cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Mit drei Schwerpunktthemen informiert die April-Ausgabe über die innere und äußere Erneuerung der TU Berlin. Millionen wurden für die bauliche Sanierung und Erweiterung des TU-Campus bewilligt. Sie erfahren, wohin dieses Geld fließt. "Zeit zu Reden" ist das Motto der Klausurtagungen in Ziethen, wo viele Ideen über die Modernisierung der Lehre entstehen. Auf drei Sonderseiten geben die Teilnehmenden einen Überblick über ihre Ergebnisse. Geredet wird derzeit auch über die Viertelparität im Erweiterten Akademischen Senat. Warum die TU Berlin sie einführen sollte oder warum es der Universität eher nicht dienlich wäre, erläutern die verschiedenen Parteien auf weiteren Sonderseiten. Aber auch zu Forschung und Lehre gibt es wie immer interessante Berichte sowie eine besondere Sichtweise auf Alexander von Humboldt in Paris: "Exzellent, aber prekär". Die Sonderbeilage "70 Jahre TU Berlin" dokumentiert die Ausstellung zum Universitätsjubiläum.
Environment as a home to architecture. The Cremona City Hub project
Creators: name: Faroldi, Emilio
name: Vettori, Maria Pilar
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The urban regeneration pro- ject of the former Marketplace area promoted by the Local Administration in Cremona through a two-step international contest which ended in May 2012, relies on the willingness to guarantee new and high standards of welcoming and liveability within a logic of “smart city” to be meant as an healthy, dynamic and economically sustainable city. The promotion of energy policies, the close connection between the urban and the architectural project, a new dimension of welcoming and residentiality, the environmental quality, and the fruition of culture, represent questions to which new project development capabilities intend to ensure adequate answers. The experimental research of the Cremona City Hub project targets these very values.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Low prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale mono-infections among children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a population-based, cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Whitesell, Amy N
name: Keeler, Corinna
name: Liu, Yunhao
name: Emch, Michael
name: Anderson, Olivia G
name: Meshnick, Steven R.
name: Mwandagalirwa, Melchior K
name: Doctor, Stephanie M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background In an effort to improve surveillance for epidemiological and clinical outcomes, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have become increasingly widespread as cost-effective and field-ready methods of malaria diagnosis. However, there are concerns that using RDTs specific to Plasmodium falciparum may lead to missed detection of other malaria species such as Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale. Methods Four hundred and sixty six samples were selected from children under 5 years old in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who took part in a Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in 2013–14. These samples were first tested for all Plasmodium species using an 18S ribosomal RNA-targeted real-time PCR; malaria-positive samples were then tested for P. falciparum, P. malariae and P. ovale using a highly sensitive nested PCR. Results The prevalence of P. falciparum, P. malariae and P. ovale were 46.6, 12.9 and 8.3 %, respectively. Most P. malariae and P. ovale infections were co-infected with P. falciparum—the prevalence of mono-infections of these species were only 1.0 and 0.6 %, respectively. Six out of these eight mono-infections were negative by RDT. The prevalence of P. falciparum by the more sensitive nested PCR was higher than that found previously by real-time PCR. Conclusions Plasmodium malariae and P. ovale remain endemic at a low rate in the DRC, but the risk of missing malarial infections of these species due to falciparum-specific RDT use is low. The observed prevalence of P. falciparum is higher with a more sensitive PCR method.
