cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Verteilter Namensdienst für dezentrale IP-Telefonie
Creators: name: Baumgart, Ingmar
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: IP-Telefonie
Namensdienst
Peer-to-Peer
Sicherheit
P2PSIP

description: Internet-Telefonie setzt bislang die Bereitstellung einer Infrastruktur mit zentralen Servern voraus. Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist der Entwurf eines dezentralen Systems, das mit Hilfe von Peer-to-Peer-Technologien zukünftig die kostengünstige Erbringung vollständig dezentraler Telefoniedienste über das Internet ermöglicht. Der Schwerpunkt des Entwurfs liegt dabei auf den beiden Aspekten Sicherheit und Effizienz, die sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und somit im Zusammenspiel betrachtet werden.
Efficient Object Detection for High Resolution Images
Creators: name: Lu, Yongxi
name: Javidi, Tara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Efficient generation of high-quality object proposals is an essential step in state-of-the-art object detection systems based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) features. Current object proposal algorithms are computationally inefficient in processing high resolution images containing small objects, which makes them the bottleneck in object detection systems. In this paper we present effective methods to detect objects for high resolution images. We combine two complementary strategies. The first approach is to predict bounding boxes based on adjacent visual features. The second approach uses high level image features to guide a two-step search process that adaptively focuses on regions that are likely to contain small objects. We extract features required for the two strategies by utilizing a pre-trained DCNN model known as AlexNet. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm by showing its performance on a high-resolution image subset of the SUN 2012 object detection dataset.
Separating Galaxies from the Cluster Dark Matter Halo in Abell 611
Creators: name: Monna, A.
name: Seitz, S.
name: Geller, M. J.
name: Zitrin, A.
name: Mercurio, A.
name: Suyu, S. H.
name: Postman, M.
name: Fabricant, D. G.
name: Hwang, H. S.
name: Koekemoer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mass content of galaxies in the core of the galaxy cluster Abell 611. We perform a strong lensing analysis of the cluster core and use velocity dispersion measurements for individual cluster members as additional constraints. Despite the small number of multiply-imaged systems and cluster members with central velocity dispersions available in the core of A611, the addition of velocity dispersion measurements leads to tighter constraints on the mass associated with the galaxy component, and as a result, on the mass associated with the dark matter halo. Without the spectroscopic velocity dispersions, we would overestimate the mass of the galaxy component by a factor of $\sim1.5$, or, equivalently, we would underestimate the mass of the cluster dark halo by $\sim5\%$. We perform an additional lensing analysis using surface brightness (SB) reconstruction of the tangential giant arc. This approach improves the constraints on the mass parameters of the 5 galaxies close to the arc by up to a factor $\sim10$. The galaxy velocity dispersions resulting from the SB analysis are consistent at the 1$σ$ confidence level with the spectroscopic measurements and with the prediction from the simple pointlike analysis. In contrast the truncation radii for 2-3 galaxies depart significantly from the galaxy scaling relation and suggest differences in the stripping history from galaxy to galaxy.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables
Improving the performance of hospitals
Creators: name: Peng, Dejian
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: Nowadays, we are faced with serious challenges in public health worldwide. However, the challenges cannot be solved only in the domain of architecture, medical science or management. A successful hospital building is more than a nice building or an efficient healing machine. Patient journey is such a concept that tries to explore the possibility to solve the problems in hospitals in the domain of hospital architecture and hospital management. In this context, the research proposes a study of patient journey in hospitals from the perspective of architecture on basis of the outcomes achieved in management. Patient journeys are transferred from both clinical and administrative processes to special patterns. Moreover, in such a visual way, both the efficiency and effectiveness of hospitals and patients’ satisfaction during the journeys in hospitals are analyzed with case studies of China and the Netherlands. The system of spatialized patient journeys helps architects and hospital managers broaden their understanding of hospital. And the comparison results from case studies are useful for hospitals in China to improve performance and patients’ satisfaction.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 07 (2022): Improving the performance of hospitals
Variation of the Mn I 539.4 nm line with the solar cycle
Creators: name: Danilovic, S.
name: Solanki, S. K.
name: Livingston, W.
name: Krivova, N.
name: Vince, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a part of the long-term program at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), the Mn I 539.4 nm line has been observed for nearly three solar cycles using the McMath telescope and the 13.5 m spectrograph in double-pass mode. These full-disk spectrophotometric observations revealed an unusually strong change of this line's parameters over the solar cycle. Optical pumping by the Mg II k line was originally proposed to explain these variations. More recent studies have proposed that this is not required and that the magnetic variability might explain it. Magnetic variability is also the mechanism that drives the changes in total solar irradiance variations (TSI). With this work we investigate this proposition quantitatively by using using the model SATIRE-S. We applied exactly the same model atmospheres and value of the free parameter as were used in previous solar irradiance reconstructions to now model the variation in the Mn I 539.4 nm line profile and in neighboring Fe I lines. We compared the results of the theoretical model with KPNO observations. Our result confirms that optical pumping of the Mn I 539.4 nm line by Mg II k is not the main cause of its solar cycle change. It also provides independent confirmation of solar irradiance models which are based on the assumption that irradiance variations are caused by the evolution of the solar surface magnetic flux. The result obtained here also supports the spectral irradiance variations computed by these models.
description: accepted in A&A
The Integration of LADM and IndoorGML to Support the Indoor Navigation Based on the User Access Rights
Creators: name: Alattas, Abdullah
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: Indoor navigation applications are actively investigated and developed due to their capacity to provide users with essential information in the modern extensive building complexes. Therefore, many researchers have developed a range of indoor navigation applications, which have focused on aspects such as localization, indoor route computation, and human spatial cognition. Unfortunately, current indoor navigation systems do not consider the user's access rights when it comes to navigating safely and effectively. This thesis delivers several contributions, which are based on international standards, to provide Indoor navigation aware of the user’s access rights. The thesis proposes: 1) a combined model of ISO’s LADM and OGC’s IndoorGML; 2) an enhancement of the UML class diagram of the conceptual model of IndoorGML; 3) a 2D LADM country profile of the Saudi Arabia; 4) a 3D LADM country profile of Saudi Arabia; 5) a conversion of the combined LADM and IndoorGML conceptual model to a technical model; 6) definitions of access rights for users of indoor environments during crisis based on the integrated model of LADM and IndoorGML; 7) a 3D web-based prototype application for indoor navigation making use of user access rights. The developed concepts and implementation have been acknowledged by the standardization organization ISO and OGC and considered for amending IndoorGML and LADM.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 05 (2022): The Integration of LADM and IndoorGML to Support the Indoor Navigation Based on the User Access Rights
Development and Testing of a Passive Ankle Exoskeleton
Creators: name: Pardoel, Scott
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: PAM
Exoskeleton
Walking
Passive

