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Study on stability improvement measures of malathion in different matrices
Creators: name: Dong, Jiannan
name: Chen, Guofeng
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Feng, Yizhi
name: Bian, Yanli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Malathion was unstable in many matrices due to its unique structure and physicochemical properties. This study aimed to investigate the storage stability of malathion in a range of products, including cabbage, tomato, lettuce, potato, carrot, grape, and orange. The research sought to elucidate the contributing factors and strategies to enhance malathion’s stability. Significant reduction of malathion was found over time due to the different storage conditions and the properties of the matrices. The results showed that lower temperature could better store samples. The influence of storage form displayed that homogenised form was more stable than coarse form for cabbage, lettuce, grape and orange. Malathion had the worst stability in potato and carrot. This seemed to be attributed to some special substance in high starch crops that promoted rapid degradation of malathion. When pH was adjusted to 3, the residue in cabbage was basically increased to a stable level. Moreover, methanol and dichloromethane could effectively improve the stability of malathion in cabbage, the mass ratio of sample to dichloromethane of 10:1 was better than that of 25:1. Therefore, the selection of appropriate storage conditions and forms, and the incorporation of exogenous additives could offer practical options to improve malathion stability in various matrices. The storage stability of malathion and its improvement measures were studied.Malathion was most unstable in potato and carrot.The homogenised form could be used as a better candidate for storage.Adjusting pH to 3 effectively improved the stability of malathion.More dichloromethane (10:1) added could increase malathion to a stable level. The storage stability of malathion and its improvement measures were studied. Malathion was most unstable in potato and carrot. The homogenised form could be used as a better candidate for storage. Adjusting pH to 3 effectively improved the stability of malathion. More dichloromethane (10:1) added could increase malathion to a stable level.
Einstein Gravity in Almost Kahler Variables and Stability of Gravity with Nonholonomic Distributions and Nonsymmetric Metrics
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We argue that the Einstein gravity theory can be reformulated in almost Kahler (nonsymmetric) variables with effective symplectic form and compatible linear connection uniquely defined by a (pseudo) Riemannian metric. A class of nonsymmetric theories of gravitation (NGT) on manifolds enabled with nonholonomic distributions is analyzed. There are considered some conditions when the fundamental geometric and physical objects are determined/ modified by nonholonomic deformations in general relativity or by contributions from Ricci flow theory and/or quantum gravity. We prove that in such NGT, for certain classes of nonholonomic constraints, there are modelled effective Lagrangians which do not develop instabilities. It is also elaborated a linearization formalism for anholonomic NGT models and analyzed the stability of stationary ellipsoidal solutions defining some nonholonomic and/or nonsymmetric deformations of the Schwarzschild metric. We show how to construct nonholonomic distributions which remove instabilities in NGT. Finally we conclude that instabilities do not consist a general feature of theories of gravity with nonsymmetric metrics but a particular property of certain models and/or classes of unconstrained solutions.
description: latex2e, 11pt, 41 pages, new and up-dated references and discussion
Charge Detection in Graphene Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Guettinger, J.
name: Stampfer, C.
name: Hellmueller, S.
name: Molitor, F.
name: Ihn, T.
name: Ensslin, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements on a graphene quantum dot with an integrated graphene charge detector. The quantum dot device consists of a graphene island (diameter approx. 200 nm) connected to source and drain contacts via two narrow graphene constrictions. From Coulomb diamond measurements a charging energy of 4.3 meV is extracted. The charge detector is based on a 45 nm wide graphene nanoribbon placed approx. 60 nm from the island. We show that resonances in the nanoribbon can be used to detect individual charging events on the quantum dot. The charging induced potential change on the quantum dot causes a step-like change of the current in the charge detector. The relative change of the current ranges from 10% up to 60% for detecting individual charging events.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg : A new translation and proposed production
Creators: name: Harder, Katherine Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Arnold Schoenberg's "monodrama in one act," ERWARTUNG opus 17 (1909), was written during the composer's expressionist compositional period (1908-1913). ERWARTUNG (EXPECTATION) was Schoenberg's first completed stage work; however, it did not receive its stage premiere until 1924. This monodrama is an atonal work, a revolutionary style of composition which Schoenberg created during the early twentieth century. ERWARTUNG became the main generating force which encouraged the composer's contemporaries to attempt to create new musical and dramatic compositional styles. In studying the importance of ERWARTUNG as an "expressionist music drama," it was also necessary to examine the expressionist movements in art and literature. These movements greatly influenced Arnold Schoenberg's compositional style, as can be seen in the harmonic and dramatic structure of ERWARTUNG. Their influence, specifically that of the expressionist literary movement, can also be seen in the character study of the sole protagonist, "the Woman." Foremost in this project was the writing of a singable English translation for ERWARTUNG, (Appendix I.) A proposed production including stage direction and lighting, costume design, and publicity posters completed this study. The production was designed for a typical proscenium stage, specifically the Frederick Wood Theatre at the University of British Columbia.
