cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reasonable persuasion: speech in García de la Huerta's Raquel
Creators: name: Eidson, Megan Irene
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: This thesis investigates the nature of persuasive speeches made by Hernán García and Raquel in order to persuade King Alfonso to turn his attentions respectively toward the Castillian people and Raquel. Each speech uses particular techniques that are born within the genders of the speakers, and each speech is successful because of these strategies. These speeches reflect the contemporary political atmosphere of the author, García de la Huerta's, literary age and reflect a representation of the events surrounding the Esquilache riots. In this way, the author goes beyond a simple demonstration of the world as it is, but in fact accuses Esquilache of misdeeds by demonstrating him to have fallen into feminine habits of excessive greed and emotion that drive him. The author thus warns Carlos III against such influences that are evidenced in gendered persuasive discourse.
Elucidating the clinical and immunological value of m6A regulator-mediated methylation modification patterns in adrenocortical carcinoma
Creators: name: Xu, Wenhao
name: Li, Haoming
name: Hameed, Yasir
name: Abdel-Maksoud, Mostafa A.
name: Almutairi, Saeedah Musaed
name: Mubarak, Ayman
name: Aufy, Mohammed
name: Alturaiki, Wael
name: Alshalani, Abdulaziz J.
name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: m6A
subject: Tumor microenvironment
subject: Adrenocortical carcinoma
subject: Immunotherapy
subject: Prognosis
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: N6-methyladenosine methylation (m6A) is a common type of epigenetic alteration that prominently affects the prognosis of tumor patients. However, it is unknown how the m6A regulator affects the tumor microenvironment (TME) cell infiltration in adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and how it affects the prognosis of ACC patients yet. The m6A alteration patterns of 112 ACC patients were evaluated, furthermore, the association with immune infiltration cell features was investigated. The unsupervised clustering method was applied to typify the m6A alteration patterns of ACC patients. The principal component analysis (PCA) technique was taken to create the m6A score to assess the alteration pattern in specific malignancies. We found two independent patterns of m6A alteration in ACC patients. The TME cell infiltration features were significantly in accordance with phenotypes of tumor immune-inflamed and immune desert in both patterns. The m6Ascore also served as an independent predictive factor in ACC patients. The somatic copy number variation (CNV) and patients prognosis can be predicted by m6A alteration patterns. Moreover, the ACC patients with high m6A scores had better overall survival (OS) and higher efficiency in immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Our work demonstrated the significance of m6A alteration to the ACC patients immunotherapy. The individual m6A alteration patterns analysis might contribute to ACC patients prognosis prediction and immunotherapy choice.
Methode zur Klassifizierung von Tragfähigkeitsmessergebnissen des Falling Weight Deflectometers bei Asphaltbefestigungen
Creators: name: Chakar, Thomas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Substanzbewertung
Zustandserfassung
Erhaltung

description: Mit dem Falling Weight Deflectometer können Tragfähigkeitsmuster als Merkmal für die strukturellen Gegebenheiten einer Straßenkonstruktion erfasst werden. Zur Bewertung dieser Tragfähigkeitsmuster (Deflexionsmulden) wurde durch Generierung theoretischer Deflexionsmulden eine bereits vorhandene Datenbank erweitert und dieser Datenbestand klassifiziert. Durch den Einsatz von Künstlichen Neuronalen Netzen wurde außerdem eine pragmatische Anwendung des klassifizierten Datenbestandes dargestellt.
Durchgängige Timing-Bewertung von Vernetzungsarchitekturen und Gateway-Systemen im Kraftfahrzeug
Creators: name: Traub, Matthias
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Timing
Vernetzungsarchitekturen
E/E-Architekturen
Entwicklungsprozess
Gateway-Systeme

description: Die steigende Anzahl von Elektrik-/Elektronik-Systemen im Automobil und damit verbunden das zunehmende Kommunikationsaufkommen stellen immer höhere Anforderungen an den Entwicklungsprozess. Aufgrund der wachsenden Anzahl an vernetzten Funktionen spielt die Betrachtung des Timing-Verhaltens der Systeme eine zentrale Rolle. Die Arbeit beschreibt eine Methodik, welche eine durchgängige Bewertung von Vernetzungsarchitekturen und Gateway-Systemen hinsichtlich deren Timing-Verhaltens ermöglicht.
Kooperative Projektabwicklung im Bauwesen unter der Berücksichtigung von Lean-Prinzipien - Entwicklung eines Lean-Projektabwicklungssystems: Internationale Untersuchungen im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung und Anwendbarkeit in Deutschland
Creators: name: Heidemann, Ailke
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Lean Construction
Alliancing
Vergabestrategie
Anreizsystem
Projektorganisation

