cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Staatsdiener, Parteienwettbewerb und Social Media: Anything goes?
Creators: name: Mause, Karsten
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2021

description: Der Beitrag macht auf das Phänomen aufmerksam, dass es beamtete Staatsdiener wie z. B. beamtete Staatssekretäre in Ministerien gibt, die von Amts wegen zur parteipolitischen Neutralität bzw. Unparteilichkeit verpflichtet sind, die jedoch ihre Social-Media-Accounts u. a. auch dazu verwenden, um via Facebook, Twitter & Co. parteipolitische Werbung und ihre privaten Meinungen zu verschiedenen Themen zu verbreiten. Auf der Basis von empirischen Fallbeispielen diskutiert der Beitrag sowohl Kritikpunkte an bestimmten Social-Media-Aktivitäten von Staatsbediensteten, geht aber auch auf potentielle Verteidigungsargumente ein. Eine derartige Diskussion erscheint notwendig, da immer mal wieder auftretende Fälle den Eindruck erwecken, dass die Rechtslage weiterhin unklar zu sein scheint, und beamtete Staatsdiener dem Laissez-faire-Prinzip folgend in den sozialen Medien offensichtlich vielfach machen können, was sie wollen.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2021): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Concerning Cervical Cancer Screening Among Reproductive Age Group Women in Low-Resource Settings Yenagoa Bayelsa State
Creators: name: Okaba, Ebikonbowei
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2024

description: Background: Nigeria has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) and cervical screening are effective prevention strategies against both HPV infection and cervical cancer. Lack of awareness, limited knowledge, limited decision-making agency, lack of spousal support and stigma are barriers to uptake of these preventive measures. Cervical cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Eighty three percent (83%) of the world's new cases and 85% of all cervical cancer-related deaths occur in developing countries. It is primarily caused by human papilloma virus (HPV); a sexually transmitted pathogen that could be prevented with safe sexual practice and using vaccines, among others. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge and attitude of reproductive age group women in low resource setting in towards cervical cancer and its prevention in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State Nigeria.

Methodology: This study employed the use of a descriptive study design to examine the knowledge and assessment of cervical cancer among women of reproductive age (19-54), about cervical cancer, its prevention, and their utilization of Pap smear screening; using a convenience sample of 406 women in two communities (Okaka and Agudama) in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Women voluntarily completed a structured questionnaire.

Result: Results showed that women who participated in the study were aware of cervical cancer (78.3%; n=318) but many (70.4%; n= 286) were unaware of Pap smears as the screening tests for cervical cancer. Although few of them (45.6%; n =185) knew about a screening center, out of which 17.6% (n= 32) reported that the screening center was less than 2km away from their residences.

Conclusion: There is need for health care professionals, to intensify efforts to increase awareness about cervical cancer screening and encourage women through the different clinics to use these services. The benefits of screening and early diagnosis of cervical cancer should be emphasized to enhance the utilization of cervical cancer screening services.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024): July to August
Prosumer Inspiration Book
Creators: name: Hinsch, A.
name: Assalini, S.
name: Rambelli, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: PROSEU
prosumers
prosumerism
Europe
Living Labs

description: Europe is on its way to implement a large-scale transition to a more sustainable energy system: this transition is a key ingredient for a climate neutral, more suitable and inclusive European Union. All over the EU, citizens are placed increasingly at the core of energy markets and are playing their part for more sustainability at the local level. This change has been acknowledged in the European Green Deal and a continuation and strengthening of this development is deemed central to ensuring a more sustainable and inclusive energy sector now and in the future. Citizens are no longer just passive consumers of energy, but are turning to producing and self-consuming renewable energy; they are becoming Prosumers.
description: PROSEU WP7 - Living Labs: Lessons Learned and recommendations for mainstreaming the participation of citizens in the Energy Union. Deliverable 7.2
Diffuse high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays from hyperflares of soft-gamma repeaters
Creators: name: Liu, Xue-Wen
name: Wu, Xue-Feng
name: Lu, Tan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the diffuse high energy (TeV - PeV) neutrino emission from hyperflares of Soft-Gamma Repeaters (SGRs), like the hyperflare risen from \astrobj{SGR 1806-20} on December 27 of 2004, within the framework of the fireball model. The fireball model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can explain well the main features of this hyperflare and the subsequent multi-frequency terglow emission. The expected rate, $\sim 20-100$ Gpc$^{-3}$day$^{-1}$, of such hyperflares is well in excess of the GRBs rate. Our result shows that the contribution to the diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino background from such hyperflares is less than 10% of the contribution from GRBs. We also discuss the high energy cosmic rays (CRs) from these sources.
description: Accepted for publication in New Astronomy, 14 pages
Collaborative urban design for stakeholder engagement in World Cultural Heritage conservation: a practical study in the context of the citadel wall in Huế, Vietnam
Creators: name: Wood, Kyra
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Architectural heritage and conservation
Design history, theory and criticism
Design practice and methods