Ab initio exchange interactions and magnetic properties of Gd2Fe17 iron sublattice: rhombohedral vs. hexagonal phases
Creators: name: Lukoyanov, A. V.
name: Kokorina, E. E.
name: Medvedev, M. V.
name: Nekrasov, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the LSDA+U method electronic structure and magnetic properties of the intermetallic compound Gd2Fe17 for both rhombohedral and hexagonal phases have been calculated. On top of that, ab initio exchange interaction parameters within the Fe sublattice for all present nearest and some next nearest Fe ions have been obtained. It was found that for the first coordination sphere direct exchange interaction is ferromagnetic. For the second coordination sphere indirect exchange interaction is observed to be weaker and of antiferromagnetic type. Employing the theoretical values of exchange parameters Curie temperatures Tc of both hexagonal and rhombohedral phases of Gd2Fe17 within Weiss mean-field theory were estimated. Obtained values of Tc and its increase going from the hexagonal to rhombohedral crystal structure of Gd2Fe17 agree well with experiment. Also for both structures LSDA+U computed values of total magnetic moment coincide with experimental ones.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; V2 as published in PRB
Multiple fibers of del Pezzo fibrations
Creators: name: Mori, Shigefumi
name: Prokhorov, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J30, 14E35, 14E30

description: We prove that a terminal three-dimensional del Pezzo fibration has no fibers of multiplicity $\ge 6$. We also obtain a rough classification possible configurations of singular points on multiple fibers and give some examples.
description: 19 pages, latex
Dark matter scaling relations and the assembly epoch of Coma early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Thomas, J.
name: Saglia, R. P.
name: Bender, R.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Gebhardt, K.
name: Magorrian, J.
name: Corsini, E. M.
name: Wegner, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axisymmetric, orbit-based dynamical models are used to derive dark matter scaling relations for Coma early-type galaxies. From faint to bright galaxies halo core-radii and asymptotic circular velocities increase. Compared to spirals of the same brightness, the majority of Coma early-types -- those with old stellar populations -- have similar halo core-radii but more than 2 times larger asymptotic halo velocities. The average dark matter density inside 2 reff decreases with increasing luminosity and is 6.8 times larger than in disk galaxies of the same B-band luminosity. Compared at the same stellar mass, dark matter densities in ellipticals are 13.5 times higher than in spirals. Different baryon concentrations in ellipticals and spirals cannot explain the higher dark matter density in ellipticals. Instead, the assembly redshift (1+z) of Coma early-type halos is likely about two times larger than of comparably bright spirals. Assuming that local spirals typically assemble at a redshift of one, the majority of bright Coma early-type galaxy halos must have formed around z = 2-3. For about half of our Coma galaxies the assembly redshifts match with constraints derived from stellar populations. We find dark matter densities and estimated assembly redshifts of our observed Coma galaxies in reasonable agreement with recent semi-analytic galaxy formation models.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 2 of How have governments supported citizens stranded abroad due to COVID-19 travel restrictions? A comparative analysis of the financial and health support in eleven countries
Creators: name: McDermid, Pippa
name: Craig, Adam
name: Sheel, Meru
name: Seale, Holly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Comparison of Border control and re-entry information provided to citizens abroad of 11 countries as of June, 2021.
Additional file 1 of An evaluation of the feasibility of implementing a novel tobacco dependence treatment program for high-risk individuals into clinical practice within a community mental health center
Creators: name: Hogan, Tory H.
name: Quisenberry, Amanda
name: Breitborde, Nicholas
name: Moe, Aubrey
name: Ferketich, Amy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. An evaluation of the feasibility of implementing a novel tobacco dependence treatment program for high-risk individuals into clinical practice within a community mental health center.
