cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detecting Effects of AI-Mediated Communication on Language Complexity and Sentiment
Creators: name: Sussman, Kristen
name: Carter, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.4; K.4.0; I.2.7

description: Given the subtle human-like effects of large language models on linguistic patterns, this study examines shifts in language over time to detect the impact of AI-mediated communication (AI- MC) on social media. We compare a replicated dataset of 970,919 tweets from 2020 (pre-ChatGPT) with 20,000 tweets from the same period in 2024, all of which mention Donald Trump during election periods. Using a combination of Flesch-Kincaid readability and polarity scores, we analyze changes in text complexity and sentiment. Our findings reveal a significant increase in mean sentiment polarity (0.12 vs. 0.04) and a shift from predominantly neutral content (54.8% in 2020 to 39.8% in 2024) to more positive expressions (28.6% to 45.9%). These findings suggest not only an increasing presence of AI in social media communication but also its impact on language and emotional expression patterns.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025
Adaptive Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator
Creators: name: Kazemipour, Amirhossein
name: Fischer, Oliver
name: Toshimitsu, Yasunori
name: Wong, Ki Wan
name: Katzschmann, Robert K.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Soft robots are made of compliant and deformable materials and can perform tasks challenging for conventional rigid robots. The inherent compliance of soft robots makes them more suitable and adaptable for interactions with humans and the environment. However, this preeminence comes at a cost: their continuum nature makes it challenging to develop robust model-based control strategies. Specifically, an adaptive control approach addressing this challenge has not yet been applied to physical soft robotic arms. This work presents a reformulation of dynamics for a soft continuum manipulator using the Euler-Lagrange method. The proposed model eliminates the simplifying assumption made in previous works and provides a more accurate description of the robot's inertia. Based on our model, we introduce a task-space adaptive control scheme. This controller is robust against model parameter uncertainties and unknown input disturbances. The controller is implemented on a physical soft continuum arm. A series of experiments were carried out to validate the effectiveness of the controller in task-space trajectory tracking under different payloads. The controller outperforms the state-of-the-art method both in terms of accuracy and robustness. Moreover, the proposed model-based control design is flexible and can be generalized to any continuum robotic arm with an arbitrary number of continuum segments.
description: arXiv
'Dragging her dirt all over the net': presence, intimacy, materiality v1.0
Creators: name: Milne, Esther
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: How is intimacy produced within digitally enabled communication platforms such as the mailing list? How do geographically dispersed subjects represent and 'make present' their identity? This paper addresses such questions through a case study of the email discussion group, Cybermind. Providing an evocative example of the power and affective relations across mailing list culture, the case study demonstrates that, contrary to the popular critical imagination, the linguistic and rhetorical behaviours of the online self function in a manner that is relatively predictable and therefore fairly stable. Thus the paper challenges the 1990s dream of the online, radically decentred subject. This does not overlook the fact that identity is always a performance and the product of highly mediated cultural, material and institutional forces. However, the complex interplay between technology, fantasy and materiality in the shaping of identity has not been fully explored. Crucial to the production of identity are the symbolic and technological relations of presence. Authors assume that the material signifiers of writing can be deployed to express, to make present, the particular version of subjectivity they wish to convey. Moreover, even the representations of multiple and playful selves are, in fact, quite carefully governed by their authors. The paper concludes with a discussion of the extent to which the socio-technical architecture of the mailing list is conditioned by fantasies of presence and economies of affect.
A Robust Adaptive Approach to Dynamic Control of Soft Continuum Manipulators
Creators: name: Kazemipour, Amirhossein
name: Fischer, Oliver
name: Toshimitsu, Yasunori
name: Wong, Ki Wan
name: Katzschmann, Robert K.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Soft robots are made of compliant and deformable materials and can perform tasks challenging for conventional rigid robots. The inherent compliance of soft robots makes them more suitable and adaptable for interactions with humans and the environment. However, this preeminence comes at a cost: their continuum nature makes it challenging to develop robust model-based control strategies. Specifically, an adaptive control approach addressing this challenge has not yet been applied to physical soft robotic arms. This work presents a reformulation of dynamics for a soft continuum manipulator using the Euler-Lagrange method. The proposed model eliminates the simplifying assumption made in previous works and provides a more accurate description of the robot's inertia. Based on our model, we introduce a task-space adaptive control scheme. This controller is robust against model parameter uncertainties and unknown input disturbances. The controller is implemented on a physical soft continuum arm. A series of experiments were carried out to validate the effectiveness of the controller in task-space trajectory tracking under different payloads. The controller outperforms the state-of-the-art method both in terms of accuracy and robustness. Moreover, the proposed model-based control design is flexible and can be generalized to any continuum robotic arm with an arbitrary number of continuum segments.
description: arXiv
Assessing the Impact of Compound Tropical Cyclones on the Global Supply Chain
Creators: name: Stalder, Patrick
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023