description: Aging is accompanied by a deterioration of physical abilities. For some this limits their mobility and thus their quality of life. Exoskeletons are a class of walking assist device that help reduce the effort required to walk. Currently, powered exoskeletons suffer from short battery life and thus limited usefulness. This thesis presents the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel unpowered ankle exoskeleton to assist normal walking over long distances. The design incorporates a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (PAM) inflated and used as a passive air spring. To predict the behaviour of the PAM in this distinct application, a distinct dynamic model was developed to include the biaxial stress in the bladder as well as a polytropic gas assumption. Experimental testing was used to validate the model and indicated that the addition of the bladder stress enhanced the performance of the force prediction at low pressure but had negligible impact on the model at higher pressures. The experimental testing also showed that the temperature of the gas inside the PAM varies very slightly during passive elongation cycles, thus, validating an isothermal assumption. Once fabricated, the exoskeleton was tested in human walking trials. Electromyography results showed that the exoskeleton was able to reduced the muscular activation activation of the Soleus muscle, however the results also included a significant reduction in the angular range of motion of the ankle. This is thought to be attributed to an insufficient acclimatization period during the human testing. Furthermore, due to an improper fit of the exoskeleton, the clutch mechanism did not operate as designed, leading to a reduced range of motion of the ankle. The device demonstrated its ability to reduce the effort of the calf muscles during walking, however, further refinements of the device fitting and clutch mechanism are required.
Optimal Mission Planner with Timed Temporal Logic Constraints
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuchen
name: Maity, Dipankar
name: Baras, John S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we present an optimization based method for path planning of a mobile robot subject to time bounded temporal constraints, in a dynamic environment. Temporal logic (TL) can address very complex task specification such as safety, coverage, motion sequencing etc. We use metric temporal logic (MTL) to encode the task specifications with timing constraints. We then translate the MTL formulae into mixed integer linear constraints and solve the associated optimization problem using a mixed integer linear program solver. This approach is different from the automata based methods which generate a finite abstraction of the environment and dynamics, and use an automata theoretic approach to formally generate a path that satisfies the TL. We have applied our approach on several case studies in complex dynamical environments subjected to timed temporal specifications.
description: European Control Conference 2015
The Use of Perioperative Red Blood Cell Transfusions and Their Appropriateness in Liver Resection
Creators: name: Bennett, Sean
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: liver resection
blood transfusion
appropriateness

