cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Supplemental Material - Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime
Creators: name: St-Georges, Simon
name: Arel-Bundock, Vincent
name: Blais, André
name: Aviña, Marco Mendoza
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Supplemental Material for Jobs and Punishment: Public Opinion on Leniency for White-Collar Crime by Simon St-Georges, Vincent Arel-Bundock, André Blais, and Marco Mendoza Aviña in Political Research Quarterly
title: Renaturation of hybrid poplar stands with the example of xylobiontic fauna in the "Regelsbrunner Au" (Nationalpark Donau-Auen in Lower Austria)
Creators: name: Laukes, Sylvia
Year: 2009

description: Der WWF hat 1989 ein 411 ha großes Areal der Regelsbrunner Au erworben, um diesen monotonisierten Hybridpappelforst durch sofortiges Außer-Nutzen-Stellen und gezielter Renaturierungsmaßnahmen in einen naturnahen Auwald rückzuführen. Auf Grund der kurzen Umtriebszeiten fehlte Totholz weitgehend, somit dem Wald Lebensraum und Nahrungsquelle für eine Vielzahl von spezialisierten Organismengruppen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, eine erste Bestandsaufnahme der xylobionten Fauna in Abhängigkeit zur Renaturierungsmaßnahme: Löcherhieb mit (LmA) und ohne Abtransport (LoA) der Stämme und Dickungspflege (Di) zu erheben.
description: In 1989 the WWF acquired a 411 ha area in the “Regelsbrunner Au” in Lower Austria to revert the commercial monocrop of hybrid poplar (Populus canadensis) to a natural floodplain forest. This was achieved by immediate cessation of the forestry management of large, contiguous areas and the deployment of specific schemes for renaturation. Due to short production turnovers, dead wood, and therefore the forest habitat and food source for many specialized organism groups, was scarce. The aim of this study is a first survey of the xylobiontic fauna using three different methods of renaturation: group selection with (LmA) and without (LoA) removal of trees, and juvenile spacing (Di).
Additional file 1 of The posterior tibial slope affects the measurement reliability regarding the radiographic parameter of the knee
Creators: name: Lee, Seung-Hun
name: Yoo, Je-Hyun
name: Kwak, Dae-Kyung
name: Kim, Sung-Hwan
name: Chae, Sung-Kuk
name: Moon, Hyun-Soo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Internetworking - vom Nutzen der Netze
Creators: name: Großmann, Hans Peter
name: Hölting, Guido
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Kommunikationsnetze
subject: WWW
subject: World Wide Web
subject: Informationsgesellschaft
subject: Internet
subject: Internetworking
subject: Nervennetz
subject: Netzwerktopologie

description: Die informationstechnische Durchdringung der modernen Gesellschaft in den Industriestaaten, aber auch zunehmend in den aufstrebenden Schwellenländern, ist unverkennbar bereits weit fortgeschritten und vollzieht sich in rasantem Tempo. Die Aktualität und Bedeutung dieses Themas drückt sich ebenso in der Medienberichterstattung wie im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch aus. Begriffe wie Datenautobahn, Multimedia, Online-Dienste, Datensicherheit, Internet, Virtual Reality und ähnliches mehr haben unseren Wortschatz bereichert und zählen mittlerweile zu den am häufigsten zitierten Fachtermini. In den meisten Fällen wird mit diesen Schlagworten vor allem die zunehmende Vernetzung moderner Computersysteme im beruflichen und privaten Umfeld mit den dazugehörenden neuen Anwendungs- und Erlebnisformen assoziiert. In der Tat spielen Computer bei diesen Entwicklungen eine wichtige, ja sogar entscheidende Rolle. Dabei wird allzu leicht übersehen, daß es neben den Computernetzen auch noch andere Netze gibt, die zum Teil sogar eine weit größere Zahl von Teilnehmern aufweisen, nämlich in erster Linie die Breitband-Fernsehnetze und das in globaler Dimension funktionierende Telefonsystem. Allen diesen Netzen ist vor allem eines gemeinsam: Sie dienen der Kommunikation. Die technische Entwicklung hat die Voraussetzungen geschaffen, mittels geeigneter Verfahren die Kommunikation zwischen Individuen zu vereinfachen, zu beschleunigen sowie unabhängig von Ort und Zeit zu machen.
sj-docx-3-ggm-10.1177_23337214231174129 – Supplemental material for Loneliness and Mental Health in Response to Early and Late COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Study of Czech Adults Aged 50 and Over
Creators: name: Vaculíková, Jitka
name: Hanková, Magdalena
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-3-ggm-10.1177_23337214231174129 for Loneliness and Mental Health in Response to Early and Late COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Study of Czech Adults Aged 50 and Over by Jitka Vaculíková and Magdalena Hanková in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Policy Brief: Youth Mental Health and Gender in Rwanda - Learnings from the Picturing Past Present and Future (PPPF) project
Creators: name: Kigundu, Emmanuel
name: Huxley, Sarah
name: Puspita, Vina
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2024
Subjects: W120 - Painting
W213 - Visual communication
L320 - Gender studies
L400 - Social policy

