cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Glanz und Elend der reinen Rechtslehre: theoretische und geistesgeschichtliche Überlegungen zum Dilemma von Sein und Sollen in Hans Kelsens Rechtstheorie ; erweiterte Fassung des Vortrags vor dem Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken am 10. Juni 1988
Creators: name: Winkler, Günther
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Kelsen, Hans
subject: Rechtstheorie
subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 144
description: 144, Europa-Institut 1981
Cancer metabolism and oxidative stress: Insights into carcinogenesis and chemotherapy via the non-dihydrofolate reductase effects of methotrexate
Creators: name: Hess, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: Pathology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cancer
subject: Pathogenesis
subject: Biophysics
subject: Toxicology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Health Care
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Published to BBA Clinical doi:10.1016/j.bbacli.2015.01.006 Please see link above for all citation information. Review Cancer metabolism and oxidative stress: Insights into carcinogenesis and chemotherapy via the non-dihydrofolate reductase effects of methotrexate Joshua A. Hess, Mohamad K. Khasawneh
Aquatic faunal abundance and diversity in relation to synthetic and natural pesticide applications in rice fields of Central Thailand
Creators: name: Cochard, Roland
name: Suthamma Maneepitak
name: Kumar, Prabhat
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Despite wetland conversion to intensive rice production Central Thailand remains a center for wetland biodiversity in Southern Asia. Fauna inhabiting rice fields (many species perform important ecosystem services) are, however, increasingly threatened by pesticide uses. In Ayutthaya and Ang Thong Provinces 40 conventionally and 31 organically managed farms were visited to investigate how abundance and diversity of aquatic fauna in rice fields relate to pesticide regimes. In the dry and wet seasons fields were surveyed for plankton, aquatic macro-invertebrates, fishes, and waterfowl. Using multivariate statistics pesticide variables and biophysical field parameters (determined in a previous study) were assessed as potential predictors of abundance/diversity of faunal groups. Effects of pesticide regimes on aquatic fauna were nontrivial. Phytoplankton was lowered under exposures to herbicides and natural insecticides. Zooplankton (except amoeboids) was unaffected or increased on pesticide-exposed fields, probably suffering lower predation. Biophysical aspects partly explained abundance/diversity of aquatic insects, but abundance/diversity was generally higher on fields treated with natural rather than synthetic insecticides. Fishes and waterfowl tended to be less abundant on fields exposed to synthetic insecticides and herbicides. Detailed findings may interest agro-ecologists, medical entomologists, and conservation biologists. Further research incorporating wider landscape aspects and including pesticide-free reference sites is suggested.
title: La directive européene sur la responsabilité du fait des produits defectueux: son incorporation en droit française ; Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut des Saarlandes im Rahmen der Reihe "Deutsch-Französischer Dialog", Saarbrücken, 25. Mai 1988
Creators: name: Tunc, André
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Produkthaftung
subject: 346

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 140
description: 140, Europa-Institut 1981
Cancer Metabolism rough draft
Creators: name: Hess, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: Pathology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cancer
subject: Pathogenesis
subject: Biophysics
subject: Toxicology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Health Care
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Published to BBA Clinical doi:10.1016/j.bbacli.2015.01.006 Please see link above for all citation information. Review Cancer metabolism and oxidative stress: Insights into carcinogenesis and chemotherapy via the non-dihydrofolate reductase effects of methotrexate Joshua A. Hess, Mohamad K. Khasawneh
Image segmentation of alveolar macrophages reveals chronic inflammation in carbon ion irradiated rat lungs
Creators: name: Dettmering, Till
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biophysics

description: My contribution to the GSI Annual Report 2013
title: Die ECU - Fremdwährung in der Bundesrepublik?: Vortrag gehalten am 4. Juni 1988 in d. Univ. Würzburg
Creators: name: Gramlich, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Europa-Inst.
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: 343

