cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Review on Organ Deformation Modeling Approaches for Reliable Surgical Navigation using Augmented Reality
Creators: name: Han, Zheng
name: Dou, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Augmented Reality (AR) holds the potential to revolutionize surgical procedures by allowing surgeons to visualize critical structures within the patient's body. This is achieved through superimposing preoperative organ models onto the actual anatomy. Challenges arise from dynamic deformations of organs during surgery, making preoperative models inadequate for faithfully representing intraoperative anatomy. To enable reliable navigation in augmented surgery, modeling of intraoperative deformation to obtain an accurate alignment of the preoperative organ model with the intraoperative anatomy is indispensable. Despite the existence of various methods proposed to model intraoperative organ deformation, there are still few literature reviews that systematically categorize and summarize these approaches. This review aims to fill this gap by providing a comprehensive and technical-oriented overview of modeling methods for intraoperative organ deformation in augmented reality in surgery. Through a systematic search and screening process, 112 closely relevant papers were included in this review. By presenting the current status of organ deformation modeling methods and their clinical applications, this review seeks to enhance the understanding of organ deformation modeling in AR-guided surgery, and discuss the potential topics for future advancements.
title: Unidirectional Cordic for Efficient Computation of Trigonometric and Hyperbolic Functions
Creators: name: Ravichandran, Satish
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003

description: CORDIC (Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer) is an iterative algorithm to compute values of trigonometric, logarithmic and transcendental functions by performing vector rotations, which can be implemented with only shift and add operations in a digital system. CORDIC algorithms are extensively used in the areas of digital signal processing, digital image processing and artificial neural networks. A new technique, named unidirectional CORDIC, for efficient computation of trigonometric and hyperbolic functions is presented in this thesis. In the conventional CORDIC algorithm, the vector rotations are performed in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions, but in the unidirectional CORDIC the vectors are rotated only in one direction. This leads to a reduction of the number of vector rotations required to compute a value and hence unidirectional CORDIC approach contributes significant improvement in speed and power savings in digital systems.

A novel technique of pre-computation of the rotation bits from a given angle is presented in this thesis. This would help increase the performance of the CORDIC architecture in both speed and power consumption. The pre-computed rotation bits are predominantly useful for the implementation of unidirectional Flat-CORDIC, which is a parallel form of CORDIC algorithm to compute the values in one clock cycle. The unidirectional CORDIC module along with the circuitry for pre-computation of rotation bits is implemented in a FPGA (Fie1d Programmable Gate Array) environment using Alters Quartos II design tool. Hardware simulation results of the unidirectional CORDIC algorithm in the computations of trigonometric and hyperbolic functions with 24 bit input angle show accurate results with error less than 10-8.

A technique for the training of multiple-valued neural networks based on backpropagation learning rule employing a multilevel threshold function is also presented in this thesis as an application of unidirectional CORDIC algorithm. The multilevel threshold function is developed as a sum of shifted and scaled hyperbolic tangent functions created by the unidirectional CORDIC technique. The optimum threshold width of the multilevel function and the range of the learning rate parameter to be chosen for convergence are derived. Trials performed on a benchmark problem demonstrate the convergence of the network within the specified range of parameters. An important advantage of the multiple-valued neural network is that it can be implemented in VLSI with reduced number of neurons and synaptic weights.
Luca Bifulco, Mario Tirino (2019), (a cura di). Sport e Scienze Sociali. Fenomeni sportivi tra consumi, media e processi globali, Rogas, Roma
Creators: name: Di Paola, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Sport e Scienze Sociali. Fenomeni sportivi tra consumi, media e processi globali (2019) è un volume a cura di Luca Bifulco e Mario Tirino, edito da Rogas, in cui sono raccolti sedici saggi dedicati a un’approfondita analisi - svolta dalla prospettiva delle scienze sociali - dello sport e delle sue relazioni con la struttura sociale, le identità, i consumi, il potere e i media.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
THE PRESENT CONDITION AND DIRECTION OF MAINTENANCE OF “DISASTER PREVENTION ROADSIDE STATION”： FOCUS TO SUFFICIENCY STATUS OF THE SELECTION REQUIREMENTS AND SCALE OF THE PARKING
Creators: name: UOZAKI, Katsuya
name: IZUMIYAMA, Rui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440714
subject: Urban policy
classificationCode: 350906
subject: Public transport

description: On June 11, 2021, 39 “Roadside Stations” nationwide were selected as “Disaster Prevention Roadside Stations”. However, there are some “Disaster Prevention Roadside Stations” whose future maintenance policy is unclear. Therefore, we objectively organized the situation of 39 “Disaster Prevention Roadside Stations”. Furthermore, we explored the current status of the four “Disaster Prevention Roadside Stations” in the Kanto region and clarified the direction of future development.
