cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strong magnetic fields in normal galaxies at high redshift
Creators: name: Bernet, Martin L.
name: Miniati, Francesco
name: Lilly, Simon J.
name: Kronberg, Philipp P.
name: Dessauges-Zavadsky, Miroslava
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The origin and growth of magnetic fields in galaxies is still something of an enigma1. It is generally assumed that seed fields are amplified over time through the dynamo effectbut there are few constraints on the timescale. It was recently demonstrated that field strengths as traced by rotation measures of distant (and hence ancient) quasars are comparable to those seen today, but it was unclear whether the high fields were in the unusual environments of the quasars themselves or distributed along the lines of sight. Here we report high-resolution spectra that demonstrate that the quasars with strong Mg ii absorption lines are unambiguously associated with larger rotation measures. Because Mg ii absorption occurs in the haloes of normal galaxies along the sightlines to the quasars, this association requires that organized fields of surprisingly high strengths are associated with normal galaxies when the Universe was only about one-third of its present age.
La Politique de soutien au développement local et régional: Contribution au processus de la mondialisation économique et renforcement de l'appareil étatique québécois
Creators: name: Bellemare, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Political Science, General.

description: Cette étude illustre, à travers l'analyse d'une politique québécoise de développement régional, la contribution des États au processus économique de la mondialisation et le renforcement de leur pouvoir à travers celui-ci. La Politique de soutien au développement local et régional, en amenant des groupes de l'économie sociale à adopter la logique capitaliste dans leur fonctionnement organisationnel, contribue à l'expansion du système capitaliste composante principale de la mondialisation économique. Par ailleurs, cette politique, en favorisant l'extension de la logique capitaliste au sein de cette sphère d'activités, mine la solidarité et le sentiment d'appartenance locale qu'on y retrouve. Ce qui favorise le renforcement du sentiment d'appartenance nationale québécois, la légitimité envers l'appareil étatique québécois et le pouvoir qui en découle. Ce qui illustre que la mondialisation économique, entendue comme l'expansion du système capitaliste, témoigne aussi d'un renforcement des États.
Supplementary document for The linewidth enhancement factor in a microcavity Brillouin laser - 4741427.pdf
Creators: name: Yuan, Zhiquan
name: Wang, Heming
name: WU, LUE
name: Gao, Maodong
name: Vahala, Kerry
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: theoretical calculation and supplement experiment data
Environmental specimen banks and the European Green Deal
Creators: name: Fliedner, Annette
name: Rüdel, Heinz
name: Koschorreck, Jan
name: Göckener, Bernd
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Umweltprobenbank
Schadstoffbelastung
Expositionsabschätzung

description: The study highlights the potential of Environmental Specimen Banks (ESBs) for implementing the Zero Pollution Ambition and the Biodiversity Strategy of the European Green Deal. By drawing on recent monitoring studies of European ESBs, we illustrate the role ESBs already play in assessing the state of ecosystems in Europe and how they help to make developments over time visible. The studies reveal the ubiquitous presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, halogenated flame retardants, chlorinated paraffins, plasticizers, cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes, UV-filters, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics in the European environment. Temporal trends demonstrate the effectiveness of European regulations on perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, pentabrominated diphenylethers and diethylhexyl phthalate, but also point to the rise of substitutes such as non-phthalate plasticizers and short-chain perfluoroalkyl substances. Other studies are wake-up calls indicating the emergence of currently unregulated compounds such as long-chain chlorinated paraffins. Ecological studies show temporal trends in biometric parameters and stable isotope signatures that suggest long-term changes in environmental conditions. Studies on biodiversity of ecosystems using environmental DNA are still in their beginnings, but here too there is evidence of shifts in community composition that can be linked to changing environmental conditions. This review demonstrates the value of ESBs (a) for describing the status of the environment, (b) for monitoring temporal changes in environmental pollution and the ecologic condition of ecosystems and thereby (c) for supporting regulators in prioritizing their actions towards the objectives of the Green Deal. © 2022 Elsevier
Ion-surface scattering measurements of the (110) surface of titanium dioxide.
Creators: name: Seel, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: The (110) surface of TiO$\sb2$ is examined using a 9.92 keV oxygen ion beam. The positions of the peaks in the emitted ion energy spectrum are consistent with those predicted by ion-surface scattering theory for O$\sp{+}$-O and O$\sp{+}$-Ti collisions. Upon examination of the peaks present in the ion energy spectrum, information about the surface crystallographic structure can be determined. This includes studying the shadowing/blocking effects as the azimuthal and elevation angles are varied. Using this information the dimensions of the surface unit cell are found to be consistent with the bulk dimensions. The height of the oxygen rows that are present above the surface can also be determined and is found to be lower than predicted by the bulk.
title: Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages
title: impact on overweight and obesity in Germany
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schwendicke, Falk
name: Stolpe, Michael
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Energy consumption
subject: Health economics
subject: Health policy
subject: Obesity
subject: Public health
subject: Tax policy
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) increases the risk of overweight and obesity. Taxing SSBs could decrease daily energy consumption and body weight. This model-based study evaluated the impact of a 20% SSB- sales tax on overweight and obesity in the context of Germany. Methods The population aged 15–79 years was modelled. Taxation was assumed to affect energy consumption via demand elasticities, which affected weight and BMI. Model-based analysis was performed to estimate the tax impact on BMI in different age, gender and income groups. Results Implementing a 20% SSB tax reduced energy consumption mainly in younger age groups, males, and those with low income. Taxation decreased the mean BMI in younger groups, with the largest decrease in those aged 20–29 years, while effects in groups 60 years or above were minimal. In absolute terms, taxation was estimated to avoid 1,028,000 (−3% relative reduction) overweight individuals and 479,000 obese individuals (−4%). Overweight decreased the most in males aged 20–29 years (408,000 fewer cases /−22%), the same applied for obesity (204,000/−22%). Conclusions An SSB tax could have significant impact on overweight and obesity, which could translate into substantial reductions of morbidity and mortality.
Managed retail equity fund attributes and performance: Australian evidence
Creators: name: Yap, Chee Jin
name: Pierce, Raylene
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This cross-sectional study goes beyond the traditional performance evaluation of managed funds and extends the literature to consider fund-specific attributes that influence performance. Using a sample of 168 Australian open-ended equity funds, the risk adjusted performance is measured using three alternative evaluation techniques. We find that funds with higher management fees and long fund history have contributed to the underperformance. Along with the traditional attributes identified by the literature, market capitalisation of the security held by the fund is included as a unique attribute with significant results, indicating that funds targeting small capitalisation companies display superior performance.
Controlling protein crystallization by free energy guided design of interactions at crystal contacts
Creators: name: Hermann, Johannes
name: Bischoff, Daniel
name: Grob, Phillip
name: Janowski, Robert
name: Hekmat, Dariusch
name: Niessing, Dierk
name: Zacharias, Martin
name: Weuster-Botz, Dirk
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: technical protein crystallization
subject: crystal nucleation and growth
subject: free energy calculation
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Molecular dynamics
subject: Protein engineering
subject: Molekularbewegung
subject: Proteindesign

