cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and quality of life
title: reduction of delirium risk and postoperative cognitive dysfunction after elective procedures in older adults—study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial (PAWEL Study)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Sánchez, Alba
name: Thomas, Christine
name: Deeken, Friederike
name: Wagner, Sören
name: Klöppel, Stefan
name: Kentischer, Felix
name: Arnim, Chrstine A. F. von
name: Denkinger, Michael
name: Conzelmann, Lars O.
name: Biermann-Stallwitz, Janine
name: Joos, Stefanie
name: Sturm, Heidrun
name: Metz, Brigitte
name: Auer, Ramona
name: Skrobik, Yoanna
name: Eschweiler, Gerhard W.
name: Rapp, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: Background

Postoperative delirium is a common disorder in older adults that is associated with higher morbidity and mortality, prolonged cognitive impairment, development of dementia, higher institutionalization rates, and rising healthcare costs. The probability of delirium after surgery increases with patients’ age, with pre-existing cognitive impairment, and with comorbidities, and its diagnosis and treatment is dependent on the knowledge of diagnostic criteria, risk factors, and treatment options of the medical staff. In this study, we will investigate whether a cross-sectoral and multimodal intervention for preventing delirium can reduce the prevalence of delirium and postoperative cognitive decline (POCD) in patients older than 70 years undergoing elective surgery. Additionally, we will analyze whether the intervention is cost-effective.

Methods

The study will be conducted at five medical centers (with two or three surgical departments each) in the southwest of Germany. The study employs a stepped-wedge design with cluster randomization of the medical centers. Measurements are performed at six consecutive points: preadmission, preoperative, and postoperative with daily delirium screening up to day 7 and POCD evaluations at 2, 6, and 12 months after surgery. Recruitment goals are to enroll 1500 patients older than 70 years undergoing elective operative procedures (cardiac, thoracic, vascular, proximal big joints and spine, genitourinary, gastrointestinal, and general elective surgery procedures.

Discussion

Results of the trial should form the basis of future standards for preventing delirium and POCD in surgical wards. Key aims are the improvement of patient safety and quality of life, as well as the reduction of the long-term risk of conversion to dementia. Furthermore, from an economic perspective, we expect benefits and decreased costs for hospitals, patients, and healthcare insurances.

Trial registration

German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00013311. Registered on 10 November 2017.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 535
Mode transformer for hard-surface waveguides
Creators: name: Uusitupa, T.
name: Viitanen, A.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Mode transformation effect inside a corrugated circular waveguide filled with gyrotropic material, e.g., magnetoplasma or ferrite, is considered. The corrugation is in axial direction and the depth of the corrugation is a quarter wave length forming a boundary condition equal to a hard surface (HS). It is assumed that the material is slightly anisotropic and gyrotropic. This can be achieved at certain frequency range with a proper axial magnetic field strength. The eigenwaves are elliptically polarised hybrid-mode fields, which propagate with slightly different propagation factors. This difference in propagation factors causes the mode transformation.
Additional file 12 of Fungal and bacterial microbiome dysbiosis and imbalance of trans-kingdom network in asthma
Creators: name: Huang, Chunrong
name: Yu, Youchao
name: Du, Wei
name: Liu, Yahui
name: Dai, Ranran
name: Tang, Wei
name: Wang, Ping
name: Zhang, Chenhong
name: Shi, Guochao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 12: Table S7. Relative abundance of top 15 genera in airway bacteriome differing significantly between CON and untreated asthma group.
title: Garrison, Lindley M.
title: Garrison, Lindley M.
Creators: name: Salo, Edward
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Garrison, Lindley M.
subject: Garrison, Lindley M. (Lindley Miller), 1864-1932

