while it decreased Acidobacteria and Chloroflexi. By reducing the ratio of N to K and increasing P, NPK fertilization can slow soil acidification, promote bacterial reproduction, maintain P. bournei seedlings’ soil ecological stability, and balance the seedlings’ growth and sustainable soil utilization. AD3, Pseudomonas, and Rhodanobacter can be used as the marker species for N, P, and K fertilization, respectively, while Methylobacterium, Brevundimonas, Acinetobacter, and Sphingobium can be used as indicator species for soil pH and soil N, P, and K content changes, respectively. These results provided a theoretical basis and technical guidance for the effective fertilization and cultivation of robust P. bournei seedlings.
title: Die Henne, Heft 5
title: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lorenz, Jörg
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2020

description: Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite 5: Vorbemerkung Seite 7: Spiegel der Historiographiegeschichte – Der Nachlass Hans Mommsen im Universitätsarchiv Bochum Von Marlene Friedrich Seite 34: Abbildungsnachweise
description: Die Henne : Beiträge zur Geschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 5
Archived
Creators: name: DUPLAN, christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the dynamics of space-time at the Planck scale using a fractal-based approach. By employing Iterated Function Systems (IFS) and the Banach Fixed-Point Theorem, a mathematical framework is developed to describe space-time as a compact and self-similar fractal object. The fractal model provides a new perspective on fundamental physical constants, offering insights into their convergence at extremely small scales. The study investigates the implications of this approach on quantum gravity and its potential integration with special relativity. Additionally, a proposed experimental protocol, based on the Casimir effect, is outlined to test the predictions of the fractal model. This work emphasizes the mathematical rigor of the fractal space-time framework and its potential applications in understanding high-energy physical phenomena. The results demonstrate the fractalization of space-time, providing a coherent methodology for describing physical phenomena at the Planck scale.
T. Bayles Minuse to Edward R. Hoehl, April 21, 1955
Creators: name: Minuse, T. Bayles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Stony Brook
Correspondence
Concert halls
Amphitheaters
Contracts
Construction

description: This letter is written by T. Bayles Minuse to Edward R. Hoehl on April 21, 1955, in regards to delaying any work at Dogwood Hollow until contracts are signed. In the meantime, he instructs Mr. Hoehl to prepare his plans for the future construction.
title: Die Henne, Heft 6
title: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Lorenz, Jörg
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Year: 2020