description: This thesis aims to analyse the impact of tropical cyclones on the global supply
chain. Due to climate change and increased exposure, natural hazards
are causing an increasing amount of direct damage. The impact of a natural
hazard is produced with CLIMADA, which calculates an impact as the combination
between exposure, vulnerability and hazard, where as hazard data of
historical tropical cyclones is used. In a globally connected world, the financial
consequences of a single tropical cyclone can also influence not directly
affected countries. Based on input-output tables, which were introduced by
Leontief in 1944 to study the economic consequences of the end of world
war II, this thesis tries to connect the impact of tropical cyclones with the
not directly affected economy. For this, the Adaptive Regional Input-Output
model, an expansion of the input-output model with time, inventory, production
increase and distribution and substitution effects was used. Based on
the supply chain effects of single impacts, the consequences of compound impacts
are studied and a sensitivity analysis on the most important parameters
was done to suggest further improvements.
Investigation of dowel shear in RC beams using photogrammetry
Creators: name: Sonnenberg, A. M. C.
name: Al-Mahaidi, R.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Three beams were fabricated and tested to investigate the contribution of dowel action to the shear capacity of rectangular concrete beams with shear reinforcement. The tests involved the use of photogrammetry to measure accurately the movement of the concrete, and consequently the movement of the flexural reinforcing, as shear cracking developed. This information was used in a non-linear stiffness model to determine the percentage contribution of dowel action to the shear capacity of the beams. The results showed that dowel action significantly contributed to the shear capacity of the beams.
title: The Role of the Financial Institutions in Transition to Low Carbon Economy
Creators: name: Vishnoi, Jennifer Narendra
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Low carbon economy
subject: Climate finance
subject: Multilateral Development Banks
subject: Green Bonds
subject: Climate Bonds

description: The deep connection between the financial system and ecological sustainability has attracted increased interest from the academic community. Specifically, the shift to a low carbon economy is now the center of the public debate. Climate change remains a directand indirect threat to the global economy, significantly affecting the financial sector.Financial institutions continue implementing new strategies to shift their position and aligntheir mandates towards a low carbon economy. Financial Institutions are integral in bankrolling emerging nations’ efforts to moderate emissions and protect against climate change effects and are the primary sources of external finance, including government,public and private sectors. These financial entities encompass the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Financial institutions provide specialized funds, such as the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund, the Climate Investment Funds, Bilateral, and National Development Finance Institutions. There search paper evaluates the existing contribution by financial institutions, specifically Multilateral Development Banks, towards bridging the financial gap and innovations necessary for realizing a low-carbon economy. Besides, it assesses key challenges facing institutions attempting to incorporate climate change-related consideration in their lending approaches. The study also explores many financial instruments that help channel funds into solutions concerning low carbon economy challenges coupled with the barriers limiting scaling the financial instruments and leveraging financial Multilateral Development Banks’ full potential towards transitioning to a low carbon economy. The study employed interviews for data collection and gathered unique insight instead of compiling a comprehensive list of existing practice or similar data for benchmarking the survey. Participants included stakeholders from major Multilateral Development Banks.Study findings indicated that Multilateral Development Banks are essential vehicles for funding projects generally not bankrolled by commercial banks for multiple reasons. The study further underlines Multilateral Development Banks’ role in mobilizing funds,including acting as a channel for donors through climate funds and private sector capital.The study outlines Multilateral Development Banks’ role in the transition. It identifies vitalinstruments, such as green bonds and guarantees adopted by development banks to promote and fast-track the transition to a low carbon economy.
Development of a High-Temperature Counter-Flow Particle Receiver for Concentrated Solar Power Applications
Creators: name: Hartner, Anton
name: Coletti, Filippo
name: Steinfeld, Aldo
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023
Subjects: Solar Particle Receiver
Concentrated Solar Power

