cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Foraging ecology of the thick-billed murre: Patterns of prey location and selection.
Creators: name: Woo, Kerry Joseph.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biology, Ecology.

description: Patterns of foraging behaviour of Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia ) feeding nestlings at Coats Island, Nunavut in northern Hudson Bay were studied. Small, electronic data recorders attached to adult birds were used to quantify dive behaviour and flight activity while provisioning for nestlings. Observations of individuals returning to the colony were conducted to identify the types and sizes of prey items birds were delivering to chicks. Trends in species composition of nestling diets were examined from 1994 to 2000. Information obtained on foraging behaviour are discussed in relation to general predictions of central place foraging theory, as well as in relation to the ecology of prey species in the vicinity of the colony. The implications of my results for the value of information gathered from seabirds, as indicators of their local marine environments, is addressed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Reshaping Employee Engagement: The Effects of Transformational Leadership, Workplace Digitalisation, Innovative Culture, Digital Literacies and Rewards- Recognition
Creators: name: Chan, Ai Joo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This study investigated and supported that transformational leadership, innovative culture, and workplace digitalisation are significant drivers of employee engagement. Besides, innovative culture partially enhances employee engagement through workplace digitalisation. Digital literacies and rewards-recognition strengthen employee engagement. The results suggest that industry practitioners who intend to raise employee engagement can first focus on fostering employees' perception of workplace digitalisation, and then supplement this with a supportive environment, such as digital literacies and rewards-recognition. Engaged workforce are crucial as a competitive advantage to unlock organisations' values, especially with the accelerated workplace digitalisation post-COVID-19 pandemic.
Finding approximate gene clusters with Gecko 3
Creators: name: Winter, Sascha
name: Jahn, Katharina
name: Wehner, Stefanie
name: Kuchenbecker, Leon
name: Marz, Manja
name: Stoye, Jens
name: Boecker, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: genes
subject: genome
subject: gene cluster
subject: gecko
subject: datasets
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Gene-order-based comparison of multiple genomes provides signals for functional analysis of genes and the evolutionary process of genome organization. Gene clusters are regions of co-localized genes on genomes of different species. The rapid increase in sequenced genomes necessitates bioinformatics tools for finding gene clusters in hundreds of genomes. Existing tools are often restricted to few (in many cases, only two) genomes, and often make restrictive assumptions such as short perfect conservation, conserved gene order or monophyletic gene clusters. We present Gecko 3, an open-source software for finding gene clusters in hundreds of bacterial genomes, that comes with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. The underlying gene cluster model is intuitive, can cope with low degrees of conservation as well as misannotations and is complemented by a sound statistical evaluation. To evaluate the biological benefit of Gecko 3 and to exemplify our method, we search for gene clusters in a dataset of 678 bacterial genomes using Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a reference. We confirm detected gene clusters reviewing the literature and comparing them to a database of operons; we detect two novel clusters, which were confirmed by publicly available experimental RNA-Seq data. The computational analysis is carried out on a laptop computer in <40 min.
Modeling of simultaneous removal of easily degradable substrates and chlorinated phenols in UASB reactors.
Creators: name: Ning, Zuojun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal.

description: A dynamic model describing the simultaneous degradation of easily degradable substrates (sucrose and acetic acid (HAc)) and 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors (UASB) was developed. Two critical factors considered in the multiple substrate degradation processes were sorption and substrate interaction during degradation. Experimental investigations on the sorption of chlorinated phenols under dynamic situations as well as the degradation kinetics of cosubstrates and 2,4-DCP considering sorption and substrate interaction were conducted first. It was found that partitioning was the dominant mechanism in sorption of chlorophenols to anaerobic granules and that metabolically mediated diffusion during sorption was negligible. Under a dynamic situation, anaerobic sorption of chlorophenols which follow sorption linearity and sorption-desorption singulanty in isotherms, can be described by a dynamic model incorporating linear sorption equation. Nonequilibrium sorption caused by diffusion limitations in anaerobic reactors was found to be negligible because of the strong hydrodynamic dispersion that prevails in anaerobic reactors and the high porosity of anaerobic granules. However, rmnor nonideal sorption phenomena were observed for 3,4-dichlorophenol (3,4-DCP) and pentachlorophenol (PCP), both of which showed sorption-desorption isotherm hysteresis. Substrate interaction during degradation of cosubstrates and 2,4-DCP resulted in the inhibition of acetogenesis and