cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Traditional Masculine Gender Role Adherence on Community Reintegration Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Military Veterans
Creators: name: Meyers, Noah Matthew
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although returning from deployment and reintegrating into one's community is a difficult task for any military veteran, these tasks can be especially difficult for veterans sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during deployment. Due to the unique cognitive and social deficits caused by the injury, individuals (predominately male) who sustain a TBI have a more difficult time reintegrating into their communities and report a poorer subjective quality of life than do individuals and veterans with other serious injuries. The present study examined the effect of level of traditional masculine gender role cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors on community reintegration outcomes in a sample of 60 male military veterans who had sustained a TBI during deployment. Data was collected through self-report measures and cognitive tests, and analyses were carried out using correlation, mediation, and moderation models. Results suggested that greater endorsement of traditional masculine gender role beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors was related to: (a) poorer outcomes on certain measures of community reintegration (i.e., livings skills and relationships); and (b) poorer outcomes in living skills and increased psychosocial difficulties only for participants with greater verbal cognitive flexibility. Findings were discussed in relation to previous research and future directions.
Bioaccumulation, Resistance, Removal of U(VI) and Th(IV) and Their Effects on Antioxidant Enzymes on Thermophilic Anoxybacillus flavithermus ST15
Creators: name: Acer, Ömer
name: Kılınç, Ersin
name: Özdemir, Sadin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this research, a novel heavy metals resistance thermophilic Anoxybacillus flavithermus ST15 was isolated from a hot spring mud sample in Afyonkarahisar (Omer). 16S rRNA analyzing revealed that strain ST15 was 99.7% similar to Anoxybacillus flavithermus subsp. yunnanensis str. E13. We propose that U(VI) and Th(IV) have an effect on A. flavithermus at the cellular level and that this bacteria can be used as a bioindicator. Therefore, the effects of U(VI) and Th(IV) resistance, removal, and bioaccumulation on the antioxidant enzyme systems of thermophilic A. flavithermus have been thoroughly investigated. SOD and CAT activities were observed to be increased by different concentrations of U(VI) and Th(IV). A scanning electron microscope and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to analyze changes in the surface macrostructure and functionality of A. flavithermus following interaction with U(VI) and Th(IV). The highest bioaccumulation efficiency amounts for U(VI) were 102.36 mg/g dried bacteria at 24 h at 12.5 mg/l concentration and 105.7 mg/g dried bacteria at 36 h at 12.5 mg/l concentration was detected for Th(IV). At the 24th h and 12.5 mg/l, the highest U(VI) and Th(IV) cell membrane bioaccumulation capacities of A. flavithermus were calculated as 307.08 and 289.52 mg metal/g wet membrane, respectively. This is the first research to examine U(VI) and Th(IV) resistance, removal, and bioaccumulation in thermophilic A. flavithermus.
Veröffentlichungen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum zum Thema „Moor und Torf“ aus dem Jahre 2015 und 2016 mit Nachträgen für frühere Jahre.
Publications on „Peat and Peatland“ from the German language area in 2015 and 2016 with additions for earlier years.
Creators: name: Steffens, Peter
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2016

description: Die vorliegende Zusammenstellung der Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet „Moor und Torf“ umfasst 154 Titel.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: bibliography
Ground-state baryon masses in the perturbative chiral quark model
Creators: name: Inoue, T.
name: Lyubovitskij, V. E.
name: Gutsche, Th.
name: Faessler, Amand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mass differences of the flavor octet and decuplet ground-state baryons are studied in the perturbative chiral quark model. We present a way to understand the nontrivial spin- and flavor dependent mass differences, where both pseudoscalar mesons and gluons play a significant role.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures
Pest Targeting Efforts and the Development of an Offshore Pest Information System (OPIS)
Creators: name: Balaam, R.J.
name: Schwalbe, C.P.
name: Balaam, R.J.
name: Schwalbe, C.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pest surveillance
subject: foreign pests
subject: information collection
subject: information reporting
subject: targeted pests

description: International trade is rapidly expanding and the relevance of international borders as barriers to pest movement is diminishing. As trade expands, so does the risk of accidentally or intentionally spreading exotic plant pests. The Offshore Pest Information System (OPIS) is a process designed to collect, analyze, communicate, and use relevant international information concerning pests that are not known to occur in the U.S. Using OPIS will enable USDA, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to meet its mission. That mission is to "safeguard American resources from exotic invasive pests and diseases." By using OPIS, the Agency can quickly and effectively respond to imminent pest threats. OPIS requires information collection, synthesis, communication, and supporting research. Exotic pests of concern to the U.S. have been ranked by order of importance by numerous professional societies and other sources. These rankings allow APHIS to focus on significant pests or pathways.. Disclosure of these pests and their pathways helps U.S. trading partners to become aware of U.S. concerns, and to desire to work with those countries to keep such pests out of their countries as well. U.S. safeguarding response may be triggered by outbreaks of a pest, pesticide resistance, and loss of a pesticide or its cancellation. The OPIS consists of the following components: (i) Global Pest and Disease Database: a reference tool on pests. (ii) Target pest list—A list that is reviewed and updated periodically. (iii) Pest/Pathway status in foreign countries: monthly reports on target pests. (iv) Pest interception data from U.S. ports: information reported into the system. (v) Communication through monthly or emergency pest alerts and news releases. (vi) Initiation of protective and mitigation measures: actions by U.S. and foreign countries
Retraction Notice for Santero, Whitehead & Ballestoros 2018. (2020). The Linacre Quarterly, 87(1), 108–108.
