cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A note on the lower bounds of genuine multipartite entanglement concurrence
Creators: name: Li, Ming
name: Dong, Yaru
name: Zhang, Ruiqi
name: Zhu, Xuena
name: Shen, Shuqian
name: Li, Lei
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement plays a pivotal role in quantum information processing. Quantifying quantum entanglement is a challenging and essential research area within the field. This manuscript explores the relationships between bipartite entanglement concurrence, multipartite entanglement concurrence, and genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) concurrence. We derive lower bounds on GME concurrence from these relationships, demonstrating their superiority over existing results through rigorous proofs and numerical examples. Additionally, we investigate the connections between GME concurrence and other entanglement measures, such as tangle and global negativity, in multipartite quantum systems.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Bigdatagrapes D4.1 - Methods And Tools For Scalable Distributed Processing
Creators: name: Tonellotto, Nicola; Nardini, Franco Maria; Perego, Raffaele; Monteiro De Lira, Vinicius; Mele, Ida; Catena, Matteo; Muntean, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: grapevine-related assets; Docker container; precision agriculture; geospatial raster data

description: This accompanying document for deliverable D4.1 Methods and Tools for Scalable Distributed Processing describes the main mechanisms and tools used in the BigDataGrapes (BDG) platform to support efficient processing of large datasets in the context of grapevine-related assets. The BDG software stack designed provides efficient and fault-tolerant tools for distributed processing, aiming at providing scalability and reliability for the applications.

The document first introduces the big picture of the architecture of the BDG platform and the main technologies currently used in the Persistence and Processing Layers of the platform to perform efficient data processing over extremely large dataset.

Then the requirements needed to run the BigDataGrapes platform are introduced and discussed, by also providing instructions to set up and to launch the platform. The platform has been built, re-using and customizing the software stack of the Big Data Europe (BDE, https://www.big-data-europe.eu/). Besides the customization of some existing components, the BigDataGrapes software stack extends the BDE to better support efficient processing and distributed predictive analytics of geospatial raster data in the context of precision agriculture and Farm Management Systems. Furthermore, all the platform components have been designed and built using Docker containers. They thus include everything needed to deploy the BDG platform with a guaranteed behavior on any suitable system that can run a Docker engine.

Finally, to provide the reader with practical examples of usage of the current release of the BDG platform, we report about two demos that have been already developed on the top of it by the project’s partner. Specifically, the two demonstrators perform scalable operations on geospatial raster data using the Spark-based GeoTrellis geographic data processing engine provided by the BDG platform. The first demo regards the tiling of large raster satellite images. Tiling is a mandatory process that allows the large raster datasets to be split-up into manageable pieces that can be processed on parallel and distributed resources. As a second demonstrator, the tiles previously computed are processed to extract from each tile image two relevant indexes. The first index is the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a graphical indicator that assess at what degree the target being observed contains live green vegetation or not. The second index is instead the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), most appropriate for water body mapping.
title: Der Familienbegriff im Kontext der eingetragenen Partnerschaft und des pacte civil de solidarité
Creators: name: Kralowetz, Christina
Year: 2011