description: Lindley Garrison was a prominent lawyer and politician from New Jersey who rose to the rank of vice chancellor of the state in the early 1910s. Because of his prominence, Woodrow Wilson selected him to be his first secretary of war. However, the two clashed on how best to prepare the nation for war, and Garrison resigned in 1916. He returned to the private practice of law.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Effects of Isokinetic Training on Trunk Muscle Fitness and Body Composition in World-Class Canoe Sprinters
Creators: name: Zinke, Fridolin
name: Warnke, Torsten
name: Gäbler, Martijn
name: Granacher, Urs
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: In canoe sprint, the trunk muscles play an important role in stabilizing the body in an unstable environment (boat) and in generating forces that are transmitted through the shoulders and arms to the paddle for propulsion of the boat. Isokinetic training is well suited for sports in which propulsion is generated through water resistance due to similarities in the resistive mode. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of isokinetic training in addition to regular sport-specific training on trunk muscular fitness and body composition in world-class canoeists and to evaluate associations between trunk muscular fitness and canoe-specific performance. Nine world-class canoeists (age: 25.6 ± 3.3 years; three females; four world champions; three Olympic gold medalists) participated in an 8-week progressive isokinetic training with a 6-week block “muscle hypertrophy” and a 2-week block “muscle power.” Pre- and post-tests included the assessment of peak isokinetic torque at different velocities in concentric (30 and 140∘s-1) and eccentric (30 and 90∘s-1) mode, trunk muscle endurance, and body composition (e.g., body fat, segmental lean mass). Additionally, peak paddle force was assessed in the flume at a water current of 3.4 m/s. Significant pre-to-post increases were found for peak torque of the trunk rotators at 30∘s-1 (p = 0.047; d = 0.4) and 140∘s-1 (p = 0.014; d = 0.7) in concentric mode. No significant pre-to-post changes were detected for eccentric trunk rotator torque, trunk muscle endurance, and body composition (p > 0.148). Significant medium-to-large correlations were observed between concentric trunk rotator torque but not trunk muscle endurance and peak paddle force, irrespective of the isokinetic movement velocity (all r ≥ 0.886; p ≤ 0.008). Isokinetic trunk rotator training is effective in improving concentric trunk rotator strength in world-class canoe sprinters. It is recommended to progressively increase angular velocity from 30∘s-1 to 140∘s-1 over the course of the training period.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 536
title: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir
title: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir
Creators: name: Searle, Alaric
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry
subject: Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, Sir, 1895-1970