Creators: name: Editor, Journal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 520303
subject: Counselling psychology

description: The journal retracts the Santero study based on a anonymous review raising vague, general methodological critique which is a combination of special pleading and nonsense. Use of the chi square statistic is considered a fatal flaw. Not a single specific finding or analysis in the study is rebutted or even challenged.
Thermal Partition Functions for S-branes
Creators: name: Sugawara, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the thermal partition functions of open strings on the S-brane backgrounds (the bouncing or rolling tachyon backgrounds) both in the bosonic and superstring cases. According to hep-th/0302146, we consider the discretized temperatures compatible with the pure imaginary periodicity of tachyon profiles. The ``effective Hagedorn divergence'' is shown to appear no matter how low temperature is chosen (including zero-temperature). This feature is likely to be consistent with the large rate of open string pair production discussed in hep-th/0209090 and also emission of closed string massive modes hep-th/0303139. We also discuss the possibility to remove the divergence by considering the space-like linear dilaton backgrounds as in hep-th/0306132.
description: 33 pages, no figure; v2 typos corrected, a reference added
Additional file 2 of The impact of hospital language on the rate of in-hospital harm. A retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Reaume, Michael
name: Batista, Ricardo
name: Talarico, Robert
name: Rhodes, Emily
name: Guerin, Eva
name: Carson, Sarah
name: Prud’homme, Denis
name: Tanuseputro, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Categories and subcategories of harmful events. Description of in-hospital harmful events identified using the Hospital Harm Indicator.
Oxidativer Torfverzehr in Niedermoor in Abhängigkeit vom Klima und mögliche Schutzmaßnahmen
Oxidative Peat Consumption in Low Moor (Fen) in Relation to Climate and Possible Protection Steps
Creators: name: Eggelsmann, Rudolf
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1978

description: Einleitend werden Ursachen und Ausmaß der Höhenverluste im Niedermoor aufgezeigt (Abb. 1). Ferner wird der oxidative Torfverzehr in Abhängigkeit vom Klima mittels Regenfaktor nach LANG (1915) dargelegt (Abb. 2). Feldmessungen zeigen den Einfluß der Grundwassertiefe auf den Torfverzehr (Abb. 3). Abschließend werden mögliche Schutzmaßnahmen aufgezählt; es sind dies: - vorübergehende Maßnahmen wie Änderung der Bodennutzung (z.B. Grünland anstelle von Ackerbau); - dauerhafte (meliorative) Maßnahmen, wie z.B. Überdeckung des Moores mit Sand, Lehm, Ton oder auch mit aschereichem Müll bzw. Schlamm.
description: Introductorily the general causes and dimensions of subsidence in low moor are shown (fig. 1). Furthermore the oxidative peat consumption is explained in relation to the different climates, exposed by the rain factor after LANG, 1915 (fig. 2). Field measurements show the influence of the ground-water depth on the peat consumption (fig. 3). Finally‚possible protection steps are counted down, these are: - temporary protection like a change of soil utilization (for example grassland instead of arable land); - durable protection (amelioration) as for example peat cover cultivation with sand, loam, clay or refuse resp. mud with high ash content.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
description: research
From Civil War Defenses of Washington to Fort Circle Parks: Making Community-Driven Archaeology Part of the Archaeology of Conflict Arsenal
Creators: name: Mihailovic, Tamara Androniki
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Community-Driven Archaeology is an important tool in giving voice to marginalized groups and neighborhoods; it has the power to engage and inform communities of their past, as well as strengthen ties and stewardship to public lands, cultural resources and national heritage. It is a particularly effective approach when engaging contexts within which various groups interacted in times of crises. As components of the region's Civil War heritage the Civil War Defenses of Washington (CWDW) represent some of the more overt manifestations of conflict associated with the city. In addition to their original defensive character CWDW also have long associations within the African-American community, beginning with their construction and extending to the present day. Applying Community-Driven Archaeology to CWDW would allow us to examine a landscape created by the African-American community within the larger context of military use of land and resources in the city.