description: Der Ausgangspunkt meiner Diplomarbeit ist, dass es einen diskursiven Kampf um das Konzept der Familie gibt und, dass die Diskussion um die eingetragene Partnerschaft (EP) einer der Austragungsorte dieser diskursiven Auseinandersetzung ist. Ich werde anhand der Diskussion um die EP verfolgen, wie dieser ausgetragen wird. Dabei stütze ich mich auf Michel Foucaults Diskursbegriff. Ich gehe von einem Diskurs aus, der eine soziale Praxis ist, die weiter als die Sprache geht, nämlich eine Wirklichkeit formt. In meiner Arbeit antworte ich auf die folgende Forschungsfrage: „Was sagt die rechtliche Normierung der eingetragenen Partnerschaft über den diskursiven Kampf um die Familie aus?“. Dabei ist es interessant zu untersuchen, wer sich wie und mit welchen Aussagen an diesem diskursiven Kampf beteiligt hat. Welche Institutionen, welche Gruppen waren maßgeblich beteiligt,welche waren ausgeschlossen. Welche Wertvorstellungen wurden verwendet, um Argumente zu untermauern.In meinem methodischen Teil wird die Theorie Foucaults mit der Methode Martin Schöns und Donald Reins, sowie Dvora Yanows verbunden. Schön und Rein gehen ebenfalls davon aus, dass die Wahrnehmung der Menschen von nicht sichtbaren „Frames“ umschlossen wird, die zuerst einmal lokalisiert werden müssen. Diese „Frames“ werden während menschlicher Kommunikation unbewusst angewendet und tragen dazu bei, welche Dinge ihres Umfelds Menschen wahrnehmen. In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird gezeigt, wie in einem diskursiven Kampf um den Familienbegriff gegenteilige Frames aufeinander prallen. Wichtige Symbole wie Standesamt, Ehe, Kindeswohl und Familie und deren Verwendung werden ebenfalls interpretiert. Im deskriptiven Teil wird zuerst auf den allgemeinen Familienbegriff in Österreich eingegangen, dann auf die Begriffsdefinitionen der 14 Interviewpartner, später auf die entstandenen Gesetze zum PaCS und zur EP sowie auf die vorhergehenden Debatten. Dieser Teil bildet die Grundlage meiner Analyse. Zum Thema der Anerkennung gleichgeschlechtlicher Lebensweisen gibt es verschiedenste Ansichten, die sich in zwei Lager zusammenfassen lassen, ein konservatives und ein fortschrittliches Lager. Die konservative Sichtweise ist vor allem in der christlichen Tradition verwurzelt und versucht diese weiterhin hochzuhalten. Während dieses Lager einer Anerkennung dieser Partnerschaften nicht ganz negativ gegenüber steht, wenn diese nur möglichst weit von der Norm abgrenzt werden, möchte das progressive Lager eine totale Gleichstellung erreichen. Wie dies geschehen soll, darüber gibt es keine Einigkeit, da manche NGOs nicht alle historisch gewachsenen Dinge übernehmen möchten. Die progressive Sichtweise stützt sich auf die in der Realität vorkommenden Verschiedenheiten und Nicht-Entsprechungen der Norm, die rechtlich abgesichert werden sollen. Durch das öffentliche Verteidigen einer von der Norm abweichenden Lebensweise wird der Diskurs angegriffen.
ROI-Guided Point Cloud Geometry Compression Towards Human and Machine Vision
Creators: name: Liang, Xie
name: Wei, Gao
name: Ming, Zhenghui
name: Ge, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Point cloud data is pivotal in applications like autonomous driving, virtual reality, and robotics. However, its substantial volume poses significant challenges in storage and transmission. In order to obtain a high compression ratio, crucial semantic details usually confront severe damage, leading to difficulties in guaranteeing the accuracy of downstream tasks. To tackle this problem, we are the first to introduce a novel Region of Interest (ROI)-guided Point Cloud Geometry Compression (RPCGC) method for human and machine vision. Our framework employs a dual-branch parallel structure, where the base layer encodes and decodes a simplified version of the point cloud, and the enhancement layer refines this by focusing on geometry details. Furthermore, the residual information of the enhancement layer undergoes refinement through an ROI prediction network. This network generates mask information, which is then incorporated into the residuals, serving as a strong supervision signal. Additionally, we intricately apply these mask details in the Rate-Distortion (RD) optimization process, with each point weighted in the distortion calculation. Our loss function includes RD loss and detection loss to better guide point cloud encoding for the machine. Experiment results demonstrate that RPCGC achieves exceptional compression performance and better detection accuracy (10% gain) than some learning-based compression methods at high bitrates in ScanNet and SUN RGB-D datasets.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Machine Learning Classification of Young Stellar Objects and Evolved Stars in the Magellanic Clouds Using the Probabilistic Random Forest Classifier
Creators: name: Ghaziasgar, Sepideh
name: Abdollahi, Mahdi
name: Javadi, Atefeh
name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
name: McDonald, Iain
name: Oliveira, Joana
name: Khosroshahi, Habib G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) are excellent locations to study stellar dust emission and its contribution to galaxy evolution. Through spectral and photometric classification, MCs can serve as a unique environment for studying stellar evolution and galaxies enriched by dusty stellar point sources. We applied machine learning classifiers to spectroscopically labeled data from the Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (SAGE) project, which involved 12 multiwavelength filters and 618 stellar objects at the MCs. We classified stars into five categories: young stellar objects (YSOs), carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (CAGB) stars, oxygen-rich AGB (OAGB) stars, red supergiants (RSG), and post-AGB (PAGB) stars. Following this, we augmented the distribution of imbalanced classes using the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE). Therefore, the Probabilistic Random Forest (PRF) classifier achieved the highest overall accuracy, reaching ${89\%}$ based on the recall metric, in categorizing dusty stellar sources before and after data augmentation. In this study, SMOTE did not impact the classification accuracy for the CAGB, PAGB, and RSG categories but led to changes in the performance of the OAGB and YSO classes.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, Published in the Communications of BAO (ComBAO)
Additional file 1 of Age at separation, residential mobility, and depressive symptoms among twins in late adolescence and young adulthood: a FinnTwin12 cohort study
Creators: name: Wang, Zhiyang
name: Whipp, Alyce M.
name: Heinonen-Guzejev, Marja
name: Kaprio, Jaakko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Unconstrained Monotonic Calibration of Predictions in Deep Ranking Systems
Creators: name: Bai, Yimeng
name: Zhang, Shunyu
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Liu, Hu
name: Bao, Wentian
name: Yu, Enyun
name: Feng, Fuli
name: Ou, Wenwu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3; H.3.5

