cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Greenwash: Agrosprit und der Palmölboom in Südostasien
Creators: name: Pye, Oliver
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Entscheidung der Europäischen Union, bindende Ziele für Agrotreibstoffe im Transportsektor festzulegen, wird den Palmölboom in Südostasien zusätzlich anheizen. Doch auf wessen Kosten?
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (2009): Stromschlag: Alternative Energien versus Ölpreisschock
Samfundsmæssig nytte af bedre trafiksignaler
Creators: name: Lauritzen, Steen Merlach
name: Jørgensen, Lars
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2009

description: I de senere år har Vejdirektoratet haft fokus på betydningen af, at vore trafiksignaler er veltrimmede i forhold til de krav som trafikken stiller med hensyn til god fremkommelighed. God fremkommelighed betyder mindre forsinkelse, færre stop, højere rejsehastighed og sidst men ikke mindst reduceret brændstofforbrug og mindre udslip af skadelige stoffer. Vejdirektoratet har gennemført en undersøgelse, der omfatter dels et litteraturstudium, dels en række simuleringer af fritliggende og samordnede signalanlæg. På baggrund af en spørge- skemaundersøgelse blandt danske vejforvaltninger, hvor omfanget af forskellige typer af signalanlæg er klarlagt, er det samlede potentiale for forbedringer mht. forsinkelse og brændstofforbrug søgt opgjort.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Synthesis and Reactivity of Aluminium Complexes Featuring Lutidine-Based Pincer Ligands
Creators: name: Shaves, Chloe Louise
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2025

description: The synthesis and reactivity of several aluminium complexes supported by distinct pyridine-based pincer ligand scaffolds, one with neutral phosphine arms and the other with anionic amide arms, have been reported in this thesis.

description:

description: Chapter 3 reports the preparation and structural characterisation of dearomatised aluminium complexes supported by the tBuPNP* scaffold. The direct addition of AlMe3 and Me3N.AlH3 to the tBuPNP scaffold resulted in the coordination of the aluminium centre to phosphorus forming (tBuPNP).2AlMe3 (III) and the nucleophilic attack of the hydride at the pyridine ring forming {(C5H4N)(CH2P(tBu)2)2}AlH2 (VI). The preparation of complexes of the type (tBuPNP*)AlR2 (R = Me or H) was achieved by a two-step route: deprotonation of the tBuPNP ligand followed by the addition of 2.0 eq. of either AlMe3 or Me3N.AlH3 to yield (tBuPNP*)AlR2 (R = Me (V), H (VII)). Additionally, the in-situ preparation of the cation [(tBuPNP*)AlMe]+, by the addition of B(C6F5)3 to V was tentatively suggested by NMR spectroscopy.

description:

description: Chapter 4 reports the preparation and structural characterisation of aluminium complexes supported by the dianionic DippNNN scaffold. The direct addition of Me3N.AlH3 or AlMe3 to the protonated DippNNN.H2 ligand yielded the complexes (DippNNN)Al(X)L (X = H, L = THF; X = Me, L = vacant). Additionally, the THF-stabilised iodide analogue (DippNNN)Al(I)THF was prepared by alkyl-halide exchange with the aluminium methyl complex. The unusual square planar four-coordinate aluminium methyl complex was shown to remain Lewis acidic, both experimentally binding THF and Et3P=O and computationally, due to the presence of a vacant orbital located principally on aluminium. Further experimental and theoretical studies revealed that all of the complexes (DippNNN)Al(X)L function as Lewis acids.

description:

description: The research detailed in chapter 5 builds upon the preceding chapter and is focussed on investigating the reactivity of the Lewis acidic aluminium complexes supported by the DippNNN scaffold. The reactivity of the complexes (DippNNN)Al(X)L with carbonyl-containing substrates was explored. The aluminium methyl complex was shown to react via differing metal-ligand cooperative pathways depending on the substrate e.g. enolisable and non-enolisable ketones. Furthermore, both the methyl and THF-stabilised hydride complexes were able to catalyse the hydroboration of ketones and an ester. Remarkably, the methyl complex was also able to catalyse the reduction of CO2 to a methanol equivalent.
Assembling agent oriented software engineering methodologies from features
Creators: name: Juan, Thomas
name: Sterling, Leon
name: Winikoff, Michael
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper we describe our effort to merge two existing AOSE methodologies, Prometheus and ROADMAP, by isolating a set of general purpose common elements. The remaining parts of the two methodologies are componentized into special purpose 'value-adding' features. This approach empowers the developer to assemble a methodology tailored to the given project (the application domain) by adding appropriate features to the common elements. The assembled methodology can be modified during development to support changing aspects of the system.
Variable hastighedstavler
Creators: name: Pedersen, Laura Sand
Publisher: name: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Year: 2009