description: In concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, solar radiation is concentrated onto a solar receiver and absorbed as high-temperature heat in a heat transfer medium. Using a particle-flow as the heat transfer medium allows for outlet temperature exceeding 1000◦C and for simultaneous thermal energy storage by collecting the hot particles downstream in an insulated silo. Con- trolling the residence time of the particles during direct high-flux irradiation is critical because it has a direct effect on their exit temperature. Here, a solar particle receiver is designed to enable controllability of the residence time. It consists of a cavity-receiver containing a vertical ceramic duct through which particles are falling against a counter-current flow of air. A 1D two- phase heat transfer model of the duct is developed to investigate the influence of different solid volume fractions and particle sizes. For a given solid volume fraction, smaller particles enhance heat transfer but at the same time make them more difficult to handle. Ceramic particles ranging between 200 and 300 μm were found to be appropriate for the present design. In order to investigate how effectively the residence time of the particles can be controlled, a facility with transparent test section and a 20 mm × 20 mm cross-sectional area was designed and built that allows the hydrodynamics of the particle-laden flow to be studied with high-speed imaging under room temperature conditions. The facility enables to vary the solid volume fraction inside the duct from 0.1% to 10%. The 1D heat transfer model captures that for a constant solar cavity temperature, the particle outlet temperature decreases as the solid volume fraction increases. For solid volume fractions between 0.1 % and 1 % and a solar cavity temperature of 1527◦C, the model predicts that particle outlet temperatures above 1000◦C can be achieved.
Paracossus korshunovi Yakovlev, 2022, sp. n.
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus korshunovi

description: Paracossus korshunovi sp. n.
http://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 51DB13F2-8F3F-4BC5-BA23-5A04D5CA35FF
Figs 1−3, 13−15
 Material. Holotype (male), Thailand, Nachon Ratchasima Province, Nong Bun Mak District, near Nong Bunnak village, N 14º40′51.8′′, E 102º27′08.3′′, leaf- falling gallery forest, 9−25.iii.2020, leg. A. Korshunov (ZISP). 28 males, 11 females (paratypes), same locality and data (RYB, AKK, ZISP)
 Description. Male (Figs 1−2). Length of fore wing 9−12 mm. Antenna simple, without setae. Thorax and abdomen light-grey. Fore wing light-grey with special reticulated pattern, round black spot at top of discal cell, thin black band submarginally. Hind wing light-grey with poorly expressed reticulated pattern.
Male genitalia (Fig. 13). Uncus wide, relatively short, with semicircular bifurcation; gnathos arms thick, short; gnathos very robust, covered with tiny spikes; valve with narrow apically membranous tip, robust crest with poorly expressed ribs on inner surface of valve on costal margin; transtilla process thin, slightly narrowing to apex, acute, poorly curved; juxta robust, with semicircular notch on dorsal surface; saccus robust, semicircular; phallus slightly shorter than valve, with apical spade-like extension, vesica without cornuti.
Female (Fig. 3). Bigger than male, length of fore wing 13−16 mm, antenna not pectinate, dark elements of pattern significantly extended.
Female genitalia (Fig. 14). Ovipositor long; papillae anales semicircular, with transverse oblique notching; anterior apophyses twice shorter than posterior ones; ostium aperture slit-like. Ductus and bursa absent on preparation.
 Diagnosis. The new species differs from all the known species of the genus in the relatively small size, simple antenna, the very narrow apical portion of the valve and the acute tips of the uncus.
 Distribution. Central Thailand.
 Etymology. The new species is named after the prominent Russian entomologist Alexey Korshunov (Kemerovo, Russia), who has collected this species new to science.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Table S2: from At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory
Creators: name: Ceolin, Andrea
name: Guardiano, Cristina
name: Longobardi, Giuseppe
name: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
name: Bortolussi, Luca
name: Sgarro, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The 94 binary nominal parameters used for the experiments presented in the paper, set in the 59 languages of Table S1.
A Global Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment On Healthcare and Education Facilities
Creators: name: Ammann, Michelle
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023

