cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
EMTLAB: A Toolbox for the Analysis of Electromagnetic Tracking Data in Brachytherapy
Creators: name: Goetz, Th. I.
name: Herzberger, F.
name: Tome, A. M.
name: Hensel, B.
name: Lang, Elmar W.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Electromagnetic tracking, Particle filtering, Empirical mode decomposition, Singular spectrum analysis, Similarity measure
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Background: High dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) of female breast cancer patients relies on electromagnetic tracking (EMT) for localizing the prescribed dwell positions of the radiation source. A collection of machine learning techniques like Particle Filtering (PF), Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA), Ensemble and Multivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD/MEMD) represent powerful signal processing techniques and are employed in this study to achieve this goal. Information-theoretic similarity measures allow comparing extracted signal components for artifact identification and elimination. New toolbox: We present a new toolbox, called EMTLAB, which is designed as an extensible toolbox for electromagnetic tracking data analysis. It contains all machine learning techniques mentioned above and is written in MATLAB®. Results: EMTLAB offers the practitioner a convenient way to easily and efficiently perform particle filtering, signal decomposition and manual or automatic artifact removal with an SSA, an EEMD or MEMD in combination with three similarity measures: Pearson correlation, Jensen-Shannon divergence or Kull back-Leibler divergence. As demonstrated with illustrative examples, EMTLAB offers a complete and almost fully automatic signal processing chain for an analysis of EMT data sets collected during a HDR-BT. In addition, EMTLAB represents a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI), which also provides convenient means to visualize the results in illustrative graphs. A number of screen shots helps in understanding the functioning of the signal processing chain and the use of the GUI. Conclusion: EMTLAB is a reliable, efficient and automated solution for processing and analyzing EMT sensor data from a HDR-BT, while employing different physical models of system dynamics. This sensor tracking by particle filtering allows to adapt the analysis to different dynamical models and the SSA and EMD algorithms provide an easy means to remove from the data artifacts stemming from breathing modes or measurement device malfunctioning.
Are there morphological and life-history traits under climate-dependent differential selection in S Tunesian Diplotaxis harra (Forssk.) Boiss. (Brassicaceae) populations?
Creators: name: Oberprieler, Christoph
name: Zimmer, Claudia
name: Bog, Manuela
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: adaptation, aridity, Cruciferae, phenotypic plasticity, population genomics
subject: 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Adaptation of morphological, physiological, or life-history traits of a plant species to heterogeneous habitats through the process of natural selection is a paramount process in evolutionary biology. We have used a population genomic approach to disentangle selection-based and demography-based variation in morphological and life-history traits in the crucifer Diplotaxis harra (Forssk.) Boiss. (Brassicaceae) encountered in populations along aridity gradients in S Tunisia. We have genotyped 182 individuals from 12 populations of the species ranging from coastal to semidesert habitats using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprinting and assessed a range of morphological and life-history traits from their progeny cultivated under common-garden conditions. Application of three different statistical approaches for searching AFLP loci under selection allowed us to characterize candidate loci, for which their association with the traits assessed was tested for statistical significance and correlation with climate data. As a key result of this study, we find that only the shape of cauline leaves seems to be under differential selection along the aridity gradient in S Tunisian populations of Diplotaxis harra, while for all other traits studied neutral biogeographical and/or random factors could not be excluded as explanation for the variation observed. The counter-intuitive finding that plants from populations with more arid habitats produce broader leaves under optimal conditions of cultivation than those from more mesic habitats is interpreted as being ascribable to selection for a higher plasticity in this trait under more unpredictable semidesert conditions compared to the more predictable ones in coastal habitats.
Reduced Plasma Frequency Calculation Based on Particle-In-Cell Simulations
Creators: name: Mealy, Tarek
name: Marosi, Robert
name: Capolino, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme to calculate the reduced plasma frequency of a cylindrical-shaped electron beam flowing inside of a cylindrical tunnel, based on results obtained from Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. In PIC simulations, we modulate the electron beam using two parallel, non-intercepting, closely-spaced grids which are electrically connected together by a single-tone sinusoidal voltage source. The electron energy and the beam current distributions along the length of the tunnel are monitored after the system is operating at steady-state. We build a system matrix describing the beam's dynamics, estimated by fitting a 2x2 matrix that best agrees with the first order differential equations that govern the physics-based system. Results are compared with the theoretical Branch and Mihran model, which is typically used to compute the plasma frequency reduction factor in such systems. Our method shows excellent agreement with the theoretical model, however, it is also general. Our method can be potentially utilized to determine the reduced plasma frequencies of electron beams propagating in differently-shaped beam tunnels, where no theoretical model yet exists, such as the case of a cylindrical or elliptical electron beam propagating inside of a metallic beam tunnel of cylindrical, square, or elliptical cross-section. It can be applied also to electron beams composed of multiple streams.
Reintroduction of the endangered and endemic plant species Cochlearia bavarica -Implications from conservation genetics
Creators: name: Kaulfuß, Franziska
name: Reisch, Christoph
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: MULTILOCUS GENOTYPE DATA; SUBSHRUB LOTUS-SCOPARIUS; MAUNA-KEA SILVERSWORD; LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS; POPULATION-SIZE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; LAND-USE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SANDWICENSE ASTERACEAE; conservation; genetic variation; inbreeding; outbreeding; reinforcement; reintroduction
subject: 580 Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Population reintroduction is a common practice in conservation, but often fails, also due to the effects of inbreeding or outbreeding depression. Cochlearia bavarica is a strongly endangered plant species endemic to Bavaria in Germany, constantly declining since the late 1980s. Therefore, population reintroduction is intended. In this study, we analyzed genetic diversity within and genetic differentiation between all 32 remnant populations of the species in Swabia and Upper Bavaria using amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Our aim was to increase reintroduction success by providing data to avoid negative effects of inbreeding and outbreeding and to preserve the natural genetic pattern of the species. Genetic diversity within populations was low but similar to other rare and endemic species and varied strongly between populations but did not depend on population size. Our analysis revealed a strong geographic pattern of genetic variation. Genetic differentiation was strongest between Swabia and Upper Bavaria and at the population level, whereas differentiation between subpopulations was comparatively low. Isolation by distance and genetic differentiation was stronger among populations from Upper Bavaria than from Swabia. From the results of our study, we derived recommendations for a successful reintroduction of the species. We suggest using rather genetically variable than large populations as reintroduction sources. Moreover, the exchange of plant material between Swabia and Upper Bavaria should be completely avoided. Within these regions, plant material from genetically similar populations should preferably be used for reintroduction, whereas the exchange among subpopulations seems to be possible without a negative impact on genetic variation due to natural gene flow.
Five-list-coloring graphs on surfaces I. Two lists of size two in planar graphs
Creators: name: Postle, Luke
name: Thomas, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Let G be a plane graph with outer cycle C, let u,v be vertices of C and let (L(x):x in V(G)) be a family of sets such that |L(u)|=|L(v)|=2, L(x) has at least three elements for every vertex x of C-{u,v} and L(x) has at least five elements for every vertex x of G-V(C). We prove a conjecture of Hutchinson that G has a (proper) coloring f such that f(x) belongs to L(x) for every vertex x of G. We will use this as a lemma in subsequent papers.
description: 8 pages, minor revision based on referee report
CHD3 and CHD4 form distinct NuRD complexes with different yet overlapping functionality
Creators: name: Hoffmeister, Helen
name: Fuchs, Andreas
name: Erdel, Fabian
name: Pinz, Sophia
name: Gröbner-Ferreira, Regina
name: Bruckmann, Astrid
name: Deutzmann, Rainer
name: Schwartz, Uwe
name: Maldonado, Rodrigo
name: Huber, Claudia
name: Dendorfer, Anne-Sarah
name: Rippe, Karsten
name: Längst, Gernot
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CHROMATIN-REMODELING COMPLEX; RIBOSOMAL-RNA GENES; HUMAN PROTEIN ATLAS; DNA-DAMAGE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MI-2/NURD COMPLEX; S-PHASE; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN-1; INTERACTION PROTEOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE EXCISION;
subject: 540 Chemie

