cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Wearable Data Collection System for Studying Micro-Level E-Scooter Behavior in Naturalistic Road Environment
Creators: name: Prabu, Avinash
name: Shen, Dan
name: Tian, Renran
name: Chien, Stanley
name: Li, Lingxi
name: Chen, Yaobin
name: Sherony, Rini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As one of the most popular micro-mobility options, e-scooters are spreading in hundreds of big cities and college towns in the US and worldwide. In the meantime, e-scooters are also posing new challenges to traffic safety. In general, e-scooters are suggested to be ridden in bike lanes/sidewalks or share the road with cars at the maximum speed of about 15-20 mph, which is more flexible and much faster than the pedestrains and bicyclists. These features make e-scooters challenging for human drivers, pedestrians, vehicle active safety modules, and self-driving modules to see and interact. To study this new mobility option and address e-scooter riders' and other road users' safety concerns, this paper proposes a wearable data collection system for investigating the micro-level e-Scooter motion behavior in a Naturalistic road environment. An e-Scooter-based data acquisition system has been developed by integrating LiDAR, cameras, and GPS using the robot operating system (ROS). Software frameworks are developed to support hardware interfaces, sensor operation, sensor synchronization, and data saving. The integrated system can collect data continuously for hours, meeting all the requirements including calibration accuracy and capability of collecting the vehicle and e-Scooter encountering data.
description: Conference: Fast-zero'21, Kanazawa, Japan Date of publication: Sep 2021 Publisher: JSAE
A maximum-entropy description of animal movement
Creators: name: Fleming, Chris H.
name: Subasi, Yigit
name: Calabrese, Justin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a class of maximum-entropy states that naturally includes within it all of the major continuous-time stochastic processes that have been applied to animal movement, including Brownian motion, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck motion, integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck motion, a recently discovered hybrid of the previous models, and a new model that describes central-place foraging. We are also able to predict a further hierarchy of new models that will emerge as data quality improves to better resolve the underlying continuity of animal movement. Finally, we also show that Langevin equations must obey a fluctuation-dissipation theorem to generate processes that fall from this class of maximum-entropy distributions.
description: 6 pages
BS-Patch: Constrained Bezier Parametric Patch
Creators: name: Skala, Vaclav
name: Ondracka, Vit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3

description: Bezier parametric patches are used in engineering practice quite often, especially in CAD/CAM systems oriented to mechanical design. In many cases quadrilateral meshes are used for tessellation of parameters domain. We propose a new modification of the Bezier cubic rectangular patch, the BS-patch, which is based on the requirement that diagonal curves must be of degree 3 instead of degree 6 as it is in the case of the Bezier patch. Theoretical derivation of conditions is presented and some experimental results as well. The BS-Patch is convenient for applications where for different tessellation of the u-v domain different degrees of diagonal curves are not acceptable.
description: Draft of the paper: WSEAS Trans.on Mathematics, E-ISSN 2224-2880, No.5, Vol.12, pp.598-607, 2013. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2212.11875
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28935.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.04.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
New stellar velocity substructures from Gaia DR3 proper motions
Creators: name: Mikkola, Daniel
name: McMillan, Paul J.
name: Hobbs, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Local stellar motions are expected, and have been shown, to include signatures of the Galaxy's past dynamical evolution. These are typically divided into the disc, which shows the dynamical effects of spiral arms and the bar, and the stellar halo, with structures thought to be debris from past mergers. We use Gaia Data Release 3 to select large samples of these populations without limiting them to sources with radial velocities. We apply a penalised maximum likelihood method to these samples to determine the full 3D velocity distribution in Cartesian $(U, V, W)$ or spherical $(v_r, v_ϕ, v_θ)$ coordinates. We find that the disc population is dominated by four moving groups and also detect a new moving group at $(U, V) = (-10, -15)$ km s$^{-1}$ which we call MMH-0. For the stellar halo, we isolate the accreted component with cuts in transverse velocity and the colour-magnitude diagram. In this component we find several known structures believed to be caused by past mergers, particularly one around $(v_r, v_ϕ, v_θ) = (-150, -300, -100)$ km s$^{-1}$ appears more prominent than previously claimed. Furthermore we also identify two new structures near $(v_r, v_ϕ, v_θ) = (225, 25, 325)$ km s$^{-1}$ and $(0, 150, -125)$ km s$^{-1}$ which we refer to as MMH-1 and MMH-2 respectively. These results give new insights into local stellar motions and shows the potential of using samples that are not limited to stars with measured line-of-sight velocities, which is key to providing large samples of stars, necessary for future studies.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Housing Tenure and Secession Support in Scotland Analysis Plan
Creators: name: Basta, Karlo
name: Liñeira, Robert
name: J. Scott Matthews
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of housing tenure on attitudes and views towards independence in Scotland. We study this impact through an experiment that primes alternative views on the long-term economic consequences of secession, contrasting the impact of a negative forecast, a mixed forecast, and a control group. Our interest is examining how these messages affect factors that may mediate the relationship, and how the impact of these views is moderated by housing tenure.