Pippo Russo (2020). Calcio e cultura dello stupro. Il caso Ched Evans, Meltemi
Creators: name: Benvenga, Luca
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Il libro Calcio e cultura dello stupro. Il caso Ched Evans di Pippo Russo è prezioso per due motivi. Il primo: poiché porta alla ribalta un evento mass-mediatico e giudiziario poco conosciuto al pubblico italiano; il secondo: attraverso accurate riflessioni, l’autore tenta di scalfire le pareti di un mondo che conosce molto bene, quello del calcio professionistico, facendo emergere i lati oscuri del beautiful game in relazione al rapporto tra calciatori, immaginario pubblico e universo femminile.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
JADES Ultra-red Flattened Objects: Morphologies and Spatial Gradients in Color and Stellar Populations
Creators: name: Gibson, Justus L.
name: Nelson, Erica
name: Williams, Christina C.
name: Price, Sedona H.
name: Whitaker, Katherine E.
name: Suess, Katherine A.
name: de Graaff, Anna
name: Johnson, Benjamin D.
name: Bunker, Andrew J.
name: Baker, William M.
name: Bhatawdekar, Rachana
name: Boyett, Kristan
name: Charlot, Stephane
name: Curtis-Lake, Emma
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Hainline, Kevin
name: Hausen, Ryan
name: Maiolino, Roberto
name: Rieke, George
name: Rieke, Marcia
name: Robertson, Brant
name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Willott, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the more surprising findings after the first year of JWST observations is the large number of spatially extended galaxies (ultra-red flattened objects, or UFOs) among the optically-faint galaxy population otherwise thought to be compact. Leveraging the depth and survey area of the JADES survey, we extend observations of the optically-faint galaxy population to an additional 112 objects, 56 of which are well-resolved in F444W with effective sizes, $R_e > 0.25''$, more than tripling previous UFO counts. These galaxies have redshifts around $2 < z < 4$, high stellar masses ($\mathrm{log(M_*/M_{\odot})} \sim 10-11$), and star-formation rates around $\sim 100-1000 \mathrm{M_{\odot}/yr}$. Surprisingly, UFOs are red across their entire extents which spatially resolved analysis of their stellar populations shows is due to large values of dust attenuation (typically $A_V > 2$ mag even at large radii). Morphologically, the majority of our UFO sample tends to have low Sérsic indices ($n \sim 1$) suggesting these large, massive, optically faint galaxies have little contribution from a bulge in F444W. Further, a majority have axis-ratios between $0.2 < q < 0.4$, which Bayesian modeling suggests that their intrinsic shapes are consistent with being a mixture of inclined disks and prolate objects with little to no contribution from spheroids. While kinematic constraints will be needed to determine the true intrinsic shapes of UFOs, it is clear that an unexpected population of large, disky or prolate objects contributes significantly to the population of optically faint galaxies.
description: 24 pages, 13 figures; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Stefano Martelli, Ivana Matteucci, Giovanna Russo, Loredana Tallarita (2019). Keep fit! Ben-essere attivo e nuove tecnologie, Franco Angeli, Milano
Creators: name: Massaro, Laura
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Analizzare lo sport vuol dire indagare un fenomeno in continua trasformazione. Il volume Keep fit! Ben-essere attivo e nuove tecnologie pone al centro del suo raggio d’analisi proprio il rapporto tra sport e mutamento sociale.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
A corpo “libero”. Pratiche di bodybuilding, fitness e wellness tra razionalità e moralità
Creators: name: Bagnini, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, western society faced relevant sociological questions, such as the birth of leisure time, the need to occupy it and to attribute to it sense and cardinal principles capable of guiding human actions. At the same time, an ongoing process of democratizing sport and increasing individual physical activities began. This article seeks a fil rouge that can justify over time the choice of an individual physical activity, which requires autological motivation for the person to understand its meaning and to be able to practice it during leisure time. If around the mid-twentieth century the justificative principle of leisure and sporting practices such as bodybuilding was found in work morality and residues of taylorism and rational organization of work, in the second half of the twentieth century fun morality and health as a virtue attribute meaning and substance to fitness and wellness activities.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
C-Test und Profilanalyse im Geographieunterricht. Skalenhandbuch zur Dokumentation der Erhebung von Fachsprache zum Themenbereich Schalenbau der Erde und Plattentektonik
Creators: name: Wey, Santina
name: Gölitz, Dietmar
name: Schubert, Jan Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geographiedidaktik
Geographieunterricht
Fachsprache
C-Test
Profilanalyse

description: Bei der Publikation handelt es sich um das Skalenhandbuch zur Dokumentation der Erhebung von Fachsprache im Geographieunterricht zum Thema Schalenbau der Erde und Plattentektonik anhand eines C-Test sowie einer Profilanalyse.