Holocene sea-level changes along the Channel coast of South-west England
Creators: name: Massey, Anthony Carl
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2004

description: Appendices can be found on ETHOS
description: A Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) history for the south Devon coast is reconstructed through an analysis of twelve cores extracted from the coastal back-barrier environments of Bantham Sands, North Sands, Slapton Sands and Blackpool Sands. Foraminifera preserved in the sediments are assigned an indicative meaning based on the vertical distribution of their modem counterparts from contemporary salt marsh and mudflat environments in the Erme and Salcombe-Kingsbridge estuaries. The contemporary data provide the first inter-tidal (-2.6 to +2.6 m MTL) foraminifera-based transfer function for south-west England from which sea-level changes can be predicted with good precision (RMSEP = ±0.29 m). Sea-level index points (SLIPs) from basal facies provide the longterm (103 yr) RSL history. SLIPs derived from non-basal minerogenic and peat sequences are subject to post-depositional consolidation and a vertical correction, using the Paul and Baffas (1998) method, was therefore applied to these index points. The vertical displacement of fine minerogenic sediments ranges from <0.1 m above basal facies to >1 m at minerogenic-peat contacts, increasing to >2 m in organic peat facies. The age of each SLIP is obtained by AMS 14C dating of bulk sediment or plant material. The electrical resistivity method of geophysical survey provides additional subsurface mapping information of the back-barrier sediments, and the lithostratigraphic results support the view that a complex barrier-lagoon system existed along the south Devon coastline during the early Holocene. Almost 13 m of RSL rise occurred along the south Devon coastline ca. 9000 to 4400 cal years BP. The rate of early Holocene RSL rise is -5.4 ± 2.1 m/ka and -1.1 ± 0.2 m/ka during the mid- to late Holocene. The pattern and rate of RSL rise is similar to other sea-level curves produced for the region. Lambeck's (1993a, b, 1995) geophysical model predictions fit the data well during the early Holocene but Peltier's (1998) model is the best overall fit of the robust data used to reconstruct the early to mid- Holocene RSL history. Rates of middle to late Holocene sea-level rise are generally faster than the models predict. The area is still undergoing glacio-isostatic adjustment (GIA) equating to a coastal land subsidence of -1.16 m/ka since ca. 4400 cal years BP. The dataset increases the current Holocene SLIP database for the south-west peninsula and southern Britain by 23% and for south Devon by almost fivefold.
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Gleich in mehreren Berichten der Mai-Ausgabe wird die Doppelbedeutung des "Grünen Bereichs" deutlich. Ein großes Interview mit TU-Präsident Christian Thomsen gibt einen Überblick über die derzeitige und die zukünftig geplante Entwicklung der Universität: Viertelparität, Innovationsprofessuren und die bevorstehende Exzellenzinitiative kommen zur Sprache. Auch das MINTgrün-Orientierungsstudium entwickelt sich im grünen Bereich wie eine Befragung zeigt. Zwei große Forschungsprojekte – Energie aus Wasserstoff und Energieeffizienter Campus – lassen auf viel "Grün" hoffen. Farbig wird es beim "galaktischen" Schwerpunkt, der nicht nur über Supernovae und Exoplaneten berichtet, sondern auch ein Exklusiv-Interview mit den NASA-Chefs Ellen Stofan und David Miller bietet. Highlight ist eine Posterbeilage zur Geschichte der TU Berlin, die auch zu interaktiven Entdeckungen einlädt. Lassen Sie sich überraschen!
Random affine code tree fractals: Hausdorff and affinity dimensions and pressure
Creators: name: Järvenpää, Esa
name: Järvenpää, Maarit
name: Wu, Meng
name: Wu, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C45, 28A80, 15A45

description: We prove that for random affine code tree fractals the affinity dimension is almost surely equal to the unique zero of the pressure function. As a consequence, we show that the Hausdorff, packing and box counting dimensions of such systems are equal to the zero of the pressure. In particular, we do not presume the validity of the Falconer-Sloan condition or any other additional assumptions which have been essential in all the previously known results.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Relationship between energy systems and landscapes. Guidelines and tools for design and management
Creators: name: Ginelli, Elisabetta
name: Daglio, Laura
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: Landscapes undergoing conservation, valorisation, management and reconstruction policies, become a fundamental factor for the local/global development of natural, cultural, human and social potentials of territories. With the contribution of technological design culture, the research, having a strong multidisciplinary character, focuses on managing the relationship between energy systems and landscapes with the general aim of subverting and transforming apparent conflicts in synergies, in order to overcome a sectorial and segmented approach barely based on energy performances. Through the introduction of a complex multidimensional methodology of analysis and evaluation the goal of this work, is to develop standards of acceptability, meta-design criteria and guidelines for design, intro- ducing a methodology for multidimen- sional complex analysis and evaluation, to support Public Authorities.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
What is known about conservative management of the shoulder in Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD): A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Fenty, Paula
name: Thomas, Liz
name: O'Brien, Rebecca
name: Nelson, David
name: Laparidou, Despina
name: Cooke, Samuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Conservative management; Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy; orthotics; scoping review; upper limb function

description: A scoping review to map the literature and research evidence on the conservative management of shoulder dysfunction for people with a diagnosis of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD).