description: This Policy Brief describes the recommendations from MAP students intended for the Ministry of Health (MOH); Ministry of Education (MINEDUC); Ministry of Family and Gender Promotion (MIGEPROF); and Ministry of Youth and Arts (MINI YOUTH) in Rwanda. It was published on the MAP website 11 July 2024.
sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231177649 - Supplemental material for Effectiveness of three calcitonin gene-related peptide monoclonal antibodies for migraine: A 12-month, single-center, observational real-world study in Japan
Creators: name: Suzuki, Keisuke
name: Suzuki, Shiho
name: Shiina, Tomohiko
name: Tatsumoto, Muneto
name: Fujita, Hiroaki
name: Haruyama, Yasuo
name: Hirata, Koichi
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231177649 for Effectiveness of three calcitonin gene-related peptide monoclonal antibodies for migraine: A 12-month, single-center, observational real-world study in Japan by Keisuke Suzuki, Shiho Suzuki, Tomohiko Shiina, Muneto Tatsumoto, Hiroaki Fujita, Yasuo Haruyama and Koichi Hirata in Cephalalgia
Effects of Circulating HMGB-1 and Histones on Cardiomyocytes−Hemadsorption of These DAMPs as Therapeutic Strategy after Multiple Trauma
Creators: name: Weber, Birte
name: Lackner, Ina
name: Baur, Meike
name: Fois, Giorgio
name: Gebhard, Florian
name: Marzi, Ingo
name: Schrezenmeier, Hubert
name: Relja, Borna
name: Kalbitz, Miriam
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: early myocardial damage (EMD), DAMPs
subject: post-traumatic
subject: calcium handling
subject: mitochondrial dysfunction
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Hemadsorption
subject: Myocytes, Cardiac
subject: Histones
subject: Myokardschaden
subject: Herzmuskelzelle
subject: Mitochondriopathie
subject: Calcium
subject: Histone

description: Background and purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the effects of post-traumatically released High Mobility Group Box-1 protein (HMGB1) and extracellular histones on cardiomyocytes (CM). We also evaluated a therapeutic option to capture circulating histones after trauma, using a hemadsorption filter to treat CM dysfunction. Experimental Approach: We evaluated cell viability, calcium handling and mitochondrial respiration of human cardiomyocytes in the presence of HMGB-1 and extracellular histones. In a translational approach, a hemadsorption filter was applied to either directly eliminate extracellular histones or to remove them from blood samples obtained from multiple injured patients. Key results: Incubation of human CM with HMGB-1 or histones is associated with changes in calcium handling, a reduction of cell viability and a substantial reduction of the mitochondrial respiratory capacity. Filtrating plasma from injured patients with a hemadsorption filter reduces histone concentration ex vivo and in vitro, depending on dosage. Conclusion and implications: Danger associated molecular patterns such as HMGB-1 and extracellular histones impair human CM in vitro. A hemadsorption filter could be a therapeutic option to reduce high concentrations of histones.
Nash equilibria in human sensorimotor interactions explained by Q-learning with intrinsic costs
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sensorimotor interactions
subject: DDC 000 / Computer science, information & general works
subject: Game theory
subject: Reinforcement learning
subject: Spieltheorie
subject: Bestärkendes Lernen (Künstliche Intelligenz)

description: The Nash equilibrium concept has previously been shown to be an important tool to understand human sensorimotor interactions, where different actors vie for minimizing their respective effort while engaging in a multi-agent motor task. However, it is not clear how such equilibria are reached. Here, we compare different reinforcement learning models to human behavior engaged in sensorimotor interactions with haptic feedback based on three classic games, including the prisoner’s dilemma, and the symmetric and asymmetric matching pennies games. We find that a discrete analysis that reduces the continuous sensorimotor interaction to binary choices as in classical matrix games does not allow to distinguish between the different learning algorithms, but that a more detailed continuous analysis with continuous formulations of the learning algorithms and the game-theoretic solutions affords different predictions. In particular, we find that Q-learning with intrinsic costs that disfavor deviations from average behavior explains the observed data best, even though all learning algorithms equally converge to admissible Nash equilibrium solutions. We therefore conclude that it is important to study different learning algorithms for understanding sensorimotor interactions, as such behavior cannot be inferred from a game-theoretic analysis alone, that simply focuses on the Nash equilibrium concept, as different learning algorithms impose preferences on the set of possible equilibrium solutions due to the inherent learning dynamics.
sj-docx-2-rsh-10.1177_17579139231170786 – Supplemental material for Service user perspectives on social prescribing services for mental health in the UK: a systematic review
Creators: name: Cooper, M
name: Flynn, D
name: Avery, L
name: Ashley, K
name: Jordan, C
name: Errington, L
name: Scott, J
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111708 Health and Community Services
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-rsh-10.1177_17579139231170786 for Service user perspectives on social prescribing services for mental health in the UK: a systematic review by M Cooper, D Flynn, L Avery, K Ashley, C Jordan, L Errington and J Scott in Perspectives in Public Health
title: Differentialpsychologische Aspekte von Essstörungen
Creators: name: Wimmer, Martina
Year: 2009