description: Liver resection, or hepatectomy, is a major abdominal surgery performed most often for the removal of malignant tumors of the liver, either primary or metastatic. It is often associated with significant blood loss and therefore, with blood transfusions. While transfusions are common, there is incomplete knowledge of their effects on clinical outcomes. Furthermore, both current practices and best practices in perioperative blood management, including blood product administration, are not well defined. This manuscript-based thesis will examine the clinical impact, current practices, and appropriate use of perioperative red blood cell transfusions for patients undergoing liver resection.
Effects of Newtonian gravitational self-interaction in harmonically trapped quantum systems
Creators: name: Großardt, André
name: Bateman, James
name: Ulbricht, Hendrik
name: Bassi, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Schrödinger-Newton equation has gained attention in the recent past as a nonlinear modification of the Schrödinger equation due to a gravitational self-interaction. Such a modification is expected from a fundamentally semi-classical theory of gravity, and can therefore be considered a test case for the necessity of the quantisation of the gravitational field. Here we provide a thorough study of the effects of the Schrödinger-Newton equation for a micron-sized sphere trapped in a harmonic oscillator potential. We discuss both the effect on the energy eigenstates and the dynamical behaviour of squeezed states, covering the experimentally relevant parameter regimes.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
Design and Fabrication of Shell Structures
Creators: name: Chiang, Yu-Chou
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: Shell structures carry loads with their thin yet curved shapes. Being thin means shells require little material, which is desirable for minimizing embodied carbon footprints. However, the feature of being curved implies shells require immense effort to design and fabricate. To address the challenges, this dissertation consists of three parts: developing a design algorithm based on radial basis functions (RBFs), inventing a fabrication technique based on reconfigurable mechanisms, and producing prototypes based on the new algorithm and mechanism. The first part of this dissertation introduces a new algorithm based on RBFs for designing smooth membrane shells, which is more versatile than existing methods. The algorithm can generate membranes with both tensile and compressive stresses. It can also tweak an initial shape to meet free-edge conditions. It can also incorporate horizontal loads in the form-finding process. The second part of the dissertation presents a new system of flat-to-curved mechanisms, which allows a shell to be fabricated in a flat configuration and deployed into a double-curved state. Such a mechanism consists of panels connected by tilted hinges. The mechanism can contract non-homogeneously and change its Gaussian curvature. The last part of this dissertation demonstrates the integral application of the RBFs form-finding algorithm and the flat-to-curved mechanisms. The prototypes designed and produced deliver form-found shapes that have spans ranging from 0.2 to 4 meters. This dissertation contributes to the development and distribution of shell structures by developing computer algorithms and digital fabrication techniques to minimize the hurdles of designing and fabricating shell structures.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 03 (2022): Design and Fabrication of Shell Structures
Sozioökonomische Bewertung von Chemikalien : Entwicklung und Evaluation einer neuartigen und umfassenden sozioöko-nomischen Bewertungsmethode, basierend auf der SEEBA-LANCE® Methode zur Bewertung von Chemikalien unter REACh
Creators: name: Kölsch, Daniela
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sozioökonomische Analyse
SEEBALANCE
REACh

description: REACh soll die menschliche Gesundheit und die Umwelt schützen. Besonders besorgniserregende Substanzen sollen dafür unter REACh in einer sozioökonomischen Analyse (SEA) untersucht werden. Die SEEBALANCE der BASF SE ist ein mögliches Instrument dafür. Obwohl die SEEBALANCE bereits wesentliche Kenngrößen einer SEA beinhaltet, werden einige Aspekte möglicherweise nicht hinreichend adressiert. Ziel der Arbeit ist, die wesentlichen Anforderungen an eine SEA in die SEEBALANCE zu implementieren.
The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"!
Creators: name: Hauser, Stephan
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: Oil is a dangerous product. Its transport, storage and refining present numerous environmental and health challenges. Local, national and European regulators have taken steps to locate it in space since the beginning of industrial oil drilling in the 1860s. But key leaders of the oil industry in Northwest Europe, and beyond, have also served as policy makers and aimed to keep legal constraints (decrees, laws, taxes) as limited as possible to prevent the emergence of obstacles in the development of their industry. This process led to a cruel lack of anticipation in the design of rules and urban spaces when dealing with safety. Public authorities continuously established limited frames upon the oil industry and wrote rules in general terms to protect this strategic industry. Today, the pollution and the risks oil companies generated restrict opportunities for the future re-use of industrial sites, and there has been little done on the law-making scale to guide the transformation of oil spaces. Using the case of port cities like Dunkirk, in France, that have emerged as oil ports for their respective countries over the last 150 years, this thesis examines the emergence and application of spatial and environmental regulations along with oil industrial expansion. The objective is to highlight the need to shift from the current reactive process of improving legal frames after a disaster to one that anticipate and deal with the visible and invisible oil heritage.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 02 (2022): The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"!
On self-similar solutions to a kinetic equation arising in weak turbulence theory for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Kierkels, A. H. M.
name: Velázquez, J. J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35C06, 35B40, 35D30, 35Q20, 45G05