title: Bibliography of Migration related Literature 2021-2022
Creators: name: Emmert, Simone
name: Roßkopf, Ralf
Publisher: name: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin
Year: 2022

description: Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin, Vol. 61 No. 2 (2022): Quarterly on Refugee Problems - AWR Bulletin (QRP)
Interpreting the Global 21-cm Signal from High Redshifts. II. Parameter Estimation for Models of Galaxy Formation
Creators: name: Mirocha, Jordan
name: Harker, Geraint J. A.
name: Burns, Jack O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following our previous work, which related generic features in the sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal to properties of the intergalactic medium, we now investigate the prospects for constraining a simple galaxy formation model with current and near-future experiments. Markov-Chain Monte Carlo fits to our synthetic dataset, which includes a realistic galactic foreground, a plausible model for the signal, and noise consistent with 100 hours of integration by an ideal instrument, suggest that a simple four-parameter model that links the production rate of Lyman-$α$, Lyman-continuum, and X-ray photons to the growth rate of dark matter halos can be well-constrained (to $\sim 0.1$ dex in each dimension) so long as all three spectral features expected to occur between $40 \lesssim ν/ \mathrm{MHz} \lesssim 120$ are detected. Several important conclusions follow naturally from this basic numerical result, namely that measurements of the global 21-cm signal can in principle (i) identify the characteristic halo mass threshold for star formation at all redshifts $z \gtrsim 15$, (ii) extend $z \lesssim 4$ upper limits on the normalization of the X-ray luminosity star-formation rate ($L_X$-SFR) relation out to $z \sim 20$, and (iii) provide joint constraints on stellar spectra and the escape fraction of ionizing radiation at $z \sim 12$. Though our approach is general, the importance of a broad-band measurement renders our findings most relevant to the proposed Dark Ages Radio Explorer, which will have a clean view of the global 21-cm signal from $\sim 40-120$ MHz from its vantage point above the radio-quiet, ionosphere-free lunar far-side.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Target weight achievement and ultrafiltration rate thresholds: potential patient implications
Creators: name: Assimon, Magdalene M
name: Flythe, Jennifer
name: Overman, Robert A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Abstract Background Higher ultrafiltration (UF) rates and extracellular hypo- and hypervolemia are associated with adverse outcomes among maintenance hemodialysis patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently considered UF rate and target weight achievement measures for ESRD Quality Incentive Program inclusion. The dual measures were intended to promote balance between too aggressive and too conservative fluid removal. The National Quality Forum endorsed the UF rate measure but not the target weight measure. We examined the proposed target weight measure and quantified weight gains if UF rate thresholds were applied without treatment time (TT) extension or interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) reduction. Methods Data were taken from the 2012 database of a large dialysis organization. Analyses considered 152,196 United States hemodialysis patients. We described monthly patient and dialysis facility target weight achievement patterns and examined differences in patient characteristics across target weight achievement status and differences in facilities across target weight measure scores. We computed the cumulative, theoretical 1-month fluid-related weight gain that would occur if UF rates were capped at 13 mL/h/kg without concurrent TT extension or IDWG reduction. Results Target weight achievement patterns were stable over the year. Patients who did not achieve target weight (post-dialysis weight ≥ 1 kg above or below target weight) tended to be younger, black and dialyze via catheter, and had shorter dialysis vintage, greater body weight, higher UF rate and more missed treatments compared with patients who achieved target weight. Facilities had, on average, 27.1 ± 9.7% of patients with average post-dialysis weight ≥ 1 kg above or below the prescribed target weight. In adjusted analyses, facilities located in the midwest and south and facilities with higher proportions of black and Hispanic patients and higher proportions of patients with shorter TTs were more likely to have unfavorable facility target weight measure scores. Without TT extension or IDWG reduction, UF rate threshold (13 mL/h/kg) implementation led to an average theoretical 1-month, fluid-related weight gain of 1.4 ± 3.0 kg. Conclusions Target weight achievement patterns vary across clinical subgroups. Implementation of a maximum UF rate threshold without adequate attention to extracellular volume status may lead to fluid-related weight gain.
