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Dialogue as practice and understanding in contemporary art
Creators: name: Hammersley, John
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art theory

description: This study investigates how social constructionist dialogue as art demonstrates a layered mode of practical inquiry, which weaves together interactive and explorative, re-presentational and reflective modes of dialogue in the performance of knowledge. Recent art debates present dialogue as a relational, collaborative and situated mode of meaning-making, and an alternative to traditional constraining frameworks of art. However, artists have been criticised for idealised interpretations of dialogue, which present it as something essentially good and democratic, for insufficiently scrutinising dialogical relationships, and for not providing adequate process accounts for secondary audiences. This study's multi-layered performance of knowledge draws on thematic insights developed through fourteen interviews and five field conversation artworks from 2008 onwards. Research material from conversational encounters was combined and presented as three constructed written dialogues, which reflect the tensions and questions that emerge out of enacting such a layered mode of dialogue as art. These tensions are re-presented, and discussed in three central thematic chapters, which frame these themes as issues of context, competing characteristics of meaningmaking and relating. The constructed written dialogues provide a platform for further discussion and reflective analysis, which in turn are proposed as an invitation to continued dialogue and socially grounded interaction. The central implication of this study's contribution to knowledge is that such an approach to practice-led inquiry articulates how dialogue may contribute to the increasing shift in critical art practices towards to more imbricated, uncertain, and performative approaches to knowledge, and provide an alternative to essentialised and foundationalist interpretations of dialogue.
No anomalous scaling in electrostatic calibrations for Casimir force measurements
Creators: name: de Man, S.
name: Heeck, K.
name: Iannuzzi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (Phys.Rev.A78, 020101(R) (2008)), Kim at al. have reported a large anomaly in the scaling law of the electrostatic interaction between a sphere and a plate, which was observed during the calibration of their Casimir force set-up. Here we experimentally demonstrate that in proper electrostatic calibrations the scaling law follows the behavior expected from elementary electrostatic arguments, even when the electrostatic voltage that one must apply to minimize the force (typically ascribed to contact potentials) depends on the separation between the surfaces.
description: Final version
Entwicklungstendenzen im österreichischen Wettkampfbodybuilding
Creators: name: Hölzl, Johannes
Year: 2012

description: The objective of this master thesis is to take an in dept look at the sociological approach of sport sciences to the development of bodybuilding, with a focus on bodybuilding as competitive sport in austria. Luhmann’s Systemtheory (1984) is used as a basis to study bodybuilding as a functional differentiated (?) system of sports. Additionally experts on the sport were interviewed. Through this approach it is possible to point out relevant developments in the scoiety, as well as the organization and interaction in bodybuilding. The impact of trends such as erotizisation, individualization, technization, tendencies of extremism and globalization on bodybuilding is demonstrated. Further research focuses were the differentiation of the sport, demographic development, the topic of doping abuse as well as structural linking.
description: Ziel der Arbeit ist es, das Phänomen der Entwicklung der Sportart Bodybuilding, fokussiert auf den österreichischen Leistungssport, aus sportsoziologischer Perspektive zu betrachten. Bodybuilding wird dabei anhand der Luhmannschen Systemtheorie (1984) als funktional differenziertes Sportartensystem betrachtet und mithilfe von Experteninterviews untersucht. Relevante Entwicklungen in der Gesellschaft, sowie der Organisation und Interaktion im Bodybuildingsport können so aufgezeigt werden. Die Trends der Erotisierung, Individualisierung, Technisierung, Extremisierung und Globalisierung werden in ihren Auswirkungen im Bodybuilding nachgewiesen und systemtheoretische Zusammenhänge in der Entwicklung der Sportart aufgezeigt. Die Ausdifferenzierung der Sportart, Demografische Entwicklung, Umgang mit der Dopingthematik und strukturelle Kopplung sind weitere Forschungsschwerpunkte.
Developing and Testing a Next Generation Energy Management System
Creators: Marta Marmiroli
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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An energy management system (EMS) is an essential function needed to increase energy efficiency and to optimally coordinate several energy sources. A large number of systems have been proposed, but not all have the same objectives or technologies. After a classification and definition of EMS, several systems were integrated and tested to understand possible applications and their advantages.
Impedance calculation of cables using subdivisions of the cable conductors
Creators: name: Abledu, Kodzo Obed
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The impedances of cables are some of the parameters needed for various studies in cable systems. In this work, the impedances of cables are calculated using the subdivisions of the conductors (including ground) in the system. Use is also made of analytically derived ground return formulae to speed up the calculations. The impedances of most linear materials are calculated with a good degree of accuracy but materials with highly nonlinear properties, like steel pipes, give large deviations in the results when they are represented by the linear model used. The method is used to study a test case of induced sheath currents in bonded sheaths and it gives very good results when compared with the measured values.