title: Google v. CNIL: The Territorial Scope of the Right to Be Forgotten Under EU Law
Creators: name: Samonte, Mary
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: right to be forgotten
subject: data protection and privacy
subject: freedom of expression
subject: territorial scope
subject: internet
subject: State sovereignty

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(3), 839-851
description: European Forum Insight of 27 January 2020
description: I. Introduction. - I.1. The right to be forgotten. - I.2. Factual and legal background. - II. The decision of the Court. - III. Analysis. - III.1. Implications for EU residents: level of protection. - III.2. Significance: more than just setting a territorial limit. - III.3. A harmonisation or a fragmentation of EU data protection. - IV. Conclusion.
description: This Insight provides a critical analysis of the judgment of 24 September 2019, Google Inc. v. Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), case C-507/17, which clarified the territorial scope of the right to be forgotten under current EU law by holding that it only applies within EU borders. Although the Court ruled against an extraterritorial application of the right, the judgment also provides a more nuanced approach in affording legitimacy to a global application of the right. This Insight reviews the Court's reasoning and reflects upon the struggles it faced as it decided to set a geographical boundary on a right inextricably linked to the borderless internet. It also discusses the direct impact of the ruling on EU residents seeking to enforce the right and highlights some of its main shortcomings. Lastly, it seeks to assess the judgment's implications toward the status of harmonisation of data protection in the Union.
Ultrafast dynamics and interactions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and their van der Waals heterostructures
Creators: name: Muir, Jack
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Information and communications technology is estimated to use 7% of Earth’s total electricity, rising to 40% by 2040. This global energy usage is unsustainable with current silicon-based electronics, so alternative ‘quantum materials’ must be considered for next-generation electronic technologies. However, before these devices can be realised, new fundamental physics in these quantum materials must be understood. In this thesis, quantum materials are investigated using state-of-the-art spectroscopy techniques, which involves directing multiple ultra-fast laser bursts towards the sample, then optically collecting the emission signals. Analysis of the signals has provided insight into the underlying physics of these remarkable quantum materials.
Supplemantery figures from An attempt to distinguish physical and socio-psychological influences on pedestrian bottleneck
Creators: name: Rzezonka, Jonas
name: Chraibi, Mohcine
name: Seyfried, Armin
name: Hein, Ben
name: Schadschneider, Andreas
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics
subject: 20304 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Supplementary figures showing all corridor width simulated
A Dynamic Autocatalytic Network Model of Therapeutic Change
Creators: name: Ganesh, Kirthana
name: Gabora, Liane
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Psychotherapy involves the modification of a client’s worldview to reduce distress and enhance well-being. We take a human dynamical systems approach to modeling this process, using Reflexively Autocatalytic foodset-derived (RAF) networks. RAFs have been used to model the self-organization of adaptive networks associated with the origin and early evolution of both biological life, as well as the evolution and development of the kind of cognitive structure necessary for cultural evolution. The RAF approach is applicable in these seemingly disparate cases because it provides a theoretical framework for formally describing under what conditions systems composed of elements that interact and ‘catalyze’ the formation of new elements collectively become integrated wholes. In our application, the elements are mental representations, and the whole is a conceptual network. The initial components—referred to as foodset items—are mental representations that are innate, or were acquired through social learning or individual learning (of pre-existing information). The new elements—referred to as foodset-derived items—are mental representations that result from creative thought (resulting in new information). In clinical psychology, a client’s distress may be due to, or exacerbated by, one or more beliefs that diminish self-esteem. Such beliefs may be formed and sustained through distorted thinking, and the tendency to interpret ambiguous events as confirmation of these beliefs. We view psychotherapy as a creative collaborative process between therapist and client, in which the output is not an artwork or invention but a more well-adapted worldview and approach to life on the part of the client. In this paper, we model a hypothetical albeit representative example of the formation and dissolution of such beliefs over the course of a therapist–client interaction using RAF networks. We show how the therapist is able to elicit this worldview from the client and create a conceptualization of the client’s concerns. We then formally demonstrate four distinct ways in which the therapist is able to facilitate change in the client’s worldview: (1) challenging the client’s negative interpretations of events, (2) providing direct evidence that runs contrary to and counteracts the client’s distressing beliefs, (3) using self-disclosure to provide examples of strategies one can use to diffuse a negative conclusion, and (4) reinforcing the client’s attempts to assimilate such strategies into their own ways of thinking. We then discuss the implications of such an approach to expanding our knowledge of the development of mental health concerns and the trajectory of the therapeutic change.