The Sample of Red Supergiants in Twelve Low-Mass Galaxies of the Local Group
Creators: name: Ren, Yi
name: Jiang, Biwei
name: Yang, Ming
name: Wang, Tianding
name: Ren, Tongtian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work establishes the most complete sample of red supergiants (RSGs) in twelve low-mass galaxies (WLM, IC 10, NGC 147, NGC 185, IC 1613, Leo A, Sextans B, Sextans A, NGC 6822, Pegasus Dwarf, SMC and LMC) of the Local Group, which forms the solid basis to study the properties of RSGs as well as the star formation rate (SFR) and initial mass function (IMF) of the galaxies. After removing the foreground dwarf stars by their obvious branch in the near-infrared color-color diagram ($(J-H)_0/(H-K)_0$) with the UKIRT/WFCAM and 2MASS photometry as well as the Gaia/EDR3 measurements of proper motion and parallax, RSGs are identified from their location in the color-magnitude diagram $(J-K)_{0}/K_{0}$ of the member stars of the specific galaxy. A total of 2,190 RSGs are found in ten dwarf galaxies, and additionally 4,823 and 2,138 RSGs in the LMC and SMC respectively. The locations of the tip of the red giant branch in the $(J-K)_{0}/K_{0}$ diagram are determined to serve as an indicator of the metallicity and distance modulus of the galaxies.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Angeln in der Mitte der Gesellschaft: Die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der Freizeitfischerei mit der Angel in den alten und neuen Bundesländern
Creators: name: Riepe, Carsten
name: Arlinghaus, Robert
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Fischerei
Year: 2021

description: Das Freizeitangeln steht in Deutschland, wie auch in anderen entwickelten Ländern, aus Gründen des Tier- und Naturschutzes unter gesellschaftlichem Druck. Teilweise wird sogar ein Angelverbot gefordert. Um die Debatte zu versachlichen, wurde die Wahrnehmung und Bewertung des Angelns während der Freizeit aus Sicht der deutschen Allgemeinbevölkerung in einer repräsentativen Befragung erhoben. Ein Erhebungsschwerpunkt lag auf Tierschutzaspekten. Die Datenanalyse erfolgte im Rahmen einer Kontrastierung der Einstellungen in den alten und den neuen Bundesländern. Vermutet wurde, dass sich die Perspektive auf das Angeln in beiden Gebieten systematisch voneinander unterscheidet. Es zeigte sich, dass die Menschen in den neuen Ländern dem Hobbyangeln gegenüber nicht nur deutlich wohlwollender eingestellt waren, sondern sich auch in anderen Aspekten der Einstellung zur Umwelt und zum Tierschutz sowie in ihren wildtierbezogenen Wertorientierungen von den Menschen in den alten Ländern unterschieden. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem knapp skizzierten Hintergrund der sehr unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen in der alten BRD und der ehemaligen DDR interpretiert. Die Umfragedaten stellen den Zustand in 2008 dar. Eine Aktualisierung in der heutigen Zeit wird empfohlen.
description: Recreational fishing in Germany, as in other developed countries, is under societal pressure for animal and nature conservation reasons. Some even call for a ban on recreational fishing. In order to base the debate more on facts, the perception and evaluation of fishing during leisure time among the general population in Germany was ascertained in a representative survey. One of the focal points of the survey was animal welfare issues. Data were analyzed by contrasting the responses in the old (western) and the new (eastern) German federal states (Bundesländer). It was hypothesized that the perspectives on angling systematically differed between both regions. It was found that the respondents in the new federal states not only held clearly more favorable attitudes toward recreational fishing but also differed from the people in the old federal states in other aspects of their attitudes toward the environment and animal welfare issues as well as in their wildlife value orientations. The results are interpreted against the briefly outlined background of the very different societal frameworks constituted by the old Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The survey data represent the situation in 2008. A follow-up study in the near future is recommended.
A New Voice in the Smart Grid Dialogue: The Grid Itself
Creators: Jay Giri
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Let's hear what the Grid has to say about its own evolution, and the potential it sees locked away in all that data. The author puts on his sci-fi hat and imagines a conversation with the Grid about a specific technology synchrophasors and how they will change the way the Grid interacts with control room operators.
Investigating the origin of stellar masses: an overview of the ALMA Large Program
Creators: name: Nony, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: High-mass protoclusters
Core Mass Functions
Protostellar outflows
ALMA

description: The origin of stellar masses is one of the most central open issues in astrophysics. In this talk, I will introduce the ALMA-IMF Large Program, whose goal is to determine if and how the origin of the Initial Mass Function (IMF) depends on the cloud characteristics. I will also present our recent detailed studies of the W43-MM2&MM3 molecular complex. We propose that top-heavy Core Mass Functions are associated with spatially and temporally limited bursts of star formation. In addition, the identification of outflows in CO(2-1) enables us to assess that a very large fraction of the excess high-mass cores are protostellar. This confirms that the high-mass prestellar core phase, if it exists, is evanescent.