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 138
description: 138, Europa-Institut 1981
A person - centered approach for fall prevention: Embodying the goals of older adults in personas
Creators: name: Lo Bianco, Michael
name: Pedell, Sonja
name: Renda, Gianni
name: Kapoor, A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design

description: This research constructs older adult user personas as design and communication tools to assist in the co-design of person-centered interventions for community-based fall prevention. Designers require innovative approaches to represent the user goals of older adults. Compliance rates associated with fall prevention recommendations are low. In order to create accepted fall prevention interventions, new ethnographic tools are required. If person-centered fall prevention is to be successful, the co-creational design methods underpinning it must embody the goal-driven ideologies of person-centered thinking. A qualitative content analysis of 20 community aged care documents was conducted. The results informed the production of a series of user personas; two of these are presented. The personas were created using a coding and persona design process that embodies the co-creative values of personcenteredness with a focus on the individual goals of older users. The personas represent the voice of older adults and provide a means to communicate, tailor, improve the design of fall prevention interventions and contribute to the decision-making process. We expect that this method of persona-construction and the resulting personas will inform solutions that are better accepted thereby preventing falls amongst older adults. Further evaluation is required to verify the efficacy of this method.
Using cultural probes to explore mediated intimacy
Creators: name: Kjeldskov, Jesper
name: Gibbs, Martin
name: Vetere, Frank
name: Howard, Steve
name: Pedell, Sonja
name: Mecoles, Karen
name: Bunyan, Marcus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Intimacy is a crucial element of domestic life that has received insufficient attention from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers despite their rapidly growing interest in the design of interactive technologies for domestic use. Intimate acts differ from other activities, and there are unexplored opportunities to develop interactive technologies to support these acts. This paper presents the first phase of a two-part study exploring the potential of interactive technologies to support intimate relationships. We contribute to this uncharted domain of HCI research a literature review of concepts useful in understanding intimacy and methods for its investigation. We conclude with preliminary results and suggestive design ideas for interactive technologies intended to support intimacy.
A taxing issue: the constraining effects of historical state capacity on European property taxes today
Creators: name: D’Arcy, Michelle
name: Nistotskaya, Marina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Property tax regimes in European states vary in design, yield and progressivity, but the sources of variation have been understudied. Through inductive process tracing of two diverse cases, the UK and Sweden, this paper explores the impact of the state’s capacity to value property. It finds that, in Sweden, routine and regular property valuation was historically institutionalized. This enabled a progressive property tax regime until house prices rose rapidly in the 1990s. Thereafter this capacity became a political liability: translating increasing prices into higher tax liability for typical homeowners, generating political resistance and incentivizing reform. In the UK, valuation capacity was never institutionalized enabling regressive nineteenth-century property taxes to become path dependent. Without routine valuations capturing increasing house prices, tax liabilities for ordinary homeowners remained stable, containing dissent and enabling a higher yield but regressive regime. In both cases, but via different pathways, property taxes under tax the rich.
title: Europäische Privatrechtsvereinheitlichung: Institutionen, Methoden, Perspektiven ; Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken am 16. Juni 1988
Creators: name: Kramer, Ernst A.
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Privatrecht
subject: Rechtsvereinheitlichung
subject: 346

