cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessment of Willingness to Pay for Improved Sanitation in Slum Area of Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Kefale, Higu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Understanding demand for improved sanitation in the local context is critical if sanitation facilities are to be continually used. The drivers of demand for sanitation are different for different slum areas, so context specific study is better to know the real factors and demand for program design and implementation. People"s willingness to invest a part of their meager resource in maintaining the sanitation facility is taken as an indication that they value the service and are therefore committed to keep it in good working order. Objective: To measure level of willingness to pay and identify factors affecting willingness to pay for improved sanitation in slum areas of Addis Ababa. Methods: This willingness to pay assessment has been conducted based on cross sectional study quantitative design. The study has been conducted in slum area of Addis Ababa. Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Method (DC-CVM) i.e. double bound have been used for the assessment of willingness to pay. The analyses have been done using logistic and ordinal logistic regression models. Result: Totally 404 households were interviewed from March to April study period. Approximately 88% of respondents are willing to pay less than 1000 birr for hand washing facility installation and 7% are willing to pay in between range from 1000 birr to 1500 birr and only 5% are willing to pay more than 1500 birr. For communal toilet renovation, 94.6% are willing to pay less than 600 birr, 5.2% are willing to pay from 600 to 1132 birr and none of them are willing to pay more than 1132 birr in 1 year.The mean willingness to pay for communal toilet was 212 birr per year and the maximum mean willingness to pay for hand washing facility installation was 508.5 birr. Households who were unsatisfied on existing sanitation were more likely to pay for improved sanitation (AOR 2.85, CI 1.05-7.72). Conclusion: The study has found the community was willing to pay 2.12% of their disposable income for improved sanitation. Among the factors that affect willingness to pay , past sanitation expenditure amount, knowledge on health effect of poor sanitation, knowledge on type of sanitation, attitude on sanitation, number of households sharing the toilet, monthly saving and number of years lived in the present house significantly correlates with amount of willingness to pay.
Digitale Medien im Kindergartenalter. Erarbeitung und Auswertung eines Screenings bezüglich Mediennutzung und Medienverhalten bei 4- bis 6-Jährigen, um mögliche «Risikokinder» frühzeitig zu erkennen
Creators: name: Bongard, Michèle
name: Bucher, Franziska
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Kindergarten
digitale Medien
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit der Mediennutzung und dem Medienverhalten von Kindern im Vorschulalter und möglichen Auswirkungen des digitalen Medienkonsums. Dabei stehen die Fragen in Zentrum, wie ein Screening für Kindergartenkinder gestaltet werden muss, um Hinweise für ein mögliches ungesundes Medienverhalten zu entdecken und ob es bereits Kindergartenkinder gibt, welche ein exzessives Medienverhalten zeigen. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen das grosse Interesse und die Beliebtheit digitaler Medien und einen mehrheitlich geregelten Medienkonsum. Doch auch Erkenntnisse, wie beispielsweise, dass manche der 112 befragten Kinder Computerspiele mit deutlich höherer Altersempfehlung spielen oder wenige Kinder einen ungeregelten Zugang zu den Medien zu haben scheinen. Es zeigten sich zudem interessante Ergebnisse im Vergleich zwischen Kindern mit und ohne schulische Massnahmen.
Inferring the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism with gravitational waves
Creators: name: Powell, Jade
name: Gossan, Sarah E.
name: Logue, Joshua
name: Heng, Ik Siong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detection of a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) gravitational-wave (GW) signal with an Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network may allow us to measure astrophysical parameters of the dying massive star. GWs are emitted from deep inside the core and, as such, they are direct probes of the CCSN explosion mechanism. In this study we show how we can determine the CCSN explosion mechanism from a GW supernova detection using a combination of principal component analysis and Bayesian model selection. We use simulations of GW signals from CCSN exploding via neutrino-driven convection and rapidly-rotating core collapse. Previous studies have shown that the explosion mechanism can be determined using one LIGO detector and simulated Gaussian noise. As real GW detector noise is both non-stationary and non-Gaussian we use real detector noise from a network of detectors with a sensitivity altered to match the advanced detectors design sensitivity. For the first time we carry out a careful selection of the number of principal components to enhance our model selection capabilities. We show that with an advanced detector network we can determine if the CCSN explosion mechanism is neutrino-driven convection for sources in our Galaxy and rapidly-rotating core collapse for sources out to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Comparing Adversarial and Supervised Learning for Organs at Risk Segmentation in CT images
Creators: name: Crespi, Leonardo
name: Portanti, Mattia
name: Loiacono, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Organ at Risk (OAR) segmentation from CT scans is a key component of the radiotherapy treatment workflow. In recent years, deep learning techniques have shown remarkable potential in automating this process. In this paper, we investigate the performance of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) compared to supervised learning approaches for segmenting OARs from CT images. We propose three GAN-based models with identical generator architectures but different discriminator networks. These models are compared with well-established CNN models, such as SE-ResUnet and DeepLabV3, using the StructSeg dataset, which consists of 50 annotated CT scans containing contours of six OARs. Our work aims to provide insight into the advantages and disadvantages of adversarial training in the context of OAR segmentation. The results are very promising and show that the proposed GAN-based approaches are similar or superior to their CNN-based counterparts, particularly when segmenting more challenging target organs.
The engineered landscape : finding a fuller function
Creators: name: Taylor, Terence Glen Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Towards Constructing a Flexible Multimedia Environment for Teaching the History of Arts
Creators: name: Alfert, Klaus
name: Doberkat, Ernst-Erich
name: Kopka, Corina
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Altenberger Dom Markup Language
subject: DTD
subject: multimedia environment
subject: multimedia in teaching the history of arts
subject: requirements elicitation
subject: translation and interpretation
subject: XML
subject: 004