methanogenesis by 2,4-DCP. The effect of electron donors on 2,4-DCP degradation was found to be minimal. A modified Haldane type inhibition function was proposed to described the degradation of 2,4-DCP. On the basis of model discrimination results, the degradation kinetics of HAc and propionic acid (HPr) were defined by the uncompetitive inhibition and Haldane type inhibition functions, respectively, with 2,4-DCP as inhibitor. Acidogenesis of sucrose to HAc or HPr followed the Monod equation since no inhibiting factor was found for this degradation process. Knowledge obtained from the above investigations was used to develop a dynamic model for UASB reactors. Data that were obtained from experimental investigations on multiple substrate degradation in continuous UASB reactors were used to validate and veritjl the dynamic model. The model predicts the system responses for 2,4-DCP, 4-monochlorophenol (4-MCP), HAc, HPr and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration in the effluent. Based on model fitting results, it was found that the degradation rates of 2,4-DCP and cosubstrates, HAc and HPr, changed inversely as a function ofthe specific organic loading rate ofthe UASB reactors. The implication ofthis finding was fully discussed.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 15/2024
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Dienstvereinbarung Digitaler Beschäftigtenausweis (CampusID-M)
description: Dienstvereinbarung für die Verwendung und den Betrieb des Bibliotheksmanagementsystems „Alma“
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2024; 15
N2O strongly prevents adhesion formation and postoperative pain in open surgery through a drug-like effect
Creators: name: Corona, Roberta
name: Binda, Maria M
name: Adamyan, Leila
name: Gomel, Victor
name: Koninckx, Philippe R
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2018

description: Background: Microsurgical tenets and peritoneal conditioning during laparoscopic surgery (LS) decrease postoperative adhesions and pain. For a trial in human, the strong beneficial effects of N2O needed to be confirmed in open surgery (OS). Results: In a mouse model for OS, the effect of the gas environment upon adhesions was evaluated. Experiment I evaluated desiccation and the duration of exposure to CO2, N2O or CO2 + 4%O2. Experiment II evaluated the dose-response curve of adding N2O to CO2. Experiment III compared humidified CO2 + 10% N2O during LS and OS. In OS, 30- and 60-min exposure to non-humidified CO2 caused mortality of 33 and 100%, respectively. Mortality was prevented by humidification, by dry N2O or dry CO2 + 4%O2. Adhesions increased with the duration of exposure to CO2 (p < 0.0001) and decreased slightly by humidification or by the addition of 4% O2. N2O strongly decreased adhesions at concentrations of 5% or greater. With humidified CO2 + 10% N2O, adhesion formation was similar in OS and LS. Conclusions: The drug-like and strong beneficial effect of low concentrations of N2O is confirmed in OS.
Evaluierung der Praxis gewerblicher Sammlung mit Blick auf die Anforderungen des hochwertigen Recyclings und der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
Creators: name: Wagner, Jörg
name: Friege, Henning
name: Séché, Marcel
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewerbliche Sammlung
subject: Gemeinnützige Sammlung
subject: Altpapier
subject: Schrott
subject: Abfallsammlung
subject: Recycling
subject: Gewerbliche Abfallsammlung
subject: Altmetall
subject: Alttextiliensammlung
subject: illegale Sammlung
subject: Wettbewerb
subject: Abfallrecycling
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen
subject: Waste | Resources

description: Der Monitoring-Bericht widmete sich neben den Auswirkungen der Regelungen auf die Verbesserung der Qualität und Quantität des Recyclings sowie auf die Stärkung des Wettbewerbs insbesondere den mit den Regelungen eingetretenen Vollzugsproblemen. Im Fazit des genannten Monitoring-Berichtes wurde seitens der Bundesregierung hinsichtlich der Diskussionspunkte "Neutrale Behörde" und "Verbesserung im Vollzug" der nachfolgend skizzierte Handlungsbedarf besonders hervorgehoben: a) Neutralität der Behörde, b) Verbesserung im Vollzug. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Der ⁠Monitoring⁠-Bericht widmete sich neben den Auswirkungen der Regelungen auf die Verbesserung der Qualität und Quantität des Recyclings sowie auf die Stärkung des Wettbewerbs insbesondere den mit den Regelungen eingetretenen Vollzugsproblemen. Im Fazit des genannten Monitoring-Berichtes wurde seitens der Bundesregierung hinsichtlich der Diskussionspunkte „Neutrale Behörde“ und „Verbesserung im Vollzug“ der nachfolgend skizzierte Handlungsbedarf besonders hervorgehoben: a) Neutralität der Behörde, b) Verbesserung im Vollzug
Fallstudie Kaved AG
Creators: name: Leimstoll, Uwe
Publisher: name: Hanser
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Business Software
subject: E-Business
subject: E-Commerce
subject: ERP-Systeme
subject: Integration
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die Kaved AG, eine Tochtergesellschaft der Dätwyler Holding, konfektioniert Verkabelungssysteme für die Maschinen-, Apparate- und Aufzugsindustrie. Kaved zählt zu den strategisch wichtigen Zulieferern des Schindler Konzerns. Die Wertschöpfungspartnerschaft zwischen Kaved und Schindler wird unterstützt durch eine externe Integration von Informationssystemen sowie durch einen internen Verbund von ERP-System und CIM-Fertigung. Diese Art der E-Business-Unterstützung ermöglicht die maschinelle Konfektionierung komplexer und variabler Verkabelungssysteme für Aufzüge. Damit wurde ein enormes Produktivitätssteigerungspotenzial erschlossen.