Assessment of human health risks through the consumption of mercury contaminated fish from gold and platinum mining areas
Creators: name: Stevens, Erin L.
name: Wepener, Victor
name: Erasmus, Johannes H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Virology

description: Mining activities can pollute freshwater systems with toxic contaminants that can damage the environment and cause risks to human health. In South Africa, mercury is a contaminant of major concern due to it being released into the environment through artisanal gold mining and the coal combustion process at power stations. Mercury accumulates in the liver and more importantly the muscle tissue of fish. Mercury can then be transferred to humans through the consumption of contaminated fish and can affect the nervous system and cause permanent damage. Although South Africa is a major contributor to global mercury emissions, there are very few papers published on mercury concentrations and the risks to human health associated with consuming contaminated fish. This study aimed to determine the mercury concentrations in environmental matrices (water, sediment and two fish species (Cyprinus carpio and Clarias gariepinus)) from five sites and determine the risks to human health associated with the consumption of these fish. The mercury concentrations in muscle and liver tissues of C. carpio (1.2 and 0.8 mg/kg) and C. gariepinus (1.6 and 0.9 mg/kg) from Boskop Dam were the highest across all sites. Clarias gariepinus had higher mercury concentrations and a higher risk to human health compared to C. carpio across all sites. Both species from Boskop Dam and the Vaal River, while C. gariepinus from Olifantsnek and Modder Dam all had a hazard quotient of > 1 which shows these fish had a high possibility for adverse health effects to humans.
title: Statistica dei monumenti
title: Monumenti storici, archeologia e protezione degli insediamenti in Svizzera
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ufficio federale di statistica
Publisher: name: Ufficio federale di statistica
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/027h8t796
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Il patrimonio costruito e sepolto costituisce un elemento centrale dell’identità culturale svizzera. Comprende i monumenti storici, l’archeologia e gli insediamenti. La presente pubblicazione dell’Ufficio federale di statistica (UST) presenta i risultati della seconda rilevazione nazionale, basata sui dati del 2022. Elaborata a partire dalle informazioni raccolte dai servizi cantonali specializzati, non si limita a fornire una panoramica dettagliata dello stato attuale del patrimonio costruito, bensì illustra anche cosa è cambiato rispetto alla prima rilevazione del 2016. Per la prima volta viene inoltre presentata un’analisi del finanziamento delle misure di conservazione e salvaguardia. Questa pubblicazione mette in luce le caratteristiche specifiche al sistema svizzero, caratterizzato da pratiche cantonali molto diverse tra loro, e fornisce al contempo una panoramica delle sfide attuali relative alla conservazione di questo patrimonio in Svizzera.
Einstein Gravity, Lagrange-Finsler Geometry, and Nonsymmetric Metrics
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We formulate an approach to the geometry of Riemann-Cartan spaces provided with nonholonomic distributions defined by generic off-diagonal and nonsymmetric metrics inducing effective nonlinear and affine connections. Such geometries can be modelled by moving nonholonomic frames on (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds and describe various types of nonholonomic Einstein, Eisenhart-Moffat and Finsler-Lagrange spaces with connections compatible to a general nonsymmetric metric structure. Elaborating a metrization procedure for arbitrary distinguished connections, we define the class of distinguished linear connections which are compatible with the nonlinear connection and general nonsymmetric metric structures. The nonsymmetric gravity theory is formulated in terms of metric compatible connections. Finally, there are constructed such nonholonomic deformations of geometric structures when the Einstein and/or Lagrange-Finsler manifolds are transformed equivalently into spaces with generic local anisotropy induced by nonsymmetric metrics and generalized connections. We speculate on possible applications of such geometric methods in Einstein and generalized theories of gravity, analogous gravity and geometric mechanics.
description: This is a contribution to the Special Issue "Elie Cartan and Differential Geometry", published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA
Gap conjecture for 3-dimensional canonical thresholds
Creators: name: Prokhorov, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 14J17, 14E30, 32S25

description: We prove that the interval $(5/6, 1)$ contains no 3-dimensional canonical thresholds.
description: 8 pages, latex, one reference is added
Impact of Reforms on the Smart Grid Model of Mexico
Creators: Adrian Inda Ruiz
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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A smart grid model that is designed and implemented for a vertically integrated company has to undergo major changes during a restructuring that disaggregates a company's services. The Smart Grid Model of Mexico was designed for the Comision Federal del Electricidad (CFE), a government-owned electric utility now undergoing that process following energy sector reforms.
Additional file 7 of Fast estimation of plant growth dynamics using deep neural networks
Creators: name: Gall, Gabriella E. C.
name: Pereira, Talmo D.
name: Jordan, Alex
name: Meroz, Yasmine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Additional figures S1–S5 and tables S1–S9.