description: CHD3 and CHD4 (Chromodomain Helicase DNA binding protein), two highly similar representatives of the Mi-2 subfamily of SF2 helicases, are coexpressed in many cell lines and tissues and have been reported to act as the motor subunit of the NuRD complex (nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase activities). Besides CHD proteins, NuRD contains several repressors like HDAC1/2, MTA2/3 and MBD2/3, arguing for a role as a transcriptional repressor. However, the subunit composition varies among cell-and tissue types and physiological conditions. In particular, it is unclear if CHD3 and CHD4 coexist in the same NuRD complex or whether they form distinct NuRD complexes with specific functions. We mapped the CHD composition of NuRD complexes in mammalian cells and discovered that they are isoform-specific, containing either the monomeric CHD3 or CHD4 ATPase. Both types of complexes exhibit similar intranuclear mobility, interact with HP1 and rapidly accumulate at UV-induced DNA repair sites. But, CHD3 and CHD4 exhibit distinct nuclear localization patterns in unperturbed cells, revealing a subset of specific target genes. Furthermore, CHD3 and CHD4 differ in their nucleosome remodeling and positioning behaviour in vitro. The proteins form distinct CHD3- and CHD4-NuRD complexes that do not only repress, but can just as well activate gene transcription of overlapping and specific target genes.
Brief wakeful resting can eliminate directed forgetting
Creators: name: Schlichting, Andreas
name: Bäuml, Karl-Heinz T.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: LIST-METHOD; EMOTIONAL WORDS; CHANGE ACCOUNT; MEMORY; SLEEP; INTERFERENCE; INHIBITION; RETRIEVAL; RECALL; CONSOLIDATION; Episodic memory; directed forgetting; wakeful resting; reactivation
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: When cued to intentionally forget previously encoded memories, participants typically show reduced recall of the memories on a later recall test. We examined how such directed forgetting is affected by a brief period of wakeful resting between encoding and test. Encoding was followed by a passive wakeful resting period in which subjects heard emotionally neutral music or perceived neutral pictures, or it was followed by an active distraction period in which subjects were engaged in counting or calculation tasks. Whereas typical directed forgetting was present after active distraction, the forgetting was absent after wakeful resting. The findings indicate that the degree to which people can intentionally forget memories is influenced by the cognitive activity that people engage in shortly after learning takes place. The results provide first evidence on the interplay between wakeful resting and intentional forgetting.
Optomechanical measurement of single nanodroplet evaporation with millisecond time-resolution
Creators: name: Sbarra, Samantha
name: Waquier, Louis
name: Suffit, Stephan
name: Lemaître, Aristide
name: Favero, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tracking the evolution of an individual nanodroplet of liquid in real-time remains an outstanding challenge. Here a miniature optomechanical resonator detects a single nanodroplet landing on a surface and measures its subsequent evaporation down to a volume of twenty attoliters. The ultra-high mechanical frequency and sensitivity of the device enable a time resolution below the millisecond, sufficient to resolve the fast evaporation dynamics under ambient conditions. Using the device dual optical and mechanical capability, we determine the evaporation in the first ten milliseconds to occur at constant contact radius with a dynamics ruled by the mere Kelvin effect, producing evaporation despite a saturated surrounding gas. Over the following hundred of milliseconds, the droplet further shrinks while being accompanied by the spreading of an underlying puddle. In the final steady-state after evaporation, an extended thin liquid film is stabilized on the surface. Our optomechanical technique opens the unique possibility of monitoring all these stages in real-time.
State of the Art (SOTA) Manual for VOC Emissions from Municipal Wastewater/Sludge Handling and Treatment Systems
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Quality Permitting Program
Year: 1997

