cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Klimt artwork: red-pigment material investigation by backscattering Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy, SEM and p-XRF
Creators: name: Lehmann, R.
name: Wengerowsky, D.
name: Schmidt, H. J.
name: Kumar, M.
name: Niebura, A.
name: Costa, B. F. O.
name: Dencker, F.
name: Klingelhoefer, G.
name: Sindelar, R.
name: Renz, F.
Publisher: name: Abingdon : Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Trompetender Putto
subject: Mössbauer spectroscopy
subject: scanning electron microscopy
subject: X-ray fluorescence analysis
subject: pigments
subject: infra-red-light investigation
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::750 | Malerei

description: Material tests were performed on a rediscovered Klimt-artwork "Trompetender Putto". We performed studies on the red colored spots, mainly taken from non-restored parts. MIMOS II Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy (novelty in art-pigment analysis) mainly reveals haematite and crystallized goethite in red colors. Electron microscopy can identify various layers of the original and overpainting of an artwork. The number of layers fluctuates between three and four chemically painted areas. The portable X-ray fluorescence analysis enables to reduce the pigment list to containing mercury (cinnabar), lead, zinc, iron and titanium. Infrared-light-irradiation visualizes the different age of the pigments.
It's hydrogeology but not as we know it: Sub-seafloor groundwater flow driven by thermal gradients
Creators: name: Desens, A.
name: Post, V.E.A.
name: Houben, G.J.
name: Kuhn, T.
name: Walther, M.
name: Graf, T.
Publisher: name: Les Ulis : EDP Sciences
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Basalt
subject: Groundwater
subject: Groundwater flow
subject: Heat flux
subject: Hydrogeology
subject: Seawater
subject: Sediments
subject: Structural geology
subject: Deep sea sediment
subject: Earth's crust
subject: Geochemical cycles
subject: Numerical model simulations
subject: Pacific ocean
subject: Sediment thickness
subject: Sub-seafloor
subject: Salt water intrusion
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::551 | Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: Groundwater flow beneath the oceans plays an important role for cooling the earth's crust and geochemical cycles, yet it remains an understudied subject in hydrogeology. This contribution focuses on the circulation of seawater through basalt covered by deep-sea sediments in the equatorial northeast Pacific Ocean. Numerical model simulations are used to infer the factors controlling the flow patterns that develop between basalt outcrops. The energy to drive the flow is derived from the crustal heat flux. It is found that the sediment thickness plays a key role in determining the development of hydrothermal siphons, i.e. the flow between two adjacent seamounts where one acts as a recharge point and the other as a discharge point for seawater. Amongst the various factors tested, the outcrop width was an important factor as well.
New Air Quality Standards for Switzerland - Recommendations by the Swiss Federal Commission for Air Hygiene
Creators: name: Kutlar Joss, Meltem
name: Swiss Federal Commission for Air Hygiene 2023
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Switzerland's Environmental Protection Act calls for measures on ambient limit values and air pollution that protect the environment and the health of the entire population, including particularly sensitive groups. Reflecting the WHO recommendations, the statutory mandate, and current levels of air pollution, the Federal Commission for Air Hygiene (FCAH) has assessed the situation.

The FCAH recommends amending the Air Pollution Control Ordinance (OAPC) for six pollutants (SO2, NO2,CO, O3, PM10, PM2.5) to align the ambient air quality standards with the WHO's revised Air Quality Guideline (AQG) levels.

National and international research over the past 20 years has shown that air pollutants have adverse health effects even at significantly lower concentrations than previous studies have shown. A recent health risk assessment commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment revealed that an additional 2'200 premature deaths could be avoided if the Swiss air quality would comply with the WHO AQG 2021. Therefore, more ambitious air quality standards are proposed, promising additional health gains for the Swiss population.
Predicting osmotic potential from measurements of refractive index in cherries, grapes and plums
Creators: name: Winkler, Andreas
name: Knoche, Moritz
Publisher: name: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: cherries
subject: fruits
subject: grapes
subject: osmotic pressure
subject: plums
subject: vapor pressure
subject: glucose
subject: centrifugation
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Studies of fruit tree water relations often require data on water potentials of fruit. However, this is sometimes difficult because the fruit stalks are not sufficiently long for use in a pressure bomb. Also, because fruit xylem function is often lost during maturation. In the absence of significant turgor, the osmotic potential of the expressed juice is a useful proxy for a fruit's water potential. The osmotic potential of most fleshy fruit is determined largely by the concentration of soluble carbohydrates and this can be quantified by osmometry. Soluble solids may also be quantified by refractometry. Compared with osmometry, refractometry is markedly less expensive and also much faster. Hence, it is better suited to high-throughput analyses. The objective of this study was to establish relationships between the osmotic potentials of juices expressed from sweet cherries and sour cherries, grapes and plums as determined using a vapor pressure osmometer and their soluble solids concentrations as determined using a refractometer. The data reveal close relationships within all these species. Except for plums, the relationships between species were almost identical. This is due to similarity among cultivars and species in the relative abundances of the same set of major osmolytes-i.e. the carbohydrates glucose, fructose and sorbitol and the potassium salts of the organic acids malate or tartrate. For plums, the relationship between osmotic potential and soluble solids concentration was slightly displaced. Our findings indicate osmotic potentials may be reliably predicted from soluble solids concentrations determined by refractometry.