description: This study aims to assess the risk of river floods and tropical cyclones on healthcare and education facilities worldwide. Using CLIMADA, the current and future expected annual damage of these hazards on critical infrastructure were modeled. Case Studies of Madagascar and Haiti were conducted to estimate the number of people impacted based on 1/100-year events. The results indicate that these critical infrastructures are at significant risk of being damaged by natural hazards. The modeling shows that river floods and tropical cyclones can have fatal consequences, disrupting access to healthcare and education for populations. Hotspots were identified in areas where vulnerable populations are at the highest risk of losing basic access to impacted infrastructure by natural hazards. This study highlights the need for increased preparedness and mitigation efforts to protect critical infrastructure and reduce the impact of natural disasters on vulnerable populations. Further research is needed to improve the accuracy of the modeling and to identify additional hotspots. The findings of this study have implications for policymakers and stakeholders in the healthcare sectors, as well as those involved in disaster management and infrastructure planning. The results can inform decision-making processes and help prioritize mitigation efforts in areas at high risk of natural hazards. Overall, this study highlights the importance of considering natural hazard risks in critical infrastructure planning and management.
Firm survival: adding transferred demand into the equation
Creators: name: Jones, Colin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite genuine attempts to develop more contingent theories of population change that incorporate adaptionist and selectionist accounts, little evidence of a united framework has emerged to date. While this current diversity of opinion may contribute to the eventual quality of knowledge development (Singh, 1993), it nevertheless appears to be a debate that continually fails to incorporate essential evolutionary concepts. This paper attempts to introduce the neglected (and essential) evolutionary process of niche construction (Olding-Smee, Laland and Feldman, 2003) into this ongoing debate. The niche construction process is used to highlight a change in environmental selection directly related to the market place behaviour of certain firms in the Hobart pizza industry. It is claimed in this paper that a process of transferred demand can be identified as a generative mechanism through which firm survival (in specific selective neighbourhoods and/or niches) was enhanced. Specifically, that regional pizza shops have received a survival advantage through the presence of franchised firms due to the proccess of transferred demand. In brief, transferred demand occurs when television advertising aimed at metropoletian and suburban consumers creates demand in regional areas (for a product/service) that the advertiser cannot supply. As such, regional firms benefit and survive significantly better than other regional firms who don't benefit from any fortituous industry-based advertising. The use of niche construction and many other key ecological or biological evolutionary concepts to explain the emergent findings from the Hobart pizza industry highlight a current problem in evolutionary theorising, that being a lack of consistency. Hodgson, (2001, p. 92) argues that 'explanations in one domain have to be consistent with explanations in another, despite examination of different properties and deployment of different concepts'. This simple, yet exacting principle requires that in many instances we must go backwards (in degrees of understanding) before we can advance. It is around this central premise that this paper attempts to make a contribution to the growing literature related to an evolutionary account of entrepreneurship.
Tropical Cyclones-related Impact on Human Displacement: Evaluating the Forecast Skills and Uncertainty of a Globally Consistent Impact Forecast System
Creators: name: Ciccone, Fabio
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023

description: Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a significant threat to global populations, causing substan- tial damage and displacement each year. However, most disaster risk assessments only consider economic losses, ignoring displacement risk. Thus, it is crucial to develop a fore- casting system for TC-related displacement to help governments allocate resources for risk reduction and response. This thesis aimed to verify a displacement impact forecasting method on a global scale by forecasting displacement from past TC events (2017-2020) and comparing them to recorded data. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to identify input parameters that contribute most to output uncertainty. The study found that the system has a high level of accuracy, with a success rate of over 74% across all lead times considered, and can provide valuable information for decision-makers, particularly for severe events with high reported displacement. However, the system’s performance is limited by missed forecasts, which can underestimate potential displacement impact and result in inadequate preparation and response efforts. Wind-based impact functions were identified as the main cause of missed forecasts, highlighting the need for additional im- pact functions for each sub-peril involved in causing displacement, such as storm surges, rain-induced floods, and landslides. The results can help guide decision-making and improve preparedness and response measures for TC-related displacement. Further re- search and data collection efforts are necessary to develop impact functions for sub-perils and improve forecast performance. Future research may also analyse the uncertainty distribution obtained from the UNcertainty and SEnsitity QUAntification (UNSEQUA) module to gain a more thorough understanding of model output uncertainties.
Evaluating the Impact of the Healthy Kids Community Challenge (HKCC) on Physical Activity of Older Youth
Creators: name: Leatherdale, Scott T.
name: Burns, Kathleen E.
name: Qian, Wei
name: Faulkner, Guy E. J., 1970-
name: Carson, Valerie
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: (1) Background: The Healthy Kids Community Challenge (HKCC) was a community-based obesity prevention intervention funded by the Government of Ontario (Canada). (2) Methods: A quasi-experimental design was used to examine the impact of the HKCC on physical activity (PA) outcomes using both repeat cross-sectional (T1 2014–2015, n = 31,548; T2 2015–2016, n = 31,457; and T3 2016–2017, n = 30,454) and longitudinal data (n = 3906) from the COMPASS study. Grade 9–12 students in HKCC communities were placed into one of three intervention groups [T2 data collection post-HKCC finishing (IG1), T2 data collection during HKCC (IG2), and T2 data collection pre-HKCC starting (IG3)], Ontario students in non-HKCC communities were Control Group 1 (CG1) and Alberta students were Control Group 2 (CG2). (3) Results: Repeat cross-sectional results show over time the HKCC had no significant impact on PA outcomes in any of the intervention groups. Longitudinal results show a significant decrease in time spent in moderate-to-vigorous PA (IG2: −3.15 min/day) between T1 and T3 in IG2. (4) Conclusions: These results suggest the HKCC did not have an impact on improving PA outcomes among older youth in HKCC communities. Moving forward, there is a need to provide effective and sustainable interventions to promote PA among older youth.
Supplementary Information from At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory
Creators: name: Ceolin, Andrea
name: Guardiano, Cristina
name: Longobardi, Giuseppe
name: Irimia, Monica Alexandrina
name: Bortolussi, Luca
name: Sgarro, Andrea
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Tables and Figures
Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs
Creators: name: Colombi, Nicolas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023

