cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Participatory planning and monitoring of protected landscapes: a case study of an indigenous rice paddy cultural landscape in Taiwan
Creators: name: Lee, Kuang-Chung
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Landscapes can be regarded as ‘a culture–nature link.’ Many examples of ‘living’ landscapes in the world are rich in natural and cultural values and have proven sustainable over centuries because of their maintenance by local communities. Satoyama, a traditional socio-ecological production landscape, provides a functional linkage between paddy fields and the associated environment with many ecosystem services. The idea of landscape conservation and paddy field revitalization was introduced into Taiwan’s amended Cultural Heritage Preservation Act in 2005 as a new legal instrument entitled ‘Cultural Landscape.’ To help stakeholders from governmental authorities and local communities apply this new instrument, this action research employed a community-based landscape and participatory approach to put relevant international concepts into practice. Learning from culturally grounded indicators of resilience in social–ecological systems, the study adopted a set of indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes to successfully help residents evaluate the management of a designated Cultural Landscape through a series of local workshops. The case study shows that a landscape and participatory approach can be welcomed by rural people and can create a new style for ‘living’ protected landscapes in Taiwan’s nationally protected area system.
Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management - A question of roles and power: Lessons from England
Creators: name: Thaler, Thomas
name: Levin-Keitel, Meike
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier BV
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Flood risk management
subject: Partnership funding
subject: Power
subject: Societal implications
subject: Stakeholder engagement
subject: Article
subject: consensus
subject: decision making
subject: environmental planning
subject: financial management
subject: flooding
subject: funding
subject: knowledge
subject: leadership
subject: participatory management
subject: politics
subject: priority journal
subject: risk management
subject: time
subject: United Kingdom
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::650 | Management

description: In the past years, stakeholder engagement has become more important in flood risk management. On the one hand stakeholder engagement is often declared as a better way of management, a more successful way to reach consensus in policy discussions. On the other hand is the implementation of increasing stakeholder engagement far away from being as positive, where stakeholder engagement often ends in diverse difficulties and conflicts between political leaders and stakeholder groups. This paper aims to highlight participatory governance in flood risk management to provide an overview of the potential contributions and challenges of a participatory and collaborative governance approach. In this paper, we discuss the role of national authorities and local stakeholders in English flood risk management in three different examples (Bridgwater, Cockermouth and Morpeth). The results show that the Cockermouth and Morpeth flood risk management scheme is characterised by a high level of local self-responsibility in the planning and decision-making process. The study sites with high local capacity (Cockermouth and Morpeth) show a strong leadership at local level and bottom-up concepts and ideas. The local involvement in the discussion and decision-process depends on the local capacity (capacity to act), such as resources (knowledge, financial, time), interest, social and cultural capital. It strongly depends on these aspects, if localities are able to ensure their interests and needs at national level.
title: Māori ancestral landscapes and the celebration of prowess in cultivation and resource gathering: digesting natural heritage as an expression of culture
Creators: name: Forde, Xavier
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The provision of food and other natural resource for subsistence is celebrated in the histories of Māori tribes, in episodes relating to the ancestors who brought crops from Hawaiki in their migration to Aotearoa New Zealand, or who demonstrated prowess in the cultivation or gathering of resource. The oral histories of these ancestors and their feats of provision are still evidenced in aetiological stories, place names, and expansive archaeological fields, and artefacts that shape cultural landscapes, map out the natural resource around the country, and continue to act as a repository of indigenous knowledge today.
Errata to 'A cylindrical reformulation of Heegaard Floer homology'
Creators: name: Lipshitz, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R17, 57M27, 57R58

description: This note corrects one serious mistake and several smaller mistakes from arXiv:math/0502404. The main results of that paper are unchanged.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. If you know other mistakes, please tell me
title: Nature, agriculture and rural resilience: Interdependencies between natural protected areas and rural landscapes in Satoyama/Satoumi in Japan
Creators: name: Ishizawa, Maya N.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The Capacity Building Workshops on Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation (CBWNCL), held at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, gather Asia-Pacific heritage professionals with the aim of creating a platform of mutual-learning and exchange between the culture and nature sectors. In the first workshop on Agricultural Landscapes, from 14 case studies, 5 showed natural protected areas in tense relations with their rural landscape surroundings. However, these agricultural landscapes are essential for protecting natural values, as they form part of their larger ecosystems. In the second workshop on Sacred Landscapes, from 16 case studies, 5 case studies were also agricultural landscapes, and 8 case studies featured natural protected areas which embody spiritual values for their surrounding rural communities. In the third workshop on Disasters and Resilience, from 15 case studies, 7 presented the struggles faced by rural communities in the conservation of their natural environment and their cultural practices in a context of increasing disasters.

