cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Factors influencing role preferences in decision-making of healthy women with BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants : subanalysis from a randomised controlled decision coaching trial
Creators: name: Kautz-Freimuth, Sibylle
name: Shukri, Arim
name: Stracke, Claudia
name: Isselhard, Anna
name: Berger-Höger, Birte
name: Steckelberg, Anke
name: Vitinius, Frank
name: Dikow, Nicola
name: Kiechle, Marion
name: Meisel, Cornelia
name: Wöckel, Achim
name: Von Mackelenbergh, Marion Tina
name: Schmutzler, Rita
name: Rhiem, Kerstin E. M.
name: Stock, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background: Patients who actively engage in their medical decision-making processes can experience better health outcomes. This exploratory study aimed to identify predictors of preferred and actual roles in decision-making in healthy women with BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants (PVs). Methods: Women with BRCA1/2 PVs without a history of breast and/or ovarian cancer were recruited in six centres across Germany. Those returning the baseline questionnaires (T1) were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group (IG, CG). The IG completed a decision-coaching (DC) programme, the CG received standard care. A second survey (T2) followed after 12 weeks. Ordinal regression analyses were performed. Sociodemographic and outcome-related baseline variables were used to identify predictors of (i) desired role at T1 in the total group and (ii) actual role at T2 in the CG and the IG. Role preferences were measured with the Control Preferences Scale. Results: 389 women completed the baseline questionnaires, 191 were randomised to the CG and 198 to the IG. At T1, high decisional conflict (OR 1.016, 95% CI 1.001–1.023, p = 0.038) and a negative self-concept (OR 1.030, 95% CI 1.008–1.054, p = 0.009) were significant predictors for preferring a more passive role. At T2, high baseline decisional conflict significantly predicted taking a more passive role in the CG, whereas in the IG, baseline decisional conflict showed no influence. Furthermore, in the IG, younger age (OR 1.049, 95% CI 1.001–1.098, p = 0.044) and a non-academic education (OR 0.46, 95% CI 0.213–0.775, p = 0.006) were identified as significant predictors for taking a more active role. Conclusions: High initial decisional conflict was identified as an important predictor for preferring and taking a passive role in decision-making among women with BRCA1/2 PVs. Participating in the DC programme can counteract passivating effects of an initially high decisional conflict and particularly support younger PV carriers and those with lower educational status to take an active role. With this profile, the DC programme expands the existing counselling and care concept to include a measure that can also specifically cover the support needs of younger women and those with a lower education level.
Modular Robotic Reinforcement Learning Platform for Object Manipulation
Creators: name: Kurumbaparambil, Vishnudev
name: Rajanayagam, Subashkumar
name: Twieg, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: The field of robotics and autonomous systems has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, with an increasing focus on enhancing the capabilities of robotic agents through RL. This project centres around applying Reinforcement Learning techniques to do object manipulation tasks with a specific focus on making a robot arm reach a target object. Using a combination of Gazebo and Robot Operating System (ROS) environments, the robot arm is trained using custom OpenAI Gym environments to simulate the task. The primary objective involves positioning the end-effector of the robot arm close to a designated object and overcoming challenges such as self-collisions during movements. Various iterations of RL training, including different reward logics, curriculum learning approaches, and fine-tuning parameters, are explored to refine the decision-making capabilities of the agent. The training process of Curriculum Learning involves a phased approach, starting with basic movements and progressing to more complex tasks, demonstrating improved performance. However, challenges such as prolonged training times and uncertainties in arm behaviour persist. The project highlights the complexities inherent in designing effective RL strategies for robotic systems and stresses the need for further research to enhance computational efficiency and reliability in realworld applications.
Projecto para o Complexo de Educação Ambiental da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Espinho: Educação Ambiental e Cidadania: uma aplicação prática
Creators: name: Pinto, Tânia Isabel Ferreira
name: Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda
name: Santos, Paulo Talhadas Dos
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2010