description: Ranking models primarily focus on modeling the relative order of predictions while often neglecting the significance of the accuracy of their absolute values. However, accurate absolute values are essential for certain downstream tasks, necessitating the calibration of the original predictions. To address this, existing calibration approaches typically employ predefined transformation functions with order-preserving properties to adjust the original predictions. Unfortunately, these functions often adhere to fixed forms, such as piece-wise linear functions, which exhibit limited expressiveness and flexibility, thereby constraining their effectiveness in complex calibration scenarios. To mitigate this issue, we propose implementing a calibrator using an Unconstrained Monotonic Neural Network (UMNN), which can learn arbitrary monotonic functions with great modeling power. This approach significantly relaxes the constraints on the calibrator, improving its flexibility and expressiveness while avoiding excessively distorting the original predictions by requiring monotonicity. Furthermore, to optimize this highly flexible network for calibration, we introduce a novel additional loss function termed Smooth Calibration Loss (SCLoss), which aims to fulfill a necessary condition for achieving the ideal calibration state. Extensive offline experiments confirm the effectiveness of our method in achieving superior calibration performance. Moreover, deployment in Kuaishou's large-scale online video ranking system demonstrates that the method's calibration improvements translate into enhanced business metrics. The source code is available at https://github.com/baiyimeng/UMC.
description: Accepted by SIGIR'25
title: Die Umsetzung des Österreichischen Corporate Governance Kodex
Creators: name: Flatz, Judith
Year: 2011

description: Mit der Finanzkrise und ihren Auswirkungen kamen in jüngster Vergangenheit immer häufiger die Frage nach Unternehmensethik und das Verlangen nach mehr Transparenz der Unternehmen auf. Der Österreichische Corporate Governance Kodex (ÖCGK) versteht sich als Ordnungsrahmen zur Unternehmensleitung und -kontrolle, dessen Ziel es ist, Gesellschaften und Konzerne auf eine nachhaltige und langfristige Wertschaffung auszurichten. Durch die freiwillige Selbstverpflichtung zum ÖCGK sollte das Vertrauen der Investor(inn)en sowie das der Öffentlichkeit in die Unternehmen und den Kapitalmarkt wieder gestärkt werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich zur Aufgabe gestellt, die Umsetzung des ÖCGK in den österreichischen börsennotierten Aktiengesellschaften bzw. in den Societates Europaeae mit Sitz in Österreich zu untersuchen. Ziel der Analyse war es festzustellen, ob die Verpflichtungserklärung zum ÖCGK verantwortliches, nachhaltiges Handeln und Transparenz lediglich vortäuscht, da Regeln, die tatsächlich zu mehr Information führen würden, ohnehin nicht übernommen werden oder ob es sich beim ÖCGK um ein ernstzunehmendes Instrument der Unternehmensführung und -kontrolle handelt, das den Aktionär(inn)en Einblicke in das Unternehmen ermöglicht und so das Vertrauen stärkt. Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wurden die Corporate-Governance-Berichte und relevante Teile der Geschäftsberichte für das Jahr 2009 bzw. 2009/10 sowie die Websites der Unternehmen analysiert.
Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li 2015
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Li, Yun
name: Shi, Fuming
name: Chang, Yanlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Aphlugiolopsis

description: Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015
Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015. Zootaxa, 3941 (4): 511.
Type species: Aphlugiolopsis punctipennis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015
Generic diagnosis: Body small. Fastigium verticis conical, apex rounded, furrowed on dorsal surface. Eyes oval, protruding forward. Apical segment of maxillary palpus equal in length to subapical one. Pronotum elongate, lateral lobe longer than high, without humeral sinus. Thoracic auditory spiracle exposed. Tegmina short, reaching or slightly extending apex of abdomen, hind wings shorter than tegmina. All femora without spines, fore tibial tympana open on both sides, hind tibia with 3 pairs of apical spurs. Male tenth abdominal tergite with rounded posterior margin; styli inserted on ventral surface of subapical area of subgenital plate. Genitalia sclerotized.
description: Published as part of Wang, Yang, Li, Yun, Shi, Fuming & Chang, Yanlin, 2024, A new species in the genus Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015 (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) with descriptive notes on the known species from China, pp. 370-376 in Zootaxa 5496 (3) on page 370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13346869
Dark Matter and Tachyons as  Manifestations of Unresolved Relational  Tension
Creators: name: Rana, Pardeep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Dark matter
subject: Tachyons
subject: Quantum physics
subject: Gravity

description: This paper presents a novel interpretation of dark matter and tachyons as two manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon: unresolved relational phase tension. Rooted in the Law of Connection — a proposed foundational model where reality emerges from dynamic relationships rather than particles — the work introduces a new field equation for phase tension and derives gravitational and superluminal effects from first principles.

By modeling gravitational anomalies (like flat galactic rotation curves) and faster-than-light-like behavior as outcomes of phase misalignment across coherent structures, this approach unifies aspects of quantum measurement, field theory, and cosmology. The paper includes mathematical formulations, field dynamics, and a proposed tension functional that leads to observable predictions.