description: Variable hastighedstavler ses flere steder anvendt som et hastighedsreducerende tiltag i kryds, hvor der er blevet udpeget sorte pletter som følge af for høj hastighed. I undersøgelsen er ha- stighedsdata fra tre kryds langs rute 26, hvor Vejdirektoratet i 2008/2009 har opsat variable hastighedstavler (Vejdirektoratet 2007, 2008a, 2008b), blevet analyseret, hvorved det har været muligt at dokumentere en effekt af de variable hastighedstavler. Der er i effektundersøgelsen af variable hastighedstavler redegjort for undersøgelser fra England, Sverige og Danmark. Disse undersøgelser har vist, at der kunne opnås en reduktion i middelhastighederne på op til 15 km/t og i hastighederne ved 85 %-fraktilerne på op til 9 km/t. Undersøgelserne viste også, at det var muligt at reducere antallet af tilskadekomne som følge af de variable tavler (Winnett og Wheeler 2002, Herrstedt og la Cour Lund 2006, Lind- kvist et al. 2006, Rosenstand 2008). I analysen af de variable hastighedstavler ved de tre betragtede kryds langs rute 26 er der foretaget en sammenligning af de målte hastigheder, før systemerne blev taget i brug med efter- perioden i situationer, hvor tavlerne er hhv. tændte eller slukkede. De variable tavler blev etableret ved krydsene inden før-data blev indsamlet, hvorved det også har været mulig at undersøge effekten af de variable hastighedstavler ved slukket og tændt tavle, både i førperioden, hvor tavlerne var ikke var synlige for trafikanterne og i efterperioden, hvor de var synlige. I før-perioden har tavlerne været dækket til for trafikanterne. Analysen af de tre kryds langs rute 26 viste, at det som følge af brugen af variable hastighedstavler var muligt at reducere middelhastighederne med op til 9 km/t. Det var desuden muligt at reducere 85 % fraktilen med op til 12 km/t. Alle hastighedsreduktionerne var signifikante. Ved at anvende Powermodellen viste analysen også, at det var muligt at reducere antallet af tilskadekomne som følge af de variable tavler.
description: Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2009): Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University
Essays on Panel Data Econometrics
Creators: name: HIGGINS, AYDEN
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: The central theme of this thesis is the development of econometric methods for panel data models. It is comprised of two main chapters: `Shrinkage Estimation of Network Spillovers with Factor Structured Errors' and `Fixed T Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects'. The first of these chapters explores the estimation of a panel data model with cross-sectional interaction, which assumes there are different sources of information available on a network, represented in the form of multiple weights matrices. A penalised quasi-maximum likelihood estimator is proposed which aims to alleviate the risk of network misspecification, by shrinking the coefficients of irrelevant weights matrices to exactly zero. Moreover, controlling for unobserved factors in estimation provides a safeguard against the misspecification that might arise from unobserved heterogeneity. The estimator is shown to be consistent and selection consistent as both n and T tend to infinity, and its limiting distribution is characterised. The method is applied to study the prevalence of network spillovers in determining growth rates across countries. The second of these chapters explores the estimation of a dynamic linear panel data model with interactive fixed effects, and in which one dimension of the panel, typically time, may be fixed. By exploiting the invariance properties of this model, a new estimation approach is introduced which reduces the model to a lower dimension, and in doing so, removes the incidental parameter problem from the cross-section. In the simplest case, transforming the model and then applying the principal component estimator of Bai (2009) yields root-n consistent estimates with T fixed. Moreover, with T fixed, the estimator is asymptotically unbiased in the presence of cross-sectional dependence, serial dependence and with the inclusion of dynamic regressors. The properties of the estimator with large n and large T are also studied, where many of these results carry over in the case in which n is growing sufficiently fast relative to T.
An Epistemic Approach to Statistical Fairness
Creators: name: Schechtman, Kara
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: algorithmic fairness
statistical fairness
accuracy-based epistemology