description: Protein crystallization can function as an effective method for protein purification or formulation. Such an application requires a comprehensive understanding of the intermolecular protein–protein interactions that drive and stabilize protein crystal formation to ensure a reproducible process. Using alcohol dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus brevis (LbADH) as a model system, we probed in our combined experimental and computational study the effect of residue substitutions at the protein crystal contacts on the crystallizability and the contact stability. Increased or decreased contact stability was calculated using molecular dynamics (MD) free energy simulations and showed excellent qualitative correlation with experimentally determined increased or decreased crystallizability. The MD simulations allowed us to trace back the changes to their physical origins at the atomic level. Engineered charge–charge interactions as well as engineered hydrophobic effects could be characterized and were found to improve crystallizability. For example, the simulations revealed a redesigning of a water mediated electrostatic interaction (“wet contact”) into a water depleted hydrophobic effect (“dry contact”) and the optimization of a weak hydrogen bonding contact towards a strong one. These findings explained the experimentally found improved crystallizability. Our study emphasizes that it is difficult to derive simple rules for engineering crystallizability but that free energy simulations could be a very useful tool for understanding the contribution of crystal contacts for stability and furthermore could help guide protein engineering strategies to enhance crystallization for technical purposes.
Supplementary document for The linewidth enhancement factor in a microcavity Brillouin laser - 4741427.pdf
Creators: name: Yuan, Zhiquan
name: Wang, Heming
name: WU, LUE
name: Gao, Maodong
name: Vahala, Kerry
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: theoretical calculation and supplement experiment data
A catalog of H I-selected galaxies from the south celestial cap region of sky
Creators: name: Kilborn, Virginia
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Marquarding, M.
name: Banks, G. D.
name: Barnes, D. G.
name: Bhathal, R.
name: De Blok, W. J G
name: Boyce, P. J.
name: Disney, M. J.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Gibson, B. K.
name: Henning, P. A.
name: Howlett, M.
name: Jerjen, H.
name: Knezek, P. M.
name: Koribalski, B.
name: Malin, D. F.
name: Minchin, R. F.
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: O'Brien, J. C.
name: Oosterloo, T.
name: Ortiz, P. F.
name: Price, R. M.
name: Putman, M. E.
name: Ryder, S. D.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: Stewart, I. M.
name: Stootman, F.
name: Wong, O. I.
name: Wright, A. E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The first deep catalog of the H I Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS) is presented, covering the south celestial cap (SCC) region. The SCC area is ∼2400 deg2 and covers δ < -62°. The average rms noise for the survey is 13 mJy beam-1. Five hundred thirty-six galaxies have been cataloged according to their neutral hydrogen content, including 114 galaxies that have no previous cataloged optical counterpart. This is the largest sample of galaxies from a blind H I survey to date. Most galaxies in optically unobscured regions of sky have a visible optical counterpart; however, there is a small population of low-velocity H I clouds without visible optical counterparts whose origins and significance are unclear. The rms accuracy of the HIP ASS positions is found to be 1.′9. The H I mass range of galaxies detected is from ∼106 to ∼10 11 M⊙. There are a large number of late-type spiral galaxies in the SCC sample (66%), compared with 30% for optically selected galaxies from the same region in the NASA Extragalactic Database. The average ratio of H I mass to B luminosity of the sample increases according to optical type, from 1. 8 M⊙/L⊙ for early types to 3.2 Ṁ/L̇ for late-type galaxies. The H I-detected galaxies tend to follow the large-scale structure traced by galaxies found in optical surveys. From the number of galaxies detected in this region of sky, we predict the full HIPASS catalog will contain ∼5000 galaxies, to a peak flux density limit of ∼39 mJy (3 σ), although this may be a conservative estimate as two large voids are present in the region. The H I mass function for this catalog is presented in a subsequent paper.
title: Luftqualität 2020
title: Luftqualität 2020
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dauert, Ute
name: Feigenspan, Stefan
name: Kessinger, Susan
name: Minkos, Andrea
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Stickstoffdioxid
subject: Feinstaub
subject: Ozon
subject: Luftgüte
subject: PM10
subject: Luft
subject: NO2
subject: Grenzwert
subject: Lockdown
subject: Luftqualität
subject: Luft

