cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towns and trails drive carnivore movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity
Creators: name: Whittington, Jesse
name: Hebblewhite, Mark
name: Baron, Robin W.
name: Ford, Adam
name: Paczkowski, John
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Global increases in human activity threaten connectivity of animal habitat and populations. Protection and restoration of wildlife habitat and movement corridors require robust models to forecast the effects of human activity on movement behaviour, resource selection, and connectivity. Recent research suggests that animal resource selection and responses to human activity depend on their behavioural movement state, with increased tolerance for human activity in fast states of movement. Yet, few studies have incorporated state-dependent movement behaviour into analyses of Merriam connectivity, that is individual-based metrics of connectivity that incorporate landscape structure and movement behaviour. Methods We assessed the cumulative effects of anthropogenic development on multiple movement processes including movement behaviour, resource selection, and Merriam connectivity. We simulated movement paths using hidden Markov movement models and step selection functions to estimate habitat use and connectivity for three landscape scenarios: reference conditions with no anthropogenic development, current conditions, and future conditions with a simulated expansion of towns and recreational trails. Our analysis used 20 years of grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) and gray wolf (Canis lupus) movement data collected in and around Banff National Park, Canada. Results Carnivores increased their speed of travel near towns and areas of high trail and road density, presumably to avoid encounters with people. They exhibited stronger avoidance of anthropogenic development when foraging and resting compared to travelling and during the day compared to night. Wolves exhibited stronger avoidance of anthropogenic development than grizzly bears. Current development reduced the amount of high-quality habitat between two mountain towns by more than 35%. Habitat degradation constrained movement routes around towns and was most pronounced for foraging and resting behaviour. Current anthropogenic development reduced connectivity from reference conditions an average of 85%. Habitat quality and connectivity further declined under a future development scenario. Conclusions Our results highlight the cumulative effects of anthropogenic development on carnivore movement behaviour, habitat use, and connectivity. Our strong behaviour-specific responses to human activity suggest that conservation initiatives should consider how proposed developments and restoration actions would affect where animals travel and how they use the landscape.
Formal Proof Sketch for P ≠ NP Using Information Flow and Physical Constraints
Creators: name: Sipos, Zsolt Attila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This document presents a novel approach to the P ≠ NP problem through a dual framework combining physical and information-theoretic lower bounds. The proof sketch relies on an entropy-based argument and information flow limitations on Turing machines. It also incorporates communication complexity and circuit lower bound techniques, including an extended application of the Karchmer–Wigderson game. The work is intended as a contribution to the theoretical understanding of computational intractability and proposes a foundation for formalization in proof assistants like Lean or Coq.
Daten zur Umwelt 2018
Creators: name: Baumgarten, Corinna
name: Bilharz, Michael
name: Döring, Ulrike
name: Eisold, Andreas
name: Friedrich, Barbara
name: Frische, Tobias
name: Gather, Corinna
name: Günther, Dirk
name: Große Wichtrup, Walburger
name: Hofmeier, Katja
name: Hofmeier, Maximilian
name: Jering, Almut
name: Klatt, Anne
name: Köder, Lea
name: Lamfried, Daniel
name: Langner, Marcel
name: Leujak, Wera
name: Marx, Marc
name: Matthey, Astrid
name: Mohaupt, Volker
name: Osiek, Dirk
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Diente die Landwirtschaft früher vor allem dazu, die Menschen im eigenen Land mit Nahrung zu versorgen, ist sie heute Teil weltweiter Handelsströme - vom Import von Futtermitteln bis zum Export von Fleisch in alle Welt. Diese moderne Landwirtschaft produziert große Mengen günstiger Nahrungsmittel, bleibt aber nicht ohne Folgen für die Umwelt. Die vorliegende Broschüre liefert eine Fülle von Zahlen, Daten und Fakten - Grundlage für die Diskussion und um Wege in eine nachhaltigere und umweltschonendere Landwirtschaft zu finden. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
Refining the Approach to Formal Thought Disorder in Psychosis: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Concept, Measurement, Clinical Utility and Treatment Approaches
Creators: name: Zamperoni, Georgia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Formal Thought Disorder (FTD) is a prominent symptom of psychosis, characterised by unusual speech patterns and communication issues, observed in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression. Despite its significance, FTD remains poorly understood. This research used mixed methods to investigate how to define, measure and treat FTD, as well as understand its impact on functioning. Findings emphasised the need for a standardised approach to classifying and measuring FTD before targeted treatment models can be developed. Achieving this will ultimately improve clinical care and quality of life for individuals affected.
Lava planets: Surface-atmosphere interactions
Creators: name: Van Buchem, Christiaan
name: Miguel, Yamila
name: Van Westrenen, Wim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: hot
rocky
exoplanet
lava
silicate
atmosphere