description: Predictive algorithms are used across a wide variety of settings in order to inform consequential decisionmaking about people’s lives, ranging from pretrial detention decisions in the criminal justice system to surgical intervention decisions in medical contexts. With the increasing deployment of these algorithms comes the risk that they could make unfair predictions along race or gender lines. A popular method to audit these algorithms for such biases employs measures called “statistical fairness criteria.” Strikingly, many of these criteria are impossible to satisfy at once—a result sometimes called the “impossibility of fairness,” for it illuminates an apparently tragic choice between honoring different, intuitive conceptions of fairness. This thesis argues that this interpretation of the impossibility result is, in one sense, too pessimistic, and in another, too optimistic, with both arguments driven by connecting statistical fairness to accuracy-based epistemology. On the one hand, through analyzing its connection to accuracy, I argue one statistical fairness criterion is ill-formulated; reforming it resolves the tension between two of the most prominent statistical fairness criteria. On the other hand, though, the same connection demonstrates how statistical properties give a limited conception of fairness: they only capture salient fairness concerns insofar as accuracy matters to fairness, which in many cases, may not be very much at all.
Wo ein Wille, da ein Weg: Ein Überblick zu erneuerbaren Energien in Südostasien
Creators: name: Willer, Ragnar K.
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Der Autor gibt einen Überblick über die Marktlage und die politischen Rahmenbedingungen in ausgewählten Ländern Südostasiens und versucht zu erklären, warum trotz vorteilhafter klimatischer Bedingungen die Photovoltaik und die Solarthermie bisher Projekten überwunden haben.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (2009): Stromschlag: Alternative Energien versus Ölpreisschock
Nicht ganz auf der Höhe der Zeit: Energiepolitik in Südostasien
Creators: name: Maier, Jürgen
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Das Auf und Ab der Öl- und Energiepreise hält die Weltwirtschaft in Atem, und wechselseitig lösen die Preis-Höhenflüge Wirtschaftskrisen in den Energieimportländern und die Talfahrten Wirtschaftskrisen in den Energie-Exportländern aus.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (2009): Stromschlag: Alternative Energien versus Ölpreisschock
Ceramic coatings for small modular reactors
Creators: name: Williamson, Edward H.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: In the nuclear sector, ceramic coatings can be applied to reactor components such as bearings and bolts to improve durability. Historically, electrodeposited hard chromium plate (HCP) has been used to provide wear and corrosion resistance in reactor environments. As a result of regulation changes and adverse health effects associated with Cr(VI), the use of HCP will soon be heavily restricted. Therefore, candidate ceramic materials have been identified which could match or improve upon the performance of HCP as the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor is developed. After a detailed materials selection process, ceramic coatings of Cr2O3, WC-(W,Cr)2C-Ni, Cr3C2-NiCr, CrN and CrAlN thermally sprayed or electron beam physical vapour deposited on to substrates of Inconel 625 were acquired. HCP, also deposited on Inconel 625, using electrodeposition was obtained for comparison. Tests to emulate nuclear reactor conditions including irradiation, corrosion and sliding wear were devised and undertaken to provide an initial screening programme for the candidate materials. A preliminary study into the irradiation performance used implanted ions, as surrogates for neutrons, with the HCP and Cr3C2-NiCr coatings showing no discernible damage in terms of peak shifts or broadening. Corrosion performance was also initially assessed, using a high temperature, high pressure autoclave, filled with simulated nuclear reactor coolant water. The Cr3C2-NiCr and CrN coatings were the least affected by this corrosive environment, as assessed by mass loss. The sliding wear performance of the coatings was examined in greater detail using an Inconel 625 ball undergoing reciprocating motion on a flat coating counterface under dry conditions, as well as in deionised water and simulated nuclear reactor coolant water environments, all at room temperature. Two wear rate analysis methods (mass loss and optical profilometry) were compared and were found to provide complementary information. Of the coatings, Cr2O3 was found to have the highest wear resistance, with no particle pull-out, likely due to its homogenous microstructure. Overall, the results from this initial screening programme indicated that the candidate coatings were unable to match the performance of HCP across all three testing regimes of irradiation, corrosion and wear. The Cr2O3 coating had the best overall performance in irradiation and wear testing but there were potential concerns over its resistance to pitting corrosion. The Cr3C2-NiCr coating was shown to offer comparable irradiation and corrosion performance to HCP and could be considered for use in applications where wear performance is not as critical. In addition to the outcomes for specific coatings, the study highlighted some key factors for further testing, such as the importance of using borated water in wear testing and the benefit of X-ray photon electron spectroscopy in providing additional information regarding wear mechanisms.
Using Linked Data to track processes of canonization in early modern Dutch literature
Creators: name: Nijboer, Harm
name: Van Deinsen, Lieke
name: Brouwer, Judith
name: Van Wissen, Leon
name: Blom, Frans
name: Van Strien, Ton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This presentation is about a pilot project in which we linked five web resources in order to get a firmer grip on processes of canonization in Dutch literature in the early eighteenth century. The project centers around the Panpoëticon Batavûm, an early eighteenth century portrait gallery of Dutch writers, initiated by the painter Arnoud van Halen (1673-1732) and continued by others. This hall of fame provides an early example of the historical canonization of Dutch writers. And data analysis might help to get new insights or more robust conclusions about the logic behind this process of canonization. As a collection the Panpoëticon is no longer intact, but it has been digitally reconstructed as a website. We created a RDF representation of this website and combined these data with data derived from the DBNL, Ecartico, Onstage and the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands. Using these combined data sets we can for instance investigate whether the Panpoëticon reflects the popularity of playwrights in the Amsterdam Theatre and vice versa, but we can also address potential geographical and sociocultural biases in the Panpoëticon. Besides generating new insights in processes of canonization in early modern Dutch literature, the project aims to provide a working example of the synergy that can be achieved by combining multiple data sets using Semantic Web technology.
Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) – a Pan Canadian cohort study
Creators: name: Anand, Sonia S.
name: Tu, Jack V.
name: Awadalla, Philip
name: Black, Sandra
name: Boileau, Catherine
name: Busseuil, David
name: Desai, Dipika
name: Després, Jean-Pierre
name: De Souza, Russell J.
name: Dummer, Trevor J. B.
name: Jacquemont, Sébastien
name: Knoppers, Bartha
name: Larose, Eric
name: Lear, Scott A.
name: Marcotte, Francois
name: Moody, Alan R.
name: Parker, Louise
name: Poirier, Paul
name: Robson, Paula J.
name: Smith, Eric E.
name: Spinelli, John, 1955-
name: Tardif, Jean-Claude
name: Teo, Koon K.
name: Tusevljak, Natasa
name: Friedrich, Matthias G.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: The Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) is a pan-Canadian, prospective, multi-ethnic cohort study being conducted in Canada. The overarching objective of the CAHHM is to understand the association of socio-environmental and contextual factors (such as societal structure, activity, nutrition, social and tobacco environments, and access to health services) with cardiovascular risk factors, subclinical vascular disease, and cardiovascular and other chronic disease outcomes. Methods/Design: Participants between 35 and 69 years of age are being recruited from existing cohorts and a new First Nations Cohort to undergo a detailed assessment of health behaviours (including diet and physical activity), cognitive function, assessment of their local home and workplace environments, and their health services access and utilization. Physical measures including weight, height, waist/hip circumference, body fat percentage, and blood pressure are collected. In addition, eligible participants undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, heart, carotid artery and abdomen to detect early subclinical vascular disease and ectopic fat deposition. Discussion: CAHHM is a prospective cohort study designed to investigate the impact of community level factors, individual health behaviours, and access to health services, on cognitive function, subclinical vascular disease, fat distribution, and the development of chronic diseases among adults living in Canada.
Asienhaus-Bibliothek: Neueingänge
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Neues aus dem Asienhaus
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Ebola virus disease and critical illness
Creators: name: Leligdowicz, Aleksandra
name: Fischer, William A
name: Uyeki, Timothy M
name: Fletcher, Thomas E
name: Adhikari, Neill K J
name: Portella, Gina
name: Lamontagne, Francois
name: Clement, Christophe
name: Jacob, Shevin T
name: Rubinson, Lewis
name: Vanderschuren, Abel
name: Hajek, Jan
name: Murthy, Srinivas
name: Ferri, Mauricio
name: Crozier, Ian
name: Ibrahima, Elhadj
name: Lamah, Marie-Claire
name: Schieffelin, John S
name: Brett-Major, David
name: Bausch, Daniel G
name: Shindo, Nikki
name: Chan, Adrienne K
name: O’Dempsey, Tim
name: Mishra, Sharmistha
name: Jacobs, Michael
name: Dickson, Stuart
name: Lyon, G. M
name: Fowler, Robert A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: As of 20 May 2016 there have been 28,646 cases and 11,323 deaths resulting from the West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak reported to the World Health Organization. There continue to be sporadic flare-ups of EVD cases in West Africa. EVD presentation is nonspecific and characterized initially by onset of fatigue, myalgias, arthralgias, headache, and fever; this is followed several days later by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Anorexia and gastrointestinal losses lead to dehydration, electrolyte abnormalities, and metabolic acidosis, and, in some patients, acute kidney injury. Hypoxia and ventilation failure occurs most often with severe illness and may be exacerbated by substantial fluid requirements for intravascular volume repletion and some degree of systemic capillary leak. Although minor bleeding manifestations are common, hypovolemic and septic shock complicated by multisystem organ dysfunction appear the most frequent causes of death. Males and females have been equally affected, with children (0–14 years of age) accounting for 19 %, young adults (15–44 years) 58 %, and older adults (≥45 years) 23 % of reported cases. While the current case fatality proportion in West Africa is approximately 40 %, it has varied substantially over time (highest near the outbreak onset) according to available resources (40–90 % mortality in West Africa compared to under 20 % in Western Europe and the USA), by age (near universal among neonates and high among older adults), and by Ebola viral load at admission. While there is no Ebola virus-specific therapy proven to be effective in clinical trials, mortality has been dramatically lower among EVD patients managed with supportive intensive care in highly resourced settings, allowing for the avoidance of hypovolemia, correction of electrolyte and metabolic abnormalities, and the provision of oxygen, ventilation, vasopressors, and dialysis when indicated. This experience emphasizes that, in addition to evaluating specific medical treatments, improving the global capacity to provide supportive critical care to patients with EVD may be the greatest opportunity to improve patient outcomes.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Breininger, Lilli
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Cluster CMDs from N-body simulations: stellar and binary evolution on GRAPE
Creators: name: Hurley, Jarrod
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Colour-Magnitude diagram (CMD) is an important observational tool for use in the study of star clusters. Thus it is important to include a consistent treatment of stellar aid binary evolution in N-body codes to allow the generation and interaction of the full range of stellar populations. In this way realistic cluster models can be compared with observed cluster populations via the respective CMDs. Preliminary results of such an approach using the Aarseth NBODY4 code on the CRAPE-6 are presented here. In particular, by using a stellar evolution algorithm that includes metallicity as a free parameter, the stellar populations of clusters at various stages of evolution can be studied. Interesting formation cases directly influenced by the cluster environment are highlighted for various stellar sub-populations.
Artificial Emotions: Exploring Perceptions about the Emotional Capabilities of AI
Creators: name: Amir-Lobel, Danielle
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Artifical intelligence
Large language models
Human-computer interaction
Message production
Emotion
Biased beliefs
ChatGPT

