cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deep Learning for Person Detection in Multi-spectral Videos
Creators: name: König, Daniel
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Multispectral
subject: Faster R-CNN
subject: Fusion
subject: Deep learning
subject: Person detection
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Computer vision
subject: Pattern recognition systems
subject: Digital images
subject: Mustererkennung
subject: Neuronales Netz

description: Person detection is a popular and still very active field of research in computer vision [ZBO+16] [BOHS14] [DWSP12]. There are many camera-based safety and security applications such as search and rescue [Myr13], surveillance [Shu14], driver assistance systems, or autonomous driving [Enz11]. Although person detection is intensively investigated, the state-of-the-art approaches do not achieve the performance of humans [ZBO+16]. Many of the existing approaches only consider Visual optical (VIS) RGB images. Infrared (IR) images are a promising source for further improvements [HPK+15] [WFHB16] [LZWM16]. Therefore, this thesis proposes an approach using multi-spectral input images based on the Faster R-CNN framework [RHGS16]. Different to existing approaches only the Region Proposal Network (RPN) of Faster R-CNN is utilized [ZLLH16]. The usage of two different training strategies [WFHB16] for training the RPN on VIS and IR images separately are evaluated. One approach starts using a pre-trained model for initialization, while the other training procedure additionally pre-finetunes the RPN with an auxiliary dataset. After training the RPN models separately for VIS and IR data, five different fusion approaches are analyzed that use the complementary information of the VIS and IR RPNs. The fusion approaches differ in the layers where fusion is applied. The Fusion RPN provides a performance gain of around 20% compared to the RPNs operating on only one of the two image spectra. An additional performance gain is achieved by applying a Boosted Decision Forest (BDF) on the deep features extracted from different convolutional layers of the RPN [ZLLH16]. This approach significantly reduces the number of False Positives (FPs) and thus boosts the detector performance by around 14% compared to the Fusion RPN. Furthermore, the conclusions of Zhang et al. [ZLLH16] are confirmed that an RPN alone can outperform the Faster R-CNN approach for the task of person detection. On the KAIST Multispectral Pedestrian Detection Benchmark [HPK+15] state-of-the-art results are achieved with a log-average Miss Rate (MR) of 29.83 %. Thus, compared to the recent benchmark results [LZWM16] a relative improvement by around 18% is obtained.
Refugee advocacy and the sound of good intentions
Creators: name: Neumann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Over the past few years, I have been interested in the history of public policy responses in industrialised Western countries to refugees and asylum seekers, and in how public and published opinion has reacted to and influenced that response. Over the next forty-five minutes, I'll discuss how in Australia refugee advocates have been trying to influence public opinion.
Supplementary document for Multispectral compressive fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy with a SPAD array detector - 5083011.pdf
Creators: name: Ghezzi, Alberto
name: Farina, Andrea
name: Bassi, Andrea
name: Valentini, Gianluca
name: Labanca, Ivan
name: Acconcia, Giulia
name: Rech, Ivan
name: D'Andrea, Cosimo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Information
Commission of Audit released: Experts respond
Creators: name: Sheen, Veronica
name: Dodd, Andrew
name: Phillips, Ben
name: Spies-Butcher, Ben
name: Sharrock, Geoff
name: Savage, Glenn C.
name: Croucher, Gwilym
name: Dickinson, Helen
name: O'Flynn, Janine
name: Green, Roy
name: Davidson, Sinclair
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The National Commission of Audit has made 86 recommendations with a focus on the federal government's 15 biggest and fastest-growing areas of spending. The result is proposals for sweeping spending cuts for the government to consider for its May 13 budget, ranging from the politically possible to the crazy brave. Rolling expert responses follow.
Supplementary document for Multispectral compressive fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy with a SPAD array detector - 5083011.pdf
Creators: name: Ghezzi, Alberto
name: Farina, Andrea
name: Bassi, Andrea
name: Valentini, Gianluca
name: Labanca, Ivan
name: Acconcia, Giulia
name: Rech, Ivan
name: D'Andrea, Cosimo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Information
EmoTour : estimating emotion and satisfaction of users based on behavioral cues and audiovisual data
Creators: name: Fedotov, Dmitrii
name: Minker, Wolfgang
name: Arakawa, Yutaka
name: Matsuda, Yuki
name: Takahashi, Yuta
name: Yasumoto, Keiichi
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Satisfaction estimation
subject: Dialogue systems
subject: Smart tourism
subject: DDC 000 / Computer science, information & general works
subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: Emotion recognition
subject: Wearable technology
subject: Smart cities
subject: Ubiquitous Computing
subject: Wearable Computing