description: In der vorliegenden Studie wurde die Fragestellung untersucht, ob sich Personen mit problematischem Essverhalten und ohne Problematisches Essverhalten im Hinblick auf ausgewählte Persönlichkeitsfassetten voneinander unterscheiden und ob geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede zum Tragen kommen. Zudem wurde analysiert inwieweit sich diese beiden Gruppen in Hinblick auf ihre Einstellung hinsichtlich Körperzufriedenheit und Ernährungsgewohnheiten unterscheiden. Um diese Fragestellung zu beantworten wurde eine Gruppe mit insgesamt 48 Personen (26 weibliche, 24 männliche) ohne problematisches Essverhalten gebildet. Eine weitere Gruppe, bestehend aus 24 weiblichen Personen, die zum Zeitpunkt der Befragung eine Beratungseinrichtung für Essstörungen aufsuchten, wurde als Vergleichsgruppe herangezogen. Beiden Gruppen wurde der computergestützte Persönlichkeitsfragebogen B 5 Version 3 und die Kurzversion des Eating Disorder Inventory-2 mittels Versendung per E-Mail zur Beantwortung vorgelegt. Es ergaben sich Unterschiede im Persönlichkeitsmerkmal „Impulsivität“ und „Herzlichkeit“ für Frauen ohne beziehungsweise mit problematischem Essverhalten. Auch in den Skalen „Schlankheitsstreben“ und „Bulimie“ ergaben sich signifikante Unterschiede. Auch Unterschiede zwischen Männer und Frauen, im speziellen im Persönlichkeitsbereich „Neurotizismus“ und in den Skalen „Körperunzufriedenheit“ und „Schlankheitsstreben“, konnten festgestellt werden. Schlussfolgernd kann festgehalten werden, dass sich beide Gruppen zwar in der Ausprägung hinsichtlich Essstörungsproblematik unterscheiden, sich jedoch in Bezug auf Persönlichkeitsmerkmale nur wenige Unterschiede ergeben, wobei aber geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede bestehen.
The pore-forming subunit C2IIa of the binary clostridium botulinum C2 toxin reduces the chemotactic translocation of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes
Creators: name: Eisele, Julia
name: Korb, Simone
name: Borho, Joscha
name: Fischer, Stephan
name: Heber, Sebastian
name: Endres, Sascha
name: Fellermann, Maximilian
name: Wohlgemuth, Lisa
name: Huber-Lang, Markus
name: Fois, Giorgio
name: Fauler, Michael
name: Frick, Manfred
name: Barth, Holger
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Binary C2 toxin
subject: Clostridium botulinum
subject: Transport subunit C2IIa
subject: Trans-membrane channel
subject: Polymorphonuclear leukocytes
subject: Migration
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Neutrophils
subject: Chemotaxis
subject: Clostridium botulinum
subject: Botulinus-C2-Toxin
subject: Leukozyt

description: The binary C2 toxin of Clostridium (C.) botulinum consists of two non-linked proteins, the enzyme subunit C2I and the separate binding/transport subunit C2II. To exhibit toxic effects on mammalian cells, proteolytically activated C2II (C2IIa) forms barrel-shaped heptamers that bind to carbohydrate receptors which are present on all mammalian cell types. C2I binds to C2IIa and the toxin complexes are internalized via receptor-mediated endocytosis. In acidified endosomal vesicles, C2IIa heptamers change their conformation and insert as pores into endosomal membranes. These pores serve as translocation-channels for the subsequent transport of C2I from the endosomal lumen into the cytosol. There, C2I mono-ADP-ribosylates G-actin, which results in depolymerization of F-actin and cell rounding. Noteworthy, so far morphological changes in cells were only observed after incubation with the complete C2 toxin, i.e., C2IIa plus C2I, but not with the single subunits. Unexpectedly, we observed that the non-catalytic transport subunit C2IIa (but not C2II) alone induced morphological changes and actin alterations in primary human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs, alias neutrophils) from healthy donors ex vivo, but not macrophages, epithelial and endothelial cells, as detected by phase contrast microscopy and fluorescent microscopy of the actin cytoskeleton. This suggests a PMN selective mode of action for C2IIa. The cytotoxicity of C2IIa on PMNs was prevented by C2IIa pore blockers and treatment with C2IIa (but not C2II) rapidly induced Ca2+ influx in PMNs, suggesting that pore-formation by C2IIa in cell membranes of PMNs is crucial for this effect. In addition, incubation of primary human PMNs with C2IIa decreased their chemotaxis ex vivo through porous culture inserts and in co-culture with human endothelial cells which is closer to the physiological extravasation process. In conclusion, the results suggest that C2IIa is a PMN-selective inhibitor of chemotaxis. This provides new knowledge for a pathophysiological role of C2 toxin as a modulator of innate immune cells and makes C2IIa an attractive candidate for the development of novel pharmacological strategies to selectively down-modulate the excessive and detrimental PMN recruitment into organs after traumatic injuries.
Additional file 1 of Effect of soy isoflavone supplementation on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Lei, Lifu
name: Hui, Suocheng
name: Chen, Yushi
name: Yan, Hongjia
name: Yang, Jian
name: Tong, Shiwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Maritime strategy in the era of control and denial of visibility
Creators: name: Taylor, Andrew
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Maritime
Maritime security
Strategy
Strategic studies
Navies
Navy
Andrew
Taylor
Maritime strategy
Principles
Visibility

description: In the contemporary, globalised world the maritime domain is more
      important than it has ever been throughout history. As such, maritime
      strategy - the direction of elements of national power (including naval
      power, in particular) to secure national interests at sea - remains a
      vital subject. Just as there are principles of military strategy, so too
      are there principles of maritime strategy.