This is a working paper intended to spark discussion and collaboration. It is grounded in variational principles, harmonic geometry, and reinterpretations of known physics — offering an alternative to standard dark matter particle models and suggesting a deterministic, relational explanation for quantum collapse and apparent tachyonic behavior.
Aphlugiolopsis punctipennis Wang, Liu, & Li 2015
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Li, Yun
name: Shi, Fuming
name: Chang, Yanlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Aphlugiolopsis
Aphlugiolopsis punctipennis

description: Aphlugiolopsis punctipennis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015, Chinese name ǝs亚吟ª
(Figs.1, 3A; Map 1)
Aphlugiolopsis punctipennis Wang, Liu, & Li, 2015, Zootaxa, 3941 (4): 511; Pan & Bian, 2023, Zootaxa, 5374 (1): 129. Supplemental description. Male. Genitalia sclerotized, the middle of basal edge slightly concave, near basal area on lateral surface slightly broadened, apex with a triangular notch in dorsal view, bearing a short process in the middle, its apex rounded (Fig. 3A). Subgenital plate longer than wide, the midline of ventral surface with a longitudinal sulcus; basal area broad, basal margin deeply concave, length of apical half of subgenital plate almost equal to width, apical area slightly folded ventrad, apex broadly rounded; styli long and cylindrical, apices rounded, inserted on ventral surface of subapical area of subgenital plate (Fig. 1E–F).
Material examined. 3♂ 2♀, Damingshan (type locality), Nanning, Guangxi, 19 August, 2019, coll. Lixuan Chen & Lidan Zhang.
Measurements (mm). Body: ♂ 11.2–12.2, ♀ 11.5–13.3; pronotum: ♂ 3.1–4.2, ♀ 3.6–4.5; tegmen: ♂ 6.9–8.3, ♀ 7.9–10.1; hind femur: ♂ 8.5–9.8, ♀ 8.9–10.3; ovipositor: 7.3–10.2.
Distribution. Guangxi (Damingshan).
description: Published as part of Wang, Yang, Li, Yun, Shi, Fuming & Chang, Yanlin, 2024, A new species in the genus Aphlugiolopsis Wang, Liu & Li, 2015 (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) with descriptive notes on the known species from China, pp. 370-376 in Zootaxa 5496 (3) on pages 371-372, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13346869
title: Medikamenteninduzierte Gleichgewichtsstörungen, Gangunsicherheiten, Schwindel und deren Einfluss auf die Sturzhäufigkeit
Creators: name: Fliedl, Katharina
Year: 2011

description: Gerade bei älteren Personen ist das Risiko bei einem Sturz Frakturen zu erleiden besonders groß. Stürze können in weiterer Folge zu Verunsicherung und Angst, aber auch zu einer zunehmenden Verschlechterung des Gangbildes und zum Verlust der Selbstständigkeit führen. Sie können sogar bis zur völligen Immobilität und zum Tod führen. Stürze werden oft als „der Anfang vom Ende“ bezeichnet, da es viele Patienten gibt, die nach einem Sturz nie wieder vollkommen genesen. Gerade bei älteren Patienten führen Stürze und die damit auftretenden Verletzungen oft zu Komplikationen. Daher sollte - vor allem auch bei osteoporotischen Patienten - das Sturzgefährdungspotential so gering wie möglich gehalten werden. Es gibt viele verschiedene Risikofaktoren, die zu einem Sturz führen können. Der Einfluss der medikamentösen Wirkung auf das ZNS (Schwindelanfälle), auf das Gleichgewicht und die Motorik spielt dabei eine große Rolle. Da gerade ältere Patienten eine Vielzahl verschiedener Medikamente zu sich nehmen, stellt sich hier natürlich die Frage, wie viel Einfluss Polymedikation und vor allem die Einnahme schwindelerzeugender Medikamente auf das Sturzgeschehen hat. Ziel dieser Arbeit wird es sein, die Medikation aller Patienten zu betrachten und zu erfassen, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen erhöhtem Sturzrisiko und bestimmten Medikamenten besteht.
Additional file 2 of MAPT haplotype-associated transcriptomic changes in progressive supranuclear palsy
Creators: name: Ressler, Hadley W.
name: Humphrey, Jack
name: Vialle, Ricardo A.
name: Babrowicz, Bergan
name: Kandoi, Shrishtee
name: Raj, Towfique
name: Dickson, Dennis W.
name: Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer
name: Crary, John F.
name: Farrell, Kurt
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2
Three-dimensional imaging and numerical modelling of convective dissolution in complex porous media
Creators: name: Eckel, Anna-Maria
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Convective mixing is a process that greatly enhances the transport of mass between two miscible fluids and plays an important role in many engineered and natural processes. In the context of subsurface CO2 storage, density-driven convection of CO2-rich brines promotes the dissolution of the CO2-rich supercritical gas phase, thereby contributing to the storage capacity of the host reservoir. The process is triggered by the occurrence of a gravitational instability induced by the dissolution process, which further develops into perpendicular elongated finger-like patterns that sink in deeper parts of the reservoir. This thesis presents modelling and experimental approaches to study these convective structures and to evaluate their impact on the CO2 storage process. By presenting a systematic quantitative assessment of the mixing process, this work fills a knowledge gap in previous work on the subject. To this end, a two-dimensional CFD model is used to investigate the density-driven convection over a range of Rayleigh numbers that is relevant to CO2 storage applications. The macroscopic evolution of the convective process is quantified by employing fundamental measures of mixing that use the local spatial structure of the solute concentration field. These are implemented to obtain scaling relationships that may be used for the appraisal of potential CO2 sequestration sites. This thesis also addresses the limitations of previous experimental work that has largely focused on two-dimensional domains. An approach is presented that applies X-ray Computed Tomography to generate three-dimensional imagery of the mixing process in both unconsolidated and consolidated porous media. The analysis of this rich dataset reveals that the individual plume structures are strongly affected by the characteristic microscopic morphology of the porous space, with an impact observed on the macroscopic spreading process. By providing direct observations of the mixing process in natural porous media, these results represent a useful benchmark for future numerical and experimental studies.
Additional file 1 of Granulosa cell insight: unraveling the potential of menstrual blood-derived stem cells and their exosomes on mitochondrial mechanisms in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
Creators: name: Mansoori, Mahna
name: Solhjoo, Somayeh
name: Palmerini, Maria Grazia
name: Nematollahi-Mahani, Seyed Noureddin
name: Ezzatabadipour, Massood
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
The Slide Piano: Exploring the creative application of electric slide guitar techniques to the strings of an acoustic piano through hybridised musical instrument design approaches
Creators: name: Young, Alex
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3603
subject: Music
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts
classificationCode: 360302
subject: Music composition and improvisation
classificationCode: 360304
subject: Music performance