description: With the spread of smart devices, people may obtain a variety of information on their surrounding environment thanks to sensing technologies. To design more context-aware systems, psychological user context (e.g., emotional status) is a substantial factor for providing useful information in an appropriate timing. As a typical use case that has a high demand for context awareness but is not tackled widely yet, we focus on the tourism domain. In this study, we aim to estimate the emotional status and satisfaction level of tourists during sightseeing by using unconscious and natural tourist actions. As tourist actions, behavioral cues (eye and head/body movement) and audiovisual data (facial/vocal expressions) were collected during sightseeing using an eye-gaze tracker, physical-activity sensors, and a smartphone. Then, we derived high-level features, e.g., head tilt and footsteps, from behavioral cues. We also used existing databases of emotionally rich interactions to train emotion-recognition models and apply them in a cross-corpus fashion to generate emotional-state prediction for the audiovisual data. Finally, the features from several modalities are fused to estimate the emotion of tourists during sightseeing. To evaluate our system, we conducted experiments with 22 tourists in two different touristic areas located in Germany and Japan. As a result, we confirmed the feasibility of estimating both the emotional status and satisfaction level of tourists. In addition, we found that effective features used for emotion and satisfaction estimation are different among tourists with different cultural backgrounds.
Vocabulary Management for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Creators: name: Rivett, Pete
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ontology vocabulary term skos MVF

description: Ontology languages support little more than labels attached to an element with no means to express context or usage; textual definitions have no association with the labels and lack any rigor in the terms used within that definition. SKOS-XL at least allows terms to be separate resources but little more. Many enterprises have business glossaries, and there are many commercial products, but they are not tailored to EKG usage. The approach proposed allows terms to be managed in their own right and grouped into Vocabularies associated with Communities and which can be made contextually available via Workspaces. It has been designed for use with general modeling tools such as UML and BPMN as well as ontologies; allowing enterprise or industry vocabularies to be widely reused.
Supplementary document for Super-resolved polarisation-enhanced second harmonic generation for direct imaging of nanoscale changes in collagen architecture - 5083271.pdf
Creators: name: Johnson, Peter
name: Karvounis, Artemios
name: Singh, Johnson
name: Brereton, Christopher
name: Bourdakos, Konstantinos
name: Lunn, Kerry
name: Roberts, James
name: Davies, Donna
name: Muskens, Otto
name: Jones, Mark
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures
One‐Shot Active Learning for Globally Optimal Battery Electrolyte Conductivity
Creators: name: Rahmanian, Fuzhan
name: Vogler, Monika
name: Wölke, Christian
name: Yan, Peng
name: Winter, Martin
name: Cekic‐Laskovic, Isidora
name: Stein, Helge S.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: electrolyte
subject: optimization
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Active learning
subject: Electric batteries
subject: Electrolytes
subject: Machine learning
subject: Aktives maschinelles Lernen
subject: Batterie
subject: Elektrolyt
subject: Maschinelles Lernen
subject: Optimierung

description: Abstract Non‐aqueous aprotic battery electrolytes need to perform well over a wide range of temperatures in practical applications. Herein we present a one‐shot active learning study to find all conductivity optima, confidence bounds, and relating formulation trends in the temperature range from −30 °C to 60 °C. This optimization is enabled by a high‐throughput formulation and characterization setup guided by one‐shot active learning utilizing robust and heavily regularized polynomial regression. Whilst there is an initially good agreement for intermediate and low temperatures, there is a need for the active learning step to improve the model for high temperatures. Optimized electrolyte formulations likely correspond to the highest physically possible conductivities within this formulation system when compared to literature data. A thorough error propagation analysis yields a fidelity assessment of conductivity measurements and electrolyte formulation.
Coordinating Data Services in the Lab: Connecting The Research Lifecycle
Creators: name: Goldman, Julie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Data Services
Research Data Management
Coordinated Data Service

description: Background: A major research challenge is the lack of standardized data workflows across our campus. While administrative and lab safety protocols exist, we identified a significant gap in procedures related to research data, particularly at the crucial points of entering and exiting a lab environment. Through a group partnership, we were able to artfully collect existing documents and resources across the entire data lifecycle, and connect directly with researchers to ensure we captured the essential RDM-related activities, steps, and resources one should consider during the on and offboarding process. Description: Coordinated efforts between data professionals in the library, research labs, and information technology departments can reshape institutional data services. Indeed, such collaborative efforts offer a unique opportunity to implement superior data management workflows while also addressing domain-specific challenges. Our institutional vision for a more inclusive data management environment involves multiple research data stakeholders working together to support the advancement of health and science. Bringing together multiple stakeholders enabled us to provide solutions for data reproducibility including project synchronicity and advancement. This talk discusses our collective effort to develop and maintain data management templates to assist researchers during the employee onboarding and offboarding processes, and the progress made in marketing those resources to the community. Conclusion: The partnership allowed us to preemptively generate additional templates for creating data management plans (DMPs), in order to prepare labs for new data management requirements stipulated by the National Institutes of Health, coming in 2023. By using the institutionally supported templates with organization-specific guidance, resources, and examples, researchers will be poised to successfully manage data across projects and grants. Resources created by the LMA Research Data Management Working Group discussed throughout this presentation are available in Open Science Framework: osf.io/pw7ed.
Supplementary document for Super-resolved polarisation-enhanced second harmonic generation for direct imaging of nanoscale changes in collagen architecture - 5083271.pdf
Creators: name: Johnson, Peter
name: Karvounis, Artemios
name: Singh, Johnson
name: Brereton, Christopher
name: Bourdakos, Konstantinos
name: Lunn, Kerry
name: Roberts, James
name: Davies, Donna
name: Muskens, Otto
name: Jones, Mark
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures
title: Guidelines on environmental product information in e-commerce
title: Guidelines on environmental product information in e-commerce
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hagemann, Helmut
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Produktbezogene Umweltdeklaration
subject: Umweltzeichen
subject: Produktkennzeichnung
subject: e-commerce
subject: environmental product declaration
subject: ecolabel
subject: Blue Angel
subject: Economy | Consumption

