cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rapid diagnostic susceptibility testing of bacteria and fungi from clinical samples using silicon gratings
Creators: name: Leonard, Heidi
name: Heuer, Christopher
name: Weizman, Daniel
name: Massad-Ivanir, Naama
name: Halachmi, Sarel
name: Colodner, Raul
name: Segal, Ester
Publisher: name: Bellingham : SPIE
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Antibiotic
subject: Antifungal resistance
subject: Antimicrobial resistance
subject: Bacteria
subject: Fungi
subject: Susceptibility testing
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Bacterial and fungal infections persistently plague society and have amounted to one of the most prevalent issues in healthcare today. Thus, significant research effort is directed towards developing rapid diagnostic techniques for determination of the correct antibiotic (or antifungal) for a patient-tailored therapy. We have developed a rapid phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) in which photonic 2D silicon microarrays are employed as both the optical transducer element and as a preferable solid-liquid interface for bacterial/fungal colonization. We harness the intrinsic ability of the micro-architectures to relay optical phase-shift reflectometric interference spectroscopic measurements (termed PRISM) and incorporate it into a platform for culture-free, label-free tracking of bacterial/fungal colonization, proliferation, and death. For example, bacteria proliferation within the microtopologies results in an increase in refractive index of the medium, yielding an increase in optical path difference, while cell death or bacteriostatic activity results in decreasing or unchanged values. The optical responses of bacteria, including clinical isolates and samples derived from patients at neighboring hospitals, to various concentrations of relevant antibiotics are tracked in real time, allowing for accurate determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values within 2-3 hours in comparison to assay times of <8 hours (using standard broth microdilution techniques or state-of-the-art clinical automated systems. This has opened the door to the observation of unique bacterial behaviors, as we can evaluate bacterial adhesion, growth, and antibiotic resistance on different micro-architectures, different surface chemistries, and even different strains. Motility, charge, and biofilm abilities have been explored for their effect of bacterial adhesion to the microstructures as we further develop our method of rapid, label-free AST for full clinical application. © 2019 SPIE.
Nuclear quantum effects in fullerene–fullerene aggregation in water
Creators: name: Jand, Sara Panahian
name: Nourbakhsh, Zahra
name: Delle Site, Luigi
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: nuclear quantum effects
subject: path integral molecular dynamics
subject: PMF of aggregation of hydrophobic particles
subject: fullerene
subject: adaptive resolution simulation (AdResS) method
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: We studied the effects of the quantum delocalization in space of the hydrogen atoms of water in the aggregation process of two fullerene molecules. We considered a case using a purely repulsive water–fullerene interaction, as such a situation has shown that water-mediated effects play a key role in the aggregation process. This study becomes feasible, at a reduced computational price, by combining the path integral (PI) molecular dynamics (MD) method with a recently developed open-system MD technique. Specifically, only the mandatory solvation shell of the two fullerene molecules was considered at full quantum resolution, while the rest of the system was represented as a mean-field macroscopic reservoir of particles and energy. Our results showed that the quantum nature of the hydrogen atoms leads to a sizable difference in the curve of the free energy of aggregation; that is, that nuclear quantum effects play a relevant role.
How do corporate reputation and customer satisfaction impact customer defection? A study of private energy customers in Germany
Creators: name: Walsh, Gianfranco
name: Dinnie, Keith
name: Wiedmann, Klaus-Peter
Publisher: name: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Corporate image
subject: Customer loyalty
subject: Customer satisfaction
subject: Germany
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: Purpose - To analyze whether perceived corporate reputation and customer satisfaction are directly associated with customer intention. Design/methodology/approach - Using structural equation modeling, the study is based on the responses to a written questionnaire of 462 customers of a large German utility. Findings - A non-significant and weak relationship was found between corporate reputation and switching intention. The postulated impact of customer satisfaction on customer switching intention was confirmed. Corporate reputation and customer satisfaction were found to be strongly correlated. Research limitations/implications - The sample includes only one company's customers, so the findings may not be generalized to other industries. Future research in other service industries is called for. Practical implications - The threat of customer defection in deregulated markets requires power supply companies to examine the marketing instruments and measures required to inhibit customer willingness to switch power suppliers. This study demonstrates the need to focus on monitoring and increasing customer satisfaction. Originality/value - The importance of reputation and satisfaction will ultimately be assessed on the basis of their customer-related consequences and their economic relevance to companies. The construct of corporate reputation has attracted significant attention among marketing scholars, although almost no work can be found that focuses on the most important stakeholder group, namely customers. This paper addresses this research gap. The identification of context-specific reputation and satisfaction effects on customer defection offers both practical implications for marketers and contributes to the theoretical knowledge base of an increasingly important domain in services marketing.