description: Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite 5: Vorbemerkung Seite 7: Von Halbzeugen und Herzensangelegenheiten – Der Nachlass des Künstlers Friedrich Gräsel im Universitätsarchiv Bochum Von Alexandra Apfelbaum Seite 40: Abbildungsnachweise
description: Die Henne : Beiträge zur Geschichte der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 6
Stage(d) Hands in early modern drama and culture
Creators: name: Felstead, Imogen
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis offers the first full phenomenological study of the staging of hands in early modern drama and culture by analysis of selected canonical and non-canonical plays (1550-1650) in dialogue with significant non-dramatic intertexts. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Rowley, Tomkis, Marlowe, Heywood, Brome, Jonson and Dekker, I argue the hand constructs subjectivity, materially and psychologically, in the natural, built and social landscapes represented on stage and experienced in the early modern world. This argument is supported through broad-ranging interdisciplinary analysis shaped by first-hand experience following an injury to my right hand. The introduction situates the hand within anthropological, materialist and phenomenological critical approaches to argue its functions as an ‘extroceptive’ tool. I explore Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the body as a natural instrument of expression, which registers and defines the individual’s spatial being-in-the-world. I position the hand as a self-defining agent as understood by: Nancy’s work on thinking the body ‘anew’; Derrida’s analysis of the hand as ‘maker’; the history of technicity and exteriorisation in the works of Stiegler and Leroi-Gourhan alongside medical practices surrounding my own contemporary experience. Chapter One analyses the active hand, conventionally gendered masculine, as a symbol of human mind and spirit materialised with reference to ‘intentionality’. I argue the staged hand, a cognitive symbol that constitutes the body schema, is the most pivotal body part on the early modern stage, cultivating and developing the subject’s expressive and symbolic relationship with the world. Bulwer’s Chirologia and Chironomia (1644) informs this chapter to demonstrate tactual perception to be the centre of early modern corporeality and hapticity to be indispensable to sensory experience. Chapter Two considers the feminine hand as an object staged by boys and passed between men alongside Merleau-Ponty’s notion of intercorporeity, to suggest that the feminine hand is situated within a paradox. Both passive and objectified, it is a powerful source of autonomy, command and agency, as embodied by Elizabeth I. I argue that the potential for agency turns the active helping hand into an instrument of disorder and empowerment which creates a space for independent desires and actions. Chapter Three considers the body without the hand and the hand without the body using Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of the body schema with respect to phantom limb syndrome and anosognosia alongside my own experience at Wessex Rehabilitation Centre. I argue the phantom limb phenomenon is a recurrent transhistorical feature in early modern drama and culture and represents cultural anxieties of fragmentation, loss and disruption.
The Potential of Satellite Remote Sensing Time Series to Uncover Wetland Phenology under Unique Challenges of Tidal Setting
Creators: name: Miller, Gwen Joelle
name: Dronova, Iryna
name: Oikawa, Patricia Y.
name: Knox, Sara
name: Windham-Myers, Lisamarie
name: Shahan, Julie
name: Stuart-Haëntjens, Ellen
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: While growth history of vegetation within upland systems is well studied, plant phenology within coastal tidal systems is less understood. Landscape-scale, satellite-derived indicators of plant greenness may not adequately represent seasonality of vegetation biomass and productivity within tidal wetlands due to limitations of cloud cover, satellite temporal frequency, and attenuation of plant signals by tidal flooding. However, understanding plant phenology is necessary to gain insight into aboveground biomass, photosynthetic activity, and carbon sequestration. In this study, we use a modeling approach to estimate plant greenness throughout a year in tidal wetlands located within the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. We used variables such as EVI history, temperature, and elevation to predict plant greenness on a 14-day timestep. We found this approach accurately estimated plant greenness, with larger error observed within more dynamic restored wetlands, particularly at early post-restoration stages. We also found modeled EVI can be used as an input variable into greenhouse gas models, allowing for an estimate of carbon sequestration and gross primary production. Our strategy can be further developed in future research by assessing restoration and management effects on wetland phenological dynamics and through incorporating the entire Sentinel-2 time series once it becomes available within Google Earth Engine.
SpeechColab Leaderboard: An Open-Source Platform for Automatic Speech Recognition Evaluation
Creators: name: Du, Jiayu
name: Li, Jinpeng
name: Chen, Guoguo
name: Zhang, Wei-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In the wake of the surging tide of deep learning over the past decade, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has garnered substantial attention, leading to the emergence of numerous publicly accessible ASR systems that are actively being integrated into our daily lives. Nonetheless, the impartial and replicable evaluation of these ASR systems encounters challenges due to various crucial subtleties. In this paper we introduce the SpeechColab Leaderboard, a general-purpose, open-source platform designed for ASR evaluation. With this platform: (i) We report a comprehensive benchmark, unveiling the current state-of-the-art panorama for ASR systems, covering both open-source models and industrial commercial services. (ii) We quantize how distinct nuances in the scoring pipeline influence the final benchmark outcomes. These include nuances related to capitalization, punctuation, interjection, contraction, synonym usage, compound words, etc. These issues have gained prominence in the context of the transition towards an End-to-End future. (iii) We propose a practical modification to the conventional Token-Error-Rate (TER) evaluation metric, with inspirations from Kolmogorov complexity and Normalized Information Distance (NID). This adaptation, called modified-TER (mTER), achieves proper normalization and symmetrical treatment of reference and hypothesis. By leveraging this platform as a large-scale testing ground, this study demonstrates the robustness and backward compatibility of mTER when compared to TER. The SpeechColab Leaderboard is accessible at https://github.com/SpeechColab/Leaderboard
VCIOM-SPUTNIK Poll: December 2021
Creators: name: VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: President of Russia approval (1); Prime Minister approval (1); State Duma of Russia (2); political party preference (2); mass protests (2); Internet usage (1); watch TV (1); trade unions (1); judicial system (1); Russian Orthodox church (1); personal financial situation (2); employment (2); sources of income (1); most important problems (5); rise in prices, inflation (2); Russian ruble and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations (3); unemployment (2); take out loans (2); spend or save money (1); savings (1); economic policy (1); social policy (1); foreign policy (1); direction of country (1); life satisfaction (2).
Epidemiology and risk factors for pyogenic liver abscess in the Calgary Health Zone revisited: a population-based study
Creators: name: Losie, Jennifer A.
name: Lam, John C.
name: Gregson, Daniel B.
name: Parkins, Michael D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Pyogenic liver abscess (PLA), although uncommon in North America, is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We sought to re-examine the epidemiology, risk factors, and outcomes of PLA in a large, diverse Canadian health zone. Methods All Calgary Health Zone (CHZ) residents aged ≥20 with PLA between 2015 and 2017 were identified. Incidence and mortality rates were calculated using census data. Risk factors for PLA were identified using a multivariate analysis. Data was compared to 1999–2003 data, also collected in the CHZ. Results There were 136 patients diagnosed with PLA between 2015 and 2017. Incidence rate during this period increased significantly relative to 1999–2003 (3.7 vs 2.3 cases/100,000 population, p < 0.01), however, mortality rates remained similar. The microbiological composition of PLA did not change over this 15-year time period but the number of antimicrobial resistant isolates did increase (8% vs 1%, p = 0.04). The greatest risk factors for PLA relative to general populations included current malignancy, liver-transplant, end-stage renal disease, and cirrhosis. Thirty-day mortality was 7.4% and independent risk factors included polymicrobial bacteremia, absence of abscess drainage, congestive-heart failure, a history of liver disease, and admission bilirubin. Conclusions Pyogenic liver abscess is a health concern with rising incidence rate. The increasing prevalence of comorbidities in our population and factors that are associated with risk of PLA suggests this will continue to be an emerging diagnosis of concern. Increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistant organisms compounding unclear optimal treatment regimens is an issue that requires urgent study.
Enabling intuitive and efficient physical computing
Creators: name: Devine, James
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020
Subjects: physical computing
micro:bit
JACDAC
wireless networking
programming
makecode
CODAL
protocols
systems
intuitive

