cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High Spectral Resolution Measurement of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Null with Z-Spec
Creators: name: Zemcov, M.
name: Aguirre, J.
name: Bock, J.
name: Bradford, M.
name: Czakon, N.
name: Glenn, J.
name: Golwala, S. R.
name: Lupu, R.
name: Maloney, P.
name: Mauskopf, P.
name: Million, E.
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Naylor, B.
name: Nguyen, H.
name: Rosenman, M.
name: Sayers, J.
name: Scott, K. S.
name: Zmuidzinas, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect spectrum crosses through a null where dT_CMB = 0 near nu_0 = 217 GHz. In a cluster of galaxies, nu_0 can be shifted from the canonical thermal SZ effect value by corrections to the SZ effect scattering due to the properties of the inter-cluster medium. We have measured the SZ effect in the hot galaxy cluster RX J1347.5-1145 with Z-Spec, an R ~ 300 grating spectrometer sensitive between 185 and 305 GHz. These data comprise a high spectral resolution measurement around the null of the SZ effect and clearly exhibit the transition from negative to positive dT_CMB over the Z-Spec band. The SZ null position is measured to be nu_0 = 225.8 \pm 2.5 (stat.) \pm 1.2 (sys.) GHz, which differs from the canonical null frequency by 3.0 sigma and is evidence for modifications to the canonical thermal SZ effect shape. Assuming the measured shift in nu_0 is due only to relativistic corrections to the SZ spectrum, we place the limit T_e = 17.1 \pm 5.3 keV from the zero-point measurement alone. By simulating the response of the instrument to the sky, we are able to generate likelihood functions in {y_0, T_e, v_pec} space. For v_pec = 0 km/s, we measure the best fitting SZ model to be y_0 = 4.6 (+0.6, -0.9) x 10^-4, T_e,0 = 15.2 (+12,-7.4) keV. When v_pec is allowed to vary, a most probable value of v_pec = +450 \pm 810 km/s is found.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures, matches version published in April 2012 ApJ
Millimeter-wave packaging and module technology developments in Japan
Creators: name: Ohata, Keiichi
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This paper presents an overview of recent trends in millimeter-wave packaging and module technology development in Japan. For commercial millimeter-wave applications such as wireless radio links, wireless LANs, automotive radars and so on, packaging and module technologies with high performance and productivity are required. Ceramic-base packages up to W-band, flip-chip bonding and packaging of CPW MMICs for low cost and high reproducible assembling, and extremely compact multi-layer HTCC transmitter/receiver MCMs for 60GHz band communications, have been developed.
European Constitutional Imagination: A Whig Interpretation of the Process of European Integration?
Creators: name: Dani, Marco
name: Menéndez, Agustin José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In this essay, we challenge the characterisation of European law as a constitutional order from two related standpoints, namely, the ambiguity of what is meant when characterising European law as constitutional, and the lack of a well-argued narrative explaining how European law became constitutional and what type of constitutionalism it has developed. We start by clarifying the concept and conceptions of constitution, emphasising the centrality of the structural and normative conceptions of constitution. This preliminary conceptual work facilitates the task of elucidating what is exactly being argued when it is claimed that European law is constitutional, and what implications are consequently justified. We then note that while the process of constitutionalisation plays a key role in structuring European law as a discipline, normative reasons underlying such characterisation remain, if anything, more assumed than explicit and fully demonstrated. This leads us to conclude by arguing that may be preferable not to imagine contemporary European law in constitutional terms. At the same time, however, we note that the power effectively held by the European Union reaches so many corners of national legal and socio-economic structures as to render insufficient to merely reject any claim to its constitutionality. The predicament of European Union law is that of a legal order that de facto discharges functional tasks proper of constitutional orders while lacking the requisite democratic and social credentials.
The Constitutional Imaginary and the 'Metabolic' Realities of European Integration
Creators: name: Lindseth, Peter L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Understanding the European Union (EU) as an autonomously constitutional entity—what this volume evocatively calls the EU’s ‘constitutional imaginary’—has been central to judicial decision-making and legal scholarship on European governance over many decades. If our aim, however, is to understand what European governance actually is, rather than what the dominant discourse among lawyers, judges and law professors asserts it should be, then we must consider whether this discourse obscures more than reveals. The constitutional imaginary has primarily served, this chapter asserts, as an ideology that legal elites have deployed in a process of institutional change to overcome Europe’s polycentric, nation-state constitutional realities. The core weakness of this ideology as an agent of change, however, has been its almost exclusive focus on the ‘constraint’ function of constitutionalism rather than on the actual ‘constitution’ of power in a socio-political sense. The latter refers to the capacity of a system of governance not just to produce constraining legal norms but also to mobilise human and fiscal resources in a legitimate and compulsory fashion toward ends that governing bodies select. The construction of this sort genuinely ‘metabolic’ constitution in the EU—one unmediated through the member states—is the true Rubicon that European governance must cross in order to turn its ‘constitutional imaginary’ into a socio-political reality.
Three-dimensional packaging technologies for highly integrated T/R modules
Creators: name: Deborgies, F.
name: Lemoine, Thierry
name: Mancuso, Yves
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Future generations of avionic systems will be based on conformal antennas spread over the body of the aircraft. Smart skin systems will need highly integrated T/R modules (size below 2 cm2 at 10 GHz). To realise these modules, 3D integration of MMICs and control circuits is proposed.
From full hybrid to 3D microwave packaging for space applications
Creators: name: Drevon, C.
name: Cazaux, Jean-Louis
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Over recent years, the miniaturisation of microwave functions was based on the use of hybrid technology. That included thin or thick film capability, micro or macro microwave packages and the design of MMICs. In the same time, many developments were running around the MCM technology, first for low frequency applications then for R.F. packaging. The future could be in the 3D technology, wafer scale integration and/or a mix with embedded passive components into Silicon.
Immune response to Toxoplasma gondii at the choroid plexus and the the immunomodulatory impact of the neuropeptide PACAP
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Caio Andreeta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Tierphysiologie
subject: Toxoplasma gondii
subject: 571.963