title: Réussir la mise en œuvre pratique des recommandations préventives – Le point de vue de l’infirmier/infirmière hygiéniste
Creators: name: Guerre, Graziella
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2018

description: Depuis de nombreuses années, la prévention et la maîtrise du risque d’infection associée aux soins (IAS) s’organisent et se mettent en place en France dans les établissements de santé, médicosociaux et en ville, à partir de référentiels valides tels que les textes réglementaires, recommandations des institutions tutélaires et des sociétés savantes impliquées. Ces recommandations, dont la légitimité repose sur des bases de données scientifiques, sont devenues le socle incontournable pour les hygiénistes médicaux et paramédicaux, afin d’élaborer, diffuser et d’appliquer des protocoles, procédures et conduites à tenir dans leurs établissements. Considérées comme état de l’art, l’objectif principal de ces recommandations est d’assurer l’uniformisation des pratiques quel que soit le parcours de soins de l’usager et le mode d’exercice du soignant. Cela présente un avantage considérable en matière de cohérence et d’harmonisation pour la prise en charge de l’usager.
Mapping out the punishment strategy space (Study 2)
Creators: name: Atkinson, Quentin
name: Raihani, Nichola
name: Claessens, Scott
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Behavioral Economics
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: bayesian modelling
subject: punishment
subject: strategies

description: Using behavioural economic games to tease apart the strategies underlying punishment in humans
title: Réussir la mise en œuvre pratique des recommandations préventives – Le point de vue de l’anesthésiste-réanimateur
Creators: name: Auboyer, Christian
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2018

description: Le taux d’incidence des infections associées aux soins (IAS) en relation directe avec l’anesthésie est probablement assez faible. En fait peu de travaux ont apporté une contribution irréfutable à l’évaluation de ce risque pendant la phase peropératoire et la phase postopératoire précoce (salle de surveillance postinterventionnelle) [1]. Les IAS acquises chez les patients pris en charge dans des services de soins critiques sont beaucoup plus fréquentes, mais varient en fonction de services ayant des recrutements et des pathologies très différentes et aussi de la rigueur dans l’application des mesures de prévention [2]. Nous n’aborderons que la problématique de l’IAS en rapport direct avec l’anesthésie et les soins critiques, bien que souvent il soit difficile d’isoler leur origine par rapport à la pathologie qui a justifié une prise en charge par ces spécialités.
title: Réussir la mise en œuvre pratique des recommandations préventives – Le point de vue du chirurgien
Creators: name: Touati, Gilles
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2018

description: Même s’il reste encore des zones d’ombre sur la pathogénie des infections du site opératoire (ISO), les principaux facteurs à l’origine de ces infections ont fait l’objet de recommandations consensuelles sur la base de preuves scientifiques [1]. Une fois élaborées et diffusées, leur mise en œuvre peut se heurter à certains obstacles, qu’il importe de connaître pour les dépasser et engager les professionnels dans l’application de ces mesures de prévention. À la lumière de l’expérience et de l’expertise chirurgicales, deux exemples vont illustrer ce propos : la discipline en salle d’opération et la préparation cutanée de l’opéré.
title: Persuader et engager les professionnels pour appliquer les recommandations
Creators: name: Girandola, Fabien
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2018

description: Cet article présente le paradigme de la communication engageante, dans le cadre de l’application par les professionnels de recommandations de vaccination antigrippale. Dans un premier temps, nous montrons que l’information seule n’est pas suffisante au changement d’opinions et de comportements. Nous exposons ensuite ce qu’est la communication engageante, basée sur un rapprochement entre l’engagement par les actes et la communication persuasive classique. Un exemple de recherche-action est présenté, portant sur la vaccination antigrippale du personnel soignant dans cinq services d’un même centre hospitalier. Les résultats obtenus montrent l’efficacité de la communication engageante, utilisant les actes engageants et les comportements comme premiers leviers de changement. Nous proposons de s’intéresser, en complément de la communication engageante, à la persuasion technologique et à l’ensemble des croyances identitaires relatives au métier d’infirmier. Pour conclure, nous proposons la communication engageante comme cadre d’intervention.