description: Multimedia production displays two faces: a multimedia product is the result of programming as well as of publishing. Constructing a multimedia environment for teaching a course in the history of arts suggests that requirements elicitation has many facets and is central to success, hence has to be delt with in a particularly careful way, the more so since we wanted the art historians working in a specific and custom tailored environment. The problem was technically resolved by constructing a dedicated markup language based on XML. We discuss the process of requirements elicitation that led to the markup language and show how this is used as a cornerstone in the development of such an experimental environment.
description: Internes Memorandum des Lehrstuhls für Software-Technologie / Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Dortmund ; 101
Vários, Concilio Vaticano II. Comentários a la Constitución sobre la Iglesia. Vol. de 1124 ps. 130x200. Editorial BAC. Madrid. 1966
Creators: name: Santos, Alexandrino Fernandes Dos
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1966

description: Theologica, v. 1 n. 4 (1966)
Ensemble Methods for Multi-Organ Segmentation in CT Series
Creators: name: Crespi, Leonardo
name: Roncaglioni, Paolo
name: Dei, Damiano
name: Franzese, Ciro
name: Lambri, Nicola
name: Loiacono, Daniele
name: Mancosu, Pietro
name: Scorsetti, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the medical images field, semantic segmentation is one of the most important, yet difficult and time-consuming tasks to be performed by physicians. Thanks to the recent advancement in the Deep Learning models regarding Computer Vision, the promise to automate this kind of task is getting more and more realistic. However, many problems are still to be solved, like the scarce availability of data and the difficulty to extend the efficiency of highly specialised models to general scenarios. Organs at risk segmentation for radiotherapy treatment planning falls in this category, as the limited data available negatively affects the possibility to develop general-purpose models; in this work, we focus on the possibility to solve this problem by presenting three types of ensembles of single-organ models able to produce multi-organ masks exploiting the different specialisations of their components. The results obtained are promising and prove that this is a possible solution to finding efficient multi-organ segmentation methods.
Planning for the beneficial use of groundwater in the Mae Klong Delta area, Samut Songkhram Province, Kingdom of Thailand
Creators: name: Prasertpunt, Vimut.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Uricchio, F. M. - Stano, Gaetano M., Vangelo secondo San Marco, Da colecção «La Sacra Bibbia de M. S. Garófalo». Vol. de XXXx730 ps. 170x240. Marietti Editori. Torino. 1965
Creators: name: Rodrigues, António Ferreira
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1966

description: Theologica, v. 1 n. 4 (1966)
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 07/80
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Änderungen der Promotionsordnung der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ruhr
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 7, 1980
Renovação da Teologia Moral à luz do Vaticano II. Nota sobre o artigo do R. P. J. Fuchs, S. J., Theologia Moralis Perficienda - Votum Concilii Vaticani II, in Periódica de re morali canónica litúrgica, LV (1966) 499-548
Creators: name: Marques, José Silva
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1966

description: Theologica, v. 1 n. 4 (1966)
Cryptogenic stroke as a very early manifestation of pancreatic neoplasm
Creators: name: Arabi, Maher
name: Saleh, Zeinab
name: Sawaya, Raja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: malignancy
subject: pancreas
subject: stroke
subject: thrombosis
subject: 610

description: We present two cases of middle-aged women who sustained definite cerebrovascular infarctions without predisposing risk factors. Work-up did not reveal any underlying etiology. Treatment with antiplatelets and anticoagulants improved the patients' symptoms. Two and five years later, both patients developed pancreatic cancer. In this article, we discuss the association between cryptogenic stroke and pancreatic cancer and review the cases described in the literature with this association.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 8, 2009
Exégese, théologie et pastorale, por P. Grelot em «Nouvelle Revue Théologique» n.º 1 e 2 Janvier et Fevrier, 1966. pp. 3-14 e 132-148
Creators: name: Tanque, António
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1966