description: Das im Rahmen der Arbeit entwickelte Lean-Projektabwicklungssystem stellt die Grundlage für die Umsetzung des Lean-Ansatzes mit der dazugehörigen Projektorganisation, der Vergabestrategie und den vertraglichen Grundlagen dar und gibt darüber hinaus Empfehlungen für die interne Organisation des Bauherrn. Es dient Auftraggebern dazu, Lean Management im Bauwesen auf Projekten umzusetzen und ist insbesondere für die Realisierung großer, komplexer Projekte geeignet.
Structural and electronic properties of epitaxially-strained LaVO_3 from density functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory
Creators: name: Sclauzero, Gabriele
name: Ederer, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of epitaxial strain on the structural and electronic properties of LaVO_3 is investigated through density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). Two different growth orientations of the crystal are considered, one preserving the bulk Pbnm space-group symmetry and another giving rise to a symmetry lowering to P2_1/m. In the nonmagnetic DFT structures, the two growth orientations are equally favored for all tensile strains considered here, as well as for compressive strains weaker than -3%. For stronger compressive strains, the P2_1/m orientation is favored and shows a complete suppression of octahedral tilts along the out-of-plane direction. Magnetically-ordered structures do not show a complete tilt suppression, but the trend points to a similar reduction of the out-of-plane V-O-V bond angles under compressive strain. Our DMFT calculations show that, in accord with room-temperature experiments, the bulk paramagnetic Mott-insulating state of LaVO_3 is robust against epitaxial strains attainable in thin films, since the suppression of orbital fluctuations counteracts the effect of bandwidth increase with compressive strain. Under stronger compressive strains, the straightening of the V-O-V bonds in the P2_1/m geometry interferes with the suppression of orbital fluctuations and hence perturbs the Mott phase more strongly, albeit not enough to achieve a metallic phase.
Evaluation of antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic properties of bioactive compounds produced from endophytic fungi of Himalayan yew (Taxus wallichiana) in Nepal
Creators: name: Gauchan, Dhurva
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Background: Endophytic fungi are largely underexplored in the discovery of natural bioactive products though being rich sources of novel compounds with promising pharmaceutical potential. In this study, Taxus wallichiana, which has huge medicinal value, was investigated for its endophytic diversity and capability to produce bioactive secondary metabolites by analyzing antioxidant, antimicrobial and cytotoxic properties. Methods: The endophytes were identified by ITS-PCR using genomic DNA samples. The secondary metabolites were extracted by solvent extraction method using ethyl acetate. The antioxidant activity was analyzed by Thin Layer Chromatography, Total Phenol Content (TPC), Total Flavonoid Content (TFC) and DPPH assay, and the antimicrobial activity was analyzed by agar-well diffusion method. Brine shrimp lethality assay was used to analyze the cytotoxicity of the fungal extracts. Results: Out of 16 different Taxus trees sampled from different locations of Dhorpatan, 13 distinctive endophytic fungi were isolated. These isolates were characterized by ITS-PCR using genomic DNA samples and grouped into 9 different genera: Bjerkandera, Trichoderma, Preussia, Botrytis, Arthrinium, Alternaria, Cladosporium, Sporormiella and Daldinia. The ethyl acetate extracts isolated from three endophytic fungi: Alternaria alternata, Cladosporium cladosporioides and Alternaria brassicae showed significant total phenol contentTPC values of 204±6.144, 312.3±2.147 and 152.7±4.958 µg958µg GAE/mg of dry extract, respectively, and total flavonoid content of 177TFC values of 177.9±2.911, 644.1±4.202 and 96.38±3.851 µg851µg RE/mg of dry extract, respectively. Furthermore, these three extracts showed a dose dependent radical scavenging activity with IC50 concentration of 22.85, 22.15 and 23.001 µg/ml, respectivlyrespectively. The extracts of C. cladosporioides and A. brassicae also showed promising antimicrobial activity against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis with a minimum inhibitory concentration of 250μg/ml. for all bacteria. Both the samples showed cytotoxic property against shrimp nauplii with LC50 of 104.2 and 125.9µg/ml, respectively. Conclusions: The crude fungal extracts obtained from endophytes: A. alternata, C. cladosporioides and A. brassicae upon purification and further identification of the bioactive compounds can be a fascinating source for novel pharmaceutical agents.
On Length Spectra of Lattices
Creators: name: Willging, Thomas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Lattices
Quadratic Forms
Geodesics