By looking at the Japanese experience, we learned from the concepts of Satoyama and Satoumi, that the protection of nature can be interlinked with the maintenance of agricultural landscapes, that the continuity of spiritual practices is essential for identity and community cohesion, and that the maintenance of cultural practices represent community’s strength for post-disaster recovery. These lessons demonstrated that resilience lies in people and their community networks -beyond human, and underpinned on their natural and cultural heritage (both tangible and intangible)-, and that the stronger these networks are, and the more autonomy and decision-making power is recognized at local level, the higher level of resilience a landscape would show. This finding, however, raises concern, as these landscapes are facing pressures not only from urban development, but mostly from depopulation due to migration and ageing communities, processes that are eroding these networks and consequently, rural landscape resilience.
Zimmermann, O. & Geißler, Th. (Hrsg.). Altes Zeug: Beiträge zur Diskussion zum nachhaltigen Kulturgutschutz
Creators: name: Zerres, Jutta
Publisher: name: DGUF e.V.
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu: Zimmermann, O. & Geißler, Th. (Hrsg.) (2016). Altes Zeug: Beiträge zur Diskussion zum nachhaltigen Kulturgutschutz. Aus Politik & Kultur Nr. 14. Berlin: Deutscher Kulturrat. http://115940.seu2.cleverreach. com/m/10162205/ [13.7.2016; Open Access].
description: Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 39 (2016): Archäologische Informationen
LARGE GENE DELIVERY TO THE RETINA BY MULTIPLE AAV VECTORS
Creators: name: TORNABENE, PATRIZIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Retinal gene therapy with adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors is safe and effective yet it is limited by AAV cargo capacity of about 5 kb. AAV transfer capacity which is expanded by dual AAV up to 9 kb would still not suffice for treatment of inherited retinal diseases, such as Alstro?m syndrome type I (ALMS) due to mutations in ALMS1 (CDS: 12.5 kb). For this purpose, I have generated triple AAV vectors, with a maximal transfer capacity of about 14 kb, encoding for ALMS1. Full-length protein expression occurs both in vitro and in the mouse retina where around 4% of photoreceptors are transduced by triple AAV vectors. ALMS1 showed correct localization in the mouse retina and this results in improvement of the retinal phenotype of a mouse model of ALMS. Additionally, I propose a different strategy to reconstitute large proteins in the retina which is protein trans-splicing mediated by split-inteins. Here I show that delivery of multiple AAV vectors each encoding for one of the fragments of either EGFP or large therapeutic protein flanked by short split-inteins results in full-length protein reconstitution in the retina of mice, pigs and in human retinal organoids. Moreover, the levels of large protein reconstitution achieved improves the retinal phenotype in a mouse model of Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 due to mutation in CEP290. These data support the use of split-inteins-mediated protein trans-splicing in combination with AAV subretinal delivery for gene therapy of inherited blindness due to mutations in large genes.
The formation of planets by disc fragmentation
Creators: name: Stamatellos, Dimitris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss the role that disc fragmentation plays in the formation of gas giant and terrestrial planets, and how this relates to the formation of brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, and ultimately to the process of star formation. Protostellar discs may fragment, if they are massive enough and can cool fast enough, but most of the objects that form by fragmentation are brown dwarfs. It may be possible that planets also form, if the mass growth of a proto-fragment is stopped (e.g. if this fragment is ejected from the disc), or suppressed and even reversed (e.g by tidal stripping). I will discuss if it is possible to distinguish whether a planet has formed by disc fragmentation or core accretion, and mention of a few examples of observed exoplanets that are suggestive of formation by disc fragmentation .
description: 8 pages, a short review, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Hot Planets and Cool Stars" published by EDP Sciences
Erosion Stability of Wide-Graded Quarry-Stone Material under Unidirectional Current
Creators: name: Schendel, A.
name: Goseberg, N.
name: Schlurmann, T.