description: We construct a family of self-similar solutions with fat tails to a quadratic kinetic equation. This equation describes the long time behaviour of weak solutions with finite mass to the weak turbulence equation associated to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The solutions that we construct have finite mass, but infinite energy. In J. Stat. Phys. 159:668-712, self-similar solutions with finite mass and energy were constructed. Here we prove upper and lower exponential bounds on the tails of these solutions.
Spherically Symmetric N-body Simulations with General Relativistic Dynamics
Creators: name: Adamek, Julian
name: Gosenca, Mateja
name: Hotchkiss, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a cosmological context, we study the behaviour of collisionless particles in the weak field approximation to General Relativity, allowing for large gradients of the fields and relativistic velocities for the particles. We consider a spherically symmetric setup such that high resolution simulations are possible with minimal computational resources. We test our formalism by comparing it to two exact solutions: the Schwarzschild solution and the Lemaître-Tolman-Bondi model. In order to make the comparison we consider redshifts and lensing angles of photons passing through the simulation. These are both observable quantities and hence are gauge independent. We demonstrate that our scheme is more accurate than a Newtonian scheme, correctly reproducing the leading-order post-Newtonian correction. In addition, our setup is able to handle shell-crossings, which is not possible within a fluid model. Furthermore, by introducing angular momentum, we find configurations corresponding to bound objects which may prove useful for numerical studies of the effects of modified gravity, dynamical dark energy models or even compact bound objects within General Relativity.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Videobasierte Wahrnehmung markierter Kreuzungen mit lokalem Markierungstest und Bayes'scher Modellierung
Creators: name: Duchow, Christian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Maschinelle Wahrnehmung
Beobachtungsmodell
Kreuzungsmodellierung
Zeitliche Verfolgung
Lokales Modell

description: Im Rahmen der Arbeit werden Fahrstreifen durch eine Verkettung von Segmenten modelliert. Ein Beobachtungsmodell verknüpft die Bildsignalinhalte mit den Hypothesen. Eine Bayes'sche zeitliche Verfolgung stellt die Berücksichtigung des zeitlichen Zusammenhangs sicher. Für die Umsetzung des Beobachtungsmodells wird ein Testverfahren entwickelt, das einen gegebenen Bildbereich auf die Präsenz einer Markierung hin untersucht.
title: Решение инженерных задач в пакете MathCAD
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Воскобойников Ю.Е.
name:  Задорожный А.Ф.
name:  Литвинов Л.А.
name:  Черный Ю.Г.
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)
Year: 2013

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрено решение различных инженерно-технических задач в математическом пакете MathCAD версии 14, как с использованием встроенных (стандартных) функций пакета, так и с программированием необходимых вычислительных алгоритмов. Изложение сопровождается большим числом примеров и задач, что способствует лучшему усвоению материала. В конце глав приводятся вопросы и задания для самопроверки полученных знаний. Учебное пособие предназначено для бакалавров, обучающихся по направлениям «Строительство», «Информационные системы и технологии», при изучении учебных курсов «Информатика», «Математические пакеты». Учебное пособие будет полезно магистрантам, аспирантам и инженерам, использующим в своих расчетах этот математический пакет.
description: The tutorial discusses the solution of various engineering problems in mathematical package MathCAD version 14 like using a built-in (standard) functions of the package and programming the necessary computational algorithms. The presentation is accompanied by a large number of examples and problems that promotes the best mastering of a material. At the end of chapters are questions and tasks for self-examination of knowledge. The textbook is intended for students majoring in "Construction", "Information systems and technologies", the study courses "Informatics", "Mathematical packages". Study guide will be useful to undergraduates, postgraduates and engineers, using in their calculations this mathematical package.
Elevating dental training to reduce HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer incidence rates
Creators: name: nelson, joni
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: curriculum development
subject: dental education
subject: hpv
subject: oral cancer