description: The aim of this work is to study Schmutz Schaller's conjecture that in dimensions 2 to 8 the lattices with the best sphere packings have maximal lengths. This means that the distinct norms which occur in these lattices are greater than those of any other lattice in the same dimension with the same covolume. Although the statement holds asymptotically we explicitly present a counter-example. However, it seems that there is nothing but this exception.
Quantum walk coherences on a dynamical percolation graph
Creators: name: Elster, Fabian
name: Barkhofen, Sonja
name: Nitsche, Thomas
name: Novotný, Jaroslav
name: Gábris, Aurél
name: Jex, Igor
name: Silberhorn, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent evolution governs the behaviour of all quantum systems, but in nature it is often subjected to influence of a classical environment. For analysing quantum transport phenomena quantum walks emerge as suitable model systems. In particular, quantum walks on percolation structures constitute an attractive platform for studying open system dynamics of random media. Here, we present an implementation of quantum walks differing from the previous experiments by achieving dynamical control of the underlying graph structure. We demonstrate the evolution of an optical time-multiplexed quantum walk over six double steps, revealing the intricate interplay between the internal and external degrees of freedom. The observation of clear non-Markovian signatures in the coin space testifies the high coherence of the implementation and the extraordinary degree of control of all system parameters. Our work is the proof-of-principle experiment of a quantum walk on a dynamical percolation graph, paving the way towards complex simulation of quantum transport in random media.
description: 7 Pages, 3 Figures
Konsistenzbasierte Fehlerdiagnose nichtlinearer Systeme mittels Zustandsmengenbeobachtung
Creators: name: Wolff, Florian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Fehlerdiagnose
Konsistenzbasierte Verfahren
Nichtlineare Systeme
Mengenbasierte Verfahren
Zustandsmengenbeobachtung

description: Diese Arbeit beschreibt ein Verfahren zur konsistenzbasierten Fehlerdiagnose zeitkontinuierlicher nichtlinearer Systeme mittels Zustandsmengenbeobachtung. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Durchführung der Zustandsmengenbeobachtung mittels Einschließungsverfahren für gewöhnliche Differenzialgleichungssysteme. Es werden zwei Konzepte zur Zustandsmengenbeobachtung vorgestellt und verglichen sowie anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen deren praktische Einsetzbarkeit verdeutlicht.
Time-sensitive Software-defined Network (TSSDN) for Real-time Applications
Creators: name: Nayak, Naresh Ganesh
name: Dürr, Frank
name: Rothermel, Kurt
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Software-defined networking
subject: 004

description: Time-sensitive Software-defined Network (TSSDN) for Real-time Applications
Stoßwellenuntersuchungen zum Zerfall stickstoffhaltiger Verbindungen mit spektroskopischen Methoden
Creators: name: Busch, Anna
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Reaktionskinetik
Stoßwellenuntersuchung
Frequenzmodulationsspektroskopie
Atomresonanzabsorptionsspektroskopie
Mastergleichung

description: In dieser Arbeit wurden Geschwindigkeitskonstanten für den thermischen Zerfall von NCN und Allylamin unter verbrennungsrelevanten Bedingungen untersucht. Zerfallsreaktionen stickstoffhaltiger Verbindungen spielen zum Beispiel bei der Stickoxidbildung in Verbrennungsprozessen eine Rolle. Die Experimente wurden an einem Stoßrohr durchgeführt, an das ein ARAS-Aufbau oder ein FM-Spektrometer gekoppelt wurde. Die erhaltenen Ergebnisse wurden mit Hilfe der statistischen Reaktionstheorie analysiert.
Reachability-Based Safety and Goal Satisfaction of Unmanned Aerial Platoons on Air Highways
Creators: name: Chen, Mo
name: Hu, Qie
name: Fisac, Jaime
name: Akametalu, Kene
name: Mackin, Casey
name: Tomlin, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Recently, there has been immense interest in using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for civilian operations. As a result, unmanned aerial systems traffic management is needed to ensure the safety and goal satisfaction of potentially thousands of UAVs flying simultaneously. Currently, the analysis of large multi-agent systems cannot tractably provide these guarantees if the agents' set of maneuvers is unrestricted. In this paper, platoons of UAVs flying on air highways is proposed to impose an airspace structure that allows for tractable analysis. For the air highway placement problem, the fast marching method is used to produce a sequence of air highways that minimizes the cost of flying from an origin to any destination. The placement of air highways can be updated in real-time to accommodate sudden airspace changes. Within platoons traveling on air highways, each vehicle is modeled as a hybrid system. Using Hamilton-Jacobi reachability, safety and goal satisfaction are guaranteed for all mode transitions. For a single altitude range, the proposed approach guarantees safety for one safety breach per vehicle, in the unlikely event of multiple safety breaches, safety can be guaranteed over multiple altitude ranges. We demonstrate the platooning concept through simulations of three representative scenarios.
description: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, January 30, 2017
The acute effects of subtalar neutral on pre-activation levels of the peroneus longus, time to stabilization, and stiffness in unstable and stable ankles
Creators: name: Allard, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine if a more affordable over the counter orthotic can be used by the public to assist people with unstable ankles with ankle joint stiffness, pre-activation levels of the peroneus longus (PL), and time to stabilization (TTS). Forty individuals (20 unstable ankles and 20 stable ankles) repeated three randomized tasks with and without orthotics in a pretest-posttest design. The tasks included: 1) A single leg drop landing task in a) frontal and b) sagittal planes and 2) ankle joint stiffness utilizing an ankle cradle with inversion perturbation. Results revealed no interaction effects on ankle joint stiffness, pre-activation levels of the PL, and TTS in both the sagittal and frontal planes. We observed the unstable ankle group took longer to stabilize in both the sagittal and frontal planes. We also noted that ankle joint stiffness decreased in both groups in the orthotic condition.
Entwicklung und Charakterisierung von Sialon-Keramiken und Sialon-SiC-Verbunden für den Einsatz in tribologisch hochbeanspruchten Gleitsystemen
Creators: name: Riva, Marco
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Keramik
Sialon
Hochdruckpumpe
Tribologie
Risswachstum