Unphysical Operators in Partially Quenched QCD
Creators: name: Sharpe, Stephen R.
name: Van de Water, Ruth S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the chiral Lagrangian describing pseudo-Goldstone bosons in partially quenched QCD has one more four-derivative operator than that for unquenched QCD with three flavors. The new operator can be chosen to vanish in the unquenched sector of the partially quenched theory. Its contributions begin at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion. At this order it contributes only to unphysical scattering processes, and we work out some examples. Its contributions to pseudo-Goldstone properties begin at next-to-next-to-leading order, and we determine their form. We also determine all the zero and two derivative operators in the $O(p^6)$ partially quenched chiral Lagrangian, finding three more than in unquenched QCD, and use these to give the general form of the analytic next-to-next-to-leading order contributions to the pseudo-Goldstone mass and decay constant. We discuss the general implications of such additional operators for the utility of partially quenched simulations
description: 13 pages, 11 figures Version 2: Additional footnote and parenthesis in section V
Chemical abundances of the Galactic H II region NGC 3576 derived from VLT echelle spectrophotometry
Creators: name: Garcia-Rojas, J.
name: Esteban, C.
name: Peimbert, M.
name: Rodriguez, M.
name: Ruiz, M. T.
name: Peimbert, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present echelle spectrophotometry of the Galactic H II region NGC 3576. The data have been taken with the VLT UVES echelle spectrograph in the 3100 to 10400 angstroms range. We have measured the intensities of 458 emission lines, 344 are permitted lines of H0, He0, C+, N0, N+, N++, O0, O+, Ne+, S++, Si0, Si+, Ar0 and Ar+; some of them are produced by recombination and others mainly by fluorescence. Electron temperatures and densities have been determined using different continuum and line intensity ratios. We have derived He+, C++, O+, O++ and Ne++ ionic abundances from pure recombination lines. We have also derived abundances from collisionally excited lines for a large number of ions of different elements. Remarkably consistent estimations of t2 have been obtained by comparing Balmer and Paschen to [O III] temperatures, and O++ and Ne++ ionic abundances obtained from collisionally excited and recombination lines. The chemical composition of NGC 3576 is compared with those of other Galactic H II regions and with the one from the Sun. A first approach to the gas-phase Galactic radial abundance gradient of C as well as of the C/O ratio has been made.
description: 25 pages, 14 tables, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Erfahrungsstand zur Mooraufforstung in Norwestdeutschland
The Position of the Experiences upon the Bog Afforestation in North-West Germany
Creators: name: Eggelsmann, Rudolf
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1978

description: Es werden eingangs die negativen Erfahrungen der Mooraufforstungen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts aufgrund der modernen Erkenntnisse der Moorkunde und Kulturtechnik gedeutet. Mit Hinweis auf den großräumigen Waldbau auf den Mooren Finnlands, Kanadas und der Sowjetunion werden 4-5 Jahrzehnte alte und jüngste Mooraufforstungen behandelt, die Versuchsaufforstung in Papenburg-Börgermoorweide erläutert und auf die sich daraus ergebenden Folgerungen eingegangen.
description: In the beginning, the negative experiences by bog afforesting at the end of the 19th century are explained with the modern knowledge in peat research and agricultural engineering. In reference to the large forestry on peatlands in Finland, Canada and the USSR, recent afforestations and those with an age of 40-50 years are described. Then the experimental reforestation in Papenburg-Börgermoorweide is explained, and the resulting inferences are discussed.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
description: research
A Review of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Building Energy Management
Creators: name: Yu, Liang
name: Qin, Shuqi
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Shen, Chao
name: Jiang, Tao
name: Guan, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Global buildings account for about 30% of the total energy consumption and carbon emission, raising severe energy and environmental concerns. Therefore, it is significant and urgent to develop novel smart building energy management (SBEM) technologies for the advance of energy-efficient and green buildings. However, it is a nontrivial task due to the following challenges. Firstly, it is generally difficult to develop an explicit building thermal dynamics model that is both accurate and efficient enough for building control. Secondly, there are many uncertain system parameters (e.g., renewable generation output, outdoor temperature, and the number of occupants). Thirdly, there are many spatially and temporally coupled operational constraints. Fourthly, building energy optimization problems can not be solved in real-time by traditional methods when they have extremely large solution spaces. Fifthly, traditional building energy management methods have respective applicable premises, which means that they have low versatility when confronted with varying building environments. With the rapid development of Internet of Things technology and computation capability, artificial intelligence technology find its significant competence in control and optimization. As a general artificial intelligence technology, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is promising to address the above challenges. Notably, the recent years have seen the surge of DRL for SBEM. However, there lacks a systematic overview of different DRL methods for SBEM. To fill the gap, this paper provides a comprehensive review of DRL for SBEM from the perspective of system scale. In particular, we identify the existing unresolved issues and point out possible future research directions.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures
title: Financing European Defence: The End of Budgetary Taboos
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Stéphane
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Common Security and Defence Policy
subject: EU budget
subject: European Defence Agency
subject: European Peace Facility
subject: European Defence Fund
subject: Ukrainian war

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(3), 1155-1177
description: European Forum Insight of 17 January 2024
description: I. Introduction. - II. Financing European defence outside the EU budget. - II.1. Funding through the back door: the European Defence Agency. - II.2 Financing "through the front door": the European Peace Facility. - III. EU budget funding for European defence. - III.1. Unprecedented budgetary efforts through the implementation of EU industrial and research policies. - III.2. A more modest budgetary contribution through the multiplication of targeted actions. - IV. Conclusions.