description: Background. Often, the first signs of oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), particularly Human papillomavirus infection (HPV)-related OPC, can be detected during a head and neck examination performed by an oral health care provider. Since the incidence of HPV-related OPC has increased significantly, it has become more important that these providers are familiar with the presenting signs and symptoms of OPC and its relation to HPV. Furthermore dentists should be empowered to encourage vaccination against HPV, perform oral screenings, and educate patients around the risk factors for HPV-related OPC. Rationale. In accordance with Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), standards for pre-doctoral dental education programs state that dental graduates should be prepared to: screen and assess for head and neck cancer, health promotion and disease prevention, (2-24) and have the interpersonal and communications skills to function successfully in a multicultural work environment (2-17). Therefore, we conducted a comprehensive review of the literature to examine pre-doctoral dental students’ 1) awareness of the connection between OPC and HPV 2) readiness to assess OPC 3) delivery of patient education about OPC and its relation to HPV and 4) identify existing OPC and HPV training in the curricula.
Rules, Power and Trust
Creators: name: Koolwijk, Jelle
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2022

description: The aim of this PhD project was to explore the multi-level interplay between the interorganizational structures and interpersonal relations in building project organizations. In the first two studies, quantitative approaches were used to validate assumptions about how interorganizational structures are shaped by actors and how interpersonal relationships affect the effectiveness of project teams in the construction industry. These two studies were integrated in a third qualitative case study that explored the interplay between inter-organizational structures and interpersonal relationships in long-term partnerships. The third study sampled three cases of strategic partnerships which are characterized as longterm, highly integrated and collaborative relationships. To gain theoretical sensitivity in this thirdstudy, a conceptual framework was developed using the concepts from the first two studies. The major finding across the three studies is that the way integration in the supply chain develops is highly dependent on the interaction between project actors. The way actors use the interorganizational rules of a project organization, influences the level of trust and no-blame culture that emerges through interaction. In turn, the level of trust can influence the rules of actors. More specifically, dominant actors seem to able to change the rules of the system. When a dominant actor uses his power position to change the rules of the social system, it can make other actors lose their commitment to the partnership. This research shows that successful long-term and close collaboration between firms continuously requires careful consideration of how the organizational structures are designed and used and their effect on relationships between actors. One should not assume that integrated contracts and integrative practices that have been shown to work in one project, will automatically lead to close and long-lasting relationships between actors in another project.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 01 (2022): Rules, Power and Trust
Supplemental materials for paper: Penerapan Metodologi SQUARE Sebagai Alat Analisa Keamanan Sistem Pada Aplikasi E-commerce (Prestashop)
Creators: name: Malese, Lasarus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Engineering
subject: CMS , E-commerce, Prestashop, SQUARE

description: Bisnis Online menjadi bisnis yang diburu banyak orang karena banyak kelebihan-kelebihan yang diperoleh melalui bisnis ini seperti modal yang tidak terlalu besar tetapi bisa menghasilkan uang yang besar, Salah satu bisnis Online yang sangat marak saat ini adalah perdagangan elektronik (E-commerce). PrestaShop adalah salah satu CMS Open source E-commerce yang bersifat gratis yang dapat digunakan untuk membuat sebuah website E-commerce. Seiring dengan meningkatnya pemanfaatan aplikasi CMS E-commerce yang bersifat Open Source, akan semakin banyak pihak-pihak yang berusaha mencari kelemahan-kelemahan yang ada. Celah keamanan ini dapat dijadikan sebuah bentuk serangan yang beraneka jenis dan tingkat kecangihannya. Dikarenakan aplikasi E-commerce yang digunakan yaitu Prestashop, berupa aplikasi Open Source maka keamanannya belum sepenuhnya terjamin. Oleh karena itu, perlu dilakukan penelitian untuk menganalisis kebutuhan keamanan informasi dengan menggunakan metodologi SQUARE, sehingga rekomendasi bisa diberikan sejak tahap awal sebelum aplikasi ini dipergunakan dan dipublish. Metodologi yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metodologi SQUARE yang terdiri dari sembilan langkah proses yang dikembangkan untuk membantu menganalisis kebutuhan keamanan aplikasi E-commerce. Hasil penelitian ini, dapat disimpulkan bahwa metodologi SQUARE sangat membantu dalam melakukan analisis kebutuhan keamanan sistem dalam pengembangan sistem berupa aplikasi E-commerce yang menggunakan CMS Prestashop.
Ein neues Konzept für die Trajektoriengenerierung und -stabilisierung in zeitkritischen Verkehrsszenarien
Creators: name: Werling, Moritz
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Trajektorienplanung
Trajektoriengenerierung
Trajektorienregelung
Dynamische Verkehrsszenarien
Autonome Fahrzeuge