description: B.H. Liddell Hart served as a British infantry officer on the Western Front in 1915 and 1916 until he was gassed during the Somme Offensive. He is best known for his military historical and theoretical writing which contributed to a more critical evaluation of the war in the interwar period.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: WebGR - storing images of biological material and creating a framework to promote the implementation of sound statistical analysis in age calibration
Creators: name: McCurdy, W.J.
name: Anastasopoulou, A.
name: Berth, U.
name: de Boois, I.J.
name: Bolle, L.J.
name: Cardador, F.
name: Jardim, E.
name: Mahé, K.
name: Modin, J.
name: Moksness, E.
name: Murenu, M.
name: Mytilineou, C.
name: Pforr, I.
name: Piñeiro, C. G.
name: Quincoces, I.
name: Rauthe, N.
name: Rüßmann, H.-W.
name: Sjöberg, R.
name: Stepputtis, D.
name: Stransky, C.
name: van Damme, C.J.G.
name: Vassilopoulou, V.
name: Clausen, L. Worsøe
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session N
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The objective of the WebGR project is to develop a set of web services to support the organisation and data analysis of calibration workshops, both for age and maturity information, implemented in a coherent tool installable as a website. The website consists of a repository of images, a set of web forms to run a calibration exercise online, a reporting module with the most common statistical analysis and import/export modules to manage images and results. The software has a creative commons license (Open Source) to promote transparency, technology transfer and peer review; and will allow the scientific community to get involved in further developments, like linkage to statistical analysis engines, or any other specific features. The usage of WebGR to carry out calibration workshops will promote the application of sound statistical analysis to design the experiment and compute workshop results. The results are extracted in a standard format that can be easily sent to scientists doing assessments
Ab-initio approach to effective single-particle energies in doubly closed shell nuclei
Creators: name: Duguet, T.
name: Hagen, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work discusses, from an ab-initio standpoint, the definition, the meaning, and the usefulness of effective single-particle energies (ESPEs) in doubly closed shell nuclei. We perform coupled-cluster calculations to quantify to what extent selected closed-shell nuclei in the oxygen and calcium isotopic chains can effectively be mapped onto an effective independent-particle picture. To do so, we revisit in detail the notion of ESPEs in the context of strongly correlated many-nucleon systems and illustrate the necessity to extract ESPEs through the diagonalization of the centroid {\it matrix}, as originally argued by Baranger. For the purpose of illustration, we analyse the impact of correlations on observable one-nucleon separation energies and non-observable ESPEs in selected closed-shell oxygen and calcium isotopes. We then state and illustrate the non-observability of ESPEs. Similarly to spectroscopic factors, ESPEs can indeed be modified by a redefinition of inaccessible quantities while leaving actual observables unchanged. This leads to the absolute necessity to employ consistent structure and reaction models based on the same nuclear Hamiltonian to extract the shell structure in a meaningful fashion from experimental data.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, published in Physical Review C
title: The Impact of Ethical Hacking within Small Businesses
Creators: name: Tribbey, Nygia
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The Internet has brought about a new way for businesses to reach their customers. With the help of social media, websites, and email marketing, small businesses have gained a lot of new customers. However, these new online customers have also opened up their businesses to a whole new world of cyber crime. Cyber crime is the illegal use of computers and networks to cause damage or steal information. This type of crime affects small businesses as well as large corporations. Small businesses often find themselves at a disadvantage because they don't have the resources to hire an ethical hacker or cyber security team. This is where ethical hackers come in and help these small businesses. Businesses are constantly being targeted by hackers looking to steal information. With the rise of cyber-attacks and data breaches, it has become increasingly important for businesses to protect themselves against these threats. It is not always easy to identify the signs of a hacker, so it is important to have ethical hackers on staff who can help identify malicious activity before it becomes a problem.
Reliability and performances of finite element CAD tools for the solution of microwave problems
Creators: name: Fernandes, P.
name: Raffetto, M.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The target of this paper is two-fold. On the one hand, we address the question of the reliability of’ many recently proposed high-order finite elements. On the other hand, new quadrilateral edge elements are proposed and the improvements of the performances they permit are stressed.
title: Executive Functions and Language
title: Their Differential Influence on Mono- vs. Multilingual Spelling in Primary School
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Czapka, Sophia
name: Klassert, Annegret
name: Festmann, Julia
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: We aimed at unveiling the role of executive functions (EFs) and language-related skills in spelling for mono- versus multilingual primary school children. We focused on EF and language-related skills, in particular lexicon size and phonological awareness (PA), because these factors were found to predict spelling in studies predominantly conducted with monolinguals, and because multilingualism can modulate these factors. There is evidence for (a) a bilingual advantage in EF due to constant high cognitive demands through language control, (b) a smaller mental lexicon in German and (c) possibly better PA. Multilinguals in Germany show on average poorer German language proficiency, what can influence performance on language-based tasks negatively. Thus, we included two spelling tasks to tease apart spelling based on lexical knowledge (i.e., word spelling) from spelling based on non-lexical strategies (i.e., non-word spelling). Our sample consisted of heterogeneous third graders from Germany: 69 monolinguals (age: M = 108 months) and 57 multilinguals (age: M = 111 months). On less language-dependent tasks (e.g., non-word spelling, PA, intelligence, short-term memory (STM) and three EF tasks testing switching, inhibition, and working memory) performance of both groups did not differ significantly. However, multilinguals performed significantly more poorly on tasks measuring German lexicon size and word spelling than monolinguals. Regression analyses revealed that for multilinguals, inhibition was related to spelling, whereas switching was the only EF component to influence word spelling in monolinguals and non-word spelling performance in both groups. By adding lexicon size and other language-related factors to the regression models, the influence of switching was reduced to insignificant effects, but inhibition remained significant for multilinguals. Language-related skills best predicted spelling and both language groups shared those variables: PA for word spelling, and STM for non-word spelling. Additionally, multilinguals’ word spelling performance was also predicted by their German lexicon size, and non-word spelling performance by PA. This study offers an in-depth look at spelling acquisition at a certain point of literacy development. Mono- and multilinguals have the predominant factors for spelling in common, but probably due to superior language knowledge, monolinguals were already able to make use of EF during spelling. For multilinguals, German lexicon size was more important for spelling than EF. For multilinguals’ spelling these functions might come into play only at a later stage.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 537
Pseudencya Lacroix 1991
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pseudencya

description: Pseudencya Lacroix, 1991
[1 species].
Type species Pseudencya cinnabarina Lacroix, 1991, by original designation.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
title: Labour (Belgium)
title: Labour (Belgium)
Creators: name: Luyten, Dirk
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Belgien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Belgium
subject: Labor

