cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Value added products from short and/or long narrow lengths of timber: the South East Queensland hardwood timber industry and the changing role of the designer within a growing sustainability imperative
Creators: name: Loy, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis is presented as a study for product design educators in respect to addressing a gap in knowledge on the changing role of the designer in the face of changes in attitude, and innovations in production, needed to initiate sustainable practice. Within this context it provides an industrial designer's response to the issues and specific problems raised by the project 'designing value added products from small and / or narrow pieces of timber' for the hardwood timber industry in south east Queensland, Australia. In doing so, it also addresses a research gap on maximising the use of hardwood in value added products. The research is located primarily in the construction and manufacturing industries in south east Queensland and northern New South Wales but also in the development of design practice in response to the global sustainability imperative that has become a significant driver for the project. It provides practical direction, recommendations and examples for both industry and education. Within the context of responsible design thinking, corporate responsibility and triple bottom line accounting (economic, social and environmental), there is much discussion in current journals on how the needs of the economy, environment and people can be met and how innovation can be stimulated by restrictive parameters, such as environmental ones, and produce new ways of working. However, it is argued in the study that there are designers and architects who still appear to focus on the short term perceived needs of the individual client over the environmental and social aspects of their design decisions. Whilst it can be suggested that legislation needs to continue to be developed to ensure intergenerational responsibility, design students also need to be given practical examples of how they can assess the brief they are set and influence the outcomes of their projects to ensure that they are providing their clients with the financial benefits of long term, triple bottom line based thinking, and the rest of us with environmentally and socially responsible products. Within the Forestry sector, these issues are particularly at the forefront of current research and debate. Policy, production practices and adherence to Australian standards are considered in relation to a broader context by this study, forming the basis for recommendations on changing practice. By suggesting ways to improve recovery rates for value added applications, this study provides a contribution to the 'whole material' lifecycle response to this increasingly high profile issue of sustainable production that the industry must make in order that timber can compete with other building and manufacturing materials in the future.
Sonderheft "Indonesien" der Zeitschrift ORIENTIERUNGEN
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Der Orient ist eine Entdeckung des Abendlandes, lautet eine der provozierenden Thesen der Exotismusforschung. Doch spätestens seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört vor allem der Orient selbst das Bild, das sich der Westen im 19. Jahrhundert vom Nahen und Fernen Osten gemacht hat und das er so gerne bewahren möchte.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Effect of nitrogen fertilizations, with and without inhibitors, on cotton growth and fiber quality
Creators: name: Karydogianni, S.
name: Darawsheh, M.K.
name: Kakabouki, I.
name: Zisi, Ch.
name: Folina, A.E.
name: Roussis, I.
name: Tselia, Z.
name: Bilalis, D.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: cotton
fiber quality
nitrogen inhibitor
iNUE
article

description: Considering cotton, one of the most non environmentally friendly crops, new types of fertilizers, such as the urease inhibitor, are now being used for fertilization. Furthermore, the need of increasing the nutrient use efficiency which is an important contributor to yield has arisen. The objective of this study was to assess the impacts of four different urea combinations (Urea, Urea+NI+UI, Urea+NI, Urea+UI) on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) yield and fiber traits. For this purpose, different inhibitors used on urea fertilizer such as nitrification inhibitor (NI), dicyandiamide (DCD), urease inhibitor (UI), N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide, and a combination of urease (UI) and nitrification inhibitor (NI) (double inhibitor). Additionally, Nitrogen indicators were also used to evaluate the efficiency of these combinations. Two field experiments were conducted in Agrinio and Copaida region, Central Greece during 2019. The total dry weight ranged from 13,027 to 14,481 kg ha-1 in Agrinio area and from 12,567 to 14,136 kg ha-1 in Copaida area. The highest seed cotton yield was recorded under Urea+NI+UI fertilization at 5,145 kg ha-1 application in Copaida area and 5,318 kg ha-1 application in Agrinio area. Also, the total plant nitrogen uptake (kg N ha-1) was affected by the inhibitors NI and UI. The range for Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency (NUtE) index was 9.27 to 23.06. Moreover, results indicated that NI and UI inhibitors have a marked effect on fiber quality such as strength (g Tex-1). In the Mediterranean region of Greece, the combined use of inhibitors UI and NI resulted in higher yield and finest fiber quality.
Studiengemeinschaft Kambodschanische Kultur e.V.