description: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a highly successful parasite able to cross all biological barriers of the body. The parasites invade through the intestinal epithelium the body, where they cause acute infection, thereafter they cross the borders of the central nervous system (CNS), entering the brain and inducing neuroinflammation. Previous studies have described the critical involvement of the CNS borders during T. gondii invasion and the development of neuroinflammation. While many studies have focused on the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the contribution of the choroid plexus (CP), the main structure forming the blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-barrier (BCSFB) has remained largely unknown. In this present study, confocal imaging of immuno-stained brain sections, tissue whole mount preparations, and determination of T. gondii gDNA levels were applied to reveal that CP is infected by T. gondii. In addition, flow cytometric and gene expression analysis showed that CP elicits an immune response prior to the BBB. Moreover, imaging and gene expression of tight junctions (TJ) in CP and primary cultured CP epithelial cells indicate a loss of function and integrity of the BCSFB, which was confirmed by in vivo FITC-dextran permeability assay [Publication 1]. Generally, albeit the elicited immune response during infection is essential for parasite control, continuous activation and recruitment of immune cells to infected organs entail tissue damage and cause detrimental alterations to their function. To mitigate these alterations, this study additionally set out to investigate the effects of the neuropeptide PACAP upon acute [Publication 2] and chronic T. gondii infection [Publication 3], as PACAP has shown immunomodulatory and neuroprotective properties in other disease models. Here, the infection of mice with GFP-reporter parasites indicate that PACAP displayed anti-parasitic activity, and further in vitro assays showed that this is an immune cell-mediated effect rather than a direct elimination of the parasites. Overall, flow cytometric and gene expression analysis showed that PACAP treatment reduced immune cell infiltration, activation, and cytokine production in the periphery and in the CNS. Additionally, a cross-talk between PACAP and neurotrophin signaling pathways was suggested to affect the immune as well as the nervous systems, and to promote neuroprotection during T. gondii infection. Altogether, those findings reveal a close interaction between T. gondii infection at the CP and the impairment of the BCSFB function, indicating that infection-related neuroinflammation is initiated in the CP. Moreover, this study highlights the beneficial effects of PACAP application upon acute and chronic toxoplasmosis, providing new insights into the potential use of neuropeptides to counteract infection-induced inflammation.
An active millimeter wave MMIC frequency doubler with high spectral purity and low power consumption
Creators: name: Zirath, Herbert
name: Landen, Lars
name: Fager, Christian
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The design and characterization of a millimeterwave frequency doubler based on a commercial foundry HEMT-process is described. The main goal of this work was to create a doubler topology which is simple, reliable, electrically stable and in addition has low power dissipation, good spectral purity, and high bandwidth. The presented doubler is based on an input stage biased close to pinch-off for efficient harmonic generation, followed by a frequency selective amplifier. The doubler chip occupies about 2 mm2 chip area and delivers 7 dBm output power with an excellent rejection of unwanted harmonics of >34dB and a DC-power consumption of only 40 mW. The 3 dB bandwidth is 25%.
Applying TQFT to count regular coverings of Seifert 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Chen, Haimiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57R56

description: I give a formula for computing the number of regular $Γ$-coverings of closed orientable Seifert 3-manifolds, for a given finite group $Γ$. The number is computed using a 3d TQFT with finite gauge group, through a cut-and-glue process.
description: 16 pages; Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2012
Force information for palpation of hard nodules
Creators: name: Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University Of London
name: Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Imperial College London
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2017
Subjects: Force modulation
Palpation
Robotic Tactile Examination