description: These State of the Art (SOTA) performance levels apply to municipal wastewater/sludge handling and/or treatment equipment.  For the purpose of this manual, wastewater/sludge handling and/or treatment equipment shall include, but not be limited to, screening and grit removal equipment, primary and secondary clarifiers, dewatering/thickening equipment, biological treatment equipment and advanced treatment equipment.  As promulgated in the New Jersey Air Pollution Control Act N.J.S.A. 26:2C-9.2C, and as set forth in the implementing regulations of the Air Pollution Control Act (N.J.A.C. 7:27-8 and N.J.A.C. 7:27-22.35), newly constructed, reconstructed, or modified equipment and control apparatus is required to incorporate advances in the art of air pollution control developed for the kind and amount of air contaminant emitted by the applicant's equipment or control apparatus.  The Air Pollution Control Act of New Jersey directed the Department to publish technical manuals that would include performance levels with respect to air pollution control, to be used by some permit applicants for demonstrating advances in the art of air pollution control.  'Advances in the art of air pollution control' is commonly referred to as 'State-of-the-Art' or SOTA.  SOTA generally includes performance limits that are based on air pollution control technology, pollution prevention methods, and process modifications or substitutions that will provide the greatest emission reductions that are technologically and economically feasible.  There are 17 SOTA manuals included in this series.  They cover the following topics:  volatile organic storage tanks; transfer operations; petroleum refineries; asphalt plants; chemical and pharmaceutical processing and manufacturing industries; degreasers and other solvent based metal surface cleaners; surface coating operations; commercial sterilizers and fumigators using ethylene oxide; municipal wastewater/sludge handling and treatment systems; non-hazardous onsite remediation processes; bakery ovens; broilers; internal combustion engines; stationary gas turbines; glass industry; paint, ink, and adhesive manufacturing industries; graphic arts industry.
Landau Quantization and Quasiparticle Interference in the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2
Creators: name: Jeon, Sangjun
name: Zhou, Brian B.
name: Gyenis, Andras
name: Feldman, Benjamin E.
name: Kimchi, Itamar
name: Potter, Andrew C.
name: Gibson, Quinn D.
name: Cava, Robert J.
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
name: Yazdani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Condensed matter systems provide a rich setting to realize Dirac and Majorana fermionic excitations and the possibility to manipulate them in materials for potential applications. Recently, it has been proposed that Weyl fermions, which are chiral, massless particles, can emerge in certain bulk materials or in topological insulator multilayers and can produce unusual transport properties, such as charge pumping driven by a chiral anomaly. A pair of Weyl fermions protected by crystalline symmetry, effectively forming a massless Dirac fermion, has been predicted to appear as low energy excitations in a number of candidate materials termed three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetals. Here we report scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements at sub-Kelvin temperatures and high magnetic fields on one promising host material, the II-V semiconductor Cd3As2. Our study provides the first atomic scale probe of Cd3As2, showing that defects mostly influence the valence band, consistent with the observation of ultra-high mobility carriers in the conduction band. By combining Landau level spectroscopy and quasiparticle interference (QPI), we distinguish a large spin-splitting of the conduction band in a magnetic field and its extended Dirac-like dispersion above the expected regime. A model band structure consistent with our experimental findings suggests that for a specific orientation of the applied magnetic field, Weyl fermions are the low-energy excitations in Cd3As2.
description: Main Text: 17 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary Materials: 12 pages, 7 figures, Nature Materials (2014)
NJ Environmental Federation News, Fall 2002
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Environmental Federation, the New Jersey Chapter of Clean Water Action
Year: 2002