Eco Power Parks. Energy Development of Regional Parks
Creators: name: Cangelli, Eliana
name: Baiani, Serena
name: Sibilla, Maurizio
name: Rotondo, Roberta
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The research is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach and focuses on the territorial consolidation and development of environmentally sensitive areas, like regional parks. Parks are places where ecosystem elements are preserved and improved, but also vast ranges characterized by various human activities and interaction levels. Within this context, the disciplinary contribution focuses on energy infrastructure – with the aim of identifying the features of the Micro Local Network – as a potential tool for the development and reconstruction of marginal settlements. The study investigates interactions of pieces of territory, vocations and energy sustainability of the context, providing classes, systems and technological components typical of the Micro Local Network. The results propose a pre-arranged, expandable and changeable model, as decisional support instrument for carrying out an energy sustainable infrastructure consistent with the environmental characteristics of the context, and compatible with landscape protection goals.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
Range prediction for tissue mixtures based on dual-energy CT
Creators: name: Möhler, Christian
name: Wohlfahrt, Patrick
name: Richter, Christian
name: Greilich, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of dual-energy CT (DECT) potentially decreases range uncertainties in proton and ion therapy treatment planning via determination of the involved physical target quantities. For eventual clinical application, the correct treatment of tissue mixtures and heterogeneities is an essential feature, as they naturally occur within a patient's CT. Here, we present how existing methods for DECT-based ion-range prediction can be modified in order to incorporate proper mixing behavior on several structural levels. Our approach is based on the factorization of the stopping-power ratio into the relative electron density and the relative stopping number. The latter is confined for tissue between about 0.95 and 1.02 at a therapeutic beam energy of 200 MeV/u and depends on the I-value. We show that convenient mixing and averaging properties arise by relating the relative stopping number to the relative cross section obtained by DECT. From this, a maximum uncertainty of the stopping-power ratio prediction below 1% is suggested for arbitrary mixtures of human body tissues.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, revised article
Clinic variation in recruitment metrics, patient characteristics and treatment use in a randomized clinical trial of osteoarthritis management
Creators: name: Allen, Kelli D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2014

description: Abstract Background The Patient and PRovider Interventions for Managing Osteoarthritis (OA) in Primary Care (PRIMO) study is one of the first health services trials targeting OA in a multi-site, primary care network. This multi-site approach is important for assessing generalizability of the interventions. These analyses describe heterogeneity in clinic and patient characteristics, as well as recruitment metrics, across PRIMO study clinics. Methods Baseline data were obtained from the PRIMO study, which enrolled n = 537 patients from ten Duke Primary Care practices. The following items were examined across clinics with descriptive statistics: (1) Practice Characteristics, including primary care specialty, numbers and specialties of providers, numbers of patients age 55+, urban/rural location and county poverty level; (2) Recruitment Metrics, including rates of eligibility, refusal and randomization; (3) Participants’ Characteristics, including demographic and clinical data (general and OA-related); and (4) Participants’ Self-Reported OA Treatment Use, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) were computed for participant characteristics and OA treatment use to describe between-clinic variation. Results Study clinics varied considerably across all measures, with notable differences in numbers of patients age 55+ (1,507-5,400), urban/rural location (ranging from “rural” to “small city”), and proportion of county households below poverty level (12%-26%). Among all medical records reviewed, 19% of patients were initially eligible (10%-31% across clinics), and among these, 17% were randomized into the study (13%-21% across clinics). There was considerable between-clinic variation, as measured by the ICC (>0.01), for the following patient characteristics and OA treatment use variables: age (means: 60.4-66.1 years), gender (66%-88% female), race (16%-61% non-white), low income status (5%-27%), presence of hip OA (26%-68%), presence both knee and hip OA (23%-61%), physical therapy for knee OA (24%-61%) and hip OA (0%-71%), and use of knee brace with metal supports (0%-18%). Conclusions Although PRIMO study sites were part of one primary care practice network in one health care system, clinic and patient characteristics varied considerably, as did OA treatment use. This heterogeneity illustrates the importance of including multiple, diverse sites in trials for knee and hip OA, to enhance the generalizability and evaluate potential for real-world implementation. Trial registration Clinical Trial Registration Number: NCT 01435109