description: Com a crescente consciencialização para as problemáticas ambientais, tornou-se imprescindível uma educação para todos que seja uma educação sobre o ambiente, no ambiente e para o ambiente. Naturalmente, a escola é um elemento fundamental na execução desta difícil tarefa.Este trabalho tem como principal objectivo a realização de um projecto para o Complexo de Educação Ambiental da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Espinho e surge como um suplemento às actividades escolares, apresentando um conjunto de metodologias diversificadas, desenvolvidas para aplicação na Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Espinho.O projecto aborda dois grandes temas: ambiente e cidadania. Estrutura-se sob o tema “Um dia com o Raposinho e o Ambiente” e consiste num percurso de actividades – a estufa; a horta, pomar e aromáticas; o rio; os animais; intergeracional – orientadas por uma raposa. Procura-se o desenvolvimento de uma relação próxima com a natureza, o meio ambiente, os animais e os espaços verdes. Estabelecem-se relações com pessoas de outras gerações, com uma cultura diferente. É necessário que as crianças de hoje, jovens de amanhã, mais do que terem a capacidade de adoptar comportamentos proambientais, realmente assumam tais comportamentos como um estilo de vida, um caminho para a sustentabilidade.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 2 n.º 2 (2010)
Features of Using Pumps in Turbine Mode
Creators: name: Dzhuraev, Kurbon
name: Abduaziz Uulu, Abdurauf
name: Shadibekova, Fotima
name: Mambetov, Azamat
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: One of the possible directions of using renewable energy sources to save fuel and energy resources in Uzbekistan is the use of the hydropower potential of small rivers. The cost of electricity generated at micro and small hydroelectric power plant is already lower than the cost of electricity generated at traditional types of power plants, including gas turbine, wind, nuclear power plant and thermal power plant. In addition, due to constantly rising energy prices, the cost of electricity at traditional power plants is constantly increasing. The use of the hydropower potential of small rivers will contribute to the decentralization of the integrated energy system and improve energy supply to remote and hard-to-reach rural areas. Analysis of literature sources shows that the use of serial pumps as hydraulic turbines is a successful alternative to the use of specially designed hydraulic turbines for mini and small hydroelectric power plant. To reliably use pumps as hydraulic turbines, manufacturers need to obtain experimental performance of pumps in turbine mode, which can help expand their markets and better utilize available hydraulic potential.
Compostagem doméstica em Educação Ambiental: potencial de uma abordagem holística
Creators: name: Carvalho, Sara
name: Lima, Nelson
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2010

description: Tomando como objecto de estudo projectos de Compostagem Doméstica (CD) no contexto escolar, este artigo apresenta uma análise do processo de implementaçãoactual de uma prática sustentável milenar. No momento em que a compostagem se expande pelas escolas do país, em especial no 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, tornou-se pertinente observar em profundidade experiências pedagógicas que usam esta metodologia de aproveitamento de resíduos orgânicos como um meio didáctico. Através de uma visão da CD baseada nas vertentes técnica; ambiental; de saúde;pedagógica; social e económica, foi realizado um estudo de casos múltiplos em três contextos educativos. Comparou-se o nível de desenvolvimento daquelas vertentes em escolas com diferentes graus de experiência em compostagem. A compostagem foi igualmente assumida como um “elo” que completa o ciclo da matéria orgânica, com as componentes-chave - “resíduos” e “fertilização do solo”. Entre outros aspectos, os resultados deste trabalho reforçaram a percepção de que o cruzamento da compostagem doméstica com outros projectos (e.g. hortas pedagógicas e outras práticas tradicionais) potencializa uma prática mais abrangente da educação ambiental.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 2 n.º 2 (2010)
Factores condicionantes da reprodução em Daphnia magna
Creators: name: Inácio, Ana Paula
name: Martins, Diogo
name: Silva, Luís
name: Cardoso, Rafael
name: Fonseca, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2010

description: Daphnia magna (pulga-da-água) é um animal aquático (consumidor primário) cuja estratégia reprodutiva pode alternar entre assexuada (partenogénese) e sexuada. Napartenogénese ocorre o crescimento e desenvolvimento de um embrião sem fertilização, levando ao aumento rápido da população. Na fase sexuada originam-se ovos de resistência (ephippium) que são capazes de sobreviver às condições desfavoráveis, prosseguindo o seu desenvolvimento quando esta situação se altera. Ao longo do ano lectivo (2009/2010) desenvolveu-se um projecto, no âmbito da área curricular não disciplinar de Área de Projecto do 12º ano, com o objectivo de compreender e divulgar as estratégias de reprodução de Daphnia magna e os factores condicionantes. Assim, foram testados dois factores passíveis de condicionar a reprodução: temperatura e densidade populacional. Na actividade experimental desenvolvida verificou-se a ocorrência de reprodução por partenogénese e o crescimento rápido em larga escala às condições ambientais (temperatura de 20-25º C, 15 indivíduos em 400 mL de ASTM). Observou-se que a temperaturas mais altas os organismos não sobreviviam mais de 24 horas. Já a temperaturas muito baixas, o desenvolvimento foi de tal modo lento que ao fim de 21 dias os animais permaneciam de tamanho reduzido e sem sinais de reprodução. Em condições de elevada densidade populacional constatou-se mais uma vez o crescimento lento da população. No entanto, foi possível observar reprodução, com o nascimento demachos na primeira ninhada. Tal significa que a variável em estudo é um factor condicionante capaz de provocar uma alteração na estratégia reprodutiva, iniciando uma fase sexuada. Por fim, em condições de baixa densidade populacional observou-se novamente um crescimento reduzido nos organismos, hipoteticamente causado pelaacumulação de alimento não filtrado.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 2 n.º 2 (2010)
Diversidade de invertebrados terrestres: um caso de estudo envolvendo actividades de campo e de laboratório
Creators: name: Pereira, Joana Luísa
name: Cruz, Ricardo
name: Costa, Sónia
name: Paiva, Isabel
name: Abrantes, Isabel
Publisher: name: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos
Year: 2010

