cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Begrenzung der CO2-Emissionen aus Nutzfahrzeugen
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nutzfahrzeug
subject: Kraftstoffverbrauch
subject: Simulation
subject: Kohlendioxid
subject: Abgasemission
subject: CO2
subject: Verkehr
subject: Transport

description: Um die Umwelt- und Klimaziele der EU im Verkehrssektor mittelfristig erreichen zu können, scheint eine Limitierung derCO2-Emissionen von Nutzfahrzeugen notwendig zu werden. Für PKW ist eine entsprechende Limitierung der CO2-Flottenemission bereits eingeführt, nachdem die Angabe des Kraftstoffverbrauchs bzw. der CO2-Emissionen für solche Fahrzeuge seit einigenJahren zum Standard gehört.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.
description: Um die Umwelt- und Klimaziele der EU im Verkehrssektor mittelfristig erreichen zu können, scheint eine Limitierung der ⁠CO2⁠-Emissionen von Nutzfahrzeugen notwendig zu werden. Für PKW ist eine entsprechende Limitierung der CO2-Flottenemission bereits eingeführt, nachdem die Angabe des Kraftstoffverbrauchs bzw. der CO2-Emissionen für solche Fahrzeuge seit einigenJahren zum Standard gehört.
title: Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur interdisziplinären universitären Lehre in der Rheumatologie
Creators: name: Hasseli, Rebecca
name: Pfeiffer, Silas
name: Hermann, Christiane
name: Richter-Bastian, Katrin
name: Hoffmann, Ulrike
name: Tschernatsch-Gerriets, Marlene
name: Müller-Ladner, Ulf
name: Lange, Uwe
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die medizinische Versorgung chronisch erkrankter Patienten ist komplex und erfordert eine interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit. Vor allem im Bereich der internistischen Rheumatologie ist eine interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit, unter Berücksichtigung der somatischen und psychosozialen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Exposure test and long-term characteristics for CFRP structural members
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Y.
name: Yonemaru, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: FRP material has good characteristics such as light-weight, high-strength and high-corrosion resistance. Light-weight structure possesses some advantages over the seismic load and rational constructing procedure. In Japan, the innovative light-weight spatial structures having double layered truss roof consisting of CFRP were constructed in 1998. The structural weight is approximately 150N/m2, and its member weight is only 10N/m. It means that the CFRP structural system may be an alternative revolutionary class in comparison to others using conventional structural materials such as steel and concrete. Thus, it would be very important to make clear the long-term characteristics of the CFRP structural members. In this study, the long-term exposure test of the prestressed CFRP members have been carried out in the past twelve years. And now, the mechanical characteristics of CFRP members are discussed on the results of the static loading-unloading test.
title: Canakinumab zur Behandlung von adultem Still Syndrom (AOSD): eine Prüfer-initiierte, multizentrische, plazebokontrollierte Studie (CONSIDER)
Creators: name: Kedor, Claudia
name: Listing, Joachim
name: Zernicke, Jan
name: Weiß, Anja
name: Behrens, Frank
name: Blank, Norbert
name: Henes, Jörg
name: Kekow, Jörn
name: Rubbert-Roth, Andrea
name: Schulze-Koops, Hendrik
name: Seipelt, Eva
name: Specker, Chritof
name: Feist, Eugen
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die Hemmung von Interleukin-1 (IL-1) stellt eine vielversprechende Behandlungsoption beim adulten M. Still (AOSD) dar. Canakinumab (CAN) ist u. a. für die Behandlung der systemischen juvenilen idiopathischen Arthritis zugelassen und hat einen deutlichen Einfluss auf die systemische [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
title: ANCA-positivity and efficacy of Rituximab in IgG4-related disease
Creators: name: Ronicke, Simon
name: Bräsen, Jan Hinrich
name: Hiß, Marcus
name: Haller, Herrmann
name: Wagner, Annette D.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is an inflammatory multiorgan condition with diverse phenotype [ref:1]. IgG4-RD is characterized by elevated serum IgG4 levels and tissue infiltration by IgG4-positive plasma cells [ref:2]. ANCA-positivity in IgG4-RD patients has been [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
title: Klonale T-LGL Expansion unter TNF-α-Inhibitor-Therapie
Creators: name: Weber, Alexander
name: Gadeholt, Ottar
name: Renner, Regina
name: Tony, Hans-Peter
name: Geissinger, Eva
name: Gernert, Michael
name: Fröhlich, Matthias
name: Schmalzing, Marc
name: Schwaneck, Eva Christina
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Ziel dieser Studie war es, die Prävalenz klonaler T-LGL-Expansionen bei Patienten mit Psoriasisarthritis (PsA), Spondyloarthritis (SpA) und gesunden Probanden zu bestimmen. Außerdem sollte nach möglichen Risikofaktoren für klonale T-LGL-Populationen gesucht werden. [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
"While We Must Suffer, We Must Not Rebel:" The Calvinist Framework of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World
Creators: name: Porro, Simona