title: Zarządzanie przedsięwzięciami budowlanymi. Podstawy, procedury, przykłady
Creators: name: Strzelecka, Elżbieta
name: Glinkowska, Beata
name: Maciejewska, Monika
name: Wiażel-Sasin, Bogumiła
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Year: 2014

description: W podręczniku przedstawiono wybrane zagadnienia dotyczące zarządzania przedsięwzięciami budowlanymi na krajowym rynku budowlanym z uwzględnieniem aspektów technicznych, technologicznych, organizacyjnych, ekonomicznych, społecznych i środowiskowych. Jest on adresowany do studentów, menedżerów, praktyków związanych z budowlanymi projektami inwestycyjnymi. Zagadnienia poruszane w nim mogą stanowić ułatwienie w studiowaniu problematyki kierowania procesem inwestycyjnym, organizacji procesu inwestycyjnego, planowania i finansowania procesów inwestycyjnych, zarządzania ryzykiem, zarządzania jakością w procesach budowlanych, prawnych uwarunkowań procesów inwestycyjnych i ich wpływu na planowanie przestrzenne zrównoważonego rozwoju w budownictwie.
Radiation Reaction and the Electromagnetic Energy-Momentum of Moving Relativistic Charged Membranes
Creators: name: Barut, A. O.
name: Pavšič, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged membrane of Dirac provides a stable electron model with finite self energy. Its total mass $m$ has been previously calculated from the Hamiltonian of the membrane. To complete the picture we evaluate it here on the basis of the energy-momentum of its self field (radiation reaction) and obtain the same result showing the consistency of the model. We show explicitly that the old 4/3-problem does not arise. The electron's stability (the vanishing of total ${T^{μν}}_{, ν}$) is due to surface tension $κ$ of the membrane, but the model is as simple as the point particle, with two parameters $κ$ and $e$; the surface tension parameter $κ$ can be expressed in terms of the mass $m$.
description: 12 pages
Wide-field wide-band interferometric imaging:The WB A-Projection and hybrid algorithms
Creators: name: Bhatnagar, S.
name: Rau, U.
name: Golap, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variations of the antenna primary beam (PB) pattern as a function of time, frequency and polarization form one of the dominant direction-dependent effects at most radio frequency bands. These gains may also vary from antenna to antenna. The A-Projection algorithm, published earlier, accounts for the effects of the narrow-band antenna PB in full polarization. In this paper we present the Wide-Band A-Projection algorithm (WB A-Projection) to include the effects of wide bandwidth in the A-term itself and show that the resulting algorithm simultaneously corrects for the time, frequency and polarization dependence of the PB. We discuss the combination of the WB A-Projection and the Multi-term Multi Frequency Synthesis (MT-MFS) algorithm for simultaneous mapping of the sky brightness distribution and the spectral index distribution across a wide field of view. We also discuss the use of the narrow-band A-Projection algorithm in hybrid imaging schemes that account for the frequency dependence of the PB in the image domain.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Novel pathway for efficient covalent modification of polyester materials of different design to prepare biomimetic surfaces
Creators: name: Korzhikov-Vlakh, Viktor
name: Averianov, Ilia
name: Sinitsyna, Ekaterina
name: Nashchekina, Yuliya
name: Polyakov, Dmitry
name: Guryanov, Ivan
name: Lavrentieva, Antonina
name: Raddatz, Lukas
name: Korzhikova-Vlakh, Evgenia
name: Scheper, Thomas
name: Tennikova, Tatiana
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biofunctionalization
subject: Bioligands
subject: Cells adhesion
subject: Nanoparticles for drug delivery
subject: PCL
subject: Phagocytosis
subject: PLA
subject: Polyesters
subject: Polyvinylsaccharide
subject: Scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
subject: Antigen-antibody reactions
subject: Biocompatibility
subject: Biomimetics
subject: Bone
subject: Cell adhesion
subject: Cell engineering
subject: Controlled drug delivery
subject: Hydrophilicity
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Peptides
subject: Scaffolds (biology)
subject: Targeted drug delivery
subject: Tissue
subject: Bone tissue engineering
subject: Biomimetic materials
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: To form modern materials with biomimic surfaces, the novel pathway for surface functionalization with specific ligands of well-known and widely used polyester-based rigid media was developed and optimized. Two types of material bases, namely, poly(lactic acid) and poly("-caprolactone), as well as two types of material design, e.g., supermacroporous matrices and nanoparticles (NPs), were modified via covalent attachment of preliminary oxidized polyvinylsaccharide poly(2-deoxy-N-methacryloylamido-D-glucose) (PMAG). This polymer, being highly biocompatible and bioinspired, was used to enhance hydrophilicity of the polymer surface and to provide the elevated concentration of reactive groups required for covalent binding of bioligands of choice. The specialties of the interaction of PMAG and its preliminary formed bioconjugates with a chemically activated polyester surface were studied and thoroughly discussed. The supermacroporous materials modified with cell adhesion motifs and Arg-Gly-Asp-containing peptide (RGD-peptide) were tested in the experiments on bone tissue engineering. In turn, the NPs were modified with bioligands ("self-peptide" or camel antibodies) to control their phagocytosis that can be important, for example, for the preparation of drug delivery systems.