description: When consumers want to find out about products, they often do research on the internet. Product information can be found online in a variety of places, starting with manufacturers' websites, search engines, internet communities and online shops. Product information makes an important contribution by enabling and encouraging environmentally-related purchasing decisions and thus the responsible participation of consumers. It is therefore important that the content and design of environmental product information is of high quality and meets the requirements of sustainability and good consumer information, while promoting transparency. Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: When consumers want to find out about products, they often do research on the internet. Product information can be found online in a variety of places, starting with manufacturers' websites, search engines, internet communities and online shops. Product information makes an important contribution by enabling and encouraging environmentally-related purchasing decisions and thus the responsible participation of consumers. It is therefore important that the content and design of environmental product information is of high quality and meets the requirements of sustainability and good consumer information, while promoting transparency.
Transdisciplinary publishing
Creators: name: Gye, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At exactly 5pm on March 13, 2006, the computers in the State Library of Australia shut down. No advance warning, just a blank screen. The person taking notes for the final session of the Hard Copy workshop sat bolt upright as the data projector defaulted to blue. 'Errr... we’ve been continually saving this I hope.' Vain hope as it turned out. Given the day’s discussions with regards to the important role of the library in the process of archiving this seemed like just a little too much irony. [Introduction]
An eccentric binary millisecond pulsar in the galactic plane
Creators: name: Champion, David J.
name: Ransom, Scott M.
name: Lazarus, Patrick
name: Camilo, Fernando
name: Bassa, Cees
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
name: Nice, David J.
name: Freire, Paulo C. C.
name: Stairs, Ingrid H.
name: Van Leeuwen, Joeri
name: Stappers, Benjamin W.
name: Cordes, James M.
name: Hessels, Jason W.
name: Lorimer, Duncan R.
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Backer, Donald C.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Chatterjee, Shami
name: Cognard, Ismael
name: Deneva, Julia S.
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
name: Gaensler, Bryan M.
name: Han, Jinlin Lin
name: Jenet, Fredrick A.
name: Kasian, Laura
name: Kondratiev, Vlad I.
name: Kramer, Michael
name: Lazio, Joseph
name: McLaughlin, Maura A.
name: Venkataraman, Arun
name: Vlemmings, Wouter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Binary pulsar systems are superb probes of stellar and binary evolution and the physics of extreme environments. In a survey with the Arecibo telescope, we have found PSR J1903+0327, a radio pulsar with a rotational period of 2.15 milliseconds in a highly eccentric (e = 0.44) 95-day orbit around a solar mass (M circle-dot) companion. Infrared observations identify a possible main-sequence companion star. Conventional binary stellar evolution models predict neither large orbital eccentricities nor main-sequence companions around millisecond pulsars. Alternative formation scenarios involve recycling a neutron star in a globular cluster, then ejecting it into the Galactic disk, or membership in a hierarchical triple system. A relativistic analysis of timing observations of the pulsar finds its mass to be 1.74 ± 0.04 M circle-dot, an unusually high value.
The upcoming European Soil Monitoring Law: An effective instrument for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems?
Creators: name: Kotschik, Pia
name: Princz, Juliska
name: Pieper, Silvia
name: Lima, Claudia E Silva De
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Bodenschutz
Bodenbeobachtung