Urban environment and vegetation: comfort and urban heat island mitigation
Creators: name: Magliocco, Adriano
name: Perini, Katia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: This paper analyses the outcomes of an experimental simulation on the microclimatic effects and on thermal comfort of vegetation in urban environment, conducted by means of a three-dimensional microclimate model, ENVI- met 3.1. The simulation considers a wide range of hypothetical cases of typical city areas with different characteristics related to: building density, building height, vegetation type and density. The results of the study show how different combinations of amount and type of vegetation, density and height of buildings affect the urban heat island phenomenon in Mediterranean climate.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Die Universität ist immer in Bewegung, an vielen Stellen wird neu justiert. Das zeigt auch die Dezember-Ausgabe. Die TU Berlin spielt eine bedeutende Rolle im Prozess der Entwicklung Berlins zur digitalen Hauptstadt, sie bildet neue Schwerpunkte in der Forschung, in der transdisziplinäre Forschung – gemeinsam mit der Gesellschaft – einen neuen Raum einnimmt; sie bringt sich in die Integration der Geflüchteten ein und in die Diskussion um einen möglichen Import von neuem Antisemitismus, ordnet die Verwertung von Patenten zu aller Nutzen neu und weitet ihre internationale Präsenz aus. Die Studierenden befassen sich mit Technologien zur Verbesserung der Umwelt, zur Bekämpfung von Armut auch im Ausland – und ein spezieller Gast verursachte große Aufregung am Institut für Mathematik: "Tristan", der T-Rex, der in Kürze im Naturkundemuseum zu sehen sein wird.
Innovative methods for a sustainable retrofit of the existing building stock. A cross-path from social housing to the listed heritage
Creators: name: Davoli, Pietromaria
name: Belpoliti, Vittorino
name: Boarin, Paola
name: Calzolari, Marta
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: Three correlated researches try to give operative answers to the problem of defining procedures and tools for a correct survey and retrofit actions for the existing building stock. Starting from a first research on social housing energy retrofit, a fast audit protocol and different intervention scenarios have been defined, with the ultimate purpose of supporting the energy transformation of older urban aggregates; this cluster includes single buildings with high historical values, which necessarily need a deeper diagnosis with a future perspective of a wider promotion and evaluation of environmental sustainability issues.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Zwei Schwerpunktthemen nehmen in der Januar-Ausgabe großen Raum ein: Die Zukunft der Museumsforschung und Museumskonzeption, die durch die Vergabe des Leibniz-Preises an die Kunsthistorikerin Bénédicte Savoy einen wichtigen Schub bekommen werden, und ein Überblick über das Großprojekt zur Verwaltungsreform der TU Berlin: das Campusmanagement-Projekt mit umfassenden digitalisierten Prozessen. Aber auch der Klimawandel ist ein Thema, die Errichtung einer Klimahülle für eine Kita, die emotionale Bedeutung von Musik in der Wirtschaft – und ein besonderes "glückliches" Bier ... Dazu Geschichten vom Campus, aus den Hörsälen und der Blick zu TU-Aktivitäten im Ausland.
Sustainability and heritage: from a case study, new horizon of research
Creators: name: Franco, Giovanna
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: Changes in contemporary age force the scientific community to face the challenges of sustainability also within the historical context. It is not just a purely investigation on ecological footprint or energy efficiency; it is a crucial issue for human activity and behaviour. The article presents the new horizon of research opened within the work of a multidisciplinary group on the complex of the Albergo dei Poveri of Genoa, in order to facilitate its complete re-use as humanistic didactic university pole. The research is finalised to set up a knowledge system to improve the management process of any future intervention on the complex, touching the four pillars of sustainability: economics, environmental, social and cultural, beyond the purely technical and energetic sphere. Main objective is also to reach more general results, touching also the methodological sphere.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Forschung nimmt einen großen Raum in der Juni-Ausgabe ein. Zwei Graduiertenkollegs und zwei Sonderforschungsbereiche zu Identität und Erbe, Innovationsgesellschaften, Diskreter Geometrie und Gasturbinen wurden bewilligt beziehungsweise verlängert. Außerdem geht es um die Rettung der Erde, von Brücken und Autobahnen, um Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, Navigation auf hoher See, Antibiotika, Stadtgrün und um Start-Ups von Unternehmerinnen mit Migrationshintergrund. Auch in der Lehre tut sich viel Neues: Ein virtuelles Klassenzimmer für die Lehrkräftebildung sowie Innenstadtszenarien für den Einzelhandel oder eine Quiz-App für Qualitätsexperten wurden entwickelt. Natürlich, wie immer, weitere bunte, interessante und politische Geschichten rund um den Campus. Und zum Abspannen: Impressionen von der "Langen Nacht".