Publisher: name: Reston : American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: critical shear-stress
subject: bed-load transport
subject: critical tractive stress
subject: mixed-size sediment
subject: scour protections
subject: incipient motion
subject: nonuniform sediment
subject: bimodal sediments
subject: empirical design
subject: gravel
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::720 | Architektur

description: Scour protection around hydraulic structures in fluvial, estuarine, and coastal waters is an essential component of a meaningful and durable design. The continuous optimization of scour protection systems and design approaches leads to faster and more cost-effective construction processes. Although scour protection now often consists of a two-layer design, approaches that incorporate only one layer depict a major step forward. Therefore, this research focuses on the stability of a wide-graded quarry-stone mixture consisting of crushed granodiorite (Jelsa quarry, Norway) with fractions ranging from 0.063 to 200 mm. The material was exposed to an incrementally increased unidirectional current in a closed-circuit flume. The induced flow field and leading parameters were measured at various positions horizontally and vertically, whereas the erosion rates were determined behind the test bed specimen. With increasing flow velocity the development of a static armor layer was observed at the bed surface. Bed-shear stresses were determined to be strongly variable across the rough test bed. Fractional critical shear stresses indicate highly selective mobility of individual fractions. Least-square fitting of the determined critical shear stresses based on the dimensionless reference grain size d(i)/d(sigma) (with d(sigma) as the product of the geometric mean size d(g) and the geometric standard deviation sigma(g)) is suitable for describing the stability behavior of the investigated material.
HOW TO TRANSFORM FOOD WASTE INTO A RESOURCE
Creators: name: CASTRICA, MARTA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: The objective of the project is to propose and implement new solutions to tackle food waste. Based on the principle of circular economy, the strategy of the project is to prevent food losses from turning into waste by working synergistically on different action points. The main goal of the project is to develop an innovative network of expertise, able to implement new food recovery logistics chains. This study arises out of the need for new strategies to: (i) prevent and reduce the volume of surplus food generated, (ii) implement and harmonize the recovery system for social solidarity purposes, and (iii) enhance the conversion of food waste into safe and sustainable feed products. For this reason, the study is divided in three sections: source reduction, feed hungry people and feed animals. The section entitled ?source reduction? presents two studies: the first study is focused on food packaging, a fundamental aspect related to the extension of the product?s life that helps preventing waste. The second study is an analysis of the correlation between food portion size in school catering and the generation of food waste, which can result when food is not accurately proportioned. In the section called ?feed hungry people? three studies are included. The first identifies critical points with respect to the food recovery chain, while the second study is a Manual of Good Practices for Charitable Organization approved by the Italian Ministry of Health. Finally, at the end of this section an applicative study is presented that was conducted in collaboration with Fondazione Banca Popolare of Lodi and Centro Solidale del Diritto al Cibo of Lodi. In the final section ?Feed Animals?, two scientific works are presented; the first is a qualitative analysis of agri-food waste and by-products in order to estimate their bioactive contents and a possible reuse as functional ingredients in animal feed. The last work examines the European regulatory framework regarding animal feeding in order to evaluate possible new interventions to reuse food waste, not only vegetable matter, in the pet food industry. The project builds on the fact that around 88 million tonnes of food are wasted annually in the European Union, with associated costs estimated at 143 billion euros. Thus, looking for every opportunity to prevent food waste and strengthen sustainability of the food system is one of the most crucial issues of modern societies. The key output of the project consists of an improvement of the overall sustainability of food chains, from social, environmental and economic perspectives.