Sensing Hotterdam: Crowd sensing the Rotterdam urban heat island
Creators: name: Van Der Hoeven, Frank
name: Wandl, Alexander
name: Demir, Betul
name: Dikmans, Sophie
name: Hagoort, Jafeth
name: Moretto, Marco
name: Sefkatli, Pinar
name: Snijder, Frans
name: Songsri, Siriluck
name: Stijger, Patrick
name: Yakovleva, Natalie
name: Wijtsma, Derk
name: Blocken, Bert
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: Sensing Hotterdam recorded the temperature in 1,000 Rotterdam homes and at 300 public spaces in the summer of 2014 in order to outline the links between the urban heat island, the built environment and public health in the city of Rotterdam. The measured outdoor temperature readings point to a clear heat island effect in Rotterdam. Temperatures in homes are generally higher than those in the surrounding area, and also show a large degree of variation. Indoor temperatures are less affected by local outdoor temperatures than we had expected.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Spectral characteristics and morphology of nanostructured Pb-S-O thin films synthesized via two different methods
Creators: name: Mohamed, H. S. H.
name: Abdel-Hafiez, M.
name: Miroshnikov, B. N.
name: Barinov, A. D.
name: Miroshnikova, I. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using two different experimental techniques, namely, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD), we deposited a Lead sulphide (PbS) thin films with a very small lifetime. We investigated the morphology of the obtained PbS films using various techniques i.e.AFM, SEM, EDAX, AES and HRTEM . In the case of CVD, we found that the surface consists of grains with dimensions in the plane (diameter to 300 nm and height up to 200 nm), while the same order of the grain size has been observed for PVD. On the other hand, SEM investigation reveals that the PbS particles with various morphologies of both films have uniform and the particle size distribution. Small amount of Sodium was obtained from EDXS studies, which is may originate from the substrate where the deposition process has been produced at temperature 550-600 deg. and for CVD at minimum accelerating voltage 5kV silicon are presented in the spectrum, which means that the region for X-ray generation voltage data exceeds the thickness of the films (where the thickness of films about 0.4 micron). AES confirm that the surface layer of these films (PVD) containing carbon and oxygen and it has a thickness of 0.1micron. At a depth of 1.3 microns in films these elements is again increased, which corresponds to the film thickness of 1.5 micron. Layers of PVD films are seen by HRTEM and the studies confirm that oxygen-layer located on top of the structure, while the layers of CVD films have not only the oxygen along the crystallite boundaries, but also accumulate in the depth of the boundary with the substrate. Our results of morphology indicate that changing in spectral characteristics of films deposited by (CVD and PVD) is related to the structure and crystalline size.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Controlling systems that drift through a tipping point
Creators: name: Nishikawa, Takashi
name: Ott, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Slow parameter drift is common in many systems (e.g., the amount of greenhouse gases in the terrestrial atmosphere is increasing). In such situations, the attractor on which the system trajectory lies can be destroyed, and the trajectory will then go to another attractor of the system. We consider the case where there are more than one of these possible final attractors, and we ask whether we can control the outcome (i.e., the attractor that ultimately captures the trajectory) using only small controlling perturbations. Specifically, we consider the problem of controlling a noisy system whose parameter slowly drifts through a saddle-node bifurcation taking place on a fractal boundary between the basins of multiple attractors. We show that, when the noise level is low, a small perturbation of size comparable to the noise amplitude applied at a single point in time can ensure that the system will evolve toward a target attracting state with high probability. For a range of noise levels, we find that the minimum size of perturbation required for control is much smaller within a time period that starts some time after the bifurcation, providing a "window of opportunity" for driving the system toward a desirable state. We refer to this procedure as tipping point control.
