cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplementary document for On-demand indistinguishable single photons from an efficient and pure source based on a Rydberg ensemble - 4699672.pdf
Creators: name: Huerta, Dalia Ornelas
name: Craddock, Alexander
name: Goldschmidt, Elizabeth
name: Hachtel, Andrew
name: Wang, Yidan
name: Bienias, Przemyslaw
name: Gorshkov, Alexey
name: Rolston, Steven
name: Porto, James
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental material
title: Berlin evaluates school tobacco prevention - BEST prevention
title: study design and methodology
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk
name: Krist, Lilian
name: Bürger, Christin
name: Ströbele-Benschop, Nanette
name: Roll, Stephanie
name: Rieckmann, Nina
name: Müller-Nordhorn, Jacqueline
name: Willich, Stefan N.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::614 Inzidenz und Prävention von Krankheiten

description: Background The hazardous health effects of smoking are established, but there remains a need to evaluate existing smoking prevention strategies and to increase their effectiveness in adolescents. Strategies focusing on parental attitudes and rule setting have been identified as a potentially effective approach. The present manuscript describes objectives, study design and methodology of the BEST Prevention study. Methods/design BEST Prevention is a three-armed cluster randomized-controlled trial among 7th grade (11–16 years) students in Berlin, Germany. Schools were enrolled between 2010 and 2011 and allocated using a centralized randomization list into 1) a student smoking prevention intervention (visit to an established interactive circuit), 2) the same intervention plus a parent intervention, and 3) a control group (visit to an established exercise and nutrition interactive circuit). Students were assessed at baseline, 12 and 24 months via self-report, as well as via carbon monoxide and cotinine in saliva at the 24 month follow-up. Statistical analyses uses multi-level regression models with cluster effects (school and class within school) based on the intention to treat population. Here we report descriptive baseline characteristics of recruited schools, and schools classes. Two schools from the control group dropped out after allocation. Hence, 47 secondary schools from all 12 districts of the city, including 161 school classes and 3023 students are participating in the study. Of those, 2801 students completed the baseline assessment. Discussion The present manuscript provides details on the study design and methodology of a large school-based smoking prevention trial in a metropolitan area in Germany. Findings from this study will yield important insight into the long-term effectiveness of specific smoking prevention strategies, also in disadvantaged population groups.
Characterization of the first Mitochondrial SUMO E3 Ligase, MAPL
Creators: name: Braschi, Emelie
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: Mitochondrial dynamics play essential roles in a number of physiological processes, including metabolism, the cell cycle, cell stresses and migration. In these instances, mitochondrial morphology, distribution, and function are tightly coordinated by signalling cascades. However, it has been unclear how cellular signalling cascades intersect with the mitochondrial machinery. Many signalling switches utilize post-translational modifications to dynamically alter function, and we have shown that the division rates of mitochondria can be regulated by the conjugation of Drp1 with the Small Ubiquitin Like Modifier 1, SUMO1 (1). This modification functions in concert with phosphorylation events, making Drp1 a central candidate for the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics through signaling pathways. In the first aim of this thesis, I demonstrated that MAPL is a novel mitochondrial SUMO E3 ligase, which modifies Drp1 as well as other mitochondrial substrates. In order to understand the global impact of mitochondrial SUMOylation on mitochondrial fission and other processes, the second objective of this manuscript was to identify the binding partners and substrates of MAPL. To this end, I performed an affinity column which successfully identified a number of MAPL interacting partners, and using a large-scale SUMOylation assay on isolated mitochondria, I have characterized the mitochondrial SUMO proteome. One interacting partner of MAPL identified using affinity chromatography was Vps35, a component of the retromer coat complex. In the third objective of this thesis, I examined whether Vps35 regulates the formation of a novel aspect of mitochondrial dynamics: Mitochondrial Derived Vesicles, MDVs. Our lab has recently shown that MAPL is incorporated in small vesicular profiles that are targeted to peroxisomes. These vesicular profiles contain selected proteins and are formed independently of Drp1, the known mitochondrial fission GTPase. I have shown that the retromer complex is required for the transport of MAPL MDVs to peroxisomes, providing new insights into the mechanism of MDV formation. The work presented in this thesis makes important and novel contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of mitochondrial SUMOylation, and in establishing the role of MDVs in cellular biology.