Gentiana clusii X Kochiana
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: G. Clusii X Kochiana - 3: Pierre ä Voir (F.).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Dynamics in the smectic phase of stiff viral rods
Creators: name: Pouget, Emilie
name: Grelet, Eric
name: Lettinga, M. Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the dynamics in colloidal suspensions of stiff viral rods, called fd-Y21M. This mutant filamentous virus exhibits a persistence length 3.5 times larger than the wild-type fd-wt. Such a virus system can be used as a model system of rodlike particles for studying their self-diffusion. In this paper, the physical features, such as rod contour length and polydispersity have been determined for both viruses. The effect of viral rod flexibility on the location of the nematic-smectic phase transition has been investigated, with a focus on the underlying dynamics studied more specifically in the smectic phase. Direct visualization of the stiff fd-Y21M at the scale of a single particle has shown the mass transport between adjacent smectic layers, as found earlier for the more flexible rods. We could relate this hindered diffusion with the smectic ordering potentials for varying rod concentrations. The self-diffusion within the layers is far more pronounced for the stiff rods as compared to the more flexible fd-wt viral rod.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Identification of Differently Regulated Proteins after Fusarium graminearum Infection of Emmer (Triticum dicoccum) at Several Grain Ripening Stages
Creators: name: Truemper, Christina
name: Paffenholz, Katrin
name: Smit, Inga
name: Koessler, Philip
name: Karlovsky, Petr
name: Braun, Hans-Peter
name: Pawelzik, Elke
Publisher: name: Zagreb : Faculty Food Technology Biotechnology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: fusarium head blight
subject: grain development
subject: emmer
subject: plant proteomics
subject: defence proteins
subject: head blight
subject: polyamine biosynthesis
subject: hordeum-vulgare
subject: plant-material
subject: resistance
subject: expression
subject: host
subject: mycotoxins
subject: families
subject: culmorum
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::660 | Technische Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: This study was conducted to improve the knowledge of molecular processes involved in the interaction between Fusarium graminearum and emmer in the course of grain ripening. Emmer plants were artificially inoculated with a F. graminearum spore suspension at anthesis. In the course of grain ripening from milk ripe to plant death stage, grains at four phenological growth stages were collected for analysis. The infection degree was evaluated based on the F. graminearum DNA content in emmer grain infolding tissues (glumes and rachis). For proteome analysis the albumin and globulin fractions of emmer grains, consisting of proteins with various functions related to the development and stress response, were analysed regarding the changes due to Fusarium infection by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Altogether, forty-three proteins affected by infection were identified by mass spectrometry. Enzymes detoxifying reactive oxygen species were regulated at all developmental stages. In the early stage of grain development, the abundance of proteins related to stress response, such as 2-Cys peroxiredoxin, a chitinase, a xylanase inhibitor and a spermidine synthase was increased. During later stage of grain development, the abundance of stress-related proteins, such as chitinases, heat shock proteins and an alpha-amylase inhibitor-like protein, decreased. During all ripening stages, but especially during medium milk stage (BBCH 75) and soft dough stage (BBCH 85), the abundance of proteins related to carbon metabolism, starch and protein biosynthesis as well as photosynthesis increased due to F. graminearum infection. At the plant death stage (BBCH 97) the abundance of only two proteins related to metabolism decreased.
Effects of nonlocal plasmons in gapped graphene micro-ribbon array and 2DEG on near-field electromagnetic response in the deep-subwavelength regime
Creators: name: Huang, Danhong
name: Gumbs, Godfrey
name: Roslyak, Oleksiy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A self-consistent theory involving Maxwell equations and a density-matrix linear-response theory is solved for an electromagnetically-coupled doped graphene micro-ribbon array and a quantum-well electron gas sitting at an interface between a half-space of air and another half-space of a doped semiconductor substrate which supports a surface-plasmon mode in our system. The coupling between a spatially-modulated total electromagnetic field and the electron dynamics in a Dirac-cone of a graphene ribbon, as well as the coupling of the far-field specular and near-field higher-order diffraction modes, are included in the derived electron optical-response function. Full analytical expressions are obtained with non-locality for the optical-response functions of a two-dimensional electron gas and a graphene layer with an induced bandgap, and are employed in our numerical calculations beyond the long-wavelength limit (Drude model). Both the near-field transmissivity and reflectivity spectra, as well as their dependence on different configurations of our system and on the array period, ribbon width, graphene chemical potential of quantum-well electron gas and bandgap in graphene, are studied. Moreover, the transmitted E-field intensity distribution is calculated to demonstrate its connection to the mixing of specular and diffraction modes of the total electromagnetic field. An externally-tunable electromagnetic coupling among the surface, conventional electron-gas and massless graphene intraband plasmon excitations is discovered and explained. Furthermore, a comparison is made between the dependence of the graphene-plasmon energy on the ribbon width and chemical potential in this paper and the recent experimental observation given by Ju, et al., [Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 630 (2011)] for a graphene micro-ribbon array in the terahertz-frequency range.
description: 39 pages, 10 figures
Towards a better understanding of somatic embryogenesis in Cyclamen persicum
Creators: name: Winkelmann, T.
name: Rode, C.
name: Bartsch, M.
name: Prange, A.
name: Heintz, D.
name: Van Dorsselaer, A.