description: The standard of living of Belgian workers declined in the First World War as a consequence of the economic standstill, as well as German monetary and economic exploitation, which led to a sharp increase in prices that was not matched by wage increases. Workers were confronted with massive unemployment or were forced to work in Germany. The economic elite set up a national unemployment insurance system in which the labour movement participated. The Belgian socialist party supported the war effort and was integrated in the political system. Protest against the war was limited to a minority, for whom the rallying point was Camille Huysmans’ campaign for the Stockholm Conference.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: War Aims and War Aims Discussions (France)
title: War Aims and War Aims Discussions (France)
Creators: name: Tison, Stéphane
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Frankreich
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsziel
subject: Diplomatie
subject: World War, 1914-1918--France
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Diplomatic history

description: On 4 August 1914, in his first speech after the declaration of war, Raymond Poincaré, president of the French Republic, did not outline any aims other than the ''Union sacrée'' (sacred union) and the defence of the country’s borders. Once the hopes for a short war had been dispelled, it was necessary for France to define more precise war aims. The main goal pursued by the government remained establishing a security system to avoid new threats to its borders. To reach these goals, France’s war aims wavered between territorial expansion to protect its borders and the inclusion of Germany in an international framework (of alliances or collective security).
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Model construction and superconductivity analysis of organic conductors β-(BDA-TTP)_2MF_6 (M=P, As, Sb, Ta) based on first principles band calculation
Creators: name: Aizawa, Hirohito
name: Kuroki, Kazuhiko
name: Yasuzuka, Syuma
name: Yamada, Jun-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a first principles band calculation for a group of quasi-two-dimensional organic conductors β-(BDA-TTP)2MF6 (M=P, As, Sb, Ta). The ab-initio calculation shows that the density of states (DOS) is correlated with the band width of singly occupied (highest) molecular orbital (SOMO), while it is not necessarily correlated with the unit cell volume. The direction of the major axis of the cross section of the Fermi surface lies in the Γ-B direction, which differs from that obtained by the extended Huckel calculation. Then, we construct a tight-binding model which accurately reproduces the ab-initio band structure. The obtained transfer energies give smaller dimerization than in the extended Huckel band. As for the difference of the anisotropy of the Fermi surface, the transfer energies along the inter-stacking direction are smaller than those obtained in the extended Huckel calculation. Assuming spin-fluctuation-mediated superconductivity, we apply random phase approximation (RPA) to a two-band Hubbard model. This two-band Hubbard model is composed of the tight-binding model derived from the first principles band structure and an on-site (intra-molecule) repulsive interaction taken as a variable parameter. The obtained superconducting gap changes sign four times along the Fermi surface like in a d-wave gap, and the nodal direction is different from that obtained in the extended Huckel model. Anion dependence of Tc is qualitatively consistent with the experimental observation.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Sense of identity loss and continuity in narratives of immigration of a group of Latin American Canadian women
Creators: name: Espinoza-Magana, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Drawing from an action theory and other perspectives on identity, which emphasize individuals' social processes and contextual factors, and utilizing a social constructivist approach, this inquiry proposes an understanding of the participants' immigration experiences. This secondary analysis explored the narratives of 25 semistructured interviews conducted in 2002 with Latin American immigrant and refugee women. Using a categorical-content (thematic) analysis, this qualitative research aimed to address the women's sense of identity loss and continuity in their narratives of immigration. Moving to Canada became problematic for half of the women when they experienced a sense of identity loss influenced by challenges of immigration.
title: Mental Number Representations in 2D Space
Creators: name: Sixtus, Elena
name: Lonnemann, Jan
name: Fischer, Martin H.
name: Werner, Karsten
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2019

description: There is evidence both for mental number representations along a horizontal mental number line with larger numbers to the right of smaller numbers (for Western cultures) and a physically grounded, vertical representation where “more is up.” Few studies have compared effects in the horizontal and vertical dimension and none so far have combined both dimensions within a single paradigm where numerical magnitude was task-irrelevant and none of the dimensions was primed by a response dimension. We now investigated number representations over both dimensions, building on findings that mental representations of numbers and space co-activate each other. In a Go/No-go experiment, participants were auditorily primed with a relatively small or large number and then visually presented with quasi-randomly distributed distractor symbols and one Arabic target number (in Go trials only). Participants pressed a central button whenever they detected the target number and elsewise refrained from responding. Responses were not more efficient when small numbers were presented to the left and large numbers to the right. However, results indicated that large numbers were associated with upper space more strongly than small numbers. This suggests that in two-dimensional space when no response dimension is given, numbers are conceptually associated with vertical, but not horizontal space.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe, 538
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Portugal)
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Portugal)
Creators: name: Meneses, Filipe Ribeiro De
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Portugal
subject: Soldat
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Portugal
subject: Soldiers

