cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The intersection of Utopia and enlightenment : the case of Rousseau
Creators: name: Redgen, Keith.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: An Analysis of Quality Assessment Efforts in Health Care
Creators: name: Curran, Margaret M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: The purpose of this research was to determine whether consensus could be reached by experts in the field of quality assurance on the most important indicators of health care quality and to determine whether cause and effect relationship could be attributed to the process and outcome indicators suggested in our survey. We invited participation by a representative sample of experts in a Delphi Panel to address these issues. There were 49 respondants to our Round One Questionnaire and they evaluated the relative importance of 50 process and 50 outcome indicators. Panelists were asked to establish cause and effect relationships between the process and outcome indicators where possible on Round Two. The coefficient of correlation was utilized to test the null hypothesis that the relationship between the process: outcome mean score ratios and the process: outcome cause and effect ratios was not statistically significant at the .01 level. The null hypothesis was rejected and the researchers determined that the relationship between the indicator mean ratios and the cause and effect ratios was statistically significant. It was concluded that indicators high in context and specificity are more useful and important in the measurement of health care quality.
Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework based on Repeated Interactions
Creators: name: Strasberg, Philipp
name: Schaller, Gernot
name: Brandes, Tobias
name: Esposito, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal reservoir by considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into contact with the system. These units can be in any nonequilibrium state and interact with the system with an arbitrary strength and duration. We show that this stream constitutes an effective resource of nonequilibrium free energy and identify the conditions under which it behaves as a heat, work or information reservoir. We also show that this setup provides a natural framework to analyze information erasure ("Landauer's principle") and feedback controlled systems ("Maxwell's demon"). In the limit of a short system-unit interaction time, we further demonstrate that this setup can be used to provide a thermodynamically sound interpretation to many effective master equations. We discuss how non-autonomously driven systems, micromasers, lasing without inversion, and the electronic Maxwell demon, can be thermodynamically analyzed within our framework. While the present framework accounts for quantum features (e.g. squeezing, entanglement, coherence), we also show that quantum resources do not offer any advantage compared to classical ones in terms of the maximum extractable work.
description: Final version. 28 pages incl. 9 figures + references
Assessment of Effect of Access to Free Health Care on Early Childhood Mortality, Controlled Quasi Experimental Study of Butajira Birth Cohorts from 2002-2008, South Central Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abay, Mebrahtu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Background: Mortality in African children is unacceptably high. Providing free health care to young children has been hypothesized to improve access to health care and lead to better health outcomes. However, there have been only few methodologically robust studies testing this hypothesis. This study examined the impact of free healthcare provided to a birth cohort of children born from March, 2005 to June, 2006 in Butajira DSA (Demographic Surveillance Area) through the C-MaMiE project (Child outcomes in relation to Maternal Mental health in Ethiopia), in comparison to three cohorts of user fee children (children born within 2.5 years before and after the intervention and parallel with the intervention). Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of making health care services free at the point of use upon under-fives mortality. Methods: This controlled quasi-experimental study compared intervention cohort, children born in Butajira from March, 2005 to June, 2006 and received free health care provided by the C-MaMiE project, from pre-birth (pregnancy) to 12 months, and from 24 to 60 months, and three comparison cohorts of children born in the same geographical area (2.5 years before, during and after the intervention). The crude and adjusted under-five mortality in the intervention cohort versus the comparison cohorts was evaluated using Cox regression model. Result: Incidence of under-five mortality was 15.7 (12.3-20.0), 98.7 (88.3-110.3), 41.2 (35.2- 48.2) and 39.3 (33.5-46.1) per 1000 person-years of observation children provided free, user fee before intervention, user fee during intervention and user fee after intervention health care services, respectively. The risk of under-five mortality among user fee children (before, during and after the intervention) were 5.87 (4.47-7.72), 2.45 (1.84-3.28), and 2.72 (2.03-3.66) times higher than those provided freely, respectively. Maternal death (AHR=2.10; 95% CI; 1.36- 3.23), rural residence (AHR=0.56; 95% CI; 0.44-0.72) and death of elder child (AHR=1.28; 95% CI; 1.01-1.61) were also found to be independent predictors of under-five mortality. Conclusion and recommendation: There was a slow decrement of early childhood mortality in the study area and was relatively high among user fee children, even compared to the after arm comparison cohort whereby lower mortality is expected, and health policy makers should give more emphasis on abolition of user fee health care services as it is one of the methods which significantly reduce under five mortality
Entwicklung eines neuen, oxidationslabilen traceless Linkers für die kombinatorische Festphasensynthese
Creators: name: Stieber, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Festphasensynthese
subject: Hydrazid
subject: traceless linker
subject: 540