Role of microscopic phase separation in gelation of aqueous gelatin solutions
Creators: name: Pelc, Damjan
name: Marion, Sanjin
name: Požek, Miroslav
name: Basletić, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a unique home-made cell for four-contact impedance spectroscopy of conductive liquid samples, we establish the existence of two low frequency conductivity relaxations in aqueous solutions of gelatin, in both liquid and gel state. A comparison with diffusion measurements using pulsed field gradient NMR shows that the faster relaxation process is due to gelatin macromolecule self-diffusion. This single molecule diffusion is mostly insensitive to the macroscopic state of the sample, implying that the gelation of gelatin is not a percolative phenomenon, but is caused by aggregation of triple helices into a system-spanning fibre network.
description: 4 figures
title: Ηλεκτρονικές προμήθειες
title: E-Procurement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μηλίτση, Μαρία-Βαρβάρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ηλεκτρονικές προμήθειες
subject: e-Procurement

description: Το θέμα της διπλωματικής μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας, από τη συγγραφέα Μαρία-Βαρβάρα Μηλίτση, επιλέχθηκε για συγκεκριμένους λόγους με συνέπεια την εκπόνηση του έργου αυτού ως μέρος του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος «Διοίκηση Logistics». Η επιλογή για την εκτέλεση της εργασίας εφαρμόζεται αρχικά, σε συνεννόηση του θέματος αυτού με τον επιβλέπων καθηγητή και στη συνέχεια σε αναζήτηση ωφέλιμων και χρήσιμων γνώσεων για προσωπική πρόοδο. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, οι λόγοι αφορούν, πρωτίστως, για την εμπειρία στην εφαρμογή εννοιών και εργαλείων ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών, καθώς οι ηλεκτρονικές προμήθειες αποτελούν εξελισσόμενες εργασίες σε επιχειρήσεις και αποκτούν ολοένα και μεγαλύτερη σημασία σε πολλούς κλάδους. Δευτερευόντως, για μια ανελικτική καριέρα στον τομέα των προμηθειών, της διαχείρισης της εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας και γενικότερα των συναφών τομέων, η εκτέλεση της εργασίας αποτελεί πολύτιμο εφόδιο. Συντελεί σε σημαντικό βαθμό η ενημέρωση των τελευταίων τάσεων και τεχνολογικών μέσων, καθώς μια ολοκληρωμένη εργασία ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών αποσκοπεί σε αυτά τα νέα δεδομένα. Επίσης, συμβάλλει στην ανάπτυξη των δεξιοτήτων στη διαχείριση έργων μεταξύ προμηθευτή, αγοραστή και πελάτη, γιατί μια εργασία ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών δίνει την ευκαιρία διεξαγωγής έρευνας και ανάλυσης σχετικά με τις πτυχές των διαδικασιών που περιλαμβάνουν, όπως είναι η εξερεύνηση καινοτόμων λύσεων σε σύνθετες προκλήσεις στον τομέα των προμηθειών. Αυτό, αναμφίβολα, αποτελεί ουσιαστική άσκηση για την ανάπτυξη δεξιοτήτων επίλυσης προβλημάτων και κριτικής σκέψης. Συνοπτικά, λοιπόν, ένα έργο ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών μπορεί να αποτελέσει μια πολύτιμη μαθησιακή εμπειρία που συμβάλλει στην ανάπτυξη μιας σειράς δεξιοτήτων που εκτιμώνται ιδιαίτερα στον επιχειρηματικό κόσμο. Μπορεί επίσης να αποτελέσει μια πολύτιμη προσθήκη στο βιογραφικό σημείωμα, καθώς η επιθυμία της συγγραφέας είναι να ακολουθήσει καριέρα στον τομέα των προμηθειών και κατά συνέπεια της διαχείρισης της εφοδιαστικής αλυσίδας. Η εργασία είναι οργανωμένη με σκοπό τη λεπτομερή ανασκόπηση στην εφαρμογή των ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών, στην ανάλυση κινήτρων και εμποδίων των εφαρμογών αυτών, στη διερεύνηση των ωφελειών τους στους οργανισμούς, στην περιγραφή των αναγκών που παρουσιάζουν οι οργανισμοί, σε συνδυασμό με τις σχετικές επιπτώσεις των μοντέλων ηλεκτρονικών προμηθειών σε αυτούς, αλλά και στα επιμέρους μέλη τους, όπως στους εργαζομένους και στους προμηθευτές. Οι σχετικές αυτές αναφορές, κατά κύριο λόγο, λαμβάνουν μέρος μέσα από αναλύσεις μελετών μεγάλων πολυεθνικών εταιρειών που έχουν ενσωματώσει τα μοντέλα των νέων αυτών τεχνολογιών από τα πρώτα βήματα έκβασή τους στην κοινωνία της τεχνολογίας. Τέλος, να σημειωθεί, πως η μεθοδολογία υλοποίησης της παρούσας εργασίας, βασίστηκε κατεξοχήν στην διαδικτυακή έρευνα.