description: There are significant challenges for stakeholder engagement in World Cultural Heritage Conservation (WCHC). This study focussed on the interdisciplinary and practice-based investigation of collaborative urban design (CUD) as an approach to identify and respond to those challenges. The research explored challenges caused by mutability and tensions in WCHC stakeholder engagement theory and practice, as well as the influence of site-specific contextual factors on engagement, by looking at several different heritage contexts but focussing on Huế in Vietnam. More specifically, the research highlighted the particular challenges that arise when WCHC-related development restrictions cause the displacement of people from World Heritage sites. The methods of investigation included literature review, interviews with experts and an infield, practice-based CUD investigation in the context of the World Heritage listed citadel wall of Huế in Vietnam. The fieldwork involved living in Huế from October 2012 to June 2013, learning the local language and establishing a social network there, conducting urban site analyses, conversing and collaborating with stakeholders of WCHC, and collaboratively developing and facilitating four CUD workshops. The thesis presents original findings about the effects of WCHC as experienced by stakeholders of the citadel wall in Huế. It hypothesises that CUD may be a useful approach for engaging with stakeholders of WCHC based on findings from the practical investigation in Huế. Significantly, it focusses on the learning and value embodied in the CUD process itself, rather than on a particular outcome of the research.
Ist der freiheitliche demokratische Staat im Recht der parteinahen Stiftungen zur Selbstparadoxierung gezwungen oder kann man ihre Förderung mit einem Wehrhafte-Demokratie-Gesetz an die freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung binden?
Creators: name: Beck, Volker
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2021

description: Mit dem Einzug neuer Parteien in den Bundestag stellt sich regelmäßig die Frage nach den Voraussetzungen für die Förderung einer parteinahen Stiftung aus dem Bundeshaushalt. Bislang gibt es neben dem Haushaltsgesetz keine gesetzliche Grundlage, die die Rechtsverhältnisse der politischen Stiftungen regelt. Mit der AfD und der Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung stellt sich nicht nur erneut die Frage, wie der Begriff Dauerhaftigkeit als Förderungsvoraussetzung zu bestimmen ist. Der Autor schlägt ein Wehrhafte-Demokratie-Gesetz (WeDG) vor, mit dem die politische Bildung des Bundes gesetzlich geregelt werden soll. Politische Bildung hat demnach den Zweck die Verankerung der freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung (FDGO) in der Bevölkerung zu stärken. Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, die parteinahen Stiftungen und die bedarfsorientierte längerfristige Finanzierung von Nichtregierungsorganisationen im Bereich der Demokratieförderung sollen eine gesetzliche Grundlage erhalten. Das Bundesverwaltungsamt führt ein Stiftungsregister, in das verfassungsphobe Stiftungen, die die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung nicht aktiv unterstützen, nicht aufgenommen bzw. daraus gestrichen werden. Die Registrierung der Stiftungen ist Voraussetzung für die Fördermöglichkeit aus dem Bundeshaushalt. Ähnliche Regelungen existieren auf Ebene der EU und in Österreich. Auf Grundlage eines solchen Gesetzes, das auch die Anforderungen des Verfassungsgerichtes an die Stiftungen gesetzlich durchbuchstabiert, soll die Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung tatsachengestützt von der Bundesförderung ausgeschlossen werden können.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2021): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Effectiveness of the use of intravenous tranexamic acid and pericervical tourniquet in decreasing peri-operative blood loss following open abdominal myomectomy: A randomized controlled trial.
Creators: name: Abdulrasheed, Lubabatu
name: Madugu, Nana Hauwa
name: Bature, Stephen Bodam
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2024

description: Background: Uterine fibroid is the most common gynaecological tumour, with a prevalence of 20% to 50% of women over 30years.Abnormal uterine bleeding is one of the most common modes of presentation with menorrhagia. Open abdominal myomectomy is the most common treatment option in our environment. It is associated with a significant degree of blood loss, with consequent blood transfusion. Thus, the need for interventions to reduce blood loss during the procedure. This study assessed the effectiveness of intravenous tranexamic acid in reducing blood loss when used as an adjunct to peri-cervical tourniquet during open abdominal myomectomy.