O'ZBEK KOMPOZITORLARI IJODINI O'RGANISH JARAYONIDA UMUMTA'LIM MAKTABLARI O'QUVCHILARINING VOKAL-XOR IJRO MAHORATINI SHAKLLANTIRISHNING NAZARIY ASOSLARI
Creators: name: Tursunova, Xusnora
name: Trigulova, A.X.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqolada umumtaʼlim maktab oʼquvchilarida vokal-xor ijrosi koʼnikmalarini oʼzbek kompozitorlarining asarlarini oʼrganish orqali shakllantirishning nazariy asoslari koʼrib chiqilgan.
Semantic web of building information: Cloud based ‘real world’ building data
Creators: name: Hartmann, Timo
name: Beetz, Jakob
name: Krijnen, Thomas
name: Koutamanis, Alexander
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: Information required by practicing architects, engineers, construction managers, building operators, asset managers, owners, and users becomes more and more distributed, detailed, and richer. BIG DATA is on the rise and this trend will not stop. We rather expect that this trend will further accelerate in the upcoming years as; • more and more sensor technologies will become widely available to access existing conditions in the built environment, • more and more information streams will be combined for various purposes, e.g. mobile data access information to space use in order to evaluate wireless infrastructure performance but also to establish building use patterns in post-occupancy evaluations, • advanced design tools will allow for more detailed data-driven simulation of an increasing number of design alternatives in shorter time spans, and • participatory efforts will involve an ever larger number of specialists and non-specialists that all provide information that needs to be accounted for during design and construction planning. We expect that these will be key areas for research in the upcoming years. In this lighthouse project we made four important first steps to enable such research: • 3TU BIM Data Repository • Data format, standard, and dictionary map • Information use and exchange processes • Automated indexing methods
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Nonlinear optical waveguide lattices: Asymptotic analysis, solitons, and topological insulators
Creators: name: Ablowitz, Mark J.
name: Cole, Justin T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the study of wave propagation in nonlinear photonic lattices. The interplay between nonlinearity and periodicity has led researchers to manipulate light and discover new and interesting phenomena such as new classes of localized modes, usually referred to as solitons, and novel surface states that propagate robustly. A field where both nonlinearity and periodicity arises naturally is nonlinear optics. But there are other areas where waves propagating on background lattices play an important role, including photonic crystal fibers and Bose-Einstein condensation. In this review article the propagation of wave envelopes in one and two-dimensional periodic lattices associated with additional potential in the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation, termed lattice NLS equations, are studied. A discrete reduction, known as the tight-binding approximation, is employed to find the linear dispersion relation and the equations governing nonlinear discrete envelopes for two-dimensional simple periodic lattices and two-dimensional non-simple honeycomb lattices. In the limit under which the envelopes vary slowly, continuous envelope equations are derived from the discrete system. The coefficients of the linear evolution system are related to the dispersion relation in both the discrete and continuous cases. For simple lattices, the continuous systems are NLS type equations. In honeycomb lattices, in certain cases, the continuous system is found to be nonlinear Dirac equations. Finally, it is possible to realize so-called topological insulator systems in an optical waveguide setting. The modes supported by these systems are associated with spectral topological invariants and, remarkably, can propagate without backscatter from lattice defects.
description: Review Article
The Supergeometric Algebra
Creators: name: Hamilton, Andrew J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spinors are central to physics: all matter (fermions) is made of spinors, and all forces arise from symmetries of spinors. It is common to consider the geometric (Clifford) algebra as the fundamental edifice from which spinors emerge. This paper advocates the alternative view that spinors are more fundamental than the geometric algebra. The algebra consisting of linear combinations of scalars, column spinors, row spinors, multivectors, and their various products, can be termed the supergeometric algebra. The inner product of a row spinor with a column spinor yields a scalar, while the outer product of a column spinor with a row spinor yields a multivector, in accordance with the Brauer-Weyl (1935) theorem. Prohibiting the product of a row spinor with a row spinor, or a column spinor with a column spinor, reproduces the exclusion principle. The fact that the index of a spinor is a bitcode is highlighted.