description: Establishing the attitude of Portuguese soldiers towards the First World War and their role in it is a difficult task. Largely illiterate men left relatively little trace of their opinion in the shape of letters and diaries – while officers, politically divided, portrayed soldiers’ attitudes largely in order to suit their own immediate aims. Surviving accounts and official records suggest that while soldiers accepted the necessity of the conflict, they were increasingly angry at what they deemed to be their unfair treatment. The impossibility of leave was the soldiers’ most serious complaint. Extreme refusal was exemplified by various mutinies in 1918.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
title: Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich
Creators: name: Jones, Mark
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Liebknecht, Karl
subject: Liebknecht, Karl Paul August Friedrich, 1871-1919

description: Karl Liebknecht was the leading German socialist opponent of the First World War. He was the first member of parliament to vote against the financing of the war. On 1 May 1916 he was arrested and imprisoned for giving an anti-war speech in central Berlin. He was a controversial figure during the Revolution of 1918-19 who advocated a Bolshevist style proletarian revolution. He was murdered on 15 January 1919.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Entwicklung einer Methode zur Bestimmung von Arzneimittelwirkstoffen in Oberflächenwasser mittels LC-MS/MS
Creators: name: Kern, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Elektronische Publikation
subject: Hochschulschrift
subject: Online-Publikation
subject: Zsfassung in engl. Sprache
subject: 628.161

description: Seit dem Nachweis von Clofibrinsäure in vielen aquatischen Systemen um Berlin Anfang der 90er Jahre ist die Anzahl der nachgewiesenen Arzneimittelrückstände kontinuierlich gestiegen. Dieser Arzneimitteleintrag in die Umwelt führte sowohl in aquatischen als auch in nichtaquatischen Systemen zu schweren Schädigungen der Fauna. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wurde eine Methode zur Bestimmung von 16 wichtigen Arzneimittelwirkstoffen aus den Gruppen der Analgetika, der Lipidsenker, der Hormone, der Psychopharmaka und der Phosphodiesterase-Typ5-Hemmer mittels LC-MS/MS entwickelt. Zur Kompensation von Matrixeffekten und Verlusten bei der Aufarbeitung wurde für die Quantifizierung bei der negativen Ionisation 37Cl-markiertes Chloramphenicol und bei der positiven Ionisation deuteriertes Diazepam verwendet. So konnte für 13 von 16 Analyten eine Bestimmungsgrenze unterhalb des Schwellenwertes für die ökotoxikologische Bewertung von 10 ng/L erreicht werden. Mit der entwickelten Methode wurden Proben aus der Saale und Seen um Halle vermessen. Hierbei konnte bestätigt werden, dass Carbamazepin (Medianwert 202,5 ng/L) und Diclofenac (Medianwert 166,9 ng/L) an vielen Stellen der Saale nachgewiesen wurden und der Abwasserpfad die wichtigste Eintragsquelle für Arzneimittelwirkstoffe in die Umwelt darstellt.
description: The number of pharmaceutical residues found in aquatic systems has been increasing since the detection of Clofibric acid around Berlin at the beginning of the 1990s. This enter into the environment led to heavy fauna damage in aquatic as well as in nonaquatic systems. An LC-MS/MS method to determine 16 important pharmaceuticals belonging to analgetics, antilipidemic drugs, hormones, psychotropics, phosphodiesterase- typ5-inhibitors was developed in this thesis. 37Cl-marked Chloramphenicole and deuterated Diazepam were used for quantification in negative and positive mode respectively, to compensate for matrix effects and loss during sample preparation. So a limit of quantification below the threshold for ecotoxicological assessment of 10 ng/L was achieved for 13 out of 16 analytes. Samples from the river Saale and lakes around Halle were quantified with the method. It was confirmed that, Carbamacepin (median 202.5 ng/L) and Diclofenac (median 166.9 ng/L) are found at various points in the aquatic environment of the Saale and that the wastewater path is the most important source for contamination with pharmaceutical residues.
Additional file 14 of Fungal and bacterial microbiome dysbiosis and imbalance of trans-kingdom network in asthma
Creators: name: Huang, Chunrong
name: Yu, Youchao
name: Du, Wei
name: Liu, Yahui
name: Dai, Ranran
name: Tang, Wei
name: Wang, Ping
name: Zhang, Chenhong
name: Shi, Guochao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 14: Fig. S5. Prediction models and discriminant taxa of bacteriome. a. Prediction models using Random Forest (RF). X-axis represents the number of important species (variables) ranking top n, y-axis represents the corresponding prediction error rate using 10-fold cross validation (CV). b. The Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve for the random forest model. c,d. LEfSe analysis showing the differentially abundant taxonomy(CON vs untreated asthma group, untreated asthma group vs ICS asthma group). The LDA scores (log10) > 2 are listed, p ≤ 0.05.
Bellman function for extremal problems in BMO
Creators: name: Ivanisvili, Paata
name: Osipov, Nikolay
name: Stolyarov, Dmitriy
name: Vasyunin, Vasily
name: Zatitskiy, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A05, 42B35, 49K20, 52A40