description: Theologica, v. 1 n. 4 (1966)
Historical and Social Aspects of Leprosy in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Addissie, Mesfin
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1992

description: A qualitative study based on individual interview was carried out in Tekle Haimanot and adjacent Awrajas and at the All African Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Centre (ALERT). A total of 54 respondents were interviewed out of whom 20 were leprosy patients and the rest were religious leaders, high school students, high school teachers, general health workers at Tekle Haimanot Health Centre, health workers at ALERT and non leprosy patients. In this study the patterns and trends of leprosy stigmata were reviewed. Through the in-depth interviews it was observed that the negative reactions to leprosy were very prevalent, including among tlle leprosy patients, and had a serious impact on the control of leprosy. Though not conclusive, it was found out that there were very strong, high similarities in the patterns and trends of social responses regarding leprosy over the last 35 years. Leprosy was perceived as a unique, chronic, non-fatal but progressively deforming disease with doubtful curability and especially a disease which could cause a disgrace to the victims and their families. The findings of this study strongly showed the importance of addressing the psychological and social issues of leprosy patients and the general perceptions of the society regarding leprosy before i mplementing or initiating integration of leprosy control program into the general health service. In-service training to health work ers, health education about current knowledge of leprosy to the patients and studies on knowledge, attitude and behaviour of leprosy patients and the public are recommended.
Interaktionen im Spiel von Kindern mit geistiger Behinderung im Kindergarten der Sonderschule und in der integrierten Sonderschulung im Regelkindergarten
Creators: name: Sidler, Petra
name: Trauffer, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Pädagogik für Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung
Masterarbeit