description: This research explores the question of how the techniques of electric slide guitar playing can be applied to an acoustic piano to arrive at new performative and compositional outcomes. Situated within the field of hybridised musical instrument design, this practice-based project centres on the creation of a new instrument, the Slide Piano, where the cast iron frame and strings of a piano are adapted to allow for the exploration of electric slide guitar approaches, such as open tunings and continuous pitch control, whilst maintaining timbres and textures traditionally associated with the piano.Through a practice-based methodology, the adaptation of the instrument involved a process of trial and error, contextualised by research into alternative piano designs and informed by the Slide Piano’s response to the application of electric slide guitar conventions. The process involved experiments in improvised performance using techniques such as portamento, vibrato and string damping. It also led to the development of new approaches that include alternative striking methods and the augmentation of the piano’s natural acoustic response with electronic guitar-oriented sound production. Advancements in the Slide Piano’s design crystallised these performative improvisations into complete compositions which reflect the hybridised nature of the instrument.Three new creative works are presented as live audiovisual recordings. The first work Sculptures in the Garden explores the conversion of electric slide guitar techniques to the Slide Piano through the use of live looping and phrase sampling. The second work In Cage/In Flight interrogates the percussive and timbral potential of the Slide Piano, while the final composition Lux Nocturna is the culmination of the Slide Piano’s idiosyncratic development, presented in the context of a sound/light art installation. The application of electric slide guitar techniques to the Slide Piano has enabled new possibilities for composition and performance within the field of hybrid instrument design.
Chemie, Vorlesung von Johann Barbieri.
Vorlesungsnachschrift, ausgearbeitet von Paul Henri Hoffet
Creators: name: Hoffet, Paul Henri
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1886

description: Nachschrift der Vorlesung, vorgetragen im Wintersemester 1886/87 am Eidgenössischen Polytechnikum.
Text mit Figuren.
Abschliessend 2 Bl. leer
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Tasmanobates separatus Pesic & Smit, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Pesic, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hygrobatidae
Tasmanobates
Tasmanobates separatus