description: Making tools for technology accessible to everyone is important for diverse and inclusive innovation. Significant effort has already been made to make software innovation more accessible, and this effort has created a movement of citizen developers. These citizen developers have the drive to create, but not necessarily the technical skill to innovate with technology. Software, however, has limited impact in the real world compared to hardware and here, physical computing is democratising access to technological innovation. Using microcontroller programming and networking, citizens can now build interactive devices and systems that respond to the real world. But building a physical computing device is riddled with complexity. Memory efficient but hard to use low-level programming languages are used to program microcontrollers, implementation efficient but hard to use wired protocols are used to compose microcontrollers and peripherals, and energy efficient but hard to configure wireless protocols are used to network devices to each other and to the Internet. This consistent trade off between efficiency and ease of use means that physical computing is inaccessible to some. This thesis seeks to democratise microcontroller programming and networking in order to make physical computing accessible to all. It provides a deep exploration of three areas fundamental to physical computing: programming, hardware composition, and wireless networking, drawing parallels with consumer technologies throughout. Based upon these parallels, it presents requirements for each area that may lead to a more intuitive physical computing experience. It uses these requirements to compare existing work in the space and concludes that no existing technology correctly strikes the balance between efficient operation for microcontrollers and intuitive experiences for citizen developers. It therefore goes onto describe and evaluate three new technologies designed to make physical computing accessible to everyone.
The 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict: Exploring the representation of 'Israel' in the Israeli media using a triangulation of corpus-based critical discourse analysis and discourse-based interviews
Creators: name: Greenberg, Keren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis uses mixed methods to explore the reporting of the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict in the Israeli media. It specifically focuses on the representation of `Israel' in three Israeli news websites, each representing a distinctive political orientation. The analysis demonstrates that overall the Israeli media painted a surprisingly similar picture: Israel was depicted across all outlets as a victim acting in self-defence and as a conciliatory participant who has the backing of the US. I argue that this representation has served to legitimise Israel's acts of violence, thereby perpetuating conflict-supporting beliefs and fuelling the intractability of the conflict.
title: A narrative inquiry into the school experiences for those impacted by adverse childhood experiences
Creators: name: Miller, Jessica
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychic trauma

description: Adverse childhood experiences, also known as ACEs, are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (between the ages of 0-18). Educators and those present in school communities play an important role in developing an environment that supports the social-emotional and academic needs of their students. Adopting trauma informed practices in schools is a way in which educators and community members can support students that have experienced or are currently facing ACEs. This narrative inquiry investigates the school experiences of three individuals who were impacted by ACEs as a child and attended school. They shared their stories through semistructured interviews that explored the question, “What insights can the experiences of individuals impacted by ACEs provide about effective strategies for supporting student wellbeing, self-esteem, and learning success?” The study identified key themes related to relationship building, fostering connections, individualized learning, and safe school environments. The participants’ stories add perspective and understanding about the impact school practices can have on students, an important consideration in the field of trauma informed practice. Findings suggest effective strategies for supporting student well-being, self-esteem, and learning success.
Sensor Network Localization via Riemannian Conjugate Gradient and Rank Reduction: An Extended Version
Creators: name: Li, Yicheng
name: Sun, Xinghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper addresses the Sensor Network Localization (SNL) problem using received signal strength. The SNL is formulated as an Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem under the unit ball sample model. Using the Burer-Monteiro factorization type cost function, the EDMC is solved by Riemannian conjugate gradient with Hager-Zhang line search method on a quotient manifold. A "rank reduction" preprocess is proposed for proper initialization and to achieve global convergence with high probability. Simulations on a synthetic scene show that our approach attains better localization accuracy and is computationally efficient compared to several baseline methods. Characterization of a small local basin of attraction around the global optima of the s-stress function under Bernoulli sampling rule and incoherence matrix completion framework is conducted for the first time. Theoretical result conjectures that the Euclidean distance problem with a structure-less sample mask can be effectively handled using spectral initialization followed by vanilla first-order methods. This preliminary analysis, along with the aforementioned numerical accomplishments, provides insights into revealing the landscape of the s-stress function and may stimulate the design of simpler algorithms to tackle the non-convex formulation of general EDMC problems.
title: Putting the S in Special Education: stories about sexual health education
Creators: name: Kelly, Quincy Dolan
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sexual health