description: Diese Auswertung der Luftqualität im Jahr 2020 in Deutschland basiert auf vorläufigen, noch nicht abschließend geprüften Daten aus den Luftmessnetzen der Bundesländer und des Umweltbundesamtes, Stand 1. Februar 2021. Aufgrund der umfangreichen Qualitätssicherung in den Messnetzen stehen die endgültigen Daten erst Mitte 2021 zur Verfügung. Die jetzt vorliegenden Daten lassen aber eine generelle Einschätzung des vergangenen Jahres zu. Betrachtet werden die Schadstoffe Feinstaub (PM10 und PM2,5), Stickstoffdioxid (NO2) sowie Ozon (O3), da bei diesen Überschreitungen geltender Grenz- und Zielwerte/WHO-Empfehlungen zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit auftreten. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Diese Auswertung der Luftqualität im Jahr 2020 in Deutschland basiert auf vorläufigen, noch nicht abschließend geprüften Daten aus den Luftmessnetzen der Bundesländer und des Umweltbundesamtes, Stand 1. Februar 2021. Aufgrund der umfangreichen Qualitätssicherung in den Messnetzen stehen die endgültigen Daten erst Mitte 2021 zur Verfügung. Die jetzt vorliegenden Daten lassen aber eine generelle Einschätzung des vergangenen Jahres zu. Betrachtet werden die Schadstoffe Feinstaub (PM10 und PM2,5), Stickstoffdioxid (NO2) sowie Ozon (O3), da bei diesen Überschreitungen geltender Grenz- und Zielwerte/⁠WHO⁠-Empfehlungen zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit auftreten.
Innovative Techniken: Festlegung von besten verfügbaren Techniken (BVT) in Europa für die Bereiche der Keramik-, Zement-, Nahrungsmittel- und in der chemischen Industrie
Creators: name: Bauer, Sonja
name: Zettl, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materialeffizienz
subject: Keramikherstellung
subject: Stand der Technik
subject: Ziegel
subject: Fliesenindustrie
subject: Keramikindustrie
subject: BVT
subject: Dachziegel
subject: Fliesenherstellung
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Ressourcenintensive Industrien stehen heute und zukünftig im Focus und entsprechend vor großen Herausforderungen. Aufgrund geänderter Randbedingungen fanden in den letzten Jahren bereits verstärkt Forschungs- und Umsetzungsaktivitäten in der Keramikindustrie statt. Dennoch werden weitere Innovations- und Entwicklungspotenziale im Hinblick auf Effizienzsteigerungs-, Substitutions- und Recyclingmaßnahmen entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette gesehen. Neben positiven Umwelteffekten können diese Maßnahmen auch zu Kosteneinsparungen führen, die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit erhalten und so zur Standortsicherung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen in Deutschland beitragen. Der vorliegende Bericht beinhaltet konkrete Daten und Beispiele für fortschrittliche produkt- und produktionsintegrierte Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Materialeffizienz in ausgewählten Teilsektoren der Keramikindustrie. Dieser Überblick zum Stand der Technik, auch mit Bezug zur anstehenden Revision des BVT-Merkblatts zur Keramikindustrie, wird durch aktuelle und geplante Forschungs- und Umsetzungsaktivitäten - inklusive deren Grenzen und Entwicklungspotenziale ergänzt. Der Ausschöpfung von möglichen Potentialen stehen Hemmnisse entgegen. Deren Lösungen werden im Bericht durch Handlungsempfehlungen aufgezeigt.
Where the streets have no name: how library users get lost in the stacks
Creators: name: McKay, Dana
name: Conyers, Ben
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: There is clear evidence that library users often get lost looking for physical items, however there has been little research on how library users search the shelves or what causes them to fail to find what they are looking for. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into library users’ difficulties searching the shelves.
A prospective pilot study to evaluate an animated home-based physical exercise program as a treatment option for patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Creators: name: Zernicke, Jan
name: Kedor, Claudia
name: Mueller, Angela
name: Burmester, Gerd-Ruediger
name: Reisshauer, Anett
name: Feist, Eugen
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background Physical exercises and physiotherapy are of great importance for maintenance of joint function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, many RA patients complain about problems to receive prescriptions or have a lack of access to physiotherapy. Recent reports have shown positive effects of the Wii game console on physical and psychosocial conditions of patients with other underlying diseases. The primary objectives of this prospective controlled pilot study were to investigate feasibility and patients’ assessment using an animated home-based exercise program. Method This pilot study was conducted as a single-center, cross-over trial with two treatment arms over 24 weeks. Eligibility criteria included patients with RA reaching low disease activity under therapy with a biological disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (bDMARD). After detailed instruction, 15 patients started with a conventional home-based physical exercise program and 15 patients began with a predefined animated exercise program by using the Wii game console for 12 weeks. Afterwards, patients were crossed-over to the other treatment arm for another period of 12 weeks. Multi-methodical assessments were performed by qualitative analysis of the interview-data as well as statistical analysis of functional tests and patient reported outcomes (PRO’s). Results Evaluation of the interviews indicated feasibility and usefulness of the chosen animated home-based exercise program. Forefoot disabilities were identified as a main limiting factor for performing some of the animated exercises. After 12 weeks, both treatment arms showed improvement of functional tests without significant differences between groups: Overall muscle strength improved for a mean value of 10 Newton (+12 %) and the mean 6-min walk test (6-MWT) distance increased for 28 meters (+5 %). Conclusion This study showed that an animated home-based exercise program by using a Wii game console was feasible and beneficial for RA patients. Compared to standard physical home exercises, similar effects were observed indicating that such an animated program might be an alternative supportive option for RA patients. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02658370 (19-Jan-2016).
Investigations of surface structure and catalyst poisons, on electrochemical processes involving hydrogen discharge and evolution.
Creators: name: Barber, John H.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Physical.