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 139
description: 139, Europa-Institut 1981
title: L'attitude des juridictions françaises envers les traités européens: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut des Saarlandes im Rahmen der Reihe "Deutsch-Französischer Dialog", Saarbrücken 18. Februar 1987
Creators: name: Vedel, Georges
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 85
Motorcyclists’ Perceptions and Experiences of Riding and Risk and Their Advice for Safety
Creators: name: Simpson, Jean C.
name: Wilson, Suzanne
name: Nandika Currey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: To examine the knowledge, observations, and perceptions of motorcycle riders on the risks of on-road motorcycling and potential safety measures to give insight and guidance in developing policies, programs, and legislation to improve the safety of motorcyclists.Methods: Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with dealers and a cross section of motorcyclists from selected regions across New Zealand. The interviews were analyzed and coded to identify common themes and diverse perspectives on why people rode motorcycles, riders’ perceptions on risk, and possible safety strategies for on-road motorcycling.Findings and Discussion: Motorcycling has major benefits for riders, although most riders perceived that the risks could be severe and they were susceptible to injury. Their observations on the threats and barriers to safety focused on 3 components: the rider, the motorcycle, and the environment. Risks included inexperience, not riding to the conditions, choice of motorcycle, protective clothing and conspicuity, and speed. The underlying risk of being on 2 wheels was accentuated by the availability of high-power motorcycles. The threats perceived in the environment included the behavior of other road users, especially car drivers, and the poor road conditions and surrounds encountered.Conclusions: Riders identified risks that have been recognized in the road safety literature as well as risks for which there are no engineering or scientific solutions. To effectively increase motorcyclist safety, recognition of the commonalities and the differences between motorcyclists’ perspectives and proposed strategies is needed. This approach is more likely to engage riders and thus support positive behavior change among riders and drivers.
Taxing the rich: public preferences and public understanding
Creators: name: Barnes, Lucy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Who supports high taxes on the rich? Existing accounts of public attitudes focus on egalitarian values and material interests, but make little mention of the ideas people hold about how the economy works descriptively. Drawing on the distinction between positive- and zero-sum beliefs about the economy, and original survey data from five countries, I show that there are systematic differences in tax progressivity preferences across groups within the public who think differently about the economy. Positive-sum thinking is associated with less progressive preferences. However, despite theoretical attention, there is no evidence of systematic zero-sum thinking among the public. On the other hand, some descriptions focus on conflict between rich and poor, and these do predict support for greater progressivity. Further analysis is required to differentiate alternative causal explanations of the patterns observed, but different modes of descriptive economic thinking are an important feature of the mass politics of progressivity.
UNDERSTANDING THE END DEVELOPING A THEORETICAL FRAME FOR DEVASTATION IN THE LANDSCAPE (DFG-AHRC Cooperation 2022-4)
Creators: name: Stelios, Lekakis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Landscape
Devastation
Archaeology
Heritage

description: The theoretical backbone of the "Devastation, dislocation and (re-)settlement. Breaking/replacing the people-place connection in landscape". 

DFG-AHRC Cooperation: Joint German-British Project Proposals in the Humanities, incl. Law and Linguistics funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) project no 468455366 (funding period: 2022-2024).

This research is funded through the UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number: AH/W010674/1].
title: Erneuern und Bewahren in der Privatrechtsdogmatik - am Beispiel der römisch-rechtlichen Vertragstypisierung -: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 22. Mai 1987
Creators: name: Vékás, Lajos
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 82
Quokka: Programming for real time digital design platform
Creators: name: Brennan, Ann Marie
name: Alhadidi, Suleiman
name: Kimm, Geoff
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper introduces an interactive 3D scanning tool (Quokka) that generates real time point clouds and surfaces in a design program (Rhinoceros). It explains the use of this tool through a detailed experiment, suggesting a new mode of design using a dynamic, three-dimensional grid.
title: US-Antitrustrecht 1987 - Stand und Entwicklungstendenzen aus der Sicht eines deutschen Kartellrechtsanwenders: Zehnter Vortrag im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung über "Recht, Rechnungslegung, Steuern und Wirtschaftsprüfung in den USA" - veranstaltet im Fachbereich 2 - Wirtschaftswissenschaft vom University of Michigan Alumni Club of West-Germany in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Europa-Institut (22. Januar 1987)
Creators: name: Markert, Kurt
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 349