name: Braun, Hans-Peter
Publisher: name: The Hague : International Society for Horticultural Science
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Breeding support
subject: Mass propagation
subject: Ornamental plant
subject: Proteomics
subject: Zygotic embryogenesis
subject: Agrobacterium tumefaciens
subject: Cyclamen
subject: Cyclamen persicum
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::640 | Hauswirtschaft und Familienleben

description: Somatic embryogenesis in Cyclamen persicum was first reported in 1984 and has potential applications for propagation and breeding of this economically important ornamental crop. This in vitro regeneration system can be used for vegetative propagation of parental lines of F1 hybrids and elite plants, production of artificial seeds, Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation, long-term cryopreservation, protoplast to plant regeneration and somatic hybridization. Somatic embryogenesis was shown to be a powerful propagation system for some C. persicum genotypes, but commercial application in large scale so far is hindered by several limitations, i.e., asynchronous development, malformations or secondary somatic embryogenesis. However, recent molecular approaches by transcriptomic and proteomic analyses were undertaken in order to better understand and control this in vitro regeneration system and to overcome these problems. Our studies aim at comparing somatic embryos to their zygotic counterparts regarding their proteomes. Protein separation by two dimensional isoelectric focusing - sodium do-decyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis led to a resolution of about 1000 protein spots per gel, of which the first 253 were identified by mass spectrometry. Most were found to be involved in glycolysis/gluconeogenesis and stress response pathways. A proteome reference map of zygotic embryos will be publicly released soon and may serve as a basis for further investigations and improvements of somatic embryogenesis.
GAMMA-PROBE GUIDED SENTINEL LYMPH NODE EXTIRPATION TO ASSESS PATTERNS OF NODAL METASTASIS IN SPONTANEOUS HEAD AND NECK MALIGNANCIES OF THE DOG: A SECOND STEP BASED ON PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES ON MAST-CELL TUMORS
Creators: name: CHITI, LAVINIA ELENA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2022

description: Canine oncology has recently reported interest in the detection of occult nodal metastases, and efforts have been made to identify the best strategy for accurate nodal staging. In this scenario, the present PhD thesis was aimed to improve knowledge on the current understanding of the feasibility and impact of sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping with radiopharmaceutical and blue dye in cancer-bearing dogs. Initially, we evaluated the technique in canine mast cell tumors (MCT), given the high prevalence of this tumor type, the propensity for lymphatic spread and recognized prognostic impact of nodal metastases. Thirty client-owned dogs with 34 MCT were included. At least one SLN was identified in all but 3 dogs that had a scar from previously excised MCT, and in 30 cases (63%) the SLN did not correspond to the regional lymph node (RLN). As a second step, we explored the impact of SLN mapping and extirpation in dogs with head and neck tumors, given the well-accepted unpredictability of patterns of nodal metastases. Twenty-three dogs with tumors of the head and neck and absence of clinically evident nodal disease (cN0 neck) were prospectively included and underwent tumor excision and SLN extirpation. Reported detection rate was 83%, with at least one SLN identified in all but 4 dogs with thyroid tumors. In 52% of dogs, the SLN did not correspond to the RLN and at histopathology 42% of dogs had nodal metastases, of which 4 differed from the RLN. As the last step of this PhD project, we conducted an explorative study to identify clinical or pathological characteristics that could allow for identification of dogs with MCT at lower risk of SLN metastases, that could be excluded a priori from the SLN mapping and extirpation. Surprisingly, tumor grade was not able to predict the risk of having HN2-3 or HN3 SLN and the only variables that correlated with nodal metastases were tumor size, number or SLN and subcutaneous MCT. Given low to moderate discriminant ability, however, none of these variables could safely determine the exclusion of patients from the procedure. Results of the present project underscore the utility of implementation of SLN biopsy in the management of dogs with MCT and head and neck tumors, given the low correspondence between clinically expected RLN and SLN and the high rate of occult nodal metastases that could be detected with this procedure. Future research should be aimed at investigating the impact on long-term prognosis and disease free interval of the extirpation of metastatic SLN, and identify variables that could allow for exclusion of low-risk patients from the procedure.
Experimental determination of the longitudinal pier stiffness of a long railway viaduct
Creators: name: Wenner, Marc
name: Meier, Thomas
name: Wedel, Frederik
name: Schacht, Gregor
name: Marx, Steffen
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Braking test
subject: Diagnostic load test
subject: Experiment
subject: Pier stiffness
subject: Railway viaduct
subject: Track–bridge interaction
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::720 | Architektur
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Track–bridge interaction plays a decisive role in the design of long railway bridges due to the high braking and acceleration forces that occur and the fact that the continuous rail is attached to the superstructure. A fundamental parameter for the calculation of the effects of track–bridge interaction is the equivalent longitudinal stiffness of piers and abutments with fixed bearings. The equivalent horizontal stiffness is commonly calculated using a pile group model. The static and “dynamic” stiffnesses of the Itz valley railway viaduct were determined experimentally by using a static diagnostic load test and a braking test, which allowed for the verification of the additional rail stresses and the bearing forces with realistic input parameters. Furthermore, numerical 3D FE analyses of the deep foundation system were carried out to provide class-A predictions of the experimental results. In this article, the experimental setup and the execution and evaluation of the two tests are presented. A comparison of the experimental results and the numerical predictions is also carried out.