description: This research study is designed to understand the barriers and pathways for teachers supporting their Secondary students with exceptionalities in learning about sexual health as they make the transition to adulthood. The purpose of this research is to build understanding of teacher practices, curriculums, goals, and needs to facilitate effective sexual health education programs for students with exceptionalities. Narrative inquiry is the chosen method to answer the central research questions: What makes it possible for one teacher to teach Sexual Health Education to Secondary School students with exceptionalities and what makes it less possible for another teacher? What are the stories of these teachers and in what ways can their stories inform and enhance the delivery of Sexual Health Education for BC Secondary students with exceptionalities as they transition to adulthood? A very specific group of teachers in British Columbia were recruited for this project: BC Teachers teaching and/or case managing Secondary students with low incidence designations (Secondary Special Education/Inclusive Education Teachers). Semi structured interviews were conducted to collect data. Through the process of narrative inquiry, interpretation and analysis are an interwoven symbiotic process. The data were reviewed through meticulous transcription, listening, re listening, journaling, coding, and categorizing. The two overarching themes of local systems and structures and professional identity emerged from the data and are the essence of the re storying represented by fictionalized vignettes. Based on the findings of this study, recommendations are made for teachers, case managers, and administrators at a local level; for structures and policy at a district level; and for potential ministerial review with attention to Sexual Health Education and Transition Planning.
Spitzer's Exoplanet Legacy: Hot Jupiter Population Trends
Creators: name: May, Erin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Exoplanets IV poster on recent new population studies of Hot Jupiters using revised methods of removing systematics from Spitzer phase curve observations
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title: Παθολογικές τροποποιήσεις ερυθρών αιμοσφαιρίων και πλάσματος στην χρόνια νεφρική ανεπάρκεια τελικού σταδίου
title: Pathological modifications of red blood cells and plasma in end-stage chronic renal failure
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ταμπακιάν, Μαρία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ερυθροκύτταρα
Πλάσμα
ΧΝΑ
Νεφρική ανεπάρκεια

description: Ο σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μελέτη της δομής και της φυσιολογίας των ερυθρών κυττάρων και του πλάσματος στη Χρόνια Νεφρική Ανεπάρκεια (ΧΝΑ). Τα ερυθροκύτταρα αντιπροσωπεύουν τον πολυπληθέστερο πληθυσμό κυττάρων στο αίμα των ενηλίκων. Η χρόνια νεφρική ανεπάρκεια, αποτελεί μια προοδευτική μη αναστρέψιμη μείωση της νεφρικής λειτουργίας, εξαιτίας της ύπαρξης νεφρικής βλάβης. Αυτή οδηγεί στη δημιουργία ουραιμικού περιβάλλοντος λόγω ανικανότητας αποβολής τοξικών ουσιών από το αίμα. Στο ουραιμικό περιβάλλον, τα κύτταρα εκτίθενται σε οξειδωτικές, μεταβολικές και μηχανικές καταπονήσεις που επηρεάζουν περαιτέρω τη λειτουργικότητα και τη βιωσιμότητα τους. Λόγω της ανεπάρκειας ερυθροποιητίνης αλλά και του ουραιμικού, οξειδωτικού περιβάλλοντος, τα ερυθροκύτταρα υφίστανται αλλαγές οι οποίες τα καθιστούν επιρρεπή σε κυτταρική λύση, με αποτέλεσμα την επιδείνωση της αναιμίας. Παρατηρείται επίσης αύξηση στις τιμές των δεικτών φλεγμονής και του οξειδωτικού στρες, χαρακτηριστικά που επιδεινώνουν περαιτέρω την αναιμία. Παράλληλα, διαταραχές παρατηρούνται και στους παράγοντες πήξης αυξάνοντας έτσι τον κίνδυνο θρομβωτικών επιπλοκών, ο οποίος αποτελεί από τις πιο κοινές αιτίες θανάτου σε ασθενείς με ΧΝΑ. Μέχρι και σήμερα, συνεχίζονται οι μελέτες με σκοπό την εύρεση όλων των αλλοιώσεων που υφίστανται τα κύτταρα του αίματος, ούτως ώστε να βρίσκονται και οι αντίστοιχες θεραπείες που θα εξασφαλίσουν μια καλύτερη ποιότητα ζωής στους πάσχοντες από την νόσο.
Francisco José Perdigão: Motets for Advent
Creators: name: Henriques, Luís
Publisher: name: Canto Mensurable editions
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Musicology
subject: Eighteenth century
subject: Music

description: Edition of the motets for Advent for four voices by the Portuguese composer Francisco José Perdigão (17??-1833) preserved in the Códice n.º 10 of Évora Cathedral music archive. Comprises the motet "Amen dico vobis" for the First Sunday, "Cum audisset Joannes for the Second Sunday, and "Omnis vallis implebitur" for the Fourth Sunday.
Arrenurus ceylonicus Daday 1898
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus ceylonicus