      However, these principles have their roots in the thinking of scholars
      from as far back as the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Alfred
      Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian Corbett. Yet the political, strategic and
      technological environments have changed a lot since those periods, with
      the current context marked by advancements in information and
      communications technologies and their associated political and strategic
      ramifications.

      This thesis asks how the principles of maritime strategy have evolved as
      times have changed. In particular, it focuses upon how they deal with
      'visibility' - a triad consisting of knowledge, perception and
      interpretation. These have always been important to navies, yet the
      principles arguably say little about them. This thesis then ultimately
      aims to assess whether a new principle, control and/or denial of
      visibility, can be useful as a means of filling this gap.

      This thesis therefore contributes to the literature and discussion of
      maritime strategy not only by assessing traditional concepts, but also by
      assessing the extent of this gap in their definitions. Furthermore, it
      will assess whether a new principle is useful in filling this gap. The
      main finding is that, despite some evolutions in how they are conceived,
      the traditional principles only account for visibility to a limited
      extent, making a new principle of control and/or denial of visibility
      useful.
D7.2_Dissemination and Communication package - First reporting period
Creators: name: EU CORE Consulting S.r.l.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: D7.2 details the dissemination and communication activities carried out throughout the first reporting period of the CaLby2030 project, as described in Tasks 7.3 and 7.4. This deliverable will be updated in months 30 and 42.
title: Intelligenz und soziale Kompetenz von Jugendlichen
Creators: name: Weissenbäck, Ursula
Year: 2009

description: Das Anliegen dieser Diplomarbeitsuntersuchung ist die Erfassung von Intelligenz und sozialer Kompetenz bei Jugendlichen und eine mögliche Korrelation beider Variablen. Auch Geschlechtsunterschiede bezüglich der Intelligenz und sozialer Kompetenz sowie Unterschiede zwischen den Schulzweigen hinsichtlich jener Variablen werden erhoben. Der theoretische Teil dieser Arbeit umfasst zum einen einen Abriss zur Entwicklung der Intelligenzforschung und die Darstellung einer Auswahl an Intelligenzstruktur-Modellen, angefangen bei jener von Spearman, Thurston über Cattell bis hin zu Guilford. Zum anderen befasst sich der Theorie-Teil dieser Arbeit mit dem Begriff der sozialen Kompetenz. Was genau ist soziale Interaktion, in welchen Bezugssystemen funktioniert sie und wie kann man soziale Kompetenz definieren? Auch die Möglichkeiten der Erfassung sozialer Kompetenz werden dargestellt und abschließend wird „soziale Kompetenz im Sinne der Fragestellung“ definiert sowie deren Erfassung mittels PFK9-14, dem Persönlichkeitsfragebogen für Kinder zwischen 9 und 14 Jahren (Seitz & Rausche, 2004), erläutert. 126 Schüler der AHS-Unterstufe, zwischen 12 und 14, maximal 16 Jahren, in Wien Penzing nahmen an der computergestützten Untersuchung im Oktober 2007 teil. Die Ergebnisse zur Hauptfrage nach dem Zusammenhang zwischen Intelligenz und sozialer Kompetenz lassen einzig in einer der Dimensionen sozialer Kompetenz, der „Zurückhaltung und Scheu im Sozialkontakt“ einen sehr schwachen, negativen Zusammenhang mit der Intelligenztestleistung erkennen. Je höher die Intelligenztestleistung ausfällt, desto geringer sind Zurückhaltung und Scheu im Sozialkontakt. In einer Nebenfragestellung widmet sich die vorliegende Darstellung dem Unterschied zwischen weiblichen und männlichen Probanden hinsichtlich ihrer Intelligenz. Aufgrund der erhaltenen Ergebnisse lässt sich ein Zusammenhang zwischen den Geschlechtern und der Intelligenz verneinen. In einzelnen Skalen unterscheiden sich männliche und weibliche Probanden hinsichtlich ihrer sozialen Kompetenz. Allgemein kann ein Zusammenhang zwischen Intelligenz und sozialer Kompetenz hier nicht bestätigt werden; lediglich die Ausprägung eines Aspekts dieses Themenkomplexes, die Zurückhaltung und Scheu im Sozialkontakt, ist bei Personen mit besseren Intelligenztestleistungen deutlich geringer.
Technical aspects of in vivo small animal CMR imaging
Creators: name: Li, Hao
name: Abaei, Alireza
name: Metze, Patrick
name: Just, Steffen
name: Lu, Qinghua
name: Rasche, Volker
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cardiac MRI
subject: cardiac MRS
subject: imaging techniques
subject: small animals
subject: cardiac function
subject: ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION
subject: LATE GADOLINIUM ENHANCEMENT
subject: HEART WALL-MOTION
subject: PHASE-CONTRAST MR
subject: CARDIAC CINE MRI
subject: TO-NOISE RATIO
subject: IN-VIVO
subject: MOUSE HEART
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Heart Imaging
subject: Phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging
subject: Cardiovascular Diseases
subject: Global Burden of Disease
subject: Bildverarbeitung
subject: Kardiovaskuläre Krankheit