A History of Amba Prisons and Imprisonment in Gojjam (1382 –1941)
Creators: name: Sishagn, Shumet
name: Tariku, Ayele
name: Gebeyehu, Temesgen
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: The main objective of this study is to reconstruct the history of Amba prisons and imprisonment in Ethiopia from the 14th to 20th century. The period refers to the establishment of Jäbäla Amba as a modern prison in 1941. The study employed qualitative methodology with which primary and secondary sources were exhaustively exploited. The study interviewed notable elders who had information about the prison and imprisonment. Besides, the study made practical observations and photographed the Amba prisons and caves. The information was cross-checked with other sources such as travellers’ accounts, manuscripts and chronicles. The research identified many prison Ambas in Gojjam that served as prisons where offenses were punished by imprisonment from 14th to 20th century.Jäbäla, Quami Çäriq, Lib Gaša, Wamit and Särka were some of them. Emperor Dawit (r. 1382–1413) built Jäbäla Hobalit Maryam Church on the Jäbäla Mountain, making Jäbäla Amba one of the prisons in Gojjam's history.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 1 (2023): Articles
Impact of wages and job levels on worker absenteeism
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Christian
Publisher: name: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Absenteeism
subject: Germany
subject: Hierarchical organizations
subject: Pay
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: Purpose: This paper seeks to analyse to what extent absolute wage levels, relative wages compared with colleagues, and the position in a firm's hierarchy affect workers' absenteeism behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses personnel data of a large German company from January 1999 to December 2005. The data set contains 62,774 monthly observations of 1,187 full-time white-collar workers. Probit and Tobit models for individual monthly absenteeism are estimated. Findings: Absenteeism is negatively correlated with absolute wages, relative wages, and hierarchical levels, which is in line with the paper's hypotheses. Moreover, the results indicate that a positive relative wage has a stronger impact than a negative relative wage, which gives rise to the issue of unequal wage structures. Research limitations/implications: The findings point to the relevance of interdependent preferences and status in utility functions. From the non-linear relationship between relative wages and absenteeism it follows that an unequal wage structure has the benefit that relatively better paid workers are absent less frequenty, while the costs of higher absenteeism of workers at the lower tail of the wage distribution are rather low. Practical implications: The results show that not only the absolute wage level but also status-related factors (e.g. relative wage, hierarchical level) affect employees' work effort and that unequal wage structures can be efficient to some degree. Originality/value: The paper provides "real world" evidence from scarce personnel data for the importance of interdependent preferences and status. Furthermore, the non-linear relationship between relative wages and absenteeism is examined. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Particle transport in recirculated liquid metal flows
Creators: name: Kirpo, M.
name: Jakovičs, A.
name: Nacke, B.
name: Baake, E.
Publisher: name: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Furnaces
subject: Modelling
subject: Numerical analysis
subject: Particle physics
subject: Simulation
subject: Computer simulation
subject: Crucible furnaces
subject: Large eddy simulation
subject: Liquid metals
subject: Recirculated liquid metal flows
subject: Turbulent transport processes
subject: Particles (particulate matter)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: Purpose - Aims to present recent activities in numerical modeling of turbulent transport processes in induction crucible furnace. Design/methodology/approach - 3D large eddy simulation (LES) method was applied for fluid flow modeling in a cylindrical container and transport of 30,000 particles was investigated with Lagrangian approach. Findings - Particle accumulation near the side crucible boundary is determined mainly by the ρp/ρ ratio and according to the presented results. Particle settling velocity is of the same order as characteristic melt flow velocity. Particle concentration homogenization time depends on the internal flow regime. Separate particle tracks introduce very intensive mass exchange between the different parts of the melt in the whole volume of the crucible. Originality/value - Transient simulation of particle transport together with LES fluid flow simulation gives the opportunity of accurate prediction of admixture concentartion distribution in the melt. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Excitation Enhancement of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Plasmonic Antenna
Creators: name: Urena, E. Bermudez
name: Kreuzer, M. P.
name: Itzhakov, S.
name: Rigneault, H.
name: Quidant, R.
name: Oron, D.
name: Wenger, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasmonic antennas are key elements to control the luminescence of quantum emitters. However, the antenna's influence is often hidden by quenching losses. Here, the luminescence of a quantum dot coupled to a gold dimer antenna is investigated. Detailed analysis of the multiply excited states quantifies the antenna's influence on the excitation intensity and the luminescence quantum yield separately.