Umwelt- und Kostenvorteile ausgewählter innovativer Mobilitäts- und Verkehrskonzepte im städtischen Personenverkehr
Creators: name: Sommer, Carsten
name: Mucha, Elena
name: Roßnagel, Alexander
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Umwelt
subject: Umweltschutz
subject: Emissionsminderung
subject: Fahrleistung
subject: Umweltverbund
subject: Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr
subject: Carsharing
subject: Stadtverkehr
subject: Emissionen
subject: Emissionsreduktion
subject: Potenzial
subject: Szenarien
subject: Maßnahmen
subject: Entlastung
subject: Modell
subject: Personengruppen
subject: ÖPNV
subject: Fahrradvermietsystem
subject: Pedelecvermietsystem
subject: (free-floating) Carsharing
subject: Umweltentlastungspotenzial
subject: Umweltwirkungen
subject: Verlagerungspotenzial
subject: Nutzungsanalyse
subject: Nutzeranalyse
subject: Flächeneinsparung
subject: integrierte Verkehrsdienstleistungen
subject: Mobilitätsdienstleistungen
subject: Verkehr

description: In Städten und Ballungsräumen stellen die verkehrsbedingten CO2-Emissionen, Lärm- und Luftschadstoffemissionen sowie der Flächenverbrauch des Verkehrs zum Teil eine erhebliche Belastung der Umwelt und des Klimas dar. Um die gesetzlichen Immissionsgrenzwerte zum Schutz der menschlichen Gesundheit einzuhalten und die Lebensqualität und die Attraktivität von Städten und Ballungsräumen zu steigern, ist eine Reduktion der verkehrsinduzierten Umweltbelastungen unabdingbar. Innovative Verkehrsangebote sind daher wichtiger denn je, um eine Verlagerung des motorisierten Individualverkehrs (MIV) auf den ⁠Umweltverbund⁠ (Fuß- und Radverkehr, ÖPNV) oder energieeffizientere Verkehrsmittel zu erreichen.Eine Vielzahl urbaner Verkehrsdienstleistungen, die den Umweltverbund stärken und Multimodalität fördern, wurde bereits entwickelt und realisiert, beispielsweise sind Carsharing und öffentliche Fahrradvermietsysteme mittlerweile in zahlreichen Städten vorhanden. Bislang fehlte jedoch eine systematische und vergleichende Analyse dieser Angebote auf ihre tatsächlichen Wirkungen zur Verbesserung der ⁠Klima⁠- und Umweltbilanz. Auch wurde bislang nicht untersucht, welche die Erfolgs- und Hemmnisfaktoren bei der Umsetzung sind und wie die Integration der neuen Angebote in den ÖPNV gelingen kann. Das Forschungsprojekt widmete sich diesen Fragestellungen. Neben dem Verlagerungspotenzial und den Emissionseinsparungen wurde auch die Flächeneinsparung im ruhenden Verkehr durch integrierte Verkehrsdienstleistungen ermittelt und szenarienbasiert bis ins Jahr 2020 bzw. 2030 prognostiziert. Betrachtet wurden deutschlandweit alle Städte mit mehr als 50.000 Einwohnern.
the CyVerse UK cyberinfrastructure offer to support open science and FAIRness
Creators: name: Minotto, Alice
name: Xingdong Bian
name: Etuk, Anthony
name: Shaw, Felix
name: Soranzo, Nicola
name: Thanki, Anil
name: Tyrrell, Simon
name: Davey, Robert P
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: CyVerse UK is a collaborative cyberinfrastructure for life science, whose objectives are to ensure researchers have free and easy access to HTC resources while lowering the entry barrier to bioinformatics, thanks both to the easy of use, the availability of GUIs and a number of training opportunities.
CyVerse hosts a number of projects such as COPO and Grassroots, relevant due to the increasing number of omics studies in bioinformatics, data management has been proving challenging.
COPO is a brokering service between scientists and repositories, that enables management, aggregation and publication of research outputs. COPO eases the process of metadata attribution by presenting an intuitive interface and a wizard to guide the user. COPO also manages accessions of submitted objects, enabling their finding and reusing.
Grassroots aims to facilitate consistent approaches to generating, processing and disseminating public wheat datasets so that efforts in wheat research can be translated into community valuable resources thanks to effective sharing and re-use of data.
On the computational side, CyVerse UK offers versionised applications users can run both using an API and or through a web interface. The HTCondor pool also accept submissions from a private Galaxy instance reserved to collaborators at BeCA in Kenya.
Not only researchers from the UK, but also from the rest of Europe, and in some measure from other continents benefit from these applications.
Following the recent expansion of the infrastructure, CyVerse UK offers on demand virtual machines to researchers to support development, training, collaborative virtual laboratories and host servers.
Applying cognitive patterns to support software tool development
Creators: name: Farah, Hanna Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.
subject: Computer Science.