description: Soils are a precious resource consistently placed under several threats, and urgently, in need of protection within a regulatory framework at the European level. Soils are central to the provision of environmental services as well as human existence on earth. The need to protect soil has been identified by several recent European strategies and fortunately, a specific European Regulation for soil protection is on the way - the European Soil Monitoring Law (formerly: Soil Health Law). However, efforts need to ensure that the upcoming Soil Monitoring law closes gaps between existing regulations for chemicals and acknowledges current European strategies for environmental protection and sustainability. This brief communication started from a fruitful discussion among SETAC Global Soils Interest Group members on a recent public consultation on the newly proposed Soil Monitoring Law of the European Commission and highlights critical points focusing on the chemical pollution of soils. We emphasise urgent needs such as the essential definition of a â€Ìhealthy stateâ€Ì of soils, the implementation of a suitable set of indicators and quality standards for the description of physical, chemical and biological states of soils, the enforcement of the 'polluters pay's' principle and the establishment of a European wide monitoring program. Results from monitoring need to be fed back into regulatory frameworks, including the regulation of chemicals. Guidance documents for the risk assessment of chemicals are outdated and need to be updated. Finally, actions need to be taken to foster healthy soils, stop biodiversity decline and ensure the functioning of ecosystem services for future generations. © 2023 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Pulsed Light treatment below a Critical Fluence (3.82 J/cm²) minimizes photo-degradation and browning of a model Phenolic (Gallic Acid) Solution
Creators: name: Wiktor, Artur
name: Mandal, Ronit
name: Singh, Anika
name: Pratap-Singh, Anubhav
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Pulsed light (PL) is one of the most promising non-thermal technologies used in food preservation and processing. Its application results in reduction of microbial load as well as influences the quality of food. The data about the impact of PL on bioactive compounds is ambiguous, therefore the aim of this study was to analyze the effect of PL treatment of a gallic acid aqueous solution—as a model system of phenolic abundant liquid food matrices. The effect of PL treatment was evaluated based on colour, phenolic content concentration and antioxidant activity measured by DPPH assay using a design of experiments approach. The PL fluence (which is the cumulative energy input) was varied by varying the pulse frequency and time. Using Response Surface Methodology, prediction models were developed for the effect of fluence on gallic acid properties. It was demonstrated that PL can modify the optical properties of gallic acid and cause reactions and degradation of gallic acid. However, application of PL did not significantly alter the overall quality of the model gallic acid solution at low fluence levels. Cluster analysis revealed that below 3.82 J/cm², changes in gallic acid were minimal, and this fluence level could be used as the critical level for food process design aiming to minimize nutrient loss.
Spontaneity in social dreaming
Creators: name: Hailes, Julia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Social dreaming is a modern day method in which people share dreams and associations from which learning can be gained about the broader social system. Research to date has established the validity of this goal however there has been little exploration of the method itself. This study is an effort to extend understanding of the social dreaming method. It is argued in this thesis that spontaneity is a crucial factor in the effectiveness of the social dreaming method. Three hypotheses are explored: Hypothesis 1: There is a relationship between individual spontaneity and the immediate social system of the matrix. Hypothesis 2: Social dreaming, to be effective requires that matrix participants and consultants maintain spontaneity. Hypothesis 3: If reactive forces predominate in the immediate social system it becomes restrictive and the spontaneity of participants is reduced. This is a field study which uses qualitative research methods. Case studies of four participants of an ongoing social dreaming matrix are presented and analysed using role, thematic and focal conflict analysis. The data from eight consultants to social dreaming matrices are also analysed using role and thematic analysis. Results from this study support the three hypotheses stated above. Spontaneity is shown to be a significant factor for participants in sharing dreams and associations to a social dreaming matrix. When both participants and consultants maintain spontaneity they are able to contribute to the developing matrix of dreams, associations and connections. Vitality, as a form of spontaneity, is found to be present as energy, reflection, immediacy, a warm up to maximum spontaneity and as a dimension of leadership within the social dreaming method. The absence or reduction of vitality limits the development of the matrix of dreams, associations and connections. The primary finding from this study is that the developing role relationships that make up the immediate social system of the social dreaming matrix have an impact upon participants’ capacity to contribute to the matrix of dreams, associations and connections. In addition there has been the discovery of secondary tasks that assist the consultant to work with the primary task of making connections between the dreams, associations and the wider social system.
An adaptive approach to controlling parameters of evolutionary algorithms
Creators: name: Aleti, Aldeida
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The majority of stochastic optimisation methods such as Simulated Annealing (SA), Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) have a range of adjustable parameters like learning rates, crossover probabilities, pheromone evaporation rates and weighting factors. Poor algorithm parameterisation hinders the discovery of good solutions. The parameter values required for optimal algorithm performance are known to be problem-specific, often even specific to the problem instance at hand. Practitioners often apply stochastic methods with parameter values chosen on the basis of few tuning iterations, in which various parameter settings are explored in an attempt to fine-tune the algorithm to their particular problem. Depending on the number of parameters and their plausible value ranges, investigative trials for parameter optimisations can themselves be attempts to solve a combinatorially complex problem. Moreover, it has also been established that some of the parameter values ought to vary during the search process for best algorithm performance. Acknowledging these facts, many researchers have shifted their focus to parameter control methods, where parameter values are optimised based on algorithm performance. This thesis presents an adaptive parameter control method which redefines parameter values repeatedly based on a separate optimisation process that receives its feedback from the primary optimisation algorithm. The feedback is used for a projection of the value performing well in the future. The method uses an evaluation of the recent performance of previously applied parameter values and predicts how likely each of the parameter values is to produce optimal outcomes in the next cycle of the algorithm. The parameter values are sampled from intervals which are adapted dynamically, a method which has proven particularly effective and outperforms all existing adaptive parameter controls significantly. To test the applicability of the approach to a real-world problem, the adaptive parameter control method is applied to a case-study from the automotive industry.
Supplementary document for Limiting the incident NA for optimal wavefront shaping through anisotropic scattering media - 5083350.pdf
Creators: name: Jin, Hyungwon
name: Hwang, Byungjae
name: Lee, Sangwon
name: Park, Jung-Hoon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
'From Jerusalem to the Grand River, our struggles are one': challenging Canadian and Israeli settler colonialism
Creators: name: Krebs, Mike
name: Olwan, Dana M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article explores the possibilities and histories of indigenous solidarity struggles against the settler colonial states of Canada and Israel. Throughout this work, we examine activist and political movements from Canada that make connections between the struggles of indigenous peoples in Canada and Palestine. We ask: In light of efforts to usurp indigenous identities in the service of settler colonial states, how do Palestine activists in Canada create lines of solidarity with indigenous peoples? And how can we foster global solidarity with Palestinians that are attuned to local native struggles for sovereignty and self determination? We attempt to address these questions by utilising a comparative framework that addresses the gendered and racialised aspects of the settler colonial projects of Canada and Israel.
Upper bounds on fault tolerance thresholds of noisy Clifford-based quantum computers
Creators: name: Plenio, Martin B.
name: Virmani, S.
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Quantum computing
subject: Quantentechnologie