Nonlinear response speedup in bimodal visual-olfactory object identification
Creators: name: Höchenberger, Richard
name: Busch, Niko A.
name: Ohla, Kathrin
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: multisensory integration
subject: olfaction
subject: visual-olfactory
subject: race model
subject: response time
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Multisensory processes are vital in the perception of our environment. In the evaluation of foodstuff, redundant sensory inputs not only assist the identification of edible and nutritious substances, but also help avoiding the ingestion of possibly hazardous substances. While it is known that the non- chemical senses interact already at early processing levels, it remains unclear whether the visual and olfactory senses exhibit comparable interaction effects. To address this question, we tested whether the perception of congruent bimodal visual-olfactory objects is facilitated compared to unimodal stimulation. We measured response times (RT) and accuracy during speeded object identification. The onset of the visual and olfactory constituents in bimodal trials was physically aligned in the first and perceptually aligned in the second experiment. We tested whether the data favored coactivation or parallel processing consistent with race models. A redundant-signals effect was observed for perceptually aligned redundant stimuli only, i.e., bimodal stimuli were identified faster than either of the unimodal components. Analysis of the RT distributions and accuracy data revealed that these observations could be explained by a race model. More specifically, visual and olfactory channels appeared to be operating in a parallel, positively dependent manner. While these results suggest the absence of early sensory interactions, future studies are needed to substantiate this interpretation.
title: Checklists for surveying and assessing industrial plant handling materials and substances, which are hazardous to water
title: Installation-related water protection: Checklist 15:Temporary cl.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: water protection
subject: installation-related
subject: water pollution
subject: water pollutants
subject: risk management
subject: checklist
subject: guideline
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Based on recommendations by international river basin and water body commissions, a checklist concept was developed as a tool to efficiently evaluate the condition of installations handling substances and preparations hazardous to water. It comprises an overview of potential fields of action as well as specific checklists subdivided by functional units, sectors and risk areas.
Palaeortyx Milne-Edwards 1869
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Galliformes
Phasianidae
Palaeortyx

description: † Palaeortyx Milne-Edwards, 1869
† Palaeortyx gallica Milne-Edwards, 1869 / syn. P. intermedia Ballmann, 1969 / † Coturnix gallica (Milne-Edwards, 1869), (Mlíkovskỳ 2002).
Location and age: Beremend 38; Lower Pliocene (MN16).
Material: 1 distal right tarsometatarsus (Figure 2 /5).
Dimensions (in mm): tarsometatarsus: E—3.5, F—6.7, G—5.0.
Description: The description was given by Göhlich and Mourer-Chauviré (2005). Within the extinct pheasant species, the Palaeortyx species are distinct both in size and in anatomical characters. Palaeortyx gallica is a mediumsized extinct pheasant species within the Palaeortyx genus. This species is slightly larger in size than P. brevipes, but much smaller than P. phasianoides. In P. gallica, the tarsometatarsus has an anatomical marker that makes it easier to distinguish from other species, but this fossil specimen lacks this marker (fossa parahypotarsalis).
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: Grund, Lower Miocene (MN 5) (Göhlich 2003); Litke 2, Lower Miocene (MN 5) (Kessler & Hír 2012); Kőalja 2, Middle Miocene (MN 6) (Kessler & Venczel 2009); Mátraszőlős 1, Middle Miocene (MN 6–8) (Kessler 2009b); Rudabánya, Upper Miocene (MN 9) (Kessler 2009b); Polgárdi, Upper Miocene (MN 13) (Kessler 2009b); Mátraszőlős 3, Middle Miocene (Horváth 2023).
Comparative material: Perdix perdix (67.21.1); Coturnix coturnix (2010.1226.1); Gallus gallus domesticus (60.12.1); Alectoris rufa (68.7.1); Alectoris graeca (2010.1221.1).
This material is not catalogued, it belongs to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Beremend and will be catalogued in their collection.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 331-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
Adsorption of volatile organic compounds on pore expanded mesoporous materials and MCM-41 silica
Creators: name: Serna-Guerrero, Rodrigo Ivan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: The increasingly stringent environmental regulations worldwide demand the use of efficient methods for air purification. This work is a contribution toward developing efficient adsorbents for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Three different varieties of ordered mesoporous silicas were evaluated: an ordered MCM-41 mesoporous silica prepared in the presence of a surfactant, a MCM-41 whose pores have been expanded by a post-synthesis hydrothermal treatment in the presence of an organic expander (referred to as MCM-EC), and a pore-expanded hybrid mesoporous silica produced by the selective extraction of its pore expander agent (denominated MCM-EE). With the intention to analyze their performance as adsorbents, the heat of adsorption (-DeltaHa) and adsorption capacity (q) were determined experimentally for five typical VOCs: dichloromethane, chloroform, benzene, toluene and cyclohexane. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Promoting the use of self-management in novice chiropractors treating individuals with spine pain: the design of a theory-based knowledge translation intervention