description: This data contains the three-dimensional force and torque information recorded during palpation of a silicone phantom organ with hard nodules. The order of data is as follows: Force X, Force Y, Force Z (normal), Torque X, Torque Y, Torque Z.
GaAs MMIC switches for PCs
Creators: name: Torres, Jorge Alves
name: Freire, J. Costa
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A monolithic GaAs SPST (single pole single throw) switch with 3 floating MESFETS is presented. It was designed for 2 GHz operation and have low on-state insertion losses (~1.7dB) and high off-state isolation (50dB). From the comparison between measurements and simulations the best available nonlinear model for the floating bias operation was selected. Several resonant topologies were studied and a new topology is proposed to increase the off-state isolation without degrade the on-state insertion losses.
A Nonstochastic Information Theory for Communication and State Estimation
Creators: name: Nair, Girish N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In communications, unknown variables are usually modelled as random variables, and concepts such as independence, entropy and information are defined in terms of the underlying probability distributions. In contrast, control theory often treats uncertainties and disturbances as bounded unknowns having no statistical structure. The area of networked control combines both fields, raising the question of whether it is possible to construct meaningful analogues of stochastic concepts such as independence, Markovness, entropy and information without assuming a probability space. This paper introduces a framework for doing so, leading to the construction of a maximin information functional for nonstochastic variables. It is shown that the largest maximin information rate through a memoryless, error-prone channel in this framework coincides with the block-coding zero-error capacity of the channel. Maximin information is then used to derive tight conditions for uniformly estimating the state of a linear time-invariant system over such a channel, paralleling recent results of Matveev and Savkin.
Supplementary data for KCL P2x7 paper JNMMI Radiopharmacy 2017
Creators: name: Dal Ben Diego, University Of Camerino
name: Falzoni Simonetta, University Of Ferrara
name: Lovestone Simon, University Of Oxford
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2017
Subjects: P2X7
PET
evaluation
in vitro
in vivo
synthesis
18F
fluorine-18
neuroinflammation

description: Additional experimental data not included in the main paper.
Late Soviet Bolderāja (Rīga) fanzine scene and it's (dis)attachment to the places and communities
Creators: name: Daugavietis, Jānis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: musical samizdat
fanzines
Bolderāja
Soviet Latvia
subcultures
Riga Rockclub

description: Regular musical fanzines started to appear in Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) only in late soviet period, in the 1st half of 1980-ies. In this paper I’m focusing on Bolderāja (Rīga) Russian writing fanzine scene (Орган Бэко, От Винта, Малая Земля, Спидъ) covering the last years of soviet rule in Latvia: 1983-1990. Aside from the historical account and archival tasks (history of Latvian fanzines is still unresearched), this paper seeks to explore the (dis)attachment to the places and communities found in writings in aforementioned fanzines. Firstly, this is question about spatial references in the content of fanzines to the place and community of their habitat – Bolderāja, port bound outskirt at the delta of Daugava river in Rīga. Secondly, this is a question about attachment to the different scale and distance musical scenes. If ‘Орган Бэко’ started as a small-scale handwritten fanzine devoted to the new born local scene of distant Rīga’s neighbourhood, then ‘От Винта’ became an unofficial press media of Riga Rocklub, institution founded in 1983 under supervision of the Soviet state organs, specifically – Komsomol (The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) to gather together and control city’s growing underground music scene and groups. ‘От Винта’ and other later zines were participating in broader circles of underground, gaining it’s certain place in All-Union scene.
Supplementary data for ‘Design, synthesis and evaluation in an LPS rodent model of neuroinflammation of a novel 18F-labelled PET tracer targeting P2X7'
Creators: name: Dal Ben Diego, University Of Camerino
name: Falzoni Simonetta, University Of Ferrara
name: Di Virgilio Francesco, University Of Ferrara
name: Lovestone Simon, University Of Oxford
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2017
Subjects: P2X7
PET
evaluation
in vitro
in vivo
synthesis
18F
fluorine-18
neuroinflammation.

description: Additional experimental data not included in the main paper:Enrico Raffaele Fantoni, Diego Dal Ben, Simonetta Falzoni, Francesco Di Virgilio, Simon Lovestone and Antony Gee (2017), Design, synthesis and evaluation in an LPS rodent model of neuroinflammation of a novel 18F-labelled PET tracer targeting P2X7, EJNMMI Research, 7:31. DOI: 10.1186/s13550-017-0275-2
Auswirkungen eines motorisch-kognitiven Trainings auf den BDNF-Plasmaspiegel und das Hippokampusvolumen bei Patienten mit Mild Cognitive Impairment und gesunden Probanden
Creators: name: Hausmann, Janet
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Leichte kognitive Beeinträchtigung
subject: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
subject: Erwachsener
subject: 370
subject: 616.80427
subject: 610
subject: 614