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 81
The knowledge economy and taxes on the rich
Creators: name: Hope, David
name: Limberg, Julian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: What drives taxes on the rich? In this article, we claim that the existing empirical literature on taxing the rich suffers from two key shortcomings: 1) It pays too little attention to the major structural and technological changes that have taken place in advanced capitalist economies since the 1970s; and 2) it lacks consensus on how to measure taxes on the rich. We seek to address these shortcomings by exploring the implications of the rise of the knowledge economy for taxing the rich, as well as constructing a new, comprehensive measure of taxes on the rich. We then carry out a panel data analysis estimating the effect of the employment share in knowledge-intensive services on taxes on the rich in 13 OECD countries from 1970-2015. Our results show that the expansion of the knowledge economy is strongly and robustly associated with lower taxes on the rich.
Reconsidering the Safety in Numbers Effect for Vulnerable Road Users: An Application of Agent-Based Modeling
Creators: name: Thompson, Jason
name: Savino, Giovanni
name: Stevenson, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Objective: Increasing levels of active transport provide benefits in relation to chronic disease and emissions reduction but may be associated with an increased risk of road trauma. The safety in numbers (SiN) effect is often regarded as a solution to this issue; however, the mechanisms underlying its influence are largely unknown. We aimed to (1) replicate the SiN effect within a simple, simulated environment and (2) vary bicycle density within the environment to better understand the circumstances under which SiN applies.Methods: Using an agent-based modeling approach, we constructed a virtual transport system that increased the number of bicycles from 9% to 35% of total vehicles over a period of 1,000 time units while holding the number of cars in the system constant. We then repeated this experiment under conditions of progressively decreasing bicycle density.Results: We demonstrated that the SiN effect can be reproduced in a virtual environment, closely approximating the exponential relationships between cycling numbers and the relative risk of collision as shown in observational studies. The association, however, was highly contingent upon bicycle density. The relative risk of collisions between cars and bicycles with increasing bicycle numbers showed an association that is progressively linear at decreasing levels of density.Conclusions: Agent-based modeling may provide a useful tool for understanding the mechanisms underpinning the relationships previously observed between volume and risk under the assumptions of SiN. The SiN effect may apply only under circumstances in which bicycle density also increases over time. Additional mechanisms underpinning the SiN effect, independent of behavioral adjustment by drivers, are explored.
Pedestrian Fatalities Resulting From Train–Person Collisions
Creators: name: Sousa, Sérgio
name: Santos, Liliana
name: Dinis-Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge
name: Magalhães, Teresa
name: Santos, Agostinho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Objective: Train–person collisions have a significant impact in our society, due to their negative economic and psychological effects. This work aims to study fatalities resulting from train–person collisions in Portugal.Methods: A retrospective study was conducted based on the analysis of autopsy reports related to train–person fatalities performed in the North Branch of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.Results: Suicide was responsible for most of the cases, and males were more often involved in train–person collisions than females. Victims, between 40 and 59 years old, were found to be involved in a high percentage (39%) of the cases, and people older than 65 accounted for a significant percentage (40%) of the accidents. No seasonality was observed in suicide cases, but a decrease in accident numbers was registered in summer. Regarding weekday and time of day, afternoon and non–rush hour were the times when most suicides were observed, whereas accidents did not showed a specific weekday or time of day, except for rush hour, during which they were more frequent. Alcohol-positive blood analysis accounting for 25% of the cases.Conclusions: Differences from other European studies were found, which may be related to the different cultures of the countries/regions, as well as to the differences in the railway systems. More extensive studies must be performed in order to develop strategies to prevent train–person collisions.
Supplementary data - learned dictionaries and estimations
Creators: name: Marmoret, Axel
name: Cohen, Jérémy
name: Wu, Haoran
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Supplementary data for the paper [1]. It contains the learned dictionaries, assumed to be already computed in the code (https://github.com/cohenjer/TransSSCNMF). It also contains all estimations obtained by using the different models.

[1] Wu, H., Marmoret, A., & Cohen, J. E. (2022). Semi-Supervised Convolutive NMF for Automatic Piano Transcription. In Sound and Music Computing 2022.
Is Bentham's vision of a comprehensive criminal code suitable as a model design for a code?
Creators: name: Hemming, Andrew George
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis question examines whether Jeremy Bentham’s concept of a criminal code having ‘no blank spaces’, thereby minimising the role of the common law and judicial interpretation, is first, desirable and secondly, achievable. Desirability and achievability are clearly interwoven. The disparity between the theory that a code should be internally self-consistent and self-sufficient with the practice that ‘inevitable ambiguities of language make this impossible’ is a central theme. The thesis seeks to test whether the latter statement can be overcome. An alternative way of considering the central question is to examine whether Bentham’s vision of the legislature clearly stating its intentions sufficient for the ordinary citizen to fully comprehend his or her criminal liability is beyond the capacity of any criminal code architect in the 21st century. A criminal code should be as comprehensive as practicable in its description of rules of conduct. Second, it must communicate those rules effectively to the general public. Australian Criminal Codes will be evaluated against these two criteria. The Model Criminal Code which became Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code (Cth) is the most ‘Benthamite’ Criminal Code in Australia, and has been taken up by both the Australian Capital Territory in 2002 and the Northern Territory in 2006. As such the Model Criminal Code can be compared to the ‘Griffith’ Codes of Queensland (1899), Western Australia (1902) and Tasmania (1924). The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is presented as the best example of a Benthamite Code in the 19th century. Building on Macauley’s work on the IPC, it is argued that the development in criminal law theory since Bentham’s death in 1832, most notably the U.S. Model Penal Code in 1962 and the Model Criminal Code in Australia in 1992, leave open the possibility that Bentham’s vision is more achievable today than in Bentham’s own era.
title: La répartition de compétences externes entre le Président de la République française et le Premier Ministre: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 23. Januar 1987
Creators: name: Grewe, Constanze
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 349