Creators: name: Löschmann, Heike
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Die Studiengemeinschaft Kambodschanische Kultur (SGKK), ein in Berlin eingetragener gemeinnütziger Verein, wurde im Mai 1984 in Berlin von einer Gruppe von Kambodschanern und Deutschen gegründet. Sie hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, einen Beitrag zur Wahrung der kulturellen Identität des kambodschanischen Volkes zu leisten.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Seed size and cold stratification affect Acer negundo and Acer ginnala seeds germination
Creators: name: Kiseleva, O.A.
name: Loretts, O.G.
name: Veselkin, D.V.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2020
Subjects: Acer ginnala
Acer negundo
cold stratification
invasive plants
propagule press
seed biology
article

description: The aim of this work is to determine how the germination of seeds of the invasive tree Acer negundo depends on the period of cold stratification under the snow and the duration of stratification in the air on the branches of the trees. For comparison with A. negundo, we used seeds of Acer ginnala, introduced but not invasive tree in the Middle Urals. The period of stratification in the air modeled by collecting seeds in October and December. The duration of cold stratification under the snow was 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 months. We hypothesized that the duration of stratification in the air did not affect the germination of A. negundo and A. ginnala seeds. Cold stratification under the snow had a positive effect on seed germination of both species. The best seed germination of A. negundo and A. ginnala was after 4 months of cold stratification under the snow, the germination rate differs: in A. negundo 12 ± 4% (small seeds) and 79 ± 7% (large seeds), in A. ginnala – 1 ± 2% (small seeds) and 18 ± 4% (large seeds). In both species, large seeds germinated at 7 to 18 times more intensively than small ones. In A. ginnala case, even after cold stratification under snow for 4 months, no more than 22% of the seeds germinated. The germination of A. ginnala seeds was 4–5 times lower than that of A. negundo seeds.
title: Importancia de los métodos en la investigación en Ciencia Política: Superando doxas y sesgos
title: Importancia de los métodos en la investigación en Ciencia Política: Superando doxas y sesgos
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Oscar Andres, Velazco Mendoza
Publisher: name: Peruvian Science
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ciencia Política, metodología, doxa, sesgo, investigación
Political Science, methodology, doxa, bias, investigation

description: La Ciencia Política, a pesar de su juventud como disciplina, ha experimentado diversas evoluciones a lo largo de su historia, consolidándose como una herramienta fundamental para comprender las complejidades de las relaciones de poder en las sociedades humanas. En este contexto, se destaca la necesidad imperiosa de salvar la integridad del método de investigación, protegiéndolo de doxas y sesgos que puedan distorsionar su validez.Este ensayo pretende abogar por el desarrollo completo y epistémico del método en los estudios políticos, relegando la perniciosa influencia de doxas y sesgos. Se utilizarán enfoques empiristas y constructivistas como paradigmas ilustrativos para analizar los sesgos presentes en los contrastes teóricos.En definitiva, el estudio aboga por evitar la exacerbación de sesgos en el desarrollo de los estudios en Ciencia Política, particularmente en los enfoques antes mencionados (empirista y constructivista), proponiendo una posición que privilegia la objetividad y el rigor metodológico en la investigación política.
description: Political science has experienced diverse evolution processes throughout its history, despite its youth as a discipline. It has consolidated as a crucial tool to understand the complexity of power relations in human societies. In this context, it's necessary to save the integrity of the research method, protecting it from bias and doxas that could distort its validity. Along with this essay, I will advocate for the complete and epistemic development of the method in political studies, relegating the pernicious influence of bias and doxas. We use empiricist and constructivist approaches as illustrative paradigms to analyze bias that take part in theoretical contrasts.In sum, this research advocates for preventing the exacerbation of bias in political science's development studies, particularly in the approaches mentioned above (empiricist and constructivist), proposing a position that privileges objectivity and methodological rigor in political research.
Burma Büro in Zusammenarbeit mit der Südostasien Informationsstelle eröffnet
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: In der Südostasien Informationsstelle hat am 1. April das Burma Büro eröffnet. Das Büro ist eine Initiative der deutschen Burma-Gruppen, die die burmesische Demokratiebewegung unterstützen. Seit nunmehr 44 Jahren herrscht in dem Vielvölkerstaat ein Bürgerkrieg, der von der Weltöffentlichkeit kaum beachtet wird.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Workshop Asienhaus
Creators: name: Hansen, Sven
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Ziel des Workshops ist es, über den Stand des Projektes Asienhaus zu informieren und die Perspektiven asienbezogener Solidaritätsarbeit zu diskutieren.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
MBA student perceptions: Learning, teaching, entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills
Creators: name: McMurray, Adela J.
name: Sharma, Raj
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Universities of the 21st century must ensure that entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial knowledge and skills pervade its management learning and teaching programs. This multi-method study reports on 53 current MBA students’ perceptions of learning, teaching and skills acquisition in their MBA program. Chi-square analysis revealed significant relationships between independent demographics variables such as age, gender and country of domicile i.e. Southeast Asia and Australia and dependent variables of teaching and learning. In relation to preparedness for post-educational activities, statistical testing suggests that male students were more likely to engage in intrapreneurial activities, whilst younger MBA students and MBA students who are not working were more likely to start a new business. Overwhelmingly, the results showed that the majority (83%) believed the MBA program should develop both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills. The study suggests refinements be made to MBA curricula based on the research findings.