description: Tribologisch hoch beanspruchte Gleitsysteme wie Hochdruckpumpen für die Benzindirekteinspritzung besitzen ein Belastungskollektiv, das Werkstoffe mit niedrigen Reibungszahlen und geringem Verschleiß bei gleichzeitig hoher mechanischer Festigkeit erfordert. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Sialon-Keramiken für derartige Anwendungen entwickelt und charakterisiert. Diese zeigten hervorragende mechanische und tribologische Eigenschaften und somit ein hohes Potential für diesen Einsatzbereich.
Analysis of ORM Based JPA Implementations
Creators: name: Dhingra, Neha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: ORM
JPA
Hibernate
EclipseLink
DataNucleus
OpenJPA

description: Large scale application design and development involve some critical decisions, and one of the most important issues that a ect software application design and development is the technology stack used to develop an extensive system. In a JPA API, response time is often a measure of how quickly an interactive system responds to user input. Persisting framework, such as Object Relational Mapping (ORM) are applied to manage communications between an object model and data model components and are vital for such systems. Hibernate is considered the most e ective ORM framework due to its advanced features, and it is the de-facto standard for Java Persistence API (JPA)-based data persistent frameworks. This thesis comprises a review of the most widely used JPA providers, particularly frameworks that provide JPA support such as Hibernate JPA, EclipseLink, OpenJPA and DataNucleus JPA. In current java programming, APIs based on persistence and performance are integral aspects of an application. Performance analysis of the above four JPA implementations is based on the ORM framework that contributed most signi cantly to discovering the challenges and veri ed the programming considerations in the language. For a large-scale enterprise, working on JPA is always tedious due to the potential pressures and overloads of the implementations, as well as the comprehensive guarantee, that is required while adopting the technology. A JPA implementation continually persists data into the database at runtime, by managing persistence processes through interfaces and classes, that often needs optimization, to provide performance-oriented results at heavy loads. Therefore, in this thesis a detail feature analysis was performed, before the performance analysis. To enhance the comparison of the persistence framework, an extended experiment with a cloud database using Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) versus Physical Persistence was performed, using a comparative approach for all four JPA implementations. Di erent SQL queries on cloud versus physical persistence for JPA applications were measured using CPU, GC, and threads (live and daemon). Finally, a statistical analysis was performed using the Pearson's correlation coe cient and a steady/start-up phase.
Spikes in quantum trajectories
Creators: name: Tilloy, Antoine
name: Bauer, Michel
name: Bernard, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum system subjected to a strong continuous monitoring undergoes quantum jumps. This very well known fact hides a neglected subtlety: sharp scale-invariant fluctuations invariably decorate the jump process even in the limit where the measurement rate is very large. This article is devoted to the quantitative study of these remaining fluctuations, which we call spikes, and to a discussion of their physical status. We start by introducing a classical model where the origin of these fluctuations is more intuitive and then jump to the quantum realm where their existence is less intuitive. We compute the exact distribution of the spikes for a continuously monitored qubit. We conclude by discussing their physical and operational relevance.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Towards an Evaluation of a Recommended Tor Browser Configuration in Light of Website Fingerprinting Attacks
Creators: name: Alshammari, Fayzah
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Finger priniting
Security

description: Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks have become an area of concern for advocates of web Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET)s as they may allow a passive, local, eaves- dropper to eventually identify the accessed web page, endangering the protection offered by those PETs. Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of those attacks through a number of experiments. However, some researchers in academia and Tor community demonstrated that the assumptions of WF attacks studies greatly simplify the problem and don’t reflect the evaluation of this vulnerability in practical scenarios. That leads to suspicion in the Tor community and among Tor Browser users about the efficacy of those attacks in real-world scenarios. In this thesis, we survey the literature of WF showing the research assumptions that have been made in the WF attacks against Tor. We then assess their practicality in real-world settings by evaluating their compliance to Tor Browser threat model, design requirements and to the Tor Project recommendations. Interestingly, we found one of the research assumptions related to the active content configuration in Tor Browser to be a reasonable assumption in all settings. Disabling or enabling the active content are both reasonable given the fact that the enabled configuration is the default of the Tor Browser, and the disabled one is the configuration recommended by Tor Project for users who require the highest possible security and anonymity. However, given the current published WF attacks, disabling the active con- tent is advantageous for the attacker as it makes the classification task easier by reducing the level of a web page randomness. To evaluate Tor Browser security in our proposed more realistic threat model, we collect a sample of censored dynamic web pages with Tor Browser in the default setting, which enables active content such as Javascript, and in the recommended setting by the Tor Project which disables the active content. We use Panchenko Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier to study the identifiability of this sample of web pages. For pages that are very dynamic, we achieve a recognition rate of 42% when JavaScript is disabled, compared to 35% when turned on. Our results show that the recommended ”more secure” setting for Tor Browser is actually more vulnerable to WF attacks than the default and non-recommended setting.
Scoping reviewprotocol: mapping the peer-reviewed and grey literature to explore key-components of community-oriented strategies for optimizing EIBI delivery
Creators: name: Pussig, Bram
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: community actions
subject: community-oriented strategies
subject: early identification and brief intervention
subject: EIBI
subject: general practice
subject: Harmful alcohol use
subject: scoping review