description: In this paper we develop the method of finding sharp estimates by using a Bellman function. In such a form the method appears in the proofs of the classical John--Nirenberg inequality and $L^p$ estimations of BMO functions. In the present paper we elaborate a method of solving the boundary value problem for the homogeneous Monge--Ampère equation in a parabolic strip for sufficiently smooth boundary conditions. In such a way we have obtained an algorithm of constructing an exact Bellman function for a large class of integral functionals in the BMO space.
description: 91 pages, 18 figures
BIOPIGEE: Modelling the cost and effectiveness of biosecurity measures for Hepatitis E
Creators: name: McCarthy, Catherine
name: Hammami, Pachka
name: Widgren, Stefan
name: Kaesbohrer, Annemarie
name: Simons, Robin
name: Conrady, Beate
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: One aim of the One Health European Joint Programme (OHEJP) funded project BIOPIGEE, is to assess the cost-effectiveness of standard and specific biosecurity measures, in relation to the prevalence reduction of Salmonella and Hepatitis E virus (HEV) along the pig supply chain. To fulfil this aim, we propose a modelling framework that brings together currently available models developed by different European institutes and adapts and integrates them for this purpose.
title: Jagow, Gottlieb von
title: Jagow, Gottlieb von
Creators: name: Altenhöner, Florian
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Jagow, Gottlieb von
subject: Jagow, Gottlieb von, 1863-1935