description: Durch den Einsatz autonomer Fahrzeuge kann der Straßenverkehr effizienter, komfortabler und vor allem sicherer gestaltet werden. Neben der hierfür erforderlichen Umfeldwahrnehmung stellen besonders die Bewegungsplanung und -ausführung zeitkritischer Fahrmanöver zur Beherrschung von dynamischen Verkehrsszenarien eine große Herausforderung dar. Herkömmliche Verfahren, die trotz trickreicher Modifikationen dieser nicht gewachsen sind, werden konsequent durch trajektorienbasierte Konzepte ersetzt.
Mitigating the Risks in Energy Retrofits of Residential Buildings in China
Creators: name: Jia, Ling
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2021

description: To speed up residential energy retrofitting in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter(HSCW) zone, the barriers to retrofitting projects need elimination. Energy retrofitting contributes to improving building quality and living comfort, but has not been accepted by the public. It stems from poor project performance in quality, time, costs, etc. The risk is an essential factor hindering such project objectives and project success. Residential energy retrofitting in China is exposed to various risks due to uncertainties regarding finance, organization, coordination, technology, etc. This thesis thus aims to deepen the understanding of risks in the whole process of residential energy retrofitting to smoothen its implementation and develop risk mitigation strategies for the HSCW climate zone of China. The thesis adopts Transaction Costs Theory (TCT) to identify the risks in the whole process of project implementation and assesses the importance of these risks in both objective and subjective aspects. Given the importance of homeowners-related risks and the key role of the government in retrofitting projects, this research develops s series of develop strategies for risk mitigation from the viewpoints of both homeowners and the government. The thesis contributes to the body of knowledge by conducting a systematic exploration of risks in retrofitting projects. In terms of the practical contributions, it does not only enable project managers to recognize the priority of project risks, but also help the government tackle these issues at its source for promotion of residential energy retrofitting.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 24 (2021): Mitigating the Risks in Energy Retrofits of Residential Buildings in China
Strategic power plant investment planning under fuel and carbon price uncertainty
Creators: name: Geiger, Ansgar
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Power Plant Investment Planning
Real Options
Fundamental Electricity Market Models
Dynamic Programming
Approximate Dynamic Programming

description: The profitability of power plant investments depends strongly on uncertain fuel and carbon prices. In this doctoral thesis, we combine fundamental electricity market models with stochastic dynamic programming to evaluate power plant investments under uncertainty. The application of interpolation-based stochastic dynamic programming and approximate dynamic programming allows us to consider a greater variety of stochastic fuel and carbon price scenarios compared to other approaches.
Dreidimensional nanostrukturierte und superhydrophobe mikrofluidische Systeme zur Tröpfchengenerierung und -handhabung
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Laura
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Tröpfchenfluidik
Oberflächenmodifikation
Nanostrukturen

description: Neue Mikrofluidiksysteme bieten die Möglichkeit für innovative biomedizinische Anwendungen, wie die Verkapselung von einzelnen Zellen, eingesetzt zu werden. Tröpfchenbasierte Systeme sind in der Lage biologische Prozesse, die in kleinen Tröpfchen ablaufen, präzise nach Ort und Zeit aufzulösen, wobei die Tröpfchen ein konstantes Tröpfchenvolumen aufweisen müssen. Ein Ansatz ist, mikrofluidische Systeme mit superhydrophoben Kanälen zu fertigen, was im Rahmen dieser Arbeit gezeigt wurde.
Free transmission problems
Creators: name: Amaral, Marcelo
name: Teixeira, Eduardo V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R35, 35B65