Methodology: This study was conducted at Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital, Kaduna. It comprised thirty-six consenting patients scheduled for elective open abdominal myomectomy, randomly assigned to receive either intravenous tranexamic acid or placebo immediately after securing intravenous access in the theatre. All the patients had a peri-cervical tourniquet applied intraoperatively. The volume of intraoperative blood loss, blood transfusion rate and the total number of units transfused, haemodynamic changes associated with blood loss, and the complications associated with the use of tranexamic acid were evaluated during the first 72hours following the surgery.

Results: A total of thirty-six women who met the eligibility criteria were studied between June 2023 and December 2023. The mean age of the participants in the tranexamic acid group was 37.82 ± 5.89 years and 39.74 ± 5.17 years in the placebo group (p = 0.307). Most of the women 35 (97.2%) presented with symptoms of menorrhagia. Major blood loss > 1000 ml was recorded more among women in the placebo group than those who received tranexamic acid. There was a statistically significant reduction in the mean blood loss in the tranexamic acid group 947.65 ± 451.88 compared to 1320.53 ± 563.28. (p 0.037).
There was an increase in the number of women who received a blood transfusion in the placebo group 7 (36.8%) compared to the tranexamic acid group 4 (23.5%) (p=0.387). Tranexamic acid resulted in a decrease in the risk of perioperative blood loss by 30%, RR 0.7 95% CI (2.19-2.59) and packed cell volume was significantly lower in the control group postoperatively (P value = .001). There was no significant side effect noticed in both groups.

Conclusion: Tranexamic acid reduces blood loss during and after myomectomy for patients with uterine fibroids and the need for blood transfusion is reduced in patients who had intravenous tranexamic acid as an adjunct to the application of a tourniquet.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024): July to August
Prevalence and predictors of severe pain among patients with orofacial pain in a Nigerian Tertiary health facility
Creators: name: Amuh, Veronica Obianuju
name: Edetanlen, Benlance Ekaniyere
name: Omere, Hilda Itsemekpe
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2024

description: Background: Although several studies on the pattern of oro-facial pain have been reported, none have been reported on the prevalence and risk factors of severe oro-facial pain. This study aims to determine the prevalence and predictors of severe oro-facial pain among patients in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.

Methodology: The prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department of Oral Diagnosis of a Nigerian tertiary hospital from January to December 2023 on all consecutive patients who presented to the centre with orofacial pains. The data collected were age, gender, occupation, level of education and marital status. Other data collected were ethnicity, smoking, alcohol intake, location of pain, causes of pain, and pain severity. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were performed. All data were analysed with SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, US). A p-value less than 0.05 was considered significant.

Results: The age range was 17-85 years with a mean age of 36.6 ±16.7 years. Almost two-thirds (64.1%) of the patients were females. Most (46.1%) of the patients were skilled workers. Almost half (48%) of the recruited patients were single. The prevalence of severe pain among patients with orofacial pain was 45.3%. There was no relationship between sociodemographic factors and the prevalence of severe orofacial pain except the ethnicity of the patients (p = 0.012). There was no association between clinical factors and severe orofacial pain (p>0.05).