description: Die Hydrazidgruppe ist ein neuer oxidativ spaltbarer "spurloser" Anker ("Traceless Linker") für die Festphasen-synthese und die kombinatorische Chemie. Sie ist unter verschiedenen Reaktionsbedingungen wie z.B. CC-Bindungsknüpfungsreaktionen (Heck-, Stille-, Suzuki- und Sonogashira-Reaktionen, Wittig- und Grignard-Reaktionen) stabil und ermöglicht unter sehr milden Bedingungen die spurlose Ablösung von Biarylen, Acetylenen, Alkenen, Heterocyclen, Thioethern und sekundären Aminen von unterschiedlichen festen Trägern. Eine 10-stufige Festphasensynthese von 2-Aminothiazolen wurde in hohen Ausbeuten und Reinheiten mit dem Hydrazid-Linker durchgeführt. Dabei konnte eine neue Klasse von Rezeptortyrosinkinase-Inhibitoren mit dualer Selektivität gegen VEGFR-2 und Tie-2 identifiziert werden
Representing "Chineseness" in diaspora : the art of Zhou Xiaoping and Ah Xian
Creators: name: Sengmany, Somsack.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Processor-Core Based Design and Test
Creators: name: Marwedel, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: 004

description: This tutorial responds to the rapidly increasing use of various cores for implementing systems-on-a-chip. It specifically focusses on processor cores. We will give some examples of cores, including DSP cores and application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs). We will mention market trends for these components, and we will touch design procedures, in particular the use compilers. Finally, we will discuss the problem of testing core-based designs. Existing solutions include boundary scan, embedded in-circuit emulation (ICE), the use of processor resources for stimuli/response compaction and self-test programs.
Universal Health Coverage: A Catalyst for Achieving 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Creators: name: Orjingene, Obinna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111717 Primary Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111704 Community Child Health
subject: Health Care

description: Achieving Universal Health Coverage is one of the prerequisites for improved health outcomes, a decline in the rate of Impoverishment due to health expenditure (IHE), and achieving Sustainable Development Goals 1,2, and 3. While some countries (primarily those in Sub-Saharan Africa) are still battling to achieve Health Coverage for their populations, Western countries have achieved this feat using several strategies and models. This study aims to identify Universal Health Coverage implementation strategies adopted by different countries and how the strategies have contributed to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal targets.
Revisit to Thermodynamic Relations in the AdS/CMT Models
Creators: name: Hyun, Seungjoon
name: Park, Sang-A
name: Yi, Sang-Heon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent unified approach to the Smarr-like relation of AdS planar black holes in conjunction with the quasi-local formalism on conserved charges, we revisit the quantum statistical and thermodynamic relations of hairy AdS planar black holes. By extending the previous results, we identify the hairy contribution in the bulk and show that the holographic computation can be improved so that it is consistent with the bulk computation. We argue that the first law can be retained in its universal form while the relation between the on-shell renormalized Euclidean action and its free energy interpretation in gravity may be deformed to contain the hairy contribution in hairy AdS black holes.
description: 1+18 pages, plain LaTeX; v2 typo fixed and references added; v3 version to appear in PRD
Schultze, Harald / Kurschat. Andreas (Hrsg): »Ihr Ende schaut an ...« Evangelische Märtyrer des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Moll, Helmut
Publisher: name: Forum Katholische Theologie
Year: 1970

description: Forum Katholische Theologie, Bd. 25 Nr. 3 (2009): Forum Katholische Theologie, Band 25, Heft 3
Glossary on common definitions across EU privacy and data security laws (V1.0)
Creators: name: Mayrhofer, Michaela
name: Colussi, Ilaria
name: Schluender, Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: GDPR