description: O recurso a metodologias que envolvem trabalho de campo é ainda algo limitado nas escolas portuguesas, não obstante as recomendações veículadas pelo Ministério da Educação fomentarem este tipo de actividades. O presente estudo relata uma actividade prática, realizada numa escola secundária portuguesa, na qual se recorreu ao trabalho de campo enquanto estratégia alternativa para a abordagem da ecologia e diversidade dos invertebrados terrestres. Foram utilizados métodos de amostragem, captura e extracção de invertebrados terrestres (armadilhas do tipo Pit fall, funis de Tullgren modificados e tabuleiros de Whitehead & Hemming modificados), em três áreas distintas existentes na escola: uma área com vegetação silvestre (Natural), uma área com predominância de pinheiros (Pinhal) e uma área com árvores de fruto (Pomar). Os organismos foram recolhidos, observados e identificados, tendo-se feito a comparação das três áreas de estudo relativamente à capacidade de sustentação de comunidades diversas de invertebrados. A análise efectuada permitiu, para além de validar a aplicabilidade dos protocolos normalizados utilizados em estudos científicos ao público e contexto em questão, construir uma nova ferramenta de apoio à leccionação destes conteúdos em contexto educativo formal, um guia de campo/chave simplificada para a identificação de invertebrados terrestres nos solos escolares, e organizar uma exposição interactiva para a divulgação do estudo junto da comunidade escolar. Os alunos envolvidos nas actividades demonstraram motivação adicional quando envolvidos nas actividades, não deixando de atingir os objectivos estabelecidos oficialmente no currículo da disciplina, factos que podem ser encarados como um argumento favorável à implementação de actividades de campo e de laboratório mais regulares em contexto escolar.
description: Revista Captar: Ciência e Ambiente para Todos, vol. 2 n.º 2 (2010)
PaNOSC FAIR Research Data Policy framework
Creators: name: Gotz, Andy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: research data policy
FAIR
PaNOSC
ExPaNDS

description: This paper presents the new photon and neutron research data policy framework based on the previous PaNData policy (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3738497) applicable to all photon and neutron facilities and scientific research data in general. The data policy framework is strongly aligned with the FAIR principles. The aim of the policy is to ensure that the FAIR principles are applied in research data policies. This deliverable has been prepared by the EOSC projects PaNOSC (https://panosc.eu) and ExPaNDS (https://expands.eu) together to ensure harmonisation of the updated data policies for the photon and neutron communities.
Supplementary Information from Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Creators: name: Obradovich, Nick
name: Özak, Ömer
name: Martín, Ignacio
name: Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio
name: Awad, Edmond
name: Cebrián, Manuel
name: Cuevas, Rubén
name: Desmet, Klaus
name: Rahwan, Iyad
name: Cuevas, Ángel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This file includes a Data Appendix and the Supplementary Material of our work,
MPEC 2025-H32 : 2025 GS1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 GS1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
An overview of policy instruments for sustainable peri-urban landscapes : towards governance mixes
Creators: name: Spyra, Marcin
name: Cortinovis, Chiara
name: Ronchi, Silvia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 720