description: The goal of the NJEF is to ensure safe drinking water for all NJ residents, reduce the use of pesticides, promote recycling and lobby for sound and sustainable environmental practices on a local, state, and national level. This issue of the newsletter features election endorsements and information about sprawl, radioactive waste and drinking water.
Hawking radiation from an evaporating black hole via Bogoliubov transformations
Creators: name: Eyheralde, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Hawking radiation on a Vaidya space-time with a gravitational collapse followed by evaporation. The collapsing body is a null thin-shell and the evaporation is induced by a negative energy collapsing null-shell. This mimics the back-reaction to the Hawking radiation. Using Hawking's original method of Bogoliubov transformations we characterize the radiated spectrum as dominated by a thermal emission with an increasing effective temperature. We compute this time dependent temperature and find numerical agreement with results obtained by other techniques. The known divergences at the evaporation time are explained by the divergent nature of the effective temperature. As a consistency check, we re-derived the results from a zero mass limit of a remnant BH scenario.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
title: Χωροθέτηση ειδικών χρήσεων και λειτουργιών «Η περίπτωση των σωφρονιστικών καταστημάτων κράτησης»
title: Location of special uses and functions "The case of detention holding stations"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Παρασκευόπουλος, Νικόλαος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Φυλακές
Σωφρονιστικά καταστήματα
Χωροταξικός σχεδιασμός
Ασπρόπυργος
Κατάστημα Κράτησης Κορυδαλλού

description: Η παρούσα εργασία περιλαμβάνει πέντε κεφάλαια και καταπιάνεται με τη χωροθέτηση ειδικών χρήσεων και λειτουργιών και συγκεκριμένα με την περίπτωση των σωφρονιστικών καταστημάτων κράτησης. Αρχικά, γίνεται μια ιστορική αναδρομή στο θεσμό της φυλακής και στη συνέχεια καταγράφεται η αντίστοιχη διεθνή εμπειρία και γίνεται σύγκριση των Ιδιωτικών και των Δημόσιων Φυλακών. Ακολουθεί το νομικό και ειδικό πλαίσιο των σωφρονιστικών συστημάτων για τα καταστήματα κράτησης. Μετέπειτα, παρουσιάζεται και αναλύεται η περιοχή μελέτης στον Δήμο Ασπροπύργου, όπου προετοιμάζεται να μετεγκατασταθεί το Κατάστημα Κράτησης Κορυδαλλού. Λαμβάνονται, επίσης, υπόψη οι υποστηρικτικές υποδομές (τεχνική και κοινωνική υποδομή, ποιότητα οικιστικού περιβάλλοντος, κλπ), ενώ επιπλέον σχολιάζονται πολιτιστικά, ιστορικά και κοινωνικά χαρακτηριστικά της περιοχής και γίνεται ανάλυση όλων των στοιχείων του φυσικού περιβάλλοντος.
Switching between H- and J-type electronic coupling in single conjugated polymer aggregates
Creators: name: Eder, Theresa
name: Stangl, Thomas
name: Gmelch, Max
name: Remmerssen, Klaas
name: Laux, Dirk
name: Höger, Sigurd
name: Lupton, John M.
name: Vogelsang, Jan
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: ENERGY-TRANSFER; BICHROMOPHORIC MOLECULES; QUANTUM COHERENCE; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTON STATISTICS; EXCITON MODEL; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); LIGHT; CHROMOPHORES; FLUORESCENCE;
subject: 530 Physik

description: The aggregation of conjugated polymers and electronic coupling of chromophores play a central role in the fundamental understanding of light and charge generation processes. Here we report that the predominant coupling in isolated aggregates of conjugated polymers can be switched reversibly between H-type and J-type coupling by partially swelling and drying the aggregates. Aggregation is identified by shifts in photoluminescence energy, changes in vibronic peak ratio, and photoluminescence lifetime. This experiment unravels the internal electronic structure of the aggregate and highlights the importance of the drying process in the final spectroscopic properties. The electronic coupling after drying is tuned between H-type and J-type by changing the side chains of the conjugated polymer, but can also be entirely suppressed. The types of electronic coupling correlate with chain morphology, which is quantified by excitation polarization spectroscopy and the efficiency of interchromophoric energy transfer that is revealed by the degree of single-photon emission.
1999 Air Quality Report
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Bureau of Air Monitoring : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Year: 2000