Die Legation des Kardinals Henry Beaufort und der vierte Hussitenkreuzzug
Creators: name: Hauser, Daniel Andreas
Year: 2014

description: Die Legation des Kardinals Beaufort (1427), ein später Höhepunkt der englisch-deutschen Beziehungen im Mittelalter, führte diesen in das Heilige Römische Reich, wo er als päpstlicher Legat während des vierten Kreuzzuges gegen die Hussiten fungierte und danach dem Frankfurter Reichstag vorsaß. Als führendes Mitglied des englischen Königshauses und erfahrener Diplomat besaß Beaufort die notwendigen Qualifikationen für diese Mission. Obschon der Kreuzzug in einem militärischen Debakel endete, war er die Basis für sein späteres Auftreten im Reich. Dort gelang es ihm, den ersten bedeutenden Versuch zur Etablierung einer allgemeinen Reichssteuer zu unternehmen. Auch wenn die praktische Umsetzung ihre Tücken hatte — strukturelle Defizite und mangelhafte Steuereintreibung waren die Hauptprobleme —, handelte es sich um einen bedeutsamen Schritt innerhalb der Verfassungsgeschichte des spätmittelalterlichen Reiches, die im „Gemeinen Pfennig“ von 1495 gipfelte. Wie die Quellen belegen, agierte Beaufort auf dem Reichstag königsgleich und dominierte diesen. Er mag seine Tätigkeit im Reich als Sprungbrett zum Papstamt gesehen haben. Wenngleich er niemals Papst wurde, ermöglichte ihm die Legation die Rückkehr nach England, wo er erneut großen Einfluss erlangte. Bestrebungen, als Anführer eines weiteren Kreuzzuges nach Böhmen zurückzukehren, scheiterten an der Notwendigkeit, die englischen Kreuzzugstruppen in Frankreich einzusetzen. Als bewanderter elder statesman gab Beaufort der Diplomatie, wann immer es möglich war, den Vorzug vor Waffengewalt. Selbst mit den Hussiten wollte der Kardinal eine diplomatische Lösung des Konfliktes finden. Womöglich war er seiner Zeit um einige Jahre voraus, denn kurz darauf wurden diese Bemühungen auf dem Konzil von Basel wieder aufgenommen.
New England''s Synchrophasor Initiative
Creators: Eugene Litvinov
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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PMUs with high sampling rates and GPS synchronization represent a critical smart grid technology that can enhance transmission system operations by providing wide-area monitoring of power system dynamic behaviors, an ability that was unavailable until recently. The New England Independent System Operator is two years into a project to expand synchrophasor infrastructure to give system operators a view of what is happening over the region's 3400 kilometers of 345-kilovott transmission lines.
Der Wandel des Akzeptanzniveaus von Homosexualität in Politik und Medien
Creators: name: Engel, Klaus
Year: 2014

description: In der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit wurde zur Frage: „Wie weit reicht die gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von Homosexualität in Politik und Medien“ geforscht.

Aufbauend auf den Thesen des französischen Philosophen Michel Foucault wurde als Ausgangspunkt der Forschungstätigkeit das Zeitalter der Antike gewählt, in welcher die „Knabenliebe“ als „die schöne Liebe“ galt.

Anhand von entsprechendem Medienmaterial über vier in der Öffentlichkeit stehende Protagonisten wurde die Entwicklung (der Wandel) des homosexuellen Akzeptanzniveaus sowohl in gesetzlicher, politischer wie auch in kultureller Hinsicht in Form von Interview-/Inhaltsanalysen skizziert.

Das Ergebnis:
Bis zum Jahre 2014 war eine gänzliche Gleichstellung zwischen hetero- und homosexuellen Menschen nicht feststellbar.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Quinton, Sophie
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
subject: Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
subject: Software and its engineering → Real-time systems software
subject: Software and its engineering → Real-time schedulability

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 133, 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2019), pages 0:i-0:xi
p-wave superconductivity and the axi-planar phase of triple-point fermions
Creators: name: Mandal, Subrata
name: Herbut, Igor F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider weak-coupling superconductivity in the inversion- and rotation-symmetric system of two pseudospin $s=1$ low-energy fermions of opposite chirality. General contact interactions can lead to Cooper instabilities towards d-wave or towards a novel $2\times 3$ p-wave matrix order parameter. We compute the Ginzburg-Landau free energy for the latter. Remarkably, in this case the Ginzburg-Landau free energy can be minimized exactly, with the resulting ordered state being analogous to the ``axi-planar" p-wave, which exhibits extra degeneracy, and generally breaks time reversal symmetry. Whereas a generic Ginzburg-Landau free energy for our order parameter has only $U(1) \times SO(2) \times SO(3)$ symmetry, at weak coupling we find it displaying the enlarged $U(1)\times SO(3) \times U(1) \times SO(3)$ symmetry, broken down to $SO(2)\times SO(2)$ in the axi-planar ordered phase, and leading therefore to six Goldstone bosons. We show how the lattice, once restored, fixes the allowed values of the magnetization in the superconducting state by locking the spatial directions implicit in the order parameter to its high-symmetry axes.
description: 5 pages; few typos in references corrected
Integrating Distributed and Demand-Side Resources with the Distribution Grid
Creators: Ali Ipakchi
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Across North America, utilities are facing a variety of new challenges: increasing levels of variable generation; changing load profiles due to a rapidly expanding portfolio of distributed solar generation, use of demand response (DR) and proliferation of distributed energy resources (DER); as well as declining revenues due to energy efficiency and behind-the-meter solar generation.