Tagungsbericht: Die Regierung muss Demokratie lernen
Creators: name: Setiwan, Agus
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Einen Europa-Besuch von Abdurrachman Wahid, dem Vorsitzenden der islamischen Organisation Nahdlatul Ulama und Mitbegründer des "Demokratischen Forums", nahm die Südostasien Informationsstelle zum Anlaß, den für seine liberale Haltung bekannten Muslim-Führer nach Deutschland einzuladen. Zu einem von Vereinsmitgliedern kurzfristig in Köln anberaumten Treffen, kamen am 8.Juni rund 70 Indonesier und Deutsche aus der ganzen Bundesrepublik und aus Holland zusammen. Indonesische Wissenschaftler aus Bielefeld waren ebenso dabei wie Vertreter von IMBAS aus Frankfurt, von Amnesty International, von Asia Watch aus Berlin, der Indonesien Redaktion der Deutschen Welle aus Köln und an islamischen Themen interessierte Geistliche aus dem Ruhrgebiet.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Visualización de la estructura del conocimiento de las investigaciones relacionadas a quitosano. Periodo 2013-2017
Creators: name: Samuel, Villanueva Velásquez
name: Natasha, Tellería
name: Magaly, Henríquez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Quitosano; Chitosan; Bibliometría; Bibliometrics

description: Los mapas bibliométricos facilitan una foto, una perspectiva de un todo, que a partir de las relaciones de conceptos, autores, instituciones, países y publicaciones responden las preguntas cuándo, dónde, qué y quién. El estudio fue enfocado a determinar la estructura del conocimiento relacionado a quitosano.
title: Fälle zum Verwaltungsrecht
title: 16 Klausurfälle mit ausführlichen Lösungen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fallrepetitorium
subject: Verwaltungsrecht
subject: Open Educational Resources
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::340 Recht::342 Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht

description: Das vorliegende Fallrepetitorium zum Verwaltungsrecht ist das erste offen lizenzierte Fallrepetitorium in der deutschen Rechtswissenschaft. Es will als „Leuchtturmprojekt“ die Idee freier Bildungsmaterialien (sog. Open Educational Resources) in den Bereich der rechtswissenschaftlichen Ausbildungsliteratur tragen und zum Nachahmen anregen. Es begleitet das ebenfalls 2019 erschienene Lehrbuch „Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur“ und bereichert dieses konkrete Fallbeispiele. „Fälle zum Verwaltungsrecht“ präsentiert das prüfungsrelevante Verwaltungsrecht anhand von 16 großen Fällen, die in dieser Form auch in Klausuren abgeprüft werden könnten. Die ausführlichen Lösungen werden von einer Einführung in die gutachterliche Prüfung und von Prüfungsschemata für die wichtigsten Klage- und Antragsarten der VwGO begleitet. Abstimmt auf die Inhalte des Open-Access-Lehrbuchs „Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur“ kann mit dem Fallrepetitorium die praktische Arbeit mit Sachverhalten in Klausuren trainiert werden.
title: Shallow transit follow‐up from Next‐Generation Transit Survey
title: Simultaneous observations of HD 106315 with 11 identical telescopes
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Smith, Alexis M. S.
name: Eigmüller, Philipp
name: Gurumoorthy, Ramanathan
name: Csizmadia, Szilárd
name: Bayliss, Daniel
name: Burleigh, Matthew R.
name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Casewell, Sarah L.
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: planetary systems
subject: planets and satellites: HD 106315 c
subject: techniques: photometric
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a photometric survey for transiting exoplanets, consisting of 12 identical 0.2‐m telescopes. We report a measurement of the transit of HD 106315 c using a novel observing mode in which multiple NGTS telescopes observed the same target, with the aim of increasing the signal‐to‐noise ratio. Combining the data allows the robust detection of the transit, which has a depth less than 0.1%, rivaling the performance of much larger telescopes. We demonstrate the capability of NGTS to contribute to the follow‐up of K2 and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discoveries using this observing mode. In particular, NGTS is well‐suited to the measurement of shallow transits of bright targets. This is particularly important to improve orbital ephemerides of relatively long‐period planets, where only a small number of transits are observed from space.