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 84
The Prevalence of Distraction Among Passenger Vehicle Drivers: A Roadside Observational Approach
Creators: name: Huisingh, Carrie
name: Griffin, Russell
name: McGwin, Gerald
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Neuroscience

description: Objective: Distracted driving contributes to a large proportion of motor vehicle crashes, yet little is known about the prevalence of distracted driving and the specific types of distracting behaviors. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of driver distraction using a roadside observational study design.Methods: A cross-sectional survey involving direct roadside observation was conducted at 11 selected intersections. Trained investigators observed a sample of passenger vehicles and recorded distraction-related behaviors, driver characteristics, and contextual factors such as vehicle speed and traffic flow.Results: Of the 3,265 drivers observed, the prevalence of distracted driving was 32.7%. Among those involved in a distracting activity, the most frequently observed distractions included interacting with another passenger (53.2%, where passengers were present), talking on the phone (31.4%), external-vehicle distractions (20.4%), and texting/dialing a phone (16.6%). The prevalence of talking on the phone was higher among females than males (38.6% vs. 24.3%), whereas external vehicle distractions were higher among males than females (25.8% vs. 24.3%). Drivers <30 years were observed being engaged in any distracting activity, interacting with other passengers, and texting/dialing more frequently than drivers aged 30–50 and >50 years. Drivers were engaged in distracting behaviors more frequently when the car was stopped.Conclusions: When using similar methodology, roadside observational studies generate comparable prevalence estimates of driver distraction as naturalistic driving studies. Driver distraction is a common problem among passenger vehicle drivers. Despite the increased awareness on the dangers of texting and cell phone use while driving, these specific activities were 2 of the most frequently observed distractions. There is a continued need for road safety education about the dangers of distracted driving, especially for younger drivers.
The effect of true water hardness and alkalinity on the toxicity of Cu and U to two tropical Australian freshwater organisms Nadine Riethmuller
Creators: name: Riethmuller, Nadine
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2000