description: Diese Forschungsarbeit beschäftigt sich mit Interaktionen von Kindern mit geistiger Behinderung während dem Freispiel in der integrierten Sonderschulung des Regelkindergartens und in Kindergärten der Sonderschule. Mittels Beobachtungen werden in vier Klassen Hinweise gesucht zur Bedeutung der kognitiven Entwicklung sowie zum Einfluss des Umfeldes. Anhand von theorieabgeleiteten Beobachtungs- und Auswertungskategorien werden Videoaufzeichnungen von sozialen Aktivitäten qualitativ analysiert und interpretiert. Es zeigte sich, dass unter anderem das Nachahmungsverhalten, die Abstimmung auf das Gegenüber, das Ergreifen von Interaktionsinitiativen sowie Funktionstätigkeiten der Kinder zentrale Hinweise sind. Diese Bereiche ergänzen sich gegenseitig und können je nach Sichtweise als Einfluss des Umfeldes oder als Bedeutung der kognitiven Entwicklung verstanden werden.
All-order calculations of the spectra of superheavy elements E113 and E114
Creators: name: Dinh, T. H.
name: Dzuba, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a recently developed method (V. A. Dzuba, PRA 90, 012517 (2014); J. S. M. Ginges and V. A. Dzuba, PRA 91, 042505 (2015)) to calculate energy levels of superheavy elements Uut (Z = 113), Fl (Z = 114), and Fl+. The method combines the linearized single-double coupledcluster technigue, the all-order correlation potential method and configuration interaction method. Breit and quantum electrodynamic corrections are included. The role of relativistic and correlation effects is discussed. Similar calculations for Tl, Pb and Pb+ are used to gauge the accuracy of the calculations.
description: 4 pages
Quantum heat diode versus light emission in circuit quantum electrodynamical system
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-qiang
name: Yang, Yi-jia
name: Yu, Chang-shui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precisely controlling heat transfer in a quantum mechanical system is particularly significant for designing quantum thermodynamical devices. With the technology of experiment advances, circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit QED) has become a promising system due to controllable light matter interactions as well as flexible coupling strengths. In this paper, we design a thermal diode in terms of the two-photon Rabi model of the circuit QED system. We find that the thermal diode can not only be realized in the resonant coupling but also achieve better performance, especially for the detuned qubit-photon ultrastrong coupling. We also study the photonic detection rates and their nonreciprocity, which indicates similar behaviors with the nonreciprocal heat transport. This provides the potential to understand thermal diode behavior from the quantum optical perspective and could shed new insight into the relevant research on thermodynamical devices.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures. To appear in Physical Review E
Linear Stability of Shock Waves in Ultrarelativistic Anisotropic Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Kovalenko, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear stability of a plane shock waves in ultrarelativistic anisotropic hydrodynamics is investigated. The properties of the amplitudes of perturbations of physical quantities are studied depending on the components of the wave vector of a small harmonic perturbation. Analytical calculationsfor the longitudinal and transverse propagation of shock wave normal with respect to the anisotropy axis (beam-axis) and numerical calculations for an arbitrary polar angle are carried out.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 17/2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Prüfungsordnung für den Masterstudiengang Kulturanalyse und Kulturvermittlung der Fakultät Kunst- und Sportwissenschaften der Technischen Universität Dortmund vom 6. Juli 2015
description: Verlust eines Dienstsiegels
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;9, 2015
Protein-protein interactions and novel biomarkers of gastric cancer
Creators: name: Surendran, Parvathy
name: Silverman, Rosalind
name: Silverman, Lorelei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Stomach cancer is the 5th most common cancer worldwide. It is the 4th most common cancer in men and the 7th most common cancer in women. Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, is a growth of cells that starts in the stomach [2]. In gastric cancer, malignant (cancer) cells form in the lining of the stomach. Age, diet, and stomach disease can affect the risk of developing gastric cancer . There were more than 1 million new cases of stomach cancer in 2020. Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Tajikistan and China are among the top 10 countries with the highest rates of gastric cancer There is evidence that the following are associated with an increased risk of stomach cancer: smoking, Helicobacter pylori infection and industrial chemical exposure. There is also strong evidence that consuming alcoholic drinks, salt-preserved foods and being overweight or obese increases the risk of gastric cancer. Additionally, there is some evidence that consumption of grilled or barbecued meat and fish and processed meat might increase the risk of stomach cancer
Imaging Temperature and Thickness of Thin Planar Liquid Water Jets in Vacuum
Creators: name: Buttersack, Tillmann
name: Haak, Henrik
name: Bluhm, Hendrik
name: Hergenhahn, Uwe
name: Meijer, Gerard
name: Winter, Bernd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spatially resolved measurements of the temperature of a flat liquid water microjet for varying pressures, from vacuum to 100% relative humidity. The entire jet surface is probed in a single shot by a high-resolution infrared camera. Obtained 2D images are substantially influenced by the temperature of the apparatus on the opposite side of the IR camera; a protocol to correct for the thermal background radiation is presented. In vacuum, we observe cooling rates due to water evaporation on the order of 105 K/s. For our system, this corresponds to a temperature decrease of approximately 15 K between upstream and downstream positions of the flowing leaf. Making reasonable assumptions on the absorption of the thermal background radiation in the flatjet we can extend our analysis to infer a thickness map. For a reference system our value for the thickness is in good agreement with the one reported from white light interferometry.
description: The following article has been submitted to Structural Dynamics. After it is published, it will be found at Link
Search for the decay of nature's rarest isotope $^{\rm {180m}}$Ta
Creators: name: Lehnert, Björn
name: Hult, Mikael
name: Lutter, Guillaume
name: Zuber, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $^{\rm {180m}}$Ta is the rarest naturally occurring quasi-stable isotope and the longest lived metastable state which is known. Its possible decay via the $β^-$ or the electron capture channel has never been observed. This article presents a search for the decay of $^{\rm {180m}}$Ta with an ultra low background Sandwich HPGe gamma spectrometry setup in the HADES underground laboratory. No signal is observed and improved lower partial half-life limits are set with a Bayesian analysis to $5.8\cdot10^{16}$ yr for the $β^-$ channel and $2.0\cdot10^{17}$ yr for the electron capture channel (90% credibility). The total half-life of $^{\rm {180m}}$Ta is longer than $4.5\cdot10^{16}$ yr. This is more than a factor of two improvement compared to previous searches.
Some aspects of increasing autonomy in community and domestic buildings
Creators: name: Hutton, Don.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Interoperability's Impact on Health Information Systems: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Creators: name: Foresto, Felipe
name: Santos, Luana Michelly Aparecida Costa Dos
name: Luiz Ricardo Albano Dos Santos
name: De Oliveira, Alan Maicon
name: Costa, Wilbert Dener Lemos
name: Aguilar, Guilherme José
name: Dantony De Castro Barros Donato
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Health Services Administration
subject: Computer Sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Software Engineering
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Health Services Research
subject: Health and Medical Administration
subject: Databases and Information Systems
subject: #ScopingReview
subject: #HealthInformationSystems
subject: #Interoperability