description: We study transmission problems with free interfaces from one random medium to another. Solutions are required to solve distinct partial differential equations, $\mbox{L}_{+}$ and $\mbox{L}_{-}$, within their positive and negative sets respectively. A corresponding flux balance from one phase to another is also imposed. We establish existence and $L^{\infty}$ bounds of solutions. We also prove that variational solutions are non-degenerate and develop the regularity theory for solutions of such free boundary problems.
description: Paper from Marcelo Amaral's thesis, distinguished at the 2015 Carlos Gutierrez prize for best thesis
title: Miguel Luís Jacob
Creators: name: Conceição, Margarida
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica sobre Miguel Luís Jacob, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Conceição, Margarida Tavares da. 2022. Miguel Luís Jacob in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Detection and characterization of inclusions in impedance tomography
Creators: name: Schmitt, Susanne
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Inverse Problem
Electrical Impedance Tomography
Factorization Method

description: The topic of this work are two further developments of the Factorization method for electrical impedance tomography. We present a modification of this method that is capable of detecting mixed inclusions, i.e. both inclusions with a higher as well as inclusions with a lower conductivity than the background medium. In addition, we derive a new method to compute the conductivity inside inclusions after they have been localized.
Green Climate Control
Creators: name: Armijos Moya, Tatiana
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2021

description: Several studies have demonstrated the potential of botanical biofiltration and phytoremediation to remove indoor pollutants and improve overall comfort. However, there is a lack of evidence on how indoor greenery affects the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), particularly on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). The main goal of this research project was to explore and evaluate the efficacy of an active plant-based system in terms of IAQ and being able to answer the main research question: “Can an active plant-based system improve the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)?” This was achieved through laboratory studies of several plant-based systems, including chemical, physical and sensorial evaluations as well as qualitative and quantitative assessments. Some of the outcomes of this research are described below: – To develop an effective plant-based system the proper selection of its components is essential. – In real settings, the concentration of the gaseous pollutants is present in lower levels and current equipment are not able to detect them. Therefore, it is clear and confirmed that physical, chemical and sensory assessments are crucial to evaluate the real impact of plant‑based system in the IAQ. – In this project, different substrates and plants were tested and it became clear that the substrate is an important ally in reducing gaseous pollutants, such as formaldehyde. – The polluted air needs to be transported to the vicinity of the plant-based system to be able to uptake the gaseous pollutant. Therefore, an active plant-based system is needed to potentialize the impact of such systems in the IAQ since the air has to be forced to go through the system to achieve the biofiltration process. – An indoor forest is required to meet the minimum standards for ventilation rates in breathing zones just with plants without any extra mechanical ventilation.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 23 (2021): Green Climate Control
Hybride Funkkanalmodellierung für ultrabreitbandige MIMO-Systeme
Creators: name: Janson, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Kanalmodellierung
UWB
Mehrantennensysteme

description: In diesem Buch werden die Eigenschaften des ultrabreitbandigen und richtungsaufgelößten Funkkanals umfassend analysiert. Auf Basis von strahlenoptischen Verfahren werden zwei hybride Modellierungsansätze vorgeschlagen, welche die Streuprozesse im Funkkanal nachbilden. Die Modelle werden mit Messungen verifiziert und in Systemsimulationen eines MIMO-UWB Kommunikationssystems eingesetzt. Anhand dieser Simulationen wird der Leitfaden zum Design von Antennenarrays für solche Systeme abgeleitet.
Ronda
Creators: name: Andrade Castro, Óscar
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2021