description: Arrenurus ceylonicus Daday, 1898
 Material examined — Thailand. 0/1/0, Chiang Saen Lake, 20°15.701 N 100°02.830 E, 360 m a.s.l., 19 Nov. 2007; 3/4/0, south-side Ubon Ratana Dam, Maha Sarakhan Province, 16°31.395 N 102°30.275 E, 182 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2017.
 Distribution — Widespread in SE Asia: Sri Lanka (Daday 1898, Lundblad 1969), Sumatra and/or Java, Indonesia (Piersig 1906, Walter 1929, Viets 1935), India (Walter 1928, Cook 1967, Lundblad 1969, Pešić et al. 2010), Myanmar (Lundblad 1969), Thailand (Lundblad 1969, Savatenalinton & Smit 2017); Brunei Darussalem (Wiles 1999), Malaysia (Wiles 1988) and Bangladesh (Pešić et al. 2018).
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2023, New records of water mites of the family Arrenuridae from the Oriental region, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-10 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on page 7, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13245987
BEYOND4.0 - Understanding Future Skills (Excerpt from Deliverable 6.1)
Creators: name: Dr. Kohlgrüber, Michael
name: Behrend, Clara
name: Cuypers, Mathias
name: Götting, Adrian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Future skills, beyond4.0, research, digitisation

description: Within BEYOND 4.0, a first report has been elaborated presenting current results of research activities in the first months of the topic “Understanding Future Skills”. It is about different aspects of changes in skills requirements due to digitalization in organizations. Two updates will follow when additional data have been collected and processed at company, regional and EU level. This text includes a summary of the above mentioned report providing information on the state of the art related to the skills topics that are in the scope of BEYOND 4.0. This report essentially comprises the state of play of the skills debate, a general skills framework and its building blocks “Conceptualisation” (classification of skills) and “Calculation” (measuring influence factors on skills). It represents the state of play and some limitations that should be mitigated by the progress of the BEYOND 4.0 project to enrich the skills debate.
Arrenurus laticodulus Piersig 1898
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Arrenuridae
Arrenurus
Arrenurus laticodulus

description: Arrenurus laticodulus Piersig, 1898
 Material examined — Thailand. 0/1/0, small pond with macrophytes, Phu Rua, Loei Province, 17°24.180 N 101°17.747 E, 628 m a.s.l., 31 Oct. 2017.
 Distribution — Widespread, known from Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands (Yap, Fiji) and Australia (see Smit 2003). Recently recorded from Thailand (Savatenalinton & Smit 2017).
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2023, New records of water mites of the family Arrenuridae from the Oriental region, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-10 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on page 8, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13245987
Do reporting guidelines have an impact? Empirical assessment of changes in reporting before and after the PRISMA extension statement for network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Veroniki, Areti A.
name: Tsokani, Sofia
name: Zevgiti, Stella
name: Pagkalidou, Irene
name: Kontouli, Katerina-Maria
name: Ambarcioglu, Pinar
name: Pandis, Nikos
name: Lunny, Carole
name: Nikolakopoulou, Adriani
name: Papakonstantinou, Theodoros
name: Chaimani, Anna
name: Straus, Sharon E.
name: Hutton, Brian
name: Tricco, Andrea C.
name: Mavridis, Dimitris
name: Salanti, Georgia
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension statement for network meta-analysis (NMA) published in 2015 promotes comprehensive reporting in published systematic reviews with NMA. PRISMA-NMA includes 32 items: 27 core items as indicated in the 2009 PRISMA Statement and five items specific to the reporting of NMAs. Although NMA reporting is improving, it is unclear whether PRISMA-NMA has accelerated this improvement. We aimed to investigate the impact of PRISMA-NMA and highlight key items that require attention and improvement. Methods We updated our previous collection of NMAs with articles published between April 2015 and July 2018. We assessed the completeness of reporting for each NMA, including main manuscript and online supplements, using the PRISMA-NMA checklist. The PRISMA-NMA checklist originally includes 32 total items (i.e. a 32-point scale original PRISMA-NMA score). We also prepared a modified version of the PRISMA-NMA checklist with 49 items to evaluate separately at a more granular level all multiple-content items (i.e. a 49-point scale modified PRISMA-NMA score). We compared average reporting scores of articles published until and after 2015. Results In the 1144 included NMAs the mean modified PRISMA-NMA score was 32.1 (95% CI 31.8–32.4) of a possible 49-excellence-score. For 1-year increase, the mean modified score increased by 0.96 (95% CI 0.32 to 1.59) for 389 NMAs published until 2015 and by 0.53 (95% CI 0.02 to 1.04) for 755 NMAs published after 2015. The mean modified PRISMA-NMA score for NMAs published after 2015 was higher by 0.81 (95% CI 0.23 to 1.39) compared to before 2015 when adjusting for journal impact factor, type of review, funding, and treatment category. Description of summary effect sizes to be used, presentation of individual study data, sources of funding for the systematic review, and role of funders dropped in frequency after 2015 by 6–16%. Conclusions NMAs published after 2015 more frequently reported the five items associated with NMA compared to those published until 2015. However, improvement in reporting after 2015 is compatible with that observed on a yearly basis until 2015, and hence, it could not be attributed solely to the publication of the PRISMA-NMA.
Umweltfreundliche öffentliche Beschaffung
Creators: name: Schmidt, Vanessa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Öffentliche Beschaffung
subject: Umweltfreundliche Beschaffung
subject: Informationsgewinnung
subject: Produktbewertung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Economy | Consumption
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: Dieses Hintergrundpapier informiert über die wichtigsten rechtlichen Regelungen zur umweltfreundlichen öffentlichen Beschaffung und zeigt, wie diese sinnvoll organisiert werden kann.
title: Σχεδιασμός εσωτερικών δομών ενίσχυσης ελαστικών επισώτρων
title: Design of inner enhancing structures of pneumatic tire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Λουφόπουλος, Αθανάσιος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εσωτερική δομή
Ελαστικά
Πεπερασμένα στοιχεία