description: We consider the possibility of adding noise to a quantum circuit to make it efficiently simulatable classically. In previous works, this approach has been used to derive upper bounds to fault tolerance thresholds—usually by identifying a privileged resource, such as an entangling gate or a non-Clifford operation, and then deriving the noise levels required to make it ‘unprivileged’. In this work, we consider extensions of this approach where noise is added to Clifford gates too and then ‘commuted’ around until it concentrates on attacking the non-Clifford resource. While commuting noise around is not always straightforward, we find that easy instances can be identified in popular fault tolerance proposals, thereby enabling sharper upper bounds to be derived in these cases. For instance we find that if we take Knill's (2005 Nature 434 39) fault tolerance proposal together with the ability to prepare any possible state in the XY plane of the Bloch sphere, then not more than 3.69% error-per-gate noise is sufficient to make it classical, and 13.71% of Knill's γ noise model is sufficient. These bounds have been derived without noise being added to the decoding parts of the circuits. Introducing such noise in a toy example suggests that the present approach can be optimized further to yield tighter bounds.
In vivo PET/MRI Imaging of the Chorioallantoic Membrane
Creators: name: Winter, Gordon
name: Koch, Andrea B. F.
name: Löffler, Jessica
name: Jelezko, Fedor
name: Lindén, Mika
name: Li, Hao
name: Abaei, Alireza
name: Zuo, Zhi
name: Beer, Ambros J.
name: Rasche, Volker
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: HET-CAM
subject: MRI
subject: PET
subject: imaging
subject: biodistribution
subject: targeting
subject: CELL-CYCLE ARREST
subject: TUMOR XENOGRAFTS
subject: CANCER XENOGRAFT
subject: OVO
subject: DDC 530 / Physics
subject: Magnetic resonance microscopy
subject: Optical coherence tomography
subject: Blood flow
subject: Model
subject: Chick Embryo
subject: Kernspintomografie
subject: Positronen-Emissions-Tomografie
subject: Bildgebendes Verfahren
subject: Optische Kohärenztomografie
subject: Modell
subject: Ei

description: The Hen's Egg Test Chorioallantoic Membrane (HET-CAM) of fertilized chick eggs represents a unique model for biomedical research. With its steadily increasing use, non-invasive in ovo imaging for longitudinal direct quantification of the biodistribution of compounds or monitoring of surrogate markers has been introduced. The full range of imaging methods has been applied to the HET-CAM model. From the current perspective, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) appear promising techniques, providing detailed anatomical and functional information (MRI) and excellent sensitivity (PET). Especially by combining both techniques, the required sensitivity and anatomical localization of the signal source renders feasible. In the following, a review of recent applications of MRI and PET for in ovo imaging with a special focus on techniques for imaging xenotransplanted tumors on the CAM will be provided.
Programa MentorADA
Creators: name: Camacho Díaz, A.
name: García Ramos, L.
name: PeñaBaena Niebles, R.
name: García Barreneche, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Women, Science, CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM, Latin-America, Mentorship

description: En el contexto del proyecto W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) se ha celebrado la Conferencia Internacional W-STEM Chile los días 19 y 20 de abril de 2022 de forma presencial en Valparaíso (Chile), auspiciada por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso y por la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, tras más de dos años trabajando virtualmente por la pandemia mundial de COVID-19. Presentación del programa de mentorías de la Universidad del Norte.