description: Peri-Urban Landscapes (PULs) are transitional areas composed of a mix of natural and anthropogenic land covers. The unsustainable character of many PULs is widely recognised, but their governance is particularly challenging. The paper moves from the hypothesis that addressing some of the sustainability challenges of PULs requires the combination of multiple Policy Instruments (PIs), i.e., a policy mix. An online survey was developed to collect cases of PULs governance with a twofold purpose: i) to identify and describe existing PIs implemented in PULs, and ii) to investigate which combinations of PIs are adopted to address specific categories of sustainability challenges. Fifty valid answers describing 47 cases of PULs governance from 26 countries were collected and analysed. The results confirm the presence of a policy mix approach, suggesting the need for a plurality of PIs to govern the dynamics and complexities of PULs. Moreover, the results indicate an important role of the regional governance level, a dominating presence of top-down instruments, and a need for more effective inclusion of citizens into policy-making processes related to PULs. A reflection on the findings considering the existing literature on governance experimentation suggests governance mixes for PULs as potential approaches to address some of the shortcomings of the analysed policy mixes.
Great bear markets : the interface of finance, forestry and conservation in BC's Great Bear Rainforest
Creators: name: Norden, Andrew
name: Tansey, James
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Human population growth and infrastructure development are putting unprecedented pressure on global ecosystems. Many government efforts to “command and control” the protection of ecosystems have met with limited success at best. The introduction of market-based mechanisms for embedded ecosystem services is a contemporary solution to protect and preserve some of the precious and pristine wilderness areas. This paper explores some of the marketbased mechanisms for ecosystem services in the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR), located on the North and Central Coast of British Columbia in western Canada. Carbon offsets, are used to combat climate change, have been generated from the GBR. By preventing the forest from being harvested, carbon is removed from the atmosphere and stored in the wood. Additional stored carbon can be monetized and sold to greenhouse gas emitters to offset their carbon footprint. A number of challenges were overcome to generate this carbon offset project, most notably the ownership related to unextinguished rights and title from indigenous land claims. The new nature of the market meant it was very much a learning experience for project developers and other stakeholders but also posed challenges for marketing efforts since potential buyers remain cautious due to regulatory uncertainty of greenhouse gas emission liabilities. More traditional market-based instruments are also existent in the Great Bear Rainforest. Ecotourism, hunting, logging and fishing licenses are all used extensively throughout the area. However, the price of these licenses appears to be far below true value. The proliferation of public land and provincial economic policies suppress market activity for such licenses, and appear to be the driving force behind such market imperfection.
Advancement and Assessment of Power-to-X Strategies as a Significant Contribution for the De-Fossilization of Economies
Creators: name: Falfushynska, Halina
name: Zhadan, Vladyslav
name: Holz, Markus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: In order for the EU to achieve its 2050 climate objectives, transport-, power-, and industry sector, which heavily relies on fossil fuels, must significantly decrease their emissions. Green hydrogen and sustainable fuels, among them e-methanol, e-kerosene, and green ammonia, produced using the Power-to-X approach, have been recognised as viable alternatives to reduce emissions and support decarbonization. However, there are some techno-economic challenges in adopting sustainable fuels, particularly related to the higher costs compared to fossil fuels. The economic feasibility of sustainable fuels depends on the cost of green hydrogen and carbon capture technology. Large-scale deployment, improvements in electrolysis modes, and intensive implementation of point-of-source CO2 capture technologies could make sustainable fuels cost-effective and competitive with fossil fuels by 2050. However, it seems improbable that e-fuels would become widely available at low cost in the near future. The prospective environmental performance of adopting e-methanol, e-kerosene, and e-ammonia is examined, highlighting the necessity of conducting a thorough investigation into the possible negative impacts on human health and ecosystems.
Stakeholder consultation workshops
Creators: name: Ker Rault, Philippe
name: De Miguel, Angel
name: Snethlage, Judit
name: Froebrich, Jochen
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: ING-IND/25 Impianti chimici

description: This deliverable is relative to Task 7.3 - Stakeholder advisory board periodic consultation workshops, and summarises the main activities developed during those workshops and the most relevant outcomes, in the framework of the MADFORWATER project.
Interface Copepod Supplement 4-25-22 from A combination of red structural and pigmentary coloration in the eyespot of a copepod
Creators: name: Justyn, Nicholas M.
name: Heine, Kyle B.
name: Hood, Wendy R.
name: Peteya, Jennifer A.
name: Vanthournout, Bram
name: Debruyn, Gerben
name: Shawkey, Matthew D.
name: Weaver, Ryan J.
name: Hill, Geoffrey E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: All supplemental figures and R code.
Seeing economic development like a large language model : a methodological approach to the exploration of geographical imaginaries in generative AI
Creators: name: Michel, Boris
name: Eckervogt, Yannick
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 550