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: According to Barbara Welter, religion or piety was at the heart of a “true” woman’s cardinal attributes. This “peculiar susceptibility” to religion, reportedly bestowed upon women by God Himself, blessed them with an intrinsic virtuosity and, in so doing, appointed them as the bastions of morality within the domestic realm. This emphasis on religion stemmed from the revivalist movement that spread throughout the Unites States in the antebellum decades. The movement, known as the Second Great Awakening, was particularly successful at converting women, and at involving them in pastoral activities, including preaching. In this way, it laid the groundwork for the creation of a culture of female piety that unlocked the production of a literature infused with theology. In that respect, one the most popular writers of the era was Susan Warner, the author of The Wide, Wide World. The novel, published in 1850, stands out in the genre for the magnitude and scope of the religious aspect and, above all, for the doctrines espoused by the writer. Warner depicts the circumstances surrounding the protagonist’s ordeal through orphanhood and subsequent adoption exclusively through the lens of a stern Calvinist approach – a notable exception in the genre, which was characterized mainly by Unitarian writers, who employed fiction to undermine Calvinism and to promote their doctrines of choice. The immense popularity of Warner’s novel offers ample evidence that Puritan influence persisted in the country with undiminished strength.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
Creators: name: Lefèvre, Jocelyn.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Women's Studies.

description: Cultural fragmentation in Postmodern America has led to a destabilization of the political sphere and created a climate of change and possibility, one in which socialist-feminist Donna J. Haraway labours to redefine feminist politics by constructing a borderless and especially, genderless, cyborg subjectivity. "Cyborgs" and "serials" are figures of social and fictional "reality," that, together, reflect the normalizing, hierarchical, and psychologically traumatic aspects of operational Harawayan cyborgology. Chapter 1 explores the practical limits of the hybridity and fluidity characteristic of Harawayan cyborg subjectivity and politics to suggest that processes of political normalization are far less easily dismantled in practice than they are in theory. This discussion focuses on the persistent influence of sex/gender dualism on hierarchical structures in technoculture, a persistence illustrated in science fiction novels by James Tiptree, Jr. and Vonda McIntyre. Chapter 2 looks at how race influences the divergence of feminist agendas by engendering the mutually exclusive, racially influenced perspectives of both Harawayan cyborg politics and radical U.S. feminism. Two science fiction stories by Octavia E. Butler, a black American writer, illustrate the translation of gender hierarchy into racial hierarchy. A sensitivity to this rearticulation of oppression seems to be missing from cyborg politics. Finally, Chapter 3 investigates the psychoanalytic trauma of fragmentation, multiplicity, and fusion through the psychopathology of serial killers in order to question Haraway's emphasis on, what is for her, the "liberating" and "creative" quality of a psychological state that is, for these criminals, the source of psychosis and aggression. This chapter explores what I consider to be the "serial" side of Harawayas "cyborg," in a crime fiction novel by Gordon Lish.
An Interview with Prof. Salikoko Mufwene
Creators: name: Degani, Marta
name: Vettorel, Paola
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: An Interview with Prof. Salikoko Mufwene
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Model-based visual recognition of 3-D objects using pseudo-random grid encoding.
Creators: name: Trif, Niculaie.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: This thesis presents a solution to the following problem: Given a set of 3-D objects having their visible surfaces marked with symbols representing the terms of a pseudo-random array (PRA), given the mapping between the planar faces of the polyhedral models of these objects, and given a monocular (2-D) image partly showing an object of this set, determine object identity and its POSE (Position, Orientation and Scale Estimation) parameter relative to the 3-D frame of the video-camera. From the symbols which could be recognized in the image, a broken portion of the PRA is reconstructed and then inspected until a complete pseudo-random window (PRW) is found. Such a window has the uniqueness property which allows the full identification of the window's absolute coordinates (i,j) within the PRA. By consulting the "object model/ PRA" mapping database it is possible to identify the object and its specific face containing the recovered window. Once the object face is identified, its POSE parameters are calculated from the perspective transformations relating the 2-D positions of the recognized symbols in the image frame to their correspondent PRA grid nodes defined in the 3-D object model frame (a classical "camera calibration" problem.)