Offenes Lernen zum Thema Funktionen - Was gibt es bereits? Was kann verbessert werden?
Creators: name: Haller, Mirjam
Year: 2014

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der offenen Lernumgebung des Wochenplans im Mathematikunterricht. Im Speziellen werden Lernmaterialien zum Thema Funktionen erstellt. Ausgehend von der Fragestellung „Offenes Lernen zum Thema Funktionen. Was gibt es bereits? Was kann verbessert werden?“ wird der aktuelle Forschungsstand der Literatur ausführlich besprochen. Dabei wird auch auf etwaige Probleme mit offenen Unterrichtsformen hingewiesen. Weshalb der offene Unterricht im Schulfach Mathematik ein unentbehrlicher Bestandteil ist und wie dieser am besten umgesetzt werden kann, ist von großer Bedeutung und ein zentraler Teil dieser Diplomarbeit. Neben der neuen Rolle des Lehrenden und des Lernenden in einer offenen Unterrichtssituation rückt vor allem auch das selbstständige Arbeiten, das individuelle Lernen und der Erwerb überfachlicher Kompetenzen ins Zentrum der modernen Ausbildung. Offene, authentische oder differenzierte Aufgaben können dabei einen wesentlichen Beitrag für die eben genannten Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten leisten.
Mit den ausgearbeiteten Unterrichtsmaterialien für die Wochenplanstation wird ein Rahmen geschaffen, der es den Schülerinnen und Schülern ermöglicht, Funktionen auf individuellem Weg zu entdecken und zugleich das eigenverantwortliche Arbeiten effektiv zu fördern.
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Optimal Energy Management Policies for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes
Creators: name: Sharma, Vinod
name: Mukherji, Utpal
name: Joseph, Vinay
name: Gupta, Shrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a sensor node with an energy harvesting source. The generated energy can be stored in a buffer. The sensor node periodically senses a random field and generates a packet. These packets are stored in a queue and transmitted using the energy available at that time. We obtain energy management policies that are throughput optimal, i.e., the data queue stays stable for the largest possible data rate. Next we obtain energy management policies which minimize the mean delay in the queue.We also compare performance of several easily implementable sub-optimal energy management policies. A greedy policy is identified which, in low SNR regime, is throughput optimal and also minimizes mean delay.
description: Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; 22 pages with 10 figures
Cooperative Wireless Networking for Smart Grid
Creators: Hao Liang
Weihua Zhuang and Xuemin Shen
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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With cooperative wireless networking, a model allowing for coordinated operation among two or more wireless networks outfitted with dual or multi-mode communication devices, utilities are able to improve power system operation efficiency and reliability by acquiring more accurate and timely information. At the same time, customers can benefit from reduced energy bills and higher power quality.
Nonholonomic Ricci Flows, Exact Solutions in Gravity, and Symmetric and Nonsymmetric Metrics
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a proof that nonholonomically constrained Ricci flows of (pseudo) Riemannian metrics positively result into nonsymmetric metrics (as explicit examples, we consider flows of some physically valuable exact solutions in general relativity). There are constructed and analyzed three classes of solutions of Ricci flow evolution equations defining nonholonomic deformations of Taub NUT, Schwarzschild, solitonic and pp--wave symmetric metrics into nonsymmetric ones.
description: latex2e, 12pt, 40 pages, version 2 with minor modifications, to be published in Int. J. Theor. Phys
The low-lying Scalar Mesons and Related Topics
Creators: name: Kunihiro, T.
name: Muroya, S.
name: Nakamura, A.
name: Nonaka, C.
name: Sekiguchi, M.
name: Wada, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After presenting the motivations to explore the low-lying scalar mesons such as the $σ$, $a_0$ and $κ$ in the unquenched as well as quenched lattice QCD, we review the works done by our collaboration (SCALAR Collaboration) with a what-to-do-next list. We briefly mention the imporatance to explore the $N_c$ dependence of and possible effects of the $U_A(1)$ anomaly to the properties the low-lying scalar mesons.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Invited talk at QCD08, 14th International QCD Conference, 7-12th July, 2008, Montpellier (France)
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness and acceptability of noninvasive brain and nerve stimulation techniques for migraine prophylaxis: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Cheng, Yu-Chen
name: Zeng, Bing-Yan
name: Hung, Chao-Ming
name: Su, Kuan-Pin
name: Wu, Yi-Cheng
name: Tu, Yu-Kang
name: Lin, Pao-Yen
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Carvalho, Andre F.