A simple mechanism for the reversals of Earth's magnetic field
Creators: name: Petrelis, F.
name: Fauve, S.
name: Dormy, E.
name: Valet, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a model, recently used to describe all the dynamical regimes of the magnetic field generated by the dynamo effect in the VKS experiment [1], also provides a simple explanation of the reversals of Earth's magnetic field, despite strong differences between both systems.
description: update version, with new figures
Das österreichische Sozialrechtsverfahren; eine rechtliche Analyse mit vergleichenden Betrachtungen zu Großbritannien und Schweden
Creators: name: Tatzberger, Manuel
Year: 2012

description: Die Arbeit befasst sich vordergründig mit dem österreichischen Sozialrechtsverfahren, und wird versuchen einen groben Überblick über die in der Praxis  derzeit bestehenden Probleme zu geben. Dafür sollen zunächst die Grundsätze des Sozialrechtsverfahrens, die herrschende Literatur sowie einschlägige Rechtsprechung skizziert werden, um einen besseren Einblick in die Problemfelder geben zu können.  Die Dissertation soll sich allerdings nicht nur darauf beschränken, die Grundsätze und Probleme des österreichischen Sozialrechtsverfahrens darzustellen, sondern möchte insbesondere über das österreichische Verfahrensrecht hinaus sehen und einen Einblick in die Sozialgerichtsbarkeit von zwei anderen europäischen Staaten geben. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wird daher ein wesentlicher Schwerpunkt auf der rechtsvergleichenden Darstellung der österreichischen, schwedischen und britischen Sozialgerichtsbarkeit liegen.
Als eigentliches Ziel der Arbeit sollen jedoch Reformüberlegungen angestellt werden, mit der die wachsende Verfahrensanzahl nicht nur gestoppt oder verringert, sondern auch die Verfahrensqualität an sich verbessert werden kann. Längst zeigt es sich in der gerichtlichen Praxis, dass einige Bestimmungen nicht mehr zeitgemäß sind bzw überhaupt gestrichen gehören. In diesem Zusammenhang wird daher ein besonderes Augenmerk auf der in der Vergangenheit immer wieder kritisierten Laiengerichtsbarkeit liegen.
Weitere Überlegungen werden sich noch mit dem Beweisverfahren beschäftigen. Hierbei sollen Maßnahmen aufgezeigt werden, welche eine weitere Verfahrensbeschleunigung bewirken könnten, ohne dass darunter die Verfahrensgrundsätze des Sozialrechtsverfahrens angetastet werden. Die erst in der jüngsten Vergangenheit eingeführte Neuregelung bei den Pensionsverfahren wegen geminderter Arbeitsfähigkeit erscheint nicht weitgehend genug. Die vorliegende Arbeit möchte daher insbesondere Denkanstöße für etwaig zukünftige Reformbestrebungen geben.
Electrical detection of spin pumping: dc voltage generated by ferromagnetic resonance at ferromagnet/nonmagnet contact
Creators: name: Costache, M. V.
name: Watts, S. M.
name: van der Wal, C. H.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe electrical detection of spin pumping in metallic nanostructures. In the spin pumping effect, a precessing ferromagnet attached to a normal-metal acts as a pump of spin-polarized current, giving rise to a spin accumulation. The resulting spin accumulation induces a backflow of spin current into the ferromagnet and generates a dc voltage due to the spin dependent conductivities of the ferromagnet. The magnitude of such voltage is proportional to the spin-relaxation properties of the normal-metal. By using platinum as a contact material we observe, in agreement with theory, that the voltage is significantly reduced as compared to the case when aluminum was used. Furtheremore, the effects of rectification between the circulating rf currents and the magnetization precession of the ferromagnet are examined. Most significantly, we show that using an improved layout device geometry these effects can be minimized.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
A Simple Flavor Protection for RS
Creators: name: Csaki, Csaba
name: Falkowski, Adam
name: Weiler, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple variation of warped flavor models where the hierarchies of fermion masses and mixings are still explained but dangerous flavor violating effects in the Kaon sector are greatly reduced. The key new ingredients are two horizontal U(1) symmetries. These symmetries forbid flavor violation in the down quark sector (with the exception of small IR brane localized kinetic mixing terms for the left-handed quarks) while allowing for flavor violation in the up quark sector. The leading flavor constraints come from D - anti-D mixing, and are safely satisfied for the KK mass scale of order 3 TeV. Our analysis of the flavor constraints also includes the constraints due to the (usually ignored) localized kinetic mixing terms. We also comment on the effects of the additional U(1) gauge bosons.
description: 15 pages
Zu den Rollen des Spanischen und des Baskischen in den Institutionen von Euskadi
Creators: name: Karlsson, Claudia Maria
Year: 2013

description: Diese Arbeit betrachtet die Koexistenz des Baskischen und des Spanischen im Schulwesen, an der Universität und in der öffentlichen Verwaltung und versucht Entwicklungen darzustellen.