An efficient method for architecture-based reliability evaluation for evolving systems with changing parameters
Creators: name: Meedeniya, Indika
name: Grunske, Lars
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Probabilistic models are widely used in Architecture-based reliability prediction in software intensive systems. However, for most of the cases, it is computationally expensive to compute the reliability metrics and re-compute them once the system has evolved or is used in a different environment. In this paper, we introduce an efficient computation method for Discrete Time Markov Chain based abstractions, which computes reliability metrics once, and we provide an incremental technique to recompute these metrics in case of a single change in the reliability evaluation model. As a result, fast and efficient reliability computation can be provided for scenarios like design-time architecture optimization and run time adaptation. An experimental validation of the new method shows a significant improvement in terms of computation time required to re-evaluate an evolved architecture.
Kolonialismus in der philippinischen Kirchengeschichte
Creators: name: Mananzan, OSB, Sr. Mary John
name: Körte, Gebhard
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Die Kolonialherrschaft brachte die zwangsweise Auferlegung der Religion, Kultur und Sprache der europäischen Kolonisatoren auf ihre asiatischen Subjekte mit sich. Die Bekehrung zum Christentum wurde ein bedeutender Bestandteil des Kolonialprojektes. Missionare wurden zu wichtigen Mitgliedern der Kolonisierungsmannschaft und zur religiösen Vorhut des europäischen Kolonialismus in Asien.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Fidel Ramos gewinnt die Präsidentschaftswahlen
Creators: name: Hansen, Sven
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Der ehemalige Verteidigungsminister Fidel Ramos hat mit 23,6 Prozent der Stimmen die Wahlen vom 11. Mai gewonnen. Vizepräsident wurde der Senator und Ex - Schauspieler Joseph Estrada, der auf einer in Opposition zu Ramos stehenden Liste kandidierte. Im Senat und Kongreß wurde die in Aquinos Amtszeit auf gebaute Regierungspartei LDP wieder stärkste Fraktion. Die über den landesweit größten Parteiapparat verfügende LDP hatte Ramos' Kandidatur abgelehnt und den bisherigen Kongreßvorsitzenden Ramon Mitra unterstützt. Mit seinem vierten Platz ist Mitra der große Verlierer.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Regierung Ramos - alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen?
Creators: name: Hansen, Sven
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Zu Beginn seiner am 30. Juni begonnenen Amtszeit legte Präsident Fidel Ramos ein Programm für die ersten 100 Tage vor. Stabilität, die Wirtschaft, Energieversorgung, Bürokratie und der Umweltschutz sollten Priorität genießen. In seiner Antrittsrede bezeichnete Ramos Ordnung und Stabilität als oberstes Ziel, ohne die Wirtschaftswachstum nicht möglich sei. Er versprach, das Volk nicht nur politisch, sondern auch wirtschaftlich zu stärken.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
350 Jahre sind genug!
Creators: name: Larenz, Antonius
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Das indonesische Archipel wird bis heute noch mit den Kolonialwaren in Verbindung gebracht, die für die aufstrebenden Kolonialmächte des 16. Jahrhunderts der Anlaß waren, die weite Fahrt in die noch weitgehend unbekannten Gewässer des Indischen und Pazifischen Ozeans zu unternehmen: Pfeffer, Nelken und Muskat, neben Gold, tropischen Edelhölzern und Edelsteinen, waren die in Europa schon bekannten Produkte des Archipels, nach denen eine große Nachfrage bestand. Der natürliche Reichtum der Gewürzinseln war der Ausgangspunkt für eine 350jährige Geschichte von Unterdrückung und Ausbeutung. "350 Jahre sind genug!" das war die Parole innerhalb der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Learning heuristic functions and search policies for classical planning
Creators: name: Gomoluch, Pawel Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Automated planning deals with the problem of composing sequences of actions, which, when executed from a given initial state, lead to the satisfaction of a given goal. Classical planning, in particular, relies on a known and deterministic model of the environment. In this thesis, we consider learning from the planner's experience as a way of improving its performance. Modern classical planners are typically based on heuristic forward search. Such planners include two key components: a search routine, such as A* or greedy best-first search, and a heuristic function, which guides the search by evaluating any given state of the environment. A domain-independent heuristic function can be applied to problems from any planning domain. The first part of the thesis investigates the use of machine learning techniques to obtain heuristic functions. The existing work on learning heuristics has focused on learning domain-specific functions. We propose a domain-independent approach, which allows the heuristics to be learned from data representing multiple domains and then deployed on any domain, thus preserving the generality of the planner. The learning task takes the form of supervised learning: solutions to a number of training problems are used to learn a heuristic function, which can then be applied for unseen problems and domains. We evaluate the approach experimentally and indicate its potential strengths and weaknesses. In the second part of the thesis, we turn our attention to the search routine. The search routines used in classical planning are typically based on best-first search and remain fixed throughout the process of solving a problem. In this thesis, we construct search routines capable of changing the search approach while solving a problem. This allows us to formulate the task of learning search policies. The purpose of a search policy is to indicate the most suitable way of continuing the search given its current state. We consider two distinct approaches. The first one relies on a fixed set of search subroutines. The policy search problem translates to reinforcement learning with a discrete action space. The second one introduces a novel parametrised search algorithm, combining a variety of search techniques in a single routine. In this case, the search policy is responsible for setting the values of the search algorithm's parameters. This results in a learning task akin to reinforcement learning in continuous action spaces. Experimental evaluation shows that the learners are capable of discovering efficient search policies tailored to given distributions of planning problems.