description: Gottlieb von Jagow was a German diplomat. He served as the German Foreign Secretary from January 1913 to November 1916.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Measurement and Modelling of MIC Components Using Conductive Lithographic Films
Creators: name: Shepherd, P. R.
name: Taylor, C.
name: Evans L, P. S. A.
name: Harrison, D. J.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Conductive Lithographic Films (CLFs) have previously demonstrated useful properties in printed mi-crowave circuits, combining low cost with high speed of manufacture. In this paper we examine the formation of various passive components via the CLF process, which enables further integration of printed microwave integrated circuits. The printed components include vias, resistors and overlay capacitors, and offer viable alternatives to traditional manufacturing processes for Microwave Inte-grated Circuits (MICs). Manufacturing data, measurements on test structures and equivalent circuit modelling for a range of CLF circuit structures are presented.
An analysis of the complexities of advance care planning implementation : insights gained from a review of the literature
Creators: name: Wong, Jennifer Wai Yin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is a process for patients and families to engage in discussions around future wishes for health care. It offers a means to increase dialogue about end of life care and has the potential to improve patient outcomes. Despite the benefits demonstrated in literature, there are still many challenges to ACP implementation. This thesis investigated why ACP is so difficult to implement by reflecting on the following stakeholders: patients and families of older adults and individuals living with chronic illnesses, health care providers, and health care organizations. Particular examples are drawn from the context in British Columbia, Canada. Methods: A purposeful search strategy modifying the rapid evidence assessment approach was used to synthesize the literature. Research studies, summary reports, and policy documents were used to build a balanced picture of perspectives for policy makers. Bryant’s (2009) Policy Change Model and critical theoretical perspectives shaped this analysis and highlighted the complexities and ideologies behind public, professional, and organizational sentiment. Findings: The analysis of literature on patient and provider perspectives shows the biomedical dominance in health care culture and the disinclination to discuss end of life issues. A shift is needed where recognition and prioritization of ACP implementation is supported by leaders in health organizations. Organization-wide multi-component ACP efforts combined with goals of care documentation have been shown to be most successful in improving patient outcomes, but organizational commitment to development of processes and policies is necessary. There is opportunity for nursing leadership and research to move ACP efforts forward in organizations. Conclusion: The analysis presented in this thesis maps evidence for policy makers, stakeholders, and nursing leaders interested in promoting strategic ACP implementation and future ACP research. Process and policy changes are needed to support public and provider engagement.
Line capacitance and impedance of coplanar-strip waveguides on substrates with multiple dielectric layers
Creators: name: Gevorgian, S.
name: Berg, H.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: Closed form formulas for the basic parameters of Coplanar-Strip line on a finite thickness substrate are reviewed. New, improved formulas are derived using conformal mapping technique.
Quantum Hall transport as a probe of capacitance profile at graphene edges
Creators: name: Vera-Marun, I. J.
name: Zomer, P. J.
name: Veligura, A.
name: Guimarães, M. H. D.
name: Visser, L.
name: Tombros, N.
name: van Elferen, H. J.
name: Zeitler, U.
name: van Wees, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum Hall effect is a remarkable manifestation of quantized transport in a two-dimensional electron gas. Given its technological relevance, it is important to understand its development in realistic nanoscale devices. In this work we present how the appearance of different edge channels in a field-effect device is influenced by the inhomogeneous capacitance profile existing near the sample edges, a condition of particular relevance for graphene. We apply this practical idea to experiments on high quality graphene, demonstrating the potential of quantum Hall transport as a spatially resolved probe of density profiles near the edge of this two-dimensional electron gas.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Thick metal plate insertion make FR4 multilayer board a simple carrier for RF power circuits
Creators: name: Buoli, Carlo
name: Biffi, Giovanni
name: Turillo, Tommaso
name: Zingirian, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: In order to reduce sizes and costs of microwave circuits and to simplify their integration together with IF, control and power supply networks, we tested (1) a simple solution that allows using FR4 boards also for microwave circuits. Since FR4 boards are necessarily present in every equipment for power supplies, control, digital and IF circuits, it becomes possible to reduce the number of boards or modules collecting all the networks (operating from DC to tenth of Gigahertz) on the same FR4 multilayer. The typical RF requirements of good thermal and electrical ground and the need of a carrier for “chip on board” monolithic assembly are all achieved through the insertion of a copper plate a few tenth of millimetre thick. This copper plate replaces the second metal layer of FR4 multilayer remaining within standard FR4 process; monolithics can be mounted on it just opening a window on the first layer.
Optically-switched microwave filter with the use of photovaractors in self-bias mode
Creators: name: Szczepaniak, Zenon R.
name: Galwas, Bogdan A.
name: Malyshev, Sergei A.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A new type of semiconductor optoelectronic device, which is called as photovaractor, was used in a self-bias mode of operation to obtain an optically-variable impedance. This approach allowed designing an optically-switched microwave band-pass filter. The use of the photovaractor in the microwave structure was investigated. The measurements of the photovaractor, the idea of the self-bias mode, and the simulations of the filter have been presented.
Novel Sub-Harmonic Injection-Locked Balanced Oscillator
Creators: name: Siripon, N.
name: Chongcheawchamnan, M.
name: Robertson, I. D.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A novel sub-harmonic injection-locked balanced oscillator is proposed. The circuit provides two outputs with a 180° ° phase difference by employing a transmission line section for impedance transformation to meet the oscillation conditions. A coupling network is connected at the mid-point of the transmission line to inject the sub-harmonic frequency. This eliminates the need for a circulator or balun. The circuit is small and consumes low DC power. Under the locking state, the circuit provides double the injection frequency and also the phase noise of the two outputs is substantially improved.
High Power Ultra Compact VCO with Active Reactance Concepts at 24 GHz
Creators: name: Sönmez, E.
name: Trasser, A.
name: Schad, K. -B.
name: Abele, P.
name: Schumacher, H.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: not available - non disponibile
Additional file 1 of Systemic dendrimer-drug nanomedicines for long-term treatment of mild-moderate cerebral palsy in a rabbit model
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhi
name: Lin, Yi-An
name: Kim, Soo-Young
name: Su, Lilly
name: Liu, Jinhuan
name: Kannan, Rangaramanujam M.
name: Kannan, Sujatha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Baseline (pretreatment) neurobehavior test scores and body weight at PND1
Pseudholophylla Blackburn 1911
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
name: Schoolmeesters, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Pseudholophylla