description: This research was motivated by the development of a set of cognitive patterns [3], and the hypothesis that those patterns could lead to innovative and useful features in software development environments. Cognitive patterns are descriptions of ways people think and act when exploring or explaining software. In this research we focused on the Temporal Details cognitive patterns, which describe the dynamics of the changes in someone's mental model. The main objective of this research, therefore, is to determine to what extent software engineering tool features could be derived from the cognitive patterns, specifically belonging to the Temporal Details hierarchy. As the first step in our research, we analysed current tool support for cognitive patterns. The second step was to create and evaluate a list of potential new features based on the cognitive patterns. Thirdly, we developed a prototype for our most promising feature entitled Temporal Model Explorer (TME). This prototype helps people understand and manipulate the history of a software model. Users can use a slider to browse the history of the construction of a UML diagram from its point of creation to its current state. Navigation can be performed at different levels of granularity. Design rationale can be included at any point in the history. The final step was to evaluate the TME prototype with twelve participants from different backgrounds. The participants found the tool useful, and agreed that they would use it if it was available in their work environment.
T Cell Phenotype and T Cell Receptor Repertoire in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder
Creators: name: Patas, Kostas
name: Willing, Anne
name: Demiralay, Cüneyt
name: Engler, Jan Broder
name: Lupu, Andreea
name: Ramien, Caren
name: Schäfer, Tobias
name: Gach, Christian
name: Stumm, Laura
name: Chan, Kenneth
name: Vignali, Marissa
name: Arck, Petra C.
name: Friese, Manuel A.
name: Pless, Ole
name: Wiedemann, Klaus
name: Agorastos, Agorastos
name: Gold, Stefan M.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: adaptive immunity
subject: major depressive disorder
subject: chemokine receptors
subject: regulatory T cells
subject: T cell receptor repertoire
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: While a link between inflammation and the development of neuropsychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD) is supported by a growing body of evidence, little is known about the contribution of aberrant adaptive immunity in this context. Here, we conducted in-depth characterization of T cell phenotype and T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in MDD. For this cross- sectional case–control study, we recruited antidepressant-free patients with MDD without any somatic or psychiatric comorbidities (n = 20), who were individually matched for sex, age, body mass index, and smoking status to a non-depressed control subject (n = 20). T cell phenotype and repertoire were interrogated using a combination of flow cytometry, gene expression analysis, and next generation sequencing. T cells from MDD patients showed significantly lower surface expression of the chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CCR6, which are known to be central to T cell differentiation and trafficking. In addition, we observed a shift within the CD4+ T cell compartment characterized by a higher frequency of CD4+CD25highCD127low/− cells and higher FOXP3 mRNA expression in purified CD4+ T cells obtained from patients with MDD. Finally, flow cytometry-based TCR Vβ repertoire analysis indicated a less diverse CD4+ T cell repertoire in MDD, which was corroborated by next generation sequencing of the TCR β chain CDR3 region. Overall, these results suggest that T cell phenotype and TCR utilization are skewed on several levels in patients with MDD. Our study identifies putative cellular and molecular signatures of dysregulated adaptive immunity and reinforces the notion that T cells are a pathophysiologically relevant cell population in this disorder.
title: Testing the bioaccumulation of manufactured nanomaterials in the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea using a new test method
title: Testing the bioaccumulation of manufactured nanomaterials in the freshwater bivalve Corbicula fluminea using a new test method
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kühr, Sebastian
name: Meisterjahn, Boris
name: Schröder, Nicola
name: Völker, Doris
name: Schwirn, Kathrin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Increasing amounts of manufactured nanomaterials (MNMs) are produced for their industrial use and released to the environment by the usage or disposal of the products. As depending on their annual production rate, substances are subjected to PBT assessment, the availability of reliable methods to evaluate these endpoints for (corresponding) nanoforms/MNMs becomes relevant. The classical method to elucidate the bioaccumulation potential of chemicals has been the flow-through study with fish, which has limitations as regards meeting the requirements of MNMs. Most MNMs tend to sediment in the aquatic environment. Thus, maintenance of stable exposure conditions for bioaccumulation testing with fish is nearly impossible to achieve when using MNMs. Corbicula fluminea, a freshwater filter-feeding bivalve distributed worldwide, has been previously shown to ingest and accumulate MNMs present in the water phase. To investigate the suitability of C. fluminea for bioaccumulation testing we developed a new flow-through system to expose mussels under constant exposure conditions. Two nanoparticles (NPs), the AgNP NM 300K and the TiO2NP NM 105, were applied. In addition, C. fluminea was exposed to AgNO3 as a source of dissolved Ag+ to compare the bioaccumulation of Ag in dissolved and nanoparticulate forms. For each MNM exposure scenario we were able to determine steady-state bioaccumulation factors. BAFss values of 31 and 128 for two NM 300K concentrations (0.624 and 6.177 (my)g Ag per L) and 6150 and 9022 for TiO2 (0.099 and 0.589 (my)g TiO2 per L) showed the exposure dependence of the BAFss estimates. The progression of metal uptake and elimination in the soft tissue provided clear indications that the uptake and thus accumulation is mainly driven by the uptake of NPs and less of dissolved ions. © The Royal Society of Chemistry
Saponin-based adjuvants induce cross-presentation in dendritic cells by intracellular lipid body formation
Creators: name: Den Brok, Martijn H.