Ohrfeige für "Kolonialinspektor" gilt auch den NGOs
Creators: name: Jung, Erika
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Im März erhielt die Niederländische Regierung einen Brief aus Jakarta, in dem sie aufgefordert wurde, ihre staatliche Entwicklungshilfe sofort einzustellen und ihren Vorsitz im internationalen Geldgeberkonsortium IGGI niederzulegen. Begründung: Die Indonesische Regierung wehre sich entschieden dagegen, daß die ehemalige Kolonialmacht ihre finanzielle Unterstützung an politische Bedingungen knüpfe. Zugleich forderte die Suharto-Regierung die Weltbank auf, den Vorsitz für ein neues Konsortium zu übernehmen. Die "Consultative Group for Indonesia"(CGI) wurde am 16/17. Juli in Paris - begleitet von Protestaktionen - gegründet und gewährte Indonesien Kredite, die um 190 Mio Dollar höher lagen als im Vorjahr.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Optimisation of Hardy - type inequalities with applications in infinite dimensional Geometry
Creators: name: Guzu, Dorian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The following thesis concerns the generalisation of Hardy's integral inequality to multiple dimensions. The structure involves three main papers, two published in journals and one paper in preparation. In the first article, we make use of the classical Hardy inequality away from a point and a multi-dimensional Hardy inequality associated to the Laplacian operator. The inequality's domain is extended to an in finite case and the behaviour of systems is studied when multiple particles are introduced as a concept. The result we obtain resembles the classical Hardy inequality, but, as an extension, we introduce new vector fields and boundary approximations on a many-particle quantum system. The second article presents the interest in the re finement of Hardy inequalities using Fourier expansions applied to a new Hopf system of coordinates. As a starting point, we con figured the coordinates in four dimensions for block - radial functions such that our argument could be easier understood. In comparison to previous research, our result behaves promising in the sense that the inequality discovered is true for functions on the whole space. Moreover, by introducing a new system of coordinates, we are able to apply our result to the extension of the Hopf fi bration to dimension eight. Last but not least, in article three we look at discrete Hardy Inequalities and their link to the continuous Hardy inequalities discovered so far. Considering that Hardy inequalities are more difficult to analyse for discrete operators, we make use of two important results in order to establish whether for the discrete Hardy inequality discovered there is a sharp constant on a closed disk in Z^2. The results involve a specifi c type of Aharonov-Bohm magnetic potential which facilitates the analysis of the constant's behaviour, which is present in the new discrete Hardy inequality.
Kamelmilch für Ghadafi und ein hungriger Minister
Creators: name: Setiawan, Agus
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: Vom 1. bis 6. September findet in Jakarta die Konferenz der Blockfreien statt, die derzeit die Indonesische Regierung, die Geschäftswelt und die Bevölkerung, vor allem in Jakarta, beschäftigt. Alle sind sich einig, daß diese Konferenz eine Wertschätzung und ein Vertrauensbeweis der internationalen Gemeinschaft für Indonesien ist. Sie bietet eine gute Gelegenheit, all die Errungenschaften Indonesiens als großem Vielvölkerstaat mit üppigen Ressourcen, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Stabilität herauszustreichen. Schließlich haben viele Länder der sogenannten Dritten Welt Schwierigkeiten mit ethnischen Konflikten, der Geburtenkontrolle, der politischen Stabilität und der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Indonesien hingegen glaubt, ein Beispiel für die erfolgreiche Überwindung all dieser Probleme zu sein. Nur werden bei dem Ehrgeiz, diesem Image gerecht zu werden, die Bedürfnisse der Bevölkerung außer acht gelassen.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Many-particle systems: phase transitions, distinguished limits, and gradient flows.