description: Since the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in 2007, the common security and defence policy shall include the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy, which may lead to a common defence. However, the key question is the financing of such policy. To address this issue, several taboos have been progressively lifted in terms of financial resources, both out of the EU Budget with new players (notably the European Defence Agency) and new instruments (especially the European Peace Facility) and within the EU Budget, with a multiplication of initiatives to reinforce the European defence industry (from the first dedicated program in 2017 to the new instrument for supporting the production of ammunition in 2023). The Ukrainian war was and is still a decisive factor to contribute to and accelerate that evolution
30 Jahre Grundwasserbeobachtungen im Königsmoor, einem seit 75 Jahren »trockengelegten« Hochmoor
30 Years Ground—Water Measurements at Koenigsmoor, a »Dry Laid« Raised Bog Since 75 Years
Creators: name: Eggelsmann, Rudolf
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1979

description: Es wird kurz das Königsmoor bei Tostedt (Krs. Harburg) beschrieben und die anthropogene Entwicklung nach Entwässerung und Moorkultur im Jahre 1905 Vom Hochmoor zum Moorkulturtyp heute dargelegt. Die Von 1950 bis 1979 fortlaufend gemessenen Grundwasserdaten sind als Ganglinie dargestellt (Abb. 5). Die positiven und negativen Abweichungen vom durchschnittlichen Jahresgang sind witterungsbedingt. Aus dem Hochmoor hat sich ein Hochmoorboden mit Oxidations- und Reduktions-Horizont entwickelt. Die mittlere Grundwasseramplitude (Abb. 6) beträgt heute 52 cm zwischen MHW im Winter (= 59 cm unter Flur) und MNW im Sommer (= 111 cm unter Flur). Die Feldkapazität des Hochmoorbodenprofils beträgt heute noch über 70 Vol.-% Wasser. Der Ausdruck "trockengelegtes" Hochmoor bedeutet aus bodenhydrologischer Sicht, daß man den Hochmoorboden heute "trockenen Fußes" begehen kann.
description: The peatland area Koenigsmoor (between Hamburg and Bremen) is shortly described, the anthropogeneous development after the first drainage and cultivation (in 1905) from a raised bog to a today cultivated bog soil is explained. The measured groundwater data from 1950 to 1979 are figured as hydrograph (fig. 5). The positive and negative deviations from the average annual course is influenced by the weather. The former raised bog has been developed to a bog soil type with ground—water oxidation and reduction soil horizons. The mean ground-water amplitude (fig. 6) amounts today to 52 cm between the mean maximum in winter (= 59 cm below surface) and the mean minimum in summer (= 111 cm below surface). The field capacity of the raised-bog soil-profile today amounts still to about 70 volume percent water. From the pedohydrological viewpoint the term "dry laid" raised bog means that we can walk on the cultivated bog-soil surface by "dry shod".
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen
description: research
Models for Minimizing or Eliminating Risks of Dangerous Pests: the Caribbean AMBLYOMMA Program
Creators: name: Pegram, Rupert G.
name: Indar, Lisa
name: Holmes, Rupert J.
name: Eddi, Carlos
name: Pegram, Rupert G.
name: Indar, Lisa
name: Holmes, Rupert J.
name: Eddi, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: tropical bont tick
subject: acaricide
subject: cradication
subject: cowdriosis
subject: dermatophilosis

description: The Caribbean Amblyomma Program is a multi-donor funded activity that involves both national governments and several technical organizations for the eradication of Amblyomma variegatum, the tropical Bont tick, from the Caribbean. The European Union and the United States Department of Agriculture are the major donors. The Food and Agriculture Organization is the lead technical agency, providing both technical and administrative support to the Caribbean Amblyomma Program Regional Coordination Unit. All collaborating agencies, donors, and national representatives are members of the Amblyomma Program Council, the overall governing body of the Caribbean Amblyomma Program. Historical aspects of the program are reviewed briefly, including the introduction of the tick from Africa in the 18th century, its subsequent spread during the 1970s, and the development of the concept of eradication. Conceptual characteristics for tick eradication programs are outlined using two brief case studies, one from Africa and one from the USA. The paper then focuses on the development of the model adopted for the eradication program, the achievements accomplished, and the constraints that the program faced during implementation.