name: Liang, Chih-Sung
name: Chen, Tien-Yu
name: Hsu, Chih-Wei
name: Brunoni, Andre R.
name: Suen, Mein-Woei
name: Shiue, Yow-Ling
name: Tseng, Ping-Tao
name: Wu, Ming-Kung
name: Li, Cheng-Ta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Continuous-discrete integrable equations and Darboux transformations as deformations of associative algebras
Creators: name: Konopelchenko, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Deformations of the structure constants for a class of associative noncommutative algebras generated by Deformation Driving Algebras (DDA's) are defined and studied. These deformations are governed by the Central System (CS). Such a CS is studied for the case of DDA being the algebra of shifts. Concrete examples of deformations for the three-dimensional algebra governed by discrete and mixed continuous-discrete Boussinesq (BSQ) and WDVV equations are presented. It is shown that the theory of the Darboux transformations, at least for the BSQ case, is completely incorporated into the proposed scheme of deformations.
Spectral Functionals, Nonholonomic Dirac Operators, and Noncommutative Ricci Flows
Creators: name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 58B34, 58B20, 83C65

description: We formulate a noncommutative generalization of the Ricci flow theory in the framework of spectral action approach to noncommutative geometry. Grisha Perelman's functionals are generated as commutative versions of certain spectral functionals defined by nonholonomic Dirac operators and corresponding spectral triples. We derive the formulas for spectral averaged energy and entropy functionals and state the conditions when such values describe (non)holonomic Riemannian configurations.
description: latex2e, 11pt, 40 pages, v3, version accepted for publication in JMP, modified following referee's recommendations, new affiliation and updated references
Active Control and Power Flow Routing in the Smart Grid
Creators: Faycal Bouhafs and Michael Mackay
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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In the last few years, novel control concepts have been proposed with the goal of making distribution networks more flexible by introducing active control mechanisms. Active control is expected to help with maintaining the health and stability of the power grid even after disturbances, loss of equipment or other unforeseen situations, by undertaking proactive actions to preserve the stability of the power network.
Additional file 2 of Effectiveness and acceptability of noninvasive brain and nerve stimulation techniques for migraine prophylaxis: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Cheng, Yu-Chen
name: Zeng, Bing-Yan
name: Hung, Chao-Ming
name: Su, Kuan-Pin
name: Wu, Yi-Cheng
name: Tu, Yu-Kang
name: Lin, Pao-Yen
name: Stubbs, Brendon
name: Carvalho, Andre F.
name: Liang, Chih-Sung
name: Chen, Tien-Yu
name: Hsu, Chih-Wei
name: Brunoni, Andre R.
name: Suen, Mein-Woei
name: Shiue, Yow-Ling
name: Tseng, Ping-Tao
name: Wu, Ming-Kung
name: Li, Cheng-Ta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Electrical Power in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Creators: Bruce H. Krogh and Hedda R. Schmidtke
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Just as the telecommunications industry in developing countries has leveraged the latest mobile technology to leapfrog beyond aging legacy systems in developed countries, Africa offers intriguing possibilities to deploy and interlink the latest and most innovative energy technologies to create an energy infrastructure that is highly distributed, heterogeneous, robust, and sustainable.
The effects of primordial non-Gaussianity on the cosmological reionization
Creators: name: Crociani, D.
name: Moscardini, L.
name: Viel, M.