description: This scoping review aims to comprehensively map the existing literature regarding the impact of interoperability on health information systems, to identify and categorize the emerging effects, as well as to evaluate both positive and negative outcomes of interoperability in health information systems.
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation of binary charged lipid membranes: Phase separation and morphological dynamics
Creators: name: Ito, Hiroaki
name: Higuchi, Yuji
name: Shimokawa, Naofumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biomembranes, which are mainly composed of neutral and charged lipids, exhibit a large variety of functional structures and dynamics. Here, we report a coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the phase separation and morphological dynamics in charged lipid bilayer vesicles. The screened long-range electrostatic repulsion among charged head groups delays or inhibits the lateral phase separation in charged vesicles compared with neutral vesicles, suggesting the transition of the phase-separation mechanism from spinodal decomposition to nucleation or homogeneous dispersion. Moreover, the electrostatic repulsion causes morphological changes, such as pore formation, and further transformations into disk, string, and bicelle structures, which are spatiotemporally coupled to the lateral segregation of charged lipids. Based on our coarse-grained MD simulation, we propose a plausible mechanism of pore formation at the molecular level. The pore formation in a charged-lipid-rich domain is initiated by the prior disturbance of the local molecular orientation in the domain.
description: 12pages, 9 figures
Ethiopian Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFETP) Compiled Body of Works in Field Epidemiology
Creators: name: Adem, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The Ethiopia field epidemiology program is a two years service program in field epidemiology adapted from United States center for disease control and prevention (CDC) epidemic intelligence service (EIS) program. The program is designed to assist the ministry of health in building or strengthen health system by recruiting and promising health workers and building their competence through on the job mentorship and training. The program has two main components a class room -teaching component (25%) and practical attachment or field placement component (75%). A suspected measles outbreak was reported from Ofla Woreda to Tigray regional health bureau on January 2014. In the community -based on surveillance system the outbreak was suspected measles outbreak, not confirmed and no death. The surveillance system was provided rapid response and control during of the outbreaks. Our results indicate that the affected age groups cases which 38% > 15 yrs. The highest measles case was among age groups greater than 15 yrs. The individuals who have travel history areas with active measles outbreak cases were strong association for risk of measles infection. The risk of exposure is likely to be higher for individuals because of the overcrowding in house hold level. The community has knowledge about mode of transmission of measles. The risk of transmission for susceptible is low and measles transmission were also protective of disease. Another suspected measles outbreak was reported from Alamata Woreda from January, 2014. Our results indicate that highest cases were most affected in those age group >15 yrs. The highest measles case was among age groups <1 yr and >15 yrs. Vaccinated individuals previously for measles was at low risk of acquiring the diseases. The individuals who have knowledge about mode of transmission of measles were the risk of transmission for susceptible was low and protective. The risk of exposure is likely to be higher for individuals because of the overcrowding in house hold level. The surveillance system evaluation of malaria and measles was conducts to assess its usefulness to detect outbreaks and to estimate the magnitude of morbidity and mortality of disease in the area. Special attention required for the improvements such as: - in describe data analysis by person, place and time, in trend analysis, in completeness and timeliness reporting, in feedback and preparedness of bulletins and disseminated of findings, in communication technologies, in training will be conducted for all epidemic prone disease, in human resources, in supervision, emergency budget allocating and quality of reporting, analysis and feedback of daily and weekly surveillance. Over all there was a few dysentery cases in the region compare with other similar studies. So main finding results indicates the strong of health service system and available of strong environmental
Pressemeldung: EU-Projekt LIAISON untersuchte, wie praxisnah Lösungen in und für die Landwirtschaft entstehen
Creators: name: Treffinger, Elvira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pressemeldung
Multiakteursprojekt
Innovation
Ko-Innovation
Landwirtschaft
Forstwirtschaft