Enhancing non-classicality in mechanical systems
Creators: name: Li, Jie
name: Gröblacher, Simon
name: Paternostro, Mauro
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Gaussian measures
subject: Gauß-Maß

description: Abstract We study the effects of post-selection measurements on both the non-classicality of the state of a mechanical oscillator and the entanglement between two mechanical systems that are part of a distributed optomechanical network. We address the cases of both Gaussian and non-Gaussian measurements, identifying in which cases simple photon counting and Geiger-like measurements are effective in distilling a strongly non-classical mechanical state and enhancing the purely mechanical entanglement between two elements of the network.
title: Das TRheuMa-Register: Charakteristika und klinisches Management rheumatischer Immune-related adverse events (irAE)
Creators: name: Diekmann, Leonore
name: Lorenz, Hanns-Martin
name: Leipe, Jan
name: Benesova, Karolina
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die komplexen Wechselwirkungen zwischen entzündlich-rheumatischen und malignen Erkrankungen erlangten durch die unter Immuncheckpoint-Inhibitoren (ICPi) ausgelösten rheumatischen immune-related adverse events (irAEs) neue Aufmerksamkeit. Insbesondere das mit rheumatischen irAEs[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Interview with Abiodun Oyewole, Founding Member of "The Last Poets"
Creators: name: Fascina, Camilla
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: Interview with Abiodun Oyewole, Founding Member of "The Last Poets"
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
Terrestrial Cosmopolitanism, Posthumanism, and Multispecies Modes of Being in Cereus Blooms at Night
Creators: name: Press, Sara V.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Cosmopolitanism has generally been used to describe a philosophy that imagines all humans as citizens of a single “human” community. This article explores a terrestrial cosmopolitanism that challenges the colonial discourse of human exceptionalism by extending the democratization of people to include environmental bodies within their global context, replacing hierarchies with collectivities to reveal humanism’s underrepresented others. Examining interspecies alliances in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, I look towards terrestrial cosmopolitanism as an alternative to anthropocentric forms of cosmopolitanism that continue to reinscribe colonialist aspirations and ontologically exclusionary practices. Mootoo’s work decenters how we think about humans and the environment and offers a nuanced depiction of a positive interspecies community that resists harmful humanist taxonomies. Reading the novel’s protagonist, Mala, as a posthuman figure, I argue that her rejection of human language, in conjunction with her nonhuman interactions, positions her as a keeper of collectivity, as she creates a third space of subjectivity in her garden that blurs the boundaries between humans and nonhumans.
What kind of noise annoys an oyster?
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Melancholy and occasionally joyous, the story of two 'squinty daughters' doesn't quite justify the pictures, writes Darren Tofts in this review of 'Dotter of her father's eyes', by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, published by Jonathan Cape, 2012.
title: Lyme-Arthritis – Ist ein protrahierter Verlauf eher die Regel als die Ausnahme?
Creators: name: Dormann, Andreas
name: Schmeiser, Tim
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Eine Infektion durch Borrelia burgdorferi kann im Rahmen einer Borreliose in 60% der Patienten eine Arthritis insbesondere im Bereich der Kniegelenke auslösen [ref:1]. Nach Diagnosesicherung und antibiotischer Therapie mit Doxycyclin oder Ceftriaxon gilt die Erkrankung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Using a Diffusive Approach for Load Balancing in Peer-to-peer Systems
Creators: name: Qiao, Ying
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: load balancing
diffusive load balancing
peer-to-peer systems
distributed algorithms
clustered peer-to-peer systems
performance management component

description: We developed a diffusive load balancing scheme that equalizes the available capacities of nodes in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system. These nodes may have different resource capacities, geographic locations, or availabilities (i.e., length of time being part of the peer-to-peer system). The services on these nodes may have different service times and arrival rates of requests. Using the diffusive scheme, the system is able to maintain similar response times for its services. Our scheme is a modification of the diffusive load balancing algorithms proposed for parallel computing systems. This scheme is able to handle services with heterogeneous resource requirements and P2P nodes with heterogeneous capacities. We also adapted the diffusive scheme to clustered peer-to-peer system, where a load balancing operation may move services or nodes between clusters. After a literature survey of this field, this thesis investigates the following issues using analytical reasoning and extensive simulation studies. The load balancing operations equalize the available capacities of the nodes in a neighborhood to their averages. As a result, the available capacities of all nodes in the P2P system converge to a global average. We found that this convergence is faster when the scheme uses neighborhoods defined by the structure of the structured P2P overlay network rather than using randomly selected neighbors. For a system with churn (i.e. nodes joining and leaving), the load balancing operations maintain the standard deviation of the available capacities of nodes within a bound. This bound depends on the amount of churn and the frequency of load balancing operations, as well as on the capacities of the nodes. However, the sizes of the services have little impact on this bound. In a clustered peer-to-peer system, the size of the bound largely depends on the average cluster size. When nodes are moved among clusters for load balancing, the numbers of cluster splits and merges are reduced. This may reduce the maintenance cost of the overlay network.