description: Βασικός σκοπός της εργασίας είναι ο σχεδιασμός και η ανάλυση με την μέθοδο των πεπερασμένων στοιχείων της εσωτερικής δομής ελαστικών επισώτρων
Wuria sumatrensis
Creators: name: Smit, Harry
name: Pešić, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Acari
Arrenuridae
Wuria
Wuria sumatrensis

description: Wuria sumatrensis (K. Viets, 1935)
Figure 4
 Material examined — Thailand. 0/3/0, south-side Ubon Ratana Dam, Maha Sarakhan Province, 16°31.395 N 102°30.275 E, 182 m a.s.l., 6 Nov. 2017, 0/1/0 dissected and slide mounted (RMNH).
 Distribution — This species was originally described from a lake in Sumatra on the basis of a female (K. Viets 1935). In regard to features of the idiosoma (a stripe of sclerite surface with larger pores lying between the medial margins of Cx-III/IV as well between the margins of Cx-II and -III, genital plates relatively wide, L/W ratio 1.2) and a palp as illustrated in Figs. 4A, and – C, the female specimens from Thailand match the description of W. sumatrensis. As emphasized by Wiles (1997) and Pešić et al. (2010), a more certain designation requires males from Sumatra.
 Distribution — Widespread in the Oriental region: Known from Indonesia (Sumatra, K. Viets 1935), New Guinea (Wiles 1997) and India (Assam State; Pešić et al. 2010). New for Thailand.
description: Published as part of Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2023, New records of water mites of the family Arrenuridae from the Oriental region, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-10 in Ecologica Montenegrina 66 on page 8, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.66.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13245987
title: Πολυμεταβλητή αξιολόγηση διαφόρων παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν την ομαδική απόδοση στη χειροσφαίριση ανδρών στα Ευρωπαϊκά και Παγκόσμια πρωταθλήματα
title: Multivariate analysis of the factors which can affect the team performance in Men’s handball European and world championships
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αντωνιάδης, Χρήστος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Χειροσφαίριση
subject: Χειροσφαίριση - Προπονητική
subject: Handball
subject: Handball - Coaching
subject: Χειροσφαίριση
subject: Ανάλυση
subject: Ευρωπαϊκά
subject: Παγκόσμια
subject: Πρωταθλήματα
subject: Handball
subject: Analysis
subject: Europe
subject: World
subject: Championships