description: Tasmanobates separatus sp. nov.
(Figs. 1–7)
Type series. Holotype: female (TMAG G5893), dissected and slide mounted in Hoyer's fluid. Tasmania, Franklin Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, Franklin River, stony bottom without vegetation, temperature 8 °C, 42°12.928΄S 146°01.212΄E, 409 m asl., 18 September 2007, leg. T. Karanović.
Diagnosis. Dorsum with paired dorsal plates bearing the pre- and postocularia and Dgl-3, coxal plates separated in their respective sides.
Description. Female: Idiosoma L/W 356/253; dorsum with paired dorsal plates (Fig. 1) bearing the pre- and postocularia and Dgl-3, L/W 93/53; coxae well separated medially and not fused on their respective sides; gnathosomal bay relatively deep and U-shaped; first coxae blunt; Cxgl-2 placed near suture lines between third and fourth coxae; posterolateral suture lines of the fourth coxal plates evident but obliterated medially; a row of muscle scars extending towards the glandularia of the fourth coxae; gonopore a long slit with a relatively small pregenital sclerite; the very small genital plates placed at the extreme posterior end of the genital field (Fig. 2); three pairs of acetabula (Fig. 3), individual genital plate L/W 26/18; chelicera total L 112, basal segment L 73, claw L 46, L basal segment/claw ratio 1.59; capitulum ventral L 79; palp total L 219, dorsal L and %L (in parentheses): P-1 27 (12.3), P-2 63 (28.8), P-3 35 (16.0), P-4 71 (32.4), P-5 23 (10.5); L P-2/P-4 ratio 0.89; palp as illustrated in Figs. 5–6; I-Leg-5 with club-shaped ventrodistal seta (Fig. 4); lengths of I-Leg-4–6: 71, 71, 73; IV-Leg-4–6 (Fig. 7): 94, 82; swimming setae absent.
Male: unknown.
Remarks. This is the second Tasmanobates species, the first one (T. scutatus Cook, 1986) was described by Cook (1986) from interstitial deposits of the George River, Tasmania. The new species can be distinguished from T. scutatus in the presence of the paired dorsal plates on the dorsum (dorsum with a large dorsal shield bearing pre– and postocularia and three pairs of glandularia in T. scutatus), less elongated idiosoma (considerably elongated in T. scutatus), and a coxal plates separated in their respective sides (fused in T. scutatus).
Etymology. Named for its separated dorsal plates in female.
Distribution. Tasmania; known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Pesic, Vladimir & Smit, Harry, 2009, New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Tasmania, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 53-62 in Zootaxa 2070 on pages 54-55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187078
Digital Ethics: Data, Algorithms, Interactions
Creators: name: Engin, Zeynep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Digital Ethics
Ethics Engineering
Ethical-by-design

description: Algorithms and digital systems are increasingly taking the role of ‘artificial persons’ – hence becoming both the subjects and objects of regulation and policing.This summary paper provides an overview of the emerging ‘digital ethics’ field from a system design and engineering perspective. The objective is to lay out the critical questions and the current research directions that are likely to shape a new ‘ethics engineering’ profession, which will have significant impact across all sectors.
Compilation of 20 Country Briefs on Irregular Migration Policy Context
Creators: name: Hendow, Maegan
name: Qaisrani, Ayesha
name: Brunovska, Ema
name: Rössl, Lydia
name: Schütze, Theresa
name: Kraler, Albert
name: Ahmad Yar, Ahmad Wali
name: Bircan, Tuba
name: Mohan, Shiva S
name: Triandafyllidou, Anna
name: Jauhiainen, Jussi S.
name: Smolander, Selma
name: Toivonen, Henry
name: Nikolova, Marina
name: Desmond, Alan
name: Heylin, Ruth
name: Cacciapaglia, Maristella
name: Bonizzoni, Paola
name: Ambrosini, Maurizio
name: Carvalho, João
name: França, Thais
name: Finotelli, Claudia
name: Cassain, Laura
name: Echeverría, Gabriel
name: Apaydin, Samet
name: Slootjes, Jasmijn
name: Sohst, Rhea Ravenna
Publisher: name: Krems: University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems)
Year: 2024

description: This deliverable provides an overview of the national policy landscape related to migrant irregularity for 15 countries in the form of Country Briefs. Briefs are provided for the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Türkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States. 

The Briefs are drawn from more extensive analysis conducted within MIrreM Country Profiles, which themselves will be analysed comparatively in a subsequent Deliverable (D3.3). The purpose of the Briefs is to provide a concise synopsis of the main policy issues of relevance for the irregular migration situation in each respective country, with a focus on developments since 2010. They are not foreseen to be an exhaustive representation of the entire policy and irregular migration situation in each country, but rather provide a snapshot of the most relevant issues to date, by each national rapporteur's assessment. Each Brief provides a short overview of the recent (since 2010) policies of relevance for irregular migration, in particular the respective country's irregular migration-related policy priorities, stakeholders, recent policy measures, main turning points in policy development, policy impacts, and challenges in implementation. Moreover, each Brief outlines the main types of migrant irregularity that emerge and the pathways into and out of irregularity in each country, including regularisations as relevant. 

Annexed to this Deliverable is also an overview of the legal and policy frameworks highlighted as relevant for migrant irregularity in each respective country.
Universidade de Vigo CoARA Action Plan
Creators: name: Universidade de Vigo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CoARA
research career
research evaluation
action plan

description: The Universidade de Vigo joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in December 2022. By joining CoARA, the Universidade de Vigo commits itself to reviewing and developing the criteria, instruments and processes of responsible research assessment (RRA).

The Universidade de Vigo incorporates in its  Action Plan existing Reforming Research Assessments practices and outlines further actions regarding the CoARA commitments, along with its goals, and objectives for 2024-2027.
MIrreM Working Paper on Irregular Migration Flows
Creators: name: Siruno, Lalaine
name: Leerkes, Arjen
name: Hendow, Maegan
name: Brunovská, Ema
Publisher: name: Krems: University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems)
Year: 2024

description: The objective of this working paper is to provide a methodological assessment of available data on irregular migration flows in Europe and other contexts. It is aimed at the public, including those who may not have a technical understanding of migration statistics. It also serves as a companion document to the forthcoming MIrreM Public Database on Irregular Migrant Flow Estimates and Indicators (MIrreM D5.2).[1] In MIrreM, irregular migration is operationally defined as a form of migration that is not “regular,” “unlawful,” or not according to the rules (Kraler & Ahrens, 2023).