Higgs diphoton rate enhancement from supersymmetric physics beyond the MSSM
Creators: name: Berg, Marcus
name: Buchberger, Igor
name: Ghilencea, D. M.
name: Petersson, Christoffer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that supersymmetric "new physics" beyond the MSSM can naturally accommodate a Higgs mass near 126 GeV and enhance the signal rate in the Higgs to diphoton channel, while the signal rates in all the other Higgs decay channels coincide with Standard Model expectations, except possibly the Higgs to Z-photon channel. The "new physics" that corrects the relevant Higgs couplings can be captured by two supersymmetric effective operators. We provide a simple example of an underlying model in which these operators are simultaneously generated. The scale of "new physics" that generates these operators can be around 5 TeV or larger, and outside the reach of the LHC.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Low CO2 induces urea cycle intermediate accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Blume, Christian
name: Ost, Julia
name: Mühlenbruch, Marco
name: Peterhänsel, Christoph
name: Laxa, Miriam
Publisher: name: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Arabidopsis thaliana
subject: CO2
subject: Photosynthesis
subject: RuBisCO
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: The non-proteinogenic amino acid ornithine links several stress response pathways. From a previous study we know that ornithine accumulates in response to low CO2. To investigate ornithine accumulation in plants, we shifted plants to either low CO2 or low light. Both conditions increased carbon limitation, but only low CO2 also increased the rate of photorespiration. Changes in metabolite profiles of light- and CO2-limited plants were quite similar. Several amino acids that are known markers of senescence accumulated strongly under both conditions. However, urea cycle intermediates respond differently between the two treatments. While the levels of both ornithine and citrulline were much higher in plants shifted to 100 ppm CO2 compared to those kept in 400 ppm CO2, their metabolite abundance did not significantly change in response to a light limitation. Furthermore, both ornithine and citrulline accumulation is independent from sugar starvation. Exogenous supplied sugar did not significantly change the accumulation of the two metabolites in low CO2-stressed plants, while the accumulation of other amino acids was reduced by about 50%. Gene expression measurements showed a reduction of the entire arginine biosynthetic pathway in response to low CO2. Genes in both proline biosynthesis and degradation were induced. Hence, proline did not accumulate in response to low CO2 like observed for many other stresses. We propose that excess of nitrogen re-fixed during photorespiration can be alternatively stored in ornithine and citrulline under low CO2 conditions. Furthermore, ornithine is converted to pyrroline-5-carboxylate by the action of δOAT.
Thermally-induced Phases in an Ising Kondo Lattice Model on a Triangular Lattice: Partial Disorder and Kosterlitz-Thouless State
Creators: name: Ishizuka, Hiroaki
name: Motome, Yukitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic and electronic properties of a Kondo lattice model with Ising localized spins are studied on an isotropic triangular lattice. By using Monte Carlo simulation, we present that the model shows a rich phase diagram with four dominant states: two-sublattice stripe, three-sublattice ferrimganetic, partially disordered, and Kosterlitz-Thouless like quasi-long-range ordered states. Among them, the partially disordered state and Kosterlitz-Thouless like state are intermediate phases induced by thermal fluctuations in the phase competing regime; they are present only at finite temperatures and eventually taken over by another phases as the temperature is further lowered. Although the Kosterlitz-Thouless like state was found also in triangular Ising antiferromagnets with further-neighbor interactions, the partially disordered state has not been reported in the localized spin only models in two dimensions. Interestingly, the partially disordered phase is also peculiar in the charge degree of freedom of itinerant electrons; it is insulating and accompanied by charge disproportionation. From a combined analysis of a mean-field calculation of the band structure and Monte Carlo simulation, we conclude that the partial disorder in the present model is stabilized by the Slater mechanism.