description: Ο σκοπός της συγκεκριμένης έρευνας είναι να αξιολογήσει τη σημαντικότητα διαφόρων επιλεγμένων παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν την ομαδική απόδοση κι επομένως την τελική κατάταξη / πλασάρισμα των Εθνικών ομάδων στα τελευταία τρία Παγκόσμια (2017, 2019 και 2021) και Ευρωπαϊκά πρωταθλήματα (2016, 2018 και 2020) Ανδρών στη Χειροσφαίριση. Το δείγμα μας αποτελείται από 442 αναμετρήσεις και στις έξι συνολικά διοργανώσεις μαζί. Συγκεκριμένα, αναλύθηκαν οι 3 Ευρωπαϊκές διοργανώσεις μεταξύ τους όπως και τα 3 Παγκόσμια πρωταθλήματα μεταξύ τους με τη χρήση των πολυμεταβλητών αναλύσεων διασποράς (MANOVA) για να εντοπιστούν οι στατιστικά σημαντικές διαφορές στις επιλεγμένες μεταβλητές μεταξύ των διοργανώσεων, για στατιστικά στοιχεία παικτών γηπέδου. Οι ασσίστ ανά αγώνα ήταν σημαντικά περισσότερες στο Ευρωπαϊκό του 2016 σε σχέση με το Ευρωπαϊκό του 2018 και του 2020 και τα κλεψίματα ανά αγώνα ήταν σημαντικά περισσότερα στο Ευρωπαϊκό του 2016 σε σχέση με το Ευρωπαϊκό του 2018 και του 2020, ευρήματα που μαρτυρούν περισσότερες ατομικές ενέργειες, καλύτερη τεχνική των αθλητών και καλύτερη τακτική των ομάδων με το πέρασμα των χρόνων. Η αποδοτικότητα των ρίψεων από τον κεντρικό χώρο των 6 μέτρων όπως και το μερίδιο συνεισφοράς των τερμάτων που επιτεύχθηκαν από τις διεισδύσεις στα συνολικά τέρματα ήταν σημαντικά μεγαλύτερο στο Παγκόσμιο πρωτάθλημα του 2021 σε σχέση με το Παγκόσμιο του 2019 και του 2017, γεγονός που αποδεικνύει την ολοένα και καλύτερη εκγύμναση και τεχνική των παικτών με αποτέλεσμα τη βελτίωση της ικανότητας σκοραρίσματος. Τα συγκεκριμένα ευρήματα θα χρησιμοποιηθούν από τους προπονητές χειροσφαίρισης διότι τους παρέχουν χρήσιμες πληροφορίες στον καλύτερο σχεδιασμό των στρατηγικών και τακτικών τους πλάνων.
Exploring cardiometabolic disease risk in young adults with intellectual disability
Creators: name: Zwack, Clara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The findings of this thesis indicate that young adults with ID demonstrate increased prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors compared to those without ID. This thesis argues that screening for traditional, subclinical, modifiable health-related behaviours and environmental risk factors in young adults with ID could prove a useful tool in early detection of cardiometabolic disease in this cohort. It is of utmost importance to provide young individuals living with an ID with the means to improve their health and wellbeing, and to minimise inequalities in health outcomes.
Constraining massive binary formation and evolution from compact object mergers
Creators: name: de Sá, Lucas M.
name: Rocha, Lívia S.
name: Bernardo, Antônio
name: Bachega, Riis R. A.
name: Horvath, Jorge E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: gravitational-waves
massive stellar evolution
binary evolution
neutron stars
stellar black holes

description: Compact object binaries that merge within a Hubble time are a rare outcome from massive binary evolution. Gravitational radiation is a relatively inefficient means of shrinking an orbit, and thus any compact binaries that do merge within a Hubble time must have already been in a tight enough orbit after the second supernova. This outcome of binary evolution generally requires particular formation channels, involving various combinations of “lucky” supernova kicks, single- or double-core common envelope evolution, stable mass transfer and wind or pulsational mass loss. Recent work in binary population synthesis has continuously imposed stronger constraints on the most common formation channels, and started to delineate patterns in the compact mergers they lead to, such as typical masses and coalescence times. This opens the prospect that, with an increasingly larger catalog of gravitational-wave observations of compact mergers, we will be able to place constraints on theoretical models for massive binary formation and evolution by comparing synthetic populations to observations. In this talk, I will present an overview of current such constraints, including the prospect of extending them to the process of binary formation.
Structure formation in the envelopes of massive stars
Creators: name: Van der Sijpt, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Excessive supersonic broadening of photospheric lines of massive stars indicates the presence of a very turbulent outer stellar envelope. Radiation-hydrodynamical models of massive stars (Jiang et al., 2015; Moens et al., 2022; Debnath et al., 2024) indeed show large structures being formed in the sub-surface layers, which may impact the energy transport and stellar structure just below the photosphere as well as observable properties. Therefore, it is very important to understand the origin and properties of this subsurface turbulence.