The SABRE project and the SABRE proof-of-principle
Creators: name: Antonello, M.
name: Barberio, E.
name: Baroncelli, T.
name: Benziger, J.
name: Bignell, L. J.
name: Bolognino, I.
name: Calaprice, F.
name: Copello, S.
name: D’angelo, D.
name: D’imperio, G.
name: Dafinei, I.
name: Dicarlo, G.
name: Diemoz, M.
name: Di Ludovico, A.
name: Dix, W.
name: Duffy, Alan
name: Froborg, F.
name: Giovanetti, G. K.
name: Hoppe, E.
name: Ianni, A.
name: Ioannucci, L.
name: Krishnan, Shanti
name: Lane, G. J.
name: Mahmood, I.
name: Mariani, A.
name: Mastrodicasa, M.
name: Montini, P.
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Nuti, F.
name: Orlandi, D.
name: Paris, M.
name: Pettinacci, V.
name: Pietrofaccia, L.
name: Prokopovic, D.
name: Rahatlou, S.
name: Rossi, N.
name: Sarbutt, A.
name: Shields, E.
name: Souza, M. J.
name: Stuchbery, A. E.
name: Suerfu, B.
name: Tomei, C.
name: Toso, V.
name: Urquijo, P.
name: Vignoli, C.
name: Wada, M.
name: Wallner, A.
name: Williams, A. G.
name: Xu, J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510601
subject: Nuclear physics
classificationCode: 510703
subject: Particle physics

description: SABRE aims to directly measure the annual modulation of the dark matter interaction rate with NaI(Tl) crystals. A modulation compatible with the standard hypothesis, in which our Galaxy is immersed in a dark matter halo, has been measured by the DAMA experiment in the same target material. Other direct detection experiments, using different target materials, seem to exclude the interpretation of such modulation in the simplest scenario of WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering. The SABRE experiment aims to carry out an independent search with sufficient sensitivity to confirm or refute the DAMA claim. The goal of the SABRE experiment is to achieve the lowest background rate for a NaI(Tl) experiment (order of 0.1 cpd/kg/keV(ee) in the energy region of interest for dark matter). This challenging goal could be achievable by operating high-purity crystals inside a liquid scintillator veto for active background rejection. In addition, twin detectors will be located in the northern and southern hemispheres to identify possible contributions to the modulation from seasonal or site-related effects. The SABRE project includes an initial Proof-of-Principle phase at LNGS (Italy), to assess the radio-purity of the crystals and the efficiency of the liquid scintillator veto. This paper describes the general concept of SABRE and the expected sensitivity to WIMP annual modulation.
title: International paths for more resource efficiency
title: International paths for more resource efficiency
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Auberger, Andreas
name: Dittrich, Monika
name: Limberger, Sonja
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung
subject: Ressourceneffizienz
subject: Nachhaltige Entwicklung
subject: sustainable use of natural resources
subject: resource efficiency
subject: environmentally sustainable development
subject: international policy
subject: Waste | Resources
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: The brochure describes ways to increase resource efficiency and presents approaches to policies and trends in nine countries. The summary is based on the results of the research project "Monitoring international resource policy", which was carried out between 2016 and 2019 under the direction of the ifeu - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH on behalf of the German Environment Agency. The thematic focus is on activities in the areas of production, consumption as well as waste and recycling management. The countries examined include Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. All countries pursue approaches to resource efficiency that differ in terms of priorities and funding instruments. Source: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: The brochure describes ways to increase resource efficiency and presents approaches to policies and trends in nine countries. The summary is based on the results of the research project "⁠Monitoring⁠ international resource policy", which was carried out between 2016 and 2019 under the direction of the ifeu - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg GmbH on behalf of the German Environment Agency. The thematic focus is on activities in the areas of production, consumption as well as waste and recycling management. The countries examined include Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. All countries pursue approaches to resource efficiency that differ in terms of priorities and funding instruments.