description: The recent hype surrounding the disruptive potential of AI technologies in the form of large language models or text to image generators also raises questions for geographical research and practice. These questions include the power relations and inequalities inscribed in these systems, their significance for work and labor relations, their ecological and economic impact, but also the geographical and spatial imaginaries they reproduce. This article focuses on the latter and formulates a series of theoretical and methodological considerations for dealing with the output of these systems. As we assume that outputs generated by large language models will play an increasing role in the future, both in public and media discourses as well as in the discourses and practices of spatial planning and economic policy making, we consider it important to gain a critical understanding of these socio-technical systems. The empirical object of investigation of this paper is generated output that deals with questions of regional development and economic challenges in three European regions that are currently particularly affected by the transition to a climate-neutral economy and are designated by the European Union as Just Transition Fund Territories. We are particularly interested in how geographical imaginaries about these regions are formulated, how economic and social problems of these regions are presented and how this is translated into planning advice and development plans.
UBC School of Nursing research & teaching scholarship report : 10 years in review 2000-2010
Creators: name: Oliffe, John Lindsay
name: Hughes, Merrilee A.
Publisher: name: School of Nursing, The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Over the last decade, UBC School of Nursing faculty and students submitted 856 grant applications to various funding agencies. Included in Table 1 are research, career, and team grant submissions to internal (i.e., UBC), provincial (e.g., MSFHR, Vancouver Foundation), national (e.g., CIHR, SSHRC, NCIC) and international (NIH) competitions. The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) attracted the largest number of UBC School of Nursing grant proposals.
title: 01_0404
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Effectiveness of Photoelectric Systems Against Intensive Gardening and Desertification
Creators: name: Tursunov, Muhammadjon
name: Sabirov, Khabibullo
name: Axtamov, Tohir
name: Chariyev, Maxamadi
name: Abdiyev, Umirbek
name: Yuldoshov, Boysori
name: Toshpulatov, Sirojiddin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: The increase in the efficiency of photoelectric panels from year to year is the basis for the largescale use of this type of renewable energy source. Many subsidies are allocated for the use of renewable energy sources in our country. The use of solar energy, which is one of the renewable energy sources, is one of the most optimal solutions for creating intensive gardens in desert areas. In the article, the efficiency of the photoelectric system (PES) was compared with the portable generator (PG) used to supply water pumps with energy. It was determined that the payback period of PES is equal to 3.5 years compared to PG. It was found that there is an opportunity to use long-term green energy at almost no cost for the remaining 15-20 years. Instead of a system with a total power of 5kW, a PES system of 9.9kW was connected as an energy supply for irrigation works. 4.2 tons of CO2 emissions from PG are avoided annually. This practical work proved that the most problematic desertification, water supply and green energy sources can be solved in one place.
Results of Study of Photovoltaic Thermal Battery Based on Thin-Film Module by Modeling and Computational Methods
Creators: name: Jurayev, Islom
name: Yuldoshev, Isroil
name: Jurayeva, Zukhra
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: This article presents the results of model studies of a photovoltaic thermal battery (PVTB) based on a thinfilm cadmium telluride (CdTe) module depending on the influence of environmental parameters: solar radiation, air temperature, wind speed on the heating temperature of PVTB elements. A heat transfer scheme in PVTB elements, a mathematical model of heat balance processes and a program in the algorithmic Python language for calculating thermal and energy parameters were developed. The equations of thermal balances were solved in the static state of the installation using the numerical method of Gauss-Seidel iterations. To validate the model, the calculated simulation results were compared with experimental data. A comparison of the values of the corresponding parameters is presented in graphical images. The adequacy of the model was verified by the method of "assessment of agreement and standard deviation". The following values of RMSE and determination coefficients were calculated for the parameters, respectively, for the temperature of the photovoltaic cell, liquid and electrical efficiency R2=0.88, for thermal efficiency and power R2=0.99, for power RMSE=2.56 W, RMSE deviation 5.72%. Using the SolidWorks Flow Simulation software was performed CFD PVTB modeling, simulating the temperature dynamics of glass, PV and absorber depending on environmental factors and the temperature dynamics of cooling water circulating in a copper heat exchanger. The values of the parameters obtained from CFD modeling correspond to the experimental data. The considered modeling methods make it possible to calculate the thermal and energy parameters of PVT installations at the engineering design stage.
Substantiating the Jet Agitator Parameters for Dredgers
Creators: name: Bondarenko, Andrii
name: Kukhar, Viktor
name: Nurmanova, Assel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: The paper presents the results of a theoretical study concerning jet flow-loose ground interaction in the underwater face. A mathematical model was developed to establish the values of a sufficient number of geometric parameters to develop the contact surface between the turbulent jetting with the ground being washed out. The adequacy of the developed mathematical model was confirmed while preparing and conducting a series of laboratory experiments aimed at granular soil jet agitating; the designed laboratory facility was applied. Numerical values of empiric coefficients were derived, and the experimental data have been processed statistically.The effectiveness of the use of jet agitators in underwater mining and construction works has been confirmed by the results of theoretical and experimental studies obtained in this work. The developed mathematical model to calculate jet agitators has been tested while developing designs of such ejector dredgers as ЗНС 630-90 and ЗНС 300-120, and while modernizing soil suction heads of ССБ 500/440, МЗ-16Э, МЗ-8, МЗ-11, Pechora, and ГПП-11 dredgers.
Statistical Modeling of Determinants Influencing Economic Security in the Context of Sustainable Development and National Security
Creators: name: Kovalchuk, Olha
name: Berezka, Kateryna
name: Masonkova, Mariia
name: Chudyk, Nataliia
name: Ukhack, Vasyl
name: Pilyukov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 006.3