Cultural repertoires and food-related household technology within Colonia households under conditions of material hardship
Creators: name: Johnson, Cassandra M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2012

description: AbstractIntroductionMexican-origin women in the U.S. living in colonias (new-destination Mexican-immigrant communities) along the Texas-Mexico border suffer from a high incidence of food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease. Understanding environmental factors that influence food-related behaviors among this population will be important to improving the well-being of colonia households. This article focuses on cultural repertoires that enable food choice and the everyday uses of technology in food-related practice by Mexican-immigrant women in colonia households under conditions of material hardship. Findings are presented within a conceptual framework informed by concepts drawn from sociological accounts of technology, food choice, culture, and material hardship.MethodsField notes were provided by teams of promotora-researchers (indigenous community health workers) and public-health professionals trained as participant observers. They conducted observations on three separate occasions (two half-days during the week and one weekend day) within eight family residences located in colonias near the towns of Alton and San Carlos, Texas. English observations were coded inductively and early observations stressed the importance of technology and material hardship in food-related behavior. These observations were further explored and coded using the qualitative data package Atlas.ti.ResultsTechnology included kitchen implements used in standard and adapted configurations and household infrastructure. Residents employed tools across a range of food-related activities identified as forms of food acquisition, storage, preparation, serving, feeding and eating, cleaning, and waste processing. Material hardships included the quality, quantity, acceptability, and uncertainty dimensions of food insecurity, and insufficient consumption of housing, clothing and medical care. Cultural repertoires for coping with material hardship included reliance on inexpensive staple foods and dishes, and conventional and innovative technological practices. These repertoires expressed the creative agency of women colonia residents. Food-related practices were constrained by climate, animal and insect pests, women’s gender roles, limitations in neighborhood and household infrastructure, and economic and material resources.ConclusionsThis research points to the importance of socioeconomic and structural factors such as gender roles, economic poverty and material hardship as constraints on food choice and food-related behavior. In turn, it emphasizes the innovative practices employed by women residents of colonias to prepare meals under these constraints.
S. Johannes in Jerusalem Church: enhancement through technological analysis
Creators: name: Sichi, Andrea
name: Rosini, Carolina
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The research aims to exhaust the store of knowledge on a nearly one thousand years monument through the study and the interpretation of ancient technological devices that have generated unique formal characteristics. The analysis on the church of the Castello della Magione in Poggibonsi, monumental complex near the ancient Via Francigena, face the evolutionary history in an attempt to fill the lack of documentation. Critical observation of the monument, direct survey of technological and structural devices, punctual measurements aimed at verifying the hypothesis, reconstruction carried out in the field and reworking of data in post-production are the distinctive characteristics of the search method. In particular, we have achieved the following results: hypothesis of self-supporting during construction of a brick vault not coeval with the church; formal interpretation of the unique denticular single-lancet window of the church’s main front, that has so far left scholars' curiosity unsatisfied; detection of the method for tracking the monument and the proportional relationships used to its location in relation to the existing context; he explanation of the peculiar and irregular orientation of the church; assumptions about the dating of the monument, still uncertain because of the lack of documents; in general, the complete knowledge of the monument aimed to provide useful tools for the enhancement and for a correct approach in case of any restoration.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Die bevorstehenden Wahlen zum Abgeordnetenhaus sind auch für die Universität bedeutsam: Planungssicherheit, bessere Bedingungen für Studium und Spitzenforschung umzusetzen fordern daher die Berliner Parteien. "TU intern" hat in ihrer Juli-Ausgabe die hochschulpolitischen Sprecher und die Sprecherin nach ihren genauen Plänen für die nächste Legislaturperiode gefragt. Die Uni sorgt derweil für die Zukunft vor: Einer der Ideengeber des interdisziplinären Forschungszentrums, das auf dem Ostgelände entsteht, Volker Mehrmann, erzählt, was dort erforscht werden soll. Viel Aktuelles wird berichtet, über die ersten Pläne zur Exzellenzinitiative, weitere Baupläne, über Alumni, die mit Messtechnik erfolgreich sind, über Identität, die durch Denkmäler vermittelt wird, Doping und Gesundheit, Klimaforschung in der Stadt, über ein Computerprogramm, das von der TU Berlin aus die Welt erobert und wer uns bei Olympia in Rio vertritt. Eine zweisprachige "Special Edition" als Beilage erlaubt einen Blick zurück auf die Lunchtime Fair der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung und erhellt vieles, was man schon immer über die TU Berlin wissen wollte – und nie zu fragen wagte.