name: Bull, Christian
name: Wassink, Melissa
name: De Graaf, Annemarie M.
name: Wagenaars, Jori A.
name: Minderman, Marthe
name: Thakur, Mayank
name: Amigorena, Sebastian
name: Rijke, Eric O.
name: Schrier, Carla C.
name: Adema, Gosse J.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Adjuvants
subject: Antigen-presenting cells
subject: Tumour immunology
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Saponin-based adjuvants (SBAs) are being used in animal and human (cancer) vaccines, as they induce protective cellular immunity. Their adjuvant potency is a factor of inflammasome activation and enhanced antigen cross-presentation by dendritic cells (DCs), but how antigen cross-presentation is induced is not clear. Here we show that SBAs uniquely induce intracellular lipid bodies (LBs) in the CD11b+ DC subset in vitro and in vivo. Using genetic and pharmacological interference in models for vaccination and in situ tumour ablation, we demonstrate that LB induction is causally related to the saponin- dependent increase in cross-presentation and T-cell activation. These findings link adjuvant activity to LB formation, aid the application of SBAs as a cancer vaccine component, and will stimulate development of new adjuvants enhancing T-cell-mediated immunity.
Paid Content im Internet: Eine Studie über Erfahrungen und Trends
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
name: Leimstoll, Uwe
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB), Institut für angewandte Betriebsökonomie (IAB)
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Studie
subject: Electronic Markets
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Schon die klassischen Nationalökonomen haben uns seit David Ricardo gelehrt, dass die Knappheit eines Gutes dessen Preis massgeblich bestimmt. Nun sind Informationen im Internet nicht gerade knapp und so verwundert es wenig, dass die Zahlungsbereitschaft der Internet-Konsumenten bisher eher gering war. Dennoch geben quantitative Studien verstärkt Hinweise darauf, dass heute mit zahlungspflichtigen Inhalten und Services auch im Internet zunehmend Geld verdient werden kann.Auf eine Initiative der UBS hin kam ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt mit dem Marktforschungsunternehmen mrc, dem Branchenmagazin Netzwoche und der Fachhochschule beider Basel zustande. In Gruppendiskussionen sollte herausgefunden werden, welche Erfahrungen professionelle Internetnutzer bisher mit zahlungspflichtigen Inhalten gemacht haben.
Gute Praxis der Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Deutschland
Creators: name: Kind, Christian
name: Buth, Mareike
name: Peters, Max
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Folgen des Klimawandels
subject: Gute Praxis der Anpassung
subject: Kriterien Guter Praxis
subject: Klimafolgen
subject: Kosten und Nutzen von Anpassungsmaßnahmen
subject: entscheidungsstützungssystem
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Ziel des vorliegenden Abschlussberichts ist die Herausarbeitung von Kriterien der guten Praxis für Maßnahmen zurAnpassung an den Klimawandel. Obwohl eine Vielzahl von Publikationen in Form von wissenschaftlichen Artikeln oder praktischen Handbüchern beziehungsweise Leitlinien zu Anpassungsmaßnahmen existiert, gibt es bislang nur vereinzelt Ansätze zur Systematisierung und Evaluierung guter Praxis bei Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Die Erarbeitung eines Sets von Kriterien zur Beurteilung guter Anpassungspraxis soll privaten und öffentlichen Akteuren eine Orientierungshilfe bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel geben.
Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de

description: Ziel des vorliegenden Abschlussberichts ist die Herausarbeitung von Kriterien der guten Praxis für Maßnahmen zur ⁠Anpassung an den Klimawandel⁠. Obwohl eine Vielzahl von Publikationen in Form von wissenschaftlichen Artikeln oder praktischen Handbüchern beziehungsweise Leitlinien zu Anpassungsmaßnahmen existiert, gibt es bislang nur vereinzelt Ansätze zur Systematisierung und Evaluierung guter Praxis bei Anpassungsmaßnahmen. Die Erarbeitung eines Sets von Kriterien zur Beurteilung guter Anpassungspraxis soll privaten und öffentlichen Akteuren eine Orientierungshilfe bei der Anpassung an den Klimawandel geben.
ПУТИ РАЗВИТИИ ИНТЕРЕСОВ СТУДЕНТОВ  НА ЗАНЯТИЯХ РУССКОГО  ЯЗЫКА В ВУЗЕ.
Creators: name: Мирзалиев, Толибжон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассматривается вопрос развития интересов и стремлений студентов, а также анализируется проблемы возникающие в процессе занятий.
R&D Expenditure and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Australian Mining Firms
Creators: name: Wijayakusuma, Muhammad Annur
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In the context of the Australian economy, the mining industry has played a significant role, with an increasing percentage of export share over the years, with 60 per cent of the national export hare in 2019 as its peak. However, the mining industry faces a challenge in determining mineral prices that heavily rely on the condition of the global economy, particularly the change in global demand for and supply of minerals. This situation makes it imperative for mining firms to maintain their sustainability and competitive advantage. Conducting and spending on research and development (R&D) is essential to reducing operational costs while increasing productivity, which indirectly influences firm performance. In fact, on the contrary, spending on R&D among firms in the mining industry is very low and in steady decline.