Iddir in Gondar: Historical Development and Its Role in Promoting Social Interaction among Different ‘Ethno-Linguistic’ Groups (1936 -1994)
Creators: name: Fentie, Tesfamichael
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: This study explores the genesis and potential roles of iddir in the social interaction of diverse ethno-linguistic groups in Gondar from 1936 to 1994. Although different iddirs have played a dominant role in the integration of different ethnic groups in Gondar since the early Italian invasion of the town, no academic investigation has clearly chronicled their origin and their potential role in promoting social cohesion. The study employed a qualitative method of data collection. The research has extensively used archival, literary and oral sources. Archival sources collected from the Central Gondar Administration Zonal archives all passed through scientific analysis and interpretation controlling for bias, whether the source of data was records, documents, photographs or newspapers. In order to affirm the archival evidence, the researcher also interviewed many elders who were or are members of iddirs, composed of different ethnic groups. The selection of informants was done through the snowball sampling method, and the interview was open-ended. Published materials were also used. The researcher carefully used all the above sources in order to fill the gap in each source of data. The aim of this study was to review the historical development and the roles of iddir in the interaction of different ethno-linguistic groups in Gondar. This study provides original work. Similarly, it avoids the shortage of written documents and fills the gaps. The findings of the study show that indigenous social institutions have roles in enabling the new generation to know what happened in the past, strengthening their mutual understanding and building a sense of belonging. Through iddir, the Gondarines not only participated in funerals but also had opportunities for social interaction, overcoming social problems, the development of friendship, conflict resolution, sharing informationand overcoming economic challenges.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 1 (2023): Articles
Ethnic-based Online Hate Speech in Ethiopia: Its Typology and Context
Creators: name: Minaye, Abebaw
name: Megersa, Tadesse
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: Using language that devalues others is known to be the royal road to enemy-making, identity based conflict and genocide. Parallel to the explosive growth of social media users in Ethiopia, hate speech has increased to the point where it is threatening the social fabric of its people. The present archival qualitative study presents a conceptual grounded theory to explore and explain the various types of ethnic-based hate speech and the contexts in which they are embedded in present Ethiopia. To this end, data were manually collected every fortnight from July 2021- February 2022, from the public space of ten Facebook accounts, four YouTube news channels, and four Twitter accounts that are purposefully identified as hot spots. By employing inductive coding technique; codes, concepts and categories were generated and analyzed. The findings showed four types of hate speech: dehumanization, enemification, devaluation, and desire to attack and evict as well as five main contexts for the expressions: competition and disagreement over history and resource, the conflict in the North, lack of tolerance of diversity, failure to uphold law and order and destructive roles of the elite. In addition, key concepts are identified which explain how hate speech occurs. Finally, it is recommend that we should deal with the identified contexts, enhance media literacy and tolerance of diversity and counter toxic intergroup narratives.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 1 (2023): Articles
Information security awareness and behavior: A theory-based literature review
Creators: name: Lebek, Benedikt
name: Uffen, Jörg
name: Neumann, Markus
name: Hohler, Bernd
name: Breitner, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Behavioral theories
subject: GDT
subject: PMT
subject: Security awareness
subject: Security behavior
subject: TAM
subject: TPB
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of theories used in the field of employees’ information systems (IS) security behavior over the past decade. Research gaps and implications for future research are worked out by analyzing and synthesizing existing literature. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the results of a literature review comprising 113 publications. The literature review was designed to identify applied theories and to understand the cognitive determinants in the research field. A meta-model that explains employees’ IS security behavior is introduced by assembling the core constructs of the used theories. Findings – The paper identified 54 used theories, but four behavioral theories were primarily used: Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), General Deterrence Theory (GDT), Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). By synthesizing results of empirically tested research models, a survey of factors proven to have a significant influence on employees’ security behavior is presented. Research limitations/implications – Some relevant publications might be missing within this literature review due to the selection of search terms and/or databases. However, by conduction a forward and a backward search, this paper has limited this error source to a minimum. Practical implications – This study presents an overview of determinants that have been proven to influence employees’ behavioral intention. Based thereon, concrete training and awareness measures can be developed. This is valuable for practitioners in the process of designing Security Education, Training and Awareness (SETA) programs. Originality/value – This paper presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of existing academic literature in the field of employees’ security awareness and behavior research. Based on a developed meta-model, research gaps are identified and implications for future research are worked out. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Evaluating The Explanation of Black Box Decision for Text Classification
Creators: name: Gücükbel, Esra
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: XAI
subject: Interpretability
subject: Explainable AI
subject: Natural Language Processing
subject: Evaluation
subject: 000 Computer science, information, and general works::000 Computer Science, knowledge, systems::005 Computer programming, programs, data

description: Through progressively evolved technology, applications of machine learning and deep learning methods become prevalent with the increased size of the collected data and the data processing capacity. Among these methods, deep neural networks achieve high accuracy results in various classification tasks; nonetheless, they have the characteristic of opaqueness that causes called them black box models. As a trade-off, black box models fall short in terms of interpretability by humans. Without a supportive explanation of why the model reaches a particular conclusion, the output causes an intrusive situation for decision-makers who will take action with the outcome of predictions. In this context, various explanation methods have been developed to enhance the interpretability of black box models. LIME, SHAP, and Integrated Gradients techniques are examples of more adaptive approaches due to their welldeveloped and easy-to-use libraries. While LIME and SHAP are post-hoc analysis tools, Integrated Gradients provide model-specific outcomes using the model’s inner workings. In this thesis, four widely used explanation methods are quantitatively evaluated for text classification tasks using the Bidirectional LSTM model and DistillBERT model on four benchmark data sets, such as SMS Spam, IMDB Reviews, Yelp Polarity, and Fake News data sets. The results of the experiments reveal that analysis methods and evaluation metrics provide an auspicious foundation for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of explanation methods.