Max Weber and the Moral Dimensions of Politics as a Vocation
Creators: name: Brassard, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Max Weber
ethic of conviction
ethic of responsibility
politcs
power

description: Weber’s discussion of ethics in his famous lecture (and then essay) Politics as a Vocation (1919) clearly indicates that two possible ethical stances, the ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility, are rooted in ‘distinct and irreconcilably opposed principles’. Throughout Politics as a Vocation, it is the ethic of responsibility that appears to be endorsed by Weber as suited for political life. Yet, Weber concludes his essay by claiming that a combined ethic is ideal for a political vocation. This makes Weber’s position regarding the ideal ethical stance for a man who has a ‘true political calling’ appear contradictory: the ethics are opposites but somehow to be combined. Commentators have mostly concluded that, for Weber, the ethic of responsibility is the ideal ethic for politics. That appears further in accord with the fact that a key concern of the speech in its historical context was to warn political students of the dangers associated with an ethic of conviction. Weber, as a realist, was especially critical of a stance that disregarded the corrupted nature of the world, which the ethic of responsibility alone seems to accept. Politicians with single-minded convictions were responsible for Germany’s political stalemate, supporting the fact that the ethic of conviction should not be deemed acceptable in politics. And yet there is much this position neglects by opting for only one of the two ethics, by concluding that only the ethic of responsibility is appropriate for political vocation. My thesis offers something different; something I admit is ambitious. What I propose is the synthesis of the opposition, of finding a way to combine the two irreconcilably opposed ethics.
title: Ergebnisse der immunologisch-rheumatologischen Modellsprechstunde im Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover
Creators: name: Gödecke, Vega
name: Spangenberg, Astrid
name: Schwalba, Martina
name: Babka, Christine
name: Dierking, Anna
name: Witte, Torsten
name: Kratz, Christian
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Patienten mit unklarer Diagnose haben nicht selten einen langen Leidensweg hinter sich und viele wenden sich im Verlauf an ein Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen. An der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover (MHH) wurde im Laufe des Jahres 2019 eine Lotsensprechstunde für unklare Diagnosen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Electromagnetic energy regenerative vibration damping
Creators: name: Graves, Kynan E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis documents a PhD level research program, undertaken at the Industrial Institute Swinburne, Swinburne University of Technology between the years of 1997 and 2000. The research program investigated electromagnetic energy regenerative vibration damping; the process of recovering energy from damped, vibrating systems. More specifically, the main research objective was to determine the performance of regenerative damping for the application of vehicle suspension systems. This question emerged due to the need for continuous improvement of vehicle efficiency and the potential benefits possible from the development of regenerative vehicle suspension. It was noted, at the outset of this research, that previous authors had undertaken research on particular aspects of regenerative damping systems. However in this research, the objective was to undertake a broader investigation which would serve to provide a deeper understanding of the key factors. The evaluation of regenerative vibration damping performance was achieved by developing a structured research methodology that began with analysing the overall requirements of regenerative damping and, based on these requirements, investigated several important design aspects of the system. The specific design aspects included an investigation of electromagnetic machines for use as regenerative damping devices. This analysis concentrated on determining the most promising electromagnetic device construction based on its damping and regeneration properties. The investigation then proceeded to develop an 'impedance-matching' regenerative interface, in order to control the energy flows in the system. This form of device had not been previously developed for electromagnetic vibration damping, and provided a significant advantage in maximising energy regeneration while maintaining damping control. The results from this analysis, when combined with the issues of integrating such a system in vehicle suspension, were then used to estimate the overall performance of regenerative damping for vehicle suspension systems. The methodology and findings in this research program provided a number of contributing elements to the field, and provided an insight into the development of regenerative vehicle systems. The findings revealed that electromagnetic regenerative vibration damping may be feasible for applications such as electric vehicles in which energy efficiency is a primary concern, and may have other applications in similar vibrating systems.
Nursing support in labour and delivery.