description: The glossary on common definitions across EU privacy and data security laws for EUCAN-Image builds on the latest draft version of the draft glossary for the Code of Conduct for Health Research (http://code-of-conduct-for-health-research.eu). The initiative is spearheaded by BBMRI-ERIC and aims to ‘translate’ GDPR provisions into practice and simplify its interpretation through a code of conduct under GDPR Art. 40/41.
Test of the cosmic evolution using Gaussian processes
Creators: name: Zhang, Ming-Jian
name: Xia, Jun-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Much focus was on the possible slowing down of cosmic acceleration under the dark energy parametrization. In the present paper, we investigate this subject using the Gaussian processes (GP), without resorting to a particular template of dark energy. The reconstruction is carried out by abundant data including luminosity distance from Union2, Union2.1 compilation and gamma-ray burst, and dynamical Hubble parameter. It suggests that slowing down of cosmic acceleration cannot be presented within 95\% C.L., in considering the influence of spatial curvature and Hubble constant. In order to reveal the reason of tension between our reconstruction and previous parametrization constraint for Union2 data, we compare them and find that slowing down of acceleration in some parametrization is only a "mirage". Although these parameterizations fits well with the observational data, their tension can be revealed by high order derivative of distance $D$. Instead, GP method is able to faithfully model the cosmic expansion history.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in JCAP
Working in community : the formation of a theatrical work in a community theatre context
Creators: name: Creely, Edwin Arthur.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Intrinsic coherence in assisted sub-state discrimination
Creators: name: Zhang, Fu-Lin
name: Wang, Teng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study intrinsic coherence in the tripartite process to unambiguously discriminate two nonorthogonal states of a qubit, entangled with another one, and assisted by an auxiliary system. The optimal success probability is found to be benefited by initial intrinsic coherence, but no extra one is required. The transformations among different contributions of intrinsic coherence are necessary in this procedure, which increase with the overlap between the states to recognize. Such state discrimination is a key step of the probabilistic teleportation protocol. Entanglement of the quantum channel decreases the coherence characterizing the reliance on an ancilla.
description: 6 pages with 4 figures
Multipartite Interacting Scalar Dark Matter in the light of updated LUX data
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Subhaditya
name: Ghosh, Purusottam
name: Poulose, Poulose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore constraints on multipartite dark matter (DM) framework composed of singlet scalar DM interacting with the Standard Model (SM) through Higgs portal coupling. We compute relic density and direct search constraints including the updated LUX bound for two component scenario with non-zero interactions between two DM components in $\mathcal{Z}_2\times \mathcal{Z}_2^{'}$ framework in comparison with the one having $\mathcal{O}(2)$ symmetry. We point out availability of a significantly large region of parameter space of such a multipartite model with DM-DM interactions.
description: Version accepted in JCAP
Materialising memory : an enquiry into the process of public memorialisation with reference to the Rosenstrasse protest
Creators: name: Bruce, Katherine.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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30289-Article Text-56766-1-10-20220816.pdf
Creators: name: Orjingene, Obinna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 111717 Primary Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111704 Community Child Health
subject: Health Care

description: Achieving Universal Health Coverage is one of the prerequisites for improved health outcomes, a decline in the rate of Impoverishment due to health expenditure (IHE), and achieving Sustainable Development Goals 1,2, and 3. While some countries (primarily those in Sub-Saharan Africa) are still battling to achieve Health Coverage for their populations, Western countries have achieved this feat using several strategies and models. This study aims to identify Universal Health Coverage implementation strategies adopted by different countries and how the strategies have contributed to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal targets.
Reviewing R packages for data quality assessments in observational health research
Creators: name: Mariño, Joany
name: Kasbohm, Elisa
name: Struckmann, Stephan
name: Kapsner, Lorenz A.
name: Schmidt, Carsten O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: data quality assessment and monitoring
data reporting
exploratory data analysis
initial data analysis
R project for statistical computing

description: Results from a review on R packages for data quality assessments in observational health research, presented at the 17. Jahrestagung DGEpi in Greifswald.
description: This work was also supported by the DFG (NFDI 13/1, SCHM 2744/9-1, SCHM 2744/3-1), and by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Medical Informatics Initiative (MIRACUM Consortium, FKZ: 01ZZ1801A).
description: {"references": ["Schmidt CO, Struckmann S, Enzenbach C, et al. Facilitating harmonized data quality assessments. A data quality framework for observational health research data collections with software implementations in R. BMC Med Res Methodol 2021;21(63)."]}
title: Approach to Assess the Impacts of Circular Economy Measures: Case Study of Electric Motors in the EU
Creators: name: Fong, Yan Yi
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2023