Creators: name: Eilayyan, Owis
name: Thomas, Aliki
name: Hallé, Marie-Christine
name: Ahmed, Sara
name: Tibbles, Anthony C
name: Jacobs, Craig
name: Mior, Silvano
name: Davis, Connie
name: Evans, Roni
name: Schneider, Michael J
name: Alzoubi, Fadi
name: Barnsley, Jan
name: Long, Cynthia R
name: Bussières, Andre
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: Clinical practice guidelines generally recommend clinicians use self-management support (SMS) when managing patients with spine pain. However, even within the educational setting, the implementation of SMS remains suboptimal. The objectives of this study were to 1) estimate the organizational readiness for change toward using SMS at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC), Toronto, Ontario from the perspective of directors and deans, 2) estimate the attitudes and self-reported behaviours towards using evidence-based practice (EBP), and beliefs about pain management among supervisory clinicians and chiropractic interns, 3) identify potential barriers and enablers to using SMS, and 4) design a theory-based tailored Knowledge Translation (KT) intervention to increase the use of SMS. Methods: Mixed method design. We administered three self-administered questionnaires to assess clinicians’ and interns’ attitudes and behaviours toward EBP, beliefs about pain management, and practice style. In addition, we conducted 3 focus groups with clinicians and interns based on the Theoretical Domain Framework (TDF) to explore their beliefs about using SMS for patients with spine pain. Data were analysed using deductive thematic analysis by 2 independent assessors. A panel of 7 experts mapped behaviour change techniques to key barriers identified informing the design of a KT intervention. Results: Participants showed high level of EBP knowledge, positive attitude of EBP, and moderate frequency of EBP use. A number of barrier factors were identified from clinicians (N = 6) and interns (N = 16) corresponding to 7 TDF domains: Knowledge; Skills; Environmental context and resources; Emotion; Beliefs about Capabilities; Memory, attention & decision making; and Social Influence. To address these barriers, the expert panel proposed a multifaceted KT intervention composed of a webinar and online educational module on a SMS guided by the Brief Action Planning, clinical vignettes, training workshop, and opinion leader support. Conclusion: SMS strategies can help maximizing the health care services for patients with spine pain. This may in turn optimize patients’ health. The proposed theory-based KT intervention may facilitate the implementation of SMS among clinicians and interns.
Investigation of geopolymer as a sustainable alternative binder for fiber-reinforced strain-hardening composites
Creators: name: Nematollahi, Behzad
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This doctoral research is aimed on multiscale development and investigation of properties of fiber-reinforced strain-hardening geopolymer composite. Typically high cement content is used in counterpart Portland cement- based composites resulting in high autogenous shrinkage, heat of hydration, and cost. Geopolymer is studied as a sustainable alternative to Portland cement. In summary, the performances of the developed geopolymer composites are either comparable or superior to the counterpart Portland cement-based composites in all mechanical aspects considered in this doctoral research. At the same time, they have significantly lower environmental footprints as compared to the counterpart Portland cement-based composites.
Second-century Greek Christian apologies addressed to emperors: Their form and function.
Creators: name: Buck, P. Lorraine.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Religion, History of.

description: This thesis examines the form and function of four second-century Christian defences: the Apology of Aristides, the two Apologies of Justin Martyr, and the Legatio of Athenagoras. These four works all belong to the same literary genre, i.e., they all contain addresses to Roman Emperors and they all imitate imperial petitions or speeches. They are also the only such works that survive in their entirety. This thesis has three objectives. The first is to discover the predecessors, if any, of this particular literary genre. While scholars have traditionally posited Aristotle's Protrepticus, Luke/Acts in the New Testament, and Hellenistic-Jewish apology as possible antecedents, it is much more likely that Plato's Apology was the inspiration for these works. Indeed, all three apologists were philosophers prior to their conversion and the only adaptation which they make to this literary form is that necessitated by changes in the political and judicial systems between fifth-century B.C.E. Athens and second-century C.E. Rome. The second objective is to demonstrate, by a literary/historical approach, that the literary form of the apologies is fictitious. Although scholars have traditionally maintained that the apologists at least intended that their works be read and approved by their imperial addressees, both contemporary and modern works which consider the form and content of official petitions to the Emperor as well as the particular circumstances in which they were delivered, demonstrate the speciousness of this position. The third objective is to determine, by a socio/historical approach, the literary and social function of these apologies in the second-century Empire. Two questions are thus posed: what was the intended audience of these apologies and what purpose were they meant to serve? After examining possible scholarly suggestions, in particular, that they were intended for the pagan public as a means of conversion, it is demonstrated that these defences were written primarily for a Christian audience for purposes of exhortation, confirmation, and/or instruction.