description: Die Pressemeldung wurde anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der "How-to-Guides" (Leitfäden) in deutscher Sprache erstellt und am 18.08.2022 über einen Presseverteiler veröffentlicht.
description: Diese Pressemeldung hat zwei ergänzende Dokumente: Das Interview mit der Projektkoordinatorin Susanne v. Münchhausen und ein Projektsteckbrief.
Investigation of the concurrent effects of ALP-photon and ALP-electron couplings in Collider and Beam Dump Searches
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
name: Luo, Yan
name: Song, Muyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axion-like particles (ALPs) have been studied in numerous experiments to search for their interactions, but most studies have focused on deriving bounds for the single coupling. However, in ultraviolet (UV) models, these couplings can appear simultaneously, and their interplay could have important implications for collider and beam dump searches. In this study, we investigate the concurrent effects of the ALP-photon and ALP-electron couplings in a simplified model and examine how their simultaneous presence modifies existing bounds. We find that modifications to production cross-sections, decaying branching ratios, and the lifetime of the ALP are the major effects. Our results show that low-energy electron-positron colliders such as Belle-II and BaBar are primarily affected by the first two factors, while beam dump experiments such as E137 and NA64 are affected by the cross sections and lifetime. We also consider two UV models - the KSVZ model and a lepton-specific version of the DFSZ model - which have only one of the two couplings at tree-level. However, the other coupling can be generated at loops, and our analysis reveals that the simultaneous presence of the two couplings can significantly modify existing bounds on these models for $10^{-3} < m_a < 10$ GeV, especially for beam dump experiments. Overall, our study highlights the importance of considering the concurrent effects of the ALP-photon and ALP-electron couplings in future collider and beam dump analyses.
description: 29 pages, 11 figures; v2: matched to journal version
Ultrafast laser pulse heating of metallic photocathodes and its contribution to intrinsic emittance
Creators: name: Maxson, J.
name: Musumeci, P.
name: Cultrera, L.
name: Karkare, S.
name: Padmore, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The heating of the electronic distribution of a copper photocathode due to an intense drive laser pulse is calculated under the two-temperature model using fluences and pulse lengths typical in RF photoinjector operation. Using the finite temperature-extended relations for the photocathode intrinsic emittance and quantum efficiency, the time-dependent emittance growth due to the same photoemission laser pulse is calculated. This laser heating is seen to limit the intrinsic emittance achievable for photoinjectors using short laser pulses and low quantum efficiency metal photocathodes. A pump-probe photocathode experiment in a standard 1.6 cell S-band gun is proposed, in which simulations show the time dependent thermal emittance modulation within the bunch from laser heating can persist for meters downstream and, in principle, be measured using a slice emittance diagnostic.
title: Selektiver Mutismus bei mehrsprachigen Kindern
title: Eine Längsschnittstudie zum Einfluss kindlicher Ängste, Sprachkompetenzen und elterlicher Akkulturation auf die Entwicklung des Schweigens
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Starke, Anja
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Selektiver Mutismus
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Migrationshintergrund
subject: Angst
subject: Sprachkompetenzen
subject: Akkulturation
subject: 360
subject: 370
subject: Elektiver Mutismus
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Migrationshintergrund
subject: Sprachkompetenz

description: Mehrsprachige Kinder sind etwa vier Mal häufiger von einem selektiven Mutismus (SM) betroffen als einsprachige Kinder. Bislang fehlen jedoch Befunde, welche diese erhöhte Vulnerabilität mehrsprachiger Kinder erklären können. Hinweise gibt es darauf, dass ihr Schweigen vor allem vor dem Hintergrund sprachlicher Unsicherheiten im Zuge des Zweitspracherwerbs und sozialen Ängsten erklärt werden kann. Ein weiterer bedeutsamer Faktor bei mehrsprachigen Kindern ist die multikulturelle Lebenswelt der Kinder. Der Umgang der Eltern mit den verschiedenen Kulturen, mit denen die Familie konfrontiert ist, kann Einfluss auf die sprachliche und sozial-emotionale Entwicklung der Kinder nehmen. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, die Bedeutsamkeit von kindlichen Ängsten, Sprachkompetenzen in der Mehrheitssprache Deutsch sowie der elterlichen Akkulturation auf die Entwicklung eines SM bei mehrsprachigen Kindern zu untersuchen. Es wurde eine Längsschnittstudie mit insgesamt 30 ein- und mehrsprachigen Kindern im Alter von 3;0 bis 5;8 durchgeführt. Rekrutiert wurden schweigende Kinder sowie sprechende Kontrollkinder, um mögliche Risikofaktoren für die Entwicklung des SM zu identifizieren. Zu Beginn und zum Ende der Studie wurden die kindliche Angst, die rezeptiven und produktiven Sprachkompetenzen im Deutschen sowie die Akkulturation der Eltern erfasst. Als abhängige Variable wurden alle drei Monate das Sprechverhalten der Kinder im familiären und öffentlichen sowie im Kindergarten-Kontext über Fragebögen und Beobachtungen erhoben. Die Angst der Kinder erwies sich als bester Prädiktor für die Entwicklung des Sprechverhaltens. Ein Einfluss der Mehrsprachigkeit zeigte sich nicht. Im Kindergartenkontext waren neben der Angst vor allem auch der sozioökonomische Hintergrund der Familie sowie die sprachlichen Kompetenzen der Kinder bedeutsam. Für die mehrsprachigen Kinder zeigten sich erste Hinweise auf den Einfluss der Akkulturation der Eltern auf das Sprechverhalten der Kinder. Eine erhöhte Angst könnte vor allem bei mehrsprachigen Kindern als früher Indikator für das Risiko einen SM zu entwickeln dienen. Die Studie stellte weiterhin heraus, dass die Bedeutsamkeit der Sprachkompetenzen und der elterlichen Akkulturation im Zusammenhang mit SM zukünftig noch intensiv untersucht werden muss.
Die alternde Stimme
Creators: name: Müller, Mirjam Regula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Logopädie
Stimme
Alter
Bachelorarbeit