description: Eine leichte kognitive Störung (Mild Cognitive Impairment, MCI) geht mit einem erhöhten Risiko einher, im weiteren Verlauf an einer Demenz zu erkranken. Bislang existiert keine pharmakologische Behandlungsoption, die einen Progress dieser neurodegenerativen Erkrankung verhindern kann. Klinisch-neuropsychologische Symptome sind mit Substanzminderungen in gedächtnisrelevanten Arealen wie dem Hippokampus assoziiert. Reduzierte Spiegel des Neurotrophins BDNF sind beim MCI beschrieben und es gibt Hinweise auf eine Korrelation zur Progressionsrate. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen eines kombinierten motorischkognitiven Trainings in 12 wöchentlichen Sitzungen auf das Hippokampusvolumen sowie kurzfristige und langfristige Veränderungen des BDNF-Plasmaspiegels bei 34 MCI-Patienten zwischen 55 und 75 Jahren und vergleicht diese mit 19 gleichaltrigen Gesunden. Das Trainingsprogramm erwies sich bei allen Teilnehmern als wirksam auf kognitive Testparameter, eine Veränderung des Hippokampusvolumens zeigte sich nicht. Signifikante Unterschiede ergaben sich zwischen MCI und Gesunden hinsichtlich der BDNFPlasmaspiegel: Diese stiegen bei den MCI nur in den ersten vier Trainingswochen an, während dieser Effekt bei den Gesunden bis über die Trainingsphase hinaus andauerte. Zusammenhänge zu Lebensstilfaktoren oder zum BDNF-Val66Met-Polymorphismus fanden sich nicht. Eine Korrelation zwischen BDNF-Anstieg und Verbesserungen in den das Verbalgedächtnis betreffenden neuropsychologischen Tests gab es nur in der Gruppe der Gesunden. Die Daten weisen auf eine bereits verminderte BDNF-Verfügbarkeit bei kognitiv beeinträchtigten Individuen hin, daher scheint es sinnvoll, möglichst präventiv zu intervenieren. Bei dennoch eintretenden kognitiven Verbesserungen bei MCI, welche möglicherweise über Kompensationsmechanismen, die das cholinerge System der Gedächtnis- und Aufmerksamkeitssteuerung betreffen, erklärbar sind, kann ein motorischkognitives Training trotzdem eine im klinischen Alltag etablierbare Behandlungsoption für MCI-Patienten darstellen. Untersuchungen an größeren Probandenzahlen und über einen längeren Interventionszeitraum sind wünschenswert.
Fault tree analysis of slurry and dewatered taiings management – a framework
Creators: name: Taguchi, Genki
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Fault trees are used in reliability and risk analysis to develop the probability of occurrence of the top event, or failure mode. The top event results from a logical sequence, or combination, of lower level events using “and” and “or” logic. Probabilities for the basic events, i.e. the lowest level events identified, are calculated or estimated in order to calculate the probability for the top event. This thesis develops a framework for fault tree analysis for failure of alternative tailings depositional schemes (slurry, thickened, paste and filtered). Failure is narrowly defined as the release of tailings to the environment. The following failure modes are evaluated for each of the depositional schemes: overtopping, static liquefaction, internal erosion, static slope instability and seismic slope instability. The fault trees are representative of potential failure sequences in the industry as a whole and not on site-specific conditions. Expert elicitation methods are used to select the likelihoods of the basic events. Not all events in the fault trees are applicable to the range of depositional schemes, e.g. overtopping as a result of a large pool on slurry deposited tailings management facilities is not an event that will occur for filtered tailings. The outcome is that some of the events and parts of fault trees “fall away” as the tailings solids content increases. Apart from providing a visualization of the reduction in probability of occurrence of the top events for the failure modes, the results also provide a range of probabilities for the overall probability of failure for the range of tailings management options. The framework is used to develop a site-specific likelihood of failure of the Bafokeng tailings facility. The result demonstrates that the fault tree framework can provide useful insights in both industry-wide and site-specific tailings management facility failure likelihoods.
Bothriolepididae Cope 1886
Creators: name: Lukševičs, Erwin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Placodermi
Antiarcha
Bothriolepididae

description: Family BOTHRIOLEPIDIDAE Cope, 1886
DIAGNOSIS. — Bothriolepidoids with a small Pp separated from the La by the Nu, which forms part of the posterior margin of the orbital fenestra. AMD with a broad anterior margin; processus obstans strongly developed; PDL and PL replaced by a single MxL; semilunar plate unpaired. Adducted pectoral appendage reaching back beyond trunk shield; central dorsal plate 2 small, and separated from central dorsal plate 1 by lateral and mesial marginal plates 2.
description: Published as part of Lukševičs, Erwin, 2001, Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform, pp. 489-609 in Geodiversitas 23 (4) on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4664755
A large-band 2.8-4.25 / 5.6-8.5 GHz frequency doubler MMIC for digital radio link applications
Creators: name: Rasa, F.
name: Remonti, M.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1999
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This paper describes the design and the development of a frequency doubler GaAs MMIC for digital radio link applications. The operation frequency band is 2.8-4.25GHz for the input signal, converted into the 5.6-8.5GHz doubled band for the output signal. With +16dBm RF power level at the output port, the spurious suppression results better than 15dB for the 1st harmonic, 25dB for the 3rd and the 4th harmonic. The conversion loss is close to OdB with a ripple in band of ±1.5dB, and the saturated output power is better than +18dBm over the whole operation band. The overall chip dimension is 3.556x3.012mm2(140xl20mils2).
A Model for Dark Energy decay
Creators: name: Abdalla, Elcio
name: Graef, Leila
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a model of non perturbative decay of dark energy into hot and cold dark matter. This model provides a mechanism from the field theory to realize the energy transfer from dark energy into dark matter, which is the requirement to alleviate the coincidence problem. The advantage of the model is the fact that we accommodate a mean life compatible with the age of the universe. We also argue that supersymmetry is a natural set up, though not essential.
description: 5 pages to be published in Physics Letters B
Synchronised dataset from two ULA-OP systems
Creators: name: Mengxing, Tang
name: Dubsby, Christopher
name: Imperial College London
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2017
Subjects: super-resolution
3D