description: The European Union's (EU) Ecodesign Directive regulates energy efficiency and other environmental performance for energy-related products. A preparatory study under this directive uses the Methodology for Ecodesign of Energy-related Products (MEErP) to recommend potential regulations for specific product groups. In 2022, the European Commission proposed a framework to extend the product scope to non-energy-related products in the EU market, aiming to enhance circularity, energy performance, and environmental sustainability. This proposed framework includes a revision of the MEErP methodology to prioritize resource and material efficiency. Simultaneously, the EcoReport tool, an openly accessible, Excel-based, life cycle-based tool used for ecological assessments in the methodology, is undergoing a review to align with current policies and requirements. However, there are concerns about the tool’s simplicity in addressing the complex topic of life cycle assessment (LCA). This study examines both the current and revised EcoReport tools and assesses their potential to suggest circular economy measures for products. The study further investigates the impacts of the circular economy measures through a case study focused on electric motors in the EU. The study reveals that the EcoReport tools are reliable in quickly identifying environmental impact hotspots across various life cycle stages. These tools can provide insights into factors influencing environmental impacts and identify where circular economy measures can have a significant impact. Additionally, the revised EcoReport tool can quantify potential savings from circular economy measures. Though, a quality check on the EcoReport tool results with a conventional LCA method will be worthwhile. Due to its simplicity, the EcoReport tool is more suited to policymaking than purely scientific purposes.
Effects of the Lorentz invariance violation in Coulomb interaction in nuclei and atoms
Creators: name: Flambaum, V. V.
name: Romalis, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropy in the speed of light that has been constrained by Michelson-Morley-type experiments also generates anisotropy in the Coulomb interactions. This anisotropy can manifest itself as an energy anisotropy in nuclear and atomic experiments. Here the experimental limits on Lorentz violation in 21Ne are used to improve the limits on the Lorentz symmetry in the photon sector, namely the anisotropy of the speed of light and the Coulomb interactions, by 7 orders of magnitude in comparison with previous experiments: the speed of light is isotropic to a part in E-28.
description: Calculation of the effect of anisotropy in the Coulomb interactions in the electron sector has been added in v2
A systematic study of the superconducting critical temperature in two and three dimensional tight-binding models: a possible scenario for superconducting H$_3$S ?
Creators: name: Souza, Thiago X. R.
name: Marsiglio, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ever since BCS theory was first formulated it was recognized that a large electronic density of states at the Fermi level was beneficial to enhancing $T_c$. The A15 compounds and the high temperature cuprate materials both have had an enormous amount of effort devoted to studying the possibility that such peaks play an important role in the high critical temperatures existing in these compounds. Here we provide a systematic study of the effect of these peaks on the superconducting transition temperature for a variety of tight-binding models of simple structures, both in two and three dimensions. In three dimensions large enhancements in $T_c$ can occur, due to van Hove singularities that result in divergences in the density of states. Furthermore, even in more realistic structures, where the van Hove singularity disappears, large enhancements in $T_c$ continue due to the presence of `robust' peaks in the densities of states. Such a peak, recently identified in the bcc structure of H$_3$S, is likely the result of such a van Hove singularity. In certain regimes, anomalies in the isotope coefficient are also expected.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures, changes reflect more emphasis on implications for the 200K superconductor, H3S. A couple of additional changes have been made to comply with the published version
Integrative Förderung besonderer mathematischer Fähigkeiten durch produktives Üben
Creators: name: Aellig-Urner, Raja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Mathematik
Masterarbeit

description: Begabten Schülerinnen und Schüler im Regelunterricht besonders zu fördern, ist eine Herausforderung. Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich theoretisch mit der mathematischen Begabung auseinander. Das methodisch-didaktische Konzept des produktiven Übens wird im Zusammenhang mit der integrativen Mathematikdidaktik beleuchtet. Daraus wurde ein Handlungsinstrument entwickelt, mit dem Lehrpersonen begabte Schülerinnen und Schüler verknüpft mit dem Zürcher Mathematiklehrmittel der Unterstufe integrativ fördern können. Der Entwicklungsprozess wurde gemeinsam mit den Lehrpersonen einer Schulgemeinde gestaltet. Lehrpersonen evaluierten den fertig gestellten Prototyp. Aufgrund ihrer Rückmeldungen wurde das Handlungsinstrument angepasst. Die Einschätzungen der Lehrpersonen zeigten, dass sich begabte Schülerinnen und Schüler mittels des Handlungsinstrumentes selbständig in das aktuelle Thema vertiefen können. Die Lehrpersonen werden in der Vorbereitung und während des Unterrichts entlastet.
The role of the outsider's voice in representation : a comparative analysis of selected fiction of Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje
Creators: name: Fitch, Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Trau, SCHAU, wem? - V-IDS oder eine andere Sicht der Dinge
Creators: name: Guthier, Benjamin
name: Lindenblatt, Andreas
name: Lindenblatt, Daniela
name: Scheuermann, Björn
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Intrusion Detection
subject: Visualisierung
subject: 004