description: The aggravation of the political crisis and the increase in geopolitical conflicts destabilize the world economy and create serious challenges for the national security of all countries of the world. Today, a new theoretical and methodological approach to understanding economic security, which is an important dimension of national security, is needed. Our research uses an approach using multivariate statistical modeling based on a unique set of generally recognized macroeconomic indicators for the year 2022 in most countries of the world. We created a factor model for detections of determinants of influence on national economic security and a model of canonical correlations for evaluating complex two-way relationships between selected determinants and generally recognized reliable indices that can serve as approximate estimates of the level of economic security in the context of the concept of sustainable development (Human Development Index) and national security (GPI ‒ Global Peace Index). The obtained results are not without flaws and are only approximate estimates. However, they can improve the understanding of the problems of strengthening international coordination and cooperation in strengthening economic security, ensuring sustainable development and implementing the tasks of national security strategies of various states of the world.
HIRMU MEHHANISMID STRATEEGILISTES NARRATIIVIDES ÕPPUSE ZAPAD 2017 NÄITEL
Creators: name: Ventsel, Andreas
name: Hansson, Sten
name: Madisson, Mari-Liis
name: Sazonov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: Modern military training exercises often include an information warfare component. Combat manoeuvres and weapon tests may be combined with large-scale information operations, including attempts at mass deception and persuasion via strategic uses of media narratives. In this article, we analysed the largest recent Russian war games on NATO’s eastern borders, the Zapad 2017 military exercise, by identifying and analysing three strategic narratives that were presented in journalistic representations of the exercise in the Estonian media scape. These narratives serve multiple functions: they cast NATO in a negative light, induce fear among Western audiences, and represent Russia as a ‘victim’ rather than a potential aggressor. One of the ways Russia spread confusion and fear was through manipulation with ambiguous messages and inconsistent numbers. Although Russia’s representatives tried to ridicule Western speculations about the size of the troops, the continuous amplifi cation of the message and keeping it on the media agenda helped fuel the assumption that Russia was disguising its actual military capacity. The mounting fears, coupled with ambiguous information, pushed the audience into a state of anxious uncertainty. Russia managed to create an image of itself in the Western media as an intimidating and militarily dangerous adversary, and, in turn, the emergent atmosphere of precariousness propagated the discourse of Russia’s military might. The discrediting of Western politicians, experts and the press is another example of signifi cant manipulation of the strategic narratives described in this article. Through news stories, the Russian media attempted to foster an impression that it was, in fact, the Western media that was fearmongering by spreading speculations and ‘Russophobic’ views. Infl uenced by such narratives, the target audience is at serious risk of starting to doubt its judgment. However, in a critical situation that requires an adequate and prompt reaction to urgent unfolding processes, any hesitation may prove fatal.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 8 (2018)
The Navier-Stokes equations on manifolds with boundary
Creators: name: Shao, Yuanzhen
name: Simonett, Gieri
name: Wilke, Mathias
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 510