Conclusion: The prevalence of severe pain among patients with orofacial pain was relatively high and this severity was only influenced by their ethnicity. It is therefore recommended that a high index of attention is given to orofacial pain patients and a reduction of waiting time for the same individuals.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024): July to August
„Du musst deinem Volke dienen mit deiner Lebensführung“
Creators: name: Oelrichs, Nick
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Berufsschule
subject: Nationalsozialismus
subject: Jugend
subject: Antisemitismus
subject: generationale Ordnung
subject: Zeitschrift
subject: Feierabend
subject: Berufsschullehrer
subject: Vocational Schools
subject: National Socialism
subject: Youth
subject: Antisemitism
subject: School Magazine
subject: Vocational School Teacher
subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung
subject: 373 Sekundarbildung
subject: 073 Journalismus und Zeitungen in Mitteleuropa; in Deutschland
subject: 943 Geschichte Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit „Jugend“ in Nationalsozialismus-Propaganda bedeutet immer, sich der Doppelbödigkeit des Konzepts gewahr zu werden: Zum einen geht es um die tatsächliche junge Generation zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein, die als kommende Generation der Nationalsozialist*innen besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Zum anderen ist die Beschäftigung mit Jugend auch die Beschäftigung mit den NS-Idealbildern, da die Nationalsozialist*innen sich selbst als „neue Generation“ sahen und auch der Typus des „neu-en“, „nordisch-arischen“ Menschen immer als „jung“ dargestellt wurde und im Gegensatz zu allen und allem Alten. Für Reichsjugendführer Schirach ist es dann auch das „ewig Junge“, das Bestand haben soll im NS. Aus den Vorstellungen des NS über die Erziehung der Jugend lassen sich also möglicherweise am besten deren Zukunftsvisionen ableiten, die für das gesamte „Volk“ Geltung haben sollten. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll sich in diesem Zusammenhang mit den Konstruktionen von Jugend in der Berufsschul-Zeitschrift „Feierabend“ des Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbundes in den Jahrgängen 26 &27 (1935-1937) beschäftigen – in einer Periode des NS-Staates, die oft als „Etappe des gefestigten NS-Regimes“ eingeordnet wird. Hierfür soll zunächst das Forschungsobjekt knapp skizziert und dann bereits erfolgte und mögliche Zugänge einschlägiger Wissenschaftsdisziplinen beschrieben werden, bevor die beiden Zeitschriftenjahrgänge detailliert hinsichtlich der Fragestellung nach Jugendkonstruktionen analysiert werden. Die Berufsschul-Jugend wird in der NS-Ideologie des NSLB vor allem durch Abgrenzung und Abwertung als "völkisch", "schaffend", "männlich/weiblich" und "sportlich" konstruiert - jedoch nicht ohne Widersprüche.
description: This thesis aims to analyze the constructions of "Youth" that is found in the Vocational Teachers' Magazine "Feierabend" from 1935-1937, which was distributed in all Vocational Education Facilities in National-socialist Germany. In an intersectional approach, youth in NS-ideology can be reconstructed as "völkisch", "schaffend", "männlich"/"weiblich" and sportif. This is the first broad analysis of the magazine's issues in this shaping time.
Crossover from dilute-Kondo system to heavy-fermion system
Creators: name: Watanabe, Hiroshi
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ground state properties of a Kondo lattice model with random configuration of $f$ electrons are investigated with a variational Monte Carlo method. We show that the crossover from a dilute-Kondo system to a heavy-fermion system occurs when the density of $c$ and $f$ electrons ($n_c$, $n_f$) become comparable, $n_f\lesssim n_c$. In the heavy-fermion region, the correlation between $f$ electrons is strong and the $f$ electrons themselves greatly contribute to the screening of other $f$-electron moments. We propose that the character of Kondo screening changes from "individual" to "collective" across the crossover.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Investigation of Aircraft Accident: AMERICAN AIRLINES: L.A. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: 1957-08-21
Creators: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Year: 1957
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90718
subject: Crash analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90683
subject: Crash causes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90697
subject: Crash characteristics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90719
subject: Crash investigation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90647
subject: Crash types
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87909
subject: Air transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90648
subject: Air transportation crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91987
subject: Airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90596
subject: Aviation safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90771
subject: Casualties
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92063
subject: Civil aviation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90773
subject: Injury rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90774
subject: Injury severity
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91785
subject: Passengers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90757
subject: Fires