description: The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
The effects of chloride droplet properties on the underoil corrosion of API-X100 pipeline steel
Creators: name: Liang, Hongxing
name: Schaller, Rebecca Filardo
name: Asselin, Edouard
Publisher: name: Allen Press
Year: 2021

description: The corrosive environment expected to form in diluted bitumen pipelines was explored by simulated exposure with a paraffin oil covered chloride droplet on API-X100 pipeline steel. The effects of droplet volume, chloride ion concentration, temperature, initial pH, and cation species on the underoil droplet corrosion behavior of APIX100 pipeline steel were studied by corrosion morphology and product identification combined with corrosion penetration measurements. The corrosion rate in the active region beneath the oil-covered sodium chloride droplets was inversely proportional to droplet volume but increased with increasing temperature and chloride ion concentration. Corrosion attack morphology was found to be dependent on initial droplet pH. At pH 2, uniform corrosion occurred across the entire area exposed under the oil-covered droplet. The oil-covered sodium chloride droplets with initial pH of 4 accelerated the uniform corrosion when compared to the droplet without initial pH control (pH ∼ 5.5). However, at a high initial pH of 10, two active regions displaying different general corrosion rates and one inactive region were observed under the oil-covered droplet. At an even higher initial pH of 12, no obvious uniform corrosion was observed beneath the oil-covered droplet. Finally, in the exposures to droplets with varied cation, the uniform corrosion in the active region was reduced by either calcium or magnesium ions in the oil-covered droplet.
Digitale Nachhaltigkeitszukünfte - ein Essay
Creators: name: Messner, Dirk
name: Wehinger, Franziska
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Neben vielen Krisen und tiefgreifenden Schocks bleiben die beiden Megadynamiken des 21. Jahrhunderts bestehen: die Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit sowie der Übergang zur digitalen Gesellschaft. Die Digitalisierung wird im Großteil der umweltwissenschaftlichen Debatte nicht als Teil der drängenden Lösung für die Erhaltung unseres Ökosystem betrachtet. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt Fähigkeiten und Charakteristika, mit denen künstliche Intelligenz und Digitalisierung so gestalten werden können, dass Gesellschaften aus Krisen gestärkt hervorgehen sowie die Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit meistern lernen. © 2022 Der/die Autor(en)
Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers
Creators: name: Lin, Minghong
name: Wierman, Adam
name: Andrew, Lachlan L. H.
name: Thereska, Eno
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Power consumption imposes a significant cost for data centers implementing cloud services, yet much of that power is used to maintain excess service capacity during periods of low load. This paper investigates how much can be saved by dynamically 'right-sizing' the data center by turning off servers during such periods, and how to achieve that saving via an online algorithm. We propose a very general model and prove that the optimal offline algorithm for dynamic right-sizing has a simple structure when viewed in reverse time, and this structure is exploited to develop a new 'lazy' online algorithm, which is proven to be 3-competitive. We validate the algorithm using traces from two real data center workloads and show that significant cost-savings are possible. Additionally, we contrast this new algorithm with the more traditional approach of receding horizon control.
Supplementary document for Limiting the incident NA for optimal wavefront shaping through anisotropic scattering media - 5083350.pdf
Creators: name: Jin, Hyungwon
name: Hwang, Byungjae
name: Lee, Sangwon
name: Park, Jung-Hoon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material
The supernova 2003lw associated with X-ray flash 031203
Creators: name: Thomsen, B.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Watson, D.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Jensen, B. L.
name: Andersen, M. I.
name: Dall, T. H.
name: Rasmussen, J. R.
name: Bruntt, H.
name: Laurikainen, E.
name: Augusteijn, T.
name: Pursimo, T.
name: Germany, L.
name: Jakobsson, P.
name: Pedersen, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The X-Ray Flash (XRF), 031203 with a host galaxy at z = 0.1055, is, apart from GRB 980425, the closest γ-Ray Burst (GRB) or XRF known to date. We have monitored its host galaxy from 1-100 days after the burst. In spite of the high extinction to the source and the bright host, a significant increase and subsequent decrease has been detected in the apparent brightness of the host, peaking between 10 and 33 days after the GRB. The only convincing explanation is a supernova (SN) associated with the XRF, SN2003lw. This is the earliest time at which a SN signal is clearly discernible in a GRB/XRF (apart from SN1998bw). SN2003lw is extremely luminous with a broad peak and can be approximately represented by the lightcurve of SN1998bw brightened by ∼0.55 mag, implying a hypernova, as observed in most GRB-SNe. The XRF-SN association firmly links XRFs with the deaths of massive stars and further strengthens their connection with GRBs. The fact that SNe are also associated with XRFs implies that Swift may detect a significant population of intermediate redshift SNe very soon after the SN explosions, a sample ideally suited for detailed studies of early SN physics.
Exports, imports, and economic growth in developing countries: Multivariate time-series evidence.
Creators: name: Atukeren, Erdal.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Economics, General.