description: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has become an accurate and versatile imaging modality to visualize the cardiovascular system in normal or abnormal conditions. In preclinical research, small rodent animal models of human cardiovascular diseases are frequently used to investigate the basic underlying mechanism of normal and abnormal cardiac function and for monitoring the disease progression under therapy. Technical improvements have enabled the transfer of CMR to small animal research, and as such made this non-invasive technique available to provide insights into cardiac morphology, function, perfusion, and pathophysiology in small animal cardiac disease models. This article reviews the basic technical approaches to in vivo small animal magnetic resonance imaging and its variants for the most promising applications.
Additional file 2 of Effect of soy isoflavone supplementation on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Lei, Lifu
name: Hui, Suocheng
name: Chen, Yushi
name: Yan, Hongjia
name: Yang, Jian
name: Tong, Shiwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2.
On the market-consistent valuation of participating life insurance heterogeneous contracts under longevity risk
Creators: name: Bacinello, Anna Rita
name: Chen, An
name: Sehner, Thorsten
name: Millossovich, Pietro
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: participating life insurance
subject: heterogeneous policyholders
subject: market-consistent valuation
subject: longevity risk
subject: fair contract analysis
subject: DDC 330 / Economics
subject: Life insurance
subject: Longevity
subject: Risk management
subject: Lebensversicherung
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Langlebigkeit

description: The purpose of this paper is to conduct a market-consistent valuation of life insurance participating liabilities sold to a population of partially heterogeneous customers under the joint impact of biometric and financial risk. In particular, the heterogeneity between groups of policyholders stems from their offered minimum interest rate guarantees and contract maturities. We analyse the effects of these features on the company’s insolvency while embracing the insurer’s goal to achieve the same expected return for different cohorts of policyholders. Within our extensive numerical analyses, we determine the fair participation rates and other key figures, and discuss the implications for the stakeholders, taking account of various degrees of conservativeness of the insurer when pricing the contracts.
Fremdenfeindlichkeit Unter Migrantinnen Und Migranten: Eine Neue Perspektive Auf Die Fremdenfeindlichkeit
Creators: name: Mathis, Deborah
name: Bekiri, Drilon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: gnd:4120730-0
subject: gnd:4244141-9

description: Fremdenfeindlichkeit ist allgegenwärtig und prägt das Zusammenleben. Es ist daher nicht erstaunlich, dass die Sozialwissenschaft intensiv nach ihren Ursachen und Funktionen sucht. Mit dieser Bachelor-Arbeit soll ein Beitrag zum Fachdiskurs geleistet werden. Die Intention der Forschung besteht darin, eine neue Perspektive auf die Fremdenfeindlichkeit zu eröffnen. Dies, indem die Fremdenfeindlichkeit nicht zwischen Einheimischen und «sogenannten» Fremden beziehungsweise Ausländerinnen und Ausländern betrachtet wird, sondern die Fremdenfeindlichkeit zwischen Migrantinnen und Migranten. Die Ausgangslage dieser Bachelor-Arbeit bildet die Tatsache, dass die Fremdenfeindlichkeit zwischen Migrantinnen und Migranten bis anhin in den Forschungen und Erklärungstheorien zur Fremdenfeindlichkeit nicht berücksichtigt wurde. In Anbetracht dessen geht die Bachelor-Arbeit den Fragen nach, wie sich die Fremdenfeindlichkeit zwischen zwei exemplarisch gewählten Migrantengruppen zeigt und wie sie sich erklären lässt. Dies, indem Stereotypen, Vorurteile und fremdenfeindliche Verhaltensweisen mittels Leitfadeninterviews erfasst, anschliessend in Gruppendiskussionen erklärt und theoretisch interpretiert werden. Die Ergebnisse der Forschung zeigen, dass die Ursachen der Fremdenfeindlichkeit in der tiefen sozialen Lage und in Einflussfaktoren wie unter anderem der Konkurrenz auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, gelebten Wertvorstellungen und in den Medien zu suchen sind. Anhand der Ergebnisse geben die Autorin und der Autor eine Empfehlung für den Abbau der sozialen Diskriminierung unter Migrantinnen und Migranten für Professionelle der Soziokulturellen Animation ab.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2011 be + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur, 2011
Predictors of improvement in concomitant tricuspid regurgitation following transcatheter edge-to-edge mitral valve repair
Creators: name: Gröger, Matthias
name: Hirsch, Kai
name: Felbel, Dominik
name: Paukovitsch, Michael
name: Schneider, Leonhard Moritz
name: Markovic, Sinisa
name: Rottbauer, Wolfgang
name: Keßler, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Tricuspid regurgitation
subject: Mitral regurgitation
subject: Mitral valve repair
subject: TEER
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Tricuspid valve insufficiency; Surgery
subject: Mitral valve insufficiency
subject: Catheterization
subject: Tricuspidalinsuffizienz
subject: Mitralinsuffizienz