Effetti della stimolazione meccanica plantare ripetuta sul profilo autonomico, sui parametri cardiovascolari e di movimento nei pazienti affetti da malattia di Parkinson
Creators: name: BULGHERONI, MARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: Parkinson?s disease (PD) is spread worldwide; the incidence rapidly increases over the age of 60 years. The cause for the neuronal degeneration tipical of Parkinson disease is not known, nor there are any effective treatment; at the moment only symptomatic treatments are available. Among them there is foot mechanical stimulation which, in a preliminary study, showed an improvement of motor function and performance, enhancement of vagal modulation and reduction of sympathetic modulation, with a concurrent reduction of clinostatic blood pressure after one session of stimulation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of repeated foot mechanical stimulation on the autonomic, hemodinamic and motor assesment in patients affected by idiopathic PD Material and methods: We enrolled 23 patients with idiopatic PD, from 50 and 80 years old. Each patient underwent a cardiovascular assessment, autonomic status, neurologic and motor profile assessment on the first day, on the second day and on the sixteenth day (the last day of the study). Foot mechanical stimulation was performed the first day, the second day and three times per 72 hours distance. Data were then collected and analyzed. Results: Our study showed how repeated foot stimulation on two specific points on the sole of the foot can lead to a significant reduction of sympathetic modulation and to an enhancement, albeit not statistically significant, of vagal modulation - revealed by both spectral analysis and by symbolic analysis. Moreover, between the start and the end of the study, there was a statistically significant reduction of both SAP and DAP measured in clinostatic position and a clear motor improvement. Conclusions: Repeated foot stimulation may be used in patients affected by Parkinson disease, coupled with the usual treatments, to improve motor function (and so patients? quality of life), and to treat clinostatic hypertension. That can lead to a reduction in pharmacological antihypertensive therapies and to a better management of orthostatic hypotension, reducing the risk of falls and of disabilities.
title: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, Band XXII
Creators: name: Grimme, Ernst Günther
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu ausgewählten Beiträgen in: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch Band XXII, Köln 1960. 264 Seiten, 168 Abbildungen. 1) Herbert Schade, Studien zu der Karolingischen Bilderbibel aus St. Paul vor den Mauern in Rom. 2) Christian Beutler, Das Kreuz des hl. Odo aus St. Martin vor Autun. 3) Fried Mühlberg, Crnzifixus Dolorosus.
Broadband and efficient diffraction
Creators: name: Ribot, C.
name: Lee, M. S. L.
name: Collin, S.
name: Bansropun, S.
name: Plouhinec, P.
name: Thenot, D.
name: Cassette, S.
name: Loiseaux, B.
name: Lalanne, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface topography dictates the deterministic functionality of diffraction by a surface. In order to maximize the efficiency with which a diffractive optical component, such as a grating or a diffractive lens, directs light into a chosen order of diffraction, it is necessary that it be "blazed". The efficiency of most diffractive optical components reported so far varies with the wavelength, and blazing is achieved only at a specific nominal energy, the blaze wavelength. The existence of spurious light in undesirable orders represents a severe limitation that prevents using diffractive components in broadband systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate that broadband blazing over almost one octave can be achieved by combining advanced optical design strategies and artificial dielectric materials that offer dispersion chromatism much stronger than those of conventional bulk materials. The possibility of maintaining an efficient funneling of the energy into a specific order over a broad spectral range may empower advanced research to achieve greater control over the propagation of light, leading to more compact, efficient and versatile optical components.