description: The Australian and New Zealand water quality guidelines aim to supplement and modify existing criteria, which are mostly based on Northern Hemisphere toxicity data, with information relevant to Southern Hemisphere ecosystems as it becomes available. In the wet-dry tropics of Australia, copper (Cu) and uranium (U) are metals of particular concern, due to mining activities. Although, the toxicity of Cu and U to tropical freshwater species has previously been characterised, the influence of physico-chemical parameters on toxicity has not been defined. In contrast, temperate freshwater studies have investigated the effects of various physico-chemical parameters on Cu toxicity, and to a limited extent U toxicity. The reported results however, are contradictory. Thus, it is recognised that the development of a model based on key water quality variables would enhance the capacity to predict the potential site-specific impacts of Cu and U in tropical ecosystems. This study aimed to separate the effects of true water hardness (6.6, 165 and 330 mg L"1 as CaCO3) and alkalinity ( 4.0 and 102 mg L-1 as CaCO3), at constant pH, on the toxicity of Cu and U to Hydra viridissima (Green hydra, population growth) and Mogurnda mogurnda (Purple-spotted gudgeon, sac-fry survival). The effect of water hardness (ie. Ca and Mg concentration) varied depending on the metal and test -organism. A 50-fold increase in hardness resulted in a 2-fold decrease in the toxicity of Cu to M. mogurnda, while it had no effect on U toxicity. The opposite was observed for H viridissima, where increased hardness had no effect on Cu toxicity, but decreased U toxicity by approximately 2-fold. A 25-fold increase in alkalinity (ie. carbonate concentration) had no effect on Cu toxicity to H viridissima, while it decreased U toxicity by approximately 10%. Gaining a fundamental understanding of the interactions between physico-chemical parameters and metals, and the subsequent potential impacts on freshwater ecosystems is an essential aspect of site-specific environmental risk assessment and water quality guideline derivation.
Sugar- and artificially sweetened beverages and the risks of incident stroke and dementia: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Pase, Matthew
name: Himali, Jayandra J.
name: Beiser, Alexa S.
name: Aparicio, Hugo J.
name: Satizabal, Claudia L.
name: Vasan, Ramachandran S.
name: Seshadri, Sudha
name: Jacques, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Background and Purpose: Sugar- and artificially-sweetened beverage intake have been linked to cardiometabolic risk factors, which increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease and dementia. We examined whether sugar- or artificially sweetened beverage consumption was associated with the prospective risks of incident stroke or dementia in the community-based Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort. Methods - We studied 2888 participants aged >45 years for incident stroke (mean age 62 [SD, 9] years; 45% men) and 1484 participants aged >60 years for incident dementia (mean age 69 [SD, 6] years; 46% men). Beverage intake was quantified using a food-frequency questionnaire at cohort examinations 5 (1991-1995), 6 (1995-1998), and 7 (1998-2001). We quantified recent consumption at examination 7 and cumulative consumption by averaging across examinations. Surveillance for incident events commenced at examination 7 and continued for 10 years. We observed 97 cases of incident stroke (82 ischemic) and 81 cases of incident dementia (63 consistent with Alzheimer's disease). Results - After adjustments for age, sex, education (for analysis of dementia), caloric intake, diet quality, physical activity, and smoking, higher recent and higher cumulative intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks were associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, all-cause dementia, and Alzheimer's disease dementia. When comparing daily cumulative intake to 0 per week (reference), the hazard ratios were 2.96 (95% confidence interval, 1.26-6.97) for ischemic stroke and 2.89 (95% confidence interval, 1.18-7.07) for Alzheimer's disease. Sugar-sweetened beverages were not associated with stroke or dementia. Conclusions - Artificially sweetened soft drink consumption was associated with a higher risk of stroke and dementia.
title: State Law and Customary Law - Reflections on their Relationship in Contemporary Tanzania: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 3. Juni 1987
Creators: name: Rwezaura, B.
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 349

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 83
Magic bits of paste-board: texting in the nineteenth century
Creators: name: Milne, Esther
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this paper, I want to consider the extent to which the British eighteenth-century visiting card conceptually, culturally and materially anticipates a range of contemporary technologies of propinquity. Acting as complex cultural avatars, these visiting cards conveyed the desires of class and gender in the construction of identity. Visiting cards demonstrate the rich prehistory of contemporary technologies of telepresence in terms of the imaginative, symbolic and rhetorical functions they performed. Telepresence can be defined as the degree to which geographically dispersed agents experience a sense of physical and/or psychological proximity through the use of particular communication technologies. Like many of the media forms they anticipate, visiting cards were used to stand in for the corporeal presence of their author. Visiting cards functioned as avatars of presence and identity, a complex language system which allowed the discursive agents to mediate social relations according to the varying degrees of intimacy that were desired.
title: Umweltschutz und Wirtschaft in Spanien: Vortrag im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Tagung "Rechtsprobleme beim Eintritt Spaniens und Portugals in die EG", 9.-11. Januar 1987
Creators: name: Nieto, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 92
Építőipari termelőeszközök egyedi azonosítására és nyomonkövetésére alkalmas rádiófrekvenciás megoldás
Creators: name: Fodorné Rózsa, Csilla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: RFID építési eszközkövetés
Digitális eszközkezezlés az építőiparban
RFID eszközkezelő szoftver

description: Építőipari termelőeszközök egyedi azonosítására és

nyomonkövetésére alkalmas rádiófrekvenciás megoldás egy olyan digitális eszközökkel és szoftverrel támogatott fejlseztés, mely lehetővé teszi az építőipari eszközök azonosítását és nyomonkövetését a termelői tevékenység során. Programot tesztelheti az alábbi felületen:

 

https://rfid-demo.grabarics.hu/

 

Jelszó: rfid

Felhasználók

rfid_mv (foreman)

rfid_rv (Warehouse Manager)

rfid_r (warehouse clerk)