title: CuCrZr processed by laser powder bed fusion — Processability and influence of heat treatment on electrical conductivity, microstructure and mechanical properties
Creators: name: Wegener, Thomas
name: Koopmann, Julian
name: Richter, Julia
name: Krooß, Philipp
name: Niendorf, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: additive manufacturing
subject: CuCrZr
subject: electrical conductivity
subject: laser powder bed fusion
subject: low-cycle fatigue
subject: mechanical properties
subject: microstructure
subject: 620
subject: 660
subject: Selektives Laserschmelzen
subject: Rapid Prototyping
subject: Kupfer
subject: Chrom
subject: Zirkonium
subject: Elektrische Leitfähigkeit
subject: Ermüdung bei niedrigen Lastspielzahlen
subject: Mechanische Eigenschaft
subject: Mikrostruktur

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Influence of temperature on the development, reproduction and longevity of Ceratothripoides claratris (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on tomatoes
Creators: name: Premachandra, W.T.S.D.
name: Borgemeister, C.
name: Chabi-Olaye, A.
name: Poehling, Hans-Michael
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: biological development
subject: fecundity
subject: longevity
subject: pest species
subject: reproduction
subject: sex ratio
subject: temperature effect
subject: animal
subject: article
subject: female
subject: fertility
subject: growth, development and aging
subject: insect
subject: male
subject: parasitology
subject: physiology
subject: temperature
subject: tomato
subject: Animals
subject: Female
subject: Fertility
subject: Insects
subject: Longevity
subject: Lycopersicon esculentum
subject: Male
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: Sex Ratio
subject: Temperature
subject: Animalia
subject: Insecta
subject: Invertebrata
subject: Thripidae
subject: Thysanoptera
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::590 | Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Ceratothripoides claratris (Shumsher) is a serious pest attacking tomatoes in Thailand. Temperature-dependent development of C. claratris was studied at seven constant temperatures, i.e. 22, 25, 27, 30, 34, 35 and 40°C. Pre-adult survivorship was greatest (95%) at 25 and 30°C and shortest at 22°C. Egg-to-adult time decreased within the range of 20 to 30°C and at 34°C it started to increase. The lower thermal threshold for egg-to-adult development was estimated at 16 and 18°C by linear regression and the modified Logan model, respectively. The optimum temperature for egg-to-adult development was estimated at 32-33°C by the modified Logan model. The influence of temperature on reproduction and longevity of C. claratris was determined at 25, 30 and 35 and 40°C. Both inseminated and virgin females failed to reproduce at 40°C. Virgin females produced only male offspring, confirming arrhenotoky. The sex ratio of the offspring of fertilized females was strongly female-biased, except at 25°C. Mean total fecundity per female and mean daily total fecundity per female were highest for both virgin and inseminated females at 30°C. Female longevity was longest at 25°C and shortest at 40°C. Male longevity was longest at 30°C and shortest at 40°C. The net reproductive rate (R0) and intrinsic rate of natural increase (rm) was greatest at 30°C while, mean generation time (G) and the doubling time (f) were highest at 25°C. The finite rate of increase (λ) was fairly constant (1.1-1.5 days) over the three temperatures tested. The pest potential of C. claratris for tropical Asia is discussed.