description: Die ständig wachsende Flut der in einem Netzwerk anfallenden sicherheitsrelevanten Daten macht in zunehmendem Maße neue Darstellungsformen notwendig. Nur so können diese Daten ausreichend schnell und in angemessenem Umfang erfassbar und beherrschbar bleiben. Wesentlich schneller und intuitiver als reinen Text können wir den Inhalt von Bildern erfassen, grafische Darstellungen machen Geschehnisse in der Regel leichter erfassbar. Informationen können zusätzlich stärker verdichtet dargestellt werden, ohne dass der transportierte Inhalt darunter leidet. Die Darstellung von Sicherheitsdaten in grafischer Form steht derzeit noch sehr am Anfang, es gibt wenig Erfahrung, welche Darstellungen mehr und welche weniger geeignet sind. V-IDS soll Grundlagen legen für eine dynamische, dreidimensionale Darstellung solcher Daten. Es soll ein einfaches Experimentieren mit verschiedenen und neuartigen Darstellungen ermöglichen. Damit können dann vorhandene und zukünftige Ideen einfach und ohne längere Entwicklungszeit prototypisch umgesetzt und bewertet werden.
title:  Factors that Influence Prepared Childbirth Couples' Use of Epidural Anesthesia for Labor and Delivery
Creators: name: Chambers, Terri S.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence a Prepared Childbirth couple's decision to utilize epidural anesthesia for labor and delivery. Review of the literature indicated a high correlation between epidural use for uncomplicated labors and deliveries and a high incidence of maternal complications and low neonatal neurological and behavioral scores.

A sample of twenty-nine couples was used in this prospective, non-experimental field study for the research. Data were collected utilizing two developed demographic and factual event tools, Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Tool and Spanier's Dyadic Marital Adjustment Tool.

Three hypotheses were developed and data were analyzed utilizing Pearson rand Multiple Regression statistical procedures. The results of the research clearly indicated that internal locus of control and a high degree of marital adjustment are related to a decreased use of epidural anesthesia by Prepared Childbirth couples in labor and delivery. Additionally, analyses of the data demonstrated that a significant relationship existed between several variables and the use of epidural anesthesia by Prepared Childbirth couples for labor and delivery. These variables were marital adjustment scores, locus of control, physician's view of epidural anesthesia and length of marriage.

These results clearly indicate the need for improved childbirth education, supportive nursing staff, a family centered maternity unit, a progressive physician, and a good husband-wife relationship. Improvement in these areas may decrease the anesthesia usage for women in labor, therefore, decreasing some of the associated risks of childbearing.
title: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Universität Dortmund 2003
title: Zahlen, Daten, Fakten 2003
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Statistisches Jahrbuch der Universität Dortmund : Zahlen, Daten, Fakten / Universität Dortmund ; 2003
The Open Climate Campaign - why we need open access to climate science
Creators: name: Granados, Monica
name: Kuchma, Iryna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access
Open Science
Climate Research

description: Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world's most pressing challenges. While the existence of climate change and the resulting loss of biodiversity is certain, knowledge and data about these global challenges and the possible solutions, mitigations and actions to tackle them is too often not publicly accessible. For example, only 47% of research articles on climate change are open. If we are to enable solutions to climate change, the knowledge about it must be open. Recognizing the need for open access in climate science, the Open Climate Campaign is working to make the open sharing of research the norm in climate science through advocacy, direct work with funders of climate research, its international focus and by opening foundational climate change publications. The following questions will be discussed: Why is making climate change research open particularly important? What are some new tools or initiatives you can employ at your institution to promote open practices? How can you get involved in the open climate campaign? The talk was given as part of the Open Access Talk webinar series of the BMBF-funded project open-access.network on Sepetmber 21, 2023.
title: Studien zur Mehrsprachigkeit: Beiträge der Dortmunder Arbeitsgruppe
title: Studies on bilingualism: Contributions of the Dortmund research group
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ritterfeld, Ute
name: Lüke, Carina
name: Starke, Anja
name: Lüke, Timo
name: Subellok, Katja
Publisher: name: L.O.G.O.S.Interdisziplinär / Prolog
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Zweitsprache
subject: Sprachstörungen
subject: Logopädie
subject: Sprachtherapie
subject: bilingualism
subject: second language
subject: language impairment
subject: speech and language pathology
subject: 360
subject: 370
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Sprachstörung
subject: Logopädie

description: An der TU Dortmund, Fachgebiet Sprache und Kommunikation, wurden in den letzten zwei Jahren eine Reihe von empirischen Studien zum Thema Mehrsprachigkeit in Kindheit und Jugend durchgeführt. Mit dem vorliegenden Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Fragestellungen und Ergebnisse, die (auch) für die sprachtherapeutische Praxis relevant sind. Dabei werden zum einen Aspekte des Phänomens diskutiert und zum anderen konkrete Vorschläge zu Anamnese, Diagnostik und Intervention gemacht.
description: Over the last two years researchers of the TU Dortmund University, Department of Language and Communication, have been conducting a number of empirical studies on bilingualism in childhood and adolescence. Special emphasis was placed on bilingualism in the context of speech and language pathology. The overview presented summarizes main research questions and results regarding aspects of the phenomena, trait differences, anamnesis, diagnosis, and intervention.
Inclusive Business Analysis Module: Regenerative Agriculture
Creators: name: Dagnelie, Victor
name: Hendriks, Diewertje
Publisher: name: IDH
Year: 2024
Subjects: smallholder
smallholder agriculture
regenerative agriculture
regen ag
agriculture