description: Civil Aeronautics Board
Diffraction from the beta-sheet crystallites in spider silk
Creators: name: Ulrich, Stephan
name: Glišović, Anja
name: Salditt, Tim
name: Zippelius, Annette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the wide angle x-ray scattering from oriented spider silk fibers in terms of a quantitative scattering model, including both structural and statistical parameters of the $β$-sheet crystallites of spider silk in the amorphous matrix. The model is based on kinematic scattering theory and allows for rather general correlations of the positional and orientational degrees of freedom, including the crystallite's size, composition and dimension of the unit cell. The model is evaluated numerically and compared to experimental scattering intensities allowing us to extract the geometric and statistical parameters. We show explicitly that for the experimentally found mosaicity (width of the orientational distribution) inter-crystallite effects are negligible and the data can be analyzed in terms of single crystallite scattering, as is usually assumed in the literature.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, on average 0.93 figures per page
Casimir force on amplifying bodies
Creators: name: Sambale, Agnes
name: Welsch, Dirk-Gunnar
name: Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
name: Dung, Ho Trung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a unified approach to macroscopic QED that allows for the inclusion of amplification in a limited space and frequency range, we study the Casimir force as a Lorentz force on an arbitrary partially amplifying system of linearly locally responding (isotropic) magnetoelectric bodies. We demonstrate that the force on a weakly polarisable/magnetisable amplifying object in the presence of a purely absorbing environment can be expressed as a sum over the Casimir--Polder forces on the excited atoms inside the body. As an example, the resonant force between a plate consisting of a dilute gas of excited atoms and a perfect mirror is calculated.
Machines cannot think
Creators: name: Gell, Robert George
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This paper is a critical essay on the question "Can machines think?", with particular attention paid to the articles appearing in an anthology Minds and Machines, A. R. Anderson editor. The general conclusion of this paper is that those arguments which have been advanced to show that machines can think are inconclusive. I begin by examining rather closely a paper by Hilary Putnam called "Minds and Machines" in which he argues that the traditional mind-body problem can arise with a complex cybernetic machine. My argument against Putnam's is that either there are no problems with computers which are analogous to the ones raised by mental states, or where there are problems with machines, these problems do not have at bottom the same difficulties that human experiences raises. I then continue by showing that a cybernetic machine is an instantiation of a formal system. This leads to a discussion of the relationship between formality and predictability in which I try to show that some types of machine are in principle predictable. In the next section I attempt to prove that any discussion of outward signs of imitative behavior presupposes that some linguistic theory, such as a type reduction, has been substantiated. The force of this argument is that such a theory has not in fact been substantiated. I offer some general theory about the complexity of concept-property relations. Finally I give a demonstration that no test or set of tests can be found that will be logically sufficient for the ascription of the concept "capable of thought." If this is successful, then I have shown that no test can be found, which when a machine is built to pass it, is logically adequate for saying that that .machine can think. This argument is offered as further criticism of the Imitation Game which A. M. Turing proposed as an adequate test for thinking subjects. Besides the specific conclusion that insufficient evidence, has been offered to say that machines can think, this paper offers a more general conclusion that most standard problems have at bottom a linguistic difficulty. However, this general conclusion is a broad speculative one to which the work in this paper, is only a small exemplification and as such reflects mainly the further ambitions of the author.
Morphological evidence for paraphyly of Holopothrips Hood (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), a Neotropical genus of gall-inducing thrips
Creators: name: Lindner, Mariana F.
name: Ferrari, Augusto
name: Cavalleri, Adriano
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Holopothrips is a diverse group of thrips associated to galls in the Neotropics, with a variety of host plants and wide morphological diversity. Relationships to other Neotropical groups have been proposed, but are still untested, and the monophyly of the genus remains doubtful. Here, we perform a phylogenetic analysis of Holopothrips, based on morphological characters. A total of 87 species were included in the matrix and eight analyses were carried out, but all of them failed to recover Holopothrips as a monophyletic grouping. Bremer and Bootstrap support values were low, and the topologies varied among all analyses, with uncertain internal relations for the ingroup. These results indicate that the relationships for Holopothrips species, and the proposed related genera, are more complex than previously reported; and morphological characters may not be enough to recover the evolutionary story within this group. We also discuss the influences of different character coding, continuous characters and weighting schemes in our results.
KING & Cie. - Wollishofer Blog
Creators: name: Brändli, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 338 Produktion
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Zürich-Wollishofen
subject: King und Co., AG., Maschinenfabrik (Zürich)
subject: Fabrik
subject: Unternehmensgeschichte
subject: Maschinenbauindustrie

description: Ein Blog zu Geschichte und Quartierleben des Zürcher Stadtquartiers Wollishofen auf wollipedia.ch. Mit Texten von Sebastian Brändli (SB) und Ansichtskarten aus der Sammlung von Markus Zimmermann (MZ).
LQG propagator from the new spin foams
Creators: name: Bianchi, Eugenio
name: Magliaro, Elena
name: Perini, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute metric correlations in loop quantum gravity with the dynamics defined by the new spin foam models. The analysis is done at the lowest order in a vertex expansion and at the leading order in a large spin expansion. The result is compared to the graviton propagator of perturbative quantum gravity.
description: 28 pages
title: Investigation of Aircraft Accident: HYCAN AERIAL SURVEYS: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: 1957-08-23
Creators: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Year: 1957
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90718
subject: Crash analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90683
subject: Crash causes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90697
subject: Crash characteristics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90719
subject: Crash investigation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90647
subject: Crash types
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87909
subject: Air transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90648
subject: Air transportation crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91987
subject: Airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90596
subject: Aviation safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90771
subject: Casualties
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92063
subject: Civil aviation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90773
subject: Injury rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90774
subject: Injury severity
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91785
subject: Passengers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90757
subject: Fires

description: Civil Aeronautics Board
A competitive game whose maximal Nash-equilibrium payoff requires quantum resources for its achievement
Creators: name: Hill, Charles D.
name: Flitney, Adrian P.
name: Menicucci, Nicolas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While it is known that shared quantum entanglement can offer improved solutions to a number of purely cooperative tasks for groups of remote agents, controversy remains regarding the legitimacy of quantum games in a competitive setting--in particular, whether they offer any advantage beyond what is achievable using classical resources. We construct a competitive game between four players based on the minority game where the maximal Nash-equilibrium payoff when played with the appropriate quantum resource is greater than that obtainable by classical means, assuming a local hidden variable model. The game is constructed in a manner analogous to a Bell inequality. This result is important in confirming the legitimacy of quantum games.
description: 8 pages, revtex4
Obesity Defining Criteria, and Association with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among People Living with HIV in Jos, Nigeria.
Creators: name: Imoh, Lucius
name: Selowo, Temitope
name: Olaniru, Olumide
name: Abene, Esala
name: Gimba, Zumnan
name: Davwar, Pantong
name: Shehu, Nathan
name: Onubi, Jeremiah
name: Isichei, Christian
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2024

description: Background: Obesity is linked to non-communicable conditions. We looked at obesity using four definable criteria and their relationship to biochemical and inflammatory indicators of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in people living with HIV (PLHIV).