Multidimensional transitional dynamics: A simple numerical procedure
Creators: name: Trimborn, Timo
name: Koch, Karl-Josef
name: Steger, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Continuous time growth models
subject: Multidimensional stable manifolds
subject: Saddle-point problems
subject: Transitional dynamics
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: We propose the relaxation algorithm as a simple and powerful method for determining the transition process in growth models numerically. This method has a number of important advantages: (1) It can easily deal with a wide range of dynamic systems including stiff differential equations and systems giving rise to a continuum of stationary equilibria. (2) The application of the procedure is fairly user-friendly. The only input required consists of the dynamic system. (3) The variant of the relaxation algorithm we propose exploits in a natural manner the infinite time horizon, which usually underlies optimal control problems in economics. As an illustrative application, we compute the transition process of the models of Jones [Jones, C.I. (1995) R&D-based models of economic growth. Journal of Political Economy 103 (3), 759784] and Lucas [Lucas, R.E., Jr. (1988) On the mechanics of economic development. Journal of Monetary Economics 22, 342]. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
Does Safeguards Need Saving? Lessons from the Ukraine-Passenger Cars Dispute
Creators: name: Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik
name: Lester, Simon
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: WTO
subject: Ukraine–Passenger Cars
subject: GATT
subject: safeguard
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::380 | Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr

description: The Panel Report in Ukraine-Passenger Cars provides an opportunity to revisit an old debate over the role of safeguard measures in the WTO. With regard to the legal findings, the Panel followed the established jurisprudence in this area, and found a number of violations of the Safeguards Agreement. With regard to the economics, we delve more deeply into the economic and political background of the safeguards investigation. Ukraine was hit by the economic crisis shortly after its WTO accession that significantly liberalized import tariffs on passenger cars. Next, we offer a de novo look at the injury and causation issues in this case, and discuss the challenges of an industry reliant on offshored production that sees a safeguard as a mechanism to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for production. We conclude with an assessment of the operation of the WTO's safeguards regime, along with some tentative suggestions for reform. Overall, our examination of the economic analysis by the investigating authority and the legal review by the WTO Panel raises questions about particular aspects of the domestic and WTO processes, but concludes that the system worked well in this case. Copyright © Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan And Simon Lester 2017.
Enterprise content management systems as a knowledge infrastructure: The knowledge-based content management framework
Creators: name: Le Dinh, Thang
name: Rickenberg, Tim A.
name: Fill, Hans-Georg
name: Breitner, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Hershey, PA : I G I Global
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Design science research
subject: Enterprise content management
subject: Information management
subject: Knowledge management
subject: Knowledge-based content management framework
subject: Design
subject: Information services
subject: Knowledge based systems
subject: Knowledge engineering
subject: Portals
subject: Queueing networks
subject: Societies and institutions
subject: Content management
subject: Content management system
subject: Design-science researches
subject: Enterprise content management systems
subject: Enterprise content managements
subject: Knowledge based economy
subject: Knowledge-intensive organizations
subject: Unstructured documents
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: The rise of the knowledge-based economy has significantly transformed the economies of developed countries from managed economies into entrepreneurial economies, which deal with knowledge as both input and output. Consequently, knowledge has become a key asset for organizations and knowledge management is one of the driving forces of business success. One of the most important challenges faced by enterprises today is to manage both knowledge assets and the e-collaboration process between knowledge workers. Critical business knowledge and information is often contained in mostly unstructured documents in content management systems. Therefore, content management based on knowledge perspectives is crucial for organizations, especially knowledge-intensive organizations. Enterprise Content Management has evolved as an integrated approach to managing documents and content on an enterprise-wide scale. This approach must be enhanced in order to build a robust foundation to support knowledge development and the collaboration process. This paper presents the KBCM (Knowledge-Based Content Management) framework for constructing a knowledge infrastructure based on the perspective of knowledge components that could help enterprises create more business value by classifying content formally and enabling its transformation into valuable knowledge assets. Copyright © 2015 IGI Global.
Effect of ocular magnification on macular choroidal thickness measurements made using optical coherence tomography in children
Creators: name: Deng, Junjie
name: Jin, Jiali
name: Zhang, Bo
name: Zhang, Siqi
name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Xiong, Shuyu
name: Cheng, Tianyu
name: Liu, Kun
name: Huang, Jiannan
name: He, Xiangui
name: Xu, Xun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: To evaluate the relationship between ocular magnification correction and macular choroidal thickness (ChT) measurements in children, and to demonstrate when ocular magnification correction is necessary. Chinese children aged 6–9 years with various refractive statuses were included. Swept-source optical coherence tomography was used to measure macular ChT. A self-designed program was adopted to simulate ChT changes in each sector of the ETDRS grid in the macula under various simulated axial lengths (ALs). ChT measurements were not affected for all simulated ALs in over 95% of the individuals in the central fovea. In the inferior, superior, and temporal parafoveal sectors, the extent of AL that may include 95% of the individuals narrowed from approximately 22.0 mm to 27.2 mm. In the nasal parafoveal sector and inferior, superior, and temporal perifoveal sectors, the extent of AL that may include 95% of the individuals became even narrower, from approximately 22.8 mm to 26.0 mm. The narrowest extent was observed in the perifoveal nasal sector, ranging from 23.3 mm to 25.5 mm. The effect of ocular magnification was more significant in hyperopes than in myopes in the inferior parafoveal sector and temporal, superior, and nasal perifoveal sectors. During macular ChT measurements, ocular magnification correction is not necessary in the central fovea. However, ocular magnification should be corrected normally in the nasal perifoveal region and in individuals with ALs shorter than 22.8 mm or longer than 26.0 mm in the remaining macular regions.