The paper addresses this research question: How are irregular migration flows measured and estimated in the EU and selected other countries and what can be said about the quality of the available indicators and estimates? 

[1] Siruno, L., Leerkes, A., Badre, A., Bircan, T., Brunovská, E., Cacciapaglia, M., Carvalho, J., Cassain, L., Cyrus, N., Desmond, A., Fihel, A., Finotelli, C., Ghio, D., Hendow, M., Heylin, R., Jauhiainen, J.S., Jovanovic, K., Kierans, D., Mohan, S.S., Nikolova, M., Oruc, N., Ramos, M.P.G., Rössl, L., Sağiroğlu, A.Z., Santos, S., Schütze, T., & Sohst, R.R. (2024). MIrreM Public Database on Irregular Migration Flow Estimates and Indicators. Krems: University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10813413
Guineaxonopsis tasmanica Pesic & Smit, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Pesic, Vladimir
name: Smit, Harry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Mideopsidae
Guineaxonopsis
Guineaxonopsis tasmanica

description: Guineaxonopsis tasmanica sp. nov.
(Figs. 19–26)
Type series. Holotype: male (TMAG G5895), dissected and slide mounted in Hoyer's fluid. Tasmania, Marakoopa Cave, stream coming from cave, near Mole Creek, gravel bottom with little or no vegetation, temperature 9 °C, 41°34.654΄S 146°17.245΄E, 10 September 2007, leg. Karanović.
Diagnosis. Lateral edges of the ventral shield without projections; P-3 without ventral projection, P-4 actually expanded towards distal end to form a somewhat uncate palp.
Description. Male: Dorsal shield (Fig. 19) L/W 331/256; ventral shield (Fig. 20) L/W 397/297; suture lines of Cx-4 Y-shaped; openings for insertion of the fourth legs shifted medially and without associated projections; posterior suture lines of the fourth coxal plates slightly indicated; lateral margins of the ventral shield without projections; Cxgl-2 placed near suture lines of the fourth coxal plates; genital field with three pairs of acetabula, these arranged in two closely located anterior pairs which are well removed from posterior acetabula. Palp (Figs. 21-22) total L 124, dorsal L and %L (in parentheses): P-1 17 (13.7), P-2 41 (33.1), P-3 20 (16.1), P-4 30 (24.2), P-5 16 (12.9); L P-2/P-4 ratio 1.37; hyaline projection of ventral side of P-2 broad and serrate; P-4 actually expanded towards distal end; capitulum ventral L 65. Lengths of I-Leg-1–6 (Fig. 23): 38, 38, 38, 47, 79; II-Leg-1–6 (Fig. 24): 39, 45, 38, 44, 53, 83; III-Leg-2–6 (Fig. 25): 36, 32, 38, 62, 89; IV- Leg-1–6 (Fig. 26): 86, 47, 49, 65, 86, 100; swimming setae absent.
Female: unknown.
Remarks. Due to the lacking of projections on the ventral shield, and absence of ventral projection on P- 3, the new species resemble Guineaxonopsis australica Cook, 1986, known from the interstitial waters of the Little Florentine River in Tasmania (Cook 1986). Guineaxonopsis australica can easily be distinguished from the new species in the presence of the long, narrow setal tubercle on the ventral side of P-4, and two or three lobed, hyaline projections located on ventral side of P-4 between tubercle and distal end of segments (P-4 actually expanded towards distal end to form a somewhat uncate palp in G. tasmanica sp. nov.) Etymology. The species is named after the state of the type locality.
Distribution. Tasmania; known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Pesic, Vladimir & Smit, Harry, 2009, New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Tasmania, with descriptions of three new species, pp. 53-62 in Zootaxa 2070 on pages 59-61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187078
AutoTriage: a feasibility assessment of using in-vehicle sensors to predict traumatic brain injury in road traffic collisions
Creators: name: Baker, Claire
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: Road traffic collisions (RTCs) are a leading global cause of mortality and morbidity, including for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Injuries sustained often require rapid medical care. TBI patients transferred directly to neurosurgical facilities have improved outcomes. Identifying high risk TBI patients to the emergency medical services (EMS) in real-time via an “AutoTriage” system could improve patient outcomes. Automatic Collision Notification (ACN) systems exist in many modern vehicles. They detect collisions and notify EMS of collision location. Advanced ACN additionally indicate whole-body injury severity, but not brain injury information. In-depth data was used to determine the current TBI severity and pathology collision landscape in Great Britain using a novel free-text algorithm. TBI risk was related to kinematic factors (delta-V, including direction) for vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users (VRUs). For car occupants, individual characteristics (such as seatbelt status, medical conditions, intoxication status and age) were included to improve model prediction. This thesis demonstrates that in-vehicle sensors can predict occupant TBI outcomes from in-depth data, using variables that can be captured by existing sensors. Data and existing sensors are limited for VRUs. Pedestrian-car collisions were reconstructed to validate a virtual modelling approach. A large, simulated database was created. Similar models were created from virtual sensor data to predict injury risk using head kinematics. This demonstrated that VRU data can be augmented effectively using multibody modelling, showing future promise of a VRU-specific AutoTriage system. This timely thesis’ methods and contents fit under the fifth pillar of the UN’s Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-30: post-collision care. EuroNCAP shares an aligned 2030 vision, which includes post-collision care in vehicle safety rating and incorporates computational modelling. Predicting TBI in RTCs using in-vehicle sensors has the potential to improve post-collision response for TBI casualties, adopting existing technology to benefit society in the imminent future.
title: Religion und Retorte
Creators: name: Glechner, Andrea
Year: 2011