Supplementary document for Laser Annealing to Improve PbSe Thin Films Photosensitivity and Specific Detectivity - 4700258.pdf
Creators: name: Jang, Moonhyung
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Yoo, Sung-Shik
name: Gupta, Mool
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Figures
17ß-Estradiol Regulates mTORC2 Sensitivity to Rapamycin in Adaptive Cardiac Remodeling
Creators: name: Kusch, Angelika
name: Schmidt, Maria
name: Gürgen, Dennis
name: Postpieszala, Daniel
name: Catar, Rusan
name: Hegner, Björn
name: Davidson, Merci M.
name: Mahmoodzadeh, Shokoufeh
name: Dragun, Duska
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Adaptive cardiac remodeling is characterized by enhanced signaling of mTORC2 downstream kinase Akt. In females, 17ß-estradiol (E2), as well as Akt contribute essentially to sex-related premenopausal cardioprotection. Pharmacologic mTOR targeting with rapamycin is increasingly used for various clinical indications, yet burdened with clinical heterogeneity in therapy responses. The drug inhibits mTORC1 and less-so mTORC2. In male rodents, rapamycin decreases maladaptive cardiac hypertrophy whereas it leads to detrimental dilative cardiomyopathy in females. We hypothesized that mTOR inhibition could interfere with 17β-estradiol (E2)-mediated sexual dimorphism and adaptive cell growth and tested responses in murine female hearts and cultured female cardiomyocytes. Under physiological in vivo conditions, rapamycin compromised mTORC2 function only in female, but not in male murine hearts. In cultured female cardiomyocytes, rapamycin impaired simultaneously IGF-1 induced activation of both mTOR signaling branches, mTORC1 and mTORC2 only in presence of E2. Use of specific estrogen receptor (ER)α- and ERβ- agonists indicated involvement of both estrogen receptors (ER) in rapamycin effects on mTORC1 and mTORC2. Classical feedback mechanisms common in tumour cells with upregulation of PI3K signaling were not involved. E2 effect on Akt- pS473 downregulation by rapamycin was independent of ERK as shown by sequential mTOR and MEK-inhibition. Furthermore, regulatory mTORC2 complex defining component rictor phosphorylation at Ser1235, known to interfere with Akt-substrate binding to mTORC2, was not altered. Functionally, rapamycin significantly reduced trophic effect of E2 on cell size. In addition, cardiomyocytes with reduced Akt-pS473 under rapamycin treatment displayed decreased SERCA2A mRNA and protein expression suggesting negative functional consequences on cardiomyocyte contractility. Rictor silencing confirmed regulation of SERCA2A expression by mTORC2 in E2-cultured female cardiomyocytes. These data highlight a novel modulatory function of E2 on rapamycin effect on mTORC2 in female cardiomyocytes and regulation of SERCA2A expression by mTORC2. Conceivably, rapamycin abrogates the premenopausal “female advantage”.
Tetrao Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Galliformes
Phasianidae
Tetrao

description: Tetrao Linnaeus, 1758
† Tetrao praeurogallus Jánossy, 1969 / † T. conjugens Jánossy, 1974 / † T. macropus Jánossy, 1976a
Location and age: Beremend 38; Lower Pliocene (MN16).
Material: 1 distal left humerus (Figure 2 /6).
Dimensions (in mm): humerus: E—10.5, F—18.5, G—10.2.
Description: In his original diagnosis (Jánossy 1969), Dénes Jánossy described the morphological difference between fossil and modern species only in the proximal epiphysis. The dimensions suggest that the fossil from Beremend may be from a hen.
Previous records of the taxon—sites and their age: MN15—Csarnóta 2 (Jánossy 1976a, 1979a; Kessler 2009a); Beremend 26 (Kessler 2009a); Q1—Osztramos 7 (Jánossy 1973, 1976a, 1979a); Q2—Méhész 1 (Kretzoi 1975; Jánossy 1976a, 1979a); Nagyharsányhegy 1–4 (Lambrecht 1916, 1933; Jánossy 1976a, 1979a); Q3/I—Hundsheim (Jánossy 1971, 1974, 1976a); Tarkő 10 (Jánossy 1976a, 1979a).
The earliest European presence of the capercaillie is known from the Early Pliocene at Dorkovo in Bulgaria (MN 14) (Boev 1998), followed by the sites Csarnóta and Beremend in Hungary, and the sites Weze in the Vistula in Poland (MN 15) and Rebielice Królowskie, Ostramos 7 (MN 16) of similar age (Jánossy 1976b; Bocheński 1989; Mlíkovskỳ 2002; Kessler 2009a).
Comparative material: fossil: Tetrao praeurogallus Jánossy, 1969 (V.10.374); recent: Tetrao urogallus (58.37.1).
This material is not catalogued, it belongs to the Chapel of Reconciliation in Beremend and will be catalogued in their collection.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on page 332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
The impact of IFRS on the predictive ability and value relevance of fundamental signals and analysts' efficiency in using these signals
Creators: name: Wasantha Pathiranage, Nandana Pushpakumara
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on the predictive ability and value relevance of financial statement fundamental information (signals). Additionally, this research examines IFRS impact on analysts’ efficiency in using these fundamental signals for their earnings forecasts. The sample is listed companies selected from 11 European countries and Australia. The findings have high practical application for capital market participants, particularly for investors and financial analysts, but are likely to be of interest also to financial statement preparers, policymakers, standard setters and those in countries considering IFRS adoption.
A comparative study between ego-involvement and group identification as motivating factors on performance.
Creators: name: Hugh, Brother.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1954
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Behavioral.

description: Of the numerous motivational variables that influence human behavior, the present investigation has endeavored to limit the scope of study to ego-involvement and group identification. To determine to what extent ego-involvement and group identification are effective motivational determinants, attention tests were administered under conditions of control to three groups of high school students matched according to age and I.Q. One group was put in an indifferent setting; a second group was put in a group identification setting; a third group was put in an ego-involvement setting. Formulations containing essential elements of the motivational factors were given to the students prior to testing. "t" scores were computed and revealed the following: a "t" score of .77 was found between the group with the indifferent setting and the group with the group identification; a "t" score of 3.8 was found between the group with the group identification and the group with the ego-involvement type of motivation; a "t" score of 4.58 was found between the group with the indifferent setting and the one with the ego-involvement. In the last two scores the difference was significant. An effort is made to account for these differences. Suggestions for further study are made for academic groups and the two sexes.
Risk mitigation measures for pesticide runoff: How effective are they?
Creators: name: Flade, Jens
name: Klein, Michael
name: Großmann, Dietlinde
name: Klein, Judith
name: Türkowsky, Dominique
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Oberflächengewässer
Abfluss
Erosion

description: BACKGROUND One of the most important sources of pesticide pollution of surface waters is runoff and erosion from agricultural fields after rainfall. This study analyses the efficacy of different risk mitigation measures to reduce pesticide runoff and erosion inputs into surface waters from arable land excluding rice fields. RESULTS Three groups of risk mitigation measures were quantitatively analyzed: vegetative filter strips, micro-dams in row crops and soil conservation measures. Their effectiveness was evaluated based on a meta-analysis of available experimental data using statistical methods such as classification and regression trees, and exploratory data analysis. Results confirmed the effectiveness of vegetative filter strips and micro-dams. Contrary to common assumption, the width of vegetative filter strips alone is not sufficient to predict their effectiveness. The effectiveness of soil conservation measures (especially mulch-tillage) varied widely. This was in part due to the heterogeneity of the available experimental data, probably resulting from the inconsistent implementation and the inadequate definitions of these measures. CONCLUSION Both vegetative filter strips and micro-dams are effective and suitable, and can therefore be recommended for quantitative assessment of environmental pesticide exposure in surface waters. However, the processes of infiltration and sedimentation in vegetative filter strips should be simulated with a mechanistic model like Vegetative Filter Strip Modeling System, VFSMOD. The reduction effect of micro-dams can be modelled by reducing the runoff curve number, e.g., in the pesticide root zone model, PRZM. Soil conservation measures are in principle promising, but further well-documented data are needed to determine under which conditions they are effective. © 2023 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
Study of the low energy charged particles emitted in the interaction of 6 BeV and 27 BeV protons with silver and bromine nuclei.
Creators: name: Crouch, Kendal R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Physics, Nuclear.

description: A study has been made of the low-energy charged particles emitted from the interactions of 6 BeV and 27 BeV protons with silver and bromine nuclei in nuclear emulsions. The energy spectra of the protons and alpha particles are compared with the Weisskopf evaporation theory and with experimental results at other bombarding energies. The evaporation temperatures of the excited nuclei were determined for the emission of protons (including deuterons and tritons) and alpha particles, respectively, for the two primary proton energies of 6 BeV and 27 BeV. The two proton energy spectra are consistent with an evaporation temperature of 4 to 5 MeV and a potential barrier V° ∼ 3-4 MeV. For the alpha particle spectra, the parameters for the evaporation curves which give the best fit to the experimental distributions are a temperature, T, of the order of 10 to 12 MeV and a potential barrier V° very nearly equal to zero. These abnormally high temperatures (greater than the binding energy of a nucleon inside the nucleus) indicate the emission process cannot be entirely explained in terms of a normal mechanism of evaporation from a thermodynamic equilibrium state. Applying the value of T obtained from the proton energy spectra, with a value of V° - 7-8 MeV, gives a satisfactory fit of the theoretical curve to the experimental distribution for alpha energies less than 30 MeV. A study of the angular distributions of the emitted particles alpha shows that the emission is anisotropic, the distribution being peaked in the forward direction; this peaking is more pronounced at 6 BeV than at 27 BeV. In both cases, the forward peaking appears to be due exclusively to alpha particles of energy greater than 30 MeV. We may conclude, therefore, that these higher-energy particles are probably associated with secondary interactions provoked by the cascade, rather than with the pure evaporation process. In an attempt to understand the processes of interaction of 6 BeV protons with heavy nuclei, the angular distributions of the black tracks have been studied for stars previously analyzed in terms of the charged pi-meson distribution. The results are discussed for the cases when the incident proton collides: (a) with a single nucleon in the target nucleus, and (b) with 3 to 5 target nucleons. The results indicate that the interactions with a single target nucleon occur at the periphery of the nucleus, the two nucleons then leaving the nucleus without initiating a cascade. The star size and the average excitation energy are found to be smaller for the single nucleon interactions than in the case of the (3-4-5) target nucleon interactions and the probability of fragment emission appears to be greater.
title: Improvement of the predictive quality of CAMS forecasts for ozone and PM10 in comparison with measured values
title: Improvement of the predictive quality of CAMS forecasts for ozone and PM10 in comparison with measured values
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Neunhäuserer, Lina
name: Diegmann, Volker
name: Breitenbach, Yvonne
name: Nordmann, Stephan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Vorhersage
Ozon
PM10

description: The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) provides, inter alia, daily forecasts for the next 96 hours in hourly resolution for various pollutants. These forecasts are based on the results of chemical transport models and their ensemble. Due to their horizontal grid resolution, the CAMS ensemble usually provides too low maximum ozone concentrations in comparison with measurements at background stations. This has a negative impact on the correct prediction of threshold value exceedances at very high ozone concentrations. The project presented here explored to what extent the predictive quality of CAMS ozone forecasts for Germany can be improved by post-processing with different correction techniques, particularly with regard to the detection of limit value exceedances. In addition, interpolation of the correction factors derived at measurement locations onto the CAMS grid and subsequent correction of the CAMS forecasts are discussed. A corresponding study was carried out for CAMS PM10 forecasts. © 2019 Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes, HARMO. All rights reserved.
Metacognition in Binge Eating Disorder
Creators: name: Palmieri, Sara
Publisher: name: London South Bank University
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this research is to develop a better understanding of metacognitions about binge eating in Binge Eating Disorder based on the Self-Regulatory Executive Function model. Binge eating refers to an episode of eating an unusually large amount of food accompanied by a sense of loss of control.
Recent literature has started to explore the possibility that metacognition, i.e., beliefs that an individual has about his or her internal experience and how to manage them, may be associated with eating disorders. However, to date no studies have explored whether specific metacognitions about binge eating could be identified in the field of Binge Eating Disorder. 
The studies examined in this thesis are an effort to explore the existence of specific metacognitions about binge eating in Binge Eating Disorder. This has involved interviewing individuals with a diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder in order to create a metacognitive profile and using that profile to develop a measure of metacognitions associated to binge eating. Moreover, a comparison between participants with a formal diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder and individuals belonging to the general population (but presenting at least one episode of binge eating within the last three months) was carried out.
As a result, two types of metacognitions about binge eating were identified, namely positive and negative metacognitions. The former appeared to be associated with the usefulness of engaging in binge eating, while the latter emphasized the uncontrollability of binge eating and its adverse effects on cognitive and emotional states. 
When participants with a formal diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder were compared to the general population with a history of binge eating episodes, the former showed higher scores on both positive and negative metacognitions about binge eating compared to the latter. 
Clinical and treatment implications in the use of Metacognitive Therapy, general limitations, and potential for future research will also be discussed.
How many ripped-up contracts will it take?
Creators: name: Murphy, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Election day for Western Australia is just under a week away, and already tens of thousands have turned out for early voting. If the polls are anything to go on, Labor is looking a solid chance to take government. Locals like to make a point of the west’s being different from the eastern states - "Perth is closer to Jakarta than Canberra, you know?" - and there is plenty going on in the state election to support this, whether it's the strange Liberal-National-One Nation preference tango or simply the fact that the contest features three long-serving party leaders - Liberal premier Colin Barnett, Labor leader Mark McGowan and, albeit with a brief interregnum, Nationals leader Brendon Grylls - a rare sight in Australia these days. But some things are eerily familiar to the east-coast-dweller’s eye, and none more so than the politics of the Roe 8 freight link. The parallels between that imbroglio and Victoria’s infamous East West Link saga, for instance, are too many to count. An enormously controversial inner-city toll road provoking rolling protests, "direct action" and court challenges; contracts signed with an election only months away, despite declarations by the opposition that they won’t go ahead with the project; sweaty state Labor leaders telling the press pack they will rip up said contracts if they win office (which, when they made those pledges, looked entirely likely); tussles with the feds over redirecting Commonwealth dollars promised to the projects… the more one looks, the uncannier things get. Sydney’s WestConnex is not far below on the déjà vu spectrum, but Roe 8 and East West are so incredibly alike it's worth asking what exactly is going on here.
Characterization and Integration of Terahertz Technology within Microfluidic Platforms
Creators: name: Alfihed, Salman
name: Bergen, Mark
name: Ciocoiu, Antonia
name: Holzman, Jonathan
name: Foulds, Ian G.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: In this work, the prospects of integrating terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) within polymer-based microfluidic platforms are investigated. The work considers platforms based upon the polar polymers polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polycarbonate (PC), polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA), polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and the nonpolar polymers fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), polystyrene (PS), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). The THz absorption coefficients for these polymers are measured. Two microfluidic platforms are then designed, fabricated, and tested, with one being based upon PET, as a representative high-loss polar polymer, and one being based upon UHMWPE, as a representative low-loss nonpolar polymer. It is shown that the UHMWPE microfluidic platform yields reliable measurements of THz absorption coefficients up to a frequency of 1.75 THz, in contrast to the PET microfluidic platform, which functions only up to 1.38 THz. The distinction seen here is attributed to the differing levels of THz absorption and the manifestation of differing f for the systems. Such findings can play an important role in the future integration of THz technology and polymer-based microfluidic systems.