description: Aufgrund des natürlichen Alterungsprozesses eines Menschen altert auch seine Stimme. Dies ist allgemein bekannt. Aber was genau verändert sich? Welche Erscheinungsformen der Stimme sind Teil des natürlichen Alterungsprozesses und welche sind pathologisch? Anhand eines Entwicklungsprojektes entstand der Entwurf einer Broschüre. Diese informiert in erster Linie über die natürliche Altersstimme, die pathologische Form der Altersstimme (Presbyphonie) und über mögliche stimmhygienische Massnahmen, um die Stimme trotz Alterungsprozessen gesund und leistungsfähig zu halten. Im Rahmen von hauptsächlich qualitativen Methoden der Aktionsforschung wurden Daten erfasst und ausgewertet. Aus den Ergebnissen wurde ein Vorschlag für eine Broschüre rund um das Thema Altersstimme entwickelt.
Assessmentt of Accepttabiilliitty of Proviider-Iniittiiatted HIV Counselliing and Testtiing among Tubercullosiis Pattiientts iin Addiis Ababa
Creators: name: Nursien, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2007

description: Introduction: Unless patients know their HIV status, they cannot benefit from the available care and treatment options. Therefore, various counseling and testing strategies are needed to identify more HIV infected patients. Objective: This study was conducted in March 2007 to assess acceptability of PIHCT and the factors influencing its uptake among TB patients in Addis Ababa. Methods: Institution-based, cross-sectional study was conducted and 423 TB patients interviewed. A two stage sampling method was used for the selection of study subjects. In the first stage of sampling, six health centers were selected by simple random sampling. In the second stage of sampling, patients were systematically selected in each selected health center. Results: Most of the patients were initiated for HIV testing by their TB treatment supervisor 402(98.5%). Among those who were initiated by their treatment supervisor for HIV testing, 266(66.2%; 95%CI= 61.6-70.8) had under gone HIV testing. Adjusted correlates of acceptability of PIHCT include younger age group (20-24) (AOR=3.0, 95% CI=1.2-8.1), primary education (AOR=2.0, 95% CI=1.04-3.8), secondary and above education (AOR=1.9, 95% CI=1.01-3.7), and recognition that any one should get tested for HIV (AOR=5.5, 95% CI=1.4-21.7). The reported barriers for acceptability of PIHCT include no risk perception for HIV infection 54(40.3%), tested before 53(39.3%), and fear of learning positive result 40 (29.8%) of the study participants. vii Conclusion and Recommendation: The wide spread support, and evidence of high acceptability of PIHCT in this study holds significant promise for the control, prevention and treatment of both HIV/AIDS and TB. Concerted efforts to consolidate, sustain, and scale up PIHCT, however, should be accompanied by intensive IEC on TB /HIV.
Mercury losses on the Bendigo goldfield : a cause for environmental concern
Creators: name: Underwood, Charles.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Simultaneous power factorization in modules over Banach algebras
Creators: name: de Jeu, Marcel
name: Jiang, Xingni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46H25 (Primary), 46B40, 46B42 (Secondary)

description: Let $A$ be a Banach algebra with a bounded left approximate identity $\{e_λ\}_{λ\inΛ}$, let $π$ be a continuous representation of $A$ on a Banach space $X$, and let $S$ be a non-empty subset of $X$ such that $\lim_λπ(e_λ)s=s$ uniformly on $S$. If $S$ is bounded, or if $\{e_λ\}_{λ\inΛ}$ is commutative, then we show that there exist $a\in A$ and maps $x_n: S\to X$ for $n\geq 1$ such that $s=π(a^n)x_n(s)$ for all $n\geq 1$ and $s\in S$. The properties of $a\in A$ and the maps $x_n$, as produced by the constructive proof, are studied in some detail. The results generalize previous simultaneous factorization theorems as well as Allan and Sinclair's power factorization theorem. In an ordered context, we also consider the existence of a positive factorization for a subset of the positive cone of an ordered Banach space that is a positive module over an ordered Banach algebra with a positive bounded left approximate identity. Such factorizations are not always possible. In certain cases, including those for positive modules over ordered Banach algebras of bounded functions, such positive factorizations exist, but the general picture is still unclear. Furthermore, simultaneous pointwise power factorizations for sets of bounded maps with values in a Banach module (such as sets of bounded convergent nets) are obtained. A worked example for the left regular representation of $\mathrm{C}_0({\mathbb R})$ and unbounded $S$ is included.
description: Some minor editorial corrections have been made. Final version, to appear in Positivity
Signal and variability extraction for online monitoring in intensive care
Creators: name: Schettlinger, Karen
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Zeitreihe
subject: Robuste Statistik
subject: Regression
subject: Filter
subject: Time series
subject: Robust statistics
subject: 310