A jelszavak esetében válassza ki azt a szerepet, amelyben a szoftvert tesztelni szeretné.
Motorcyclists’ Perceptions and Experiences of Riding and Risk and Their Advice for Safety
Creators: name: Simpson, Jean C.
name: Wilson, Suzanne
name: Nandika Currey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: To examine the knowledge, observations, and perceptions of motorcycle riders on the risks of on-road motorcycling and potential safety measures to give insight and guidance in developing policies, programs, and legislation to improve the safety of motorcyclists.Methods: Individual and focus group interviews were conducted with dealers and a cross section of motorcyclists from selected regions across New Zealand. The interviews were analyzed and coded to identify common themes and diverse perspectives on why people rode motorcycles, riders’ perceptions on risk, and possible safety strategies for on-road motorcycling.Findings and Discussion: Motorcycling has major benefits for riders, although most riders perceived that the risks could be severe and they were susceptible to injury. Their observations on the threats and barriers to safety focused on 3 components: the rider, the motorcycle, and the environment. Risks included inexperience, not riding to the conditions, choice of motorcycle, protective clothing and conspicuity, and speed. The underlying risk of being on 2 wheels was accentuated by the availability of high-power motorcycles. The threats perceived in the environment included the behavior of other road users, especially car drivers, and the poor road conditions and surrounds encountered.Conclusions: Riders identified risks that have been recognized in the road safety literature as well as risks for which there are no engineering or scientific solutions. To effectively increase motorcyclist safety, recognition of the commonalities and the differences between motorcyclists’ perspectives and proposed strategies is needed. This approach is more likely to engage riders and thus support positive behavior change among riders and drivers.
title: Die Weltbankgruppe und die Multilaterale Investitions-Garantie-Agentur (MIGA): Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 6. Februar 1987
Creators: name: Petersmann, Hans
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 86
Reconsidering the Safety in Numbers Effect for Vulnerable Road Users: An Application of Agent-Based Modeling
Creators: name: Thompson, Jason
name: Savino, Giovanni
name: Stevenson, Mark
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Objective: Increasing levels of active transport provide benefits in relation to chronic disease and emissions reduction but may be associated with an increased risk of road trauma. The safety in numbers (SiN) effect is often regarded as a solution to this issue; however, the mechanisms underlying its influence are largely unknown. We aimed to (1) replicate the SiN effect within a simple, simulated environment and (2) vary bicycle density within the environment to better understand the circumstances under which SiN applies.Methods: Using an agent-based modeling approach, we constructed a virtual transport system that increased the number of bicycles from 9% to 35% of total vehicles over a period of 1,000 time units while holding the number of cars in the system constant. We then repeated this experiment under conditions of progressively decreasing bicycle density.Results: We demonstrated that the SiN effect can be reproduced in a virtual environment, closely approximating the exponential relationships between cycling numbers and the relative risk of collision as shown in observational studies. The association, however, was highly contingent upon bicycle density. The relative risk of collisions between cars and bicycles with increasing bicycle numbers showed an association that is progressively linear at decreasing levels of density.Conclusions: Agent-based modeling may provide a useful tool for understanding the mechanisms underpinning the relationships previously observed between volume and risk under the assumptions of SiN. The SiN effect may apply only under circumstances in which bicycle density also increases over time. Additional mechanisms underpinning the SiN effect, independent of behavioral adjustment by drivers, are explored.
title: EG-Produkthaftungs-Richtlinie: Wohltat oder Plage?: eine ökonomische Analyse
Creators: name: Adams, Michael
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 89
Pedestrian Fatalities Resulting From Train–Person Collisions
Creators: name: Sousa, Sérgio
name: Santos, Liliana
name: Dinis-Oliveira, Ricardo Jorge
name: Magalhães, Teresa
name: Santos, Agostinho