description: 29 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28952.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.05.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Robotically driven construction of buildings: Exploring on-demand building components production
Creators: name: Bier, Henriette
name: Mostafavi, Sina
name: Anton, Ana
name: Bodea, Serban
name: Raaphorst, Berend
name: Mostart, Guus
name: De Jonge, Hans
name: Van Lit, Jeroen
name: Paclt, Jan
name: Siderius, Kasper
name: Galli, Marco
name: Kornecki, Michal
name: Anghelache, Mohammad Jooshesh Oana
name: Low, Perry
name: Flis, Radoslaw
name: Moors, Rob
name: Roodt, Rutger
name: Hoogenraad, Ruth
name: Hoeijmakers, Stef
name: Kanters, Steph
name: IJperlaan, Thijs
name: Rem, Peter
name: Lotfi, Somayeh
name: Di Domenica, Eleonora
name: Salet, Theo
name: Vos, Jordy
name: Van Der Burgt, Adrie
name: Van Wezel, Bas
name: Voorend, Christiaan
name: Bekkers, Chiel
name: Rombouts, Iris
name: Gerlings, Luc
name: De Vries, Marieke
name: Bruurs, Marijn
name: Wolfs, Rob
name: Saes, Siert
name: Span, Tim
name: Rouwhorst, Wout
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: Robotically Driven Construction of Buildings (RDCB) is an exploration into design to production solutions for robotically driven construction of buildings initiated by the faculties of Civil Engineering and Architecture, TU Delft and Architecture, TU Eindhoven and implemented 2014 within the 3TU Lighthouse framework. The aim of was to involve the disciplines of architecture, robotics, materials science, and structural design in order to integrate knowledge from the individual disciplines and develop new numerically controlled manufacturing techniques and building-design optimisation methods for adding creative value to buildings in a cost-effective and sustainable way. RDCB builds up on expertise developed at Hyperbody with respect to applications of robotics in architecture and this paper presents the contribution of the Robotic Building team from Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft to the RDCB project. The contribution is in line with Europe’s aim to improve material and energy efficiency of buildings and efficiency of construction processes. Robotically driven construction and customised building materials have the potential to realise this in a cost-effective way and at the same time reduce accidents and health hazards for workers in the building sector. In order to achieve this RDCB is distributing materials as needed and where needed. This requires exploration of a variety of techniques and implies working with customised materials and techniques while finding the best methods of applying materials in the logic of specific force flows or thermal dissipation patterns. RDCB advances multi- and trans-disciplinary knowledge in robotically driven construction by designing and engineering new building systems for the on-demand production of customisable building components (Bier, 2014). The main consideration is that in architecture and building construction the factory of the future employs building materials and components that can be on site robotically processed and assembled.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Cocreation of assistive technologies for patients with Long COVID : qualitative analysis of a literature review on the challenges of patient involvement in health and nursing sciences
Creators: name: Dalko, Katharina
name: Kraft, Bernhard
name: Jahn, Patrick
name: Schildmann, Jan
name: Hofstetter, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Background: Digital assistive technologies have the potential to address the pressing need for adequate therapy options for patients with long COVID (also known as post–COVID-19 condition) by enabling the implementation of individual and independent rehabilitation programs. However, the involvement of the target patient group is necessary to develop digital devices that are closely aligned to the needs of this particular patient group. Objective: Participatory design approaches, such as cocreation, may be a solution for achieving usability and user acceptance. However, there are currently no set methods for implementing cocreative development processes incorporating patients. This study addresses the following research questions: what are the tasks and challenges associated with the involvement of patient groups? What lessons can be learned regarding the adequate involvement of patients with long COVID? Methods: First, a literature review based on a 3-stage snowball process was conducted to identify the tasks and challenges emerging in the context of the cocreation of digital assistive devices and services with patient groups. Second, a qualitative analysis was conducted in an attempt to extract relevant findings and criteria from the identified studies. Third, using the method of theory adaptation, this paper presents recommendations for the further development of the existing concepts of cocreation in relation to patients with long COVID. Results: The challenges of an active involvement of patients in cocreative development in health care include hierarchical barriers and differences in the levels of specific knowledge between professionals and patients. In the case of long COVID, patients themselves are still inexperienced in dealing with their symptoms and are hardly organized into established groups. This amplifies general hurdles and leads to questions of group identity, power structure, and knowledge creation, which are not sufficiently addressed by the current methods of cocreation. Conclusions: The adaptation of transdisciplinary methods to cocreative development approaches focusing on collaborative and inclusive communication can address the recurring challenges of actively integrating patients with long COVID into development processes.