description: HER at Pt single-crystal electrodes. It is well known that transition metals exhibit a wide range of catalytic activities for various processes. One of the best examples is the dependence of H$\sb2$ evolution kinetics on the nature of the cathode metal. This leads to an expectation that a similar specific dependence would also be observed at various single-crystal surfaces of Pt. In the present paper, it is shown that such conclusions arise from the actual surface-specific electrode kinetics being obscured by effects associated with diffusion of H$\sb2$ from a supersaturated region generated near the electrode. By means of Tafel polarization and impedance measurements at several Pt single-crystal surfaces rotated at 3500 rpm, it is shown that there are, in fact, clear specific dependences of the H$\sb2$ evolution kinetic parameters on the Pt surface lattice geometry which are related to the underpotential deposition (UPD) of H kinetics and to the well known surface specificity of the H UPD behaviour at Pt as seen in cyclic voltammetry. An increase of the pH, decreases the kinetic facility of the hydrogen electrode reaction, i.e. abstraction of H to form H$\sb2$ is more difficult from H$\sb2$O than from $\rm H\sb3O\sp{+}$; at such lowered rates, the H$\sb2$ diffusive effects can be totally eliminated by electrode rotation, unlike the situation in 0.5 mol dm$\sp{-3}$ $\rm H\sb2 SO\sb4$ where rotation is found to only decrease the effect of diffusion. Coadsoration of sulphur containing compounds and H at Pt, and its effect on the HER rates. The competitive adsorption of catalyst poisons and adsorbed H is of interest in relation to their effects in promoting H absorption into transition metals. The capacity of three sulphur-containing compounds, thiourea, L-cysteine, and 2,2$\sp\prime$ diethanolsulphide (DES), to block H adsorption at Pt electrodes in both the underpotential deposition (UPD) and overpotential deposition (OPD) regions was studied and is presented in chapter 6. Chapters 8 and 9 investigate the influence of poisons on the absorption of H into Pd and Ni electrodes. H adsorption into Pd and Ni cathodes and the effect of adsorbed thiourea. Pd and Ni electrodes both adsorb and absorb H electrochemically. Using these two materials as cathodes the effects of the adsorption of thiourea on the electrochemical reactions of H, adsorption, absorption and evolution were studied. The adsorption of thiourea dramatically inhibits, by over one order of magnitude of current, the rate of H entry into Pd. The adsorption of thiourea at a Ni surface on the other hand appears to have a relatively small effect on the rate of H entry, but it does have a significant influence on the rate of H$\sb2$ evolution, this manifests itself in a significant change in the chemical potential ($\mu\sb{H}$) of adsorbed H. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Functions computable with nonadaptive queries to NP
Creators: name: Buhrman, Harry
name: Kadin, Jim
name: Thierauf, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Computable functions
subject: Komplexitätsklasse NP