Creators: name: Gvalani, Rishabh Sunil
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: This thesis is dedicated to the study of the qualitative properties of many-particle systems. We specifically consider those systems that can be described by a family of interacting diffusion processes, similar to the ones considered by Henry P. McKean. We study the behaviour of these systems in the limit as the number of particles $N$ tends to $\infty$. Their asymptotic behaviour in the mean field limit is described by nonlocal parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) that are characterised by a competition between a linear or nonlinear diffusion term and a nonlocal interaction/aggregation term. These equations share the common feature of being gradient flows of a certain free energy functional, $E$, on the space of probability measures. We provide a characterisation of both the set of stationary solutions of these nonlocal mean field PDEs and the set of minimisers of the associated energy, $E$. We demonstrate how these sets vary as the relative strength of the diffusion and aggregation terms is varied. This variation corresponds to the phenomenon of phase transitions. We also provide conditions on the interaction and confining potentials under which the minimisers of the energy $E$ have certain symmetries. Furthermore, we establish conditions under which the free energy $E$ possesses a saddle point and use this, along with an appropriate large deviations principle, to establish bounds on the escape probabilities of the underlying interacting particle systems. Finally, we study the effect of these phase transitions on the behaviour of the underlying particle system under certain distinguished scaling limits. Namely, we study the mean field limit $N \to \infty$ and the diffusive limit $\eps \to 0$ and show that, in general, these two limits do not commute in the presence of a phase transition.
Eye movement classification with EOG and motion sensors in instrumented eyewear
Creators: name: Pedrero-Sánchez, José F.
name: De Rosario, Helios
name: Martínez-Iranzo, Úrsula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: A fast algorithm has been developed, to classify eye movements and blinks, from the signals provided by eyewear-mounted sensors. The sensors (JINS Inc., Tokyo) measured electrooculography (EOG) by means of two electrodes mounted on the bridge of the user glasses, and acceleration of the head, at a constant rate of 100 Hz. An adaptive filter combining a low-pass filter, linear regression and Wiener filtering was used to remove motion artefacts from the EOG data streams. Batches of 20 seconds of data were decomposed by DB4 wavelets into 8 levels of detail. The root mean square of the signal obtained by reconstructing the 3rd-to-5th levels was used to identify and distinguish horizontal and vertical movements, and the value of the 8th level was used to classify the orientation of the movement (left vs. right, or up vs. down). The sensitivity of the algorithm to detect movements was greater than 90% in all directions, and a specificity between 70% and 90%, depending on the direction of the movement. The artefacts of head motion could be successfully removed at slow rotational velocities, compatible with normal visual tasks at rest. Quick movements without clear directional features were classified as blinks, without false detections (100% specificity) but low sensitivity (35%). This algorithm runs at high speed, with the possibility of providing real-time feedback of eye movements from normal eyewear.
description: {"references": ["Henderson et al. (2013). \"Predicting Cognitive State from Eye Movements\", PLOS ONE"]}
Auch Indonesien eine Familiendynastie?
Creators: name: Jung, Erika
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2019

description: In Thailand endeten die Wahlen mit einem selbsternannten - inzwischen wieder gestürzten - Präsidenten und einem Blutbad. In den Philippinen gab es 7 Kandidaten und eine Wahlkampfshow a la USA mit ungewissem Ausgang. In Indonesien war das Ergebnis der Parlamentswahlen, für die drei Parteien kandidieren durften, von vorneherein klar. Auch nach dem 9.Juni steht die regierende GOLKAR-Gruppe wieder oben, wenn sie auch gut 5% ihrer Stimmen an die oppositionellen PPP und PDI abgeben mußte. Für Beobachter zeigen die Wahlergebnisse nur Trends auf: Die Entscheidung über eine mögliche Änderung der politischen Landschaft Indonesiens wird erst bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen im März nächsten Jahres fallen.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 8 Nr. 2-3 (1992): südostasien informationen
Photometric redshifts for future cosmological galaxy surveys
Creators: name: Jones, Daniel Michael
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Photometric galaxy surveys are a very useful probe that can place constraints on cosmological parameters and test the cosmological model. Future galaxy surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will increase the precision of their constraints by observing to fainter magnitudes than previous surveys. While the increased depth of these future surveys will produce higher precision constraints, it will also increase the fraction of sources that overlap with other sources along the line of sight, known as blending. Current methods for dealing with these blended sources involve deblending, separating images of sources into their individual constituents. While this enables their analysis using existing methods designed for unblended sources, this separation makes quantifying and propagating all uncertainties difficult. This thesis presents a different approach, applied to the problem of photometric redshifts. By constructing photometric redshift methods that can infer the redshifts of sources directly from blended data, the associated uncertainties can be easily quantified, a vital step for ensuring the final cosmological constraints of galaxy surveys represent an accurate reflection of our state of knowledge. We first generalise existing Bayesian template-based photometric redshift methods to the case of blended sources. By performing parameter inference on the resulting model, we obtain joint posterior distributions of the redshifts of all constituents within a blended source, completely describing all correlations between these quantities. We then cast the problem of identifying the number of constituents within a blended source as a model comparison problem. Next, we develop a machine learning-based photometric redshift method that can infer the redshifts of sources after being trained on a training set of unblended sources. By using a Gaussian mixture model to do this, the posterior distributions and Bayesian evidences necessary for model comparison can be computed efficiently, enabling the method to be applied to large datasets. Finally, we develop two Bayesian hierarchical models that can infer posterior distributions over redshift distributions of a population of possibly blended sources. We do this by constructing three Gaussian mixture models that share means and covariances but differ in their weights. We test these models using both exact and approximate inference methods. Finally, we conclude by suggesting several possible extensions to this work.