Kine-Mould: Flexible mould system opens up wide range of possibilities
Creators: name: Schipper, Roel
name: Eigenraam, Peter
name: Soru, Matteo
name: Grünewald, Steffen
name: Gavran, Ivan
name: Michel, Mattias
name: Pronk, Arno
name: Erinkveld, Dick
name: El Ghazi, Hisham
name: Janmaat, Mitchell
name: Lusing, Tobi
name: Van Rijbroek, Erwin
name: Schuijers, Niek
name: Verboord, Martijn
name: Versteeg, Robin
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: The Kine-Mould is a development that makes it easier to manufacture building elements with complex geometry. Since June 2014 the team has been working on a range of solutions and prototypes. Various building materials have been investigated such as concrete, glass and plastic composites. In a joint effort of TU Delft and TU Eindhoven the following prototypes were designed and built: • One for thermoplastic polymers; • One for concrete elements; • One for glass elements; • Several for inflatable mould surfaces. Students carried out a significant part of the work. Companies were involved in the manufacturing process of the prototypes and application of the results.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Impact of a binary black hole on its outer circumbinary disc
Creators: name: Mignon-Risse, Raphaël
name: Varniere, Peggy
name: Casse, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accreting supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) are potential targets for multi-messenger astronomy as they emit gravitational waves (GW) while their environment emits electromagnetic (EM) waves. In order to get the most out of a joint GW-EM detection we first need to obtain theoretically-predicted EM signals unambiguously linked to BBHs. In that respect, this is the first of a series of papers dedicated to accreting pre-merger BBHs and their associated EM observables. Here, we extend our Numerical Observatory of Violent Accreting systems, e-NOVAs, to any spacetime. Unlike previous studies, almost exclusively focused on the inner regions, we investigated the impact of the BBH on its outer circumbinary disc, located in the radiation (or wave) zone, after implementing an approximate analytical spacetime of spinning, inspiralling BBHs in e-NOVAs. We follow the formation of a weak spiral structure in disc density arising from the retardation effects in the radiation zone metric. Simulation data are then post-processed with a general-relativistic ray-tracing code incorporating the same BBH spacetime, assuming SMBBH sources. The density spiral creates a small (<1%) but unambiguous modulation of the lightcurve at the semi-orbital period. This signal, although weak, is fundamentally different from that of an axisymmetric disc around a single BH providing a lower limit on the impact of a BBH on its outer disc. This potential difference being found, we study how binary parameters impact this modulation in order to find the optimal case which is a high source inclination of any binary mass ratio (from 0.1 to 1).