description: Large language models such as ChatGPT are being increasingly applied in personal and professional settings to facilitate interpersonal communication. Nevertheless, people’s subjective perceptions about AI usage and its capabilities are not well understood—and these potentially flawed perceptions will determine how and in which settings AI tools are applied. Previous research indicates that, despite its objective capabilities, people may not believe that AI models can be viable tools for emotional expression, viewing emotions as unique to humans. This paper explores how beliefs about AI usage in textual production affects subjective perceptions of the resulting text. In two iterations of a novel experiment, I consistently find that people perceive a text they believe was AI-generated as performing significantly worse in affect-related attributes than the same text when they believe it was human-generated. Subsequently, these biased beliefs influence the improvements and edits people suggest. These findings highlight how people have negatively biased beliefs about AI’s emotional capabilities. This increased understanding of nuanced beliefs involved in human-AI interaction can help inform technology and policy design such that AI is leveraged appropriately and effectively.
Power to the People? Erneuerbare Energien in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Breininger, Lilli
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Das Jahresseminar des philippinenbüros brachte vom 27. bis 29. März 2009 ein interessiertes Publikum zusammen und lieferte vielseitige Einblicke.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Seepferdchen und Carabao treffen auf Familie Ayala-Zobel und José Rizal: Gibt es nicht? Dann fehlen einem diese Einblicke in die Philippinen!
Creators: name: Reckordt, Michael
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesrpechung von: Wolfgang Bethge, Die Philippinen. Einblicke in Natur, Kultur, Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Shaker Medien, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86858-196-6.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Spendenkanäle neigen zur Verstopfung – Ein Erfahrungsbericht: Viele gut gemeinte Spenden für die Bedürftigen in der »Dritten Weit« drohen zweckentfremdet zu werden
Creators: name: Gebhardt, Wilfried
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die medizinische Versorgung der philippinischen Provinz Occidental Mindoro ist sehr schlecht. Eine Medikamentenspende von der Pfarrgemeinde St. Norbert (Duisburg) ist wie eine Bombe eingeschlagen. Dazu folgende reale Geschichte aus der praktischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Ich schreibe diese ausführliche Geschichte, um darzustellen, wie schnell wohlwollende Spenden im Dickicht von Korruption und Bereicherung der Eliten verschwinden können.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Nachhaltige Armut in den Philippinen – Auch Entwicklungsprojekte haben es nicht vermocht, die Armut zu lindern
Creators: name: Agana, Rey
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Seit ihrer Unabhängigkeit vor über fünf Jahrzehnten empfangen die Philippinen ausländische Entwicklungshilfsgelder aus zahlreichen Ländern und es gibt keine Zeichen, dass sich das Land aus seinem Empfängerstatus befreien kann.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Babbage in Babylon: Pioneering Deep Learning Approaches to Sumerian Cuneiform
Creators: name: Simmons, Cole
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: sumerian
cuneiform
NLP
deep learning
transliteration