Performance differences between entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial firms: extending the strategy-structure-performance paradigm
Creators: name: Jennings, Daniel F.
name: Hindle, Kevin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper extends the strategy-structure-performance paradigm to examine the performance differences between entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial electrical distribution firms. The results indicate that both entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial electrical distributors with an optimal strategy-structure alignment tend to have a higher organizational performance than those entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial electrical distributors without such an alignment. The results are examined and conclusions are offered. Finally, the implications for future research are set out, as are the limitations of the present study.
New quality measures for adversarial attacks with applications to secure communication
Creators: name: Hameed, Muhammad Zaid
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Adversarial attacks have exposed vulnerabilities of neural networks and other learning methods to small perturbations of their input and have raised concerns about the security of machine-learning-based systems. The main concern is that these vulnerabilities are present even when the perturbations introduced by the adversary are so small that the tampered data has very similar characteristics to the original. Unfortunately, which characteristics are important varies from application to application, while in the literature similarity is usually measured through some $L_p$ distance (typically with $p\in\{1,2,\infty\}$). In this thesis we show that choosing the right similarity metrics (or equivalently, a right quality metric for the tampered data) has important consequences in designing and evaluating adversarial attacks. We consider two application areas, wireless communication and image classification. First we show that adversarial attacks can actually be used to enhance security by using them against intruders in wireless communication systems. More precisely, we show that modifying the signals at the transmitter using adversarial perturbations, it is possible to prevent modulation detection by an intruder (which is an important step for intercepting or jamming the communication secretly), while at the same time the legitimate receiver can still decode the underlying message with small bit-error rate (BER). We demonstrate that using the BER as the quality metric has huge benefits compared to $L_p$-distances, as directly optimizing the perturbations to minimize the increase in the BER yields much better performance compared to using $L_p$-norm-constrained perturbations. In image classification, we propose to use the structural similarity index (SSIM) to measure the effects of adversarial perturbations applied to images. We show that using SSIM can avoid considering adversarial images of low visual quality, and can have a significant effect in assessing the performance of adversarial attack and defense schemes. As an example, we show that even state-of-the-art defense methods can be completely broken using only high-quality adversarial examples for the CIFAR-10 dataset. We also demonstrate that the use of SSIM-filtered attacks can significantly improve the performance of adversarial training of neural networks against large perturbations. Extensive experimental results are provided that demonstrate the viability of our proposed approaches, in particular the use of problem-specific quality measures, in wireless communication and image classification.
Interactions, correlations and collective behaviour in non-equilibrium systems
Creators: name: Garcia Millan, Rosalba
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Non-equilibrium systems, which usually involve a large number of interacting particles, are ubiquitous in nature and society. Interactions, such as volume exclusion or branching, induce correlations in the system and often translate into emergent collec- tive behaviour at macroscopic scales. This is the case, for instance, in active matter, where particles are subject to local non-thermal forces that are transformed into mechanical work. Establishing the relationship between macroscopic patterns and microscopic dynamics analytically is a challenge that has motivated different approaches in the community. In this thesis I have focused on some statistical properties with an emphasis on correlations, both spatial and temporal, of six different non-equilibrium particle systems: the Oslo rice pile model, branching processes and applications, the voter model, and run-and-tumble motion. The first three systems display critical phenomena and the last one is an instance of active motility. The approaches that I have followed are, on the one hand, one-to-one mappings between different, known, stochastic processes and, on the other hand, the Doi-Peliti field theory formalism. The point in common between both approaches is the ability to retain the particle entity, which proves essential when tackling observables that strongly depend on the microscopic dynamics of the system, such as correlation functions. However, the field-theoretic approach is much more systematic, as it becomes apparent in the applicability of this route to different kinds of reaction-diffusion particle systems.