description: A summary of the New Jersey air quality data for 1999. Contains information on the Air Quality Index (AQI), concentrations of individual pollutants - sulfur dioxide, fine and inhalable particulates, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides, lead, sulfates and nitrates, smoke shade, and acid precipitation - and a monthly summary of meteorological information. A trend comparison with previous years is also provided. Newly included this year are data from the urban air toxics and photochemical assessment monitoring locations.
Spatially resolved spectroscopy of alkali metal vapour diffusing inside hollow-core photonic crystal fibres
Creators: name: Häupl, Daniel R
name: Weller, Daniel
name: Löw, Robert
name: Joly, Nicolas Y
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new type of compact and all-glass based vapour cell integrating hollow-core photonic crystal fibres. The absence of metals, as in a traditional vacuum chamber and the much more compact geometry allows for fast and homogeneous heating. As a consequence we can fill the fibres on much faster timescales, ranging from minutes to hours. Additionally the all-glass design ensures optical access along the fibre. This allows live monitoring of the diffusion of rubidium atoms inside the hollow-core by measuring the frequency-dependent fluorescence from the atoms. The atomic density is numerically retrieved using a 5-level system of Bloch-equations.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Energy transfer between two filaments due to degenerate four-photon parametric process
Creators: name: Georgieva, Daniela A.
name: Kovachev, Lubomir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently energy exchange between two filaments crossing at small angle and with power slightly above the critical for self-focusing $P_{cr}$ was experimentally demonstrated. In this paper we present a model describing the process of this transfer through degenerate four-photon parametric mixing. Our model confirms the experimental results that the direction of energy exchange depends on the relative transverse velocity (incident angle), laser intensity and initial distance between the pulses (relative initial phase). We also investigate the interaction between two collinear filaments in order to explain the filaments number reduction for powers close to $P_{cr}$ in multi-filamental propagation.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Towards The Internet Of Production – How To Increase Data Sharing For Successful Supply Chain Collaboration
Creators: name: Leckel, Anja
name: Linnartz, Maria
Publisher: name: Hannover : publish-Ing.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Sharing
subject: Social Capital
subject: Supply Chain Collaboration
subject: Internet of Production
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Numerous start-ups and now even some major corporates are currently trying to improve visibility and foresight in the manufacturing industry through connected supply chains, or in other words, through increased data sharing. This study strives to support companies in leveraging the potential of increased data sharing in supply chain collaborations. Despite the great potential of digitizing manufacturing and automated data sharing throughout the supply chain, most companies are not yet able or willing to implement this kind of openness. The main reason for this lack of transparency in the supply chain is the high complexity and high cost of the required interfaces. In practice, instead of automated and extensive data sharing, companies exchange spreadsheets and PDFs with minimum information. This study supports companies in the pre-stage before automated data sharing is technically implemented. We find that building trustful relationships is a necessary step towards extended and automated data sharing. Moreover, we find that social capital provides a means to partially compensate for a lack of automation in terms of shortening lead times and dealing with disruptions. Introducing a supply chain collaboration typology and showcasing descriptive and qualitative results for 36 firms, we show how to navigate the frontend of the Internet of Production.
Annual Summary of Phytoplankton Blooms and Related Conditions in New Jersey Coastal Waters, Summer of 1999.
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring : Division of Watershed Management : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2000

description: Phytoplankton monitoring is conducted annually in New Jersey's coastal waters and major estuaries for the presence and abundance of these organism which are potentially harmful to the shellfish population. Algal blooms may have other harmful effects including marine fauna kills, mild toxicity to bathers and reduced aesthetic quality.
Enabling physical internet information system – trends and future directions
Creators: name: Sun, Shiqi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This is a presentation from the YRS2023 - 11th Young Researchers Seminar, held from 15 to 17 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC (National Laboratory for Civil Engineering).
A tool to automatically analyze electromagnetic tracking data from high dose rate brachytherapy of breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Götz, Th. I.
name: Lahmer, G.
name: Strnad, V.
name: Bert, Ch.
name: Hensel, B.
name: Tomé, A. M.
name: Lang, E. W.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; SINGULAR-SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION; MUTUAL-INFORMATION; TIME-SERIES; DYNAMICS; IRRADIATION; PEARSONS; PROSTATE;
subject: 570 Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: During High Dose Rate Brachytherapy (HDR-BT) the spatial position of the radiation source inside catheters implanted into a female breast is determined via electromagnetic tracking (EMT). Dwell positions and dwell times of the radiation source are established, relative to the patient's anatomy, from an initial X-ray-CT-image. During the irradiation treatment, catheter displacements can occur due to patient movements. The current study develops an automatic analysis tool of EMT data sets recorded with a solenoid sensor to assure concordance of the source movement with the treatment plan. The tool combines machine learning techniques such as multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD), singular spectrum analysis (SSA) and particle filter (PF) to precisely detect and quantify any mismatch between the treatment plan and actual EMT measurements. We demonstrate that movement artifacts as well as technical signal distortions can be removed automatically and reliably, resulting in artifact-free reconstructed signals. This is a prerequisite for a highly accurate determination of any deviations of dwell positions from the treatment plan.
Lifelong learnings: Pedagogy, research-based theatre and the ongoing performance of teacher / teaching narratives
Creators: name: Summers, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of Melbourne
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390104
subject: English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
classificationCode: 390101
subject: Creative arts, media and communication curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development