Searching for non-Gaussianity in the WMAP data
Creators: name: Bernui, A.
name: Reboucas, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some analyses of recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data have provided hints that there are deviations from Gaussianity in the WMAP CMB temperature fluctuations. Given the far reaching consequences of such a non-Gaussianity for our understanding of the physics of the early universe, it is important to employ alternative indicators in order to determine whether the reported non-Gaussianity is of cosmological origin, and/or extract further information that may be helpful for identifying its causes. We propose two new non-Gaussianity indicators, based on skewness and kurtosis of large-angle patches of CMB maps, which provide a measure of departure from Gaussianity on large angular scales. A distinctive feature of these indicators is that they provide sky maps of non-Gaussianity of the CMB temperature data, thus allowing a possible additional window into their origins. Using these indicators, we find no significant deviation from Gaussianity in the three and five-year WMAP ILC map with KQ75 mask, while the ILC unmasked map exhibit deviation from Gaussianity, quantifying therefore the WMAP team recommendation to employ the new mask KQ75 for tests of Gaussianity. We also use our indicators to test for Gaussianity the single frequency foreground unremoved WMAP three and five-year maps, and show that the K and Ka maps exhibit clear indication of deviation from Gaussianity even with the KQ75 mask. We show that our findings are robust with respect to the details of the method.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. v2: To appear in Phys.Rev.D in the present form. Confrontation with WMAP data (Sec.III) substantially improved: statistical analyses refined, frequency-band maps included, new figs. and tables. References updated and added
Die Transformation der Römischen Welt und die Rolle der Barbaren im frühen Mittelalter am Beispiel von Ammianus Marcellinus, Orosius und Jordanes
Creators: name: Nezbeda, Maria
Year: 2012

description: Inhalt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist der exemplarische Vergleich dreier historiographischer Werke aus der Zeit des 4. bis 6. Jahrhunderts. Namentlich handelt es sich bei den verwendeten Quellen um die Res gestae des spätantiken und heidnischen Historikers Ammianus Marcellinus, um die Historiae adversum paganos des Kirchenhistorikers Paulus Orosius sowie um die Getica des Jordanes bzw. Cassiodor. In der Hauptsache wird in der Arbeit der Versuch unternommen, die verschiedenen Barbarentopoi und –darstellungen aufzuzeigen, die in den Quellentexten angeführt werden. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele soll besonders die Heterogenität des spätantiken bzw. frühmittelalterlichen Barbarenbildes hervorgehoben werden.
Ferner werden die Quellentexte hinsichtlich der Intention des Autors und seines jeweiligen Weltbildes  interpretiert. Im Detail zeigt die Arbeit einzelne Episoden auf, anhand derer gesellschaftspolitische, ideologische und religiöse Themen angeschnitten werden, die typisch sind für diese instabile Zeit während des Übergangs von der Antike zum Frühmittelalter.
Additional file 4 of Fine-mapping of a putative glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene responsible for yellow seed colour in flax (Linum usitatissimum)
Creators: name: Young, Lester
name: Akhov, Leonid
name: Kulkarni, Manoj
name: You, Frank
name: Booker, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Data S1. Markers and genotypes of S95407 × CDC Bethune RIL population segregating for yellow seed coat colour. The first 94 lines in the population were phenotyped using the SSR markers (Lu69 and Lu442) and KASP markers (KASP5-26). These lines plus an additionaly 94 lines were genotyped using KASP28. Phenotype a = yellow seed coat colour, b = brown seed coat colour. For genotype data h = heterozygote and – = missing data.
Boundary driven waveguide arrays: Supratransmission and saddle-node bifurcation
Creators: name: Susanto, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this report, we consider a semi-infinite discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation driven at one edge by a driving force. The equation models the dynamics of coupled waveguide arrays. When the frequency of the forcing is in the allowed-band of the system, there will be a linear transmission of energy through the lattice. Yet, if the frequency is in the upper forbidden band, then there is a critical driving amplitude for a nonlinear tunneling, which is called supratransmission, of energy to occur. Here, we discuss mathematically the mechanism and the source of the supratransmission. By analyzing the existence and the stability of the rapidly decaying static discrete solitons of the system, we show rigorously that two of the static solitons emerge and disappear in a saddle-node bifurcation at a critical driving amplitude. One of the emerging solitons is always stable in its existence region and the other is always unstable. We argue that the critical amplitude for supratransmission is then the same as the critical driving amplitude of the saddle-node bifurcation. We consider as well the case of the forcing frequency in the lower forbidden band. It is discussed briefly that there is no supratransmission because in this case there is only one rapidly decaying static soliton that exists and is stable for any driving amplitude.
description: Some figures are removed due to file size limit
Mini-BESTest_official czech version
Creators: name: Michalčinová, Klaudia
name: Kejhová, Eva
name: Jeníček, Jakub
name: Slámová, Adéla
name: Tichá, Monika
name: Kuželková, Anna
name: Jakovcová, Karolína
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110317 Physiotherapy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The item consists of Czech version of the Mini-BESTest test, including instructions for its administration.