L’altra metà del tatami
Creators: name: Comparelli, Fabrizio
name: Tomei, Fabio
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: This paper analyses the dimensions of “sport-karate” and the increasingly important role that female athletes have within it. The first part of the article is about the history of “karate” martial art, articulating its genesis (in an all-male prospective), the traditions and the geographic development (Okinawa, Japan and finally in the rest of the world). The second part investigates the dimension of contemporary karate. Even though this discipline is male-dominated, in particular at managerial and political level, women have been able to carve out for themselves an important space within this discipline and reach excellent levels worldwide.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
“Off the court”. Numeric gender representation in Italian women’s basketball
Creators: name: Picariello, Manuela
name: Dzikus, Lars
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: The present study investigates gender dynamics in the Italian top women’s basketball league, Serie A1, specifically numeric gender representation in off-the-court leadership positions and its potential influence on production relations and power relations, the first two dimensions of Connell’s (2002) model. Italy is historically a country with a dominant patriarchal society and few women in leadership and decision-making positions. We performed frequency counts of gender by team and position and performed frequency distribution looking at 14 teams during the 2019-2020 season. A gender division emerged because men assumed the majority of off-the-court positions in the league. Men prevailed over women in power relations, occupying the most influential positions in the teams. There are very few women in leadership positions in the Italian teams. It is possible that the underrepresentation of women contributes to a lack of gendered emotional relations and the assumptions that male dominance is “natural.”
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
Supplementary document for Enhanced on-chip frequency measurement using weak value amplification - 5474937.pdf
Creators: name: Steinmetz, John
name: Lyons, Kevin
name: Song, Meiting
name: Cardenas, Jaime
name: Jordan, Andrew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Description of numerical methods used in the main paper
A pulsed current set-up for use in magnetic fields above 30 T; application to high-temperature superconductors
Creators: name: Duffy, C. M.
name: Huijbregts, T. M.
name: Bernáth, B.
name: Juskus, D.
name: Cool, R. J.
name: Roesthuis, F. J. G.
name: Brinkman, A.
name: Hussey, N. E.
name: Badoux, S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Physical measurements of the normal state of an unconventional or high-temperature superconductor in the zero-temperature limit can provide vital information on the nature of the electronic ground state from which the superconductivity emerges. Viable routes to fully suppress the superconductivity include the application of magnetic fields stronger than the upper critical field Hc2 or current densities larger than the critical current density Jc. In high-Tc superconductors, Hc2 is typically higher than the available field strengths, while high currents can often create large heating effects that cause irreparable damage to the sample. Here, we present a technique that combines intense current pulses with high magnetic fields to fully suppress the superconductivity of a candidate high-Tc superconductor while keeping both J and μ0H below their critical values. Two adaptable circuit designs are presented with negligible stray field or self-heating effects (below a critical current value). As a proof of principle, we apply the technique to a high-Tc cuprate with nominal μ0Hc2 ∼ 36 T and demonstrate the suppression of superconductivity down to T/Tc ≤ 0.1 in a field strength of just 24 T. Further applications of this dual technique are also discussed.
Le ultramaratone: un altro genere di competizione
Creators: name: Dominici, Greta
name: Dragotto, Francesca
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: The contribution aims to describe that increasingly important sport phenomenon known as ultramarathon. An ultramarathon is usually described as a competitive race, mainly a footrace, which lasts much longer than any other ordinary marathon. The authors have taken into consideration its many aspects and have embedded them into a historical (also from a linguistic perspective) and sociocultural framework. In the first part of the paper, the authors focus on the nature and the elements that constitute an ultra-marathon, the actors involved and the percentage of female athletes. In the second part, in order to examine the relationship between the extension of the phenomenon and its social representation, they introduce and analyze a corpus collected from the Italian press, both mainstream and non-mainstream. The data-set is made of articles published between 2018 and April 2020: in all the text taken into consideration, the authors have provided with a qualitative analysis finalized to highlight – among other elements - the presence of gender-markedness clues.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
La disuguaglianza complessa. Tutte le dimensioni del gender gap nello sport
Creators: name: Russo, Pippo
Publisher: name: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences
Year: 2020

description: This paper is aimed to investigate the gender gap in sport as a main topic in sport studies, and doing it through different dimensions. Taking as a starting point the principle of equality as fundamental for access to sports, the paper tries to put out the main dimensions of gender inequality in sport, both as regards the level of access to sport as a right of widespread citizenship and about high competition sport. Gender gap in sport is analyzed through 4 dimensions: a dimension of access for doing active sport (gender play gap), a dimension of formal role attribution as professionals in sport (gender professional gap), a dimension of mediatization aimed to evaluate how differences are in presence and/or representation through media for female sport (gender media gap), and finally a dimension of economic gratification for sport performance (gender pay gap). This four-dimension implemented gap set up a situation to be named as “complex inequality”, a multi-level gap that is still producing a largely unfair situation in social and economic for female sport.