description: To date, archaeologists have unearthed more than 120,000 Sumerian texts, a corpus which reflects both the apparent origins of writing itself as well as a rich written tradition spanning three millennia. Reading Sumerian, however, requires years of specialized training. With such an abundance of texts and so few specialists able to read them, many texts have not been read. Few have been translated. This thesis explores the promise of deep learning-based tooling in accelerating the reading of, and facilitating non-specialist engagement with, Sumerian cuneiform.

Approaching the reading process as a series of NLP tasks has previously been limited by a lack of well-structured, accessible datasets. To that end, I publicly release three novel datasets: SumTablets, SumTablets_Photos, and SumTablets_English. I then train and evaluate two language models: The first model predicts obfuscated glyphs with an accuracy of 80%; the second model performs automated transliteration, achieving a state-of-the-art average character-level F-score (chrF) of 97.55. In releasing datasets, modeling tasks, and establishing baseline performance, this work lays the foundation for a new approach to Assyriology, where cutting-edge advances in deep learning enable rapid, accurate parsing of the world's most ancient texts.
Innovative Wege aus der Armut – Erfolge eines nachhaltigen Landwirtschaftsmodells, das von philippinischen Bäuerinnen und Bauern entwickelt wurde
Creators: name: Mertineit, Anja
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Das UN-Milleniumsziel, den Hunger weltweit bis 2015 zu halbieren, ist mit den Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre in weite Ferne gerückt. Durch die Nahrungsmittelkrise mit ihrem Höhepunkt im Frühjahr 2008 musste die FAO {Food and Agricultural Organization) die lange gültige Zahl von schätzungsweise 850 Millionen Hungernden im Jahr 2008 auf über 960 Millionen nach oben korrigieren. Fast eine Milliarde Menschen hungern weltweit, die Mehrzahl im ländlichen Raum - paradoxerweise also dort, wo die Nahrung produziert wird.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Ein bisschen Frieden, ein bisschen Wohlstand: Die europäische Entwicklungspolitik in Mindanao zwischen Terrorismus- und Armutsbekämpfung
Creators: name: Khittel, Stefan
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die an Rohstoffen so reiche Insel Mindanao gilt heute als das Armenhaus der Philippinen, vor allem die von Moros (Muslimen) und Lumads (Indigenen) bewohnten Gebiete weisen statistisch wenig erbauliche Sozialindizes auf.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Schwerpunktthemen deutscher Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) – Aktuelle Trends in den Philippinen
Creators: name: Lange, Andreas
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Im Gegensatz zu den erfolgreichen Tigerstaaten Asiens gleichen die Philippinen eher einer streunenden Katze. Die Philippinen starteten mit hervorragenden Ausgangsbedingungen nach 1946 in die Unabhängigkeit. Spätestens seit den 1960er Jahren manifestierten sich jedoch erhebliche Entwicklungsblockaden.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Gefahren und Tücken von Hilfsprojekten – Sieben von zehn Projekten der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit verfehlen ihr Ziel
Creators: name: Landingin, Roel R.
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Wenigstens sieben von zehn Projekten Öffentlicher Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Official Development Assistance - ODA) verfehlen ihre angekündigten Ziele, wie eine Studie des Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) herausgefunden hat.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
The role of students as hosts to VFR travellers : towards a conceptual framework.
Creators: name: Munoz, Julio R.
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2020

description: Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) is one of the largest yet most neglected travel segments in tourism research. In particular, little is known about the ways in which hosts and visitors affect each other’s experiences from a quantitative perspective. This PhD project tackles this gap by developing a conceptual framework for the understanding of hosts-guests interactions looking especially at the way hosts’ affect their visitors’ experience. To achieve this goal a sequential mixed-methods approach in two stages (qualitative -> QUANTITIVE) was used to research the population of students at the University of Surrey. Consequently, the study began with a series of 14 semi-structured interviews (1st stage), in order to explore the phenomenon in Guildford and provide the context for the framework. The findings from the first stage, together with further review of the literature led to including four main constructs in the model. These are: hosts’ destination knowledge, destination image, motivation to host and visitors’ experience. The second stage consisted of a survey completed by 458 groups of hosts and their visitors that measured these constructs and tested the model using Structure Equation Model (SEM). The results suggest the model fits well with the data providing insights about the relationships between the constructs. For example, it was found that there is a virtuous circle of interactions between the host’s constructs and that destination image could be transferred from residents to visitors as generally assumed in literature. Overall, the model together with its interpretation and theoretical support provides the first conceptual framework for the understanding of the way hosts affect their visitors’ experience. These findings aid in the understanding of the internal dynamics of the VFR phenomenon filling a crucial gap in literature and helping Destination Marketing Organizations to better manage the VFR market through their local residents (the hosts).
Bayesian Methods Tutorials for Psychological Research
Creators: name: Fischer, Julia Rose
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bayesian methods
probabilistic modeling
tutorials
psychology education
metascience