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Objective: Train–person collisions have a significant impact in our society, due to their negative economic and psychological effects. This work aims to study fatalities resulting from train–person collisions in Portugal.Methods: A retrospective study was conducted based on the analysis of autopsy reports related to train–person fatalities performed in the North Branch of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.Results: Suicide was responsible for most of the cases, and males were more often involved in train–person collisions than females. Victims, between 40 and 59 years old, were found to be involved in a high percentage (39%) of the cases, and people older than 65 accounted for a significant percentage (40%) of the accidents. No seasonality was observed in suicide cases, but a decrease in accident numbers was registered in summer. Regarding weekday and time of day, afternoon and non–rush hour were the times when most suicides were observed, whereas accidents did not showed a specific weekday or time of day, except for rush hour, during which they were more frequent. Alcohol-positive blood analysis accounting for 25% of the cases.Conclusions: Differences from other European studies were found, which may be related to the different cultures of the countries/regions, as well as to the differences in the railway systems. More extensive studies must be performed in order to develop strategies to prevent train–person collisions.
Cool city design: integrating real-time urban canyon assessment into the design process for Chinese and Australian cities
Creators: name: White, Marcus
name: Hu, Youpei
name: Langenheim, Nano
name: Ding, Wowo
name: Burry, Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: Many cities are undergoing rapid urbanisation and intensification with the unintended consequence of creating dense urban fabric with deep ‘urban canyons’. Urban densification can trap longwave radiation impacting on local atmospheric conditions, contributing to the phenomena known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI). As global temperatures are predicted to increase, there is a critical need to better understand urban form and heat retention in cities and integrate analysis tools into the design decision making process to design cooler cities. This paper describes the application and validation of a novel three-dimensional urban canyon modelling approach calculating Sky View Factor (SVF), one important indicator used in the prediction of UHI. Our modified daylighting system based approach within a design modelling environment allows iterative design decision making informed by SVF on an urban design scale. This approach is tested on urban fabric samples from cities in both Australia and China. The new approach extends the applicability in the design process of existing methods by providing ‘real-time’ SVF feedback for complex three-dimensional urban scenarios. The modelling approach enables city designers to mix intuitive compositional design modelling with dynamic canyon feedback. The approach allows a greater understanding of existing and proposed urban forms and identifying potential canyon problem areas, improved decision making and design advocacy, and can potentially have an impact on cities’ temperature.
title: La Protección de los Consumidores: Espana en la C.E.E.
Creators: name: Borrás Rodríguez, Alegria
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 90
title: Internationale Arbitrage im deutsch-französischen Wirtschaftsverkehr: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 8. Mai 1987
Creators: name: Breitenstein, Detlev
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 87
title: The Application of the New York Convention to Arbitration to which a State is a Party: Vortrag vor dem Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 5. Juni 1987
Creators: name: Booysen, Hercules
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 88
Experimental study on quality of PCD tools machined by different electric discharge grinding processes
Creators: name: Li, Guangxian
name: Rahim, Mohammad Zulafif
name: Ding, Songlin
name: Sun, Shoujin
name: Mo, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) is a promising tool material which is utilized to cut difficult-to-machine materials used in aerospace industry. Because of its ultra-hardness, electrical discharge grinding (EDG), a variation of electrical discharge machining, is often adopted to manufacture PCD tools to reduce manufacturing time. This paper investigates the quality of PCD inserts manufactured by two different EDG eroding methods: “2-step machining” and “3-step machining”. Surface roughness and residual stress were investigated after EDG process. An orthogonal cutting experiment was conducted to test the performance of each PCD insert. PCD tools machined with the two methods do not have significant difference in surface roughness. The residual stress status changed from compressive to tensile after EDG process. Also, after being eroded by 3-step EDG process, there was an over 30% declination of residual stress compared with 2-step machining. The results of the orthogonal cutting test showed that the wear amount and the thrust force of PCD inserts machined by 3-step EDG were smaller for the CTB010 insert and the CTX002 insert. In contrast, the CTM302 machined by 3-step EDG did not show obvious improvement in tool wear resistance during the cutting tests.
title: El ordenamiento jurídicio europeo y el derecho de las communidades autónomas: Vortrag im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Tagung "Rechtsprobleme beim Eintritt Spaniens und Portugals in die EG", 9.-11. Januar 1987
Creators: name: da Silva Ochoa, Juan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 96
title: La justice constitutionnelle au Portugal: Vortrag im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Tagung "Rechtsprobleme beim Eintritt Spaniens und Portugals in die EG", 9.-11. Januar 1987
Creators: name: Guedes, Armando
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vorträge, Reden und Berichte aus dem Europa-Institut, vol. 94