description: This thesis proposes new methods for real-time signal and variability extraction, presents derivations of their robustness properties and discusses their value for practical applications to physiological time series. Although the proposed techniques are developed against the background of online monitoring in intensive care, they are also applicable to any other kind of time series. For Repeated Median regression on an equidistant grid, the distribution of the position and number of zero residuals is investigated, and the correlation structure between the residual signs is examined. For online signal extraction, an adaptive filter is proposed which essentially relies on a goodness-of-fit test based on residual signs from Repeated Median regression. After deriving suitable settings for this filter in the univariate case from a simulation study, the procedure is extended for application to multivariate time series. For online variability extraction, three approaches to scale estimation are considered. The robustness properties of the newly proposed regression-free and model-free techniques are derived, and the different approaches are compared via an extensive simulation study.
Working Groups: the NSDF Spine and Driving Engine
Creators: name: Taufer, Michela
name: Scorzelli, Giorgio
name: Tarcea, Glenn
name: Luettgau, Jakob
name: Gyulassy, Attila
name: Kirkpatrick, Christine
name: Coakley, Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Working Groups: Software development process Federated infrastructure CI Architecture User Communities Networking and cybersecurity HPC / Cloud Convergence
Mathelust versus Mathefrust Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Mathematikunterrichts
Creators: name: Merz-Flury, Anita
name: Morgner-Kirbach, Jeannette
name: Muri, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Mathematik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: In dieser ethnografischen Forschungsarbeit werden zuerst die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Mathematikunterrichts mittels der Repertory Grid Methode eruiert. Diese, aus der Sicht der Lernenden, also der direkt Betroffenen, gewonnenen Daten sind für uns bedeutsam. Sie sind der Ausgangspunkt für drei Expertengruppendiskussionen mit Klassenlehrpersonen und Schulischen HeilpädagogInnen. Wir beobachten, interpretieren und beschreiben den Prozess der Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Thematik. Die im Forschungsfeld gewonnenen Erkenntnisse stehen in Abhängigkeit und Wechselwirkung mit Dimensionen wie Methodik, Didaktik und System.
An investigation into the effects of the oil palm (Elais guineensis) on soil fertility, Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Scarlett, G. R. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Fluctuation based interpretable analysis scheme for quantum many-body snapshots
Creators: name: Schlömer, Henning
name: Bohrdt, Annabelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microscopically understanding and classifying phases of matter is at the heart of strongly-correlated quantum physics. With quantum simulations, genuine projective measurements (snapshots) of the many-body state can be taken, which include the full information of correlations in the system. The rise of deep neural networks has made it possible to routinely solve abstract processing and classification tasks of large datasets, which can act as a guiding hand for quantum data analysis. However, though proven to be successful in differentiating between different phases of matter, conventional neural networks mostly lack interpretability on a physical footing. Here, we combine confusion learning with correlation convolutional neural networks, which yields fully interpretable phase detection in terms of correlation functions. In particular, we study thermodynamic properties of the 2D Heisenberg model, whereby the trained network is shown to pick up qualitative changes in the snapshots above and below a characteristic temperature where magnetic correlations become significantly long-range. We identify the full counting statistics of nearest neighbor spin correlations as the most important quantity for the decision process of the neural network, which go beyond averages of local observables. With access to the fluctuations of second-order correlations -- which indirectly include contributions from higher order, long-range correlations -- the network is able to detect changes of the specific heat and spin susceptibility, the latter being in analogy to magnetic properties of the pseudogap phase in high-temperature superconductors. By combining the confusion learning scheme with transformer neural networks, our work opens new directions in interpretable quantum image processing being sensible to long-range order.
description: 15+3 pages
Optimal control of photoelectron emission by realistic waveforms
Creators: name: Solanpää, Janne
name: Ciappina, Marcelo F.
name: Räsänen, Esa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental techniques in multicolor waveform synthesis allow the temporal shaping of strong femtosecond laser pulses with applications in the control of quantum mechanical processes in atoms, molecules, and nanostructures. Prediction of the shapes of the optimal waveforms can be done computationally using quantum optimal control theory (QOCT). In this work we demonstrate the control of above-threshold photoemission of one-dimensional hydrogen model with pulses feasible for experimental waveform synthesis.By mixing different spectral channels and thus lowering the intensity requirements for individual channels, the resulting optimal pulses can extend the cutoff energies by at least up to 50\% and bring up the electron yield by several orders of magnitude. Insights into the electron dynamics for optimized photoelectron emission are obtained with a semiclassical two-step model.