description: Coral reefs ecosystems, often compared to rain forests for the high biodiversity they sustain, are predominantly threatened by coral bleaching. Coral bleaching occurs when the symbiotic relationship between dinoflagellates and corals breaks under environmental stresses, notably increasing ocean temperatures. Thermal stress on coral reefs results from marine heatwaves, which can take place synchronously at the surface and at bottom of the sea, or asynchronously in either one of the two levels. Bottom marine heatwaves, tend to last longer with potentially higher cumulative intensities compared to their surface counterpart. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, no global coral bleaching model seems to take into account the variability between the thermal stress measured at the surface and the one experienced at the depth of coral reefs. Here we show that developing a model for shallow and upper mesophotic coral reefs based on the temperature at coral reef depth using the GLORYS12 product, increased coral bleaching accuracy by 4.70% ± 1.3 compared to the state-of-the-art bleaching models. Additionally, our model provides coral bleaching values at times and locations where no record was taken, producing a dataset of coral bleaching with daily resolution from January 1st 1993 to December 31th 2020 for 9944 locations worldwide. From the modelled dataset, we observed that from 1993, more than 40% of coral reefs bleached. Furthermore, here we show that between 20 and 47m, severe coral bleaching significantly increases with depth with our GLORYS12 model. On the other hand, the model issued from the NOAA OI-SST v2 product could not resolve any depth related trend with coral bleaching for the entire 0-47m interval. We anticipate this study to be a starting point for more accurate coral bleaching modelling, which takes into account the dissimilarities between thermal stresses at the surface and at coral reef depth. Observing that upper mesophotic coral reefs (30-50m) might be more threatened than shallow coral reefs, provides additional evidence to reshape our perception of deep coral reefs as potential refugees from climate change.
Discovering time-trends of the German populations exposure to contaminants by analysis of human samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB)
Creators: name: Göen, Thomas
name: Lermen, Dominik
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Hildebrand, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Biobank
Umweltprobenbank

description: The German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) is a monitoring instrument of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The permanent biobank facility is run since 1981 containing environmental and human samples from Germany. All samples are collected according to standard operating procedures (SOP). An standardized annual collection of human samples at four different regional sites of the country has been established since 1997. Routine sampling is done once a year, recruiting healthy non occupationally exposed students aged 20-29 years, in an equal gender distribution. The number of participants recruited is approximately 120 students per site and year. Directly after the annual sampling process, the human samples are analyzed for selected environmental chemicals. The time-trends of lead in blood, mercury and pentachlorophenol in 24 h-urine and polychlorinated biphenyls in plasma demonstrated a decrease of exposure during the last two decades by about 40-90 percent. In parallel retrospective studies using cryo-archived samples revealed increasing time trends of emerging chemicals used as substitutes for regulated toxicants. The data demonstrates the great relevance of the ESB for the health related environmental monitoring and shows the importance of human biomonitoring as a tool in information based policy making. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Paracossus furcata Hampson 1904
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus furcata

description: Paracossus furcata Hampson, 1904
Figs 15
Hampson, 1904: 152, Pl. D: fig. 30.
Type locality: Pegu, Magane [Pegu, Myanmar].
Type material (holotype, female) in NHMUK, examined.
Material examined. Holotype (female), Pegu, Magane, Moore Coll. 94−106 (NHMUK).
Distribution: Myanmar (Gaede 1933; Arora 1976; Schoorl 1990).
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on page 21, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Games as art: playtime over
Creators: name: Wilken, Rowan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Truncated, repetitive, coin-operated nihilism? To a point. The 'insufferable philosophy of our time' is not a single object or symbol, but an array of signs and symbols placed at odds with each other, made to wage a type of war we aren’t told how to engage with. We were told that play would desensitise, depoliticise and disconnect us, and now games are presented by the museum as the latest historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. So what happened? [Introduction]
Paracossus griseatus Yakovlev 2009
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus griseatus

description: Paracossus griseatus Yakovlev, 2009
Figs 5, 15
Yakovlev, 2009: 354.
Type locality: S. Cambodia, Sro Kiong env., Kirirom.
Type material (holotype, male) in MWM, examined.
Material examined. 1 male (holotype), S. Cambodia, Sro Kiong env., Kirirom, 720 m, 4–12.i.2001, leg. Chernyshov & Kosov (MWM); 1 male, same locality, 11º21′N 104º04′E, 2−7.i.2000, leg. M. & S. Murzin (MWM); 1 male, Central Vietnam, K’Bang distr., Dak Roong, Kon Loc vill., N 14º42′ E 108º39′, 14−17.iii.2012, H – 1050 m, leg. V. Zolotuhin (RYB).
Distribution: Cambodia, Central Vietnam (Yakovlev 2009; 2014).
Flight period: January−March.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Investigating reductive modification of granular ferric hydroxide for enhanced chromate removal
Creators: name: Bahr, Carsten
name: Massa, Lukas
name: Stanjek, Helge
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chromat