description: Methods for collecting psychologically relevant data and modeling these data are rapidly advancing. Bayesian statistical methods have emerged as a set of particularly useful techniques, both within cognitive psychology and more broadly in psychological science. Thus, it is important for psychology researchers to have a sound understanding of these methods. In this honors thesis, I first identify pedagogical gaps in the teaching of Bayesian methods. I also describe the theoretical underpinnings of the Bayesian approach and provide justification for its use in psychological research. I then outline three prominent applied Bayesian methods that help illuminate psychological phenomena: Bayesian parameter estimation, Bayesian networks, and Bayesian cognitive modeling. Next, I detail my development of a set of online Bayesian methods tutorials designed to be accessible to those conducting psychology research. Finally, I present an empirical study of the educational value of a tutorial on Bayesian parameter estimation, as assessed by undergraduate (N = 100) and graduate (N = 5) students. Participants completed a pre-tutorial survey of their existing knowledge of statistical methods, read through the tutorial, and completed a post-tutorial survey reassessing their knowledge and evaluating their subjective perceptions of the tutorial. The findings suggest that students generally find the tutorial useful, especially the visual elements, and report that it increases their familiarity with relevant Bayesian concepts.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Groß, Stefanie
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Circular RNAs as biomarkers for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Limb, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2024
Subjects: circular RNA
Biomarkers
Pancreatic Cancer

description: Introduction: Effective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) biomarkers are urgently needed for early diagnosis and prognosis. Circular RNAs (circRNAs), characterised by their circular structure and regulatory potential, have emerged as promising candidates due to their stability and abundance. This study aimed to explore circRNA expression in PDAC cell lines and human blood for potential biomarker application.Methods: PDAC cell lines were analysed via microarray to establish circRNA, micro RNA, and messenger RNA expression patterns. A novel bioinformatical pipeline was used to identify potential circRNA candidates. Circularity was confirmed by RNAse R resistance and results validated. Total RNA sequencing of clinical samples, including plasma and exosome components, elucidated circRNA expression patterns in patient biomaterials. A PDAC patient biobank was established, with ongoing recruitment of patients for molecular research.Results: Significant differences in circRNA expression between PDAC and benign cell lines were observed. Six candidates were highlighted for validation, three of which were associated with the TADA2A cluster. These circRNAs all exhibited resistance to RNAse R. A large volume of circRNAs were expressed in plasma and exosomes, and these were more abundant than linear homologs. However, limited sample size hindered differential expression analysis among patients.Conclusions: This study introduces a novel pipeline for circRNA research in cells. Despite small sample sizes, circRNAs showed promise as blood-based biomarkers due to their abundance and stability in plasma and exosomes. Further investigation is warranted, with this research providing valuable preliminary data to support future funding and research endeavours.
Nachrichten
Creators: name: Arnez, Monika
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Nachrichten aus der Region.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Islam, Frauen und Politik
Creators: name: Großmann, Kristina
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Buchbesprechung von: Christine Holike, Der Einzug der Scharia in die regionale Gesetzgebung. regiospectra Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940132-04-8.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Competitive Options: Publication Game
Creators: name: Sornwanee, Thanawat
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: stochastic control
continuous-time game