description: Hot rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures above about 2000 K (e.g. 55 Cnc e, K2-141 b, and GJ 367 b) are thought that have molten surfaces. This implies that there is a direct interface between the planet's lava ocean and atmosphere. Hence, the composition of these planet's atmospheres is likely to be closely linked to the composition of their lava oceans. This provides a unique opportunity for astronomers to characterize the mantle composition of such planets based on the composition of their atmospheres. With the recent launch of JWST and the future prospect of ARIEL ushering in a new era of exoplanet observations, this topic is now more relevant than ever.

 In order to accomplish this, we must first gain a deeper understanding of the way in which a lava ocean interacts with an atmosphere. The first step in this process is to model the outgassing that takes place in a silicate melt. Using the thermodynamic data of the magma ocean provided by the MELTS code, we developed an open source code that predicts the composition of such a vaporised atmosphere for a given magma composition and temperature. In this poster we will present out methods and first results.

 The successful development of this method and subsequent comparisons to observations would allow us to start characterising rocky exoplanet compositions based on their atmosphere compositions, which could lead to new insights for formation models. Furthermore, it would also allow us to model the effects of transient magma oceans though to be present on young earth analogs. Deepening our understanding of how such processes influence the conditions present during later evolutionary stages and possibly give us new insights in the conditions necessary to sustain life.
Alleviation of salinity stress in wheat by ACC deaminase-producing Bacillus aryabhattai EWR29 with multifarious plant growth-promoting attributes
Creators: name: Farahat, Mohamed G.
name: Mahmoud, Mohamed Kamal
name: Youseif, Sameh H.
name: Saleh, Saleh A.
name: Zeinat Kamel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60501 Bacteriology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology

description: Salinity is one of the most crucial stressors that restrain crop productivity. Endophytes with 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase activity possess the potential to ameliorate salt stress in plants by degrading the precursor molecule of ethylene, ACC, whose concentration is elevated in salt-stressed plants. The present investigation reports the efficiency of salt-tolerant endophyte Bacillus aryabhattai EWR29 exhibiting ACC deaminase activity as bioinoculant to improve the growth of the wheat plant under salinity stress conditions. The strain EWR29 manifested multifarious plant growth-promoting traits including, phosphate solubilization, and production of indole acetic acid (IAA), siderophore, HCN, and exopolysaccharides (EPS). Besides, it endures salinity (12%) and, drought stresses (“0.49 MPa) and showed a strong biofilm-formation potential. Moreover, acdS gene coding for ACC deaminase was sequenced and characterized at the molecular level. Inoculation of wheat plants with B. aryabhattai EWR29 alleviated the negative effects of salinity stress and promoted significant increases in growth criteria compared with un-inoculated plants grown at the same salinity levels. The bioinoculant induced up-regulation of the antioxidant enzymes peroxidase (POD) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), and decreased proline content in treated plants indicating the mitigation of salt effect. The results indicated the potential used of B. aryabhattai EWR29 as bioinoculant to enhance the growth of wheat plants cultivated in salt-affected agriculture fields and alleviate salt stress.
A Chip-Based Cell Membrane Model for Characterising Optical Voltage Sensors
Creators: name: Goris, Toon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis discusses the fabrication of an optically accessible, on-chip, calibration platform for controlled exposure of voltage sensitive particles to an electric field of known strength. Validation and verification studies on the prototype show the ability of the chip to mimic action potential parameters. Standardizing this test platform in the field will enhance the accuracy of the sensitivity determination and allows the effect of individual environmental factors on voltage sensitivity to be measured. The developed platform can be utilized in future studies to evaluate the impact of design, composition and surface coating of new voltage sensing probes.
The Large-Scale Effect of Forest Cover on Long-Term Streamflow Variations in Mediterranean Catchments of Central Chile
Creators: name: Pizarro, Roberto
name: Valdés-Pineda, Rodrigo
name: Garcia-Chevesich, Pablo A.
name: Ibáñez, Alfredo
name: Pino, Juan
name: Scott, David F.
name: Neary, Daniel G.
name: McCray, John E.
name: Castillo, Miguel
name: Ubilla, Patricio
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2022