description: This article details the ongoing and re-defining relationship between playwright / play, Research-based Theatre (RbT) and teacher / teaching narratives. Adapted from an invited talk at the University of British Columbia, July 2024, and adopting a creative autoethnographic practitioner lens as teacher / playwright / researcher, the article explores the creation of the author’s play, Pedagogy, centred on early-career teaching and learning. It describes its shifting position as a performance text within mainstream theatre then educational and academic settings –and the relationship between playwright / teacher identities –suggesting a complex relationality between plays, playwright and their iterations across time. Simultaneously, it considers narratives –and identities -of teaching and learning as similarly shifting for practitioner / researchers as a kind of ongoing performance.
Differentiable SAR Renderer and SAR Target Reconstruction
Creators: name: Fu, Shilei
name: Xu, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
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: Forward modeling of wave scattering and radar imaging mechanisms is the key to information extraction from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Like inverse graphics in optical domain, an inherently-integrated forward-inverse approach would be promising for SAR advanced information retrieval and target reconstruction. This paper presents such an attempt to the inverse graphics for SAR imagery. A differentiable SAR renderer (DSR) is developed which reformulates the mapping and projection algorithm of SAR imaging mechanism in the differentiable form of probability maps. First-order gradients of the proposed DSR are then analytically derived which can be back-propagated from rendered image/silhouette to the target geometry and scattering attributes. A 3D inverse target reconstruction algorithm from SAR images is devised. Several simulation and reconstruction experiments are conducted, including targets with and without background, using both synthesized data or real measured inverse SAR (ISAR) data by ground radar. Results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed DSR and its inverse approach.
High-Fidelity Visual Long-Term Memory within an Unattended Blink of an Eye
Creators: name: Kuhbandner, Christof
name: Rosas-Corona, Elizabeth A.
name: Spachtholz, Philipp
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: INATTENTIONAL AMNESIA; STORAGE CAPACITY; OBJECT DETAILS; RECOGNITION MEMORY; WORKING-MEMORY; IGNORED WORDS; ATTENTION; LOAD; AWARENESS; PICTURE; visual long-term memory; perceptual memory; capacity; attention; inattentional blindness
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: What is stored in long-term memory from current sensations is a question that has attracted considerable interest. Over time, several prominent theories have consistently proposed that only attended sensory information leaves a durable memory trace whereas unattended information is not stored beyond the current moment, an assumption that seems to be supported by abundant empirical evidence. Here we show, by using a more sensitive memory test than in previous studies, that this is actually not true. Observers viewed a rapid stream of real-world object pictures overlapped by words (presentation duration per stimulus: 500 ms, interstimulus interval: 200 ms), with the instruction to attend to the words and detect word repetitions, without knowing that their memory would be tested later. In a surprise two-alternative forced-choice recognition test, memory for the unattended object pictures was tested. Memory performance was substantially above chance, even when detailed feature knowledge was necessary for correct recognition, even when tested 24 h later, and even although participants reported that they do not have any memories. These findings suggests that humans have the ability to store at high speed detailed copies of current visual stimulations in long-term memory independently of current intentions and the current attentional focus.
Conserve Wildlife: Newsletter of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program, Summer/Fall 2002
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Fish and Wildlife, the Endangered and Nongame Species Program
Year: 2002

description: This newsletter is intended to inform interested individuals and organizations about the activities and events of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Fish and Wildlife's Endangered and Nongame Species Program, as well as provide general information about New Jersey wildlife. This issue contains articles about bald eagle recovery efforts, the decline of the red knot shorebird, and the need for volunteers to help monitor species.
Invariant Poisson Realizations and the Averaging of Dirac Structures
Creators: name: Vallejo, José A.
name: Vorobiev, Yurii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D17, 70G45, 53C12

description: We describe an averaging procedure on a Dirac manifold, with respect to a class of compatible actions of a compact Lie group. Some averaging theorems on the existence of invariant realizations of Poisson structures around (singular) symplectic leaves are derived. We show that the construction of coupling Dirac structures (invariant with respect to locally Hamiltonian group actions) on a Poisson foliation is related with a special class of exact gauge transformations.
Plan Endorsement Guidelines
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Jersey State Planning Commission, Office of Smart Growth
Year: 2004