description: We consider the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid on a compact Riemannian manifold Mwith boundary. The motion on Mis modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and the fluid is sub-ject to pure or partial slip boundary conditions of Navier type on ∂M. We establish existence and uniqueness of strong as well as weak (variational) solutions for initial data in critical spaces. Moreover, we show that the set of equilibria consists of Killing vector fields on Mthat satisfy corresponding boundary conditions, and we prove that all equilibria are (locally) stable. In case Mis two-dimensional we show that solutions with divergence free initial condition in L2(M; TM)exist globally and converge to an equilibrium exponen-tially fast.
VENEMAA ERITEENISTUSTE ROLLIST INFORMATSIOONILISES MÕJUTUSTEGEVUSES: MIS ON TEADA, MIDA ON ALUST ARVATA JA MIDA VÕIB OLETADA?
Creators: name: Juurvee, Ivo
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: Due to limited access to relevant sources, the infl uence activities of the secret services of authoritarian countries are a complicated subject to study. However, as the article shows, it is not impossible in the light of new materials made available to the researchers only recently and especially with the application of cross-temporal comparison. In the case of Russia, we can use the legal regulations governing its Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and Federal Security Service (FSB) that mention ‘support measures’ as one of their core activities. The analysis shows the connection, if not equivalence, between these measures and Soviet ‘active measures’ of the Cold War era, on which there are volumes of primary and secondary source material. The recent legal measures taken against Russia’s infl uence activities in the West provide researchers with long-awaited additional material, as does the opening of Western security services that provide more information for the public domain than they used to do. The analysis presented in this article off ers not only an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the infl uence operations of Russia’s intelligence agencies – which is, of course, academically interesting as well – but also insights on how to design countermeasures.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 8 (2018)
title: Cultural Politics and the Nobel Prize
title: Cultural Politics and the Nobel Prize
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Katrak, Ketu H.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

description: Given Soyinka' s creative output, particularly his unique infusion of African folk traditions and mythology into his English language work, and equally important, his bringing in new life-blood into the language itself, the Nobel Prize was long overdue. In fact, Soyinka has been on the "short list" of candidates for several years. However, given the familiar history of predominantly Western recipients for the Nobel Prize in Literature over the past 85 years, the Nobel Committee has been lethargic in acknowledging a major writer from the African continent. (Some non-Western recipients of the Prize were India's Rabindranath Tagore in 1913, Chile's Pablo Neruda in 1971, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982.)
Explaining Myanmar's hluttaw, 2011-2016: transitional legitimacy and the politics of legislative autonomy
Creators: name: Win, Chit
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Myanmar
subject: Hluttaw
subject: legislature
subject: democratic transition
subject: JF195
subject: Burma. Praññʻ thoṅʻ cu Lvhatʻ toʻ
subject: Burma. Praññʻ thoṅʻ cu Lvhatʻ toʻ. Ethics
subject: Democracy History 21st century Burma
subject: Civil-military relations 21st century Burma
subject: Burma Politics and government 21st century