description: Forest ecosystems play an important role in hydrological processes as surface and subsurface runoff, as well as the storage of water at the catchment scale. Therefore, it is important to have a greater understanding of the effects of forests in the long-term water balance of Mediterranean catchments. In this sense, this study evaluates the effect of native forests, forest plantations, and the combination of both, on long-term streamflow variations in central Chile, an unusual area of Mediterranean climate characterized by a well-marked annual cycle with dry summers and wet winters. Thus, the temporal pattern of monthly streamflow was evaluated for mean flow (Qmean), maximum flow (Qmax), and minimum flow (Qmin) in 42 large-scale (>200 km2) Mediterranean catchments. Each series of monthly streamflow data was QA/QC, and then evaluated using the Mann–Kendall’s non-parametric statistical test to detect temporal variations between 1994 and 2015. In addition to the previous analysis, the monthly series were grouped into wet seasons (April–September) and dry seasons (October–April), to determine if there were any significant differences within the annual hydrological cycle. The areas covered with native and forest plantations and their relative changes were evaluated for each catchment through streamflow variations and forest cover indicators. Results revealed that streamflow variations are positive and significant when more forest cover exists. The intra-catchment relationships assessed for both species revealed the significant role of native forests and mixed masses as key ecosystems for the long-term conservation of summer streamflow in Mediterranean catchments of central Chile. These findings encourage an urgent need to create highland afforestation programs on degraded areas of central Chile, to maximize water storage in a region that is quickly drying out due to unsustainable water and land use management practices and the effects of global warming.
Rainfall infilling model with novel artificial neural network
Creators: name: Lai, Wei
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this thesis is to enhance the imputation of missing rainfall observations through the implementation of novel artificial neural networks that coupled with metaheuristic algorithms, the Grey Wolf Optimiser, the Multiverse Optimiser, and the Moth-Flame Optimisation algorithm. The proposed rainfall infilling models were compared against several existing Artificial Intelligence-based imputation models. The findings showed that the implementation of the proposed rainfall infilling models could boost the imputation accuracy, which can help in enhancing the accuracy and effectiveness of hydrological studies in Malaysia for better flood mitigation and water resources management.
Methods for managing cork oak forests with platype attacks from the Sor region
Creators: name: Almeida, César
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: cork oak
essays
platype

description: The worsening of cork oak's health status and its relationship with biotic factors was verified: it is closely associated with complex patterns in which pests (e.g. Platypus cylindrus, Coroebus undatus) and diseases (e.g.: Phytophtora spp, Biscogniauxia mediterranea, Botriosphaeria stevensii and Ophiostoma spp) are determining factors for the death of cork oaks.
Consciously Editing Finding Aids at UMD Libraries
Creators: name: Caringola, Liz
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: archives
archival description
conscious editing
reparative description

description: Presented at the 2022 Maryland Library Association/Delaware Library Association Conference in Cambridge, Maryland, as part of the session "Metadata and Cultural Memory: Investigating Models of Equitable and Inclusive Metadata Creation for Maryland History.”
title: CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs, Vol. 6 (2020): Linac4 design report
title: Linac4 design report
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs
Publisher: name: CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs
Year: 2020

description: Editor: Maurizio Vretenar Linear accelerator 4 (Linac4) is designed to accelerate negative hydrogen ions for injection into the Proton Synchrotron Booster (PSB). It will become the source of proton beams for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the long shutdown in 2019–2020. Linac4 will accelerate H– ions, consisting of a hydrogen atom with an additional electron, to 160 MeV energy and then inject them into the PSB, which is part of the LHC injection chain. The new accelerator comprises an ion source and four types of accelerating structures. The particles are accelerated first to 3 MeV energy by a Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), then to 50 MeV by three Drift Tube Linacs (DTL) tanks, then to 100 MeV by seven Cell-Coupled Drift Tube Linac (CCDTL) modules, and finally to 160 MeV by twelve Pi-Mode Structures (PIMS). A chopper line placed between the RFQ and the first DTL tank modulates the linac beam at the PSB injection frequency. Linac4 includes transfer and measurement lines up to the PSB injection, where the ions are stripped of their two electrons to leave only protons. Linac4 is 76 metres long and located 12 metres below ground. The first low-energy beams were produced in 2013 and after the commissioning of all accelerating structures the milestone energy of 160 MeV was reached in 2016. Linac4 will be connected to the PSB during the long shutdown of 2019–20, after which it will replace the 50 MeV Linac2 as source of protons for the LHC. The Linac4 is a key element in the project to increase the luminosity of the LHC during the next decade.
The effects of angular momentum and environment on the HI properties of disc galaxies
Creators: name: Murugeshan, Chandrashekar
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis aims to study the angular momentum (AM) properties of galaxies and shows how AM affects various observable galaxy properties such as the amount of neutral Hydrogen (HI) gas in galaxies, their star formation efficiency and morphology. HI gas is the primary fuel for stars to form in galaxies. By studying the role of AM in regulating the HI gas, we are able to better understand a key factor in galaxy evolution, while also serving as a benchmark for future simulation studies of galaxies. These are two important contributions of this thesis to the field.
title: Do Environmental Rules and Standards Affect Firms' Competitive Ability?
Creators: name: Munari, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: competitive regulation
subject: environmental protection
subject: European Union
subject: international trade free trade agreements
subject: WTO