description: accepted in Optical Advanced Materials
Manipulation of Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) by Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (Tospovirus) Via the Host Plant Nutrients to Enhance Its Transmission and Spread
Creators: name: Shalileh, Sheida
name: Ogada, Pamella Akoth
name: Moualeu, Dany Pascal
name: Poehling, Hans-Michael
Publisher: name: Annapolis, MD : Entomological Society of America
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Frankliniella occidentalis
subject: tomato spotted wilt virus
subject: Tospovirus
subject: vector manipulation hypothesis
subject: Capsicum annuum
subject: Thripidae
subject: Thysanoptera
subject: Tomato spotted wilt virus
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Earlier studies have shown that Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) influences the biology, performance, and behavioral patterns of its vector Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande. In this study, using Capsicum annuum L. as the host plant, we aimed to determine the manipulation of F. occidentalis by TSWV through switching of the diet (+ or TSWV) during vector's development. Behavioral patterns, fitness, as well as vector performance were evaluated. The specific parameters investigated included longevity/survival, fecundity, development time, feeding, and preferential behavior. F. occidentalis were reared on either TSWV-infected (exposed) or healthy leaves (non-exposed) throughout their larval stages. The emerging adults were then individually transferred to either healthy or TSWV-infected leaf disks. This resulted into four treatments, consisting of exposed or non-exposed thrips reared on either infected or healthy leaf disks as adults. All F. occidentalis exposed to TSWV in their larval stages had shorter development time regardless of the adults' diet. Whereas, the ones that were later reared on healthy leaf disks as adults recorded the highest longevity and reproduction rate. Furthermore, adults of F. occidentalis that were exposed to TSWV in their larval stages showed preference toward healthy leaf disks (TSWV), whereas the non-exposed significantly preferred the infected leaf disks (+TSWV). These are further indications that TSWV modifies the nutritional content of its host plants, which influences vector's biology and preferential behavior, in favor of its multiplication and dispersal. The findings offer additional explanation to the often aggressive spread of the virus in crop stands.
GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ROCK MASSES FOR TUNNEL EXCAVATION WITH TBM
Creators: name: ARMETTI, GIACOMO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: The prediction of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) performances and the comprehension of the relationship between the geological, mechanical and structural features of a rock mass and the machine behaviour are fundamental in order to select the most effective tunnel construction methods and to estimate the condition of excavation in terms of time and economic costs of the infrastructure. The general purpose of this work is to carry out predictive models utilisable during the early stage of tunnel planning and realisation; for this purpose, many approaches have been considered. Simple and multiple, both linear and nonlinear, regression analyses have been performed in order to achieve an empirical equation able to estimate the principal TBM performance indices (ROP and FPI). In addition, Multiple Correspondence Analysis and clustering have been developed. A modified version of the Rock Engineering System has been performed and used to obtain a predictive model. This study focuses on the exploratory tunnel named ?La Maddalena?, located in Northern Italy, Western Alps, where geological surveys data have been continuously performed during tunnel construction; this allowed the collection of a large amount of geological, geotechnical and TBM performance data.
Balance properties of Arnoux-Rauzy words
Creators: name: Berthé, Valérie
name: Cassaigne, Julien
name: Steiner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper deals with balances and imbalances in Arnoux-Rauzy words. We provide sufficient conditions for $C$-balancedness, but our results indicate that even a characterization of 2-balanced Arnoux-Rauzy words on a 3-letter alphabet is not immediate.
On Some Recent Insights in Integral Biomathics
Creators: name: Simeonov, Plamen L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper summarizes the results in Integral Biomathics obtained to this moment and provides an outlook for future research in the field.
description: 24 pages, 0 figures. In Journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2013
Entanglement dynamics and position-momentum entropic uncertainty relation of a $Λ$-type three-level atom interacting with a two-mode cavity field in the presence of nonlinearities
Creators: name: Faghihi, M J
name: Tavassoly, M K
name: Hooshmandasl, M R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the interaction between a $Λ$-type three-level atom and two-mode cavity field is discussed. The detuning parameters and cross-Kerr nonlinearity are taken into account and it is assumed that atom-field coupling and Kerr medium to be $f$-deformed. Even though the system seems to be complicated, the analytical form of the state vector of the entire system for considered model is exactly obtained. The time evolution of nonclassical properties such as quantum entanglement and position-momentum entropic uncertainty relation (entropy squeezing) of the field are investigated. In each case, the influences of the detuning parameters, generalized Kerr medium and intensity-dependent coupling on the latter nonclassicality signs are analyzed, in detail.