Creators: name: Stevenson-Gale, Jill C.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

description: Few studies have focused on the amount of support provided by nurses on labour and delivery units. The purpose of this study was to examine the amount of nursing support provided by nurses during the intrapartum period as well as to identify factors that influence the provision of support. Support was operationalized within four categories: physical comfort measures; emotional support; instructional/informational support; and advocacy. The work sampling method was used to determine the percentage of time nurses spent in supportive care activities. Using this approach, each nurse, who met the inclusion criteria, was observed instantaneously at randomly selected times and the activity was recorded. Twelve nurses were observed over six non-consecutive day shifts on a labour unit of a teaching hospital in Montreal. A total of 404 observations were made. Nurses also were interviewed to determine their perceptions of what constituted supportive nursing care as well as the factors that facilitated or inhibited the provision of this care. Findings of the work sampling portion of the study indicated that nurses spent only 12.4% of their total time providing supportive care to labouring women. Interviews with six of the nurses that were observed suggested that their perceptions of the components of supportive care were comparable to what had been identified in the literature and with this study's operational definition of support with one exception: obtaining epidural analgesia was considered a key component of nursing support during labour. Further analysis revealed a major barrier to the provision of supportive care by nurses: the environmental control of labouring women and their partners by health care providers through the use of technology and rigid adherence to policy and procedure. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Partially-automated live performance by Latin American musicians in two Canadian cities: Musical identity and authenticity in a globalized cultural economy.
Creators: name: Galvan, Brigido.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Music.

description: This ethnographic study examines the roles digital technologies (sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers, samplers, and computers) play in the musical practices of nine Latin American musicians participating in the local live music scenes of Ottawa and Montreal in the 1990s. Music has historically played a fundamental role in the construction of collective identities for Latin American musicians in the diaspora. A declining local musical economy combined with prevalent aesthetic value systems have made the use of automation in live performance an attractive and/or necessary alternative for some local Latin American musicians. The use of digital technologies, and in particular the use of automation, has particular implications for established notions of musical competence, creativity and ultimately of musical and cultural authenticity. This study looks at the notion of musical authenticity and its indelible connection with cultural, political, social and economic issues. It investigates the effects technology has on the ability of Latin American musicians to assert individual and collective identities in two of Canada's highly multicultural urban environments. As a site of social, economic and cultural struggle, exchange and interaction, the live performances of Latin American musicians are historically situated within the global/local cultural economic nexus of Canada's late twentieth-century.
title: Effects of cell culture conditions and passaging on the phenotype and proliferation rate of primary human osteoblasts
Creators: name: Dychus, Nicole
name: Schwendich, Elena
name: Flegel, Anke
name: Bouchkhachakh, Noureddine
name: Bast, Helge
name: Capellino, Silvia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Introduction: Isolation and cell culture of primary human osteoblasts is a technical challenge. Indeed, it is extremely difficult to cut the hard bone and isolate a sufficient amount of osteoblasts. Moreover, cell culture conditions of primary human osteoblasts are not yet well standardized. Due to [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: Deutscher Rheumatologiekongress 2020, 48. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie (DGRh), 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Orthopädische Rheumatologie (DGORh)
Update of methane emission factors for natural gas supply
Creators: name: Böttcher, Christian
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Emissionsfaktor
subject: Erdgas
subject: emission factor
subject: natural gas
subject: natural gas grid
subject: Climate | Energy

description: The European Green Deal, the Methane Pledge based on the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2021, the German Climate Protection Act, and other national and international efforts intend to reduce global methane emissions. Against this background, it is necessary to reflect the efforts of industry and politics in the national inventories. Extensive measurement programs of transmission system gas operators, distribution system operators, and other institutions have been carried out since 2019. Results obtained have been included in the German inventory and are explained in this report. Quelle: Bericht
description: The European Green Deal, the Methane Pledge based on the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2021, the German Climate Protection Act, and other national and international efforts intend to reduce global methane emissions. Against this background, it is necessary to reflect the efforts of industry and politics in the national inventories. Extensive measurement programs of transmission system gas operators, distribution system operators, and other institutions have been carried out since 2019.Results obtained have been included in the German inventory and are explained in this report.The publication is intended as a companion report to Germany's annually updated national inventory report.
Health effects from exposure to traffic radar units in members of the RCMP.
Creators: name: Snider, Judy Ann.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Safety.