In this talk, we investigate the physical origin of the predicted structures in the outer layers of massive stars, and we attempt to characterize the resulting non-linear turbulent properties. Following Blaes & Socrates (2003), who performed a linear stability analysis to predict multiple instabilities originating from the iron opacity bump, we study the linear growth phase of the structures in the Wolf-Rayet (WR) star models by Moens et al. (2022) and the O-star models by Debnath et al. (2024) and compare our results to theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we consider the fully developed non-linear turbulence and compute energy power spectra which we then compare to classical Kolmogorov theory. In particular, we study how the optically thick and optically thin winds of these WR stars and O-stars, respectively, can impact the emergent turbulent properties, both in the linear stage and in the non-linear stage.
Optimised Heterologous Expression and Functional Analysis of the Yersinia pestis F1-Capsular Antigen Regulator Caf1R
Creators: name: Gahlot, Dharmender K.
name: Ifill, Gyles
name: MacIntyre, Sheila
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: The bacterial pathogen, Yersinia pestis, has caused three historic pandemics and continues to cause small outbreaks worldwide. During infection, Y. pestis assembles a capsule-like protective coat of thin fibres of Caf1 subunits. This F1 capsular antigen has attracted much attention due to its clinical value in plague diagnostics and anti-plague vaccine development. Expression of F1 is tightly regulated by a transcriptional activator, Caf1R, of the AraC/XylS family, proteins notoriously prone to aggregation. Here, we have optimised the recombinant expression of soluble Caf1R. Expression from the native and synthetic codon-optimised caf1R cloned in three different expression plasmids was examined in a library of E. coli host strains. The functionality of His-tagged Caf1R was demonstrated in vivo, but insolubility was a problem with overproduction. High levels of soluble MBP-Caf1R were produced from codon optimised caf1R. Transcriptional-lacZ reporter fusions defined the PM promoter and Caf1R binding site responsible for transcription of the cafMA1 operon. Use of the identified Caf1R binding caf DNA sequence in an electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) confirmed correct folding and functionality of the Caf1R DNA-binding domain in recombinant MBP-Caf1R. Availability of functional recombinant Caf1R will be a valuable tool to elucidate control of expression of F1 and Caf1R-regulated pathophysiology of Y. pestis.
Cloud gap-filling with deep learning for improved grassland monitoring
Creators: name: Tsardanidis, Iason
name: Koukos, Alkiviadis
name: Sitokonstantinou, Vasileios
name: Drivas, Thanassis
name: Kontoes, Charalampos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Uninterrupted optical image time series are crucial for the timely monitoring of agricultural land changes. However, the continuity of such time series is often disrupted by clouds. In response to this challenge, we propose a deep learning method that integrates cloud-free optical (Sentinel-2) observations and weather-independent (Sentinel-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, using a combined Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture to generate continuous Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series. We emphasize the significance of observation continuity by assessing the impact of the generated time series on the detection of grassland mowing events. We focus on Lithuania, a country characterized by extensive cloud coverage, and compare our approach with alternative interpolation techniques (i.e., linear, Akima, quadratic). Our method surpasses these techniques, with an average MAE of 0.024 and R^2 of 0.92. It not only improves the accuracy of event detection tasks by employing a continuous time series, but also effectively filters out sudden shifts and noise originating from cloudy observations that cloud masks often fail to detect.
Safety vests for jockeys: a case study of primary and dependent-secondary users affecting the evolution of vest design in the Australian horse-racing industry
Creators: name: Giusti Gestri, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research presented new insights into design issues of Australian jockeys’ safety vests, which have scarcely updated standards. There is a consistent rate of serious jockeys’ injuries and an increasing number of female jockeys, yet safety vests still need improvement. A user-experience (UX) framework guided the author, but the perspectives of the tracks’ medical staff could not be clearly classified within a common UX framework. Jockeys’ and medical professionals’ thoughts provided significant findings that inform areas of change. Benefits may arrive by a revision of a UX framework to accommodate design dependencies as suggested by Dependency-Based User-Experience (D-UX) design.
Fixed points of generalized contractions on O-metric spaces
Creators: name: Olaoluwa, Hallowed O.
name: Ige, Aminat O.
name: Olaleru, Johnson O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54E99, 54E350

description: The class of O-metric spaces generalize several existing metric-types in literature including metric spaces, b-metric spaces, and ultra metric spaces. In this paper, we discuss the properties of the topology induced by an O-metric and establish in the setting, fixed point theorems of contractions and generalized contractions. The proofs of the theorems rely heavily on polygon O-inequalities which are a natural generalization of the triangle inequality, and the construction of which leads to the notion of O-series following a pattern of functions.
description: 25 pages
Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with chronic kidney disease on hemodialysis.pdf
Creators: name: M. Solivan, Fernand
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion
classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 420605
subject: Preventative health care

description: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on hemodialysis face a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. This is due to a combination of traditional risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, as well as CKD-specific factors, including anemia, mineral and bone disorders, and inflammation. The hemodialysis process itself can also contribute to cardiovascular complications. Effective management requires a multifactorial approach targeting both traditional and nontraditional risk factors. Early identification and intervention are crucial to mitigate the development and progression of cardiovascular disease in this high-risk patient group.
HUMAN CAPITAL CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS WITHIN THE HOTEL SECTOR.
Creators: name: Mansurov, Zokir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Human resources represent a significant challenge for hotel executives striving for operational efficiency (Enz 2001, 2009) and have long been a focal point of research among scholars in tourism and hospitality (Baum, 2007, 2015; Baum & Szivas, 2008; Guerrier & Deery, 1998). Notably, labor shortages have emerged as the most persistent issue for hotels across nearly all global regions (Wang, 2009), with approximately 90 percent of the hospitality sector frequently facing under-staffing (Poulston, 2008). These ongoing challenges related to human capital may stem from the prevalent employment of young, female, and unskilled or semi-skilled workers, which poses specific difficulties in workforce management within the tourism and hospitality industry (Kusluvan et al., 2010).