The implications of the Paris Agreement on Electric Power Systems Transitions: technoeconomic and sociopolitical assessments of the United Kingdom and Nigeria
Creators: name: Daggash, Habiba Ahut
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The electrification of the global energy system is cited as necessary to transform economies away from fossil fuel dependence at least-cost because of increasingly cheap intermittent renewable energy sources (iRES). Consequently, power sector decarbonisation is expected to be critical to delivering the Paris Agreement which seeks to limit global warming to "well-below 2°C" by 2100. Integrated Assessment Models that assess global decarbonisation pathways fail to do so at national-scale. This thesis investigates the power system transitions needed to meet the UK and Nigeria’s commitments to the Paris accord. For the UK, we find that the least-cost systems that deliver decarbonisation are dominated by baseload and dispatchable low-carbon generation complemented by carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, with limited expansion of iRES. It was found that CDR deployment could reduce decarbonisation costs by up to 48%. In the long-term, centralised systems consisting of large-scale thermal generation (mostly CCS) and extensive transmission infrastructure are cost-optimal, thus current policies pursuing decentralisation may lead to overbuilt and obsolete systems. For Nigeria, we find that the least-cost systems are dominated by natural gas and hydroelectric generation. Such a system was found to have emissions that were significantly lower than the power sector’s carbon budget. This surplus carbon budget could be traded to offset the emissions of other sectors or countries via carbon offsetting mechanisms. The UK utilises expensive CDR to meet its targets, however the purchase of emissions offsets from developing countries such as Nigeria could prove cheaper, and be a vital source of financing for developing countries. In both countries, iRES were found to play a non-central role in meeting NDCs. Their low availability and variability means that significant capacity coupled with energy storage is required and this proves particularly costly in a context where both power generation and CDR are required.
bioinfo-pf-curie/biogitflow: version-1.0.0
Creators: name: Choumouss Kamoun
name: Roméjon, Julien
name: Soyres, Henri De
name: Gallois, Apolline
name: Girard, Elodie
name: Hupé, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: development workflow
bioinformatics pipeline
quality management
healthcare

description: version-1.0.0 Development worklow protocols for bioinformatics pipelines with git and gitlab
From cookstoves to smart homes: examining the social dynamics of household energy behaviour
Creators: name: Furszyfer Del Rio, Dylan Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: This PhD examines the social dynamics of household energy behaviour through a mixed methods approach. First, through an extensive literature review analysis from 2013 to 2017, it overviews the current knowledge to identify what behaviour change techniques are the most successful for the uptake and maintained use of improved cookstoves. This research also addresses a set of policy recommendations and assesses academic gaps in the literature. Second, based on an original dataset involving expert interviews, site visits to retailers, and a comprehensive review of the literature, this PhD examines the promises and perils of smart home technologies. Drawing on original data collected in the United Kingdom, it later examines current definitions of smart homes and provides 267 specific options commercially available from 113 companies to provide a new classification of smart technology, structured into 13 categories. Then, this PhD situates these technology categories alongside six levels of smartness, from basic or traditional homes to fully automated and sentient homes. Under this benchmark, it discusses 13 distinct benefits and 17 risks and barriers for smart homes to introduce seven policy recommendations and 15 emerging business models. Third, through a rigorous mixed methods research design, comprised of a nationally representative survey in the United Kingdom (n=1,032) and focus groups in London, Manchester, and Surrey (n=18 respondents) this thesis identifies the gendered nature of smart homes across five different dimensions (1) knowledge, awareness, and adoption patterns; (2) housekeeping and daily domestic life; (3) environmental sustainability; (4) trust and risk tolerance; and (5) emotions and feelings. Additionally, this research explores the extent that smart home technologies can act as potential enablers of domestic abuse and as enablers of conflict within households. It concludes with policy implications as well as how these findings point the way towards future research.
Learned representations for real-time monocular SLAM
Creators: name: Czarnowski, Jan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The presence of robotic products in our lives is steadily increasing, with the first commercial home and industrial robots becoming available on the market. While existing systems mostly rely on robust spatial navigation in order to fulfil their roles, one can easily imagine more useful and harder tasks to automate. In order to perform these tasks autonomously, robots need to be able to understand the geometry and the structure of their surroundings. While this can be achieved using a range of different sensors, monocular cameras are the most costeffective, ubiquitous and interesting from the research perspective. The most popular technique used for recovering 3D geometric information from monocular imagery is Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). While traditional landmark-based SLAM systems have demonstrated high levels of accuracy and robustness for trajectory estimation, the maps produced by them do not provide enough information about the environment to enable interactive robotics. State of the art dense SLAM methods allow obtaining rich scene reconstructions but are fragile and suffer from a number of limitations. A particular problem is the lack of an efficient representation for the observed scenes. Current methods use over-parametrised and geometry-focused representations of the environment, which do not make use of the inherent semantic structure of man-made environments so easily discovered and exploited by human brains. This thesis aims to explore the recent advances in the field of deep learning in order to address these issues with dense SLAM. New representations based on neural networks are proposed in order to enable more efficient and robust reasoning about the observed scenes. We also demonstrate novel SLAM systems that make use of these representations, pointing towards the next generation of SLAM research.