description: 14 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 28897.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.02.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Impenetrable infiltration: Air permeability of Dutch dwellings
Creators: name: Entrop, Bram
name: Hensen, Jan
name: Loomans, Marcel
name: Brons, Ron
name: Veldhoff, Alex
name: Averink, Jan
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: Het is wenselijk dat gebouwen beschikken over voldoende en de juiste mogelijkheden om te ventileren. Buiten de benodigde ventilatievoorzieningen is het echter de bedoeling een gebouw zo luchtdicht mogelijk te maken ten einde comfortklachten en onnodig energiegebruik te voorkomen. In het Bouwbesluit zijn eisen met betrekking tot de luchtdoorlatendheid – het tegenovergestelde van luchtdichtheid – opgenomen. Met betrekking tot een heel gebouw wordt in Art. 5.4 lid 1 het volgende geëist: De volgens NEN 2686 bepaalde luchtvolumestroom van het totaal aan verblijfsgebieden, toiletruimten en badruimten van een gebruiksfunctie is niet groter dan 0,2 m³/s. De Universiteit Twente en de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven hebben samen met het bouwbedrijf SelektHuis gewerkt aan de uitvoering van het onderzoek “Impenetrable Infiltration”. Dit onderzoek naar de luchtdoorlatendheid van woningen kent drie onderdelen, namelijk: A. Een veldonderzoek waarbij luchtdichtheidsmetingen worden uitgevoerd op vrijstaande woningen om zo te bepalen tegen welke keuzemogelijkheden luchtdichtheidsmeters en uitvoerende bouwondernemingen aanlopen om de luchtvolumestroom te beïnvloeden; B. Een deskstudie waarbij rapportages van luchtdichtheidsmetingen worden bestudeerd om zo te bepalen wat de huidige stand van zaken is betreffende de luchtdichtheid van woningen; C. Een vergelijkend praktijkonderzoek naar het bepalen van de luchtdichtheid, waarbij drie partijen de luchtdichtheid van dezelfde duurzaam gebouwde vrijstaande woning zullen vaststellen. Om de veldstudie en het praktijkonderzoek uit te kunnen voeren, is de nodige apparatuur aangeschaft. Er is gebruik gemaakt van een blower door, een ventilator en een digitale manometer. Tevens is er tijdens de metingen gebruik gemaakt van twee dataloggers om de luchtdruk, binnen- en buitentemperatuur elke minuut vast te leggen. Er werd een anemometer gebruikt om de windsnelheid op locatie te bepalen. Om inzicht te krijgen waar eventuele lekken zich bevonden, werden een rookmachine en een infraroodcamera ingezet.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Evaluation of intratumoral response heterogeneity in metastatic colorectal cancer and its impact on patient overall survival : findings from 10,551 patients in the ARCAD database
Creators: name: Ou, Fang-Shu
name: Schmoll, Hans-Joachim
name: [Und Viele Weitere]
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is a heterogeneous disease that can evoke discordant responses to therapy among different lesions in individual patients. The Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria do not take into consideration response heterogeneity. We explored and developed lesion-based measurement response criteria to evaluate their prognostic effect on overall survival (OS). Patients and Methods: Patients enrolled in 17 first-line clinical trials, who had mCRC with ≥ 2 lesions at baseline, and a restaging scan by 12 weeks were included. For each patient, lesions were categorized as a progressing lesion (PL: > 20% increase in the longest diameter (LD)), responding lesion (RL: > 30% decrease in LD), or stable lesion (SL: neither PL nor RL) based on the 12-week scan. Lesion-based response criteria were defined for each patient as follows: PL only, SL only, RL only, and varied responses (mixture of RL, SL, and PL). Lesion-based response criteria and OS were correlated using stratified multivariable Cox models. The concordance between OS and classifications was measured using the C statistic. Results: Among 10,551 patients with mCRC from 17 first-line studies, varied responses were noted in 51.6% of patients, among whom, 3.3% had RL/PL at 12 weeks. Among patients with RL/SL, 52% had stable disease (SD) by RECIST 1.1, and they had a longer OS (median OS (mOS) = 19.9 months) than those with SL only (mOS = 16.8 months, HR (95% CI) = 0.81 (0.76, 0.85), p < 0.001), although a shorter OS than those with RL only (mOS = 25.8 months, HR (95% CI) = 1.42 (1.32, 1.53), p < 0.001). Among patients with SL/PL, 74% had SD by RECIST 1.1, and they had a longer OS (mOS = 9.0 months) than those with PL only (mOS = 8.0 months, HR (95% CI) = 0.75 (0.57, 0.98), p = 0.040), yet a shorter OS than those with SL only (mOS = 16.8 months, HR (95% CI) = 1.98 (1.80, 2.18), p < 0.001). These associations were consistent across treatment regimen subgroups. The lesion-based response criteria showed slightly higher concordance than RECIST 1.1, although it was not statistically significant. Conclusion: Varied responses at first restaging are common among patients receiving first-line therapy for mCRC. Our lesion-based measurement criteria allowed for better mortality discrimination, which could potentially be informative for treatment decision-making and influence patient outcomes.
Almost an island
Creators: name: Parrott, Lauren Kimiko
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: “Almost an Island” is a collection of short stories that follow isolated characters as they attempt to find meaningful connections through romance or family. The stories consider the consequences of detachment as characters attempt to engage with, or escape from, reality. Many stories rethink traditional structures, particularly the epistolary form. Other stories work within the genre of magical realism as a means to examine mental illness and childhood.