description: scoping review
Antecedents of the Positive Work-Family Interface - A Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Li, Yanhong
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Work-family enrichment
Positive spillover
Facilitation
Antecedents
Meta-analysis

description: This study meta-analyzed relationships between proposed antecedents and both directions of work-family enrichment (i.e., work-to-family enrichment and family-to-work enrichment). Proposed antecedents, which were derived from three existing theoretical models on the positive interface between work and family, include contextual and personal characteristics from both work- and family-domains. Primary studies included in the meta-analyses were from both published and unpublished sources between 1990 and 2016. The results suggest that several contextual and personal characteristics are significantly related to work-family enrichment. Gender’s moderating effect on the relationship between contextual characteristics and work-family enrichment received little support. Comparisons between examined antecedents of work-family enrichment and antecedents of work-family conflict supported the notion that work-family enrichment and work-family conflict are distinct constructs; in other words, enrichment is not merely the opposite of conflict. Practical implications and suggestions on future research are discussed.
Designing Opportunities for Transformation with Emerging Technologies
Creators: name: Veletsianos, George
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Educational technology
Transformation

description: In this paper, the author argues that technology use in education has focused on combating instructional problems and inefficiencies. While technology use for such purposes is viable and important, the author proposes that practitioners and researchers in field utilize emerging technologies as a means to provide opportunities for personally relevant and meaningful transformation. The author discusses strategies for providing such opportunities and presents examples of potentially transformative learning activities and environments. The paper concludes with caveats regarding the pursuit of transformation in technologyenhanced learning environments.
The Making of the Modern Iranian Capital
Creators: name: Jafari, Elmira
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation puts together planning documents and multiple archival sources to demonstrate how urban planning and the role of planners have evolved in an ever-changing transnational context of Iran. It challenges the prevailing approach in the literature of Tehran urban studies that simply flattens the complexity of local-foreign collaboration and labels transnational planning of Tehran a top-down “Westernization” project. To depict a more nuanced picture of Tehran master planning at the time of transnational exchange and rapid urban growth, this dissertation introduces a new engaging and argumentative periodization with four distinct phases which brings transnational planning of Tehran to the fore, while reflecting on diverse political and socio-economic upheavals between 1930-2010. Dissection of Tehran master plans in each period through the lens of multiple actors offers a unique opportunity for a renewed interpretation of transnational planning of Tehran and the way Iranian planners steered Tehran urban developments while engaging with foreign experts and their planning systems. It presents a detailed analysis of overarching ‘ideas’ behind each plan, their translation to urban ‘policies’ and later on their broader (un)wanted ‘impact’ on the city and its regions. By recognizing a great diversity in transnational approach in Tehran planning practices, the dissertation concludes with how transnationalism first gave rise to the formation of the modern planning system and how later on led to contestations against it which revolutionized the role of urban planners and the political agenda for Tehran urban growth.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 11 (2022): The Making of the Modern Iranian Capital
A Retrospective Analysis of Maxillary Overdentures with Non-splinted Implants
Creators: name: Sarpong, Alex
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Objectives: The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate implant and prosthesis survival as well as complications associated with implant-supported overdentures for edentulous maxilla retained by non-splinted implants. Materials and Methods: A total of 76 patients who had received maxillary implant-supported overdentures for at least 6 months were included in the study. A comprehensive review of patient charts was done to assess implant and prosthodontic outcomes in these patients. Descriptive data were compiled, and statistical analysis of each variable was done. The number of subjects or study position, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values were presented for continuous data, and frequencies and percentages for categorical data. Correlation between categorical variables was done using Spearman’s method with 2-tailed significance test. Results: 10 implants failed in 7 patients resulting in implant survival rate of 96.9% following prosthesis delivery. The prosthesis survival rate was 78.9% with 16 patients (21.1%) out of 76 patients needing a remake of their prosthesis. The most common technical complication was tooth debonding with 21.2% of technical complications. A correlation analysis found that the opposing dentition contributed to the increase of number of technical complications of the implant-supported maxillary, r(75)=.24, P < .05. Conclusion: Maxillary implant-supported overdentures with non-splinted implants, in this retrospective study, demonstrated high implant survival rates comparable to previous studies. However, the prosthesis survival rate was lower than outlined in the literature about maxillary implant overdentures with splinted or non-splinted designs.
Study of KS semileptonic decays and CPT test with the KLOE detector
Creators: name: Kamińska, Daria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Study of semileptonic decays of neutral kaons allows to perform a test of discrete symmetries, as well as basic principles of the Standard Model. In this paper a general review on dependency between charge asymmetry constructed for semileptonic decays of short- and long-lived kaons and CPT symmetry is given. The current status of determination of charge asymmetry for short-lived kaon, obtained by reconstruction of about 10^5 KS -> pen decays collected at DAFNE with the KLOE detector is also reviewed.
description: 4th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE2014)
Understanding the decision-making process in homeowner energy retrofits
Creators: name: Ebrahimigharehbaghi, Shima
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: In 2020, owner-occupied housing accounted for 57% of the housing stock in the Netherlands. Homeowners are fully responsible for the implementation of energy retrofits. Moreover, the processes of energy retrofitting are complex and homeowners face problems such as finding financial support, reliable information and contractors. The complexity of implementing energy retrofits may discourage homeowners from continuing the process and achieving the expected benefits. Behavioural aspects and transaction costs (TC) are among the most important factors influencing consumer decision-making processes. Behavioural factors primarily illustrate a range of personal, contextual, and external factors that influence the decision-making process of homeowners. These include cognitive awareness and biases, attitudes and beliefs, experience and skills, homeowner characteristics, sociodemographic characteristics, property characteristics, and the behaviour of others. TC are any hidden costs that influence decision making but are not included in the direct physical costs of renovation services and products. This dissertation developed an integrated framework of behavioural factors and TC that impede the decisionmaking process for energy retrofits. Key findings include (1) the significant importance of behavioural factors and TC barriers. (2) the behavioural factors are particularly important in the early stages of energy retrofits and the TC barriers after the final decision. (3) the importance of behavioural factors and TC barriers differs according to the type of energy retrofit and non-energy retrofit. (4) Accounting for cognitive biases significantly improves the prediction of households' actual decisions about energy retrofits. This modelling is more accurate than the model that assumes households make rational decisions.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 06 (2022): Understanding the decision-making process in homeowner energy retrofits
Radio monitoring of the periodically variable IR source LRLL 54361: No direct correlation between the radio and IR emissions
Creators: name: Forbrich, Jan
name: Rodríguez, Luis F.
name: Palau, Aina
name: Zapata, Luis A.
name: Muzerolle, James
name: Gutermuth, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LRLL 54361 is an infrared source located in the star forming region IC 348 SW. Remarkably, its infrared luminosity increases by a factor of 10 during roughly one week every 25.34 days. To understand the origin of these remarkable periodic variations, we obtained sensitive 3.3 cm JVLA radio continuum observations of LRLL 54361 and its surroundings in six different epochs: three of them during the IR-on state and three during the IR-off state. The radio source associated with LRLL 54361 remained steady and did not show a correlation with the IR variations. We suggest that the IR is tracing the results of fast (with a timescale of days) pulsed accretion from an unseen binary companion, while the radio traces an ionized outflow with an extent of $\sim$100 AU that smooths out the variability over a period of order a year. The average flux density measured in these 2014 observations, 27$\pm$5 $μ$Jy, is about a factor of two less than that measured about 1.5 years before, $53\pm$11 $μ$Jy, suggesting that variability in the radio is present, but over larger timescales than in the IR. We discuss other sources in the field, in particular two infrared/X-ray stars that show rapidly varying gyrosynchrotron emission.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal
Korrosionsschutzschichten für Dieselpartikelfilter aus Cordierit zur Erhöhung der thermochemischen Belastbarkeit
Creators: name: Schell, Günter
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Dieselrußpartikelfilter
Cordierit
Natriumzirkonphosphat
Sol-Gel
dünne Schichten