Sun, Solar and the Grid
Creators: Tony J. Tewelis
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Situated in the nation's sunniest state, Arizona Public Service (APS) is taking a lead in evaluating the implications of high solar penetration in the power grid. In one experimental project, APS is installing solar production meters, in addition to regular smart meters, in residences with photovoltaic installations. Data taken every 15 minutes will be correlated with historical information about weather and irradiation, to produce solar production forecasts for individual arrays, neighborhoods and whole regions.
Substation-Scale and Community Energy Storage
Creators: Brad Roberts
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Energy storage systems, essential for balancing dynamic sources and loads across electric power grids worldwide, can address renewable energy intermittency and integration, manage larger and less predictable peak demands from electric vehicles and other loads, and enable secure microgrids. Community Energy Storage, in particular, and substation-scale batteries, have a key role to play.
Additional file 3 of Fine-mapping of a putative glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene responsible for yellow seed colour in flax (Linum usitatissimum)
Creators: name: Young, Lester
name: Akhov, Leonid
name: Kulkarni, Manoj
name: You, Frank
name: Booker, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Alignment of Lus10019895 protein with GST proteins from other species. Darker shading of residue background indicates a greater number of similar residues at that position. Rectangular boxes indicate non-synonymous changes in amino acid residues between S95407 and CDC Bethune proteins. Dendrogram indicates relatedness of the GST proteins. Lus10019895 from L. usitatissimum has greater similarity to the Arabidopsis lambda GSTs than to AtGST26 (TT19) from Arabidopsis.
The portrayal of women in selected contemporary Irish chick lit short fiction
Creators: name: Jairth, Anuradha
Year: 2013

description: Diese Diplomarbeit befasst mit irischen „Chick lit“ – Kurzgeschichten. Chick lit – Werke werden von weiblichen Autoren verfasst und sind an ein weibliches Publikum gerichtet. Der Ursprung von Chick lit ist nicht konkret festgelegt, jedoch wird vorwiegend Helen Fieldings Bridget Jones‘ Diary als erstes Chick lit – Werk betrachtet, aber auch Jane Austen wird oftmals als „Mutter“ aller Chick lit – Werke bezeichnet. Chick lit – Romane und Kurzgeschichten befassen sich mit primär mit Themen wie (oberflächlichen) Liebesbeziehungen, Freundschaften als auch Materialismus. Aus diesem Grund wird das Genre noch immer kritisiert.
Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit untersucht hauptsächlich die Merkmale von Chick lit, um dieses Genre genauer definieren zu können. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse von den folgenden sieben irischen Kurzgeschichten: “Blind date” von Sarah Webb; “Late Opening at the Last Chance Saloon” von Marian Keyes; “Girls’ Weekend” und „Blind Date“ von Marisa Mackle; “De-Stress” von Joan O’Neill; “You, Me and Tallisker” von Julie Parsons; und “Deep Throat” von Clare Dowling.
Die ausgewählten Kurzgeschichten werden hinsichtlich ihrer Erzählperspektive, des Diskurses und besonders der Darstellung weiblicher Charaktere analysiert.                                                                                               Die typischen Merkmale von irischen Chick lit –Kurzgeschichten, die sich von allgemeinen Chick lit – Geschichten unterscheiden, sind besonders die kulturellen Aspekte, die auch als „Features of Irishness“ (Merkmale, die die irische Kultur widerspiegeln) bezeichnet werden. Dennoch spielen jene oberflächlichen Themen wie beispielsweise Äußerlichkeiten und die Suche nach dem richtigen Mann eine genauso bedeutende Rolle und  tragen folglich zu dem negativen Gesamtbild  des Genres bei. Auch der dialogorientierte und umgangssprachliche Sprachstil trübt das Gesamtbild.
Letztlich erscheint die Darstellung der weiblichen Charaktere ebenfalls tendenziell negativ. Zwar werden sie als unabhängige Frauen dargestellt, jedoch scheint das Lebensziel der Frauen lediglich die Suche nach dem richtigen Mann zu sein.
Fourth S. Fisher Johnson House
Creators: name: Weber, Harvey A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Photographs
Photos
Historic buildings
East Hampton
Structures
Dwellings

description: This image shows the Fourth S. Fisher Johnson House located on Georgica Road, Also known as "Onadune". This image was taken by photographer Harvey A. Weber (1917-1991) and is part of the East Hampton’s Heritage Photo Collection.
description: Images within East Hampton Heritage Photo Collection seem to have been taken or collected in relation to the East Hampton Heritage project, but not all of them were included in the final publication. Several photographer are included in this collection.