description: Pseudholophylla Blackburn, 1911
[6 species].
Replacement name for Holophylla Burmeister, 1855, not Holophylla Erichson, 1847.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), pp. 104-175 in Megataxa 12 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14984437
Constraining $f(T)$ Theories with the Varying Gravitational Constant
Creators: name: Wei, Hao
name: Qi, Hao-Yu
name: Ma, Xiao-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As is well known, a varying effective gravitational "constant" is one of the common features of most modified gravity theories. Of course, as a modified gravity theory, $f(T)$ theory is not an exception. Noting that the observational constraint on the varying gravitational "constant" is very tight, in the present work we try to constrain $f(T)$ theories with the varying gravitational "constant". We find that the allowed model parameter $n$ or $β$ has been significantly shrunk to a very narrow range around zero. In fact, the results improve the previous constraints by an order of magnitude.
description: 10 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures, revtex4; v2: discussions added, Eur. Phys. J. C in press; v3: published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.0102
Alleviating the Adverse effects of Residual Stress in RF MEMS Switches
Creators: name: Peroulis, Dimitrios
name: Pacheco, Sergio P.
name: Sarabandi, Kamal
name: Katehi, Linda P. B.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2001
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This paper presents two methods for counteracting the unwanted de ﬂection due to warping or buckling e effects,which are serious potential problems in many fabrication processes f micro electromechanical (MEMS)structures due to thin ﬁlm phenomena.This study is primarily suited for electrostatically actuated RF MEMS switches whose RF and DC performance can be signi ﬁcantly deteri rated by out of plane warping.It can also be applied to MEMS acceler meters,resonators and other similar systems.The ﬁrst technique of cuses on modifying the support structure and the spring constant of the switch,while the second in volves a more complicated fabrication pr cess, which selectively increases the switch thickness. Both these techniques yield switches with tw to ten times less warping under the same fabrication conditions.The second method,however, presents the additional advantage f maintaining the actuation voltage almost una effected.
Additional file 13 of Fungal and bacterial microbiome dysbiosis and imbalance of trans-kingdom network in asthma
Creators: name: Huang, Chunrong
name: Yu, Youchao
name: Du, Wei
name: Liu, Yahui
name: Dai, Ranran
name: Tang, Wei
name: Wang, Ping
name: Zhang, Chenhong
name: Shi, Guochao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 13: Table S8. Relative abundance of top 15 genera in airway bacteriome differing significantly between untreated asthma and ICS asthma groups.
Dynamical dimensional reduction in toy models of 4D causal quantum gravity
Creators: name: Giasemidis, Georgios
name: Wheater, John F.
name: Zohren, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years several approaches to quantum gravity have found evidence for a scale dependent spectral dimension of space-time varying from four at large scales to two at small scales of order of the Planck length. The first evidence came from numerical results on four-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) [Ambjorn et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 171]. Since then little progress has been made in analytically understanding the numerical results coming from the CDT approach and showing that they remain valid when taking the continuum limit. Here we argue that the spectral dimension can be determined from a model with fewer degrees of freedom obtained from the CDTs by "radial reduction". In the resulting "toy" model we can take the continuum limit analytically and obtain a scale dependent spectral dimension varying from four to two with scale and having functional behaviour exactly of the form which was conjectured on the basis of the numerical results.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, v3: improved discussion, results unchanged, as published
Natural radioactivity in, and inorganic chemistry of, ground water in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system, southern New Jersey, 1983-89
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1983

description: A study of the effects of geology, chemistry, and land use on the distribution of naturally occurring radionuclides dissolved in ground water in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system in the Coastal Plain of New Jersey was conducted during 1988-89 in all or parts of Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. The Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system is composed predominantly of quartz-sand and gravel of the Kirkwood Formation, the Cohansey Sand, and, in some places, the Bridgeton Formation and the Cape May Formation. The Cape May and Bridgeton Formations are predominantly gravel. Water samples were collected from 81 wells and were analyzed for the concentrations of naturally occurring radionuclides and inorganic chemical constituents.