description: Plan Endorsement is a tool developed by the State Planning Commission to provide the technical assistance and the coordination for municipalities, counties, regional and State agencies to meet the publicly supported goals of the State Planning Act (N.J.S.A. 52:18A-196 et seq). That act recognized that though land use decision making has been delegated to the local municipalities by the New Jersey Constitution and Legislature, the municipalities are often not supported by coordinated state and county planning and public investments. Similarly, local plans of neighboring municipalities often conflict. The Legislature found that the public purpose of developing the New Jersey economy while protecting natural resources, providing adequate and diverse housing, and redeveloping cities required coordinated state action to control what is now known as sprawl. To that end the Legislature created a State Planning Commission mandated to create and implement a cooperatively developed state plan that would delineate areas for growth and redevelopment and areas for the protection of natural resources and farming. The plan is the State Development and Redevelopment Plan (State Plan), and an implementing tool is the Plan Endorsement Process described in this docuemnt. Plan Endorsement is a voluntary review process that is designed to assist government agencies at all levels to develop and implement plans that will achieve the goals, policies and strategies of the State Plan.
title: Unternehmen und Nachhaltigkeit
title: Zur Rolle von Digitalisierung und  Unternehmenskultur – Einblicke in Praxis  und Perspektiven von Unternehmen  des Mittelstands in Deutschland
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Daheim, Cornelia
name: Jöster-Morisse, Clara
name: Rampacher, Jörg
name: Wintermann, Birgit
name: Wintermann, Ole
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nachhaltigkeit
Digitalisierung
Unternehmen
Unternehmenskultur
Transformation

description: Wo steht der deutsche Mittelstand bezüglich Nachhaltigkeitsansätzen in den Unternehmen? Nach welchen Maximen handeln Unternehmen, die sich bereits heute der Nachhaltigkeit ver­schrieben haben? Wie greifen für sie Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung ineinander, und welche Rolle spielt dabei die Unternehmenskultur? Das Papier spürt anhand von zentralen Erkenntnissen aus Interviews mit Unternehmensvertretern und -vertreterinnen dem Stand der Dinge zu diesen Themen nach.

Ziel ist es dabei, in der laufenden gesellschaftlichen Debatte zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit einen Einblick in die entsprechende Praxis und Zukunfts­perspektiven aus Sicht von Unternehmenspraktikern des Mittelstands beizusteuern. Denn die Interviewpartner:innen, deren Einsichten und Einschätzungen wir hier zu­sammenfassen, sind Fachleute für die wirtschaftlich-unternehmerische Wirklichkeit und für die praktische Umsetzung. Sie wissen als Vorreiter:innen, welchen Beitrag zu einer ressourcenschonenderen Wirtschaft mittelständische Unternehmen schon heute leisten können, und welcher Anstrengungen es bedarf, den eigenen Anspruch zur gelebten Praxis zu machen – oder auch, wo und wie dies leichter fällt, als es viele wohl noch befürchten. So haben sie in den Interviews über ihre Motivation, Erfah­rungen, Best Practices und auch über Wünsche an Politik und Gesellschaft berichtet.
Final Report: Assessment of Historical and Current Trends in Mercury Deposition to New Jersey Aquatic Systems through Analysis of Sediment/Soil Cores
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Division of Science, Research and Technology, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2002

description: This study utilized sediment and soil cores collected at six sites from throughout the state of New Jersey between September 2000 and December 2001. A primary focus of this project and a long-term goal of the overall investigation is to address the following questions: to what extent can the sources of atmospheric Hg deposition to New Jersey be identified and characterized; and are there in-state sources of particular significance. The ultimate goal is to provide information relevant to an assessment of the effectiveness of reductions in regional and/or local Hg emissions. The report also includes the following sections: Project Design and Methods, Results and Discussion, and Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research.
Searching for cosmic string induced stochastic gravitational wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
Creators: name: Bian, Ligong
name: Shu, Jing
name: Wang, Bo
name: Yuan, Qiang
name: Zong, Junchao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for stochastic gravitational wave background emitted from cosmic strings using the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array data over 15 years. While we find that the common power-law excess revealed by several pulsar timing array experiments might be accounted for by the gravitational wave background from cosmic strings, the lack of the characteristic Hellings-Downs correlation cannot establish its physical origin yet. The constraints on the cosmic string model parameters are thus derived with conservative assumption that the common power-law excess is due to unknown background. Two representative cosmic string models with different loop distribution functions are considered. We obtain constraints on the dimensionless string tension parameter $Gμ<10^{-11}\sim10^{-10}$, which is more stringent by two orders of magnitude than that obtained by the high-frequency LIGO-Virgo experiment for one model, and less stringent for the other. The results provide the chance to test the Grand unified theories, with the spontaneous symmetry breaking scale of $U(1)$ being two-to-three orders of magnitude below $10^{16}$ GeV. The pulsar timing array experiments are thus quite complementary to the LIGO-Virgo experiment in probing the cosmic strings and the underlying beyond standard model physics in the early Universe.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Comments welcome
Janus configurations with SL(2,Z)-duality twists, Strings on Mapping Tori, and a Tridiagonal Determinant Formula
Creators: name: Ganor, Ori J.
name: Moore, Nathan P.
name: Sun, Hao-Yu
name: Torres-Chicon, Nesty R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an equivalence between two Hilbert spaces: (i) the space of states of $U(1)^n$ Chern-Simons theory with a certain class of tridiagonal matrices of coupling constants (with corners) on $T^2$; and (ii) the space of ground states of strings on an associated mapping torus with $T^2$ fiber. The equivalence is deduced by studying the space of ground states of $SL(2,Z)$-twisted circle compactifications of $U(1)$ gauge theory, connected with a Janus configuration, and further compactified on $T^2$. The equality of dimensions of the two Hilbert spaces (i) and (ii) is equivalent to a known identity on determinants of tridiagonal matrices with corners. The equivalence of operator algebras acting on the two Hilbert spaces follows from a relation between the Smith normal form of the Chern-Simons coupling constant matrix and the isometry group of the mapping torus, as well as the torsion part of its first homology group.
description: 21 pages, typos corrected
Ο ρόλος του ESG στις επενδυτικές αποφάσεις και η εξέλιξή του μετά την εμφάνιση της πανδημίας COVID-19
Creators: name: Τάκου, Γεωργία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Αειφορία
subject: Ε.Κ.Ε.
subject: Βιώσιμες επενδύσεις
subject: ESG
subject: COVID-19
subject: Επενδυτικές αποφάσεις
subject: Γενικός Δείκτης Τιμών Χ.Α.
subject: Athex ESG