description: Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol 3 (2020): Sport and gender gap: accessibility, leadership and media representation
Can a Black-Box AI Replace Costly DMA Testing?—A Case Study on Prediction and Optimization of Dynamic Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene
Creators: name: Vahed, Ronak
name: Zareie Rajani, Hamid Reza
name: Milani, Abbas S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: The complex and non-linear nature of material properties evolution during 3D printing continues to make experimental optimization of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) costly, thus entailing the development of mathematical predictive models. This paper proposes a two-stage methodology based on coupling limited data experiments with black-box AI modeling and then performing heuristic optimization, to enhance the viscoelastic properties of FDM processed acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). The effect of selected process parameters (including nozzle temperature, layer height, raster orientation and deposition speed) as well as their combinative effects are also studied. Specifically, in the first step, a Taguchi orthogonal array was employed to design the Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) experiments with a minimal number of runs, while considering different working conditions (temperatures) of the final prints. The significance of process parameters was measured using Lenth’s statistical method. Combinative effects of FDM parameters were noted to be highly nonlinear and complex. Next, artificial neural networks were trained to predict both the storage and loss moduli of the 3D printed samples, and consequently, the process parameters were optimized via Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). The optimized process of the prints showed overall a closer behavior to that of the parent (unprocessed) ABS, when compared to the unoptimized set-up.
title: Klimaschutz und Klimawandelanpassung
title: Klimaschutz und Klimawandelanpassung
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lotter, Franziska
name: Dworak, Thomas
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Fremdenverkehr
subject: Klimaschutz
subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Tourismus
subject: Klimaanpassung
subject: Destination
subject: Tourismusregion
subject: Klimawandel
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind in Deutschland bereits spürbar. Dadurch wird der Tourismus, der gleichzeitig Mitverursacher und Betroffener des Klimawandels ist, zunehmend vor Herausforderungen gestellt. Diese Broschüre bietet einen Überblick über mögliche Veränderungen auf der Angebots- und Nachfrageseite. Sie informiert über Klimaschutz und Klimawandelanpassung im Zusammenhang mit dem Tourismus. Zudem wird dargestellt, wie beide Zielstellungen in die zukünftige Entwicklung einer Tourismusdestination einfließen können. www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Die Folgen des Klimawandels sind in Deutschland bereits spürbar. Dadurch wird der Tourismus, der gleichzeitig Mitverursacher und Betroffener des Klimawandels ist, zunehmend vor Herausforderungen gestellt. Diese Broschüre bietet einen Überblick über mögliche Veränderungen auf der Angebots- und Nachfrageseite. Sie informiert über ⁠Klimaschutz⁠ und Klimawandelanpassung im Zusammenhang mit dem Tourismus. Zudem wird dargestellt, wie beide Zielstellungen in die zukünftige Entwicklung einer Tourismusdestination einfließen können.
Assembly and characterization of an optical fiber probe for use in a portable Raman spectrometer
Creators: name: de Lima, Carlos José
name: Silveira, Landulfo
name: da Silva Rosa, Vitor
name: Lucindo, Murilo Antunes Alves
name: Pacheco, Marcos Tadeu Tavares
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study describes the assembly and testing of an optical fiber Raman probe for use in a portable spectrometer using a 785 nm laser. The Raman probe was tested on edible vegetable oils (extra virgin olive, canola, sunflower, corn, and soybean), with the distal end of the probe immersed in each sample. The spectra of a dipyrone tablet and a mothball were also obtained. The silica peaks were subtracted by taking a spectrum with the probe tip immersed in water. The spectra of the samples exhibited characteristic peaks from vibrations of unsaturated fatty acids between 900 and 1800 cm−1, as well as characteristic peaks of silica from 600 to 1200 cm−1. The spectra of the samples after subtraction of the silica spectrum (probe in water) showed characteristic peaks without alterations in position or relative intensities compared without the probe. Exploratory analysis by principal component analysis was able to identify peaks of the constituent fatty acids in the oils and associate them with the oil type. A classification model based on partial least squares regression allowed for the classification of oil spectra with an accuracy of 77%. This study demonstrated the feasibility of coupling a probe to a portable Raman spectrometer with the goal of monitoring and controlling industrial processes.