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 207-224
description: I. The economic background. - II. Economics v. law: a different approach. - III. The evolution of EU environmental law: from a neo-classical vision to the precautionary principle. - IV. The intensity of EU environmental protection and its capability to affect EU firms' ability to compete. - V. Main features of European environmental policy and their extraterritorial reach: an attempt to combat regulatory competition at international level? - VI. Regulatory competition in environmental standards and trade agreements between the EU and third countries. - VII. Potential perspectives of the EU action: an implied attempt to engage in a "race to the top". - VIII. Concluding remarks.
description: The Article considers whether EU environmental standards are relevant for the competitiveness of our firms and analyses this phenomenon under the lenses of EU law and case-law as developed through the decades. Starting from the first environmental rules adopted by the EEC prior to the conferral of competences in this field by the Member States to the Community in order to remove "non-tariff barriers" to trade within the (old) common market, the analysis moves to the implications for EU firms of EU environmental standards as they have been established within the EU environmental policy and consistently with the goal of a high level of environmental protection within the EU. The analysis seems to show that within the EU a race to the bottom never occurred; on the contrary, the EU comprehensive legislation on environmental purposes based on the duty to comply with high environmental standards has improved EU firms' competitiveness in the global markets. Given these results, the author welcomes recent EU initiatives aimed at adopting unilateral "extraterritorial" environmental standards applicable to non-EU firms engaged in trade with the EU, or to negotiate high environmental standards within trade agreements executed between the EU and third countries.
title: The CPCAT as a novel tool to overcome the shortcomings of NOEC/LOEC statistics in ecotoxicology
title: The CPCAT as a novel tool to overcome the shortcomings of NOEC/LOEC statistics in ecotoxicology
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lehmann, René
name: Karaoglan, Bilgin
name: Bachmann, Jean
name: Lacker, Jens
name: Polleichtner, Christian
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Species reproduction is an important determinant of population dynamics. As such, this is an important parameter in environmental risk assessment. The closure principle computational approach test (CPCAT) was recently proposed as a method to derive a NOEC/LOEC for reproduction count data such as the number of juvenile Daphnia. The Poisson distribution used by CPCAT can be too restrictive as a model of the data-generating process. In practice, the generalized Poisson distribution could be more appropriate, as it allows for inequality of the population mean ÎÌ and the population variance ÏĆ2 . It is of fundamental interest to explore the statistical power of CPCAT and the probability of determining a regulatory relevant effect correctly. Using a simulation, we varied between Poisson distribution ( ÎÌ=ÏĆ2 ) and generalized Poisson distribution allowing for over-dispersion ( ÎÌ<ÏĆ2 ) and under-dispersion ( ÎÌ>ÏĆ2 ). The results indicated that the probability of detecting the LOEC/NOEC correctly was â 0.8 provided the effect was at least 20% above or below the mean level of the control group and mean reproduction of the control was at least 50 individuals while over-dispersion was missing. Specifically, under-dispersion increased, whereas over-dispersion reduced the statistical power of the CPCAT. Using the well-known Hampel identifier, we propose a simple and straight forward method to assess whether the data-generating process of real data could be over- or under-dispersed.
Machine Learning Based Cyber Attack Targeting on Controlled Information
Creators: name: Miao, Yuantian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explore the Machine Learning-based cyber attack targeting on the cotrolled information, especially the training set in Automated Speech Recognition system. Voice interfaces and assistants implemented by various services have become increasingly sophisticated, powered by increased availability of data. The thesis explore the different guarantees about users' audio data enforcing data-protection regulations. In the meanwhile, the acoustic model inherits deep neural networks' vulnerabilities like crafted adversarial examples. This thesis also proposes a novel scheme as an iterative optimization-based method to generate targeted adversarial examples quickly with limited computational resources.
Does an active play standard change childcare physical activity and healthy eating policies? A natural policy experiment
Creators: name: Tugault-Lafleur, Claire N.
name: Naylor, Patti-Jean
name: Carson, Valerie
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
name: Lau, Erica
name: Wolfenden, Luke
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background In 2017, the provincial government of British Columbia (BC) implemented a mandatory policy outlining Active Play Standards (AP Standards) to increase physical activity (PA) levels, sedentary and motor skills among children attending licensed childcare centers. Concurrently, a capacity-building initiative was launched to help implement policies and practices supporting both PA and healthy eating (HE) in the early years. This study evaluated differences in center-level PA and HE policies and practices before and after the enforcement of the new provincial AP Standards. Methods Using a repeat cross-sectional design, surveys were distributed to managers and staff of licensed childcare facilities serving children aged 2–5 years before (2016–2017 or ‘time 1’) and after (2018–2019 or ‘time 2’) implementation of the AP Standards across BC. The total sample included 1,459 respondents (910 and 549 respondents at time 1 and time 2, respectively). Hierarchical mixed effects models were used to examine differences in 9 and 7 PA/sedentary policies and practices, respectively, as well as 11 HE policies between time 1 and time 2. Models controlled for childcare size and area-level population size, education, and income. Results Compared to centers surveyed at time 1, centers at time 2 were more likely to report written policies related to: fundamental movement skills, total amount of Active Play (AP) time, staff-led AP, unfacilitated play/free play, total amount of outdoor AP time, limiting screen time, breaking up prolonged sitting, staff role modeling of PA, and training staff about PA (P < 0.01 for all 9 policies examined). Compared to time 1, centers at time 2 reported more frequent practices related to ensuring children engaged in at least 120 min of AP, 60 min of outdoor AP daily, and limiting screen time (P < 0.01 for 3 out of 7 practices examined). Despite no additional policy intervention related to HE, centers were more likely to report having written policies related to: HE education for children, encouraging new foods, having family-style meals, offering only milk or water, limiting the amount of juice served, staff role modeling of HE, limiting the types of foods at parties/celebrations and foods brought from home (P < 0.05 for 9 out of 11 HE policies). Conclusion Approximately a year after the implementation of a governmental policy targeting PA supported by a capacity-building initiative, childcare centers reported positive changes in all 9 PA/sedentary policies examined, all 3 out of 7 PA/sedentary practices and 9 out of 11 HE policies evaluated at the center-level.
title: The False Commodity in the European Game of Legal Chairs: Between the Ideal of Regulatory Competition and the Practice of Capitalism Triumphant
Creators: name: José Menéndez, Agustín
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: constitutional law
subject: economic law
subject: regulatory competition
subject: economic freedoms
subject: monetary union
subject: public powers