Methodology: This cross-sectional study involved 140 randomly selected HIV-infected patients attending HIV clinics at the Jos University Teaching Hospital and Faith Alive Foundation in Jos, Nigeria. Anthropometric measurements such as height, weight, waist circumference, and hip circumference were taken to identify those with obesity. Fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, High-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP), and HIV-related markers were evaluated.

Result: The mean (SD) age of the participants was 42.5 (8.8) years, and the majority (71.4%) were females. The prevalence of Obesity based on Body-Mass-Index (BMI), International Diabetes Federation (IDF), Adult Treatment Panel (ATP), and Waist-Hip-Ratio (WHR) criteria were 18.6%, 50.7% 34.3%, and 45.7% respectively. Obesity concordance among the criteria for obesity was highest between IDF and ATP (Kappa= 0.673, p<0.001); and least between BMI vs WHR (Kappa= 0.124, p<0.073). Only 9.3% had obesity by all 4 criteria. BMI was independently associated with hypertension but not glycaemic status nor dyslipidaemia while Obesity by WHR was significantly associated with hypertension and dyslipidaemia, after adjusting for age and sex. There was no significant association between Obesity by all the criteria and HIV-related parameters such as duration of HIV infection, Antiretroviral (ARV) use, and CD4 counts (p>0.05).

Conclusion: Our study urges a unified assessment of obesity and a more prominent use of parameters of central obesity, for assessing cardiovascular risk in PLHIV.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024): July to August
Photometric redshift accuracy in AKARI Deep Surveys
Creators: name: Negrello, M.
name: Serjeant, S.
name: Pearson, C.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Efstathiou, A.
name: Goto, T.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Jeong, W. -S.
name: Im, M.
name: Lee, H. M.
name: Matsuhara, H.
name: Oyabu, S.
name: Wada, T.
name: White, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the photometric redshift accuracy achievable with the AKARI infrared data in deep multi-band surveys, such as in the North Ecliptic Pole field. We demonstrate that the passage of redshifted policyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and silicate features into the mid-infrared wavelength window covered by AKARI is a valuable means to recover the redshifts of starburst galaxies. To this end we have collected a sample of ~60 galaxies drawn from the GOODS-North Field with spectroscopic redshift 0.5
description: 27 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication on MNRAS
Living with Scepticism
Creators: name: Tacca, Alessio
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: History of philosophy
Epistemology
Metaphysics

description: In this work I argue for the unavoidability of the sceptical challenge and I outline a way to live with scepticism instead of attempting to refute it altogether. First I elucidate the way scepticism should be understood by looking at Sextus’ Pyrrhonism as the seminal sceptical position. Here I suggest that scepticism is not a position in the usual sense, namely a thesis that can be supported or rejected with arguments. On the contrary, scepticism is an attitude, a method of enquiry that favours constant research over dogmatic conclusions. This sets the scene for a consideration of attacks on scepticism. After having considered some approaches to refute scepticism (fallibilism and contextualism) and shown that they fail primarily because they misinterpret the sceptic’s intent, I venture to consider how a sceptic might live their scepticism. Indeed, if scepticism is unavoidable, then not only the sceptic but any enquirer is presented with the challenge of finding a way to live with scepticism (or despite it). I identify in Hume the best attempt to formulate a solution that takes scepticism seriously. His standpoint is a general acceptance of scepticism. Therefore, his efforts point towards the formulation of a solution to live with it instead of dismissing it. His view, I argue, presents a combination of sceptical and naturalist elements. After having emphasised the similarities between Hume’s view and Sextus’, often underestimated by the literature, I turn to consider naturalism in more detail. In particular, I focus on the issue of normativity in a naturalistic picture of knowledge. I then conclude that Hume’s naturalism is better conceived within the context of his sceptical approach. This means that his naturalism is primarily motivated by practical–even perhaps proto-pragmatic–concerns and deliberately does not constitute a rejection or a solution to the problem of scepticism, but a way to live with it.
title: Investigation of Aircraft Accident: NORTHEAST AIRLINES: NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS: 1957-09-15
Creators: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Year: 1957
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90718
subject: Crash analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90683
subject: Crash causes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90697
subject: Crash characteristics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90719
subject: Crash investigation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90647
subject: Crash types
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87909
subject: Air transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90648
subject: Air transportation crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91987
subject: Airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90596
subject: Aviation safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90771
subject: Casualties
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92063
subject: Civil aviation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90773
subject: Injury rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90774
subject: Injury severity
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91785
subject: Passengers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90757
subject: Fires