description: This document includes the theory, guidelines and tools for you to apply the Regenerative Agriculture module within an Inclusive Business Analysis. It assumes you are familiar with the broader methodology, including the Learning Framework, Indicators and Inclusive Business Analysis Financial Model and Case Report.

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Universal scalings of Néel temperature, staggered magnetization density, and spinwave velocity of three-dimensional disordered and clean quantum antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Tan, D. -R.
name: Jiang, F. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Néel temperature, staggered magnetization density, as well as the spinwave velocity of a three-dimensional (3D) quantum Heisenberg model with antiferromagnetic disorder (randomness) are calculated using first principles non-perturbative quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, we examine the validity of universal scaling relations that are related to these three studied physical quantities. These relations are relevant to experimental data and are firmly established for clean (regular) 3D dimerized spin-1/2 Heisenberg models. Remarkably, our numerical results show that the considered scaling relations remain true for the investigated model with the introduced disorder. In addition, while the presence of disorder may change the physical properties of regular dimerized models, hence leading to different critical theories, both the obtained data of Néel temperature and staggered magnetization density in our study are fully compatible with the expected critical behaviour for clean dimerized systems. As a result, it is persuasive to conclude that the related quantum phase transitions of the considered disordered model and its clean counterparts are governed by the same critical theory, which is not always the case in general. Finally, we also find smooth scalings even emerging when both the data of the investigated disordered model as well as its associated clean system are taken into account. This in turn implies that, while in a restricted sense, the considered scaling relations for 3D spin-1/2 antiferromagnets are indeed universal.
description: 10 pages, 23 figures, revised version
Simultaneous entanglement swapping of multiple orbital angular momentum states of light
Creators: name: Zhang, Yingwen
name: Agnew, Megan
name: Roger, Thomas
name: Roux, Filippus S.
name: Konrad, Thomas
name: Faccio, Daniele
name: Leach, Jonathan
name: Forbes, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement swapping generates remote quantum correlations between particles that have not interacted and is the cornerstone of long-distance quantum communication, quantum networks, and fundamental tests of quantum science. In the context of spatial modes of light, high-dimensional entanglement provides an avenue to increase the bandwidth of quantum communications and provides more stringent limits for tests of quantum foundations. Here we simultaneously swap the entanglement of multiple orbital angular momentum states of light. The system is based on a degenerate filter that cannot distinguish between different anti-symmetric states, and thus entanglement swapping occurs for several thousand pairs of spatial light modes simultaneously.
title: Improving flood modelling and forecasting in Kenya
Creators: name: Wanzala, Maureen Anyango
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: The frequency of floods is rising and constitutes one of the main causes of detrimental consequences arising from natural disasters, not only in Kenya, but across the globe. The anticipation, forecasting and accumulation of science-based evidence of floods is a vital component in managing, preparing for and mitigating the impacts of severe events, from local to international scales. This research aims to explore ways to improve flood modelling and forecasting at the national scale. To achieve this, a multi-stage approach is adopted, first, to understanding the key aspects to consider when selecting an appropriate model for flood forecasting and modelling, secondly, to understanding the application of global reanalysis precipitation datasets to hydrological modelling as potential alternatives due to data scarcity challenges, and thirdly, to undertaking an analysis of trend detection in floods and possible shifts in flood timing. Five criteria are applied to a hydrological model selection framework following a filter sequence; an evaluation of twelve potential models is performed, and four potential model candidates are selected for flood applications for a Kenyan national forecasting centre. Model selection has shown that not all models are good at capturing and/or representing the important processes relevant to flood generation and a single model would not be applicable to the entire country, due to stark differences in the hydroclimatic characteristics of catchments, and model developments and upgrades should allow incorporation of such differing characteristics. Four reanalysis precipitation datasets are evaluated for their ability to be used for hydrological modelling. The choice of precipitation input is found to be the dominant component of the hydrometeorological modelling chain, creating the need to aggregate both sensitivity indices and performance statistics. Improvements have arisen from the introduction of ERA5 as a source of meteorological data. Performance varies by season and catchment, with wetland catchments obtaining relatively better scores compared to those in the semi-arid regions. Examination of trends in river flow series identified statistically increasing trends in annual floods for stations in proximity to each other, which is evidence of a spatially coherent pattern. and increasing flood frequency across Kenyan catchments, with observations showing a shift in timing and variability in flood occurrences in most parts of the country. This research has explored and provided an enhanced understanding of the avenues of improving flood modelling and forecasting in Kenya in terms of models, data, and historical flooding trends as well as seasonality and shifts in flood timing, which can inform future developments and operational flood forecasting for the end-users of an early warning system that can help mitigate the effects of floods in data-scarce regions such as Kenya.
Paper-based acetylcholinesterase inhibition assay combining a wet system for organophosphate and carbamate pesticides detection
Creators: name: Apilux, Amara
name: Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Chartchalerm
name: Tantimongcolwat, Tanawut
name: Prachayasittikul, Virapong
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: paper-based sensor
subject: wet system
subject: pesticides
subject: acetylcholine inhibition
subject: 610