Towards a predictive functional synthesis : routing top-down and bottom-up approaches in biology
Creators: name: Cole, Austin Woodrow
name: 0000-0002-2828-811X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Molecular evolution
Synthetic biology
Machine learning

description: Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of biology. The collection of experiments described here attempts to engineer biology to influence evolution — this builds on and inverts an approach to parse historical evolutionary realities through molecular experimentation. Several different avenues are described here to prospectively anticipate the patterns of evolution, and a small selection of informative studies that set the stage for these experiments are presented in chapter one. Chapters two and three detail how engineered codon tables may bias evolution under two different types of selection. These chapters speak to the rigidity of the existing codon table and the broad adaptive potential that exists within the current set of 20 amino acids. Chapters four and five restrict their focus to engineer the genomes of single stranded viral individuals rather than amino acid repertoires, and then lay out how these synthetic genomes adapt in response to designed architectures. Lastly, chapter six describes new tools to amalgamate ‘bottom-up’ chemical information and then uses an algorithm embedding that information to guide the engineering of improved protein phenotypes. Taken together, these approaches form an anthology of strategies that use biological engineering to prospectively bias the adaptation of populations.
Generalized hydrodynamics in simple nanoscale systems
Creators: name: Knudsen, Solvej
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis titled Generalized hydrodynamics in simple nanoscale systems, aims to improve the understanding of the dynamics of liquids on the nanoscale. The dynamics on these scales differs from the dynamics on larger scales. Using the framework of hydrodynamics to describe nanoscale dynamics must be done carefully, and we show that by taking into account the length scale and or frequency dependence of the transport coefficients, hydrodynamics can be used to interpret data at surprisingly small length scales. This research is important to develop nanometer sized Lab On a Chip (LOC) devices, with micrometer sized devices already being used successfully.
Delta Cepstral Analysis for Classification of Repetition and Prolongation Stuttering Dysfluencies,
Creators: name: DS, Vinod
name: P.Mahesha, P.Mahesha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: P.Mahesha and D.S.Vinod, Delta Cepstral Analysis for Classification of Repetition and Prolongation Stuttering Dysfluencies, proceedings of the 8 th International Con- ference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP-2014), page 408 to 414, held in University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India on 25 th to 27 th of July 2014, ISBN: 9789351072522. Proceedings title: ”Digital Image and Signal Processing”. Organised by University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. Published by Elsevier.
Anotia Kirby 1821
Creators: name: Haas, Matthé Cornelis De
name: Bahder, Brian W.
name: Bartlett, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Anotia

description: Genus Anotia Kirby, 1821
= Amalopota Van Duzee, 1889 (type species Amalopota uhleri Van Duzee 1889 by monotypy); syn. by implication Fennah (1952: 152).
Type species: Anotia bonnetii Kirby, 1821
Diagnosis. A diagnosis of Anotia is given by Bahder et al. (2023). The genus can be identified using the key to New World Otiocerini genera by Bartlett & Hoch (2023). The most similar genus to Anotia is Sayiana Ball which is most easily differentiated by the latter genus possessing a large triangular lobe on the humeral margin of the forewing (e.g., Bartlett et al. 2014, fig. 64J), which is small and rounded (or absent) in Anotia (e.g., Fig. 4).
description: Published as part of Haas, Matthé Cornelis De, Bahder, Brian W. & Bartlett, Charles R., 2025, A new species of Anotia Westwood from Bonaire and Curaçao (Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae: Otiocerini), pp. 539-550 in Zootaxa 5627 (3) on page 542, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15326450
title: Hardware prototyping and thermal simulations of strip sensor, and simulation of transmission lines for the LHCb VELO upgrade
Creators: name: Longstaff, Iain
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: The LHCb experiment based at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator is undergoing upgrades to replace end of life detectors and take advantage of the luminosity upgrades that the LHC machine is gaining. The VErtex LOcator (VELO) is a particle tracking sub detector of LHCb and its upgrade is designed to record up to an order of magnitude more data from proton-proton collision events. During the development of the upgrade, silicon strip sensors and pixel detectors were investigated as options. A prototype of the strip sensor was assembled with readout hardware to characterise its performance. Cooling methods were considered and thermal simulations were performed to verify that cooling an irradiated silicon strip sensors after 50 fb−1 of integrated luminosity is viable. Using the technologically least aggressive and hence easier to implement cooling solution required liquid CO2 to be below -18◦C to avoid thermal runaway, the upgraded CO2 cooling infrastructure is capable of -30◦C hence thermal control is viable. The silicon pixel sensor technology was chosen for its superior track reconstruction performance as the upgrade technology. It requires around 2.85 Tbits/s of data to be transferred for processing off-site. The sensor’s readout electronics require multiple parallel transmission lines capable of each carrying 5.12 Gbits/s of data without significant signal loss and also have sufficient flexibility to accommodate the 3 cm lateral movement of the VELO sub detector halves. A flexible copper multilayer ribbon cable design, so called “flex cables”, is a compact solution, with a thickness just over 400 µm where each transmission line is 1200 µm wide. Simulations were performed to find the optimal characteristic differential impedance and transmission properties which were used to guide the prototype development. Comparisons of impedance measurements against real world prototype versions showed a systematic bias of around 10 Ω that could be explained by various factors explored within. Comparisons of transmission versus frequency showed good agreement between simulation and measurement. The flex-cable design has been finalised and the VELO upgrade is being assembled in preparation for on site installation into the LHCb detector.