description: Ein im normalen Betrieb geeignetes Material für Dieselrußpartikelfilter stellt Cordierit dar. Bei der Filterregeneration, die nötig ist um die im Betrieb akkumulierten Rußpartikel abzubrennen, kann es zu Reaktionen mit Aschebestandteilen kommen, wodurch der Filter geschädigt wird. Um dies zu verhindern, wird ein Schutzschichtmaterial identifiziert und ein Verfahren etabliert, womit die Porenkanäle des Filters beschichtet werden, um die durch Ölaschen hervorgerufenen Schädigungen zu minimieren.
Dephasing-Controlled Particle Transport Devices
Creators: name: Kapetanović, Edin
name: Rodríguez-Rosario, César A.
name: Frauenheim, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of dephasing in transport through different structures. We show that interference effects invalidate Kirchhoff's circuit laws in quantum devices. We present circuits where the particle transport and the direction of rectification can be controlled through the dephasing strength. This suggests the possibility of constructing molecular devices with new functionalities which use dephasing as a control parameter.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Poisson-Boltzmann thermodynamics of counter-ions confined by curved hard walls
Creators: name: Samaj, Ladislav
name: Trizac, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a set of identical mobile point-like charges (counter-ions) confined to a domain with curved hard walls carrying a uniform fixed surface charge density, the system as a whole being electroneutral. Three domain geometries are considered: a pair of parallel plates, the cylinder and the sphere. The particle system in thermal equilibrium is assumed to be described by the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory. While the effectively 1D plates and the 2D cylinder have already been solved, the 3D sphere problem is not integrable. It is shown that the contact density of particles at the charged surface is determined by a first-order Abel differential equation of the second kind which is a counterpart of Enig's equation in the critical theory of gravitation and combustion/explosion. This equation enables us to construct the exact series solutions of the contact density in the regions of small and large surface charge densities. The formalism provides, within the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann framework, the complete thermodynamics of counter-ions inside a charged sphere (salt-free system).
Georg Petel (1601/2-1634) : Zwei unbekannte Frühwerke aus St. Michael in Höchenschwand im Schwarzwald
Creators: name: Koch, Gisela
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Kunstgeschichte
Plastik
Zuschreibung
Frühwerke
Georg Petel (1601/2-1634)

description: Zwei Schnitzwerke aus St. Michael in Höchenschwand (Schwarzwald), ursprünglich aus zwei nur noch archivalisch nachweisbaren Altären des Mutterklosters St. Blasien. Zuschreibung an die Werkstatt von Bartholomäus Steinle aus Weilheim bei München. Neben klassischen Methoden auch mit Hilfe einer modernisierten 'Morelli Methode' Zuschreibung an gebürtigen Weilheimer Georg Petel (1601/2-1634) als ein Jugendwerk von um 1618/19.
Modellbasierte On-Board-Diagnoseverfahren für Drei-Wege-Katalysatoren
Creators: name: Feßler, Dirk Klaus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Drei-Wege-Katalysator-Modell
On-Board-Diagnose
Abgastemperatur
Spektrale Verfahren
Constrained Sigma-Punkt-Kalman-Filter

description: In dieser Arbeit werden zur Überwachung von Drei-Wege-Katalysatoren zwei neue modellbasierte On-Board-Diagnoseverfahren vorgestellt. Zunächst wurde ein die Alterung mit berücksichtigendes physikalisches Katalysatormodell entwickelt. Dieses bildet die Grundlage der neuen Diagnoseverfahren, bei denen ein den aktuellen Zustand des Katalysators schätzender Sigma-Punkt-Kalman-Filter zum Einsatz kommt. Das große Potential dieser neuen Diagnoseverfahren zeigen die abschließend präsentierten Ergebnisse.
title: Manuel de Campos
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica sobre Manuel de Campos na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. Manuel de Campos in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
2Pop_SN_Msc_Thesis
Creators: name: Hjortlund, Jacob Osman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Collection of data used for this thesis. Description to be updated.