description: Civil Aeronautics Board
MEASURING THE INFLUENCE OF ECO-LABELLING ON PRODUCT CHOICE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE ROLE OF CERTIFICATION SYMBOLS IN GREEN MARKETING IN INDIA
Creators: name: SHAHNAZUDDIN
name: UMA DEVI M
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Eco-labelling, Green Marketing Strategies, Certification Symbols, Environmental Sustainability, Consumer Behavior.

description: Abstract

As global environmental concerns continue to rise, the significance of eco-labelling and certification symbols in green marketing becomes increasingly evident. This empirical study explores the impact of certification symbols and eco-labelling on consumers' product choices in the context of green marketing within the dynamic and diverse market of India. The research is driven by the need to better understand the factors that influence consumers' decisions when choosing eco-friendly products. Through a combination of surveys and data analysis, this study investigates the influence of certification symbols and eco-labelling on consumer preferences in India. It hypothesizes that products bearing eco-labels and prominent certification symbols are more likely to be favoured by Indian consumers who are increasingly conscious of environmental sustainability. Factors such as cultural and regional variations, consumer awareness, and the prominence of other decision-making factors like price and quality will be considered in the analysis. This study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how certification symbols and eco-labelling play a pivotal role in guiding consumer choices in a diverse and environmentally conscious market like India. The findings from this research can have significant implications for businesses, policymakers, and marketers aiming to promote sustainable products in India. Additionally, the study contributes to the broader body of knowledge on green marketing and consumer behavior, offering insights into strategies that can be employed to encourage sustainable consumption in emerging markets like India.
Visualization of Mined Pattern and Its Human Aspects
Creators: name: Jain, Ratnesh Kumar
name: Jain, Dr. Suresh
name: Kasana, Dr. R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Researchers got success in mining the Web usage data effectively and efficiently. But representation of the mined patterns is often not in a form suitable for direct human consumption. Hence mechanisms and tools that can represent mined patterns in easily understandable format are utilized. Different techniques are used for pattern analysis, one of them is visualization. Visualization can provide valuable assistance for data analysis and decision making tasks. In the data visualization process, technical representations of web pages are replaced by user attractive text interpretations. Experiments with the real world problems showed that the visualization can significantly increase the quality and usefulness of web log mining results. However, how decision makers perceive and interact with a visual representation can strongly influence their understanding of the data as well as the usefulness of the visual presentation. Human factors therefore contribute significantly to the visualization process and should play an important role in the design and evaluation of visualization tools. This electronic document is a live template. The various components of your paper, title, text, heads, etc., are already defined on the style sheet, as illustrated by the portions given in this document.
description: 7 pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, Impact Factor 0.423, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Brasilien und das Parteiensystem: Reformen und Kontinuität
Creators: name: Krause, Silvana
name: Corrêa, Carolina Pimentel
name: Schaefer, Bruno Marques
name: Barbosa, Tiago Alexandre Leme
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2021