Slow inversion of coordinated thioether groups in SNS-type ruthenium pincer complexes
Creators: name: Rummel, Frederik
name: Wehmeyer, Frerk
name: Vogt, Matthias
name: Langer, Robert
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540

description: The thioether-group-containing SNS-type pincer complex [({EtSCH2CH2}2NH)RuCl(H)(PPh3)] (2) exists in three different diastereomers (2 a–c). The molecular structures obtained from single crystal X-Ray diffraction studies of all three isomers reveal a difference in the relative orientation of the respective EtS-groups, while other commonly observed diastereomers as the result of cis-/trans- or fac-/mer-isomerism are not observed. Chemical exchange between the three diastereomers 2 a–c was discovered by phase-sensitive 1H and 31P NOESY NMR spectroscopy, and further quantified by line shape analysis of 1H NMR spectra. The experimentally derived averaged Gibbs energies of activation for the interconversion of the isomers (65–70 kJ/mol) are in good agreement with the results obtained from DFT calculations, which suggest an inversion of the ligating sulfur atoms, although a dissociative pathway for the configurational inversion can be competitive.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 29003.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.07.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Energy efficient facade lighting: Highlighting facade structures
Creators: name: Aries, Myriam
name: Rosemann, Alexander
name: Westerhout, Wies
name: Hordijk, Truus
name: Visser, Rienk
name: Pacey, Betty Lou
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: The project set out to proof that a conventional optical fibre lighting system for highlighting the structure of a façade can be operated more energy-efficiently through the substitution of the projector using a metal halide reflector lamp by a laser. This is investigated by looking into the photometric assessment of such systems as well as the electric power draw during operation. In preparation for a potential exterior demonstration installation, an additional focal point of the research was the design and testing of a weatherproof case that provides protection to the laser and the ballast. The final stage brought the different aspects of the research together and resulted in a temporary experimental setup (pilot installation) in order to showcase the validity of this novel approach.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
A Method for Crash Prediction and Avoidance Using Hidden Markov Models
Creators: name: Prabu, Avinash
name: Li, Lingxi
name: King, Brian
name: Chen, Yaobin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In recent years, automotive technology has made a steady progress. In particular, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) has enabled many safety features in commercial vehicles, for instance, pedestrian detection, lane keeping assist, emergency automatic braking, etc. Although these features provide drivers with a safer operational environment, crashes still happen occasionally due to the complex road conditions and the unpredictable movement of road users including vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and non-motorized vehicles. In this paper, we aim at predicting the possibilities of crashes between vehicles on highway and implementing an appropriate active safety system to prevent the same. In particular, hidden Markov models are developed for the traffic lanes and speed change of vehicles on highway. Algorithms are developed for the prediction of crash probabilities. Simulation experiments are conducted using Matlab, the results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed research.
description: Conference: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI)
DoubleFace: Adjustable translucent system to improve thermal comfort
Creators: name: Turrin, Michela
name: Tenpierik, Martin
name: De Ruiter, Paul
name: Van Der Spoel, Willem
name: Chang Lara, Carlos
name: Heinzelmann, Florian
name: Teuffel, Patrick
name: Van Bommel, Wout
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: The DoubleFace project aims at developing a new product that passively improves thermal comfort of indoor and semi-indoor spaces by means of lightweight materials for latent heat storage, while simultaneously allowing daylight to pass through as much as possible. Specifically, the project aims at designing and prototyping an adjustable translucent modular system featuring thermal insulation and thermal absorption in a calibrated manner, which is adjustable according to different heat loads during summer- and wintertime. The output consists of a proof of concept, a series of performance simulations and measurement and a prototype of an adjustable thermal mass system based on lightweight and translucent materials: phase-changing materials (PCM) for latent heat storage and translucent aerogel particles for thermal insulation.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 2: Energy Innovation #1
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 29071.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 24.11.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 29031.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.09.1994, erstellt von Hans Ulrich Keller
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1994

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der ehem. Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit den statistischen Angaben, für die Werte g, f und mit einer Spalte für A: von blossem Auge sichtbare Flecken, beobachtet mit Hilfe eines korrekt-reduzierenden optischen Filters (naked eye sunspots).