description: Recent toxicological findings and expected lower regulatory limits for chromate (hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI)) in drinking water enforce the search for practical treatment options for efficient Cr(VI) removal. Cr(VI) adsorption and chemical reduction of highly soluble Cr(VI) to much less soluble Cr(III) are the main options that have already been experimentally investigated. Granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) is an established adsorbent for different pollutants but only to a limited extent for Cr(VI). The present study aimed at enriching ferrous iron (Fe(II)) as reducing constituent in the GFH to integrate reductive capabilities and thus to enhance Cr(VI) elimination. Three different batches were prepared and analyzed with regard to elemental and mineralogical compositions in comparison to conventional GFH. Long-term column tests showed enhanced Cr(VI) elimination in the modified materials with remarkably extended run-times until breakthrough. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Paracossus hainanicus Yakovlev 2009
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus hainanicus

description: Paracossus hainanicus Yakovlev, 2009
Figs 6, 15
Yakovlev, 2009: 354.
Type locality: China, Hainan Isl., Wuzhi-Shan Mts.
Type material (holotype, male) in MWM, examined.
Material examined. 1 male (holotype), China, Hainan Isl., Wuzhi-Shan Mts., 18°53′ N 109°43′ E, 20.ii.– 10.iv.2001, 1500 m, leg. local collector, ex coll. R. Brechlin (MWM); 3 males (paratypes), same locality and data (MWM).
Distribution: Southern China, Hainan Island (Yakovlev 2009).
Flight period: February−April.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on page 22, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Geographic layers that illustrate future energy efficiency potentials
Creators: name: Wiechers, Eva
name: Möller, Bernd
name: Persson, Urban
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Pan-European Thermal Atlas Peta is an online visualization tool for spatial data. Version 5.1 was launched in 2020 with a first set of layers for the EU27+UK, which related to energy demands in the base year and first, intermediate project results regarding energy efficiency potentials. With the update to version 5.2, Peta was complemented with layers based on the scenarios studied in different sEEnergies tasks, completed after the launch of Peta 5.1. As a result, Peta 5.2 shows energy demand and energy efficiency data for residential and service sector buildings as well as for industry and transport for different scenarios, focusing on the status-quo and the scenario year 2050, while also containing 2030 data.
 Throughout the Heat Roadmap Europe projects, Peta has been developed as an information system for the heat sector. Its main content related to district heating grid investment costs, district heating area demarcations and supply options. The current version 5.2 features new layers that include future heat demands and district heating development costs for distribution and service pipe investment costs, as well as energy efficiency potentials of the industry and transport sectors.
 In a new layer group Peta 5.2 presents the results of spatial analyses, for example the allocation of excess heat to urban areas as well as an index that combines energy efficiency potentials across sectors and technologies.
Paracossus indradit Yakovlev 2009
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus indradit