Die Bedeutung rauer Böden aus Torf für deren Verdichtung
The importance of roughness of peat soil for his compaction
Creators: name: Schweikle, Volker
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2013

description: Abstract: Moving loads crossing rough ground surfaces of peat soil do not transfer power continuously to the ground, resulting in large variations in topsoil compaction. The local site requirements of plants on the soil structure vary according to plant species, whereby the key structural characteristics required by the plants are also climate-dependent. Overall, however, it is not possible to precisely define objective compaction criteria arising from the transfer of power as an influential variable beneficial to plant growth.
description: Zusammenfassung: Auf rauer Torfbodenoberfläche übertragen fahrende Lasten Leistung nicht stetig auf Böden, was zu hoher Variabilität von Verdichtung im Oberboden führt. Die Standortansprüche von Pflanzen an das Bodengefüge sind abhängig von der Pflanzenart, wobei die für Pflanzen wichtigen Gefügemerkmale zusätzlich auch vom Klima abhängig sind. Allgemeine, für das Pflanzenwachstum sinnvolle, Zielgrößen für Verdichtung aus der Übertragung von Leistung als Einflussgröße können also nicht allgemein definiert werden.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
From Civil War Defenses of Washington to Fort Circle Parks: Making Community-Driven Archaeology Part of the Archaeology of Conflict Arsenal
Creators: name: Mihailovic, Tamara Androniki
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4301
subject: Archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Community-Driven Archaeology is an important tool in giving voice to marginalized groups and neighborhoods; it has the power to engage and inform communities of their past, as well as strengthen ties and stewardship to public lands, cultural resources and national heritage. It is a particularly effective approach when engaging contexts within which various groups interacted in times of crises. As components of the region's Civil War heritage the Civil War Defenses of Washington (CWDW) represent some of the more overt manifestations of conflict associated with the city. In addition to their original defensive character CWDW also have long associations within the African-American community, beginning with their construction and extending to the present day. Applying Community-Driven Archaeology to CWDW would allow us to examine a landscape created by the African-American community within the larger context of military use of land and resources in the city.
Models for Minimizing Risks of Dangerous Pests: The Pink Hibiscus Mealybug and Papaya Mealybug
Creators: name: Meyerdirk, Dale E.
name: De Chi, Lionel Wayne
name: Meyerdirk, Dale E.
name: De Chi, Lionel Wayne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Maconellicoccus hirsutus
subject: Paracoccus marginatus
subject: biological control

description: The pink hibiscus mealybug (PHM), Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green), and the papaya mealybug (PM), Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink, biological control programs were cooperatively developed in the Caribbean by various local and international agencies and organizations. Both programs served as models of proactive program action in the early stages of each invasive pest's introduction into a Caribbean island, and for minimizing losses to the U.S. and neighboring countries. The biological control technology for the PHM developed in St. Kitts and Nevis, W.I., between 1995 and 1997, has been successfully transferred within the last six years to the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Belize, California, and most recently to Florida, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The PM biological control technology developed in the Dominican Republic in 1999 has been transferred to Puerto Rico, Florida, Bahamas, and Guam within the last four years. In both programs, the introduction of exotic parasitoid species resulted in mealybug population density reductions ranging from 82 to 97%. Early program development allowed for swift technology transfer to newly infested islands and to the U.S. Mainland (California and Florida) within thirty days of being found infested. This swift transfer in turn significantly reduced the potentially high rate of geographical dispersal and averted disastrous economic losses in the Caribbean countries, and in the U.S. and its island territories.
Modeling Streaming Potential in Porous and Fractured Media, Description and Benefits of the Effective Excess Charge Density Approach
Creators: name: Jougnot, Damien
name: Roubinet, Delphine
name: Guarracino, Luis
name: Maineult, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-potential signals can be generated by different sources and can be decomposed in various contributions. Streming potential is the contribution due to the water flux in the subsurface and is of particular interest in hydrogeophysics and reservoir characterization. Being able to estimate water fluxes in porous and fractured media using streaming potential data relies on our understanding of the electrokinetic coupling at the mineral-solution interface and our capacity to understand, model, and upscale this phenomenon. Two main approaches have been proposed to predict streaming potential generation in geological media. One of these approaches is based on determining the excess charge which is effectively dragged in the medium by water flow. In this chapter, we describe how to model the streaming potential by considering this effective excess charge density, how it can be defined, calculated and upscaled. We provide a short overview of the theoretical basis of this approach and we describe different applications to both water saturated and partially saturated soils and fractured media.