description: Αναμφίβολα, το 2020, ήταν μια χρονιά που δύσκολα θα ξεχαστεί. Η γρήγορη εξάπλωση της πανδημίας Covid-19 και η σιωπή της επιβεβλημένης απομόνωσης πυροδότησαν μια περίοδο ραγδαίων αλλαγών, δημιουργώντας ένα ντόμινο επιπτώσεων που δοκιμάζουν, μέχρι σήμερα, την ανθεκτικότητα της κοινωνίας και του οικονομικού συστήματος. Η αστάθεια που προκλήθηκε, επηρέασε άμεσα τον επενδυτικό κόσμο. Μετά τις σπασμωδικές αντιδράσεις των πρώτων μηνών οι επενδυτές άρχισαν να αντιλαμβάνονται ότι οι βιώσιμες επενδύσεις, εκτός από μια ηθική επενδυτική προσέγγιση, μπορούσαν να αποτελέσουν την ασπίδα προστασίας σε physical shock, υποστηρίζοντας μακροπρόθεσμες θετικές επιπτώσεις. Ωστόσο, το ενδιαφέρον για τη μακροπρόθεσμη βιωσιμότητα των επενδύσεων δεν ήταν κάτι νέο. Η επίδοση ESG μιας εταιρείας ήταν εδώ και καιρό, ένας δείκτης για τη μέτρηση της συνολικής εταιρικής ευθύνης ενός οργανισμού και το 2020, βοήθησε να μετατραπεί από μια σχετικά εξειδικευμένη στρατηγική, σε μια από τις πιο σημαντικές εξελίξεις στο επενδυτικό τοπίο. Η παρούσα μελέτη φιλοδοξεί να αποτυπώσει με πληρότητα, σαφήνεια και εγκυρότητα τη διαδρομή από την εισαγωγή της έννοιας της Κοινωνικής Επιχείρησης και της Αειφορίας ως την υιοθέτηση κριτηρίων ESG στις επενδυτικές αποφάσεις. Με τη βοήθεια της ακαδημαϊκής βιβλιογραφίας και επίσημων ιστοσελίδων οργανισμών, εξετάζεται αφενός ο τρόπος που οι παράγοντες ESG καλύπτουν τις σύγχρονες επενδυτικές ανησυχίες, πριν και μετά την πανδημία, και, αφετέρου, πως πραγματοποιείται η θεσμοθέτησή τους στο χρηματοοικονομικό σύστημα. Επίσης, γίνεται αναφορά στην εταιρική γνωστοποίηση ESG και τις προσπάθειες κρατών και παγκόσμιων οργανισμών για την επαρκή καθοδήγηση και την νομοθετική της πλαισίωση. Το επενδυτικό ενδιαφέρον για τα οφέλη των βιώσιμων επενδύσεων μελετάται, με ανασκόπηση συστηματικών και ανεξάρτητων ακαδημαϊκών μελετών και δημοσιευμένων πρωτογενών ερευνών, πριν και μετά το κομβικό 2020. Η εργασία ολοκληρώνεται με εμπειρική μελέτη, η οποία ερευνά εισηγμένες εταιρείες στο Χρηματιστήριο Αθηνών. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, γίνεται σύγκριση της, 52-εβδομάδων, μεταβολής της τιμής μετοχών και χρηματοοικονομικών δεικτών των 17 εταιρειών του Γενικού Δείκτη Τιμών Χ.Α., που δεν δημοσιοποιούν πληροφορίες ESG, με τις 47 εταιρείες του Δείκτη Athex ESG. Ο σχολιασμός των αποτελεσμάτων, τα συμπεράσματα και οι προτάσεις για μελλοντική έρευνα παρουσιάζονται στο τέλος της παρούσας μελέτης.