Louis Paul Boon: Erotik, Pornografie und Obszönität in "Eros en de eenzame man"
Creators: name: Ojdanic, Lempl Darinka
Year: 2013

description: In dieser Diplomarbeit habe ich mich mit der Frage nach der Bedeutung der Erotik, Pornografie und Obszönität im Roman Eros en de eenzame man des belgischen Schriftstellers Louis Paul Boon beschäftigt. Das literarische Werk von Boon wurde oft als pornografisch bezeichnet und er selbst wurde als ein Weiberfetischist abgestempelt, obwohl explizit erotische, pornografische oder obszöne Passagen in seinen Werken auch ein Schleier für andere Themen sein können. Zuerst wurde eine Differenzierung zwischen den Begriffen gemacht und die wichtigsten Eigenschaften ermittelt.  Pornografie wird meistens negativ markiert, moralisch verurteilt und künstlerisch abgelehnt. Es wird mit Gewalt assoziiert, wobei als Gegenpol die Erotik gesetzt wird, die als etwas positives, sublimes und liebevolles wahrgenommen wird. Es wird aber meistens vergessen, dass genau diese Gewalt, dieses Zwanghafte, die Herrschaftsverhältnisse, die Wut, die Frustration, die Unzufriedenheit und noch vieles mehr Komponenten sind, die auf eine Wirklichkeit außerhalb des Textes andeuten, die wachrütteln. Im Gegensatz will das Obszöne vor allem schockieren, Tabus verletzen, Konventionen vernichten und das Verbotene ins Licht rücken. Bei der Textanalyse hat sich herausgestellt, dass obwohl im Roman explizit pornografische Passagen anzutreffen sind, diese als Mittel benutzt werden um den Verfall des einzelnen Individuums und der Gesellschaft zu schildern.
Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars V. A planetary system found with HARPS around the F6IV-V star HD 60532
Creators: name: Desort, M.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Galland, F.
name: Beust, H.
name: Udry, S.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Curto, G. Lo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: In the frame of the search for extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around early-type stars, we present the results obtained for the F-type main-sequence star HD 60532 (F6V) with HARPS. Methods: Using 147 spectra obtained with HARPS at La Silla on a time baseline of two years, we study the radial velocities of this star. Results: HD 60532 radial velocities are periodically variable, and the variations have a Keplerian origin. This star is surrounded by a planetary system of two planets with minimum masses of 1 and 2.5 Mjup and orbital separations of 0.76 and 1.58 AU respectively. We also detect high-frequency, low-amplitude (10 m/s peak-to-peak) pulsations. Dynamical studies of the system point toward a possible 3:1 mean-motion resonance which should be confirmed within the next decade.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Multi-stakeholder decision-making in low-energy building design optimization
Creators: name: Robinson, Elaine
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 129999 Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The climate emergency means that policy makers are now seeking to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. The construction and operation of buildings is a major source of emissions. Adopting low-energy building design standards has a role in addressing the problem by reducing operational energy demand. However, the decision-making process in building design is complex and involves a wide range of stakeholders with diverse priorities. Decisions made in the early stage of design impact on energy performance and are often made based on stakeholder preferences, without recourse to building simulation. Furthermore, the complex relationship between building geometry, design parameters and building performance can make emissions reduction more challenging, or even impossible, to achieve depending on the decisions made at this stage.This thesis investigates incorporating desirability into computational optimization, as method of condensing multiple criteria into the objective of satisfying the preferences for each of multiple stakeholders. Hence, it is informed by the techniques of MCDM and optimization. It necessitates an ‘a priori’ approach because stakeholders’ preferences are fully integrated into the optimization process. The outcome illustrates the decision-making process as a trade-off between stakeholders, which can be considered as a negotiation process.The research is informed by multi-criterion methods for multi-stakeholder decision-making and their application to achieve a compromise between building aesthetics and energy performance. The limitations of existing techniques are then addressed by incorporating preference profiles into the optimization process to illustrate the results as a negotiation process between decision-makers.It concludes that there are fundamental differences in the design process needed for low-energy building. Energy calculations need to be undertaken early and updated as the design evolves. This aspect necessitates the inclusion of an additional stakeholder: the energy modeller or building physicist. Hence, there are transaction costs that are borne by the client. Existing methods can be adapted to include stakeholder preferences; however, they are not fully integrated into the process and lack the ability to illustrate the trade-offs between decision-makers.Incorporating desirability functions into optimization using an additive method is proposed. The approach illustrates conflict between stakeholders in the design process and identifies contradictions in the preferences of a single decision-maker.
Data - The Power Behind the Smart Grid
Creators: Jeffrey Katz
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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If it's to be a boon rather than blight, the flood of data generated in the smart grid will need to be handled in standardized frameworks, providing not only for interoperability but for ongoing evaluation of possible conflicts between different component systems. Done right, the results will be more effective maintenance, higher reliability, better options for consumers, and ultimately a higher national good.
Horto carmina digna, non libello?