description: 36 pages, 14 figures, book chapter
title: Moore im Ostalpenraum
title: Entstehung und Vegetation
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Mires in the Eastern Alps - Distribution, development and present day vegetation
Creators: name: Krisai, Robert
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1998

description: Moore sind im Ostalpen-Raum weit verbreitet. In Oberbayern nehmen sie bedeutende Flächen ein, sonst sind sie klein, aber in manchen Landschaften zahlreich und vielfältig. Kartierungen liegen vor aus Bayern, Österreich, der Schweiz, Südtirol und Slowenien. Die Geländetopographie spielt bei der Ausbildung eine große Rolle (Tal-, Talstufen-, Hang-, Kamm-, Sattelmoore usw.) und beeinflußt auch den Wasserhaushalt (echte Hochmoore nur im nördlichen Alpenvorland). Die Genese ist von Fall zu Fall sehr verschieden; die Mehrzahl begann zwischen 11.000 und 9.000 BP mit einem Niedermoorstadium (Schilf- und Seggentorf). Das Hochmoorwachstum begann zwischen 7.000 und 4.000 BP, in Sonderfällen noch später. Auch die Vegetation ist entsprechend vielfältig — Röhrichte und Großseggenriede vor allem in niederen Lagen; im subalpinen Bereich verarmen sie zunehmend und werden auf das Caricetum rostratae reduziert. Die alpine Stufe weist eine Reihe von Besonderheiten auf, worauf kurz eingegangen wird. Hochmoorähnliche Gesellschaften reichen in den Zentralalpen bis gegen +1700 m, Niedermoore, v. a. Trichophoretum, bis +2800 m hinauf.
description: Mires — bogs and fens — are widely distributed within the area of the Eastern Alps; in Upper Bavaria they occupy a considerable part of the land surface. In other countries they are small, but numerous and divergent. There exist mire inventories from Austria, Bavaria, Slovenija, South Tyrol and Switzerland. Mountain topography is a primary factor in developing various kinds of mires (valley bogs, sloping fens, kettle hole fens, saddle fens and so on) and affects the mire hydrology too. Peat accumulation began mostly between 11.000 and 9.000 BP with Phragmites- and Phragmites-Carex- or Bryales-peat; Sphagnum-Eriophorum-peat formation started between 7.000 and 4.000 BP, in some cases even later. At first sight mire vegetation seems to be uniform - but it is not. In fens below + 1000 m altitude Phragmition- and Magnocaricion-communities prevail, higher up they are gradually replaced by Parvocaricion - Carex nigra- and Trichophorum-associations. Patches of bog vegetation (Sphagnion) can be found up to 1700 msm, fen lawns even as high as 2800 msm.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
IDEALIZED MASCULINITY: IMAGES OF WHITE MEN'S BODIES AND WHITE MEN'S IDEAS ABOUT MASCULINITY
Creators: name: Mohamed, Sally Gehan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation explores the ways an idealized - overtly muscular - male body type influences how relatively young, white, middle class USAmerican men, both heterosexual and homosexual, understand the meaning of masculinity. The multi-method approach included analysis of magazine cover images and focus group discussions. A probability sample of 104 cover images appearing between 1999 and 2009 from four men's magazines - two directed at heterosexual men and two directed at homosexual men - was studied using both traditional content analysis and visual analysis. In the spring of 2011, 27 men participated in five focus groups - four groups of straight men only and one group of gay men only. Immediately prior to the group discussions, the men responded to a questionnaire asking about media exposure, exercise habits and ideas about masculinity; these were also the broad topics discussed in the focus groups. Magazines convey the social message that an idealized muscular body is the form against which all men should measure their masculinity. All of the men place physical strength at the core of masculinity although certain contrasts emerged between straight and gay men's ideas about their own masculinity and their ideas about masculinity in USAmerican society in general. The results confirm existing arguments about the impact images have on social comparisons men make regarding masculinity in USAmerican society. The results also support the notion that heterosexual and homosexual men perceive their masculinity and others' masculinity from a perspective informed by a hegemonic ideal, as put forward and elaborated in the work of Connell, and this ideal includes an idealized version of the male body as a central element. The results extend existing literature by indicating that men are not immune to issues of social pressure emanating from idealized body images.
Additional file 1 of The impact of hospital language on the rate of in-hospital harm. A retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Reaume, Michael
name: Batista, Ricardo
name: Talarico, Robert
name: Rhodes, Emily
name: Guerin, Eva
name: Carson, Sarah
name: Prud’homme, Denis
name: Tanuseputro, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Chronic conditions. Description of chronic conditions identified using algorithms validated by ICES.
Die Regenmoore Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns-Erste Auswertungen der Untersuchungen zum Regenmoor-Schutzprogramm des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The raised bogs of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - First analysis of the investigations for the raised bog conservation programme in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, FRG
Creators: name: Precker, Axel
name: Krbetschek, Matthias
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1996

description: Der gegenwärtige Arbeitsstand am Regenmoor-Schutzprogramm des Bundeslandes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wird vorgestellt. Im Rahmen der für das Schutzprogramm notwendigen Untersuchungen wurden die Moore vegetationskundlich und hydrologisch kartiert. Zahlreiche lithostratigraphische und geochronologische Untersuchungen trugen dazu bei, die ökologische und geologische Entwicklung der Moore zu klären. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß eine erfolgreiche Renaturierung nur dann erfolgen kann, wenn die Moore zusammenhängend, in ihrem gesamten ehemaligen Ausmaß, d.h. auch mit den umgebenden Niedermoorbereichen vernäßt werden. Die Ergebnisse von 3 Jahren werden zusammengefaßt dargestellt.
description: The state of a research project on preparing a raised bog conservation programme in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommem region (NE-Germany) is presented. Mapping of the vegetation and hydrological conditions of the bogs has been carried out. By the help of lithostratigraphic and geochronologic research the ecological and geological evolution of the raised bogs could be reconstructed in that region. The results show, that a successful renaturalization is only possible by rewetting the bogs over the entire former area, which includes the fen area too. The results of 3 years of research study are presented in summarized form.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
IDEALIZED MASCULINITY: IMAGES OF WHITE MEN'S BODIES AND WHITE MEN'S IDEAS ABOUT MASCULINITY
Creators: name: Mohamed, Sally Gehan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores the ways an idealized - overtly muscular - male body type influences how relatively young, white, middle class USAmerican men, both heterosexual and homosexual, understand the meaning of masculinity. The multi-method approach included analysis of magazine cover images and focus group discussions. A probability sample of 104 cover images appearing between 1999 and 2009 from four men's magazines - two directed at heterosexual men and two directed at homosexual men - was studied using both traditional content analysis and visual analysis. In the spring of 2011, 27 men participated in five focus groups - four groups of straight men only and one group of gay men only. Immediately prior to the group discussions, the men responded to a questionnaire asking about media exposure, exercise habits and ideas about masculinity; these were also the broad topics discussed in the focus groups. Magazines convey the social message that an idealized muscular body is the form against which all men should measure their masculinity. All of the men place physical strength at the core of masculinity although certain contrasts emerged between straight and gay men's ideas about their own masculinity and their ideas about masculinity in USAmerican society in general. The results confirm existing arguments about the impact images have on social comparisons men make regarding masculinity in USAmerican society. The results also support the notion that heterosexual and homosexual men perceive their masculinity and others' masculinity from a perspective informed by a hegemonic ideal, as put forward and elaborated in the work of Connell, and this ideal includes an idealized version of the male body as a central element. The results extend existing literature by indicating that men are not immune to issues of social pressure emanating from idealized body images.
title: Stand der Renaturierung nach industriellem Torfabbau (Mai 1995)
title: (Ausgangssituation für die Renaturierung)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: State of restoration after industrial peat cutting (May 1995) - (Start situation for the restoration)
Creators: name: Schmatzler, Eckhard
name: Blankenburg, Joachim
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 1996

description: Nach dem niedersächsischen Naturschutzgesetz sollen 30.000 ha Abbauﬂächen renaturiert werden. Aktuell wurden auf 6.500 ha Maßnahmen zur Herrichtung zum Abschluß gebracht. Nach weitestgehender Beendigung des Weißtorfabbaues stehen demnächst meist nur Schwarztorfﬂächen zur Renaturierung an. Zur Wiedervernässung dieser Flächen ist ein zeitlich begrenzter Überstau unerläßlich. Probleme treten bei der Vemässung von Hochmoor-Restblöcken auf.