description: RF data saved from two probes with synchronised acquisition using the ULA-OP system.Please cite as: Christensen-Jeffries, Kirsten; Brown,Jemma Brown; Aljabar, Paul; Tang, Mengxing; Dunsby, Christopher; Eckersley, Robert (2017) Synchronised dataset from two ULA-OP systems. King's College London. http://doi.org/doi:10.18742/RDM01-210
Government-led development of India's marine fisheries since 1950 : catch and effort trends, and bioeconomic models for exploring alternative policies
Creators: name: Bhathal, Brajgeet
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: At present, more than 50% of global marine fisheries catches are made in developing countries, and an increasingly large fraction of these catches are entering the world market. Thus, fisheries-related issues in developing countries must be addressed as part of any discussion of global fisheries issues. This thesis analyses the status of marine fisheries in India by reconstructing essential data and constructing biological and economic models. First, effort data were reconstructed over the period of 1950-2005 at the state level. This showed a continuous increase. Then, the catch data were updated and assembled from 1950-2005 at the species level for all states, which showed a gradual increase over time but began to level off toward the end of the period in question. CPUE, an index of relative abundance, was estimated per study area using the final time-series of catches and effective fishing effort from 1950-2005. This measure illustrated a continuous decline. Using the above-compiled data, i.e., time series of catch and CPUE, surplus production models (Fox-linear and Schaefer-non-linear) were created for India and its east and west coasts. Both types of model used in this study indicated that at present, fisheries yields in India are near MSY, but this is achieved at excessive levels of effort and is based on a spatial expansion that is unsustainable. Economic performance was evaluated by bioeconomic models for India in which three scenarios were generated for fishing cost based on the inclusion of different levels of subsidies. The results illustrate that economic overfishing is occurring in the Indian fisheries and the current level of fishing effort is almost twice that corresponding to fMEY, i.e., far beyond the level that maximizes economic rent. Overall, the analysis indicates that fisheries are operating unsustainably, pointing toward a serious problem. Thus, India should not continue on its present course of expanding its fisheries through massive subsidization, given the depletion of stocks and poor economic efficiency of this sector. India needs to curb its existing overcapacity and could effectively start with the phasing out of trawlers, which would increase the income of other sectors and their catch per effort.
On the Genus Two Free Energies for Semisimple Frobenius Manifolds
Creators: name: Dubrovin, Boris
name: Liu, Si-Qi
name: Zhang, Youjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We represent the genus two free energy of an arbitrary semisimple Frobenius manifold as a sum of contributions associated with dual graphs of certain stable algebraic curves of genus two plus the so-called "genus two G-function". Conjecturally the genus two G-function vanishes for a series of important examples of Frobenius manifolds associated with simple singularities as well as for ${\bf P}^1$-orbifolds with positive Euler characteristics. We explain the reasons for such Conjecture and prove it in certain particular cases.
description: 37 pages, 3 figures, V2: the published version
Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors on Loose Clothing
Creators: name: Michael, Brendan
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2017
Subjects: machine learning
wearable sensors
fabric sensors

description: This research (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0184642) investigates if motion artefacts inherent in fabric-based sensing systems (e-textiles), can be exploited as an additional source of information in statistical classification tasks. The findings in the corresponding paper suggest that these artefacts can, in fact, be used to distinguish between similar motions, by exploiting additional information provided by the fabric motion. An experimental study is presented whereby factors of both the motion and the properties of the fabric are analysed in the context of motion similarity. The dataset here contains 2-axis acceleration readings from sensorised fabric during a motion task. For more information please see the readme file in the dataset.Related Publication Michael, Brendan and Howard, Matthew, "Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors on Loose Clothing", PLoS One, 2017, Accepted (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0184642)
Bothriolepis Eichwald 1840
Creators: name: Lukševičs, Erwin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Genus Bothriolepis Eichwald, 1840
 TYPE SPECIES. — Bothriolepis ornata Eichwald, 1840, subsequently designated by Woodward (1891).
DIAGNOSIS. — Bothriolepididae in which the AMD plate is broadest across its lateral corners, and normally overlaps the ADL and is overlapped by the MxL plate. The MxL plate is broadest through its dorsal corner, with its lateral lamina of similar extent to the lateral lamina of the ADL plate, and not forming extensive contact with the AVL plate.
description: Published as part of Lukševičs, Erwin, 2001, Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform, pp. 489-609 in Geodiversitas 23 (4) on page 505, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4664755
The Standing Up in Meetings Study (SUMS)
Creators: name: Gardner, Benjamin
name: Hall, Jennifer
name: Reeves, Emily
name: Rasch, Molly
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2018
Subjects: Qualitative
interviews
sedentary behaviour
standing
behaviour change
health
public health
psychology