Age-specific information resources to address the needs of young people with stroke: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Gopaul, Urvashy
name: Charalambous, Marina
name: THILARAJAH, Shamala
name: KWAH, Li
name: CHAPMAN, Sherita
name: Bayley, Mark
name: Demers, Marika
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: community-based stroke care
subject: information needs for stroke
subject: stroke
subject: Young people with stroke

description: Young people with stroke(YPwS) persistently experience challenges with disability, social reintegration, employment and financial stability to provide for themselves and their families. The aims of this scoping review are to: 1) identify and collate information resources for YPwS and evidence-based self-managements programs and, 2) identify gaps in age-specific resources available for YPwS after traditional rehabilitation services have ended and/or who are returning to live in the community. We will include both qualitative and quantitative studies, including all study designs. Participants will be community-dwelling adults aged between 18–65 years with a clinical diagnosis of stroke. We will include information resources and evidence-based self-managements programs for YPwS. The titles, abstracts, full-text articles and contents of the resources identified by the search will be assessed against the inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify potentially relevant resources. Existing resources and self-management programs will be collated and categorized according to the type of needs addressed such as physical, emotions, activities of daily living, information, relationships and social needs as well as the key gaps identified.
Baukunst and the project of the construction’s form. Research and didactics
Creators: name: Ardito, Vitangelo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: In the ICAR Department of Bari, there is an ongoing research on some German architects of the last century: Paul Schmitthenner, Heinrich Tessenow, Theodor Fischer, Hans Doellgast etc. In detail, they are studying the aspects of construction of the architecture, construction techniques, use of materials, construction systems and construction processes. The main subject is the “architectural object”, studied through archive researches, metrical reliefs and graphical reconstruction that are useful to “decompose and reassemble” the pieces of the building in order to understand the formal and constructive reasons. The results of this research are applied in “Laboratory 1 of Architectural Construction”, where it is taught a “home-made” method of project, which may be useful during professional life.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Mehr als Faktenwissen vermitteln möchten die Professoren und ihre Teams, die am Erstsemestertag für ihre vorbildliche Lehre ausgezeichnet werden. Sie und auch die Erwin-Stephan-Preisträgerin und die ersten Absolventen des Flüchtlingsprogramms "In(2)TUBerlin" werden in der Oktober-Ausgabe vorgestellt. Wer "mitreden und mitgestalten" will, findet einen Überblick über die Gremien, in denen man seine Stimme einbringen kann. Auch die Internationalisierung der Universität schreitet voran. 66 Maßnahmen werden auf zwei Sonderseiten vorgestellt. Natürlich bereitet sich die TU Berlin auf die Exzellenzstrategie vor. Wie, das erklärt Vizepräsidentin Christine Ahrend im Interview. Außerdem gibt es ein ausführliches Interview mit Dr. Turi King, die die diesjährige Queen’s Lecture über König Richard III. halten wird.
Molecular cytogenetic characterization of canine histiocytic sarcoma: A spontaneous model for human histiocytic cancer identifies deletion of tumor suppressor genes and highlights influence of genetic background on tumor behavior.