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 127-155
description: I. From the legal regulation of cross-border relations to systematic policy and regulatory competition. - II. European Community law as the discipline of cross-border legal relations. - II.1. Community law as the European law of conflict: coordinating public power through law. - II.2. The limits of Community law as European law of conflicts: Europe entrapped. - III. From Community to Union: fostering normative competition through European Union law. - III.1. The narratives of the single market and of the single currency. - III.2. From Community law to Union law through policy and regulatory competition. - IV. After the crises: the unhidden hand of supranational power. - IV.1. The gathering of the crises: private debt as macro-economic stabiliser. - IV.2. Old governance in new rules: the European socio-economic model as a zero-sum game. - V. Conclusions.
description: Community law was established as a meta-legal order to provide a systematic solution to conflicts betweeen national legal orders. Integration, and in particular integration of law, was required to tackle the functional and normative problems that ensued from the disorganised co-existence of State legal orders in Europe. Integration of law was made compatible with the preservation of autonomy to define the national socio-economic model and structure because early European legislation organised the co-operation of national legal orders. The power to regulate and mould the economy was reinforced, at the same time that the sharpest corners of national power were clipped (by reference to the formal principle of non-discrimination). From the late seventies, the point and purpose of European integration was redefined. L'Europe par le marché resulted in integration through law, making of law the key means through which national regulatory and monetary policies were made to compete with each other. The result was the progressive definition of the content of law by the exercise of economic freedoms, a most peculiar process leading to turning law into a false commodity. Since the late 2000s, the role of law in the process of European integration has been increased to the detriment of governance arrangements, but this has only exacerbated the commodification of law and its submission to the imperative of ensuring the store value of money.
Automatic Classification of Dysfluencies in Stuttered Speech using MFCC
Creators: name: DS, Vinod
name: Mahesha, P
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Computer Engineering

description: P.Mahesha and D.S.Vinod, Automatic classification of dysfluency in stuttered speech using MFCC, International Conference on Computing, Communication and Information Technology (ICCCIT) 2012, page 181 to 184, held in Jaya Engineering College, Chennai, India on 27th to 29th June 2012. ISBN 978 − 93 − 82338 − 02 − 4. Organized by Jaya Engineering College, Chennai, India. Published by Bonfring.
title: Sociological Shortcomings and Normative Deficits of Regulatory Competition
Creators: name: Joerges, Christian
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: regulatory competition
subject: united in diversity
subject: European social model
subject: varieties of capitalism
subject: Streek
subject: Habermas