name: Matarrese, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of non-Gaussianity in the primordial density field on the reionization history. We rely on a semi-analytic method to describe the processes acting on the intergalactic medium (IGM), relating the distribution of the ionizing sources to that of dark matter haloes. Extending previous work in the literature, we consider models in which the primordial non-Gaussianity is measured by the dimensionless non-linearity parameter f_NL, using the constraints recently obtained from cosmic microwave background data. We predict the ionized fraction and the optical depth at different cosmological epochs assuming two different kinds of non-Gaussianity, characterized by a scale-independent and a scale-dependent f_NL and comparing the results to those for the standard Gaussian scenario. We find that a positive f_NL enhances the formation of high-mass haloes at early epochs, when reionization begins, and, as a consequence, the IGM ionized fraction can grow by a factor up to 5 with respect to the corresponding Gaussian model. The increase of the filling factor has a small impact on the reionization optical depth and is of order ~ 10 per cent if a scale-dependent non-Gaussianity is assumed. Our predictions for non-Gaussian models are in agreement with the latest WMAP results within the error bars, but a higher precision is required to constrain the scale dependence of non-Gaussianity.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, minor changes to match the version accepted for publication by MNRAS
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus Leucocephalus Alascanus (Townsend)) as an aircraft hazard at Port Hardy Airport
Creators: name: Cuthbert, James T.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A significant bird hazard to aircraft occurs at times at Port Hardy Airport through the presence of numbers of northern bald eagles in the vicinity of the airport and its approaches. This study investigated bald eagle abundance, distribution, movement patterns, productivity and feeding habits within the airport vicinity and satellite region. Findings were analyzed in the light of comparable ecological information available on the species. The study extended from October 1972 to October 1974. The resident summer and winter population within the airport vicinity approximated 3 eagles. Numbers increased gradually from late August until early November (when salmon were spawning in the Keogh River) and when 11 eagles were continuously present. The maximum number of eagles at any one time was 35. Even a relatively small spawning run of salmon was adequate to attract the eagles and the very large runs did not attract eagles in the same ratio. Eagle numbers decreased from early November until the herring spawning season in March and April when at least 5 eagles were continuously present. The potential hazard to aircraft, expressed as the maximum number of eagle sightings and the number of eagles observed per hour, was greatest during the fall salmon spawning season and the spring herring spawning season for each of the 5 observation areas within the airport vicinity. The population within the study area (200-250 resident eagles) was sufficiently large to dismiss a killing program, even if this was socially acceptable. Mean nesting density in the study area was at least .1 active nest/lineal km of coastline with .2 active nest/lineal km of coastline in the airport vicinity. Fifty seven per cent of the nests failed but those that produced young averaged 1.4 young/nest. Five active nests were within the area of airport activity and they did not differ in success rate or fledged young per successful nest from nests more remote. Statistical analysis of distribution data within the airport vicinity revealed that eagle use was significantly greater in the Keogh River mouth region and significantly lower in the inland region than in the remaining observation areas. The aggregation area along the KeoghiiRiver in the southeast flight path for runway 1028 presented the greatest hazard to aircraft. Direct eagle flights across the flight path occurred at frequent intervals in September and October and were often at the same elevation as approaching or departing jet aircraft. Since it is not likely that the behaviour of the eagles can be changed, ways of altering the flight paths of the aircraft were considered so as to lessen the frequency of interaction. This can be done by extension of runway 102 8 (by about 610m) to allow approaching or departing Boeing 737 jets to pass over, instead of through, the hazardous zone above the Keogh River.
Akustische Strategien in Michael Hanekes Film "Amour"
Creators: name: Dundler, Lukas
Year: 2015

description: Der Film Amour von Michael Haneke stellt die (bis dato) letzte Etappe eines filmischen Projekts dar, das konsequent an einem ästhetischen Programm festhält und dieses stetig ausbaut. Der Ton nimmt dabei einen zentralen Platz ein. Eine Untersuchung des Umgangs mit Ton bei Haneke ist ein längst überfälliger Forschungsbereich, dem diese Arbeit versucht nachzukommen.
In Kapitel 1 wird in die Beziehung von Bild und Ton eingeführt sowie die wichtigsten Analysewerkzeuge der Arbeit und der Film Amour vorgestellt. Kapitel 2 versammelt wichtige Einflüsse auf Hanekes Umgang mit Ton, darunter Brechts Konzept des epischen Theaters und zentrale Positionen des französischen Autorenkinos und der Nouvelle Vague. In Kapitel 3 wird eine Szene aus Amour einer inhaltlich vergleichbaren Szene aus dem Film The Bucket List gegenübergestellt, um die Spezifika im Umgang mit Ton in Amour abzuleiten. The Bucket List steht dabei als aktuelles Beispiel für die Anwendung klassischer Narrationsstrategien im zeitgenössischen Kino. Kapitel 4 untersucht die akustischen Strategien des ersten Aktes von Amour auf übergeordnete Strukturen. Diese werden ausgewertet und kontextualisiert. Kapitel 5 beleuchtet am Drehbuch den Stellenwert des Tons in der Szenenkonstruktion. Und Kapitel 6 konzentriert sich schließlich auf die narrativen Strategien im Einsatz der Musik in Amour. Hierfür wurden alle Szenen mit Musik analysiert und ihre Funktion innerhalb der Erzählung untersucht. Abschließend präsentiere ich die Ergebnisse in einer Conclusio in Kapitel 7.
Largest U.S. Smart Grid Demo Project is Set to Roll
Creators: Carl Imhoff
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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With all system infrastructure in place and utilities finishing up the installation of smart grid asset systems across the Pacific Northwest region, a transactive control system will "go live" this fall, allowing the installed assets to start responding to electric power conditions. Though questions will remain, we believe we are taking a significant step that will move the nation closer to a more efficient, sustainable and resilient power system.