description: 74 anonymised interview transcripts (Word format), 1 anonymised table of participant characteristics (Excel). Size of dataset: 2.4 MB. Related publication: Mansfield, L. et al. (2018) "Could you sit down please?" A qualitative analysis of employees' experiences of standing in normally-seated workplace meetings. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198483. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198483 For access to this dataset, please email research.data@kcl.ac.uk.
Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen von Lehramtsstudierenden zu geographischen Exkursionen : eine qualitative, längsschnittliche Interviewstudie
Creators: name: Renner, Tom
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 373

description: Exkursionen sind für die Geographie traditionell eine zentrale Methode und stellen einen festen Bestandteil der geographischen Bildung dar. Gleichwohl ist wenig darüber bekannt, welche Kompe-tenzen für deren Planung, Durchführung und Auswertung notwendig sind. Die Arbeit fokussiert über die Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen die wahrgenommenen und erwarteten Kompetenzen von Lehramtsstudierenden und zielt so darauf ab, Erkenntnisse über deren Professionalisierung sowie das Wissen und Können zu generieren, das für Exkursionen relevant ist. Dafür wurden ange-hende Lehrer:innen längsschnittlich jeweils fünf Mal befragt (n1 = 19 Fälle) und diese Interviews mithilfe der inhaltlich strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet (n2 = 12). Dadurch konnten die Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen und deren Quellen identifiziert und die Wirkungen einer Intervention auf diese Kompetenzerwartungen analysiert werden. Die Ergebnisse (n3 = 8) zeigen, dass diese Wirkungen meist positiv sind.
description: Field trips are traditionally considered central methods of Geography and an integral part of geo-graphic education. Nevertheless, little is known about the competencies that are necessary for their planning, implementation and evaluation. The present study focuses on the perceived and expected competencies of student teachers by exploring their self-efficacy expectations. In doing so, it aims at generating insights into their professionalization as well as the knowledge and skills which are relevant to geographic field trips. Therefore, longitudinally interviews with prospective teachers (n1 = 19 cases, five times each) were carried out and analyzed with the help of qualitative content anal-ysis (n2 = 12). This enabled self-efficacy expectations and their sources to be identified and the ef-fects of an intervention on these competency expectations to be analyzed. The qualitative analysis (n3 = 8) shows that these effects are mostly positive.
Investigating clustering dark energy with 3d weak cosmic shear
Creators: name: Ayaita, Youness
name: Schaefer, Bjoern Malte
name: Weber, Maik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As observational evidence increasingly consolidates the case for a cosmological constant being the source of the Universe's accelerated expansion, the question whether, and if so, how well, future experiments could detect deviations from this standard scenario is raised with urgency. Assuming a dark energy component different from a cosmological constant, the observable effects in general include gravitational clustering described by the fluid's (rest-frame) speed of sound. We employ 3d weak cosmic shear, a proposed method to take advantage of the full three-dimensional information inherent to the cosmic shear field, to explore the capability of future surveys to detect dark energy clustering and the signature of an enhanced amplitude of the matter power spectrum on large scales. For this purpose, we present adequate numerical methods facilitating 3d weak cosmic shear calculations. We find that the possible constraints heavily depend on the dark energy equation of state w. If w is not very close to -1, constraining the squared sound speed within an order of magnitude seems possible with a combination of Euclid and Planck data.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; improved parameterisation of the gravitational potential, minor changes and clarifications
Gait Reconstruction from Motion Artefact Corrupted Fabric-Embedded Sensors
Creators: name: Michael, Brendan
Publisher: name: King's College London
Year: 2018
Subjects: machine learning, wearable sensors, fabric sensors

description: This research investigates the use of unsupervised latent space learning techniques for the removal of motion artefacts in fabric embedded sensor systems. This dataset contains motion data collected during walking tasks, for two sensor systems, 1) a high-quality ground truth inertial measurement system, and 2) tri-axel linear accelleration and angular velocity measurements from sensor embedded into items of clothing.
Random matrices: Law of the determinant
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoi H.
name: Vu, Van
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $A_n$ be an $n$ by $n$ random matrix whose entries are independent real random variables with mean zero, variance one and with subexponential tail. We show that the logarithm of $|\det A_n|$ satisfies a central limit theorem. More precisely, \begin{eqnarray*}\sup_{x\in {\mathbf {R}}}\biggl|{\mathbf {P}}\biggl(\frac{\log(|\det A_n|)-({1}/{2})\log (n-1)!}{\sqrt{({1}/{2})\log n}}\le x\biggr)-{\mathbf {P}}\bigl(\mathbf {N}(0,1)\le x\bigr)\biggr|\\\qquad\le\log^{-{1}/{3}+o(1)}n.\end{eqnarray*}
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP791 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Stichkanalmetastasen bei hepatozellulärem Karzinom nach lokaler Ablation durch Hochdosis-Brachytherapie
Creators: name: Zörkler, Ingo
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Leberzellkrebs
subject: Strahlentherapie
subject: Metastase
subject: 616.9940642