Using the data of mining firms listed on the ASX in the period 2006-2017, this study uses system general method of moment (GMM) to understand the influence of R&D expenditure on firm performance at the firm level. Firm performance is measured using profitability, revenue growth and Tobin's q by controlling
Leverage, firm size, previous year profit, prior year revenue growth, and year dummies since they influence a firm's decision to conduct R&D activities. The findings show that spending on R&D activities in mining firms has a significant relationship with firm profitability and revenue growth. A similar finding for the relationship between spending on R&D activities and Tobin's q after controlling profitability is also reported. The results confirm the importance of focusing on R&D activities among mining firms which contributes to the body of knowledge and addresses the paucity of research on the influence of R&D expenditure on firm performance of the Australian mining industry. For policymakers and the industry, this study provides empirical evidence to design more effective policies and adopt broad-ranging stimulus programs and adjust various taxes and spending programs simultaneously. Finally, this study recommends that the Australian Government, especially the Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources, maintain a strong relationship with the mining industry as one of the top economic growth contributors. This strong relationship is essential to provide support for the mining equipment, technology and service (METS) sector to sustain the mining industry in Australia.
D1.6: Validation of degradation mechanisms and diagnostics in demonstration
Creators: name: Pivac, Ivan
name: Barbir, Frano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Accelerated stress test
Degradation rate
Long term testing
Low frequency impedance
Test bench
Trailer
Unsteady operating conditions

description: The objective of this task was to validate the models of degradation mechanisms early developed against data from experiments and demonstration, in particular by quantifying the time scale of accelerated testing protocols against long-term degradation data. This was possible by comparing the results from the 2000 hours stack run at EK with the degradation rates observed during the accelerated stress tests at FESB. An equivalent of 0.75 to 1.23 cycles in the accelerated stress test to one hour of stack operating time has been obtained, depending whether the cell was allowed rejuvenation or not. Unfortunately, because of unsteady operating conditions and because of the short duration of stacks operation at the test bench and in the trailer, it was not possible to detect any degradation patterns in order to compare them to the results from the accelerated stress tests. Previously proposed and developed method for single measurement of low frequency impedance intercept was first tested on full stack at EK and then incorporated in the trailer as a predictive function of the control unit. During the commissioning and trial runs of the trailer, an attempt was made to measure low frequency impedance.
Auswirkungen des E-Commerce auf die Wertschöpfungsstrukturen im B2C-Einzelhandel: Erkenntnisse aus der Schweiz
Creators: name: Leimstoll, Uwe
name: Wölfle, Ralf
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: In vielen europäischen Ländern entwickelt sich der B2C-E-Commerce rasant. Er führt zu einer Verschärfung des Wettbewerbs und bringt Chancen und Risiken für die Marktteilnehmer, insbesondere für den traditionellen Handel. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den daraus resultierenden Strukturwandel und analysiert aktuelle Entwicklungen. Die empirische Analyse basiert auf dem Datenmaterial einer langfristig angelegten qualitativen Studie über den Schweizer B2C-E-Commerce. Für die Studie werden seit 2009 jährlich rund 30 E-Commerce-Verantwortliche marktprägender Unternehmen interviewt. Es zeigt sich, dass im Handel unter Einbezug des E-Commerce neue Funktionsbündel entstehen. Dies erlaubt einerseits eine Spezialisierung über Kernkompetenzen, andererseits eröffnen sich neue Positionierungsmöglichkeiten. Die Schaffung von Zugängen zum Kunden stellt sich als eine Schlüsselfunktion für den Erfolg des Handels heraus.
E-Business als Lösungsansatz für EAI
Creators: name: Dettling, Walter
name: Schubert, Petra
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Ausgewogene Nutzenverteilung und Konzentration aufs Wesentliche sind Basis einer erfolgreichen E-Business-Integration. Wachsende Bedeutung kommt den ERP-Systemen zu. So das Fazit aus der Analyse von 16 Schweizer Fallbeispielen.
title: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS IN CIVIL COURT
title: AN EXAMINATION OF JUDICIAL SELECTION AND COURT SPECIALIZATION ON CASE MANAGEMENT
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pusateri, Julia Rose
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: protection order
case management
judicial selection
court specialization
Domestic Violence

description: Domestic violence is a public health crisis and there is a need to address the gaps in the literature on institutional responses to domestic violence. Civil protective orders are one avenue for victims to pursue when criminal charges are not available. This dissertation addresses two institutional factors that impact a judge’s efficiency in case management: judicial selection and court specialization.
description: In addressing judicial selection, this dissertation argues that elections create external pressures that impact a judge’s ability to manage their caseload. Elections incentivize judges to be responsive to public pressures, while appointments insulate judges from this cyclical pressure. By including both national analysis and a statewide case study, this dissertation tests the role of judicial selection on clearance rates and the role of county and election specific factors in the case study of Wisconsin. Results for the national analysis indicate that partisan and nonpartisan elections see a significant decrease in clearance rates compared to their appointed counterparts; elections do increase clearance rates, but this increase does not overcome the deficit identified. The case study in Wisconsin determined that elections have a negative impact on clearance rates, but not on the rate of granting protective orders.