description: Transitional legislatures are essential institutions for entrenching democracy by providing legitimacy and by constraining the executive. This research examines the role of Myanmar's legislature (the Hluttaw) during the country's transition from the direct military rule. When it first met in January 2011, there was little disagreement that Myanmar's legislature would serve as a rubber stamp because of the overwhelming majority of representatives from the ruling pro-military party and the military itself. Yet the Hluttaw emerged as a reform-minded lawmaking body as well as a forum for oversight of the executive. Lawmakers from the minor and ethnic parties actively engaged in the legislature alongside lawmakers from the ruling party, especially those who were pressured to contest the 2010 election. This research analyses the role of Myanmar's legislature against four major transitional functions: (i) achieving legislative autonomy; (ii) a driving force in political and structural reform; (iii) realising democratic norms; and (iv) tackling transitional conflicts. Based on this conceptual framework, the dissertation asks, what role did Myanmar's first legislature play during the transition from the military rule? And what were the determining factors? It argues that the Hluttaw provided transitional legitimacy by achieving legislative autonomy but its authoritarian form, and its political competition with the executive, stopped the Hluttaw from becoming a driving force in Myanmar's transition. The dissertation also introduces the three major factors responsible for the shift from a rubber stamp to a robust legislature: (i) the speakers; (ii) non-partisanship; and (iii) co-opted lawmakers. The nexus between these factors explains what influenced the Hluttaw as well as how the Hluttaw became institutionally stronger. This research contributes to the scholarly understanding of transitional legislatures by developing a conceptual framework about how legislatures play a role in political transition as well as an explanation about how institutional rivalry can create authoritarian splits. This analysis is based on five months of fieldwork in the national legislature in Nay Pyi Taw, and the sub-national legislatures in Myanmar's States and Regions, and content analysis of the records of the legislative plenary sessions (2011-2016).
Development of a Manueline Style Object Library for Heritage BIM
Creators: name: Machete, Rita
name: Falcão, Ana Paula
name: Gonçalves, Alexandre B.
name: Godinho, Márcia
name: Bento, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Manueline style object library, created from the assets present in the Sintra National Palace, in RFA (Revit Family Library) format, to be used for research on BIM modelling of constructions in this architectural style. Please cite this publication as: Machete, R., Falcão, A. P., Gonçalves, A. B., Godinho, M., & Bento, R. (2020). Development of a Manueline Style Object Library for Heritage BIM. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/15583058.2020.1740825
HIRMUKULTUURI LOOMINE MOODSAS HÜBRIIDSÕJAS VENEMAA JA ÕPPUSE ZAPAD 2017 NÄITEL
Creators: name: Mölder, Holger
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: The growing role of information warfare has had a significant impact on contemporary international conflicts and is redefining national military strategies. The widespread development of various forms of communication (i.e. internet, social media) over the past decades has created a favourable environment for information warfare to proliferate, offering influential international actors an alternative to achieve their strategic goals at a relatively low cost. Consequently, future conflicts may largely be based in a war of narratives, with limited military operations performing only a supportive function to extensive information warfare. Instead of traditional armed conflicts, battles between adversaries can be conducted in diff erent media environments and, instead of tanks and cannons, emotions and beliefs can be used as weapons. Every four years since 2009, Russia has been holding military exercises called “Zapad” (meaning “west” in English) that are always accompanied by an intensified information campaign on the potential military conflict between Russia and NATO in the Baltic Sea Region. This kind of demonstration of power (incl. large-scale military exercises) has become a tool that often shapes the perception of threats related to the anticipated hostile intentions of other actors in the context of a security dilemma. This article examines how the security dilemma in the Baltic Sea region affects the spread of fear, including how large-scale military exercises create an image of an unstable security environment that could at any moment erupt into a full-scale war between the Russian Federation and the West. The article also examines the possible domestic impacts of these military exercises that reinforce the willingness of Russian citizens to defend themselves against anyone who may presumably harbour hostile intentions towards them.


 
 
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 8 (2018)
ÕPPUSE ZAPAD 2017 INFORMATSIOONILINE ASPEKT
Creators: name: Mahda, Yevhen
Publisher: name: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies
Year: 2024

description: Russia’s quadrennial war games, taking place on the territories of Russia and Belarus under the banner “Zapad” (meaning “west” in English), date back to Soviet times and have become a tradition. More recently, the Zapad drills have also become a part of an informational strategy bolstering the supranational Union State of Russia and Belarus. As for the informational campaign that accompanied the Zapad 2017 exercise, it was devised as part of larger informational warfare targeting Ukraine and NATO. In order to ensure that the Zapad exercise was received in the West as the Kremlin intended, everything that was related to the exercise was amplifi ed and blown out of proportion. Quite often, media reports led to hysteria, and were sometimes promoted for that exact purpose, helping Russia generate and promote the following narrative – the inadequate and alarmist nature of Western societies. During the Zapad 2017 exercise, there were a series of events that could be deemed as elements of information warfare. The most substantial being the information manoeuvre carried out by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the fi rst hours of the exercise. On September 14, 2017, at 11.00 in the morning, the website of the Russian MoD announced that units of the 1st Panzer Army of the Western Military District had been alerted and were marching on Belarusian polygons. An hour later, there was another announcement that Pskov, Ivanovo and Tula paratroopers had also been alerted. Four hours later, journalists received a public denial of this information from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Defence. However, it was not enough to contain the panic that had been unleashed. What goals were set and reached as a result of the Zapad 2017 exercise? 1. The external goals focused on creating an image of powerful and invincible Union troops (mainly Russian); sowing fear and panic; misinforming and obfuscating in order to complicate the process of analysis; demonstrating Belarus’s dependence on the Russian Federation. 2. The internal or domestic goals were to boost Putin’s approval rating before the 2018 presidential elections in Russia, and to demonstrate to the Russian people that “we are feared, and we should not be underestimated”. Ultimately, Russia managed to reach all those goals. Particularly effective was the demonstration of Belarus’s helplessness and dependence on Russia. However, the truth is that Russia’s primary goal had been reached far before the Zapad 2017 exercise even began. Manipulation, misinformation and other elements of informational aggression led to confusion and panic, and that is exactly what Russia was aiming for.
description: The Estonian Journal of Military Studies, No. 8 (2018)