description: N/A
Supplementary document for Vertically aligned GaN nanorod arrays/p-Si heterojunctions self-powered UV photodetector with ultrahigh photoresponsivity - 4741596.pdf
Creators: name: Zheng, Yulin
name: Tang, Xin
name: Yang, Yuhui
name: Wang, Wenliang
name: Li, Guoqiang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Fig. S1; Fig. S2; Fig. S3; Table S1.
Umweltverträglicher Verkehr 2050
Creators: name: Gies, Jürgen
name: Thiemann-Linden, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Verkehrsplanung
subject: Nachhaltiger Verkehr
subject: Verkehr
subject: Autoverkehr
subject: Fußgänger- und Fahrradverkehr
subject: Bildung zu einer nachhaltigen Mobilität
subject: Verkehr
subject: Transport

description: Noch immer trägt der Verkehr erheblich zum ⁠Klimawandel⁠, zu Flächenverbrauch und Luftschadstoffemissionen bei. Gleichzeitig ist der Verkehrssektor mit vielen anderen Sektoren der Gesellschaft eng verflochten. Um im Verkehrsbereich eine Wende zur ⁠Nachhaltigkeit⁠ zu erreichen, ist deshalb ein eine gesamthafte Strategie in der Verkehrspolitik notwendig, die mit anderen Politikfeldern, wie der  Raumordnungspolitik oder der Wirtschaftspolitik, und über alle Politikebenen (Bund, Länder, Kommunen) hinweg integriert ist. Dass solche Strategien möglich sind, zeigen Beispiele aus anderen europäischen Ländern.
Internet telescopes: capabilities and benchmarks
Creators: name: Graves, Kelly
name: Mackie, Glen
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this golden age of small-telescope astronomy, the term 'armchair astronomer' has an entirely new significance. High-quality, low-cost optics have combined with advances in imaging-array technologies and sophisticated, electronic servomotor mounts to place in-struments of exceptional power and effectiveness in the hands of amateurs. Some of these instruments are exceptionally powerful and well-sited; many represent hundreds of thou-sands of dollars in investment and even larger commitments in owner/operator time. Open standards such as those in the ASCOM initiative (Web: ASCOM) have enabled automation components from many different manufacturers to work together in a more-or-less integrated fashion. The results are fully-automated, serious-amateur telescopes quite capable of variable star work, supernovae searches, and even detecting extrasolar planets. In the past few years, the control software and interfaces to these automated telescopes have become exceptionally sophisticated, surpassing professional control software at least in beauty and design, if not in raw functionality. Most of these interfaces can function through the Internet. Armchair astronomy, indeed!
title: Current pain education within undergraduate medical studies across Europe
title: Advancing the Provision of Pain Education and Learning (APPEAL) study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Briggs, Emma V.
name: Battelli, Daniele
name: Gordon, David
name: Kopf, Andreas
name: Ribeiro, Sofia
name: Puig, Margarita M.
name: Kress, Hans G.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Objectives Unrelieved pain is a substantial public health concern necessitating improvements in medical education. The Advancing the Provision of Pain Education and Learning (APPEAL) study aimed to determine current levels and methods of undergraduate pain medicine education in Europe. Design and methods Using a cross-sectional design, publicly available curriculum information was sought from all medical schools in 15 representative European countries in 2012–2013. Descriptive analyses were performed on: the provision of pain teaching in dedicated pain modules, other modules or within the broader curriculum; whether pain teaching was compulsory or elective; the number of hours/credits spent teaching pain; pain topics; and teaching and assessment methods. Results Curriculum elements were publicly available from 242 of 249 identified schools (97%). In 55% (133/242) of schools, pain was taught only within compulsory non-pain-specific modules. The next most common approaches were for pain teaching to be provided wholly or in part via a dedicated pain module (74/242; 31%) or via a vertical or integrated approach to teaching through the broader curriculum, rather than within any specific module (17/242; 7%). The curricula of 17/242 schools (7%) showed no evidence of any pain teaching. Dedicated pain modules were most common in France (27/31 schools; 87%). Excluding France, only 22% (47/211 schools) provided a dedicated pain module and in only 9% (18/211) was this compulsory. Overall, the median number of hours spent teaching pain was 12.0 (range 4–56.0 h; IQR: 12.0) for compulsory dedicated pain modules and 9.0 (range 1.0–60.0 h; IQR: 10.5) for other compulsory (non-pain specific) modules. Pain medicine was principally taught in classrooms and assessed by conventional examinations. There was substantial international variation throughout. Conclusions Documented pain teaching in many European medical schools falls far short of what might be expected given the prevalence and public health burden of pain.
International perspectives on violence against women.
Creators: name: Cheema, Satinder.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Law.