Creators: name: Breen, Matthew
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2011

description: Abstract Background Histiocytic malignancies in both humans and dogs are rare and poorly understood. While canine histiocytic sarcoma (HS) is uncommon in the general domestic dog population, there is a strikingly high incidence in a subset of breeds, suggesting heritable predisposition. Molecular cytogenetic profiling of canine HS in these breeds would serve to reveal recurrent DNA copy number aberrations (CNAs) that are breed and/or tumor associated, as well as defining those shared with human HS. This process would identify evolutionarily conserved cytogenetic changes to highlight regions of particular importance to HS biology. Methods Using genome wide array comparative genomic hybridization we assessed CNAs in 104 spontaneously occurring HS from two breeds of dog exhibiting a particularly elevated incidence of this tumor, the Bernese Mountain Dog and Flat-Coated Retriever. Recurrent CNAs were evaluated further by multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization and loss of heterozygosity analyses. Statistical analyses were performed to identify CNAs associated with tumor location and breed. Results Almost all recurrent CNAs identified in this study were shared between the two breeds, suggesting that they are associated more with the cancer phenotype than with breed. A subset of recurrent genomic imbalances suggested involvement of known cancer associated genes in HS pathogenesis, including deletions of the tumor suppressor genes CDKN2A/B, RB1 and PTEN. A small number of aberrations were unique to each breed, implying that they may contribute to the major differences in tumor location evident in these two breeds. The most highly recurrent canine CNAs revealed in this study are evolutionarily conserved with those reported in human histiocytic proliferations, suggesting that human and dog HS share a conserved pathogenesis. Conclusions The breed associated clinical features and DNA copy number aberrations exhibited by canine HS offer a valuable model for the human counterpart, providing additional evidence towards elucidation of the pathophysiological and genetic mechanisms associated with histiocytic malignancies. Extrapolation of data derived from canine histiocytic disorders to human histiocytic proliferation may help to further our understanding of the propagation and cancerization of histiocytic cells, contributing to development of new and effective therapeutic modalities for both species.
The new chamber building of Malta: architectural image and building technology
Creators: name: Sapienza, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The knowledge of the most innovative technologies is a basic tool for all the protagonists of the building process. This is because the right resolution of the details is the main way to obtain an architectonic image that is correctly related to the design intents. This work would like to contribute to the spread of the expertise, through the choice of an interesting case study: the new Chamber Building of the Republic of Malta. The history of construction has in the evolution of the stone technology one of the most complex and interesting matter, since the Roman age. The last chapter is probably written in the new Chamber Building of the Republic of Malta, that is going to be finished in the next few months. The concept of the stone façade is founded on two main points, the formal image and the functionality. The article is addressed to the designers, construction managers and researchers who would like to have an approach to the most innovative building technologies.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer
TU intern: die Hochschulzeitung der Technischen Universität Berlin
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
subject: Hochschulzeitung
subject: Technische Universität
subject: TU Berlin

description: Die Hochschulzeitung "TU intern" berichtet sowohl über Aktuelles aus der Universität als auch über landes- und bundesweite Themen. Sie wendet sich an Mitglieder und Alumni der Universität sowie an Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien. Die Druckversion erscheint neunmal im Jahr. Wirklichkeit werden könnte jetzt der seit zwölf Jahren in Berlin diskutierte Wiederaufbau der Bauakademie in Mitte, eine der Vorläuferinstitutionen der TU Berlin. Doch was sollen die Inhalte sein? Lesen Sie in der November-Ausgabe ein Plädoyer von Dieter Nägelke vom Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin und Professorin Bénédicte Savoy, TU-Kunsthistorikerin und Leibnizpreisträgerin für ein Architekturmuseum der Stadt 4.0. Wirklichkeit soll auch das superschnelle Internet mit dem Mobilfunkstandard 5G werden. Was es damit auf sich hat und wie ein Testfeld auf dem TU-Campus aufgebaut wird soll, erklärt Thomas Wiegand, TU-Professor und Direktor des Heinrich-Hertz-Instituts. Außerdem in der November-Ausgabe: Warum Pflanzenfresser die dickeren Bäuche haben, wie Partizipation die Technik voranbringt, warum das Orientierungsstudium MINTgrün zum bundesweiten Vorbild geworden ist, genauso wie die Mathematik-Graduiertenschule BMS, warum auf dem TU-Campus El Gouna zwei neue Studiengänge eingerichtet wurden, wie Studierende sich mit Integration beschäftigen oder eine gendergerechte Aktionsfigur erfinden, alles über den Start des großen SAP-Projekts an der TU Berlin vieles mehr.
Integrated management of information inside maintenance processes. From the building registry to BIM systems
Creators: name: Talamo, Cinzia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2014

description: The paper presents objec- tives, methods and results of two researches dealing with the improvement of integrated information management within maintenance processes. Focusing on information needs regarding the last phases of the building process, the two researches draft approaches characterizing a path of progressive improve- ment of strategies for integration: from a building registry, unique for the whole construction process, to an integrated management of the building process with the support of BIM systems.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 8 (2014): Research and project knowledge transfer