description: 13pages, 17 figures
title: Alternatywne modele rozwoju miast. Sieć miast Cittaslow
Creators: name: Strzelecka, Elżbieta
Publisher: name: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Year: 2017

description: Rozwój miast wiąże się z poszukiwaniem najefektywniejszych modeli rozwoju w dostosowaniu do ich indywidualnych potrzeb i uwarunkowań, ale również potrzeb rozwoju regionalnego oraz krajowego. Dyskutowane i wprowadzane obecnie modele np. inteligentnych miast, miast otwartych, kreatywnych, dotyczą tak obecnych miast, jak i „miast przyszłości”. Niewątpliwie duże i średnie miasta mają szczególnie ważną rolę do odegrania w rozwoju Unii Europejskiej, ponieważ ich potencjał ma zapewnić inteligentny i zrównoważony rozwój, zgodnie z założeniami strategii Europa 2020. Posiadany przez te miasta kapitał ludzki oraz kapitał społeczny, jak i infrastrukturalny, w tym uczelnie, ośrodki badawczo-rozwojowe, potencjał sektora kultury i sektora kreatywnego wraz z ich zapleczem, sprzyjają konkurencyjności tych miast, dzięki efektowi skali. Natomiast małe miasta w Europie poszukują własnych dróg rozwoju, opartych na równoważeniu w polityce lokalnego rozwoju ich potencjału tożsamości i potrzeb, wynikających z wyzwań nowoczesnego rozwoju. Jednym ze sposobów tworzenia przewagi konkurencyjnej w stosunku do większych miast i zapewnienia sobie właściwego miejsca w rozwoju regionalnym jest tworzenie sieci współpracy przez małe miasta. Niniejsza monografia ma na celu zaprezentowanie alternatywnego modelu rozwoju związanego z małymi miastami (do 50 tysięcy mieszkańców), które tworzą zarówno formalną, jak i wirtualną międzynarodową sieć, nazywaną siecią miast Cittaslow.
Oxidising agents in sub-arc mantle melts link slab devolatilisation and arc magmas
Creators: name: Bénard, Antoine
name: Klimm, Kevin
name: Woodland, Alan B.
name: Arculus, Richard J.
name: Wilke, Max
name: Botcharnikov, Roman E.
name: Shimizu, Nobumichi
name: Nebel, Oliver
name: Rivard, Camille
name: Ionov, Dmitri A.
Publisher: name: London : Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: magma
subject: sub-arc mantle
subject: oxidising slab agents
subject: calcium sulfate
subject: copper
subject: ferric ion
subject: glass
subject: oxidizing agent
subject: stable isotope
subject: sulfate
subject: sulfur
subject: dehydration
subject: lunar mantle
subject: mantle
subject: mid-ocean ridge
subject: oxidation
subject: percolation
subject: subduction zone
subject: volcanic eruption
subject: Article
subject: lithosphere
subject: oxidation reduction reaction
subject: oxidative coupling
subject: rock
subject: thermometry
subject: volcano
subject: X ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: Subduction zone magmas are more oxidised on eruption than those at mid-ocean ridges. This is attributed either to oxidising components, derived from subducted lithosphere (slab) and added to the mantle wedge, or to oxidation processes occurring during magma ascent via differentiation. Here we provide direct evidence for contributions of oxidising slab agents to melts trapped in the sub-arc mantle. Measurements of sulfur (S) valence state in sub-arc mantle peridotites identify sulfate, both as crystalline anhydrite (CaSO4) and dissolved SO4 2− in spinel-hosted glass (formerly melt) inclusions. Copper-rich sulfide precipitates in the inclusions and increased Fe3+/∑Fe in spinel record a S6+–Fe2+ redox coupling during melt percolation through the sub-arc mantle. Sulfate-rich glass inclusions exhibit high U/Th, Pb/Ce, Sr/Nd and δ34S (+ 7 to + 11‰), indicating the involvement of dehydration products of serpentinised slab rocks in their parental melt sources. These observations provide a link between liberated slab components and oxidised arc magmas.
A portable biosensor for 2,4-dinitrotoluene vapors
Creators: name: Prante, Marc
name: Ude, Christian
name: Große, Miriam
name: Raddatz, Lukas
name: Krings, Ulrich
name: John, Gernot
name: Belkin, Shimshon
name: Scheper, Thomas
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biological sensor
subject: Bioluminescence
subject: Biosensor
subject: Chemical vapor signature
subject: Explosive material
subject: Landmine detection
subject: Biological materials
subject: Biosensors
subject: Bombs (ordnance)
subject: Cell immobilization
subject: Cost effectiveness
subject: Explosives detection
subject: Molecular oxygen
subject: Phosphorescence
subject: 2 ,4 ,6-trinitrotoluene
subject: 2 ,4-dinitrotoluene
subject: Biological sensors
subject: Chemical vapor
subject: Explosive materials
subject: Hazardous chemicals
subject: Oxygen penetration
subject: Portable biosensors
subject: Explosives
subject: 2,4-dinitrotoluene
subject: explosive
subject: nitrobenzene derivative
subject: oxygen
subject: chemistry
subject: devices
subject: gas
subject: genetic procedures
subject: human
subject: isolation and purification
subject: synthesis
subject: wireless communication
subject: Biosensing Techniques
subject: Dinitrobenzenes
subject: Explosive Agents
subject: Gases
subject: Humans
subject: Oxygen
subject: Wireless Technology
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: Buried explosive material, e.g., landmines, represent a severe issue for human safety all over the world. Most explosives consist of environmentally hazardous chemicals like 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), carcinogenic 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT) and related compounds. Vapors leaking from buried landmines offer a detection marker for landmines, presenting an option to detect landmines without relying on metal detection. 2,4-Dinitrotoluene (DNT), an impurity and byproduct of common TNT synthesis, is a feasible detection marker since it is extremely volatile. We report on the construction of a wireless, handy and cost effective 2,4-dinitrotoluene biosensor combining recombinant bioluminescent bacterial cells and a compact, portable optical detection device. This biosensor could serve as a potential alternative to the current detection technique. The influence of temperature, oxygen and different immobilization procedures on bioluminescence were tested. Oxygen penetration depth in agarose gels was investigated, and showed that aeration with molecular oxygen is necessary to maintain bioluminescence activity at higher cell densities. Bioluminescence was low even at high cell densities and 2,4-DNT concentrations, hence optimization of different prototypes was carried out regarding radiation surface of the gels used for immobilization. These findings were applied to sensor construction, and 50 ppb gaseous 2,4-DNT was successfully detected.