description: Background: Improvement in concomitant tricuspid regurgitation (TR) after mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER) for mitral regurgitation (MR) occurs frequently; however factors determining the post-procedural course of TR are not well understood. We investigated the parameters associated with TR improvement after M-TEER. Methods and Results: A total of 300 patients were consecutively included in this retrospective analysis. MR and TR severity as well as heart chamber metrics were assessed before the procedure and at follow-up. Device success was achieved in 97.3% of patients. TR decreased in 30.2% of patients. Patients with improved TR were more often female, had more severe TR at baseline, and their right heart dimensions at baseline trended to be smaller. Female sex (odds ratio (OR) 2.997), baseline MR-Grade (OR 3.181) and baseline TR-Grade (OR 2.653) independently predicted TR reduction. More pronounced right heart reverse remodeling was observed in patients with improved TR. TR regression independently predicted lower mortality (hazard ratio (HR) 0.333, 95% confidence interval 0.112–0.996, p = 0.049). Conclusions: A reduction in concomitant TR severity after M-TEER occurred mainly in females and in patients with high-grade TR and MR at baseline. TR regression is associated with better survival after M-TEER.
title: Q Allmächtig
Creators: name: Rath-Schneider, Gabriele
Year: 2009

description: Die Diplomarbeit untersucht die in der Fernsehserie (und den Kinofilmen) Star Trek gezeigten Gottesbilder einer fernen Zukunft. Wie zeigt sich das Absolute bzw. das vermeintlich Göttliche in einer Zeit, in der aus der Sicht der wissenschaftsorientierten, aufgeklärten Menschen alles, was Karl Marx als Überbau bezeichnet hat – so auch die Religion – endgültig überwunden scheint? Was tritt an die Stelle des vakant gewordenen Platzes eines Gottes oder einer Religion? Bietet die Wissenschaft ausreichend Ersatz? Haben wirklich nur die Anderen, vorwiegend die Außerirdischen, Gottesvorstellungen? Unter dem Aspekt, dass in erster Linie amerikanische, später auch europäische Zuseher, deren kulturelle Wurzeln im Christentum bzw. im Judentum liegen, befähigt sein mussten, die Bilderbotschaften des Films decodieren zu können, werden Schlüssel-Sequenzen aus den Star Trek-Serien. The Original Series (TOS), The Next Generation (TNG), Deep Space Nine (DS9) und Voyager (VOY) auf ihren religionsästhetischen Inhalt hin untersucht. Im religionswissenschaftlichen Vergleich werden Bezüge zu tradierten und neuen Gottesbildern hergestellt. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt auf einem außerirdischen Wesen namens Q aus der Star Trek-Serie: The Next Generation (TNG). Die Rahmenhandlung (erste und letzte Folge dieser sieben Staffeln umfassenden Serie) bildet ein Gerichtsverfahren, das von Q gegen die Menschheit geführt wird. Er verfügt über göttliche Attribute wie Allmacht und Unsterblichkeit. Q existiert jenseits von Raum und Zeit, seine Heimat ist das Q-Kontinuum. Diese ambivalente Erscheinung ist die Filmfigur, die am ehesten den westlich orientierten Gottesvorstellungen entspricht. Allerdings ist seine Gott-Ähnlichkeit doch äußerst fragwürdig. Alle Q-Folgen aus TNG sowie zwei weitere aus der Star Trek-Serie Voyager (VOY) werden neben den verbalen Dialogaussagen auf filmische Zeichen, Symbole und Codes untersucht, um religionswissenschaftliche Interpretationen geben zu können. Mit Hilfe der Film-Sequenzanalyse werden die Schlüsselszenen der Rahmenhandlung (das Gerichtsverfahren am Beginn und Ende der Serie) aufbereitet und untersucht.Das Roddenberry´sche Projekt Star Trek bricht in den 1960er Jahren Gott-befreit auf, um die unendlichen Weiten des Weltraumes zu erforschen und bringt letzen Endes im Laufe seiner 40-jährigen Fernsehgeschichte Gott auf vielfältige Art und Weise zurück.
sj-pdf-1-mrj-10.1177_00222437231167832 - Supplemental material for The Uptrend Effect: Encouraging Healthy Behaviors Through Greater Inferred Normativity
Creators: name: Costello, John P.
name: Garvey, Aaron M.
name: Germann, Frank
name: Wilkie, James E.B.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-mrj-10.1177_00222437231167832 for The Uptrend Effect: Encouraging Healthy Behaviors Through Greater Inferred Normativity by John P. Costello, Aaron M. Garvey, Frank Germann and James E.B. Wilkie in Journal of Marketing Research
Supplemental Material - Real World Treatment Patterns of Immunosuppressants in Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Claims Database Analysis in the United States
Creators: name: Birt, Julie
name: Delbecque, Laure
name: O’brien, Daniel
name: Wu, Jianmin
name: Vasey, Joseph
name: Dean, Alex
name: Sudaria, Theresa
name: Vadhariya, Aisha
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplemental Material for Real World Treatment Patterns of Immunosuppressants in Adults with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Claims Database Analysis in the United States by Julie Birt, Laure Delbecque, Daniel O’brien, Jianmin Wu, Joeseph Vasey, Alex Dean, Theresa Sudaria, and Aisha Vadhariya in Lupus.
Reverse engineering feature-aware commits from software product-line repositories
Creators: name: Bormann, Lukas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Version control system
subject: Software product-line
subject: Variation control system
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Software product line engineering
subject: Domain engineering
subject: Regelungssystem