description: This dissertation traces through history the manner in which women around the globe have been forced into subordination to man. In this context, it looks at the role played by the patriarchal system in women's subjugation and violence against women. It identifies the different faces of violence against women around the world and focuses on the various forms of violence against women. The dissertation then presents a global review of violence against women in detention and analyses the abusive use of this power by agencies of the state. To reflect how this power, lacking in accountability and deterrent force, can result in a mockery of the whole concept of justice, the dissertation reviews violence against women who are directly under the control of police--the primary law enforcement agency of the state. The dissertation uses examples the Indian sub-continent to show how the attitude of police in developing countries has, instead of controlling the violence, promoted violence against women and the impact of this attitude on the society. The dissertation analyses the general attitude of police towards violence against women; the victims' perception of the police, and the police perception of abused women on the issues of family violence. It observes that elimination of violence against women cannot be achieved through law reform alone. Proper enforcement of such reformative measures, accountability of the enforcers and condemnation of enforcers when they fail to do what is expected of them are equally important to eliminate violence against women. The dissertation concludes with the argument that under the present structure of society violence against women cannot be eliminated until the attitude of women towards their own selves is changed as well as that of men in general and police in particular, which directly affects the attitude of men towards women.
Jahresbericht der Universität Ulm 2007
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: Research; Ulm
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: Jahresbericht der Universität Ulm 2007 in deutscher und englischer Sprache
POP- und Hg-Emissionen aus abfallwirtschaftlichen Anlagen
Creators: name: Stöcklein, Frank
name: Gass, Horst
name: Suritsch, Norbert
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dioxine
subject: Benzol
subject: Toluol
subject: Quecksilber
subject: Abfallverbrennungsanlage
subject: Schadstoffemissionen
subject: POP
subject: Quecksilber (Hg)
subject: PAK
subject: PCN
subject: PFOS
subject: Dioxin-/Furanemissionen
subject: PCB
subject: HCB
subject: Pentachlorbenzol
subject: Xylol
subject: Perfluoroctansulfonat
subject: Krematorium
subject: Klärschlammverbrennungsanlage
subject: Altholzverbrennung
subject: Luft
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Air
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Zur Erfüllung von Berichtspflichten zum Stockholmer Übereinkommen zur Begrenzung persistenter organischer Schadstoffe (POPs) und um zur EU-POP-Verordnung beizutragen, sollen die Emissionen an POPs (z.B. PCDD/F, PCB, PAK, u. a.) aus Anlagen der Abfallwirtschaft und Krematorien ermittelt werden. Die Erhebung der Emissionsdaten wird in diesem Rahmen sowohl auf Basis von Literaturrecherchen als auch durch Emissionsmessungen an Praxisanlagen durchgeführt. Die Untersuchungen sollen jeweils an mindestens vier Abfallverbrennungsanlagen, Klärschlammverbrennungsanlagen, Altholzverbrennungsanlagen und Krematorien mit repräsentativen Messungen erfolgen. Bei der Auswahl der Anlagen wurde darauf geachtet, dass die Anlagen mit unterschiedlicher Abgasreinigung arbeiten, sodass die Ergebnisse möglichst repräsentativ für den gesamten Anlagenpark in Deutschland sind.
Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Zur Erfüllung von Berichtspflichten zum ⁠Stockholmer Übereinkommen⁠ zur Begrenzung persistenter organischer Schadstoffe (POPs) und um zur EU-⁠POP⁠-Verordnung beizutragen, sollen die Emissionen an POPs (z.B. PCDD/F, ⁠PCB⁠, ⁠PAK⁠, u. a.) aus Anlagen der Abfallwirtschaft und Krematorien ermittelt werden. Die Erhebung der Emissionsdaten wird in diesem Rahmen sowohl auf Basis von Literaturrecherchen als auch durch Emissionsmessungen an Praxisanlagen durchgeführt. Die Untersuchungen sollen jeweils an mindestens vier Abfallverbrennungsanlagen, Klärschlammverbrennungsanlagen, Altholzverbrennungsanlagen und Krematorien mit repräsentativen Messungen erfolgen. Bei der Auswahl der Anlagen wurde darauf geachtet, dass die Anlagen mit unterschiedlicher Abgasreinigung arbeiten, sodass die Ergebnisse möglichst repräsentativ für den gesamten Anlagenpark in Deutschland sind.
School of Advanced Professional Studies - Jahresbericht 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Weiterbildende Masterstudiengänge
subject: Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung
subject: Berufsbegleitendes Studium
subject: Zertifikatskurs
subject: Blended Learning
subject: E-Learning
subject: Certificate of Advanced Studies
subject: Diploma of Advanced Studies
subject: Sensorsystemtechnik
subject: Innovations- und Wissenschaftsmanagement
subject: Aktuarwissenschaften
subject: Business Analytics
subject: SAPS
subject: School of Advanced Professional Studies
subject: DDC 050 / General serial publications
subject: DDC 370 / Education
subject: Continuing education
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Kontaktstudium
subject: Universität Ulm