title: Kształtowanie kompetencji społecznych i kierowniczych studentów kierunku Gospodarka przestrzenna w Politechnice Łódzkiej
Creators: name: Strzelecka, Elżbieta
Publisher: name: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Łódzkiej. Architektura., 2011 z.1 s.119-126 sum.
Year: 2011

description: W artykule przedstawiono część badań, dotyczących kompetencji społecznych i kierowniczych, nabywanych przez studentów kierunku Gospodarka przestrzenna w Politechnice Łódzkiej.
description: The article presented results of survey concerns students' social and leadership competences in the Technical University of Lodz.
Long range correlations and folding angle in polymers with applications to α-helical proteins
Creators: name: Krokhotin, Andrey
name: Nicolis, Stam
name: Niemi, Antti J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The conformational complexity of linear polymers far exceeds that of point-like atoms and molecules. Polymers can bend, twist, even become knotted. Thus they may also display a much richer phase structure than point particles. But it is not very easy to characterize the phase of a polymer. Essentially, the only attribute is the radius of gyration. The way how it changes when the degree of polymerization becomes different, and how it evolves when the ambient temperature and solvent properties change, discloses the phase of the polymer. Moreover, in any finite length chain there are corrections to scaling, that complicate the detailed analysis of the phase structure. Here we introduce a quantity that we call the folding angle, a novel tool to identify and scrutinize the phases of polymers. We argue for a mean-field relationship between its values and those of the scaling exponent in the radius of gyration. But unlike in the case of the radius of gyration, the value of the folding angle can be evaluated from a single structure. As an example we estimate the value of the folding angle in the case of crystallographic α-helical protein structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). We also show how the value can be numerically computed using a theoretical model of α-helical chiral homopolymers.
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Effects of Opuntiaficus-indica flower extract WS 1261 on mental and psychic function in subsyndromal fatigue - A pilot study
Creators: name: Kressel, Gaby
name: Willers, Janina
name: Kohrs, Heike
name: Zimmermann, Andrea
name: Klement, Stephan
name: Dienel, Angelika
name: Hahn, Andreas
Publisher: name: s.l. : Advanced Research Journals
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fatigue
subject: Flavonoids
subject: Mental and psychic function parameters
subject: Opuntiaficus-indica
subject: Proof-of-Principle study
subject: Sokatin
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Traditional use, chemical constituents, and results of prior animal studies indicate alleviating effects of Opuntiaficus-indica flowers extract on subsyndromalfatigue symptoms in humans 50 healthy subjects of either gender aged 30 to 60 years with subsyndromal fatigue were enrolled in this open-label monocentric single arm proof-of-principle study. 500mg of a hydro-alcoholic extract from Opuntiaficus-indica flowers were administered daily over 8 weeks. Mental and psychic function parameters were assessed by numerical analogue scale of Subjective Fatigue Symptoms, Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory 20, Sheehan Disability Scale, Short Form Health Survey 36, Fatigue Impact Scale, and Global Self-Assessment. Also, health-related incidents, laboratory parameters and vital signs were measured during the intervention period. Improvement of fatigue symptoms could be shown in most measurements after week 1and continued further throughout the trial. 70.0% of subjects reported global improvement of their complaints at end of study. A consistent and positive effect of Opuntiaficus-indica flowers extract on symptoms of fatigue could be demonstrated. Improvement in all mental and psychic functions could be measured, most of them statistically significant.