description: Over the last few years the lay media have raised the question whether there may be a link between the use of police radar and the development of cancer. Radar has been used to measure traffic speed since the mid 1950's. The purpose of this research study was to determine the profile of exposure and cancer outcomes in members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who have ever performed radar duties. The design was a historical cohort study involving 4 cohorts. The target population was defined as all members of the RCMP who had been assigned to highway patrol from 1973 onward. Four cohorts of subjects were identified within this population and surveyed: pensioned members (n = 1819), active members who had 30 or more consecutive days of sick leave (n = 750), a sample of active members who had less than 30 consecutive days of sick leave (n = 750) and the deceased members (n = 146). The questionnaire ascertained police service, radar unit usage, diagnosis of cancer, risk factors for testicular cancer and socio-demorgraphic information. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Radical business strategy change in high technology new ventures: taking the investor's perspective
Creators: name: Gimmon, Eli
name: Benjamin, Eyal
name: Katzenstein, Liora
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radical Strategic Change (RSC) is not a rare event in high technology new ventures, due to their rapidly changing environment. This research explores investors' perspective regarding RSC in their portfolio companies, using a qualitative study by interviewing a variety of 13 financial investors from 7 countries. Findings present three approaches taken by investors: Avoidance, Readiness and Passive. Since the success of RSC is critical to ventures performance, it is suggested that inventors adopt the readiness approach, optimized also through the prisoners' dilemma as reflecting the investor-investee relationship. Further research is needed to validate findings of this study.
Endangered Intellect: A Case Study of Clinton Vs Trump Campaign Discourse
Creators: name: Degani, Marta
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2019

description: This study investigates political language and political discourse with a focus on anti-intellectualism that is interpreted from two different but related perspectives. First, anti-intellectualism is seen as related to linguistic complexity as measured by certain textual features (e.g. sentence length, word length, number of complex words). Secondly, anti-intellectualism is seen as connected to characteristics of discourse such as representation of Self, representation of Other and framing of political issues. This integrated approach to the examination of anti-intellectualism in American political language and discourse is based on both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and it is used for investigating Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s announcement speeches. The purely quantitative analysis relies on a range of well-known readability tests (Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease, Flesch Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog Score, SMOG Index, Coleman Liau Index, Automated Readability Index, New Dale-Chall Readability Index and Fry Graph) to account for the linguistic complexity of the political speeches as a measure of their anti-intellectualism. The qualitative analysis utilizes methods of Corpus Linguistics to identify keywords in each of the political texts and relies on a Critical Discourse Analysis framework to investigate the impact of lexical choice on the construction of political and social reality.
description: Iperstoria, No 8 (2016): Around Selma – Selma e dintorni: La questione African American nella lingua, letteratura, e cultura degli Stati Uniti
La politique fédérale de logement au Canada de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au tournant du siècle: Reflet de l'évolution du rôle de l'État dans la solidarité sociale
Creators: name: Willan, Pierre
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: La thèse porte sur l'évolution des politiques fédérales de logement de la période d'après-guerre au tournant des années deux milles et démontre en quoi elle concorde avec les trois grandes périodes ayant marquées l'évolution des politiques sociales canadiennes. La première est marquée par une expansion de l'intervention étatique correspondant à l'essor de l'État providence. La seconde est caractérisée par un désengagement de l'intervention étatique sous l'influence des idéaux néolibéraux. La troisième est marquée par une nouvelle forme d'intervention correspondant au modèle partenarial de l'intervention étatique. En conclusion, la thèse établit que l'évolution de la politique de logement répond aux meme facteurs déterminants que l'évolution des autres politiques sociales: une nouvelle politique est engendrée par un changement structurel majeur qui suscite une réaction du gouvernement conditionnée par un paradigme dominant sur l'interventionnisme et la décentralisation, et ensuite par d'autres facteurs tels que le poids du passé et les relations intergouvernementales.
Exploring Heterogeneity on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Cluster Analytical Investigation
Creators: name: Carruthers, Sean
name: Gurvich, Caroline T.
name: Meyer, Denny
name: Bousman, Chad
name: Everall, Ian P.
name: Neill, Erica
name: Pantelis, Christos
name: Sumner, Philip
name: Tan, Eric
name: Thomas, Elizabeth H.X.