description: Version control systems such as Git and Subversion are widely used. Even though software often has to allow for variability, the commonly used version control systems do not provide functionality to handle variability explicitly in a commit. This lack of functionality for software with high variability, like software product lines, results in time intensive development processes, reduced clarity of the commit history, and no possibility to propagate or revert individual changes to features. In this thesis, we introduce our operator FeatureSplit which addresses these problems, by reducing the complexity of the commit history of software product line repositories. FeatureSplit achieves complexity reduction through separation and regrouping of committed changes by feature. In an empirical evaluation, we show that the resulting feature-aware commits simplify the managing and referencing of variability in version control system. FeatureSplit simplified on average 88% of commits in the evaluated repositories.
title: Die Rolle der EU im kroatischen Demokratisierungsprozess
Creators: name: Stambolija, Damir
Year: 2009

description: Die Arbeit untersucht die externe Demokratieförderung durch die EU in Kroatien. Dabei sind sowohl fragen nach aktiven Strategien der EU von Interesse als auch nach indirekten Auswirkungen, sowie auch nach den hinter den relevanten Politikprozessen liegenden Motiven und Zielen. Dazu werden durch Literaturrechersche Theorien über Systemwechselforschung, mit jenen der internationalen Beziehungen verbunden und zu Theorien und Erkenntnissen über die europäische Politik und den Kroatischen Transformationsprozess in Beziehung gesetzt. Das Ziel davon ist die Schaffung einer Theorie mittlerer Reichweite die helfen soll grundlegende Aussagen zum Thema zu gewinnen
The angle of attack: Rapping technique predicts skill in hermit crab contests
Creators: name: Lane, Sarah
name: Cornwell, Tomas
name: Briffa, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Skill, the ability to perform a challenging behaviour well, has been shown to be an important determinant of success in a variety of contexts, including human sports, animal courtship and most recently, animal contests. Because skilful movement requires precise motor control, skill is assumed to be underpinned by traits that determine these abilities. However, while these traits determine an individual's potential to perform skilful movements (known as technique), this potential may not translate into skilful fighting due to interference from the opponent. Here, we investigate the relationship between technique and skill using the European hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus. By examining the spatial distribution of shell raps, we find that on average, technique exhibited during a "training" fight predicts the level of skill displayed in a real contest. However, our results also demonstrate substantial among-individual variation in the direction of change across the two fights, with some individuals exhibiting better technique than skill and others showing the opposite pattern. Finally, we find that winners, but not losers, progressively adapt their targeting of strikes when faced with a fully functional opponent. Our results indicate that skill is a combination of innate technique and the ability to adapt to an opponent's behaviour.
Zinc deficiency during pregnancy leads to altered microbiome and elevated inflammatory markers in mice
Creators: name: Sauer, Ann Katrin
name: Grabrucker, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Zn
subject: Gut-brain
subject: Trace metal
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Zinc
subject: Microbiota
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Enteric nervous system
subject: Depression, Postpartum
subject: Mood disorders
subject: Immune system diseases
subject: Zink
subject: Mikroflora
subject: Gastrointestinaltrakt
subject: Darmwandnervensystem
subject: Wochenbettdepression
subject: Affektstörung
subject: Immunkrankheit
subject: Spurenmetall

description: Zinc is an essential trace metal for bacteria of the intestinal flora. Approximately 20% of dietary zinc – intake is used by intestinal bacteria. The microbiome has recently been described as an important factor for healthy brain function via so-called gut-brain interactions. Similarly, zinc deficiency has been associated with neurological problems such as depression, mental lethargy and cognitive impairments in humans and animal models. However, the underlying pathomechanisms are currently not well understood and a link between zinc deficiency and altered microbiota composition has not been studied. Especially during pregnancy, women may be prone to low zinc status. Thus, here, we investigate whether zinc deficiency alters gut-brain interaction in pregnant mice by triggering changes in the microbiome. To that end, pregnant mice were fed different diets being zinc-adequate, deficient in zinc, or adequate in zinc but high in zinc uptake antagonists for 8 weeks. Our results show that acute zinc-deficient pregnant mice and pregnant mice on a diet high in zinc uptake antagonists have an altered composition of gastro-intestinal (GI) microbiota. These changes were accompanied by alterations in markers for GI permeability. Within the brain, we found signs of neuroinflammation. Interestingly, microbiota composition, gut pathology, and inflammatory cytokine levels were partially rescued upon supplementation of mice with zinc amino-acid conjugates (ZnAA). We conclude that zinc deficiency may contribute to abnormal gut-brain signaling by altering gut physiology, microbiota composition and triggering an increase of inflammatory markers.
Unraveling In vivo brain transport of protein‐coated fluorescent nanodiamonds
Creators: name: Moscariello, Pierpaolo
name: Raabe, Marco
name: Liu, Weina
name: Bernhardt, Sandra
name: Qi, Haoyuan
name: Kaiser, Ute
name: Wu, Yuzhou
name: Weil, Tanja
name: Luhmann, Heiko J.
name: Hedrich, Jana
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: drug delivery
subject: nanotheranostics
subject: tunneling nanotubes
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Blood-brain barrier
subject: Hospitals Drug distribution systems
subject: Nanodiamonds
subject: Tunneling (Physics)
subject: Nanotubes
subject: Blut-Hirn-Schranke
subject: Nanoröhre