Supplementary document for Laser Annealing to Improve PbSe Thin Films Photosensitivity and Specific Detectivity - 4700258.pdf
Creators: name: Jang, Moonhyung
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Yoo, Sung-Shik
name: Gupta, Mool
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Figures
Stadtplanung und Stadtentwicklung als Hebel für den Ressourcen- und Klimaschutz
Creators: name: Verbücheln, Maic
name: Pichl, Josefine
name: Bunzel, Arno
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Natürliche Ressource
subject: Umweltgerechtes Bauen
subject: Stadtplanung
subject: Stadtentwicklung
subject: Stoffstrommanagement
subject: Natürliche Ressourcen
subject: Nachhaltiges Bauen
subject: Bau- und Planungsrecht
subject: Luft
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Wasser
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Verkehr

description: Städte und ihr Umland sind "Hot-Spots" der Ressourceninanspruchnahme. Gebäude und Infrastrukturen verursachen beispielsweise in der Bau- und Nutzungsphase einem hohen Bedarf an Rohstoffen, Energie, Fläche und Wasser. Stadtplanung und -entwicklung können wichtige Beiträge leisten die Ressourceninanspruchnahme zu reduzieren, da sie direkten Einfluss auf Bautätigkeiten und die Infrastrukturversorgung haben. Diese Broschüre richtet sich an die kommunale Verwaltungspraxis und zeigt mittels theoretischer und praktischer Fallkonstellationen Möglichkeiten auf, wie der Ressourcenschutz durch den gezielten Einsatz von Instrumenten der Stadtplanung und -entwicklung unterstützt werden kann. Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Städte und ihr Umland sind „Hot-Spots“ der Ressourceninanspruchnahme. Gebäude und Infrastrukturen verursachen beispielsweise in der Bau- und Nutzungsphase einem hohen Bedarf an Rohstoffen, Energie, Fläche und Wasser. Stadtplanung und -entwicklung können wichtige Beiträge leisten die Ressourceninanspruchnahme zu reduzieren, da sie direkten Einfluss auf Bautätigkeiten und die Infrastrukturversorgung haben. Diese Broschüre richtet sich an die kommunale Verwaltungspraxis und zeigt mittels theoretischer und praktischer Fallkonstellationen Möglichkeiten auf, wie der Ressourcenschutz durch den gezielten Einsatz von Instrumenten der Stadtplanung und -entwicklung unterstützt werden kann.
Balearica Brisson 1760
Creators: name: Horváth, Ida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Gruidae
Balearica

description: Balearica Brisson, 1760
aff. † Balearica excelsa (Milne-Edwards, 1868) —syn. † Grus excelsa Milne-Edwards, 1868, see Mlíkovskỳ, 2002
Location and age: Máriahalom; Lower Miocene (MN16).
Material: ungual phalanx (Figure 2 /7).
Dimensions (in mm): A—10.2, B—5.2.
Description: Characteristic crane ungual (distal pedal phalanx), which shows a characteristic sulcus along the side of the ungual in addition to the flattened ventral face. The fossil bone is more robust than the recent species, but this discovered bone is not from the Grus genus. The tuberculum extensorium protrudes, the cotyla articularis is more concave laterally. The tuberculum flexorum is bluntly protruding.
One species of the genus has been described so far in Hungary, † Balearica excelsa (Milne-Edwards 1868), from the Late Oligocene of Máriahalom (MP25), which was identified from a claw bone (phal. 2 dig. I) (collected by Zoltán Evanics, in the collection of the Department of Palaeontology of ELTE). Dimensions of the claw: length of the claw bone 11–12 mm, length of the distal part of the joint 4.16 mm, including the cotyla articularis 5.74 mm, thickness 2.78 mm. The shape of the claw bone, with its sulcus, is characteristic and its size corresponds to that of a recurrent crane (Kessler 2013a).
Since cranes are represented in the fossil bird fauna of Europe only from Eocene and Late Miocene strata, the find can be compared with only one known species, a fossil species described from the Early Miocene in France (Saunt-Gérand-le-Puy, MN2). Originally described as Grus excelsa by Milne-Edwards, 1868, the species was placed in Balearica by Mlíkovský (2002). It is also known in France, from Artenay (Lower Miocene, MN4) and Sansan (Middle Miocene, MN6). Mlíkovský (2002) also synonymised Balearica excelsa with Grus miocaenicus Grigorescu & Kessler, 1977, described from the Middle Miocene of Dobrudzsa, Romania.