description: Zum Sommersemester 2015 nahmen die beiden ersten berufsbegleitenden Studiengänge der SAPS den kostenpflichtigen Regelbetrieb auf. Nach Schweizer Vorbild wurden im Kontaktstudium mit dem Diploma bzw. Certificate of Advanced Studies neue Abschlussmöglichkeiten als Vertiefungsmöglichkeiten eingeführt. Großartige Erfolge konnte die SAPS 2015 in ihrer Projektarbeit nachweisen: Das Projekt Modular zum Master wird in einer zweiten Förderphase weitergeführt. Schwerpunkte sind die Entwicklung eines berufsbegleitenden Studiengangs Business Analytics sowie die Etablierung des bundesweiten Netzwerks Offene Hochschulen. Außerdem erhielt die SAPS zum Ende des Jahres 2015 für zwei neu gestellte Projektanträge die Förderzusagen vom MWK Baden-Württemberg, ko-finanziert aus Mitteln des Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF). Im Projekt SAPS:RI steht die Internationalisierung der Weiterbildungsangebote im Vordergrund: neben englischsprachigen Studienangeboten sollen zweisprachige Hybride entwickelt werden, die vorrangig englischsprachige Interessenten ansprechen sollen. Im Projekt Cross-Over, geführt von der Hochschule Biberach, werden Studienangebote im Bereich Biopharmazie und Medizintechnik entwickelt. Hier ist seitens der Universität Ulm federführend die Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften beteiligt. Außerdem wurde ein von der TU München initiiertes Verbundprojekt positiv beschieden, bei welchem die von der SAPS entwickelte E-Learning-Lernumgebung für Schulungsmaßnahmen zur Implementierung und Dissemination von Forschungsergebnissen zum softwaregestützten Entwurf eingebetteter Systeme genutzt wird.
The practitioner’s model: designing a professional development program for online teaching
Creators: name: Weaver, Debbi
name: Robbie, Diane
name: Borland, Rosemary
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article describes the experiences of staff responsible for developing and delivering professional development (PD) in online teaching in three universities in the same Australian state. Each university draws on a similar pool of staff and students, and operates under the same government regulations, but has used different models of policy and resourcing to implement their PD program. The implications of this are discussed, and a model for an “ideal” implementation presented.
Supplementary document for An Optical Matter Machine: Angular Momentum Conversion by Collective Modes in Optically Bound Nanoparticle Arrays - 4743484.pdf
Creators: name: Parker, John
name: Peterson, Curtis
name: Yifat, Yuval
name: Rice, Stuart
name: Yan, Zijie
name: Gray, Stephen
name: Scherer, Norbert
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics
Optical Properties of Materials

description: Supplemental Material
Towards a biologically-inspired framework for multimedia service management
Creators: name: Hossain, Mohammod Shamim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: The advent of service-oriented architecture (SOA), internet and ubiquitous delivery technology bas resulted in multimedia services (e.g. repurposing, streaming and conferencing services) being accessible at any time, from any devise, through any network. However, there are still some problems related to heterogeneity, scalability and QoS demand of the management of such multimedia services. Some of the existing solutions are centralized, which evolve scalability problems in terms of the number of concurrent requests for the target service composition. Other solutions are distributed, which depend on the use of traditional algorithms (e.g. Dijkstra, Bellman Ford). Such distributed solutions also use replicated services, which can also result in scalability problems for large networks. In order to mitigate the above problems, this thesis proposes a framework for multimedia service management that is based on a biologically-inspired approach. It utilizes an ant-colony-based selection algorithm for collecting the QoS requirements from the individual repurposing service in order to select the most suitable one for the desired composition process, which ensures higher scalability and efficient load balancing. It also develops a QoS-aware service selection algorithm for a multimedia repurposing service. The proposed framework's performance is validated through both simulation and prototype implementation.
Hipass high-velocity clouds: Properties of the compact and extended populations
Creators: name: Putman, M. E.
name: De Heij, V.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Braun, R.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Gibson, B. K.
name: Burton, W. B.
name: Barnes, D. G.
name: Banks, G. D.
name: Bhathal, R.
name: De Blok, W. J G
name: Boyce, P. J.
name: Disney, M. J.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Henning, P. A.
name: Jerjen, H.
name: Kilborn, Virginia
name: Knezek, P. M.
name: Koribalski, B.
name: Malin, D. F.
name: Marquarding, M.
name: Minchin, R. F.
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Oosterloo, T.
name: Price, R. M.
name: Ryder, S. D.
name: Sadler, E. M.
name: Stewart, I.
name: Stootman, F.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Wright, A. E.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A catalog of southern anomalous-velocity H I clouds at decl. < + 2° is presented. This catalog is based on data from the H I Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS) reprocessed with the MINMED5 procedure and searched with a new high-velocity cloud-finding algorithm. The improved sensitivity (5 σ: δTB = 0.04 K), resolution (157prime;.5), and velocity range (-500 km s-1 < VLSR < +500 km s-1) of the HIPASS data result in a substantial increase in the number of individual clouds (1956, as well as 41 galaxies) compared with what was known from earlier southern data. The method of cataloging the anomalous-velocity objects is described, and a catalog of key cloud parameters, including velocity, angular size, peak column density, total flux, position angle, and degree of isolation, is presented. The data are characterized into several classes of anomalous-velocity H I emission. Most high-velocity emission features are HVCs and have a filamentary morphology and are loosely organized into large complexes extending over tens of degrees. In addition, 179 compact and isolated anomalous-velocity objects, CHVCs, are identified based on their size and degree of isolation. Of the CHVCs originally classified by Braun & Burton, 25% are reclassified based on the HIPASS data. The properties of all the high-velocity emission features and only the CHVCs are investigated, and distinct similarities and differences are found. Both populations have typical H I masses of ∼4.5Dkpc2 M⊙ and have similar slopes for their column density and flux distributions. On the other hand, the CHVCs appear to be clustered and the population can be broken up into three spatially distinct groups, while the entire population of clouds is more uniformly distributed with a significant percentage aligned with the Magellanic Stream. The median velocities are VGSR = -38 km s-1 for the CHVCs and -30 km s-1 for all the anomalous-velocity clouds. Based on the catalog sizes, high-velocity features cover 19% of the southern sky, and CHVCs cover 1%.
title: Estamos de guardia: Diagnóstico de muerte cerebral
Creators: name: de Lara Bendahan, Victoria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT-Angiography