Creators: name: Morawek, Katharina
Year: 2013

description: Unbearbeitet und kunstlos – was auf den Protagonisten des Corpus Priapeorum zutrifft, könnte als Beschreibung in Hinblick auf das Gedichtbuch selbst, welches sich aus 80 Gedichten von, an und um Priap zusammensetzt, kaum unpassender sein. Obwohl von seinem Verfasser zu Beginn des Buches als für einen libellus ungeeignete Hortopoesie deklariert, führt er den Leser dennoch durch ein kompositorisch wohldurchdachtes Konstrukt von Epigrammen und spielt kontinuierlich mit dem fiktionalen Bild, es handle sich dabei um Inschriften an der Tempelwand eines Priapheiligtums. Die vermeintliche Kunstlosigkeit wird in mehrfacher Hinsicht negiert und durch eine raffinierte Ordnung sowohl auf formal-struktureller Ebene als auch auf inhaltlicher widerlegt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Mitteln, die die Gestaltung des Corpus Priapeorum als Gedichtbuch offensichtlich machen, und mit den Aspekten, nach welchen eine solche Gestaltung erfolgt ist.
A new perspective on the relation between dark energy perturbations and the late-time ISW effect
Creators: name: Dent, James B.
name: Dutta, Sourish
name: Weiler, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of quintessence perturbations on the ISW effect is studied for a mixed dynamical scalar field dark energy (DDE) and pressureless perfect fluid dark matter. A new and general methodology is developed to track the growth of the perturbations, which uses only the equation of state (EoS) parameter $w_{\rm DDE} (z) \equiv p_{\rm DDE}/ρ_{\rm DDE}$ of the scalar field DDE, and the initial values of the the relative entropy perturbation (between the matter and DDE) and the intrinsic entropy perturbation of the scalar field DDE as inputs. We also derive a relation between the rest frame sound speed $\hat{c}_{s,{\rm DDE}}^2$ of an arbitrary DDE component and its EoS $w_{\rm DDE} (z)$. We show that the ISW signal differs from that expected in a $Λ$CDM cosmology by as much as +20% to -80% for parameterizations of $w_{\rm DDE}$ consistent with SNIa data, and about $\pm$ 20% for parameterizations of $w_{\rm DDE}$ consistent with SNIa+CMB+BAO data, at 95% confidence. Our results indicate that, at least in principle, the ISW effect can be used to phenomenologically distinguish a cosmological constant from DDE.
description: Accepted for publication at PRD
DER-CAM: An Optimal Tool for Microgrid Design
Creators: Stephanie Hamilton
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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In the aftermath of numerous outages connected with extreme weather, excessive loads, and other challenges to energy supply, decentralized energy systems are commanding more attention than ever before. While exploring alternative resources and technology integration can lead to cheaper and more efficient energy access, new challenges rise as the complexity of energy systems increases. The challenges confront not only electric utilities, but also energy end-users, many of whom have begun asking "how can my company benefit from being in a microgrid?", "What technologies offer us the most benefits?", or "How much of each is needed?"
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Baier, Christel
name: Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis
name: Flocchini, Paola
name: Leonardi, Stefano
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 132, 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019), pages 0:i-0:xxxviii
Total Nitrogen Estimation in Agricultural Soils via Aerial Multispectral Imaging and LIBS
Creators: name: Hossen, Md Abir
name: Diwaka, Prasoon K
name: Ragi, Shankarachary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Measuring soil health indicators is an important and challenging task that affects farmers' decisions on timing, placement, and quantity of fertilizers applied in the farms. Most existing methods to measure soil health indicators (SHIs) are in-lab wet chemistry or spectroscopy-based methods, which require significant human input and effort, time-consuming, costly, and are low-throughput in nature. To address this challenge, we develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven near real-time unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral sensing (UMS) solution to estimate total nitrogen (TN) of the soil, an important macro-nutrient or SHI that directly affects the crop health. Accurate prediction of soil TN can significantly increase crop yield through informed decision making on the timing of seed planting, and fertilizer quantity and timing. We train two machine learning models including multi-layer perceptron and support vector machine to predict the soil nitrogen using a suite of data classes including multispectral characteristics of the soil and crops in red, near-infrared, and green spectral bands, computed vegetation indices, and environmental variables including air temperature and relative humidity. To generate the ground-truth data or the training data for the machine learning models, we measure the total nitrogen of the soil samples (collected from a farm) using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, published in scientific reports
Exciton storage in a nano-scale Aharonov-Bohm ring with electric field tuning
Creators: name: Fischer, Andrea M.
name: Campo, Vivaldo L.
name: Portnoi, Mikhail E.
name: Roemer, Rudolf A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study analytically the optical properties of a simple model for an electron-hole pair on a ring subjected to perpendicular magnetic flux and in-plane electric field. We show how to tune this excitonic system from optically active to optically dark as a function of these external fields. Our results offer a simple mechanism for exciton storage and read-out.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
"I shall only answer if you call me George."
Creators: name: Raithofer, Theresia
Year: 2013

description: Starting out from gender studies and queer theory I critically approach the phenomenon of the tomboy in general and in Enid Blyton's children's series The Famous Five in particular.
description: Über Geschlechtertheorien und Queer Studies nähere ich mich der Figur des Tomboy und analysiere diese ganz konkret in Enid Blyton's Kinderbuchserie The Famous Five.
The Role of Demand Side Management
Creators: Pedram Samadi
Hamed Mohsenian-Rad
Vincent W.S. Wong and Robert Schober
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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Whether in the form of direct load control or real-time pricing, demand-side management should be an essential ingredient of the smart grid. To induce residential consumers to participate, energy companies may need to offer billing discounts and be sensitive to how electricity consumption preferences vary with time of day.
Perceived Level of eCRM Services and Customer Satisfaction in Life Insurance Sector of India
Creators: name: VIJ, SANKET
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The present study examines the level of perceived quality of eCRM services and also measures the impact of eCRM services on level of customer satisfaction across 424 policyholders of five main life insurance companiesof India, using the advanced statistical tools and modified SERVQUAL instrument. Results indicate that security is consistently the most important determinant of perceived service quality.
SANKET VIJ ICA 2009 1.pdf
Creators: name: VIJ, SANKET
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The present study examines the level of perceived quality of eCRM services and also measures the impact of eCRM services on level of customer satisfaction across 424 policyholders of five main life insurance companiesof India, using the advanced statistical tools and modified SERVQUAL instrument. Results indicate that security is consistently the most important determinant of perceived service quality.
Cybersecurity: A Key Smart Grid Priority
Creators: Himanshu Khurana
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
While smart grid systems hold the promise of an electric grid with increased reliability and efficiency, they also increase the risk to the control systems from cyber attacks. Mitigating the risks from such attacks requires substantial changes to design and development processes so that security is built in from the ground up rather than addressed in a limited way as an afterthought.
Towards printed magnetic sensors based on organic diodes
Creators: name: Majumdar, Sayani
name: Majumdar, Himadri S.
name: Tobjork, Daniel
name: Osterbacka, Ronald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the study of magnetotransport properties of regio-regular poly (3-hexyl thiophene) based organic diodes. The devices were fabricated using two different techniques of spin coating and inkjet printing. Positive magnetoresistance (MR) effect was observed at room temperature in all the devices. The highest MR magnitude reached up to 16% for some spin-coated devices and up to 10% in inkjet printed devices. The MR magnitude and line shapes were found to depend strongly on the measuring current. We observed deviation from the theoretically predicted Lorentzian or non-Lorentzian line shape of the MR traces, which is discussed in detail in the article. Although, the printed devices exhibit MR response as high as for the spin coated ones, they still need to be optimized in terms of performance and yield for large scale applications as magnetic sensors.
Distributed Energy Resources as a Solution for Universal Energy Access in Latin America
Creators: Guillermo A. Jimenez Estevez
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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The International Energy Agency estimates that 33.8 million people in Latin America do not have access to electricity. The World Bank says the figure tops 1.6 billion people worldwide. Most of these people live in rural and isolated areas that are often neglected by electrification projects due to high costs and technical difficulties.
Non Pauli-Fierz Massive Gravitons
Creators: name: Dvali, Gia
name: Pujolas, Oriol
name: Redi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study general Lorentz invariant theories of massive gravitons. We show that, contrary to the standard lore, there exist consistent theories where the graviton mass term violates Pauli-Fierz structure. For theories where the graviton is a resonance this does not imply the existence of a scalar ghost if the deviation from Pauli-Fierz becomes sufficiently small at high energies. These types of mass terms are required by any consistent realization of the DGP model in higher dimension.
description: 4 pages
title: Séminaire | Recherche Économie Critique
Publisher: name: Maison des Sciences Humaines et sociales Paris Nord
Year: 2025

description: Le séminaire Récri est un espace régulier de rencontres et d’échanges pour les jeunes chercheur·ses s’inscrivant dans une démarche de triple pluralisme en économie. Le projet part du constat de la grande richesse de la jeune recherche pluraliste, de son caractère foisonnant et, en même temps, du manque de contacts entre jeunes chercheur·ses au-delà les inscriptions institutionnelles. Il propose ainsi un rendez-vous interinstitutionnel régulier.
Additional file 5 of Fine-mapping of a putative glutathione S-transferase (GST) gene responsible for yellow seed colour in flax (Linum usitatissimum)
Creators: name: Young, Lester
name: Akhov, Leonid
name: Kulkarni, Manoj
name: You, Frank
name: Booker, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Data S2. Sequences of Lus10019895 for CDC Bethune and S95407.
Mit einer Behinderung alt werden - die Pflege von Menschen mit einer körperlichen Beeinträchtigung
Creators: name: Pruckner, Ingrid
Year: 2013

description: Since the horrendous crimes of the National Socialism, physically disabled people have the chance to live to a ripe old age for the first time in history. This rather new phenomenon poses a new challenge for the members of the various involved professions.
The aim of the thesis is to approach this issue from the viewpoint of the nursing science, considering the role of nursing and the pro-fessional cooperation of experts.
Based on national and international studies and reports, there is an attempt to give insight into the situation of this group and to convey a better understanding regarding their situation.
Apart from describing age-related physical and psychological changes, there is a focus on housing and nursing conditions. Addi-tionally, an overview concerning the various fields of nursing and training is given.