description: This dissertation investigates the Granger-causality between exports, imports, and economic growth in 32 developing countries. The role of the imports variable in the investigation of exports-output causality is emphasized, enabling one to test for the cases direct causality, indirect causality, and spurious causality between export growth and output growth using the definitions provided by Hsiao (1982). On the technical side, the Augmented-Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron tests are used to test whether exports, imports and per capita real GDP are cointegrated. Furthermore, tests for breaking trends are carried out using a modified version of the procedure advanced by Perron (1989) and Zivot and Andrews (1992). Depending on the results from these tests, vector autoregressive or vector error correction models are specified for each country. The election of lag lengths is done by using the Schwarz criterion. Following Poskitt and Tremayne (1987) a procedure for testing the decisiveness (strength) of (Granger-) causal findings is developed. Finally, the results are compared to those from a benchmark model, that is, a bivariate VAR model of export growth and output growth. The empirical results indicate the following. First, breaking trends occur frequently in macroeconomic time series. Failure to test for breaking trends may lead to the possibility of spuriously cointegrating relationships. Second, exports and per capita output were not found to be cointegrated in most cases. Third, there is only weak evidence for a positive Granger-causal relationship from export growth to output growth--the only two cases being Thailand and Pakistan. Fourth, the findings may lack decisiveness, and additional data may prove useful to draw more conclusive inferences. Fifth, results from the benchmark bivariate VARs indicate additional cases of positive causality from export growth to output growth. However, these cases should be regarded as spurious since the findings have not been confirmed when the real imports are included. Finally, there is no evidence of indirect causality from exports to output growth via the real imports variable. Thus, no causal evidence was found for the "exports as a foreign exchange source" hypothesis.
Supplementary document for Simultaneous control of intensity, phase, and polarization in real-time under weak oscillation theory - 5083942.pdf
Creators: name: Xie, Runzhang
name: Wang, Peng
name: Wang, Fang
name: Hu, Wei-Da
name: Chen, Xiaoshuang
name: Lu, Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supplemental text contains the derivation process of the total field, the simulation methods, simplification of Jones matrix, optimization algorithm, and schematic illustration of electric circuits.
Erwiderung der Kritik von Schenk an AUSTAL2000 in Immissionsschutz 01/2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2015

description: Die Verwaltungsvorschrift TA Luft legt fest, wie die Allgemeinheit bei der Anlagengenehmigung unter dem Bundes- Immissionsschutzgesetz vor schädlichen Luftverunreinigungen zu schützen ist. Teil dieser Regelung ist ein Ausbreitungsmodell auf Grundlage der Richtlinie VDI 3945 Blatt 3, für das im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamtes die Referenzimplementierung AUSTAL2000 entwickelt wurde. Unter dem Titel "AUSTAL 2000 ist nicht validiert" führt Rainer Schenk in Immissionsschutz 01/2015 mehrere Beispiele an, um AUS- TAL2000 und die Richtlinie VDI 3945 Blatt 3 zu falsifizieren. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Ergebnisse von AUSTAL2000 richtig sind sowie dass die von Schenk herausgestellten Widersprüche auf grundlegenden Missverständnissen und Fehlern in seiner Beweisführung beruhen. Die ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit Schenks Kritik zeigt, dass AUSTAL2000 und die Richtlinie VDI 3945 Blatt 3 für Ausbreitungsrechnungen im Rahmen der TA Luft uneingeschränkt anwendbar sind. Quelle: http://www.immissionsschutzdigital.de
UniSet: A flexible manufacturing cell programming, simulation, control and management environment.
Creators: name: Tolkamp, Rudy.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Industrial.

description: The concept of Flexible Manufacturing Cells (FMCs) proves to be one of the major productivity enhancement tools for batch processing. The cost and expertise required to setup a cell, and subsequently to operate it, negates the many advantages of implementing FMCs. This problem hampers the introduction of the concept in many industries. At present, combining machines from different manufacturers to form an FMC is cumbersome. Incompatibility due to unique characteristics and varying programming and control languages among machines present the largest difficulties. This thesis demonstrates that it is possible to create a manufacturing instruction set and environment labelled UniSet (the acronym for $\rm\underline{Uni}$fied instruction $\rm\underline{Set}$) that enables programming and controlling a flexible manufacturing cell with a set of common instructions. UniSet is a software environment designed to provide the FMC user with a consistent platform in which to configure, program, simulate and control an FMC irrespective of the constituent machines. The environment is coded in an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language; Smalltalk. This thesis describes UniSet as an instruction set, the concept behind the UniSet programming environment and the initial developments of the environment. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Finite Element Modelling and On-Site Measurements for Roof Mounted Photovoltaic Solar Panels under High Wind Load
Creators: name: Mehranfar, Shayan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Finite Element Modelling
On-Site Measurements
Photovoltaic Solar Panels
High Wind Load
Parametric Study
Stress Distribution