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 157-168
description: I. Back to the beginnings: the origins of a new paradigm. - II. The conceptual gist of the controversy. - III. "Back to the Nation State" or "More Europe": Wolfgang Streeck v. Jürgen Habermas. - IV. Institutionalising the united in diversity vision. - V. Instead of an epilogue.
description: This Article proposes a counter-vision to the regulatory competition model, by building upon conflict-laws constitutionalism. This counter-vision seeks to replace the governance via competitive processes with deliberative political interactions. The approach institutionalizes the United in Diversity slogan, representing a sort of third way between the "back to the nation State" idea, strongly supported by Streek and other commentators, and the Habermasian "More Europe".
Coherence of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Thenuwara, S. Y. Anushka Santhika
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Bose-Einstein condensates of ultracold atoms are a unique phase of matter promising new exciting applications in quantum sensors and quantum information technology. Dr. Thenuwara developed a new approach to matter wave interferometry with the inclusions of two-, three- and five quantum states involved in the interference process. He found new analytical solutions to the underlying problem which were supported by his experimental observations.
CovidVisualized: Visualized compilation of international updated models’ estimates of COVID-19 pandemic at global and country levels
Creators: name: Pourmalek, Farshad
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Objectives To identify international and periodically updated models of the COVID-19 epidemic, compile and visualize their estimation results at the global, regional, and country levels, and periodically update the compilations. This compilation can serve as an early warning mechanism for countries about future surges in cases and deaths. When one or more models predict an increase in daily cases or infections and deaths in the next one to three months, technical advisors to the national and subnational decision-makers can consider this early alarm for assessment and suggestion of augmentation of preventive measures and interventions. Data description Five international and periodically updated models of the COVID-19 pandemic were identified, created by: (1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, (2) Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, (3) Imperial College, London, (4) Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, and (5) University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Estimates of these five identified models were gathered, combined, and graphed at global and two country levels. Canada and Iran were chosen as countries with and without subnational estimates, respectively. Compilations of results are periodically updated. Three Github repositories were created that contain the codes and results, i.e., “CovidVisualizedGlobal” for the global and regional levels, “CovidVisualizedCountry” for a country with subnational estimates–Canada, and “covir2” for a country without subnational estimates–Iran.
D12.2 Reference Data Management Plan
Creators: name: University of Palermo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ITSERR technical team knows how important interoperability is in large organisations. For all WPs to be aligned with researchers’ needs in terms of data exchange is a high priority task. Also our Reference Data Management Plan must aim to simplify and speed up the development of cost-effective, robust, secure and scalable multi-platform, multi-language, multi-alphabet, multi-ontologies solutions for Data Management. Our data management plan will be developed upon levels of abstraction:● Data Level: Aligned with Master Data management, a common RESILIENCE Data dictionary should be developed and extended to all Religious Studies Research information systems. This allows all WPs applications to exchange information transparently.● Service Level: One step above, at service level, a common definition language should be created in order to interoperate between systems with common semantic and structured language rules.The deliverable will cover at least the following topic:● Master Data management● Data Quality● Conceptual Approach● Reference Architecture○ Interoperability○ Indexation/search tools○ Reporting● Data management and the Service Lifecycle○ Classifying data○ Ensuring data ownership○ Respecting data integrity● Reference Data Model
Supplementary document for Highly sensitive detection of plant growth regulators by using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy combined with metamaterial - 5472466.pdf
Creators: name: Du, Xiaoxue
name: Zhang, Xiaodong
name: Wang, Yafei
name: Ma, Guoxin
name: Liu, Yong
name: Wang, Bin
name: Mao, Hanping
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
GUMANITAR TA`LIM YO`NALISHLARIDA MATEMATIKANI O`QITISHDA PREDIKAT VA KVANTORLAR TUSHUNCHALARIDAN FOYDALANISHGA DOIR BA`ZI MALUMOTLAR
Creators: name: Umarova, Nadira
name: Eshpulatova, Husniya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada matematika fanining muhim bo'limlaridan - matematik mantiq fanining asosiy tushunchalari bo'lgan mulohazalar va mulohazaviy formalar, predikat va kvantorlarga doir ma'lumotlar, ularning filologiyada qo'llanishi, mantiqiy formulalar va qonunlarning tildagi talqinlari haqida fikrlar berilgan.
Thermische Abfallbehandlung
Creators: name: Gleis, Markus
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Unter dem Begriff thermische Abfallbehandlung werden alle technischen Prozesse und Verfahren zusammengefasst, die mit Hilfe von technischen Einrichtungen und einem deutlich erhöhten Temperaturniveau thermisch induzierte Umsetzungsprozesse des kohlenstoffhaltigen Anteils der Abfälle zum Ziel haben. Als technische Ausführungen werden damit Verbrennungsanlagen, Pyrolyse- und Vergasungsanlagen sowie als besondere technische Ausprägung die Plasmapyrolyseanlagen erfasst. Je nach Oxidationsgrad und Temperaturniveau entstehen dabei unterschiedliche Reaktionsprodukte, die auch zur Charakterisierung und Abgrenzung der thermischen Verfahren untereinander genutzt werden können. Quelle: www.link.springer.com
Relevance of canopy drip for the accumulation of nitrogen in moss used as biomonitors for atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Europe
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Bioakkumulation
Stickstoff