description: Hintergrund: Stichkanalmetastasierung ist in der lokalen Behandlung des hepatozellulären Karzinoms (HCC) für die kathetergestützte Hochdosis-Brachytherapie (HDR-BT), eine neuartige lokale Ablationsmethode, noch nicht untersucht worden. Material und Methoden: Es handelt sich um eine retrospektive Analyse von 100 Patienten, die An 233 HCC-Läsionen mit HDR-BT behandelt wurden (mit insgesamt 588 Kathetern). Eine Bestrahlung des Stichkanals fand nicht statt. Der Follow-Up-Zeitraum betrug mindestens 6 Monate. Bei Verdacht auf eine Stichkanalmetastasierung (intra- und/oder extrahepatisch) im Follow-Up-Zeitraum wurde die Bildfusion der Nachbeobachtungs-CT/MRT mit dem 3D- Bestrahlungsplan verwendet, um die Lage einer neuen Tumorabsiedelung innerhalb des Pfades eines Brachytherapiekatheters zum Zeitpunkt der Behandlung zu überprüfen. Ergebnisse: Es wurden 9 Stichkanalmetastasen identifiziert, was einem Katheter-basierten Risiko von 1,5 % für jeden Ort des Auftretens entspricht. Insgesamt 7 Metastasen befanden Sich innerhalb der Leber (katheterbasiertes Risiko, 1,2 %), und 2 Metastasen befanden sich extrahepatisch (katheterbasiertes Risiko, 0,3 %). 8 von 9 Stickkanalmetastasen wurden erfolgreich durch eine weitere HDR-BT behandelt. Schlussfolgerungen: Das Risiko einer Stichkanalmetastasierung nach interstitieller HDR-BT Des HCC ist vergleichbar mit früheren Berichten über perkutane Biopsien und Radiofrequenzablation (RFA), insbesondere im Fall von extrahepatischen Stichkanalmetastasen. Um das Risiko einer Aussaat zu kompensieren, sollte in der klinischen Routine eine Bestrahlungstechnik eingesetzt werden, die der Spurablation bei der RFA ähnelt. Durch diese Maßnahme könnte die interstitielle Brachytherapie zunehmend einen Stellenwert Bei der Therapie des HCC auch in Hinblick auf besonders stichkanalmetastasensensible Indikationen wie der Überbrückung („Bridging“) zur Lebertransplantation erreichen.
The European Union as 'Militant Democracy'?
Creators: name: Rehling Larsen, Signe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In response to the rise of authoritarianism in Poland and Hungary, several prominent scholars have called upon the EU to intervene in order to protect its constitutional values. One of the strongest albeit controversial arguments in favour of an intervention is that the EU is a form of transnational ‘militant democracy’. This chapter partly agrees with this assessment. The post-WWII European ‘constitutional imagination’ is shaped by the interwar collapse of the European legal and political order. This led to the development of a new form of post-fascist constitutionalism founded upon a ‘fear of the people’. Within post-fascist constitutionalism, ‘Europe’ promises to save the European peoples from themselves. Nevertheless, this type of constitutionalism is not dominant in all the Member States. At least two other varieties of constitutionalism influence the EU Member States – ‘evolutionary constitutionalism’ and ‘post-communist constitutionalism’ – both of which have an ambiguous, yet intimate, relationship to the project of European integration.
Systematische Integration von Nichtnutzung in die Produktentwicklung
Creators: name: Augustin, Laura
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Forschung und Entwicklung
subject: Produktentwicklung
subject: Humanzentrierung
subject: Nichtnutzung
subject: Transfermodelle
subject: 620