description: Vor allem seit dem Amtsenthebungsverfahren von Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff im Jahr 2016 ist eine zunehmende politische Instabilität in Brasilien zu verzeichnen. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte das Land noch nie so lange in einer Demokratie gelebt, doch angesichts der sich abzeichnenden akuten Schwachstellen entfachte sich erneut eine Diskussion über die Notwendigkeit, Anpassungen am politischen System vorzunehmen. Die angestrebten Veränderungen bezogen sich auf die Wahlen von 2018 und die Regierungsfähigkeit des nächsten gewählten Präsidenten. Auf der Grundlage einer empirischen Bewertung der 2017 vom brasilianischen Kongress verabschiedeten Minireform analysiert der Beitrag Daten der brasilianischen Wahlen auf Bundesebene und Ebene der Bundesstaaten (eleições gerais) von 2014 und 2018 sowie der Kommunalwahlen von 2016 und 2020. Ziel der Untersuchung ist, die Folgen der (Mini-)Wahlreform von 2017 auf das Parteiensystem zu untersuchen und die Auswirkungen auf den politischen Wettbewerb im Hinblick auf drei Aspekte zu prüfen: 1) die Auswirkungen der 2018 eingeführten Leistungsklausel (cláusula de desempenho), die auch als Sperrklausel bezeichnet wird, aber nicht wirklich der deutschen Klausel entspricht, da sie den Zugang zur Finanzierung einschränkt, aber nicht die Repräsentation im brasilianischen Parlament, 2) die Auswirkungen des Verbots von Wahlkoalitionen bei Verhältniswahlen auf kommunaler Eben (coligações proporcionais) und 3) die neuen Regeln der Wahlkampffinanzierung.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2021): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Spin dynamics of electrons in the first excited subband of a high-mobility low-density 2D electron system
Creators: name: Luo, Haihui
name: Qian, Xuan
name: Ruan, Xuezhong
name: Ji, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements of spin coherence of electrons in the first excited subband of a high-mobility low-density two-dimensional electron system in a GaAs/Al0.35Ga0.65As heterostructure. While the transverse spin lifetime (T2*) of electrons decreases monotonically with increasing magnetic field, it has a non-monotonic dependence on the temperature, with a peak value of 596 ps at 36 K, indicating the effect of inter-subband electron-electron scattering on the electron spin relaxation. The spin lifetime may be long enough for potential device application with electrons in excited subbands.
Genital tuberculosis masquerading as hematometra in an adolescent girl with an acute abdomen: A case report
Creators: name: Marwaha, Poojan Dogra
name: Malik, Nisha
name: Bhavna, Bhavna
name: Kaundal, Asmita
name: Kaushal, Sushruti
Publisher: name: Nigerian Medical Journal
Year: 2024

description: Childhood and adolescent TB is a silent epidemic. The occurrence of genital tuberculosis (TB) in adolescent girls is rare. This condition is easily misdiagnosed owing to its non-specific clinical presentation that mimics different gynecological or non-gynecological pathologies. We present an unusual case of genital TB in an 11-year-old girl with an acute abdomen, where the clinical and radiological findings contributed to the diagnostic confusion with hematometra. This case highlights a rare case of genital TB in a teenage girl, and its clinical and diagnostic complexities, emphasizing the importance of considering TB as a differential in all cases of pelvic masses in high-burden settings. This case also exemplifies the need for a multidisciplinary approach to facilitate timely diagnosis and treatment to prevent the devastating effects of genital TB on the reproductive health of young girls.
description: Nigerian Medical Journal, Vol. 65 No. 4 (2024): July to August
title: Investigation of Aircraft Accident: PIEDMONT AIRLINES: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA: 1957-10-02
Creators: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher: name: Civil Aeronautics Board
Year: 1957
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90718
subject: Crash analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90683
subject: Crash causes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90697
subject: Crash characteristics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90719
subject: Crash investigation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90647
subject: Crash types
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87909
subject: Air transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90648
subject: Air transportation crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91987
subject: Airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90596
subject: Aviation safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90771
subject: Casualties
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92063
subject: Civil aviation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90773
subject: Injury rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90774
subject: Injury severity
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91785
subject: Passengers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90757
subject: Fires

description: Civil Aeronautics Board
Parteienrecht in Spanien. Eine Perspektive
Creators: name: Salvador Martínez, María
name: Alguacil González-Aurioles, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2021

description: Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über das Parteienrecht in Spanien, seinen historischen Hintergrund und seine verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen, die Entwicklung der Parteiengesetze und die zentralen Elemente der rechtlichen Regulierung des Parteiwesens (Gründung, interne Ordnung, Finanzierung, Auflösung und Kontrolle).
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2021): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Verfassungsprobleme des italienischen Parteienrechts
Creators: name: Caterina, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften
Year: 2021

description: Das italienische Parteienrecht ist in der Entwicklung und die allenthalben übliche Unbeweglichkeit des Gesetzgebers auf diesem Gebiet kollidiert mit zwei Bedürfnissen: Ein Parteiengesetz zu schaffen, dass nicht nur eine Beschränkung, sondern auch eine Garantie für die Freiheit der Parteien selbst sein kann und einen praktischen Bedarf an Finanzmitteln zu befriedigen, obgleich eine Rückkehr zur staatlichen direkten Finanzierung nach der gerade erst vollzogenen Abkehr von einem System der (auch) öffentlichen Parteienfinanzierung nicht opportun ist. Der Beitrag setzt sich mit den Problemen und den Chancen einer künftigen Weiterentwicklung des italienischen Parteienrechts auseinander und beleuchtet insbesondere auch die Rolle näher, die der italienische Verfassungsgerichtshof dabei spielen könnte.
description: Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften, Nr. 2 (2021): Zeitschrift für Parteienwissenschaften