description: A dramatic increase in pesticide usage in agriculture highlights the need for on-site monitoring for public health and safety. Here, a paper-based sensor combined with a wet system was developed for the simple and rapid screening of organophosphate (OP) and carbamate (CM) pesticides based on the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). The paper-based sensor was designed as a foldable device consisting of a cover and detection sheets pre-prepared with indoxyl acetate and AChE, respectively. The paper-based sensor requires only the incubation of a sample on the test zone for 10 minutes, followed by closing of the foldable sheet to initiate the enzymatic reaction. Importantly, the buffer loading hole was additionally designed on the cover sheet to facilitate the interaction of the coated substrate and the immobilized enzyme. This subsequently facilitates the mixing of indoxyl acetate with AChE, resulting in the improved analytical performance of the sensor. The absence or decrease in blue color produced by the AChE hydrolysis of indoxyl acetate can be observed in the presence of OPs and CMs. Under optimized conditions and using image analysis, the limit of detection (LOD) of carbofuran, dichlorvos, carbaryl, paraoxon, and pirimicarb are 0.003, 0.3, 0.5, 0.6, and 0.6 ppm, respectively. The assay could be applied to determine OP and CM residues in spiked food samples. Visual interpretation of the color signal was clearly observed at the concentration of 5 mg/kg. Furthermore, a self-contained sample pre-concentration approach greatly enhanced the detection sensitivity. The paper-based device developed here is low-cost, requires minimal reagents and is easy to handle. As such, it would be practically useful for pesticide screening by non-professional end-users.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 10/2011
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Korrigierte Fassung der AM Nr. 6/2011 vom 11.05.2011: Rahmenvereinbarung über die alternierende häusliche Telearbeit der Technischen Universität Dortmund
description: Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung des Instituts für Energiesysteme, Energieeffizienz und Energiewirtschaft der Fakultät für Elektrotschnik und Informationstechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 5. Juli 2011
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 10, 2011
title: Ecophysiological responses and adaptations to resource seasonality, nutritional symbiosis in the thyasiridae (mollusca: bivalvia) as a case study
Creators: name: Mariño Coronado, Joany Valentina
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Animals show a vast diversity of life-history traits and foraging strategies. Some of these traits arise as a plastic response to environmental conditions, while some strategies result from an adaptive evolutionary process. Regardless of their origin, constraints on energy acquisition play a crucial role in the emergence of both traits and strategies because they define the individual energy budget. For example, in many species, resource abundance determines individual energy input. Yet, other species have symbiotic partnerships through which they can increase their energy acquisition. However, the precise mechanisms whereby seasonal energy constraints can affect an individual’s energy budget and translate to higher ecological levels remain unknown. In this thesis, I show the fundamental role of resource availability in driving trait flexibility and how nutritional symbiosis may be an adaptive foraging strategy in response to a seasonal resource abundance. Using a mechanistic description of individual metabolism, I demonstrate that resource availability is sufficient to explain interspecific trait variability. Moreover, peaks of seasonal food can increase individuals’ biomass and reproductive output, hence explaining known ecogeographical rules. Focusing on thyasirid bivalves, I reveal how nutritional symbiosis can alter the host’s energy budget and, consequently, define population dynamics. My results are the first step leading towards understanding the role of symbiosis in population and community dynamics. Broadly, this dissertation contributes to building the theoretical foundation necessary for a mechanistic understanding of how individual metabolism, together with environmental factors, determines species traits and population dynamics. Furthermore, my findings motivate experimental investigations to confirm the theoretical results and test the proposed hypotheses. Due to the current alterations to ecosystems, disentangling the mechanisms underlying life-history traits and foraging strategies is fundamental to understand and predict biodiversity dynamics under climate change.
Hedging under generalized good-deal bounds and model uncertainty
Creators: name: Becherer, Dirk
name: Kentia, Klebert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G44, 91G10, 93E20, 91B06