description: High atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) impacts functions and structures of N limited ecosystems. Due to filtering and related canopy drip effects forests are particularly exposed to N deposition. Up to now, this was proved by many studies using technical deposition samplers but there are only some few studies analysing the canopy drip effect on the accumulation of N in moss and related small scale atmospheric deposition patterns. Therefore, we investigated N deposition and related accumulation of N in forests and in (neighbouring) open fields by use of moss sampled across seven European countries. Sampling and chemical analyses were conducted according to the experimental protocol of the European Moss Survey. The ratios between the measured N content in moss sampled inside and outside of forests were computed and used to calculate estimates for non-sampled sites. Potentially influencing environmental factors were integrated in order to detect their relationships to the N content in moss. The overall average N content measured in moss was 20.0 mg g- 1 inside and 11.9 mg g- 1 outside of forests with highest N values in Germany inside of forests. Explaining more than 70% of the variance, the multivariate analyses confirmed that the sampling site category (site with/without canopy drip) showed the strongest correlation with the N content in moss. Spatial variances due to enhanced dry deposition in vegetation stands should be considered in future monitoring and modelling of atmospheric N deposition.
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Occupants' Energy Use Behavior in Shared Spaces: Characteristics, Mechanism, and Improvement Strategies
Creators: name: Zhu, Jiaolan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In shared working and living spaces of business and service buildings, occupants have low motivation to save energy. Therefore, their energy use behavior significantly impacts the energy efficiency of those buildings. This research developed a data-driven approach to examine occupants' energy use behavior in shared spaces, including their characteristics, interaction mechanisms, and improvement strategies. This study contributes to a systematic understanding of occupants' energy use behavior in shared spaces through revised group dynamic theory. The findings could help develop customized intervention strategies to improve occupants' energy use behaviour in shared spaces and reduce building energy consumption during the operational stage.
title: Loyalty Matters: The Delicate Balance Between Jurisdictional Competition and Political Order
Creators: name: Ferrara, Maurizio
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: jurisdictional competition
subject: European integration
subject: exit
subject: voice
subject: loyalty
subject: boundaries

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 169-184
description: I. Introduction. - II. Jurisdictional competition and the virtues of exit. - III. Democratic competition and the virtues of voice and loyalty. - IV. Too much opening? The EU's political predicament. - V. Conclusion.
description: Supporters of regulatory competition typically claim that cross-system "free", "unbounded" competition (such as in the EU) is capable to select the best regulations (institutions/policies/practices/jurisdictions). The posited causal mechanism runs somewhat like this: if "customers/consumers/citizens" can shop around, governments have an incentive to keep/attract them through better regulations - precisely. There are at least two hidden assumptions in such reasoning: a) politics is about producing efficient regulations; b) regulatory boundaries operate as obstacles, boundary removal as advantages. This Article will challenge such assumptions, arguing that they rest on a limited and narrow conception of what politics is all about. Building on the well-known "exit-voice-loyalty" of Albert Hirschman as well as on classical State theory, I will show that the prime and "absolute" objective of politics as a value-sphere is the maintenance and cultivation of political community. Pursuing this objective is a delicate balancing act between "opening" and "closure". By looking exclusively on the benefits of opening and boundary removal, theories of regulatory competition entirely neglect the potentially destructive spiral that the latter may trigger of for the institutional foundations of political community.
IoT Based Cost-Effective Smart Energy Meter with Electric Theft Detection and Device-Level Monitoring
Creators: name: Hassan, Ateeb
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Electricity is a precious resource. To save electricity, the energy system needs to be intelligent. Traditional meters were unreliable, easily tampered, and open to electricity theft. Therefore, a smart energy meter design is presented in this research that measures, computes, and transmits the data to an IoT server for remote visualization by both utilities and customers. On top of that, it has an embedded theft and tamper detection system, which detect the real-time electricity theft and tamper for utilities to take action. It also allows consumers to easily manage their energy usage and appliances with device-level monitoring and power factor information.
title: At the Roots of Regulatory Competition in the EU: Cross-border Movement of Companies as a Way to Exercise a Genuine Economic Activity or just Law Shopping?
Creators: name: Costamagna, Francesco
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: freedom of establishment
subject: regulatory competition
subject: abuse of law
subject: cross-border transfers
subject: taxation
subject: workers' rights