Beobachtungstätigkeit am erwähnten Ort im Auftrag des Schweizerischen Militärdepartements, Bundesamt für Übermittlungstruppen (BAUEM): Zählungen am Fraunhoferschen Normalrefraktor und Zeichnungen am Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor
Abandoning grassland management negatively influences plant but not bird or insect biodiversity in Europe
Creators: name: Elliott, Tessa
name: Thompson, Amibeth
name: Klein, Alexandra-Maria
name: Albert, Christian
name: Eisenhauer, Nico
name: Jansen, Florian
name: Schneider, Andrea
name: Sommer, Martin
name: Straka, Tanja
name: Settele, Josef
name: Sporbert, Maria
name: Tanneberger, Franziska
name: Mupepele, Anne-Christine
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Grasslands are globally distributed and naturally occurring; however, in Europe, most grasslands are anthropogenically created or altered by livestock grazing or mowing. Low-intensity use and management have led to species-rich communities in European grasslands. The intensification of crop production and livestock farming with stabling throughout the year has led to an abandonment of grasslands that are no longer economically profitable. In this study, we looked at the influence of grassland abandonment on biodiversity. We hypothesized that abandonment of grasslands decreases the overall biodiversity, but has different effects depending on the focal taxonomic group (i.e., vascular plants, insects, or birds). We also hypothesized that the type of management before abandonment, the type of grassland, and the time after abandonment would influence grassland biodiversity. We conducted a Web of Science search, with pre-defined terms, to find articles that compared biodiversity of managed and abandoned grasslands in Europe. We screened the articles and included 39 studies in a subsequent meta-analysis. We found that overall biodiversity was reduced after abandonment; however, the biodiversity reduction in the grasslands differed among taxonomic groups. Plant species diversity was significantly lower after abandonment (plant summary effect size: −0.25 [−0.34; −0.16]), whereas the diversity of insects and birds showed no significant trend, but a visual trend toward an increase. None of the other environmental variables (type of management, type of grassland, or the time after abandonment) had a significant influence on the biodiversity of the grasslands. We conclude that maintaining grassland management is crucial to support biodiversity conservation in European grasslands.
Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology
Creators: name: Stiles, Richard
name: Gasienica‐Wawrytko, Beatrix
name: Hagen, Katrin
name: Trimmel, Heidelinde
name: Loibl, Wolfgang
name: Tötzer, Tanja
name: Köstl, Mario
name: Pauleit, Stephan
name: Schirmann, Annike
name: Feilmayr, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: SPOOL
Year: 2014

description: The European Landscape Convention implies a requirement for signatory states to identify their urban landscapes which goes beyond the traditional focus on individual parks and green spaces and the links between them. Landscape ecological approaches can provide a useful model for identifying urban landscape types across a whole territory, but the variables relevant for urban landscapes are very different to those usually addressing rural areas. This paper presents an approach to classifying the urban landscape of Vienna that was developed in a research project funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: ‘Urban Fabric and Microclimate Response’. Nine landscape types and a number of sub-types were defined, using a multivariate statistical approach which takes account of both morphological and urban climate related variables. Although the variables were selected to objectively reflect the factors that could best represent the urban climatic characteristics of the urban landscape, the results also provided a widely plausible representation of the structure of the city’s landscapes. Selected examples of the landscape types that were defined in this way were used both to simulate current microclimatic conditions and also to model the effects of possible climatic amelioration measures. Finally the paper looks forward to developing a more general-purpose urban landscape typology that allows investigating a much broader complex of urban landscape functions.
description: SPOOL, Vol. 1 No. 1: Landscape Metropolis #1
Did the ever dead outnumber the living and when? A birth-and-death approach
Creators: name: Avan, Jean
name: Grosjean, Nicolas
name: Huillet, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper is an attempt to formalize analytically the question raised in "World Population Explained: Do Dead People Outnumber Living, Or Vice Versa?" Huffington Post, \cite{HJ}. We start developing simple deterministic Malthusian growth models of the problem (with birth and death rates either constant or time-dependent) before running into both linear birth and death Markov chain models and age-structured models.