description: Paracossus indradit Yakovlev, 2009
Figs 7−8, 15
Yakovlev, 2009: 354.
Type locality: Thailand, Donglek, Sri Sawat, Kanchanaburi.
Type material (holotype, male) in MWM, examined.
Material examined. Male (holotype), Thailand, Donglek, Sri Sawat, Kanchanaburi, 16.xi.2004 (MWM); 2 males (paratypes), same locality and data (MWM); 1 male (paratype), Thailand, Changwat Chiang Mai, Mt. Doi Phahompok, 16 km NW of Fang, 2000 m, 15.ii.1998, leg. Hreblay & Szaboky (MWM); 2 males (paratypes), Thailand, Changwat Chiang Mai, 15 km SW Wiang Haeng, 1400 m, 3.iii.1998, leg. M. Hreblay & Szaboky (MWM); 4 males (paratypes), Thailand, Changwat Nan, 25 km N Bo Luang, 1150 m, 17.ii.1998, leg. Hreblay & Szaboky (MWM); 4 males (paratypes), China, Yunnan prov., 10 km SW Yunxian Daxing, 120 km S Dali, Linckang Distr., 24°30′N; 100°01′E, 16.iii.–10.iv.2000, 1200 m, leg. Brechlin & local collectors (MWM); 1 male (paratype), China, Yunnan, Mouding, 25°19′N; 101°32′E, 16.iii–10.iv.2000, leg. Brechlin & local collectors (MWM); 2 males, Central Vietnam, Gia Lai Prov., Kon Ka Kin N.[ational] P.[ark], K’Bang distr., Dak Roong Comm., top of mountain pass, N14º 4286′; E108º36′, 16−17.iii.2012, H – 1210 m, leg. V. Zolotuhin (RYB); 1 male, Laos, prov. Luangphrabang, Xiang Ngeun, 20 km S Luangphrabang, 700 m, 18.i.2005, leg. S. Loeffler (MWM).
Distribution: Thailand, SE China (Yunnan Province), Central Vietnam (Yakovlev 2009, 2011, 2014), Laos (new locality).
Flight period: November−April.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on page 23, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Incidence of Pregnancy-Associated Cancer in Two Canadian Provinces: A Population-Based Study
Creators: name: Metcalfe, Amy
name: Cairncross, Zoe F.
name: Friedenreich, Christine M.
name: Ray, Joel G.
name: Nelson, Gregg
name: Fell, Deshayne B.
name: Lisonkova, Sarka
name: Bhatti, Parveen
name: McMorris, Carly
name: Sikdar, Khokan C.
name: Shack, Lorraine
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Pregnancy-associated cancer—that is diagnosed in pregnancy or within 365 days after delivery—is increasingly common as cancer therapy evolves and survivorship increases. This study assessed the incidence and temporal trends of pregnancy-associated cancer in Alberta and Ontario—together accounting for 50% of Canada’s entire population. Linked data from the two provincial cancer registries and health administrative data were used to ascertain new diagnoses of cancer, livebirths, stillbirths and induced abortions among women aged 18–50 years, from 2003 to 2015. The annual crude incidence rate (IR) was calculated as the number of women with a pregnancy-associated cancer per 100,000 deliveries. A nonparametric test for trend assessed for any temporal trends. In Alberta, the crude IR of pregnancy-associated cancer was 156.2 per 100,000 deliveries (95% CI 145.8–166.7), and in Ontario, the IR was 149.4 per 100,000 deliveries (95% CI 143.3–155.4). While no statistically significant temporal trend in the IR of pregnancy-associated cancer was seen in Alberta, there was a rise in Ontario (p = 0.01). Pregnancy-associated cancer is common enough to warrant more detailed research on maternal, pregnancy and child outcomes, especially as cancer therapies continue to evolve.
IBN SINO ASARLARIDAGI ORTIQCHA VAZNLIKKA QARSHI DORI VOSITALAR FARMAKOLOGIYASI
Creators: name: Akobirova, N.Sh.
name: Shakarov, N.K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Gavda tuzilishi – bu har bir insonning ko’rki hisoblanadi. Hozirgi kunda tadqiqotlarning ko’rsatishicha dunyo aholisining deyarli 30%i semizlikdan shikoyat qilishi aniqlangan. Bugungi kunda ortiqcha vaznlilik bir qancha yomon oqibatlarga sabab bo’lmoqda. Xususan, respublikamizda ham mazkur muammo sog`liqni saqlash tizimida jiddiy oqibatlarni yuzaga keltirmoqda. Semizlik, aosan, uning abdominal (qorin sohasidagi) shakli ko’plab kasalliklarning kelib chiqishida muhim rol o’ynashi so’nggi yillarda olib borilgan ilmiy izlanishlarda o’z natijasini topdi. Xususan, 55 yoshdan kichik bo’lgan 3-daraja semizligi bo’lgan odamlarda 2-tur qandli diabet bilan kasallanish xavfi shu yoshdagi normal tana vaznida bo’lgan odamlarga nisbatan erkaklarda 18, ayollarda 13 marta yuqori bo’lishi isbotlangan. Aynan ularning holatini yaxshilash uchun Abu Ali ibn Sino bir qancha tabiiy vositalar haqida ma’lumotlar yozib qoldirganlar.
Cholic Acid-Based Mixed Micelles as siRNA Delivery Agents for Gene Therapy
Creators: name: Cunningham, Alexander J
name: Gibson, Victor Passos
name: Banquy, Xavier
name: Zhu, X. X. X
name: Chain, Jeanne Leblond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gene therapy is a promising tool for the treatment of various cancers but is hindered by the physico-chemical properties of siRNA and needs a suitable vector for the delivery of siRNA to the target tissue. Bile acid-based block copolymers offers certain advantages for the loading and delivery of siRNA since they can efficiently complex siRNA and bile acids are biocompatible endogenous molecules. In this study, we demonstrate the use of lipids as co-surfactants for the preparation of mixed micelles to improve the siRNA delivery of cholic acid-based block copolymers. Poly(allyl glycidyl ether) (PAGE) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) were polymerized on the surface of cholic acid to afford a star-shaped block copolymer with four arms (CA-PAGE-b-PEG)4. The allyl groups of PAGE were functionalized to bear primary or tertiary amines and folic acid was grafted onto the PEG chain end to increase cell uptake. (CA-PAGE-b-PEG)4 functionalized with either primary or tertiary amines show high siRNA complexation with close to 100% complexation at N/P ratio of 8. Uniform aggregates with diameters between 181 and 188 nm were obtained. DOPE, DSPE-PEG2k, and DSPE-PEG5k lipids were added as co-surfactants to help stabilize the nanoparticles in the cell culture media. Mixed micelles had high siRNA loading with close to 100% functionalization at N/P ratio of 16 and diameters ranging from 153 to 221 nm. The presence of lipids in the mixed micelles improved cell uptake with a concomitant siRNA transfection in HeLa and HeLa-GFP model cells, respectively.
Paracossus longispinalis
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus longispinalis