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2019 4(1), 185-205
description: I. Free movement of companies and regulatory competition in the EU: Some introductory remarks. - II. Lack of genuine economic activity in the host State and the application of Treaty rules on freedom of establishment to the transfers of companies. - II.1. An economic activity-based definition of establishment: AG Kokott in Polbud. - II.2. Applying freedom of establishment rules when there is no genuine economic activity: the approach of the Court. - III. Law shopping as an abuse of the rules on freedom of establishment? - III.1. The restrictive reading of the doctrine of abuse in cases concerning cross-border transfer of companies. - III.2. Cross-border-transfers of companies and wholly artificial arrangements: the rise and fall of a partial exception to the restrictive reading of the doctrine of abuse. - IV. Cross-border transfer of companies and regulatory competition: the legislative response. Some conclusive remarks.
description: The Article critically engages with the case law of the Court of Justice on the application of Treaty provisions on freedom of establishment to cross-border transfers of companies. In particular, it demonstrates that the Court has come to consider the possibility for companies to use freedom of establishment as a tool to choose the law applicable to them as an objective of the relevant Treaty provisions, rather than as an abuse. The recently adopted Polbud judgment (Court of Justice, judgment of 25 October 2017, case C-106/16, Polbud [GC]) represents a fitting example in this regard. Here the Court held that Treaty provisions on freedom of establishment apply even in cases where the converting company has no intention to pursue any economic activity in the host State. Moreover, it posited that trying to relocate in another Member State with the sole purpose of paying lower taxes does not constitute an abuse and, thus, does not justify the adoption of restrictive measures by the departure Member State. The Article critically engages with this line of cases, showing its impact on recent attempts to harmonize the rules on cross-border transfers of companies. In particular, the analysis focuses on the 2018 Commission Proposal for a Directive regarding cross-border conversions, demonstrating that it tends to prioritize the promotion of freedom of establishment over competing interest and values, such as the respect for the integrity of national tax systems or the protection of workers' rights.
Tailoring Piezoelectric Properties of ZnO-PVDF Nanocomposite for Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring
Creators: name: Baidya, Debasmita
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400599
subject: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Piezoelectric materials are of increasing interest for the development of sensor technologies, due to their unique capability of converting mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. In general, conventional piezoelectric materials such as lead zirconate titanate (PZT) have been extensively studied for these properties. However, their inherent brittleness, toxicity giving rise to environmental concerns and high production costs have hindered their application in advanced sensing technologies for civil infrastructure. In view of this, organic piezoelectric polymers have been the new attraction of the field due to their flexibility, chemical stability, and inherent piezoelectric characteristics. Among these polymers, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) has attracted significant attention due to its high mechanical strength, chemical resistance, and ease of processing. These characteristics make PVDF a promising candidate for flexible and durable sensor applications. However, its comparatively lower piezoelectric output has raised concerns for its effectiveness. To address this limitation, our study proposes and investigates the incorporation of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures into PVDF to enhance its piezoelectric performance. By combining electrospinning and hydrothermal growth techniques, we aim to fabricate ZnO-PVDF nanocomposites with improved dipole alignment and interfacial interaction, thereby boosting the overall electromechanical response.This study systematically examines the influence of electrospinning parameters on PVDF nanofiber formation, identifies the optimal hydrothermal growth conditions for the ZnO crystal formation on PVDF nanofibers to fabricate the ZnO-PVDF nanocomposite, and evaluates how the composites morphology affects its piezoelectric properties. The results demonstrate that the ZnO-PVDF nanocomposite exhibits enhanced β-phase content and improved piezoelectric response (as indicated by higher d33 values) compared to pristine PVDF. Furthermore, this work paves the way for the integration of the proposed flexible piezoelectric sensors into future intelligent structural monitoring systems. Overall, this study contributes to the development of multifunctional materials with promising applications as flexible, sustainable, and self-powered electronic devices.