title: Policy and Planning for Basic Education in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Creators: name: Chide, Lindiwe Christina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Policy
subject: Planning
subject: Basic Education
subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: Malawi
subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: Curriculum and Social Inquiry
subject: Education

description: The Education sector in Malawi has experienced a negative impact of the HIV I AIDS pandemic. Since the 1990's the education sector has registered an increased number of problems due to the pandemic. This study examines how cmTent human resource policies in the Education ministry address the impact of HIV I AIDS, explores the impact of HIV I AIDS on planning for basic education and the interventions that have been put in place to address the impact Data was collected from key policy makers and implementers in the Education Ministry using in-depth interviews and document reviews. The study found that existing human resource policies do not address the impact of HIV/AIDS. There is no specific HIV/AIDS policy in the ministry apart from the HIV I AIDS strategic plan. The study further found lack of appropriate data on HIV I AIDS, capacity, and financial resources as key constraints to effective planning. Finally, the study found no interventions to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on the human resource
title: The X Case: The Influence of the Resource Requirement on Long Term Residents' Integration and National Authorities' Discretionary Powers
Creators: name: Gerbaudo, Marco
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: third-country national long-term residents
subject: Directive 2003/109/EC
subject: resource requirement
subject: integration
subject: legal migration
subject: mobility and residence rights

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(3), 801-808
description: European Forum Insight of 13 February 2020
description: I. Introduction. - II. Facts of the case and preliminary questions. - III. The ruling of the Court. - IV. Comment.
description: In the X case (judgment of 3 October 2019, case C-302/18), the Court of Justice addressed for the first time the application of the resource requirement of the Directive 2003/09/EC, a precondition for the obtainment of the status of long-term resident by third-country nationals. In its ruling, the Court compared the provision of Art. 5, para. 1, let. a), on the Long-Term Residents Directive with the resource requirements listed in other relevant directives on legal migration. Then, the judges looked at the influence of the discretionary powers of national authorities over the achievement of the Directive's prime objective, namely the integration of legal migrants in their host societies. This Insight focuses on the stance taken by the Court against the disproportionate use of the resource requirement by Member State, whose strictness hinders the accessibility to the status of long term residents for legal migrants and therefore their integration in the host society. Moreover, the Insight analyses the contribution of the X ruling to the creation of a needed cohesive case law on intra-EU mobility and residence rights, especially regarding resource requirements.
title: Cities' Legal Actions in the EU: Towards a Stronger Urban Power?
Creators: name: Tatì, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cities
subject: collective interests
subject: Commission
subject: internal-market
subject: clean-air
subject: mobility

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(3), 861-870
description: European Forum Insight of 21 February 2020
description: I. Facts and history of the procedure: a step forward in the so-called dieselgate saga. - II. The legal framework: balancing different European policies. - III. Clarifying the sector framed by Directive 2007/46: uncertainty hidden behind technicalities. - IV. The General Court's reasoning in the 2018 judgment. - IV.1. The admissibility of the actions. - IV.2. The amendment of the not-to-exceed emission limits and the statistical factor cf pollutant: the competence of the Commission. - V. Some conclusions: towards a stronger urban power in Europe.