description: The blood–brain barrier is the biggest hurdle to overcome for the treatment of neurological disorders. Here, protein‐coated nanodiamonds are delivered to the brain and taken up by neurovascular unit cells after intravenous injection. Thus, for the first time, nanodiamonds with their unique properties and a flexible protein coating for the attachment of therapeutics emerge as a potential platform for nanotheranostics of neurological disorders.Nanotheranostics, combining diagnostics and therapy, has the potential to revolutionize treatment of neurological disorders. But one of the major obstacles for treating central nervous system diseases is the blood–brain barrier (BBB) preventing systemic delivery of drugs and optical probes into the brain. To overcome these limitations, nanodiamonds (NDs) are investigated in this study as they are a powerful sensing and imaging platform for various biological applications and possess outstanding stable far‐red fluorescence, do not photobleach, and are highly biocompatible. Herein, fluorescent NDs encapsulated by a customized human serum albumin–based biopolymer (polyethylene glycol) coating (dcHSA‐PEG) are taken up by target brain cells. In vitro BBB models reveal transcytosis and an additional direct cell–cell transport via tunneling nanotubes. Systemic application of dcHSA‐NDs confirms their ability to cross the BBB in a mouse model. Tracking of dcHSA‐NDs is possible at the single cell level and reveals their uptake into neurons and astrocytes in vivo. This study shows for the first time systemic NDs brain delivery and suggests transport mechanisms across the BBB and direct cell–cell transport. Fluorescent NDs are envisioned as traceable transporters for in vivo brain imaging, sensing, and drug delivery
"Obesity isn’t 'good health' it immediately means bad health": uses, transformations, and consequences of the diagnosis of obesity
Creators: name: Troxel, Hannah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Over the past three decades, obesity has emerged as a central problem of individual and public health. At the same time, however, social scientists have established that obesity is not necessarily a natural health issue but is instead a socially constructed problem that originated in nonscientific white supremacist constructions of black bodies. In this dissertation, I address a gap in this literature by approaching obesity as a specific type of socially constructed problem: a diagnosis. Diagnoses are social categories and social processes that serve as a nexus for a number of phenomena (medical authority, social values, the management of uncertainty, etc.) and are put to use both within and outside of medicine. Through three studies of different aspects of obesity as diagnosis, I address a broader set of questions: How does the diagnosis of obesity operate? For whom is it useful and in what ways? I examine the following aspects of obesity as a diagnosis: 1. Physicians’ professional definitions of and organization around obesity via (de)medicalization; 2. The consequences of being labeled obese in the context of care utilization; and 3. Lay public deployments and transformations of obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic. I show that obesity is a malleable category that can be altered to serve the needs of medical professionals and lay people alike, as well as a category that has uneven and negative consequences for those who bear its label. Obesity can be deployed as a site for professional organization or a tool to resolve uncertainty; at the same time, it can serve as a barrier to healthcare and a means to deny fat people’s humanity. While obesity is central to Western understandings of health, this dissertation demonstrates that it is an unstable, exploitable category that can justify or produce harm against those to whom it is applied.
Transparency for multi-tier sustainable supply chain management: a case study of a multi-tier transparency approach for SSCM in the automotive industry
Creators: name: Fraser, Iain J.
name: Müller, Martin
name: Schwarzkopf, Julia
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: sustainable supply chain management (SSCM)
subject: supply chain transparency
subject: multi-tier SSCM
subject: automotive industry
subject: case study research
subject: DDC 330 / Economics
subject: Sustainability
subject: Automobile industry and trade
subject: Supply Chain Management

description: Sustainability in supply chain management (SSCM) has become established in both academia and increasingly in practice. As stakeholders continue to require focal companies (FCs) to take more responsibility for their entire supply chains (SCs), this has led to the development of multi-tier SSCM (MT-SSCM). Much extant research has focused on simple supply chains from certain industries. Recently, a comprehensive traceability for sustainability (TfS) framework has been proposed, which outlines how companies could achieve MT-SSCM through traceability. Our research builds on this and responds to calls for cases from the automotive industry by abductively analysing a multi-tier supply chain (MT-SC) transparency case study. This research analyses a raw material SC that is particularly renowned for sustainability problems—the cobalt supply chain for electric vehicles—and finds that the extant literature has oversimplified the operationalisation of transparency in MT-SSCM. We compare the supply chain maps of the MT-SC before and after an auditing and mapping project to demonstrate the transparency achieved. Our findings identify challenges to the operationalisation of SC transparency and we outline how FCs might set to increase MT-SC transparency for sustainability.
sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231215218 - Supplemental material for Numerical and experimental investigation of a centrifugal compressor: Prospects of polymer additive manufacturing
Creators: name: Zirak, Nader
name: Nguyen, Van-Thang
name: Deligant, Michael
name: Shirinbayan, Mohammadali
name: Danlos, Amélie
name: Żywica, Grzegorz
name: Henner, Manuel
name: Benevides, Rodrigo
name: Bakir, Farid
name: Tcharkhtchi, Abbas
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering not elsewhere classified
Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089231215218 for Numerical and experimental investigation of a centrifugal compressor: Prospects of polymer additive manufacturing by Nader Zirak, Van-Thang Nguyen, Michael Deligant, Mohammadali Shirinbayan, Amélie Danlos, Grzegorz Żywica, Manuel Henner, Rodrigo Benevides, Farid Bakir and Abbas Tcharkhtchi in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering