cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Die Rolle des Sexuallebens in einer romantischen Partnerschaft für die Beziehungszufriedenheit. Der Fragebogen zum Erleben von Sexualität in engen Partnerschaften (FESP)
Creators: name: Von Irmer, Jörn
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: Research on romantic relationships has rarely investigated the role of sex. Therefore a questionnaire measuring the sexual experience along the two dimensions of physical and affective attraction has been developed. The results describe the fit between sexual experience and expectations as experienced by the participants. In a study with 1,583 participants, the questionnaire was proven reliable. Male participants reported suffering from not receiving enough attention within the physical domain. In a cross-sectional analysis, physical attraction was accorded a diminishing importance with increasing age of the participants. Affective attraction had an impact on relationship satisfaction. Affective attraction is an aspect of sex life which may be typical for sex in close relationships only. The effect of both dimensions of experiencing sex in close relationships on relationship satisfaction will be discussed with respect to age and gender effects. Zusammenfassung Die Rolle der Sexualität für romantische Partnerschaften ist ein wenig untersuchtes Gebiet in der Partnerschaftsforschung. Es wird ein Fragebogen vorgestellt, der das Erleben von Sexualität in engen Partnerschaften auf den zwei Dimensionen physische und affektive Anziehung erfasst. Er ermöglicht eine Beschreibung, was Partner in ihrer Sexualität erleben und wie dies mit ihren Wünschen in Einklang steht. In einer Studie an 1.583 Personen erweist sich der Fragebogen als reliables Messinstrument. Männer berichten größere Defizite in der physischen Anziehung. Außerdem wird sie im Querschnittsvergleich mit steigendem Alter immer negativer bewertet. Die affektive Anziehung ist ein Aspekt der Sexualität, der speziell für die partnerschaftliche Sexualität als zentral angesehen wird. Die Bedeutung dieser beiden Dimensionen des Erlebens partnerschaftlicher Sexualität für die Beziehungszufriedenheit unter Berücksichtigung von Alters- und Geschlechtseffekten wird diskutiert.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 3 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Forschungsberichterstattung: Integration, Standardisierung, verteilte Informationssysteme
Creators: name: Riechert, Mathias
name: Tobias, Regine
name: Heller, Lambert
name: Biesenbende, Sophie
name: Blümel, Ina
Publisher: name: Bonn : Gesellschaft für Informatik
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 004

description: Dieses Diskussionspapier gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Forschungsberichterstattung im Wissenschaftssystem. Dabei werden aktuelle Entwicklungen von integrierten Forschungsinformationssystemen und aktuelle Standardisierungsinitiativen aufgezeigt und ein Einblick in ein Umsetzungsprojekt eines verteilten Systems gegeben. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Diskussion von Weiterentwicklungsszenarien verteilter Forschungsinformationssysteme im Wissenschaftssystem.
Multicomponent scalar dark matter at high-intensity proton beam experiments
Creators: name: Betancur, Amalia
name: Castillo, Andrés
name: Palacio, Guillermo
name: Suarez, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a scalar dark matter (DM) model with two DM species coupled to the Standard Model (SM) particles via a sub-GeV dark photon. In this model, we find that DM conversion occurs through the dark photon and it plays a fundamental role in setting the observed relic abundance. Furthermore, the two DM candidates can be produced at fixed-target experiments a la Beam- Dump. Detailed predictions for signal and backgrounds are obtained with the help of MadDump and NuWro Montecarlo generators. We explore the potential reach on the sensitivity of DUNE near detector and SHiP experiment, and we find that portions of the parameter space will be within reach of the two experiments
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, version accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G
title: 03_0867
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
GIS software selection: a multi criteria decision making approach
Creators: name: Eldrandaly, Khalid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Building a new GIS project is a major investment. Choosing the right GIS software package is critical to the success and failure of such investment. The problem of selecting the most appropriate GIS software package for a particular GIS project is a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Solving this problem requires consideration of a comprehensive set of factors and balancing of multiple objectives in determining the suitability of particular software for building a defined GIS application. In this paper a MCDM technique, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), is used to assist system developers to select the most appropriate GIS software for a specific application. An AHP decision model is formulated and applied to a hypothetical case study to examine its feasibility in solving GIS software selection problem. The use of the proposed model indicates that it can be applied to improve the decision making process and to reduce the time taken to select a GIS software.
Dyadisches Coping Inventar (DCI): Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung des partnerschaftlichen Umgangs mit Stress
Creators: name: Gmelch, Simone
name: Bodenmann, Guy
name: Meuwly, Nathalie
name: Ledermann, Thomas
name: Steffen-Sozinova, Olga
name: Striegl, Katja
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: Stress and coping in couples are increasingly conceptualized as dyadic phenomena. One tool for the assessment of dyadic coping processes in couples is the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI), a further development of the formerly used Dyadic Coping Questionnaire (FDCT-N, Bodenmann 2000). The psychometrics of the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI) have been examined in a large validation study involving a total of N = 2,399 subjects. The results provide empirical evidence for the quality of the test. The theoretically postulated dimensions of dyadic coping were empirically supported by factor analyses. The internal consistencies of the total scale and the different subscales were good. The test-retest-correlation reveals that the questionnaire is sensitive for change. The construct validity is given, the criterion validity satisfactory. Furthermore cut-off criteria are presented to differentiate between couples depending on their quality of dyadic coping. The DCI is suitable for clinical research (e.g. intervention research), couples diagnostic, evaluation of couples therapy, developmental or health psychology. Zusammenfassung Stress und Stressbewältigung werden innerhalb von Partnerschaften zunehmend als dyadische Phänomene begriffen. Um dieser Sichtweise diagnostisch Rechnung zu tragen, wird das Dyadische Coping Inventar (DCI) zur Erfassung des partnerschaftlichen Umgangs mit Stress vorgestellt. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Weiterentwicklung des Fragebogens zum dyadischen Coping (FDCT-N, Bodenmann 2000). Die faktorielle und psychometrische Überprüfung erfolgte an insgesamt N = 2399 Personen. Die Ergebnisse sprechen für die Testgüte des Instruments. Die theoretisch postulierte Faktorenstruktur konnte durch Faktorenanalysen empirische Evidenz finden. Die internen Konsistenzen fielen insgesamt gut aus, die Test-Retest-Korrelationen lagen erwartungsgemäß im mittleren Bereich. Die Konstruktvalidität war ebenfalls gut, die kriterienbezogene Validität befriedigend. Weiterhin werden Cut-Off-Werte präsentiert, die erlauben, Paare nach der Güte des dyadischen Copings einzuteilen. Das DCI eignet sich gleichermaßen für klinische Fragestellungen (z.B. Interventions-forschung), Partnerschaftsdiagnostik und Therapieevaluation sowie für entwicklungs- oder gesundheitspsychologische Fragestellungen.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 2 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Exploratory GIS modelling for assessing potential conflict in Australia’s central desert region
Creators: name: Adams, B. John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents a simple methodology (preliminary and exploratory) to model potential hotspots of land-users’ conflict at regional level in preparation of a dispute system design. Australia’s central desert region is chosen and modelled in terms of four independent variables - Aboriginal communities, National Parks land, Pastoral lease and Tourism site, and one dependent variable - Strength of Interest. Preparation of the data is detailed in nine steps. Analysis takes place in two forms: overlays and statistical summary. Overlaying two coverages reveals potential conflict by demonstrating which interests have overlapping zones of interest. These zones are divided into areas of Strong, Medium, Weak and No Interest. Three insights from this method of analysis are discussed. Simple statistical summarization describes the conflict potential from the perspective of each respective group of interests and two insights are discussed. An unexpected insight was gained through this process showing potential conflict within groups of interest as well. Through this modelling exercise it is determined that a simple GIS application can produce significant insights in preparing a dispute systems design.
Karl Mannheims „Problem der Generationen“ – 80 Jahre danach
Creators: name: Becker, Henk A.
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: Since the publication of Mannheim’s two part article on “The Problem of Generations“ in 1928 and 1929 social change has made it necessary to elaborate on his concept of generations. Cohort generations and typological generations have to distinguished, because since 1957 stereotypes of generations have been institutionalized in society at large. Also, a distinction between general, partial and specific generations has to be made. In contemporary sociological research on generations many methods from epidemiological research can be applied, in particular probability models. Data warehouses contribute to the opportunities for generational research. The demarcation of the formative period in the life course has to be based not only on sociological but also on psychological and biological criteria. Research on religion and on the family can benefit from advantages provided by research on generations. Zusammenfassung Mannheims Generationenbegriff aus seinem 1928 und 1929 erschienen zweiteiligen Artikel über „Das Problem der Generationen“ muss in der Gegenwart teilweise überarbeitet werden. Mannheims Unterscheidung zwischen Kohortengenerationen und Typologiegenerationen muss neu ausgearbeitet werden, da seit 1957 Stereotype von Generationen allgemein verbreitet wurden. Auch eine Differenzierung zwischen allgemeinen, partiellen und spezifischen Generationen ist notwendig geworden. Die gegenwärtige soziologische Generationenforschung kann häufig Methoden der Epidemiologieforschung anwenden, wie beispielsweise die Verwendung von Zufallsmodellen. Datenarchive erweitern die Möglichkeiten der Generationsforschung. Die Formativperiode im Lebenslauf ist nicht nur soziologisch, sondern auch biologisch und psychologisch abgegrenzt. Religionsforschung und Familienforschung können von der Generationenforschung profitieren.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 2 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Categorising inconsistencies between national GIS data in Central Europe: case studies from the borders triangle of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
Creators: name: Nilson, Enno
name: Kothe, Rudiger
name: Lehmkuhl, Frank
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Operational environmental management of European landscapes requires geographical information which is valid and coherent across national borders and only takes natural boundaries as criteria for ordering. However, when combining GIS data from different countries, national borders appear as artificial breaks in many medium- and large-scale thematic GIS, for example, topographical, geological or soil information systems. Inconsistencies in GIS data can be categorised into three types: (1) country specific deviations, (2) inconsistencies due to different data surveying and management procedures and (3) errors. Some of the inconsistencies, such as national attribute names, can be ruled out by simple modifications of the data models without changing the structure of the national databases themselves. Others, such as soil typologies, have to be addressed by intensified co-operation between national authorities. It is concluded that for practical and financial reasons, pragmatic solutions are required in order to integrate national data into a European framework.
Evaluation of Wheat Yield Performance Among Smallholder Farmers: Evidences from Large Scale Demonstration Approach in West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dawit Milkias
Publisher: name: gjrpublication
Year: 2024

description: Ethiopia is one of the largest wheat-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Wheat is cultivated on a total area of 1.7 million hectares annually, with a total production estimated at between 5 and 6 million tons. The research was conducted during 2022 cropping seasons in West Shewa Zone five purposively selected potential districts with the objective of popularizing and pre-scale up the improved wheat varieties and to evaluate yield performance in order to increase production and productivity for further disseminating the already evaluated and selected varieties to the farmers. The selection of Districts, kebeles and host farmers were done together with districts Agriculture Office and the extension team. Three potentials kebeles from the districts and participant farmers were selected based on their interest and availability of adjacent farm plots with a minimum 0.25 ha per head. Thus, 29 clusters were formed, 315 farmers directly participated in these pre-scaling up, and 168 ha of land was covered by selected crop. The study result indicate that the average yield obtained from the demonstrated cluster, from Dandaa variety 3.5 tons/ha, wane variety 3.41 t/ha and Kingbird 3.4 tons/ha yield was recorded respectively. The yield advantage using CSA data in the Zone, which is 3.42 tons/ha. The mean yield recorded (3.43 tons/ha) from all clustered varieties higher than the national average (3.11 tons/ha). This is due to the use full package application, better field management techniques, may be the source of yield performance variability within the study cluster. Therefore, from the researchers and farmers evaluation Wane, Dandaa and Kingbird varieties respectively were recommended for the study areas and similar agro-ecologies for further demonstration and dissemination.
Polarization of Climate and Environmental Attitudes in the United States, 1973-2022
Creators: name: Smith, E. Keith
name: Bognar, M. Julia
name: Mayer, Adam P.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental attitudes
Climate change
Polarization
Harmonized pooled crossnational data

description: Since the early 1990s, political polarization has been the largest determinant of individual-level environmental and climate change attitudes. But several patterns remain unclear: whether polarization has been largely bimodal or is rather asymmetrical, how polarization patterns have changed over time, and if these patterns are generalizable across different environmental and climate change attitudes. We harmonized four unique sets of historical pooled cross-sectional survey data from the past 50 years to investigate shifts in seven distinct measures of citizen environmental and climate change attitudes for evidence of asymmetric polarization. We find evidence of two distinct historical patterns of asymmetric polarization: first, with Republicans becoming less environmentally-minded, beginning in the early-1990s, and second, a more recent greening of Democratic environmental attitudes since the mid-2010s. These polarization patterns diverge across seven measures of environmental and climate change attitudes, and are robust against sociodemographic, period, and birth cohort factors
description: OSF Preprints
Assessing the relationship between shire winter crop yield and seasonal variability of the MODIS NDVI and EVI images
Creators: name: Fontana, Denise Cybis
name: Potgieter, Andries B.
name: Apan, Armando
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian researchers have been developing robust yield estimation models, based mainly on the crop growth response to water availability during the crop season. However, knowledge of spatial distribution of yields within and across the production regions can be improved by the use of remote sensing techniques. Images of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) vegetation indices, available since 1999, have the potential to contribute to crop yield estimation. The objective of this study was to analyse the relationship between winter crop yields and the spectral information available in MODIS vegetation index images at the shire level. The study was carried out in the Jondaryan and Pittsworth shires, Queensland, Australia. Five years (2000 to 2004) of 250m resolution, 16-day composite of MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) images were used during the winter crop season (April to November). Seasonal variability of the profiles of the vegetation index images for each crop season using different regions of interest (cropping mask) were displayed and analysed. Correlation analysis between wheat and barley yield data and MODIS image values were also conducted. The results showed high seasonal variability in the NDVI and EVI profiles, and the EVI values were consistently lower than those of the NDVI. The highest image values were observed in 2003 (in contrast to 2004), and were associated with rainfall amount and distribution. The seasonal variability of the profiles was similar in both shires, with minimum values in June and maximum values at the end of August. NDVI and EVI images showed sensitivity to seasonal variability of the vegetation and exhibited good association (e.g. r = 0.84, r = 0.77) with winter crop yields.
Optical Characterization of Disordered Yb-doped Silica Glass Anderson Localizing Optical Fiber
Creators: name: Bassett, Cody
name: Tuggle, Matthew
name: Ballato, Johan
name: Mafi, Arash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate and report the optical and laser characteristics of a ytterbium-doped transverse Anderson localizing optical fiber to develop a fundamental understanding of the light propagation, generation, and amplification processes in this novel fiber. Ultimately, the goal based on the measurements and calculations conducted herein is to design and build a random fiber laser with a highly directional beam. The measurements are based on certain observations of the laser pump propagation and amplified spontaneous emission generation in this fiber. Judicious approximations are used in the propagation equations to obtain the relevant desired parameters in simple theoretical fits to the experimental observations, without resorting to speculations based on the intended construction from the fiber preform.
Beziehungserfahrungen und Partnerschaftsverläufe vor der Heirat. Eine empirische Analyse von Angehörigen der Eheschließungskohorte 1999-2005
Creators: name: Schneider, Norbert F.
name: Rüger, Heiko
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: With the change of the family also couple’s careers before marriage have changed. When people marry, so we can say with some empirical and theoretical evidence, they are more experienced with living in partnerships. Moreover it is discoverable that the couple’s career with the spouse-to-be is much more individualised and it is following much less traditional patterns than it did a few decades ago. There is, however, little research regarding which experiences with partnerships people have in general and which biographical transitions are characteristic for the couple’s career with the spouse-to-be. The aim of this article is to analyse the partnership biographies and couple’s career of the marriage cohorts 1999 to 2005 and to identify major factors with data of the Mainz “Value of Marriage” study. The results show that the experience with partnerships in general before marriage has increased and that couple’s careers before marriage show much regularity, despite all tendencies of individualisation. Zusammenfassung Im Zuge des Wandels der Familie haben sich auch die Partnerschaftsbiografien bis zur Heirat verändert. Eheschließende bringen, so lässt sich mit einiger empirischer und theoretischer Evidenz feststellen, mehr Beziehungserfahrungen in die Ehe ein und der Verlauf der Partnerschaft mit dem späteren Ehepartner ist heute stärker individualisiert und folgt weniger traditionellen Mustern als noch vor einigen Jahrzehnten. Welche Beziehungserfahrungen vorliegen und welche biografischen Übergänge den Partnerschaftsverlauf mit dem späteren Ehepartner bis zur Heirat kennzeichnen, darüber gibt es jedoch nur einen wenig entwickelten Forschungsstand. Ziel dieses Aufsatzes ist es, mit den Daten der Mainzer „Value of Marriage“-Studie, die Beziehungsbiografien und Partnerschaftsverläufe von Angehörigen der Eheschließungskohorte 1999-2005 zu analysieren und wesentliche Einflussfaktoren herauszuarbeiten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Beziehungserfahrungen vor der Ehe zugenommen haben und die Partnerschaftsverläufe vor der Heirat bei allen Individualisierungstendenzen viele Regelmäßigkeiten aufweisen.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 2 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Concern and anticipation of sea-level rise provide grounds for social tipping towards climate action
Creators: name: Smith, E. Keith
name: Wiedermann, Marc
name: Donges, Jonathan F.
name: Heitzig, Jobst
name: Winkelmann, Ricarda
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: Effective climate change mitigation necessitates swift societal transformations. Social tipping processes, where small triggers initiate qualitative systemic shifts, are potential key mechanisms instigating societal change. With large shares of the world's population coastally concentrated, sea-level rise is among the most severe impacts of climate change. Here we combine future sea-level rise estimates, social survey data, and a social activation model to exemplify a transformative pathway where climate change concern increases the social tipping potential, and extended anticipation time horizons shift the system towards an alternative sustainable state of climate action. We find that in many countries, climate change concern is sufficient, such that opportunities for social activation towards this tipped state already exist. Further, drawing upon the interrelation between climate change concern and anticipation of SLR, we find evidence of three qualitative classes of tipping potential that are regionally clustered, with greatest potential for tipping in Western Pacific rim and East Asian countries. These findings propose a transformative pathway, where increased climate change concern shifts tipping potential upwards and extended anticipation time horizons lowers the required size for critical interventions necessary to kick a social system into a more sustainable state.
description: OSF Preprints
On non-abelian quadrirational Yang-Baxter maps
Creators: name: Kassotakis, Pavlos
name: Kouloukas, Theodoros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce four lists of families of non-abelian quadrirational Yang-Baxter maps.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. v2: Typos corrected
Kontakte mit Nichten und Neffen – Eine empirische Analyse von vernachlässigten Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen
Creators: name: Jakoby, Nina
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: This article predicts the frequency of aunts’ and uncles’ contacts with their nieces and nephews. I develop a new theoretical framework to explain differences in contact frequency, using data from ISSP 2001 (Social Networks II). The empirical results reveal that classic variables (e.g. gender, social status, childlessness) have no influence on contact frequency with nieces and nephews, contrary to existing literature. Future studies would benefit from biographical predictors in understanding these important and understudied family relationships. Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Häufigkeit der sozialen Kontakte von Onkeln und Tanten mit ihren Nichten und Neffen. Damit wird eine Verwandtschaftskategorie analysiert, die in der Familiensoziologie eine fast vergessene Thematik ist. Auf der Grundlage eines theoretischen Modells und einer daran anschließenden empirischen Analyse mit Daten des ISSP 2001 (Social Networks II) werden die Determinanten der Kontakthäufigkeit mit Nichten und Neffen analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine Vielzahl der Befunde zu den klassischen Determinanten verwandtschaftlicher Interaktionen (z.B. Geschlecht, sozialer Status, Kinderlosigkeit) nicht repliziert werden kann. Eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der Familienbiographie sollte Ziel einer zukünftigen soziologischen Verwandtschaftsforschung sein.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 2 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Medienerziehung in der Familie: Regeln und Motive, Umfang und Auswirkungen der Nutzung von Computer, Fernseher und Videokonsole
Creators: name: Röhr-Sendlmeier, Una M.
name: Götze, Irina
name: Stichel, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2008

description: After a review of publications on positive and detrimental effects of using the computer and watching television, empirical data on parental education concerning the use of modern media are presented. In two studies, a total of 282 elementary school children and their parents were interviewed with respect to the extent they used electronic media, their rules and motives for letting the children watch television, use the computer and play video games. The children’s reading proficiency was tested. Although the overall extent of using the media was moderate, time spent in front of them and reading proficiency correlated negatively. Explicit parental restrictions lead to less media use, whereas children´s decisions when and how to use the electronic devices correlated with exposure to media. Parental motives which may be considered normatively less agreeable – e.g., letting the children use the media to prevent boredom – correlated with intensified reception. Building up knowledge as a motive, however, was not correlated with increased media use. The results support the thesis that ready access to television may reduce reading activity. They provide evidence against the position that only in case of excessive media use detrimental effects can be found. Zusammenfassung Ausgehend von einem Forschungsüberblick über förderliche und abträgliche Auswirkungen der Fernseh- und Computernutzung werden empirische Daten zur familiären Medienerziehung vorgestellt. In zwei aufeinander aufbauenden Studien mit 282 Dritt- und Viertklässlern und ihren Eltern wurden das Ausmaß der Mediennutzung, Regeln und Motive der Medienerziehung sowie die Lesekompetenz der Kinder erhoben. Schon bei insgesamt moderaten Gesamtnutzungsdauern korrelierte die Höhe des Fernseh- und Computerkonsums negativ mit der Lesekompetenz. Explizite elterliche Restriktionen gingen mit einer geringeren Nutzung von Fernseher, Computer und Videokonsole einher. Selbstständige Nutzungsentscheidungen durch das Kind hingen dagegen mit höherem Konsum zusammen. Motive der Eltern für die Medienrezeption des Kindes, die normativ als weniger erwünscht anzusehen sind – etwa damit das Kind sich nicht langweilt –, korrelierten mit erhöhtem Medienkonsum. Das Motiv der Wissenserweiterung stand jedoch in keiner überzufälligen Beziehung zum Ausmaß des Mediengebrauchs. Die Ergebnisse geben Hinweise auf die Gültigkeit der Verdrängungshypothese des Lesens durch das Fernsehen und sprechen gegen Positionen, nach denen erst bei deutlich erhöhter Nutzung negative Zusammenhänge mit schulisch relevanten Fähigkeiten festzustellen sind.
description: Journal of Family Research, Vol 20 No 2 (2008): Forschungsbeiträge aus den Disziplinen
Deontological and Consequentialist Preferences Towards Arms Exports
Creators: name: Rudolph, Lukas
name: Freitag, Markus
name: Thurner, Paul W.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Weapons exports
Foreign policy
International trade
Public opinion
Deontologist ethics
Survey experiment
Cross-national comarison

description: Despite fierce politicization in arms-exporting democracies, we lack systematic research on mass public preferences on arms transfers. We propose that citizens either apply a deontologist (rejecting arms exports categorically) or consequentialist (trading-off economic, strategic and normative aspects) calculus of preference formation. Conducting population-representative survey experiments (N=6,617) in Germany and France (two global top-5 major arms exporters), we find that 10-15% of respondents follow deontologist considerations, a preference structure likely relevant for all foreign policies involving the use of force. Still, a vast majority shows differentiated preferences, giving largest weight to normative considerations, with assessments affected by moderating features (e.g., scenarios of just war). Expressions of deontologist preferences and a large consequentialist weight for normative factors are more pronounced in Germany compared to France, indicating a link between population preferences and elite-level strategic cultures and institutions. Last, respondents' preferences match opinion-polls on post-Russian invasion Ukraine-armament, indicating high external validity of our experiments.
description: SocArXiv
A methodology for spatial fuzzy reliability analysis
Creators: name: Ahmad, Shohan
name: Simonovic, Slobodan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Natural hazard risk assessment requires quantification of uncertainty that is spatially and temporally variable. Spatial variability of risk has been rarely considered in the past research. This paper presents a new methodology to capture the spatial uncertainty as well as the subjectivity associated with the natural hazard risk analysis. The fuzzy set theory has been integrated with the geographic information system (GIS) in the development of the methodology for spatial reliability analysis. Paper explores the spatial extension of three fuzzy reliability indices i.e. (1) combined reliability-vulnerability, (2) robustness, and (3) resiliency. Fuzzy risk and reliability are quantified within a GIS framework and maps showing spatial variability of three fuzzy indices are developed. The proposed methodology has been applied to flood hazard management. It has been found that the application of spatial fuzzy reliability analysis provides additional information to flood managers regarding the spatial variability of flood risk and aids in the development of a sustainable flood management options.
Operationalisation matters: Weather extremes as noisy natural experiment show no influence on political attitudes
Creators: name: Quoß, Franziska
name: Rudolph, Lukas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Weather extremes
Measurement
Operationalisation
Heat wave
Climate attitudes
Climate policy
Public opinion
Survey

description: Weather extremes are of (in)direct interest for a large literature. However, measuring "weather" is theoretically ambiguous, with a wide variety of potential operationalisations. Also, the theoretical link between exposure and preferences/behaviour is structured by intermediate steps with multiple potential dependent variables, usually reported on in separate projects. In combination, this leads to vast researcher degrees of freedom increasing the chance of false positive results. We develop a template to caution against false positives, and apply it to the much-researched question whether personal experiences of weather extremes "green" citizens’ preferences. From a large literature with inconclusive results, we derive 34 plausible operationalisations of extreme weather, and 4 core steps investigated. Drawing on high-quality geo-coded survey and weather data for Switzerland, we show that singular specifications support arbitrary conclusions, while the whole set indicates robust null results. This indicates a note of caution for all research with latent variables and spatial clustering.
description: OSF Preprints
Plaskett 1.8 metre Observations of Starlink Satellites
Creators: name: Boley, Aaron C.
name: Wright, Ewan
name: Lawler, Samantha
name: Hickson, Paul
name: Balam, Dave
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations of 23 Starlink satellites in the $g'$ bandpass, obtained from the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's Plaskett 1.8 metre telescope. The targets include a mixture of satellites with and without brightness mitigation measures (i.e., visors). At the time of the observations (16 July 2021), Starlink satellites were sunlight throughout the night, and even with strict elevation and azimuth limits, there were over 800 candidate Starlink arcs. The satellites altogether have a median absolute brightness (550 km) of $\overline{H}_g^{550} =5.3$ mag. Dividing the targets into those without and with visors, their median absolute magnitudes are $\overline{H}_g^{550}(no~visor)=5.1$ and $\overline{H}^{550}_g(visor)=5.7$ mag, respectively. While the visor sample is dimmer in aggregate, the absolute brightness distribution ranged from $H_g^{550}=4.3$ mag to 9.4 mag, with the brightest being a visored satellite and the dimmest a satellite with no mitigation. The intrinsic brightness dispersion among the full sample is $σ_g = 0.5$ mag.
description: Submitted to AJ
Do distributional consequences affect public goods provision? Insights from 5G antenna placement in Switzerland
Creators: name: Rudolph, Lukas
name: Quoß, Franziska
name: Bernauer, Thomas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Public goods
Technology
Mobile data
Survey
Experiment
Public opinion

description: Distributional implications of public goods provision may affect the ability of societies to provide these. Particularly, localized provision costs may result in opposition in the vicinity of provision sites, reducing provision levels and/or efficiency (“not-in-my-backyard” (NIMBY) challenge). We examine mass public support on policy provision in this regard, focusing on 5G, the latest technology standard for mobile data transmission, and the placement of 5G antennas in particular. Based on survey experiments with a geo-coded representative sample of over 5’000 residents of Switzerland, revealing real-world antenna locations to respondents, we find that NIMBYism plays a role for individual attitudes/policy preference formation towards 5G expansion. NIMBYism also affects the (stated) propensity to engage in political action against 5G antennas, irrespective of monetary costs. Finally, NIMBYism can be mitigated when citizens decide under a veil of ignorance on a feasible distribution of siting locations, leaving actual site choice to be a technical process.
description: SocArXiv
The software design of Gridap: a Finite Element package based on the Julia JIT compiler
Creators: name: Verdugo, Francesc
name: Badia, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present the software design of Gridap, a novel finite element library written exclusively in the Julia programming language, which is being used by several research groups world-wide to simulate complex physical phenomena such as magnetohydrodynamics, photonics, weather modeling, non-linear solid mechanics, and fluid-structure interaction problems. The library provides a feature-rich set of discretization techniques for the numerical approximation of a wide range of PDEs, including linear, nonlinear, single-field, and multi-field equations. An expressive API allows users to define PDEs in weak form by a syntax close to the mathematical notation. While this is also available in previous codes, the main novelty of Gridap is that it implements this API without introducing a DSL plus a compiler of variational forms. Instead, it leverages the Julia just-in-time compiler to build efficient code, specialized for the concrete problem at hand. As a result, there is no need to use different languages for the computational back-end and the user front-end anymore, thus eliminating the so-called two-language problem. Gridap also provides a low-level API that is modular and extensible via the multiple-dispatch paradigm of Julia and provides easy access to the main building blocks of the library. The main contribution of this paper is the detailed presentation of the novel software abstractions behind the Gridap design that leverages the new software possibilities provided by the Julia language. The second main contribution of the article is a performance comparison against FEniCS. We measure CPU times needed to assemble discrete systems of linear equations for different problem types and show that the performance of Gridap is comparable to FEniCS, demonstrating that the new software design does not compromise performance. Gridap is freely available at Github and distributed under an MIT license.
The Effect of Water Injection on the Fuel Consumption of a Gasoline Engine
Creators: name: Bultmann, Robert Arnold William
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1915
Subjects: subject: (Mechanical Engineering)
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: The object of this thesis was to determine the effect of water injection upon the fuel consumption of a gasoline engine.

Before beginning the tests it was necessary to design and construct a new reducing motion for the indicator, the old one having proven unsatisfactory. This
new reducing motion, drawings of which may be found in the appendix, consists of an eccentric mounted on the main shaft, connecting rod, crosshead guides, etc. Care was taken in the design of this motion to keep the ratio of the throw to the length of the connecting rod the same as that of the engine itself, this being necessary in order to obtain an accurate reproduction of the mot ion of the piston.

Duplicate tests were made at loads ranging from zero to full load of the engine and a comparison of the results obtained will be found in the balance of this thesis.

Difficulties encountered in the construction and attachment of the reducing motion and the limited time available for this thesis made it impossible to secure
enough data from which to draw positive conclusions. However, the results obtained are sufficient to indicate what may be expected, from the use of water injection devices.
Cosmic Reionization on Computers: Evolution of the Flux Power Spectrum
Creators: name: Mishra, Nishant
name: Gnedin, Nickolay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the evolution of the flux power spectrum in the Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) simulations. We find that, contrary to some previous studies, the shape of the flux power spectrum is rather insensitive to the timing of reionization. However, the amplitude of the flux power spectrum does strongly evolve with time, and that evolution is almost perfectly correlated with the timing of reionization. We show how such correlation can be used in a (futuristic) measurement to determine the redshift of overlap of ionized bubbles.
description: Submitted to ApJ
A synthetic bispecific antibody capable of neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron
Creators: name: Yuan, Tom Z.
name: Lucas, Carolina
name: Monteiro, Valter S.
name: Iwasaki, Akiko
name: Yang, Marisa L.
name: Nepita, Hector F.
name: Lujan Hernandez, Ana G.
name: Taft, Joseph M.
name: Frei, Lester
name: Reddy, Sai T.
name: Weber, Cédric R.
name: Malobisky, Kevin P.
name: Mesquita, Rodrigo
name: Sato, Aaron K.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022
Subjects: VHH
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19
Delta
Omicron
Synthetic
Bispecific
Spike

description: Bispecific antibodies have emerged as a promising strategy for curtailing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immune escape. This brief report highlights RBT-0813 (also known as TB493-04), a synthetic, humanized, receptor-binding domain (RBD)-targeted bispecific antibody that retains picomolar affinity to the Spike (S) trimers of all major variants of concern and neutralizes both SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron in vitro.
description: bioRxiv
Parameterized Approximation Schemes for Clustering with General Norm Objectives
Creators: name: Abbasi, Fateme
name: Banerjee, Sandip
name: Byrka, Jarosław
name: Chalermsook, Parinya
name: Gadekar, Ameet
name: Khodamoradi, Kamyar
name: Marx, Dániel
name: Sharma, Roohani
name: Spoerhase, Joachim
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: This paper considers the well-studied algorithmic regime of designing a (1+ϵ)-approximation algorithm for a k-clustering problem that runs in time f(k,ϵ)poly(n) (sometimes called an efficient parameterized approximation scheme or EPAS for short). Notable results of this kind include EPASes in the high-dimensional Euclidean setting for k-center [Badŏiu, Har-Peled, Indyk; STOC'02] as well as k-median, and k-means [Kumar, Sabharwal, Sen; J. ACM 2010]. However, existing EPASes handle only basic objectives (such as k-center, k-median, and k-means) and are tailored to the specific objective and metric space.
Our main contribution is a clean and simple EPAS that settles more than ten clustering problems (across multiple well-studied objectives as well as metric spaces) and unifies well-known EPASes. Our algorithm gives EPASes for a large variety of clustering objectives (for example, k-means, k-center, k-median, priority k-center, ℓ-centrum, ordered k-median, socially fair k-median aka robust k-median, or more generally monotone norm k-clustering) and metric spaces (for example, continuous high-dimensional Euclidean spaces, metrics of bounded doubling dimension, bounded treewidth metrics, and planar metrics).
Key to our approach is a new concept that we call bounded ϵ-scatter dimension--an intrinsic complexity measure of a metric space that is a relaxation of the standard notion of bounded doubling dimension. Our main technical result shows that two conditions are essentially sufficient for our algorithm to yield an EPAS on the input metric M for any clustering objective: (i) The objective is described by a monotone (not necessarily symmetric!) norm, and (ii) the ϵ-scatter dimension of M is upper bounded by a function of ϵ.
A comparison of spatial disaggregation techniques as applied to population estimation for South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia
Creators: name: Li, Tiebei
name: Pullar, David
name: Corcoran, Jonathan
name: Stimson, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The accuracy of spatial disaggregation techniques largely depends on their underlying density assumptions and the quality of the data applied. This paper presents the results of a comparative investigation of four spatial disaggregation methodologies to determine their relative accuracies. These methodologies include binary dasymetric, a regression model, a locally fitted regression model and three-class dasymetric, each of which provides different solutions for explaining spatially heterogeneous density when population data is spatially disaggregated. In contrast to previous studies, we apply the spatial disaggregation techniques to a comparably larger and more varied geographical area which allows the spatial disaggregation techniques to be more rigorously tested. Results indicate that the three-class dasymetric technique generates higher levels of accuracy compared to the other spatial disaggregation techniques and this result is more conclusive than previous findings.
A ChPT estimate of the strong-isospin-breaking contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon
Creators: name: James, Christopher L.
name: Lewis, Randy
name: Maltman, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles lattice determinations of the Standard Model expectation for the leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon have become sufficiently precise that further improvement requires including strong and electromagnetic isospin-breaking effects. We provide a continuum estimate of the strong isospin-breaking contribution, $a_μ^{SIB}$, using $SU(3)$ chiral perturbation theory. The result is shown to be dominated by resonance-region contributions encoded in a single low-energy constant whose value is known from flavor-breaking hadronic $τ$ decay sum rules. Implications of the form of the result for lattice determinations of $a_μ^{SIB}$ are also discussed.
description: 20 pages, three figures
Supporting Information for the Journal Article "Ultra-fast spectroscopy for high-throughput and interactive quantum chemistry"
Creators: name: Bosia, Francesco
name: Weymuth, Thomas
name: Reiher, Markus
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2022

description: This document contains the supporting information published together with the article "Ultra-fast spectroscopy for high-throughput and interactive quantum chemistry" (Int. J. Quantum Chem., 2022, 122, e26966).
description: ISBN:https://zenodo.org/communities/reiher-research-group