description: We study a notion of good-deal hedging, that corresponds to good-deal valuation for generalized good-deal constraints. Under model uncertainty about the market prices of risk of hedging assets, a robust approach leads to a reduction or even elimination of a speculative component in good-deal hedging, which is shown to be equivalent to a global risk-minimization in the sense of Föllmer and Sondermann (1986) if uncertainty is sufficiently large. Constructive results on hedges and valuations are derived from backward stochastic differential equations, including new examples with explicit formulas.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Revised Version
Active automata learning for real life applications
Creators: name: Merten, Maik
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Automata learning
subject: Learning frameworks
subject: Mealy machines
subject: Regular inference
subject: 004

description: Automata learning is a concept discussed in the literature for decades. Accordingly, the theoretical framework for learning automata from observations has been in place already for a considerable time. Despite the ever-increasing theoretical maturity of the field, real-life applications are few and far between. In part this can certainly be attributed to the lack of ready-made infrastructure, e.g., frameworks that support automata learning with the goal of learning realistic systems. Additionally, the degree of automation in this field is low, meaning that learning setups have to be instantiated manually and per-system, making this a time-consuming and laborious undertaking. The central question of this thesis is "How can active automata learning be readied for application on real-life systems?". Contributions presented includes work on learning frameworks and tools, learning algorithms, scalability of learning solutions, and automated configuration and execution of learning setups.
Uncharted territory : the role of non-government organisations in the wake of the Bali bombings
Creators: name: Anderson, Helen.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Ανάλυση καταναλωτικής συμπεριφοράς με χρήση μεθόδων πολυκριτήριας ανάλυσης και εξόρυξης δεδομένων
title: Consumer behavior analysis using multicreteria analysis and Data mining methods
Creators: name: Καλογερακης Νικολαος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η σημερινή ιδεολογία του μάρκετινγκ τοποθετεί τον πελάτη – καταναλωτή στο
κέντρο του ενδιαφέροντος των επιχειρήσεων, προσπαθώντας να επιτύχει δύο στόχους ταυτόχρονα (Matsatsinis and Siskos, 2002): να ικανοποιήσει κατά τον καλύτερο δυνατόν τρόπο τις ανάγκες του καταναλωτή, και να αυξήσει τα κέρδη των επιχειρήσεων. Η αγορά έχει πάψει πλέον να είναι προσανατολισμένη στα προϊόντα (product oriented) και έχει επικεντρώσει το ενδιαφέρον της στον καταναλωτή (consumer oriented).
Το μάρκετινγκ στοχεύει περισσότερο στον καταναλωτή, στις ανάγκες και τις
επιθυμίες του, τις οποίες προσπαθεί να ικανοποιήσει με τη δημιουργία και παραγωγή
των κατάλληλων προϊόντων και υπηρεσιών, τα οποία και του τα προσφέρει στην πλέον
αρμόζουσα τιμή. Στην προσπάθεια αυτή, έχουν αναπτυχθεί αρκετές εφαρμογές
μέτρησης και ανάλυσης της ικανοποίησης των πελατών, με κύριο στόχο τον εντοπισμό των αδύναμων σημείων των προϊόντων ή των υπηρεσιών που παρέχει η εκάστοτε εταιρεία, προκειμένου να ληφθούν κατάλληλα μέτρα με στόχο την αύξηση της ικανοποίησης των καταναλωτών.
Στη παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία, κύριος στόχος είναι η εφαρμογή
συνδυασμού μεθόδων πολυκριτήριων μεθόδων όπως MUSA (MUlticriteria Satisfaction Analysis) και MUSA-KANO με μεθόδους εξόρυξης δεδομένων για την τμηματοποίηση της αγοράς και έρευνα ικανοποίησης πελατών στα προϊόντα μιας μεγάλης εταιρίας καλλυντικών σε δεδομένα που θα συγκεντρωθούν με πρωτογενείς έρευνες αγοράς. Οι αναλύσεις που θα ακολουθήσουν και τα συμπεράσματά τους, θα χρησιμοποιηθούν από την εταιρία για να ανταποκριθεί στις επιμέρους απαιτήσεις των πελατών, με στόχο την εφαρμογή εξειδικευμένων πολιτικών με στόχο την αύξηση των επιπέδων ικανοποίησής τους.