title: Governing Iraqi Kurdistan: Self-Rule, Political Order and the International
Creators: name: Küçükkeleş-Koru, Müjge
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: Iraqi Kurdistan emerged as a "free" entity in a humanitarian intervention in 1991. Since then, it has been the subject of growing international involvement. The region gained its legal status in 2005 as an autonomous territorial entity in the aftermath of another US-led military intervention. Rather than incorporating the region into the institutional apparatus of a federal Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan's newly-attained legality further inserted it into global networks of governance, capital flows, ideas, advocacy and knowledge. It quickly became a space where international organisations, NGOs, and consultants eagerly promoted international frameworks of state-building, good governance, free markets, and development. This thesis explores the operation of these international actors, programs and discourses, and their political, social and economic effects in Iraqi Kurdistan. It goes beyond existing juridical epistemologies and their primary concern with the state and sovereignty, and offers a proximate account of international processes in the Kurdistan region. The research relies on Foucauldian notions of governmentality and biopolitics, and locates the region within the prevailing (neo)liberal political rationalities and dispersed power relations of global politics in the post-cold war. This thesis demonstrates how dispersed and diffused regimes of power/knowledge mobilised by a multiplicity of international, local and regional actors have constituted and reconstituted Iraqi Kurdistan's self-rule. It substantiates this argument by linking Iraqi Kurdistan's social and political development to broader changes in global politics. It also analyses the ways in which international discourses and practices of humanitarian governance, free markets, good governance, and development have shaped political, social and economic order in the region. It argues that these practices have constructed the KRI's social and political order, not on political institutions of sovereignty, but as an economic unit. The economic conceptualisation of the region has had significant implications for Kurdish nationalism, and the meaning of independence, self-determination and national liberation. In this framing, self-determination is no longer a political and legal category associated with independent statehood, rather it is a governmental category denoting a set of practices, policies and norms that seek to promote self-reliance and self-development among the Kurds.
Further dihydrochalcones from Crotolaria ramosissima
Creators: name: Kumar, J.K.
name: Narender, T.
name: Rao, M.S.
name: Rao, P.S.
name: Toth, G.
name: Balazs, B.
name: Duddeck, H.
Publisher: name: Sao Paulo : Sociedade Brasileira de Química
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: dihydrochalcones
subject: Crotolaria ramosissima
subject: structure elucidation
subject: 1D and 2D H-1 and C-13-NMR spectroscopy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Two new dihydrochalcones, crotaramin (2) and cretin (3), have been isolated from the Indian plant Crotolaria ramosissima. Their structures have been elucidated by extensive one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy including HMBC and NOESY.
High-level expression of the HIV entry inhibitor griffithsin from the plastid genome and retention of biological activity in dried tobacco leaves
Creators: name: Hoelscher, Matthijs
name: Tiller, Nadine
name: Teh, Audrey Y.-H.
name: Wu, Guo-Zhang
name: Ma, Julian K.-C.
name: Bock, Ralph
Publisher: name: Berlin : Springer
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Plastid transformation
subject: Nicotiana tabacum
subject: Molecular farming
subject: HIV
subject: AIDS
subject: Antiviral agent
subject: Microbicide
subject: Griffithsin
subject: Chloroplast
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: The potent anti-HIV microbicide griffithsin was expressed to high levels in tobacco chloroplasts, enabling efficient purification from both fresh and dried biomass, thus providing storable material for inexpensive production and scale-up on demand. The global HIV epidemic continues to grow, with 1.8 million new infections occurring per year. In the absence of a cure and an AIDS vaccine, there is a pressing need to prevent new infections in order to curb the disease. Topical microbicides that block viral entry into human cells can potentially prevent HIV infection. The antiviral lectin griffithsin has been identified as a highly potent inhibitor of HIV entry into human cells. Here we have explored the possibility to use transplastomic plants as an inexpensive production platform for griffithsin. We show that griffithsin accumulates in stably transformed tobacco chloroplasts to up to 5% of the total soluble protein of the plant. Griffithsin can be easily purified from leaf material and shows similarly high virus neutralization activity as griffithsin protein recombinantly expressed in bacteria. We also show that dried tobacco provides a storable source material for griffithsin purification, thus enabling quick scale-up of production on demand.
The Dirichlet problem for p-harmonic functions with respect to the Mazurkiewicz boundary
Creators: name: Bjorn, Anders
name: Bjorn, Jana
name: Shanmugalingam, Nageswari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we develop the Perron method for solving the Dirichlet problem for the analog of the p-Laplacian, i.e. for p-harmonic functions, with Mazurkiewicz boundary values. The setting considered here is that of metric spaces, where the boundary of the domain in question is replaced with the Mazurkiewicz boundary. Resolutivity for Sobolev and continuous functions, as well as invariance results for perturbations on small sets, are obtained. We use these results to improve the known resolutivity and invariance results for functions on the standard (metric) boundary. We also illustrate the results of this paper by discussing several examples.