Distribution: Early Miocene (MN2a) of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, France (Milne-Edwards 1869 –1871; Cracraft 1973; Cheneval 2000); early Miocene (MN4) of Artenay, France; and middle Miocene (MN6) of Sansan, France (Cheneval 2000).
This material is catalogued, number VER 2021. 73; the bones belong to the collection of the Hungarian Museum of Natural History.
description: Published as part of Horváth, Ida, 2025, New records of fossil bird bones from the Neogene in Hungary, pp. 327-342 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 332-333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15326047
Online voting system based on image steganography and visual cryptography
Creators: name: Rura, Lauretha
name: Issac, Biju
name: Haldar, Manas Kumar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper discusses the implementation of an online voting system based on image steganography and visual cryptography. The system was implemented in Java EE on a web-based interface, with MySQL database server and Glassfish application server as the backend. After considering the requirements of an online voting system, current technologies on electronic voting schemes in published literature were examined. Next, the cryptographic and steganography techniques best suited for the requirements of the voting system were chosen, and the software was implemented. We have incorporated in our system techniques like the password hashed based scheme, visual cryptography, F5 image steganography and threshold decryption cryptosystem. The analysis, design and implementation phase of the software development of the voting system is discussed in detail. We have also used a questionnaire survey and did the user acceptance testing of the system.
Supplementary document for Enhancement of spontaneous emission of semiconductor quantum dots inside one-dimensional porous silicon photonic crystals. - 4701006.pdf
Creators: name: Dovzhenko, Dmitriy
name: Martynov, Igor
name: Samokhvalov, Pavel
name: Osipov, Evgeniy
name: Lednev, Maxim
name: Chistyakov, Alexander
name: Karaulov, Alexander
name: nabiev, igor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sample synthesis and preparation; sample optical characterization: reflectance, photoluminescence, and time-resolved measurements; calculations.
Von der Krise zur Vorsorge - Einsichten aus der Beratung in der Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik
Creators: name: Daschkeit, Achim
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Vorsorge ist seit Langem ein etabliertes Prinzip der Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitspolitik und darüber hinaus im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch fest verankert. Ich schlage vor, Vorsorge in einem erweiterten Begriffsverständnis als heuristisches Prinzip zu verwenden, insbesondere um die Eigendynamik moderner Gesellschaften in der umwelt- und nachhaltigkeitspolitischen Beratung besser zu berücksichtigen. © 2022 Der/die Autor(en)
Constructing our futures anew: For greater intensity of becoming
Creators: name: Bok, Barbara Maria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis examines futurists’ capacity to engage with the future. A literature review contends that by separating their work into opposing domains futurists do not recognise important aspects of their expertise. Empirical data identifies two ways of engaging with the future. The first involves a reflection process of unfolding and revealing the future along a time framework. The second involves turning to the conditions to co-create an unknown emerging future. Futurists’ capacity to engage with the future is similar to but extends beyond that of laboratory scientists. Futures studies education may contribute to extending capacity to engage with the future.
Supplementary document for Enhancement of spontaneous emission of semiconductor quantum dots inside one-dimensional porous silicon photonic crystals. - 4701006.pdf
Creators: name: Dovzhenko, Dmitriy
name: Martynov, Igor
name: Samokhvalov, Pavel
name: Osipov, Evgeniy
name: Lednev, Maxim
name: Chistyakov, Alexander
name: Karaulov, Alexander
name: nabiev, igor
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sample synthesis and preparation; sample optical characterization: reflectance, photoluminescence, and time-resolved measurements; calculations.
Design and implementation of a distributed synchronization scheduler for a multimedia news-on-demand application.
Creators: name: Jarmasz, Jerzy P.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The CITR News-On-Demand is a system whose architecture follows the client-server paradigm: a distributed database provides multimedia news articles to users by means of a client application. Due to practical considerations, the synchronization system used in this prototype is a centralized one, in which the client application bears the whole burden of scheduling data retrieval and presentation. While this is simpler to implement, it makes more demands on the client's resources than a distributed system. Furthermore, research into the issue suggests that a distributed system would be more efficient at preventing synchronization errors. This thesis shows how the synchronization system of the News-on-Demand prototype can be re-engineered to make it distributed. It first considers the theoretical concepts behind synchronization systems and provides a framework for doing so simply and in a manner which can be systematically applied to any system. The News-on-Demand prototype is then studied using this framework, and its shortcomings as regard synchronization are discussed. Research at the MCRLab into distributed synchronization systems is also studied with this framework, and it is shown how this research can be applied to the News-on-Demand system. With this, a distributed synchronization system for the CITR project is designed and implemented, which integrates the distributed synchronization concepts into the existing system. The pseudo-code and the data structures of the new system are given and discussed.