description: The application of dynamic wind load on photovoltaic (PV) solar systems mounted on flat roofs influenced their structural behavior significantly. It is implied that when the PV solar system is exposed to extreme weather characteristics such as low temperatures, these might influence the load distribution along each layer of the solar panel, which is composed by multiple layers of different materials. Therefore, the high record of weather characteristics as one scenario in addition to the field experiment were designed to describe parametric structural behavior of PV solar system help to increase the precision of study. According to the mentioned procedures different parameters of weather characteristics measured with instrumentation at the site of PV panel installation at the University of Ottawa where the low temperature equal to -24.3° C and wind speed of 11.8 recorded. The mechanical and thermal properties of full-scale specimen and load application that computed based on weather record for every two minutes of January and February from northern side of specimen, introduced to FEM software SAP 2000. Moreover, the support structure and connection used to assemble real specimen considered in modeling with respect to average temperature equal to -7° C that caused to simulate 36 different cases to compare with simultaneous experiment designed to measured strain within same period. The second investigation involved instrumenting a full-scale PV solar panel specimen with 13 half-bridge strain gauges on both surfaces of the PV solar panel, which were used to measure strain values in longitudinal and transversal directions of solar panel and also on the top and bottom edges of the same panel. According to an equivalent uniform Young’s modulus numerically determined for the five layers of the PV solar panel, and with respect to the Hook’s law, the stresses were found to be equal to 50 Mpa for strain gauges at the mid area of PV solar panel,. This value was used to calibrate boundary conditions of the FE model namely the Fix-Equal and the Pin-Equal conditions along the edges of the solar panel and along the mounting frame.
Verbraucherumfrage zum Entsorgungsverhalten von Elektro(nik)altgeräten
Creators: name: Löhle, Stephan
name: Bartnik, Sabine
name: Schmiedel, Ute
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Elektrogerät/Elektronikgerät
subject: Elektro- und Elektronikgerätegesetz
subject: Elektroaltgerät
subject: Elektronikaltgerät
subject: ElektroG
subject: Entsorgungsverhalten
subject: Verbraucherumfrage
subject: Abfall | Ressourcen

description: Die Auswertung der Erfassungsmengen von Elektronikaltgeräten bezogen auf die in den drei Vorjahren in Verkehr gebrachten Mengen der letzten Jahre zeigt, dass lediglich Erfassungsquoten von ca. 40-43 % erreicht werden. Für das Berichtjahr 2016 beträgt die Erfassungsquote nahezu 45 %. Da ab dem Jahr 2016 eine Mindesterfassungsquote von 45 % und ab dem Jahr 2019 von 65 % zu erreichen ist, stellt sich die Frage nach möglichen Erklärungen der bisher geringen Sammelmenge. Eine relevante Rolle kann hierbei das Entsorgungsverhalten von Verbrauchern haben. Um diese Schnittstelle zu evaluieren, wurde eine Verbraucherbefragung Ende Februar 2018 durchgeführt und anschließend die Ergebnisse ausgewertet.
Posttraumatic stress disorder and childhood traumatic loss: a secondary analysis of symptom severity and treatment outcome
Creators: name: Unterhitzenberger, Johanna
name: Sachser, Cedric
name: Rosner, Rita
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DDC 150 / Psychology
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Stress disorders, Post-traumatic
subject: Child
subject: Adolescent
subject: Cognitive behavioral therapy
subject: Depression
subject: Grief
subject: Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
subject: Kind
subject: Jugend
subject: Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie

description: Abstract Loss is a commonly experienced traumatic event among children. Although the experience of loss can potentially lead to posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), little is known about PTSS levels after traumatic loss versus other traumatic events. We investigated data from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on trauma‐focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF–CBT) versus a waitlist condition for children with PTSS. In a secondary analysis, we compared participants who reported traumatic loss as their index event (n = 23) to those who reported the two most frequently reported index events in the RCT: sexual abuse (SA; n = 59) and physical violence (PV; n = 55). The index event was rated according to the participants’ most distressing traumatic event reported on the Clinician‐Administered PTSD Scale for Children and Adolescents. Participants who experienced traumatic loss reported fewer PTSS and better general functioning than those who reported SA. A subgroup RCT (n = 19) revealed TF–CBT to be highly effective in reducing PTSS in cases of traumatic loss, d = 1.69. The effect sizes for PTSS indicated that all three trauma groups benefited from TF–CBT. In the waitlist group, PTSS symptoms improved for SA and PV, ds = 0.76 and 0.98, respectively, but not for traumatic loss, d = 0.23. These findings suggest that TF–CBT is a feasible and promising treatment for children who experience PTSS after traumatic loss. The results are limited by the post hoc quality of the analyses and lack of a measure of grief in the RCT.