description: The aim of the nature conservation law of Lower Saxony is the renaturation of 30,000 ha of industrially cut-over raised bogs. The restoration of cut-over bogs is finished on 6,500 ha until today. After mostly finishing the cutting of slightly humified peat the cutting of highly decomposed peat areas have to restore in the future only. A temporary inundation is necessary if you want to rewett such an area. The rewetting of bog remnants in form of blocks is a new problem.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Is home where the hearth is? : evidence for an early non-domestic structure on the Dundas Islands of north coastal British Columbia
Creators: name: Ruggles, Angela Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Northwest Coast cultures are commonly designated as "complex hunter-gatherers" (Matson and Coupland 1995:2; Ames and Maschner 1999:13). This means that although food procurement was from foraging, societies had socially hierarchical characteristics generally associated with late-stage sedentary agricultural societies. Tracing the development of social complexity in Northwest Coast prehistory has been a major endeavour in archaeological research but it has often been a progressive theoretical framework, inferring from material culture that the more 'complex' larger societies analogous with the ethnographic cultures on the NW Coast developed out of simpler, small-scale societies through the accumulation of traits like ceremony and feasting. In this thesis, I argue that the earliest periods of village life on the NW Coast did not lack these traits but were characterized by another type of ceremonial and ritual organization, one where communities shared control over feasts with somewhat equal access, at least as represented by the structures where these activities took place. I use data from the Dundas Island region on the north Coast of British Columbia to show that the recently-discovered early village at site T512-1, which dates to 2025 cal BC (1Σ = 2045 BC-1945 BC) includes a non-domestic structure (HP 1) not found in later Tsimshian style villages. To test this hypothesis, I compare T512-1 to another recently discovered village, T512-3, to the range of villages in the Tsimshian area and the suite of early houses known from the NW Coast. I have examined data on several scales of analysis from the village layout, the building architecture, building contents, and finally through a study of the central hearths and their contents in both structures. I believe that these data show that 1) HP 1 is non-domestic when compared to HP 20, the specific analogy of other Tsimshian houses, and general analogies of domestic behaviour, and 2) that the essence of this difference appears to be specific ceremonial and ritual behaviours that, in later times, are associated with the large houses of village chiefs.
Invasive Exotic Plants in Natural Areas of the Caibbean Basin: Quantifying Ecological Effects and Forming Management Partnerships
Creators: name: Clark, Daniel W.
name: Clark, Daniel W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Caribbean plants
subject: invasive exotic plants
subject: ecological effects
subject: Virgin Islands National Park
subject: National Park Service Exotic Plant Management Teams

description: Invasive non-native plant species are causing worldwide economic and ecological damage. As an example, the State of Florida spends over 20 million dollars each year to manage just a few of the worst problem species. Many of the same plant species are also spreading into the Caribbean. Most of the introductions in Florida have been for agricultural purposes, including horticultural production. Only a few of these have become serious problems, but the consequences of these few are focusing state, national, and international attention on invasive pest issues. Invasive exotic plant research is underway within the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park to examine the effects these plants have on native flora. Research conducted in the U.S. Virgin Islands is being conducted through a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Tropical and Subtropical Agricultural Research (T-STAR) Program through the University of Florida. Specifically, the project is comprised of four components: 1) survey the invasive nonnative plant species, including agricultural introductions, currently existing in the natural areas of the U. S. Virgin Islands and major Cays; 2) document the ecological effects of invasive exotic plant species on native plant cover, richness, and diversity; 3) examine the effect feral ungulates (donkeys) have on native and exotic plants as well as restored ecosystems and; 4) restore a section of protected natural Virgin Islands habitat within the Virgin Islands National Park by removing invasive non-native plant species and replacing them with native plant species from local propagules. Today, exotic plants infest nearly 2.6 million acres in the U.S. National Park System. In response to the degradation of native natural ecosystems service-wide caused by invasive exotic plants, the U.S. National Park Service has established nine tactical Exotic Plant Management Teams. Modeled after the approach used in wildland firefighting, the teams provide highly trained, mobile strike forces of plant management specialists to assist parks in the control of invasive exotic plants. Under the administrative and financial assistance of the Florida Partnership Team (created in 2000), the Caribbean team has been formulated this year. Work is coordinated through a liaison and contracted companies provide the labor for control.
Schriftspracherwerb mit Fokus Schreibenlernen im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung Eine Analyse von Lehrmitteln der Volksschule mit Berücksichtigung der alphabetischen Strategie
Creators: name: Grubenmann, Bigna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Kognitive Entwicklung
Schreibenlernen
Spracherwerb
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Literaturarbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, inwiefern sich ausgewählte Lehrmittel der Volksschule im Einsatz für den integrativen Unterricht mit Kindern im Förderschwerpunkt geistige Entwicklung eignen. Sie beleuchtet erst verschiedene Dimensionen für ein erfolgreiches Schreibenlernen. Die Forschungsmethodik beruht auf einer inhaltlichen Analyse nach Mayring (2015). Diese untersucht drei exemplarisch ausgewählte Lehrmittel der Volksschule. Anhand zweier Kategorien erforscht die Analyse das Material erst mit Blick auf die Erschwernisse von Kindern mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung, danach durchforstet sie die einzelnen Schreibaufträge. Durch die Analyse hat sich gezeigt, dass sich zwei der Lehrmittel mit Anpassungen für den integrativen Unterricht eignen. Dazu müssten jedoch die Handlungsorientierung und Visualisierung der Aufträge ausgebaut werden. Den Abschluss bildet eine Zusammenstellung von Anpassungsmöglichkeiten im Sinne des erweiterten Schreibbegriffs.