description: 14 pages, accepted for publication in JOSAB 2013
Is Sustainable Intensification Pro-Poor? Evidence from Small-Scale Farmers in Rural Tanzania
Creators: name: Bruessow, Kathleen
name: Fasse, Anja
name: Grote, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI Publishing
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Conservation Agriculture CA
subject: Southern Africa
subject: West-Africa
subject: Adaption
subject: Adoption
subject: Poverty
subject: Systems
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: The transition of farming systems to higher levels of productivity without overusing natural resources is of rising interest especially in African countries, where population growth has often been larger than past productivity increases. This paper aims to contribute to the debate on whether environmentally friendly agricultural practices are compatible with economic interests. In the context of small-scale farm households in Tanzania, the analysis focuses on Conservation Agriculture (CA) at different levels of agricultural output, as CA is a promising toolbox for sustainable intensification. The results are based on a household survey conducted in 2014 with 900 randomly selected small-scale farmers in rural Tanzania, i.e., in semi-arid Dodoma and in semi-humid Morogoro region. We find that mulching is most frequently applied, followed by crop rotation, fallowing, intercropping and tree planting. Logit regressions show that CA adoption is influenced by socio-economic factors, farm characteristics and the regional context. Quantile regressions explain different levels of agricultural output through variables related to the extent of using CA. They indicate that marginalized farmers have the strongest crop income effect from an increased use of mulching. With increasing levels of agricultural output, the use of mulching remains beneficial for farmers, but the effect appears less pronounced.
Rosa sepium
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: C. sepium L. (Calystegia sepium R. Br.) Cat. 259. l: Les Oranges (Wurgler); Les Marecottes (J.); Medettaz (J.); LaBätiaz(Wurgler).- 2:Daillon (J-); Siders-Mollens (J.). - 3: Riddes (J.).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Rewrite Closure and CF Hedge Automata
Creators: name: Jacquemard, Florent
name: Rusinowitch, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce an extension of hedge automata called bidimensional context-free hedge automata. The class of unranked ordered tree languages they recognize is shown to be preserved by rewrite closure with inverse-monadic rules. We also extend the parameterized rewriting rules used for modeling the W3C XQuery Update Facility in previous works, by the possibility to insert a new parent node above a given node. We show that the rewrite closure of hedge automata languages with these extended rewriting systems are context-free hedge languages.
Fully populated VCM or the hidden parameter
Creators: name: Kermarrec, Gaël
name: Schön, S.
Publisher: name: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: correlations
subject: equivalence stochastic functional model
subject: GNSS phase measurement
subject: hidden tropospheric parameter
subject: least-squares
subject: Matern covariance function
subject: stochastic model
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Least-squares estimates are trustworthy with minimal variance if the correct stochastic model is used. Due to computational burden, diagonal models that neglect correlations are preferred to describe the elevation dependency of the variance of GPS observations. In this contribution, an improved stochastic model based on a parametric function to take correlations between GPS phase observations into account is presented. Built on an adapted and flexible Matern function accounting for spatiotemporal variabilities, its parameters can be fixed thanks to Maximum Likelihood Estimation or chosen apriori to model turbulent tropospheric refractivity fluctuations. In this contribution, we will show in which cases and under which conditions corresponding fully populated variance covariance matrices (VCM) replace the estimation of a tropospheric parameter. For this equivalence "augmented functional versus augmented stochastic model" to hold, the VCM should be made sufficiently largewhich corresponds to computing small batches of observations. A case study with observations from a medium baseline of 80 km divided into batches of 600 s shows improvement of up to 100 mm for the 3Drms when fully populated VCM are used compared with an elevation dependent diagonal model. It con firms the strong potential of such matrices to improve the least-squares solution, particularly when ambiguities are let float.
title: Wolfgang Schöne, Die künstlerische und liturgische Gestalt der Pfalzkapelle Karls des Großen in Aachen
Creators: name: Grimme, Ernst Günther
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu: Wolfgang Schöne, Die künstlerische und liturgische Gestalt der Pfalzkapelle Karls des Großen in Aachen, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 15/314 (1961), S. 97 - 148.
Die Rolle des S-Proteins beim Eintritt des SARS-CoV in Zielzellen
Creators: name: Glende, Jörg-Henning
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: SARS-Coronavirus
subject: Angiotensin-konvertierendes Enzym 2
subject: lipid rafts
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

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title: Hermann Weisweiler, AACHEN - Ein fotografisches Skizzenbuch
Creators: name: Grimme, Ernst Günther
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu: Hermann Weisweiler, AACHEN - Ein fotografisches Skizzenbuch, Einleitung und Text zu den Bildern v. Helmut A. Crous, Köln 1961. 10 Seilen Text, 110 Fototafeln