description: {"references": ["Wojtak, Radoslaw et al. (2019), arXiv:1903.07687", "Wojtak, Radoslaw et al. (2023), arXiv:2302.01906", "Scolnic, Dan et al. (2015), arXiv:1508.05361", "Scolnic, Dan et al (2022), arXiv:2112.03863", "Jones, David et al (2018), arXiv:1805.05911"]}
Het handschrift van L.P. Roodbaard
Creators: name: Van Der Laan-Meijer, Els
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: Het oeuvre van de tuin- en landschapsarchitect Lucas Pieters Roodbaard (1782-1851) is toonaangevend voor de Noord-Nederlandse landschapsparken uit de eerste helft van de 19de eeuw. Zijn oeuvre is te verdelen in drie categorieën: openbare wandelparken, landschapsparken bij buitenplaatsen en landschapstuinen bij (stads) villa’s. Aan de hand van ruimtelijk architectonisch onderzoek is een schat aan oorspronkelijke plantekeningen uitgebreid gedocumenteerd en geanalyseerd om zo tot de kern van de ontwerpmethode van Roodbaard te komen. Daarmee is zijn vorminstrumentarium, ook wel de ‘meetkundige gereedschapskist’ ontrafeld. Het heeft geresulteerd in zes compositorische ontwerpprincipes. Dankzij dit onderzoek en de nieuwe inzichten in Roodbaards handschrift kan een aantal landschapsparken worden geïdentificeerd en aan zijn oeuvre worden toegevoegd. Het gaat daarbij niet alleen om Roodbaards collectie van landschapsparken, maar ook om de samenhang van deze collectie met het omliggende historische cultuurlandschap. Dit overzicht biedt handvatten om het oeuvre van Roodbaard aan te duiden als een buitenplaatsenlandschap dat een samenhangend tuinen landschapsarchitectonisch ensemble vormt in het Noord-Nederlandse cultuurlandschap. Dit ‘parkachtige’ landschap, ook bekend als de Noordelijke Lustwarande, is grotendeels gelegen in het kustlandschap dat grenst aan het Unesco Werelderfgoed Waddenzee. In de epiloog is een proeve van een reconstructie van een ontbrekende ontwerptekening gemaakt voor het landschapspark De Braak te Paterswolde. Het vormt de opmaat voor de integrale reconstructie van deze bijzondere collectie groen erfgoed.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 13 (2022): Het handschrift van L.P. Roodbaard
Wave-induced dynamics of flexible blades
Creators: name: Luhar, M.
name: Nepf, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental and numerical study that describes the motion of flexible blades, scaled to be dynamically similar to natural aquatic vegetation, forced by wave-induced oscillatory flows. For the conditions tested, blade motion is governed primarily by two dimensionless variables: (i) the Cauchy number, $Ca$, which represents the ratio of the hydrodynamic forcing to the restoring force due to blade stiffness, and (ii) the ratio of the blade length to the wave orbital excursion, $L$. For flexible blades with $Ca \gg 1$, the relationship between drag and velocity can be described by two different scaling laws at the large- and small-excursion limits. For large excursions ($L \ll 1$), the flow resembles a unidirectional current and the scaling laws developed for steady-flow reconfiguration studies hold. For small excursions ($L \gg 1$), the beam equations may be linearized and a different scaling law for drag applies. The experimental force measurements suggest that the small-excursion scaling applies even for intermediate cases with $L \sim O(1)$. The numerical model employs the well-known Morison force formulation, and adequately reproduces the observed blade dynamics and measured hydrodynamic forces without the use of any fitted parameters. For $Ca \gg 1$, the movement of the flexible blades reduces the measured and modeled hydrodynamic drag relative to a rigid blade of the same morphology. However, in some cases with $Ca \sim O(1)$, the measured hydrodynamic forces generated by the flexible blades exceed those generated by rigid blades, but this is not reproduced in the model. Observations of blade motion suggest that this unusual behavior is related to an unsteady vortex shedding event, which the simple numerical model cannot reproduce. Finally, we also discuss implications for the modeling of wave energy dissipation over canopies of natural aquatic vegetation.
Minimierung des Druckverlusts durch Optimierung der CO-Entfernungsstufe für ein stationäres PEM-Brennstoffzellenheizgerät
Creators: name: Wolf, Markus Paul
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Druckverlust
Wassergas Shift Reaktion
Methanisierungsreaktion
metallische Waben
PEM-Brennstoffzellenheizgerät