description: We model a multi-agent decision making on the publication of research or innovation as a continuous- time game with simple information and action settings to capture the evolution of the strategy as time progresses. We provide theoretical and numerical analysis on the shift of the system such as by chang- ing the number of agents, and the friction in the publication attempt as well as the social welfare under the competition in the publication game.
Kandidaten, Koalitionen und einiges Chaos – Die Parlamentswahlen in Indonesien
Creators: name: Ziegenhain, Patrick
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Insgesamt 38 Parteien stritten sich um die 560 Sitze im indonesischen Parlament, doch am Ende siegte eine Person: der amtierende Präsident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Universitäre Eliteschmiede: Die ausgebildeten Führungskreise sollen eng mit den westlichen Vorstellungen von Sicherheit verbunden bleiben
Creators: name: Wandelt, Ingo
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Nationale Verteidigungsuniversität ist die erste Institution der internationalen Kooperation zur Reform des indonesischen Sicherheitssektors, mit der eine neue zivil-militärische Führungselite herangebildet werden soll.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet
Exploring Relationships between Socioeconomic Background and Urban Greenery in Portland, OR
Creators: name: Nesbitt, Lorien
name: Meitner, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Do urban residents experience societal benefits derived from urban forests equitably? We conducted a broad-scale spatial analysis of the relationship between urban greenery and socioeconomic factors in the Portland metropolitan area. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index was derived from National Agriculture Imagery Program images to map urban vegetation cover, and Outdoor Recreation and Conservation Area data were used to identify green spaces. These measures of urban greenery were correlated with census data to identify socioeconomic factors associated with high levels of green inequity. Population density, house age, income, and race were strongly correlated with vegetation cover. However, the distribution of green spaces showed a much weaker relationship with socioeconomic factors. These results highlight the importance of different measures of access to urban greenery and suggest potential solutions to the problem of urban green inequity. Cities can use our methods to conduct targeted urban forest management to maximize urban forest benefits received by residents.
Evaluating Cross-National Value Alignment in Large Language Models: Challenges and Limitations of Survey-Based Approaches
Creators: name: Qu, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: LLM
NLP
culture

description: Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit cultural biases, raising questions about their alignment with human values across different countries. This study examines the cross-national value alignment of LLMs, focusing on responses from the United States, China, and Egypt using the World Values Survey (WVS) dataset. We evaluate the alignment of LLM responses to national value distributions and analyze linguistic features such as point of view, justification, and hedging tendencies. Our findings reveal that LLMs display a default alignment towards US-centric values, with varying degrees of success in reflecting the values of other nations. Furthermore, we highlight the methodological challenges and potential ecological fallacies in applying survey-based cultural research to LLM evaluation. This research underscores the need for nuanced approaches in assessing and enhancing the cultural alignment of LLMs.
A semantic based decision support framework to enable model and data integration in multi-disciplinary domain: the case of biorefining
Creators: name: Koo, Minjee
Publisher: name: University of Surrey
Year: 2021

description: In consideration of the growing number of models and data distributed by various computer aided process engineering (CAPE) tools with various modelling assumptions and methods resulted in heterogeneity and they are prone to remain implicit to the modellers who created them. Therefore, this amplifies the problem of not only redundant work and further limits the potential of reusability of these models and data but also potential establishment of interoperability. For this reason, the importance of developing a better management of information regarding model and data in the CAPE community is recognised. In response to these challenges, the aim of this research is to contribute to the development of a decision support framework to manage the large number of available models and data and its heterogeneity, with a goal to enable interoperability between process models and/or data. The new techniques benefiting from semantic technology is introduced as a solution to provide a unified semantic framework to capture knowledge of the models and data in the domain of biorefining, and to promote reuse of these existing models and data. In addition, semantic modelling is used to depict all relevant concepts in an ontology by capturing the associations, ensuring the understanding of the exchanged knowledge during models and data interoperation. To enable automatic discovery of models and data to further support model and/or data integration, semantic algorithms are proposed as methods to quantify semantic relevance between different models and data. Such methodology is introduced as input/output matching that is a combination of the vector space modelling and graph modelling, whilst allowing partial matching. In vector space modelling, the properties of inputs and outputs of the model, and outputs of the data are converted into vectors and compared against the matching criteria. In graph modelling, the semantic captured in ontology is presented as a single graph to compute distance measurement to calculate similarity between concepts in the graph in order to propose a model or data to be integrated. This approach concomitantly supports the composition of the complex chains of models and data by recursive repetition of the backward matching process. Overall, this thesis presents a step forward toward a more flexible approach to the integration among the process models and data by improving search for decision making process using the application of semantic models, which are increasingly used.
Wald: Zutritt verboten? Klimapolitik und Armut in Indonesien
Creators: name: Heuvels, Maren
Publisher: name: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog
Year: 2018

description: Die Armut in Indonesien hat viele Gesichter: Die Zeitungsverkäufer und Warung-Betreiberinnen in den Großstädten, die Erntehelfer auf Java und Bali, die traditionellen Gemeinschaften in den Wäldern Kalimantans und Papuas und viele mehr.
description: südostasien – Zeitschrift für Politik • Kultur • Dialog, Bd. 25 Nr. 2 (2009): Ohne Moos nichts los? – Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Armutsbekämpfung kritisch betrachtet