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
- Diversas publicacionesdescriben el papel del Angio-TC como una de las pruebas instrumentales implicadas en el proceso diagnóstico de muerte cerebral. Sin embargo los protocolos de realización y los criterios de interpretación no están...
Equality governance via policy analysis?
Creators: name: Sauer, Arn Thorben
Publisher: name: transcript
Year: 2018

description: Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process. Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. Interviews with experts from public administration and instrument designers as well as document analyses reveal benefits and challenges and show that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and appropriate administrative practices are embedded, embodied and entrenched in public administration. Quelle: Verlagsinformation
title: Correlación radiopatológica de tumores rabdoides-teratoides atípicos en pacientes en edad pediátrica: revisión de nuestra serie de 15 pacientes.
Creators: name: Miranda Matilla, Rosa María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CT
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Biopsy
subject: Genetic defects

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Revisar las principales características radiológicas y anatomopatológicas de tumores rabdoides teratoides atípicos (AT-RT) en pacientes pediátricos. Definición : El AT-RT es una neoplasia altamente agresiva y poco frecuente,
de origen...
Criminalizing Adolescence? Understanding Probation and Probation Violations in the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice System
Creators: name: Latimer, Jeff
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

description: Youth probation in Canada is a critical yet clearly under-researched area within Criminology. Probation is the most common sentence in youth court yet many youth fail to comply with the conditions laid out by the courts. This thesis represents the results of an in-depth examination of probation cases in the youth criminal justice system with a focus on probation violations and Probation Officer discretion. All closed administrative probation files within an Ontario area Probation Office during the year 2005 were selected (N=299) in order to examine the nature and extent of probation violations. In addition, 7 Probation Officers were interviewed to supplement the file review and answer questions that were outside the scope of the administrative files. The findings reveal that the majority of youth within the probation system have a substantial number of serious psycho-social issues. Youth serving probation sentences are also subject to considerable social control through the imposition of numerous probation conditions covering many aspects of their lives. Yet most youth violate one or more of these conditions, usually by engaging in relatively typical adolescent behaviour such as staying out late, drinking alcohol or skipping school. Only a minority of these youth, however, are actually charged with a violation under s. 137 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The implications of this research for judges, Probation Officers, policy-makers and researchers are discussed.
Variation in tracheid dimensions of conifer xylem reveals evidence of adaptation to environmental conditions
Creators: name: Zheng, Jingming
name: Li, Yajin
name: Morris, Hugh
name: Vandelook, Filip
name: Jansen, Steven
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: xylem structure
subject: tracheid diameter
subject: tracheid wall thickness
subject: DDC 580 / Botanical sciences
subject: Latitude
subject: Climate
subject: Soils
subject: Klima
subject: Bodenfruchtbarkeit

description: Globally distributed extant conifer species must adapt to various environmental conditions, which would be reflected in their xylem structure, especially in the tracheid characteristics of earlywood and latewood. With an anatomical trait dataset of 78 conifer species growing throughout China, an interspecific study within a phylogenetic context was conducted to quantify variance of tracheid dimensions and their response to climatic and soil conditions. There was a significant difference in tracheid diameter between earlywood and latewood while no significant difference was detected in tracheid wall thickness through a phylogenetically paired t-test. Through a phylogenetic principle component analysis, Pinaceae species were found to be strongly divergent in their tracheid structure in contrast to a conservative tracheid structure in species of Cupressaceae, Taxaceae, and Podocarpaceae. Tracheid wall thickness decreased from high to low latitudes in both earlywood and latewood, with tracheid diameter decreasing for latewood only. According to the most parsimonious phylogenetic general least square models, environment and phylogeny together could explain about 21∼56% of tracheid structure variance. Our results provide insights into the effects of climate and soil on the xylem structure of conifer species thus furthering our understanding of the trees’ response to global change.
Germany's struggle for energy efficiency
Creators: name: Weyland, Matthias
name: Steuwer, Sibyl D.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: The article reports on the challenges for energy efficiency in Germany. Topics mentioned include the importance of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (NAPE) in the country, the importance of energy conservation, and the energy saving obligations. Also mentioned are the role of renewable energy in the energy efficiency and the management of energy taxes. Quelle: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com