name: Van Rheenen, Tamsyn
name: Rossell, Susan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objectives: The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a complex measure of executive function that is frequently employed to investigate the schizophrenia spectrum. The successful completion of the task requires the interaction of multiple intact executive processes, including attention, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and concept formation. Considerable cognitive heterogeneity exists among the schizophrenia spectrum population, with substantive evidence to support the existence of distinct cognitive phenotypes. The within-group performance heterogeneity of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) on the WCST has yet to be investigated. A data-driven cluster analysis was performed to characterise WCST performance heterogeneity. Methods: Hierarchical cluster analysis with k-means optimisation was employed to identify homogenous subgroups in a sample of 210 schizophrenia spectrum participants. Emergent clusters were then compared to each other and a group of 194 healthy controls (HC) on WCST performance and demographic/clinical variables. Results: Three clusters emerged and were validated via altered design iterations. Clusters were deemed to reflect a relatively intact patient subgroup, a moderately impaired patient subgroup, and a severely impaired patient subgroup. Conclusions: Considerable within-group heterogeneity exists on the WCST. Identification of subgroups of patients who exhibit homogenous performance on measures of executive functioning may assist in optimising cognitive interventions. Previous associations found using the WCST among schizophrenia spectrum participants should be reappraised.
title: From Gender Theory to Relief Practice: Opportunities for Effective Confluence
Creators: name: Wachter, Karin
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Education

description: This paper offers an overview of the main theories shaping gender-related policy that originated in development and that have been applied to relief. The analysis considers the tensions between maintaining theoretical integrity and managing practical operational concerns, bringing into question what is adaptable and applicable within an emergency context. It is not necessary to reinvent the wheel by developing a separate set of theories and tools for relief; there is overlap between the two. This creates an opportunity for development to inform relief and for relief to inform development. Included is a summary of the major gender planning and analysis frameworks for development and relief.
Communications service synthesis from informal specifications and sequence diagrams.
Creators: name: Asikhan-Berlinguette, Nursel.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: Communications Networks consist of layers where each layer provides a service to the layer above. A service consists of phases each of which is a sequence of message interactions intended to achieve a specific user goal [Boyc 90]. For example, Transport Service has three phases: connection establishment, data transfer and connection release. Recent research [Dsou 95] and [Sale 96] has emphasized the need for systematic methods to build services. We propose such a method to build a Global Service FSM (Finite State Machine) from a set of Sequence Diagrams. We use these diagrams to capture a set of constraints on the service: local, end-to-end and concurrency constraints. The service synthesis method is composed of a series of algorithmic steps. The two major steps are: (i) construction of Phase Scenario Machines (PSM), (ii) coupling of PSMs at the phase boundaries. The resulting FSM, called a Global Scenario Machine (GSM), is a more precise and complete model of the global service. This thesis shows that a global service specification, the Global Scenario Machine can be semiautomatically and systematically built from a set of sequence diagrams. More work is needed on tools and verification methods to insure the completeness of this approach and its ease of use, but a realistic case study is used illustrate the feasibility of the approach.
title: Validation of European horizontal methods for the analysis of PAH, PCB and dioxins in sludge, treated biowaste and soil
title: Validation of European horizontal methods for the analysis of PAH, PCB and dioxins in sludge, treated biowaste and soil
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bandow, Nicole
name: Kalbe, Ute
name: Lehnik-Habrink, Petra
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ringversuch
Eichung

description: Background
 Draft standards for the determination of organic pollutants in the solid matter of environmental matrices such as sludge, treated biowaste and soil have been basically developed in the framework of the European standardisation project HORIZONTAL. A research project financed by the German Federal Environment Agency was initiated to finalise some of these CEN standard drafts, since fully validated standard procedures are crucial for the evaluation of their reliability in the context of implementation in legislation on environmental health. Approach
Appropriate test materials (<2 mm particle size) were prepared and homogenised from contaminated soils, sludge and treated biowaste containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), dioxins, furans and dioxin-like-PCB and served, along with reference solutions, as the basis for international interlaboratory comparisons. Performance data of three analytical standard procedures were obtained by the statistical evaluation of results received from 11 to 29 participants per test material. Results
The overall variation coefficients of reproducibility (between-lab standard deviations) for the sum parameters were roughly between 10 and 35%. The variation coefficients of repeatability (within-lab standard deviations) range between 3 and 8% and show no trend considering the substance groups or matrices. The highest coefficients of reproducibility were found for the analysis of PAH, which were between 26 and 35%, depending on the matrix, whereas 7-17% reproducibility was observed for toxicity equivalents (TEQ) comprising dioxins, furans and dl-PCB. Conclusions
Overall, the results confirm that the procedures described in the Technical Specifications are fit for purpose for all three matrices and that the feasibility of the HORIZONTAL approach, to cover several matrices with one standard per analyte, was thereby proven. Quelle: https://enveurope.springeropen.com