Intake of Minerals from Food Supplements in a German Population - A Nationwide Survey
Creators: name: Willers, Janina
name: Heinemann, Michaela
name: Bitterlich, Norman
name: Hahn, Andreas
Publisher: name: Delaware : Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Supplements
subject: Minerals
subject: Survey
subject: Tolerable Upper Intake Level
subject: Multiple Uses
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Introduction: Studies indicate that 17.9% - 60% of adults in Germany and Europe regularly use food supplements. Some reports suggest that their use might be responsible for excessive nutrient intake. The purpose of this survey was to examine the quantitative mineral intakes from food supplements: whether the tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) with supplements alone, or in combination with food was exceeded was checked. Methods: The survey was carried out by the Association for Consumer Research, Nürnberg, Germany. Anonymous data of 1070 supplement users (40.8% men, 59.2% women) aged 18 - 93 years were available. Three groups were examined based on dietary and supplemental mineral intakes: average, middle-high and high intake. Results: The mean number of supplements reported was 1.6 ± 1.1 products in men and 1.5 ± 0.9 products in women. The minerals most frequently consumed were magnesium, followed by calcium, zinc and selenium. The percentage of the supplement users with total intakes greater than the UL was minimal for all minerals. Supplement use in 143 cases increased the likelihood of intakes above the UL only for magnesium. Subjects particularly in the high intake group—as a worst case scenario—had intakes above the UL in the case of calcium (n = 23) and zinc (n = 34). The percentage of subjects taking several products was greater in subjects exceeding the UL than in those below (P < 0.001). Multiple use was seen significantly more often in men than in women (P < 0.01). Conclusions: In this survey, supplement use was generally not associated with excessive intake. Supplement use resulted in intakes above the UL in only a few cases relating to magnesium, calcium and zinc. This applies more often to elderly subjects and particularly to those who already have a high mineral intake from food in the model calculation.
title: Les rencontres sécurité : opportunité pour le management d’améliorer la culture de sécurité
Creators: name: Bally, Bruno
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2018

description: Réussir à développer le lien entre management et culture de sécurité (CS) est un enjeu crucial. Dans la littérature, une méthode managériale pour faire évoluer la CS en établissement de santé cible particulièrement ce lien : il s’agit des « safety walkrounds » (SW). La SW est une rencontre entre les managers issus de la gouvernance de l’établissement de santé et les professionnels d’un secteur d’activité sur leur lieu de travail, permettant des échanges centrés sur la sécurité des patients. La Haute Autorité de santé (HAS) a lancé en 2017 une expérimentation en France, afin de tester la faisabilité et l’acceptabilité des SW. Au total, 11 établissements de santé ont participé et 24 rencontres sécurité (RS) ont été réalisées dans 22 secteurs d’activité. Ce sont ainsi 44 membres de gouvernance, 240 professionnels d’équipes médicosoignantes et 11 référents de la démarche qui ont été mobilisés. L’enquête de CS, menée au début de l’expérimentation auprès des équipes, a montré une CS pouvant être améliorée (culture non punitive de l’erreur et soutien du management insuffisants). Les RS ont été très bien acceptées et jugées intéressantes (notes médianes de 7 à 8,5/9 selon les participants). Leur faisabilité, bien que notée plus faible, a été jugée bonne (7/9 en moyenne). Afin de proposer cette démarche aux établissements de santé, pour mobiliser le management sur la sécurité des patients, la HAS publiera un guide méthodologique avec des outils à l’automne 2018, accompagné du rapport complet de l’expérimentation.
Scleranthus perennis L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: S.perennis L. Cat. XLVII und 254. Für das Wallis zu streichen.
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Job satisfaction and preferences regarding job charactereistics of vocationals and master craftsman scholars and horticulture students in germany
Creators: name: Meyerding, Stephan
Publisher: name: Nitra : Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Job design
subject: Horticulture
subject: Job attitude
subject: Economics
subject: Job performance
subject: Personnel psychology
subject: Job satisfaction
subject: Salary
subject: Life satisfaction
subject: Job analysis
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: Labour costs account for 40 % of all the costs in German horticulture. Employee satisfaction has a significant impact on the economic and social sustainability of horticultural companies. Traditional linear relationships between environmental characteristics and subjective job satisfaction have been assumed in psychological research. Warr (2007) challenged this conception with the non-linear vitamin model. The present study examines the possibility of non-linear relationships between job characteristics and job satisfaction. For this purpose, a survey was carried out using an online and a paper-and-pencil questionnaire from August 2013 to February 2015. In addition, the preferences of employees (N=229), vocational and master craftsman scholars (N=205) and students of horticulture science (N=204) regarding job characteristics were examined. This article focuses on the later two. The relationships between characteristic values and work and life satisfaction are analysed and the results of the three groups are compared. The strongest relationships with job satisfaction can be observed for vocational and master craftsman scholars for the job features emotional dissonance and considerate leadership. Additionally, employers' fair treatment of the society as a whole has a strong impact on job satisfaction. The salary can be found only in the lower middle range. The data support the assumption of non-linear relationships between job characteristic values and satisfaction. Furthermore, the personal characteristics of the study participants are included in the analysis. The study indicates a change in the preference structure of employees, who in the future would prefer a good work–life balance in particular as well as other "soft" factors.