description: This dissertation focuses on architectural education and practice as a collective experience, examining the particular case of the PUCV School of Architecture and Design and Ciudad Abierta in Chile. The study asks whether the culture of collectivity that characterises the school has served as a supporting structure for its artistic and pedagogical project and if so, which elements configure the collective ways of studying and practising at this school. The dissertation delves into these questions by following the trail of a concept that crystallises the school’s collective ethos: The Ronda. This notion refers to a collective working format practised by the members of the school and Ciudad Abierta, through which they carry out their fundamental proposals and projects. As a result, the school set the conditions for the formative experience by constructing a creative milieu in common, understood as a specific environment shaped by commonality across the spheres of life, work, and study. By comprehending a school as an expanded network of communities, this dissertation provides insights on how architectural training can diversify its practices, spaces, and frameworks in new configurations beyond the academic realm and complementary to university institutions. Furthermore, proposing the school as a constellation of communities offers a perspective on alternative modes of and articulations between architectural pedagogy, practice, and research.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 22 (2021): Ronda
Status and Plans for the Array Control and Data Acquisition System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Creators: name: Oya, I.
name: Fuessling, M.
name: Schwanke, U.
name: Wegner, P.
name: Balzer, A.
name: Berge, D.
name: Borkowski, J.
name: Camprecios, J.
name: Colonges, S.
name: Colome, J.
name: Champion, C.
name: Conforti, V.
name: Gianotti, F.
name: Flour, T. Le
name: Lindemann, R.
name: Lyard, E.
name: Mayer, M.
name: Melkumyan, D.
name: Punch, M.
name: Tanci, C.
name: Schmidt, T.
name: Schwarz, J.
name: Tosti, G.
name: Verma, K.
name: Weinstein, A.
name: Wiesand, S.
name: Wischnewski, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of different sizes. The CTA performance requirements and the inherent complexity associated with the operation, control and monitoring of such a large distributed multi-telescope array leads to new challenges in the field of the gamma-ray astronomy. The ACTL (array control and data acquisition) system will consist of the hardware and software that is necessary to control and monitor the CTA arrays, as well as to time-stamp, read-out, filter and store -at aggregated rates of few GB/s- the scientific data. The ACTL system must be flexible enough to permit the simultaneous automatic operation of multiple sub-arrays of telescopes with a minimum personnel effort on site. One of the challenges of the system is to provide a reliable integration of the control of a large and heterogeneous set of devices. Moreover, the system is required to be ready to adapt the observation schedule, on timescales of a few tens of seconds, to account for changing environmental conditions or to prioritize incoming scientific alerts from time-critical transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts. This contribution provides a summary of the main design choices and plans for building the ACTL system.
description: In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894
Immobilization of a bubble in water by nanoelectrolysis
Creators: name: Hammadi, Z
name: Lapena, L
name: Morin, R
name: Olives, J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A surprising phenomenon is presented: a bubble, produced from water electrolysis, is immobilized in the liquid (as if the Archimedes' buoyant force were annihilated). This is achieved using a nanoelectrode (1 nm to 1 $μ$m of curvature radius at the apex) and an alternating electric potential with adapted values of amplitude and frequency. A simple model based on "nanoelectrolysis" (i.e., nanolocalization of the production of H2 and O2 molecules at the apex of the nanoelectrode) and an "open bubble" (i.e., exchanging H2 and O2 molecules with the solution) explains most of the observations.
Immediate Systems in Architecture
Creators: name: Friedrich, Christian
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2021

description: The presented research on Immediate Systems in Architecture (IS-A) is an attempt to afford a better human-technology match in architecture, pursuing a state where humans can simultaneously use and design, apply and amend the technical system they engage with. The thesis contains both theoretical and experimental contributions on IS-A. Initially, the notion of Immediate Systems (IS) is introduced and framed. IS offer interaction in the style of direct manipulation, embed design and implementation in situations of use, and overcome limitations of remote design. IS are related to psychological concepts and described through the lens of Gibson’s Theory of Affordances. Characteristics and conditions of IS are distilled from the presentation and discussion of a series of examples. The application of IS in architecture is approached from three angles. First, from the lived perspective of a user-designer, as adhocist mode of action. Second, from the methodology and technology, as accelerated design transfer. Third, in an ecological perspective, as humanarchitecture symbiosis. Following the method of research by design, prototypes were developed in a series of experiments. The experiments result in multiple tools for real-time multi-directional volumetric design exploration that allows users to interactively model and ad-hoc reconceptualize parametric geometry, topology and components of architectural assemblies. A combination of these tools with digital fabrication and interactive building components lead to the most encompassing IS-A prototype, an attempt to realize an open-ended building system that joins simultaneous design, adaptation, construction and reconfiguration as interaction possibilities embedded in the built environment.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 20 (2021): Immediate Systems in Architecture
Local and systemic inflammatory responses in gingivitis subjects: clinical trial of topical triclosan
Creators: name: McKenzie, Sheppard Allen, IV
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The objectives of this randomized clinical trial (RCT) were to evaluate the local pharmacodynamic effects of triclosan dentifrice on GCF concentrations of inflammatory mediators in subjects with moderate plaque-induced gingivitis, and to measure systemic inflammatory mediators and document trends in levels. Gingivitis subjects were randomized for: 1)triclosan dentifrice; 2)placebo bid over four weeks. GCF analyses of inflammatory mediators were performed on days 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 (pre-dosing and post-dosing). Serum analyses of inflammatory mediators were performed each visit. IL- 1β levels were significantly suppressed in the triclosan group short-term. The data indicate consistent short term reductions in local inflammatory mediators when using the triclosan dentifrice (in particular IL-1β and Rank-L (p<0.05). There were no differences in levels of serum inflammatory mediators over the course of 29 days. Nevertheless, the levels of CRP in this population were elevated to the range that confers moderate risk for future cardiovascular disease.