Despite insufficient research, it can be clearly said that even dis-abled people feel ambivalent about coping with old age. A congenital or early acquired physical disability can be perceived as a benefit, however, superseded by an early aging process, interdisciplinary and individual solutions are indispensible.
description: Menschen mit einer körperlichen Behinderung haben nach den grausamen Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus erstmals die Mög-lichkeit ein höheres Lebensalter zu erreichen. Dieses noch junge Phänomen stellt die Angehörigen der involvierten Berufsgruppen vor neue Herausforderungen.
Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, sich dem Thema aus der Sicht der Pflegewissenschaft anzunähern und dabei die Rolle der Pflege in der interprofessionellen Zusammenarbeit zu untersuchen. Es wird anhand einer Recherche in nationalen und internationalen Studien und Berichten versucht, einen Einblick in die Situation dieser Per-sonengruppe zu vermitteln und zu einem besseren Verständnis ih-rer Lage beizutragen. Dabei wird neben der Darstellung von alters-bedingten Veränderungen auf die Wohn- und Betreuungssituation eingegangen. Außerdem wird ein Überblick über Handlungsfelder der Pflege und die Ausbildung der Pflege- und Sozialbetreuungsbe-rufe geboten.
Neben der Tatsache, dass das Thema noch zu wenig erforscht ist, kann als Erkenntnis zusammengefasst werden, dass die Bewälti-gung des Alters von den Menschen mit Behinderung selbst als am-bivalent erlebt wird. Eine angeborene oder früh erworbene körperliche Behinderung kann als Vorteil empfunden werden, aber von früher einsetzenden Alterungsprozessen überlagert werden und dadurch individuelle, disziplinübergreifende Lösungen erforderlich machen.
Arrival of Smart Appliances Is a Milestone on the Path to the Smart Grid
Creators: Abiodum Iwayemi and Chi Zhou
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
Smart appliances are providing residential power consumers with insight into their energy use, facilitating energy-efficient and eco-friendly behavior. As such appliances become widespread, we may see residential consumers reduce demand on a large scale without being unduly inconvenienced.
Photonic crystal resonator integrated in a microfluidic system
Creators: name: Nunes, P. S.
name: Mortensen, N. A.
name: Kutter, J. P.
name: Mogensen, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a novel optofluidic system consisting of a silica-based 1D photonic crystal, integrated planar waveguides and electrically insulated fluidic channels. An array of pillars in a microfluidic channel designed for electrochromatography is used as a resonator for on-column label-free refractive index detection. The resonator was fabricated in a silicon oxynitride platform, to support electroosmotic flow, and operated at 1.55 microns. Different aqueous solutions of ethanol with refractive indices ranging from n = 1.3330 to 1.3616 were pumped into the column/resonator and the transmission spectra were recorded. Linear shifts of the resonant wavelengths yielded a maximum sensitivity of 480 nm/RIU and a minimum difference of 0.007 RIU was measured.
Shannon Meets Carnot: Generalized Second Thermodynamic Law
Creators: name: Shental, Ori
name: Kanter, Ido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical thermodynamic laws fail to capture the behavior of systems with energy Hamiltonian which is an explicit function of the temperature. Such Hamiltonian arises, for example, in modeling information processing systems, like communication channels, as thermal systems. Here we generalize the second thermodynamic law to encompass systems with temperature-dependent energy levels, $dQ=TdS+dT$, where $$ denotes averaging over the Boltzmann distribution and reveal a new definition to the basic notion of temperature. This generalization enables to express, for instance, the mutual information of the Gaussian channel as a consequence of the fundamental laws of nature - the laws of thermodynamics.
SOOS Data Policy
Creators: name: SOOS Data Management Sub-Committee (DMSC)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: data policy
SOOS
Antarctic data

description: The purpose of this document is to identify roles and requirements relating to the management of data and information collected in the Southern Ocean. As SOOS acts through the cooperative collaboration of many nations, institutions, and scientific disciplines, this policy aims to promote best practices amongst SOOS-aligned activities. This policy primarily relates to publicly funded research, but, where commercially acquired data is shared with the public, the guidance in this policy should apply. This version 02/2022 (10.5281/zenodo.6041433) will supersede the previous version (10.5281/zenodo.3973733).
DOE''s Strategic Plan for Grid Modernization
Creators: Anjan Bose
William Parks and Kerry Cheung
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
The U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Tech Team, utilizing the convening power of government, the capabilities and expertise within DOE and targeted RD&D investments and initiatives, is building collaborations and catalyzing the industry to modernize the grid by enhancing the visibility, understanding and flexibility of the electric power system.
Improving the altimeter derived geostrophic currents using sea surface temperature images: feasibility study and application on real datasets
Creators: name: Santoleri, Rosalia
name: Rio, Marie-Hélène
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Presentation given at the 18th GHRSST science meeting (XVIII), Qingdao, China, June 5 - 9, 2017