description: Die Arbeit zielt auf die Minimierung des Druckverlusts eines stationären, mit Erdgas versorgten PEM-Brennstoffzellenheizgerätes. Durch die Reduzierung des Druckverlusts kann auf eine Kompression des Prozessgases verzichtet, dadurch der parasitäre Energieverbrauch verringert und somit der Gesamtwirkungsgrad gesteigert werden. Das Ziel kann durch den Einsatz von metallischen Wabenreaktoren, sowie durch die Reduzierung der Anzahl der benötigten Apparate in der CO-Entfernungseinheit erreicht werden.
Whole-Person Career Assessment: Integrating Fit using Interests, Personality, Values, Knowledge, and Skills
Creators: name: Liu, Zihan
name: Hoff, Kevin
name: Chu, Chu
name: Rounds, James
name: Oswald, Frederick
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This preregistration document contains the research questions and analytic plan for a longitudinal study, as part of a research project on person-occupation fit during the transition from college to full-time work. The present study will examine person-occupation fit in terms of (a) individual differences: vocational interests, personality traits, work values, knowledge, and skills predicting (b) subjective career outcomes: career choice satisfaction, job satisfaction, person-organization fit, needs-supplies fit, and demands-abilities fit. We will compare the predictive validity of the various fit domains, individually and in combination, for each outcome using a variety of analytic approaches (i.e., bivariate correlations, multiple regression, and relative importance analyses).
nD-PointCloud Data Management
Creators: name: Liu, Haicheng
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: In the Geomatics domain, a point cloud refers to a data set that records the coordinates and other attributes of a huge number of points. Conceptually, each of the attributes can be regarded as a dimension to represent a specific type of information, such as time and Level of Importance (LoI). Drastically increasing collection of high dimensional point clouds raises essential demand for smart and highly efficient data management solutions. However, effective tools are missing. File-based solutions require substantial development of data structures and algorithms. Also, with such solutions, enormous effort has to be made to integrate different data types, formats and libraries. By contrast, state-of-the-art DataBase Management Systems (DBMSs) avoid these issues, because they are initially devised for generic use of data. However, DBMSs still present limitations on efficiently indexing non-uniformly distributed points, supporting continuous LoI, and operating high dimensional data. These problems motivate the PhD research which focuses on developing a new DBMS solution. It is aimed at efficiently managing and querying massive nD point clouds to support different types of applications.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 12 (2022): nD-PointCloud Data Management