The Jasper Framework: Towards a Platform Independent, Formal Treatment of Web Programming
Creators: name: Smith, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces Jasper, a web programming framework which allows web applications to be developed in an essentially platform indepedent manner and which is also suited to a formal treatment. It outlines Jasper conceptually and shows how Jasper is implemented on several commonplace platforms. It also introduces the Jasper Music Store, a web application powered by Jasper and implemented on each of these platforms. And it briefly describes a formal treatment and outlines the tools and languages planned that will allow this treatment to be automated.
description: In Proceedings WWV 2012, arXiv:1210.5783. Added doi references where possible
Paul C. Nystrom and William H. Starbuck (Eds.): Handbook of Organizational Design, Volume 1: Adapting Organizations to their Environments; Volume 2: Remodeling Organizations and their Environments 1981, Oxford: Oxford University Press. xxii + 560 pages/iv + 552 pages
Creators: name: Lange, Bernd
name: Picot, Arnold
name: Shimmin, Sylvia
name: Lammers, Cornelis J.
Publisher: name: London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: management
subject: organization
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

description: Review to: Paul C. Nystrom and William H. Starbuck (Eds.) : Handbook of Organizational Design, Volume 1: Adapting Organizations to their Environments; Volume 2: Remodeling Organizations and their Environments 1981, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Prehistoric farming and the postglacial expansion of beech and hornbeam: A reply to Gardner and Willis
Creators: name: Küster, Hansjörg
Publisher: name: London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Anthropogenic impacts
subject: Beech
subject: Carpinus betulus
subject: Corylus avellana
subject: Fagus sylvatica
subject: Hazel
subject: Hornbeam
subject: Hungary
subject: Prehistoric agriculture
subject: Slovenia
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::360 | Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

description: It is argued that the views put forward by Gardner and Willis are compatible with the opinions expressed in Küster (1997) if consideration is given to the distinctive aspects of the expansion of tree species in Central Europe and the different ecological conditions elsewhere.
Clostridioides difficile-mesocolonic oedema in neonatal suckling piglets develops regardless of the fibre composition in sow’s diets
Creators: name: Grześkowiak, Łukasz
name: Saliu, Eva-Maria
name: Wessels, Anna Grete
name: Martínez-Vallespín, Beatriz
name: Männer, Klaus
name: Cerón, José Joaquín
name: Vahjen, Wilfried
name: Zentek, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Antibody
subject: Colostrum
subject: Immunoglobulin
subject: Infection
subject: Toxin
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Maternal dietary factors have been reported to influence Clostridioides difficile colonisation in the offspring. Twenty suckling piglets from sows fed diets supplemented with high-fermentable sugar beet pulp (SBP) or low-fermentable lignocellulose (LNC) fibres during gestation and lactation were dissected in the first week after birth. Postmortem analysis included clinical mesocolon and faecal scoring, concentration of C. difficile and respective toxins in colon digesta and faeces, immunoglobulins in serum and inflammatory markers in serum and colon tissues. Sow colostrum was assessed for nutrients, immunoglobulins and biogenic amines. Toxin-neutralising IgG antibodies were measured in colostrum and serum of the sows, and in colon digesta and serum of the piglets. Mesocolonic oedema of different severity was present in most of the piglets from both sows’ feeding groups. Concentrations of C. difficile, toxins and calprotectin in colon digesta and faecal contents did not differ between the study piglets. Calprotectin correlated positively with mesocolon score (rho = 413, P = 0.07). Piglets from sows fed LNC vs SBP tended to have higher IgA (P = 0.089), IgG (P = 0.053), total Ig (P = 0.053), albumin (P = 0.075) and total protein content (P = 0.007) in serum. Colon tissues of piglets from the SFB vs LNC had upregulated expression of ZO-1 (P = 0.021), PCNA (P = 0.015) and TGF-β (P = 0.014). Titers of anti-toxin-IgG-antibodies in serum and colostrum and in piglet colon digesta and serum did not differ between sows from both dietary groups, but they all showed strong positive correlations. In conclusion, dietary sugar beet pulp or lignocellulose fed to sows did not influence the concentrations of C. difficile and toxins titers in colon digesta and faeces of neonatal piglets.
Johannes Wetzel, Holzfachwerk. Untersuchungen zu einer historischen Holzbauweise, zu ihrer Eigenart und Entwicklung und zur Erhaltung noch bestehender Bauten
Creators: name: Hofrichter, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Johannes Wetzel, Holzfachwerk. Untersuchungen zu einer historischen Holzbauweise, zu ihrer Eigenart und Entwicklung und zur Erhaltung noch bestehender Bauten (Historische Holzfachwerkbauten, Bd. II). Renningen: expert verlag 2003. 461 Seiten, 122 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen,
Paperback. ISBN 3-8169-2243-0
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 49, Nr. 1 (2008): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Reverse engineering of metacognition
Creators: name: Guggenmos, Matthias
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: metacognition
subject: confidence
subject: decision making
subject: computational modeling
subject: Human
subject: computational biology
subject: neuroscience
subject: systems biology
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The human ability to introspect on thoughts, perceptions or actions - metacognitive ability - has become a focal topic of both cognitive basic and clinical research. At the same time it has become increasingly clear that currently available quantitative tools are limited in their ability to make unconfounded inferences about metacognition. As a step forward, the present work intro-duces a comprehensive modeling framework of metacognition that allows for inferences about metacognitive noise and metacognitive biases during the readout of decision values or at the confi-dence reporting stage. The model assumes that confidence results from a continuous but noisy and potentially biased transformation of decision values, described by a confidence link function. A canonical set of metacognitive noise distributions is introduced which differ, amongst others, in their predictions about metacognitive sign flips of decision values. Successful recovery of model param-eters is demonstrated, and the model is validated on an empirical data set. In particular, it is shown that metacognitive noise and bias parameters correlate with conventional behavioral measures. Crucially, in contrast to these conventional measures, metacognitive noise parameters inferred from the model are shown to be independent of performance. This work is accompanied by a toolbox (ReMeta) that allows researchers to estimate key parameters of metacognition in confidence datasets.
Probabilistic balance monitoring for bipedal robots
Creators: name: Höhn, O.
name: Gerth, W.
Publisher: name: London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Balance monitoring
subject: Classification
subject: Fall detection
subject: HMM
subject: Reflex motions
subject: Robot
subject: Viability kernel
subject: Hidden Markov models
subject: Magnetostrictive devices
subject: Robotics
subject: Sensors
subject: Robots
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: In this paper, a probability-based balance monitoring concept for humanoid robots is proposed. Two algorithms are presented that allow us to distinguish between exceptional situations and normal operations. The first classification approach uses Gaussian-Mixture-Models (GMM) to describe the distribution of the robot's sensor data for typical situations such as stable walking or falling down. With the GMM it is possible to state the probability of the robot being in one of the known situations. The concept of the second algorithm is based on Hidden-Markov-Models (HMM). The objective is to detect and classify unstable situations by means of their typical sequences in the robot's sensor data. When appropriate reflex motions are linked to the critical situations, the robot can prevent most falls or is at least able to execute a controlled falling motion. The proposed algorithms are verified by simulations and experiments with our bipedal robot BARt-UH. © SAGE Publications 2009 Los Angeles, London.
Collective effects in emission of quantum dots strongly coupled to a microcavity photon
Creators: name: Poddubny, A. N.
name: Glazov, M. M.
name: Averkiev, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of non-linear emission of quantum dot ensembles coupled to the optical mode of the microcavity is presented. Numerical results are compared with analytical approaches. The effects of exciton-exciton interaction within the quantum dots and with the reservoir formed by nonresonant pumping are considered. It is demonstrated, that the nonlinearity due to the interaction strongly affects the shape of the emission spectra. The collective superradiant mode of the excitons is shown to be stable against the non-linear effects.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, submitted to the focus issue of New J. Phys. on "Cavity and Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics in Solids"
Coagulopathy management of multiple injured patients – a comprehensive literature review of the European guideline 2019
Creators: name: Niemann, Marcel
name: Otto, Ellen
name: Eder, Christian
name: Youssef, Yasmin
name: Kaufner, Lutz
name: Märdian, Sven
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: multiple injury
subject: coagulopathy
subject: coagulation manage-ment
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The European guideline on the management of trauma-induced major bleeding and coagulopathy summarises the most relevant recommendations for trauma coagulopathy management.center dot The management of trauma-induced major bleeding should interdisciplinary follow algorithms which distinguish between life-threatening and non-life-threatening bleeding.center dot Point-of-care viscoelastic methods (VEM) assist target-controlled haemostatic treatment. Neither conventional coagulation assays nor VEM should delay treatment in life-threatening trauma-induced bleeding.center dot Adjustments may be rational due to local circumstances, including the availability of blood products, pharmaceuticals, and employees.