description: The analysis of judicial selection theorizes that specialization in courts increases efficiency leading to increased clearance rates and a change in the rate of granting protective orders. Specialized courts can include domestic violence courts, designating judges to hear a case type, or specialized docket calendar. The theory here argues that the alternates to independent courts share the goals of efficiency in case processing and consistent application of the law. The case study in Wisconsin finds that specialization of any kind leads to an increase in case clearance, but no change in granting protective orders. Elections do create a negative influence on clearance rate, but it does not overcome the increase noted by specialization.
description: The findings here provide multiple avenues for researchers, the judicial community, and advocacy agencies to improve going forward. Addressing domestic violence at a higher level is critical to create the changes necessary to ensure judges are prepared for civil domestic violence cases.
Evaluation of a physical activity intervention for new parents: protocol paper for a randomized trial
Creators: name: Quinlan, Alison
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Beauchamp, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1972-
name: Symons Downs, Danielle
name: Warburton, Darren E. R.
name: Blanchard, Chris M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Identifying critical life transitions in people’s physical activity behaviors may illuminate the most opportune intervention apertures for chronic disease prevention. A substantive evidence base now indicates that parenthood is one of these critical transition points for physical activity decline. This study will examine whether a brief theory-based intervention can prevent a decline in physical activity among new parents over 6 months following intervention. This study protocol represents the first dyad-based physical activity initiative in the parenthood literature involving both mothers and fathers; prior research has focused on only mothers or only fathers (albeit limited), and has shown only short-term changes in physical activity. This study will be investigating whether a theory-based physical activity intervention can maintain or improve moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity measured via accelerometry of new parents over a 6 month period following intervention compared to a control group. Methods This study is a 6-month longitudinal randomized controlled trial. Parents are measured at baseline (2 months postpartum) with two assessment points at 6 weeks (3.5 months postpartum) and 3 months (5 months postpartum) and a final follow-up assessment at 6 months (8 months postpartum). The content of the theory-based intervention was derived from the results of our prior longitudinal trial of new parents using an adapted theory of planned behavior framework to predict changes in physical activity. Results A total of 152 couples have been recruited to date. Sixteen couples dropped out after baseline and a total of 88 couples have completed their 6-month measures. Discussion If the intervention proves successful, couple-based physical activity promotion efforts among parents could be a promising avenue to pursue to help mitigate the declines of physical activity levels during parenthood. These findings could inform public health materials and practitioners. Trial registration This trial has been registered with the Clinical Trials Registry maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health on April 19, 2014. The registration ID is NCT02290808 .
The relationship between alpha (8-13 Hz) and 1/fβ activity in spontaneous EEG during rest and dissociative gaseous anaesthesia
Creators: name: Evertz, Rick
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research explores and models the dynamic response of the brain's electrical activity in response to behavioural and pharmacological perturbation. We demonstrate that it is possible to account for two dominant features: the alpha rhythm (8–13 Hz) and its associated attenuation between eyes-closed and eyes-open resting state, and the 1/fβ scaling of the power spectrum, by assuming that the recorded signal is generated by a summation of alpha band oscillatory processes that have a distribution of dampings. In doing so, we provide a novel way to model and understand the genesis of the brain's dynamical activity.
Environmental protection under TTIP
Creators: name: Matthey, Astrid
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: TTIP
subject: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
subject: free trade
subject: environmental standards
subject: Chemicals
subject: Economy | Consumption
subject: Sustainability | Strategies | International matters

description: The declared objective of the planned free trade agreement with the US (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP) is to unify EU and USA standards as much as possible by regulatory cooperation. However, an improper design of regulatory cooperation carries considerable risks for environmental protection in the EU: environmental standards might be lowered and environmental properties of products may be endangered.
Quelle: Verlagsinformation
description: The declared objective of the planned free trade agreement with the US (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – TTIP) is to unify EU and USA standards as much as possible by regulatory cooperation. However, an improper design of regulatory cooperation carries considerable risks for environmental protection in the EU: environmental standards might be lowered and environmental properties of products may be endangered.
Wenn alle Lieferanten gleich wären
Creators: name: Tanner, Christian
Publisher: name: Technica-Verlag
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: E-Procurement
subject: SCM
subject: Supply Chain Management
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: ... gäbe es wahrscheinlich weniger Probleme, speziell in der Systematik der Ansprache und Einbindung. Die FHBB untersuchte im Rahmen des von soft[net] und der UBS unterstützen Projekts «E-Supplier», die Situation der Zulieferbetriebe im E-Procurement.