description: Paracossus longispinalis (Chou & Hua, 1988)
Figs 9, 15
 Bifduncus longispinalis Chou & Hua, 1988: 225
Type locality: Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province [China, Jiangxi].
Type material (holotype, male) in NWAU, examined.
Material examined. 1 male (holotype), Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, 15.ix.1980, coll. Zhao Yongxiang (NWAU).
Distribution: China, Jiangxi.
Flight period: September.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on page 23, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205
Introduction to Machine Learning
Creators: name: Haase, Robert
name: Joas, Maximilian Josef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: In this slide deck we present an introduction to machine learning, focusing on methods for data analysis. We dive into unsupervised machine learning for dimensionality reduction and clustering. We will see how random forest classifiers work and learn about neural network architectures. Last but not least we study approached to model validation and active learning.
Gewässertyp des Jahres 2018
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Gewässertyp des Jahres
subject: Wasser

description: Die sandigen Tieflandbäche liegen vornehmlich in den sandigen Gebieten der direkt vom Inlandeis geformten Alt- und Jungmoränenlandschaft von Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Hamburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Brandenburg. Typische Vertreter des Gewässertyps sind die Sude, die Oberläufe von Plane, Alster, Wümme, Hase und Ems.
Spatial models and spatial analytics results
Creators: name: Möller, Bernd
name: Wiechers, Eva
name: Sánchez-García, Luis
name: Persson, Urban
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The present report accounts for the spatial models of energy efficiency and the geospatial analysis carried out to quantify and locate energy efficiency potentials across sectors. In the building sector, future heat demands on national scales are being distributed using the age class of built-up areas and innovative models of future population distribution. District heat distribution capital costs combined with heat demand densities allow for the assessment of economic potentials of future district heating. Efficiency potentials in the transport and industrial sectors have been associated to locations, and transmission infrastructures have been mapped. Combining all these aspects, spatial analytics help understanding the opportunities and constraints that arise from the geography of energy systems. Energy efficiency in the three sectors has been mapped at different scales. Cost curves for district heating have been prepared for member states. For use in energy systems analysis, a matrix has been developed that relates energy efficiency in buildings and district heating potentials. Areas of interest for the conversion of natural gas to district heating have been mapped, combining present gas use with infrastructural aspects. Local potentials of district heating have been quantified for almost 150,000 settlements, and potential heat sources from industrial and wastewater treatment plants as well as locally available renewable energy sources have been allocated to potential district heating areas. Finally, to visualise and compare energy efficiency across sectors, technologies, and countries, the sEEnergies Index shows local potentials for improving energy efficiency and utilising synergies in all settlements of the EU27 plus the UK. In conclusion, the report documents how dissemination can be facilitated using the online geospatial information and mapping applications prepared in the sEEnergies Project.
Paracossus parva Hampson 1904
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Paracossus
Paracossus parva

description: Paracossus parva Hampson, 1904
Figs 10−11, 15
Hampson, 1905: 194−195.
Type locality: Ceylon, Matalé (Pole) [Sri Lanka].
Type material (holotype, male) in NHMUK, examined.
Material examined. 1 male (holotype), Ceylon, Matale (NHMUK); 1 female, S. India, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Hills, S-slopes, 15 km W Kotagiri, 900 m, 11º23′N 76º55′E, 16.iv.1997, leg. Sinjaev & Schintlmeister (MWM).
Distribution: Sri Lanka (Gaede 1933; Arora 1976; Schoorl 1990), Southern India (new locality).
Flight period: April.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., 2022, Review of the genus Paracossus Hampson, 1904 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae, Cossinae) with description of one new species from Thailand, pp. 18-25 in Ecologica Montenegrina 54 on page 23, DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.54.3, http://zenodo.org/record/13241205