description: The case discussed is an example of how cities can have an independent role in EU governance. In 2016, the cities of Madrid, Brussels and Paris brought actions before the General Court (Art. 263 TFEU), asking for the annulment of Regulation 646/2016, as regards emissions from Euro 6 vehicles. De facto, the Commission changed the not-to-exceed emission limits during the new real driving emission tests, through the statistical factor CF pollutant. Cities submitted that the Commission adopted less demanding values than those set by the applicable Euro 6 standard and that it did not have the power to do so. The Commission challenged the admissibility of the cities' actions. Then, it reaffirmed its competence in adopting the regulation. With regard to the admissibility of the action, the Court concluded, in 2018, that the conditions of Art. 263 TFEU are met in this case. Thus, the three cities are legal persons directly affected by the Commission regulation. In the end, the Court affirmed that the Commission did not have the competence to specify new different limits for the emissions and that, in doing so, it erred in supporting the use of the selected correction factor. For these reasons, the Court concluded for a partial annulment of the Regulation. The Commission, Germany and Hungary have appealed to the Court of Justice.
title: Study of Spatiotemporal Signatures Between Objects to Improve Video Segmentation in Complex Environments
Creators: name: Reckley, Adam Robert
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2013

description: Background subtraction is often considered to be a required stage of any video surveillance system being used to detect objects in a single frame and/or track objects across multiple frames in a video sequence. Most current state-of-the-art techniques for object detection and tracking utilize some form of background subtraction that involves developing a model of the background at a pixel, region or frame level and designating any elements that deviate from the background model as foreground. Most existing approaches are capable of segmenting a number of distinct components, but are unable to distinguish between the desired object of interest and complex, dynamic background such as moving water and high reflections. Additionally, current state-of-the-art segmentation techniques treat objects and background as separate entities, ignoring any interaction between an object and the background. In this paper, we propose a technique to integrate spatiotemporal signatures of an object of interest into a video segmentation method in order to improve object detection and tracking in dynamic, complex scenes, Our proposed algorithm utilizes the dynamic interaction information between the object of interest and background to differentiate between mistakenly segmented components and the desired component. Experimental results on five sample images from two complex data sets demonstrate an average F-measure improvement of 0.643103 per image exhibiting a significant improvement in accuracy over a state-of-the-art video segmentation technique.
Towards an International Consensus on the Prevention, Treatment, and Management of High-Risk Substance Use and Overdose among Youth
Creators: name: Krausz, Michael
name: Westenberg, Jean
name: Tsang, Vivian
name: Suen, Janet
name: Ignaszewski, Martha
name: Mathew, Nickie
name: Azar, Pouya
name: Cabanis, Maurice
name: Elsner, Julie
name: Vogel, Marc
name: Spijkerman, Renske
name: Orsolini, Laura
name: Vo, Dzung X.
name: Moore, Eva
name: Moe, Jessica
name: Strasser, Johannes
name: Köck, Patrick
name: Marian, Calin
name: Dürsteler, Kenneth M.
name: Backmund, Markus
name: Röhrig, Jeanette
name: Post, Marianne
name: Haltmayer, Hans
name: Wladika, Wolfgang
name: Trabi, Thomas
name: Muller, Christian
name: Rechberger, Gerhard
name: Teesson, Maree
name: Farrell, Michael
name: Christie, Grant
name: Merry, Sally
name: Mamdouh, Mostafa
name: Alinsky, Rachel
name: Levy, Sharon
name: Fishman, Marc
name: Rosenthal, Richard
name: Jang, Kerry L. (Kerry Leslie), 1962-
name: Choi, Fiona
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Background and Objectives: Now more than ever, there is an obvious need to reduce the overall burden of disease and risk of premature mortality that are associated with mental health and substance use disorders among young people. However, the current state of research and evidence-based clinical care for high-risk substance use among youth is fragmented and scarce. The objective of the study is to establish consensus for the prevention, treatment, and management of high-risk substance use and overdose among youth (10 to 24 years old). Materials and Methods: A modified Delphi technique was used based on the combination of scientific evidence and clinical experience of a group of 31 experts representing 10 countries. A semi-structured questionnaire with five domains (clinical risks, target populations, intervention goals, intervention strategies, and settings/expertise) was shared with the panelists. Based on their responses, statements were developed, which were subsequently revised and finalized through three iterations of feedback. Results: Among the five major domains, 60 statements reached consensus. Importantly, experts agreed that screening in primary care and other clinical settings is recommended for all youth, and that the objectives of treating youth with high-risk substance use are to reduce harm and mortality while promoting resilience and healthy development. For all substance use disorders, evidence-based interventions should be available and should be used according to the needs and preferences of the patient. Involuntary admission was the only topic that did not reach consensus, mainly due to its ethical implications and resulting lack of comparable evidence. Conclusions: High-risk substance use and overdoses among youth have become a major challenge. The system’s response has been insufficient and needs substantial change. Internationally devised consensus statements provide a first step in system improvement and reform.