Investigating the Internal Consistency and the Convergent, Discriminant and Criterion Validity of Self Report Measures for the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorder in a Male Australian Prisoner Population
Creators: name: Mahony, Natasha
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis compared how accurately the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Self-Report, and the Personality Inventory for DMS-5 (both intended for use with the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders from the DSM-5 reliably and validly measured personality disorders when compared to an established measure of personality disorder - the Personality Diagnostic Questionaire - 4th Edition, within a male Australian prisoner population. Additionally, the relationship between the level of impairment and pathological personality traits with the participants' history of aggression was investigated. This provided further information on screening for personality disorders in prisons.
myLandscapes.ch ? Explaining Recommender System Principles in a Web-based Application
Creators: name: Risch, Daniel
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: E-Shop
subject: Personalisierung
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: myLandscapes is a personalization demonstrator offering insight into some common personalization and recommender systems approaches. Instead of products that are offered in e-shops, myLandscapes provides pictures of landscapes which can be rated, labelled and sent to friends. myLandscapes is able to predict future user ratings and to explain similarities both between users and pictures. The predicted values are used to display landscapes based on user?s preferences. The main advantage of offering pictures in this application is that users do not need previous knowledge in a specific domain. People can easily assess whether or not they are attracted by a landscape and therefore cannot only rate pictures without previous knowledge but can also judge resulting predictions at first glance. The application is a first prototype and will be further developed in the future.
La différenciation des étudiants manifestant des tendances suicidaires et non suicidaires à l'Université d'Ottawa et la comparaison des francophones, des anglophones et des allophones quant à leur vécu universitaire.
Creators: name: Arya, Annie Gagnon.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Education, Educational Psychology.

description: La presente etude avait comme buts d'enqueter sur les pensees et comportements suicidaires des etudiants et etudiantes anglophones, francophones et allophones a l'Universite d'Ottawa et de verifier leur perception en regard de la vie universitaire. Mille six cents etudiants ont ete choisis au hasard pour repondre a un questionnaire portant sur la qualite de vie universitaire, sur cetains evenements critiques et sur les manifestations suicidaires. Les resultats obtenus des 578 repondants demontrent que le phenomene suicidaire est present a l'Universite d'Ottawa. Ils revelent aussi que plusieurs differences existent entre le groupe des repondants suicidaires et celui des non-suicidaires ainsi qu'entre les trois groupes culturels, tant au niveau de la qualite de vie universitaire que des evenements critiques vecus.
Management-Entscheide zu Outsourcing, Managed Hosting und ASP - Was Manager wissen müssen!
Creators: name: Dalla Vecchia, Martina
name: Dalla Vecchia, Martin
name: Eugster, Jörg
Publisher: name: BPX
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: ICT
subject: Management
subject: Outsourcing
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Wann lohnt sich IT-Outsourcing?Was sind Managed Services?Was bringt Application Service Providing?Wo sind betriebswirtschaftliche Potenziale?Wie findet man den richtigen Anbieter?Welche Begriffe muss man kennen?Unser Booklet beantwortet Managementfragen! Sie finden Übersichten, Checklisten und WWW-Adressen.
Geschäftsprozessintegration mit Business Software: Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: B2B-Integration
subject: ERP-Systeme
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt die IS-Unterstützung integrierter Geschäftsprozesse in der Praxis. In einem Forschungsprojekt wurden in einem ersten Schritt 13 Integrationslösungen nach einer speziell entwickelten, einheitlichen Systematik detaillierten dokumentiert. Anschliessend fand eine vergleichende Analyse der Fallstudien statt. Dabei kamen die folgenden fünf Haupterkenntnisse heraus: (1) Es gibt vielfältige Integrationsansätze. (2) Fixfertige Standardlösungen gibt es nicht. (3) Der Kunde ist König. (4) Durch die Einbindung von Lieferanten können Prozessoptimierungen erzielt werden. (5) Auf den richtigen IT-Partner kommt es an.
"No Pain, no Change".
Creators: name: Felley, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Netzmedien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: David Kuster von der Junisphere Systems AG und Gabriel Felley von der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz sprechen über ihr gemeinsames, von der KTI gefördertes Projekt.
Konsequenzen technologischer Innovationen für die Vielfalt des Produktangebotes in elektronischen Märkten
Creators: name: Göckel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: Electronic Markets
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Das Internet, elektronische Märkte und innovative Kommunikationstechnologien sind Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit. Die globale Diffusion des Internet und permanenter Fortschritt von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, tragen zur Weiterentwicklung von elektronischen Märkten bei. Virtuelle wie auch konventionelle Unternehmen agieren auf den o.g. Märkten, um neue Formen der Leistungserbringung zu etablieren. Die globale Verfügbarkeit von Informationen sowie die Konvergenz der Kommunikationskanäle zu einer digitalen Plattform, sind Kennzeichen für den Übergang vom Industrie- zum Informationszeitalter. Technologische Innovationen wie bspw. das Telefon oder das weltumspannende Computernetzwerk (Internet), zählen zu den Entwicklungen, die in erster Linie die Art und Weise wie Menschen miteinander kommunizieren, neu gestalten. Die o.g. Technologien können als Primäreffekte bezeichnet werden.