description: Bereits seit den 70er Jahren stellt die Humanzentrierung die Nutzer:innen in den Mittelpunkt der Produktentwicklung und richtet sich nach den Wünschen und Bedürfnissen des Menschen, um den Produkterfolg zu vergrößern und den Weg zum Markt zu verkürzen. Das Pendant zur Nutzung, die Nichtnutzung, beschreibt einen bisher unbekannten Raum, der noch nicht umfassend untersucht wurde. Mit der Einbeziehung von Nichtnutzung in die Hu-manzentrierung ergibt sich das Potential, Produkte für alle Beteiligten zu verbessern, Nichtnut-zung vorzubeugen und gleichzeitig den Markt zu vergrößern. Die vorliegende Dissertation liefert einen Beitrag zur Definition von Nichtnutzung und wie die Ablehnung von Produkten in die Produktentwicklung sinnvoll eingebunden werden kann. Im Rahmen von drei Fallstudien werden die verschiedenen Aspekte von Nichtnutzung abgesteckt, in Transfermodelle für die Produktentwicklung übersetzt und in Produktentwürfen umgesetzt. Es wird eine optimierte Befragungsstruktur für Nichtnutzer:innen vorgestellt sowie mögliche Methoden für die Übertragung der Ergebnisse in Anforderungen für eine Produktentwicklung. Abschließend werden die Erkenntnisse aus den Fallstudien in Handlungsempfehlungen für eine nichtnutzungszentrierte Produktentwicklung für weitere Projekte übersetzt. Anhand der Fallstudien und Ergebnisanalyse lässt sich zusammenfassend ein bedeutender Mehrwert aus der Integration von Nichtnutzung in die Produktentwicklung feststellen.
description: Human-centered design has focused on the user’s needs and wishes since the 1970ies to in-crease product success and decrease its time to market. Non-use, the counterpart to use, is a mostly unknown space, that has not been comprehensively examined yet. Integrating non-use into human-centered design bears the potential to improve the product and prevent non-use while increasing the target market. This dissertation delivers a contribution towards defining non-use and how product rejection can be integrated into product development. Within the framework of three case studies the different aspects of non-use are being explored, translated into methods for product develop-ment and transformed into product concepts. An optimized interview structure for non-users is presented and possible methods for translat-ing the results onto product requirements for product development projects. Finally, the case studies’ insights are translated into recommendations for action for non-user-centered product development. On the basis of the case studies and their evaluation it can be concluded that non-user integration provides significant added value to product development.
The efficacy of vitamin D supplementation and fish consumption to optimize the vitamin D status in healthy volunteers [Kumulative Dissertation]
Creators: name: Spielau, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 613

description: Eine unzureichende Vitamin D-Versorgung ist ein weltweites Problem und ist assoziiert mit einem erhöhten Risiko für Bluthochdruck, Diabetes, kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen und begünstigt die Entstehung verschiedener Krebserkrankungen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde in Studien untersucht inwieweit Vitamin D-Supplemente und der Verzehr von Fisch als wertvolle Vitamin D-Quelle zur Optimierung des Vitamin D-Status beitragen. Weiterhin wurde der Einfluss von Fischverzehr auf den Vitamin D-Status systematisch untersucht. In den Ergebnissen konnte gezeigt werden, dass eine Optimierung des Vitamin D-Status insbesondere durch Vitamin D3-Supplementierung bei gesunden Probanden möglich ist. Im Rahmen der systematischen Literatursuche und Meta-Analyse wurde gezeigt, dass vor allem der Verzehr von Fisch, insbesondere Fettfisch, zu einer Erhöhung der Vitamin D-Konzentration beiträgt, aber nicht für eine Optimierung des Vitamin D-Status ausreichend ist.
description: Inadequate vitamin D supply is a global problem and is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and promotes the development of various cancers. The present work investigated to what extent vitamin D supplements and the consumption of fish, as a valuable source of vitamin D, contribute to the optimization of the vitamin D status. Furthermore, the influence of fish consumption on vitamin D status has been investigated systematically. The results showed that an optimization of the vitamin D status is possible in healthy volunteers, especially for vitamin D3 supplementation. As part of the systematic literature search and meta-analysis it has been shown that the consumption of fish, especially fatty fish, contributes to an increase in the vitamin D concentration, but is not sufficient to optimize the vitamin D status.
Bewältigungsarbeit pflegender Angehöriger in Erleben von und Umgang mit Demenz
Creators: name: Bretschneider, Anne Christiane
Publisher: name: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Krankenpflege
subject: Demenz
subject: Angehöriger
subject: 616.890231

description: Um die Perspektive der pflegenden Angehörigen von Menschen mit Demenz zu konstruieren und deren Handlungsorientierung zu verstehen, wurden für diese Arbeit 10 narrative Interviews mit pflegenden Angehörigen von Menschen mit Demenz geführt. Diese Interviews wurden mit einem Diktiergerät aufgenommen, transkribiert und inhaltsanalytisch nach Mayring (2010) ausgewertet. Ein zweiter Auswertungsschritt folgte anhand der Grounded Theory (Glaser und Strauss 1967). Zwei Eckfälle werden kontrastiert und mit Schwerpunkt auf den jeweiligen Krankheitsprozess, die besonderen Herausforderungen im Leben mit der Erkrankung, den Aufbau der Unterstützungsnetzwerke und die Arten der zu leistenden Arbeit in Fallbeschreibungen dargestellt. Es schließt sich ein Fallvergleich unter Einbeziehung des gesamten Samples an. Darin werden erstens die Bedingungen der Alltagsbewältigung und zweitens die Einbeziehung von Unterstützungsnetzwerken als Strategie der Alltagsbewältigung herausgearbeitet. Die individuellen Bewältigungsstile sind sehr verschieden. Sie können auf der Ebene der Symptomwahrnehmung, der Einbeziehung von Unterstützungsnetzwerken und der Art der Bewältigungsarbeit kontrastiert werden. Die Kenntnis darüber untermauert die Wichtigkeit eines individuellen Assessments als Grundlage für die Auswahl geeigneter pflege- und alltagsentlastender Angebote.