description: Die Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema „Religion und Retorte“. Seit der Geburt des ersten „Retortenbabys“, Louise Joy Brown, sind mittlerweile mehr als 30 Jahre vergangen. Obwohl die In-vitro-Fertilisation in der Medizin längst als Standardmethode zur Behandlung von Unfruchtbarkeit gilt, ist die ethische Diskussion um die IVF nicht verstummt. Während sie für die einen ganz selbstverständlich zum medizinischen Alltag gehört, gesehen als großen Segen für alle Frauen, die auf natürlichem Weg kein Kind empfangen können, sehen andere wiederum in der IVF eine klare Grenzüberschreitung und die „Wurzel allen bioethischen Übels“. Die Arbeit versucht sich der Bewertung der IVF aus theologisch-ethischer Sichtweise her zu nähern. Der gegenwärtige rasante biotechnologische und medizinische Fortschritt wirft viele ethische Fragen auf und auch Kirchen und Glaubensgemeinschaf-ten sind immer wieder neu herausgefordert im medizin- und bioethischen Diskurs Stellung zu beziehen. Die große Frage die sich dabei, vereinfacht formuliert, immer wieder stellt ist, ob alles medizinisch Machbare auch ethisch und theologisch verantwortbar ist. Konkret geht es in der Arbeit um die Frage der Beurteilung der IVF im Vergleich zwischen den drei großen monotheistischen Religionen: Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Wie bewerten sie den Beginn des menschlichen Lebens in der Retorte? Welche Position wird zur IVF bezogen? Da es innerhalb dieser Religionen eine große Fülle an Meinungen und Werken zur IVF geht, habe ich mich in meiner Arbeit für die Auseinandersetzung mit offiziellen Dokumenten und Stellungnahmen der jeweiligen, ausgewählten Glaubensgemeinschaften und Kirchen entschieden. Nach einem einleitenden Teil mit der Vorstellung von medizinischen und rechtlichen Aspekte zur IVF werden in der Arbeit konkrete Stellungnahmen zur IVF aus den drei monotheisti-schen Religionen vorgestellt. In einem weiteren Schritt kommt es dann zu einem Vergleich der Argumente anhand zwei zentraler Punkte: „Der moralische Status des Embryos“ und „Stellenwert von Ehe und Familie sowie geschlechtlicher Vereinigung und Zeugung“.
Stephanocampta Mathot 1966
Creators: name: Aquino, Daniel A.
name: Triapitsyn, Serguei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Stephanocampta

description: Stephanocampta Mathot, 1966
Stephanocampta Mathot 1966: 219 –221. Type species: S. yaosekoensis Mathot, by original designation. Important subsequent reference: Huber & Lin 1999: 39–40 (diagnosis, distribution, comments).
Hadromymar Yoshimoto 1990: 30–31. Type species: H. masoni Yoshimoto, by original designation. Synonymized under Stephanocampta by Huber & Lin 1999: 39.
Diagnosis. Body length 0.3–0.65 mm. Occiput with a curved, transverse groove extending to lateral margin of head at about mid-eye height. Mandible with 1 tooth. Female funicle 7-segmented with F2 either subequal to remaining segments or ring-like; male flagellum 10-segmented with F2 ring-like. Prosternum anteriorly pointed. Scutellum without a transverse row of foveae. Fore wing relatively broad, especially towards apex, and slightly curved, with setae usually numerous on the disc; proximal macrochaeta present but distinctly shorter than distal macrochaeta. Tarsi 5-segmented. Propodeum at least half as long as scutellum, with a set of rigid translucent membranous lamellae. Petiole short, surrounded ventrally and laterally by translucent lacey collar extending out from base of gaster.
In some Madagascar species [specimens in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, and Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, California (UCRC)] the fore wing in both sexes is quite narrow with few discal setae and the male flagellum is 10-segmented with only F2 ring-like, as in Stephanocampta and also as in males of the former genus Eomymar Perkins, now considered a synonym of Camptoptera Foerster. Huber & Lin (1999) treated the former Eomymar spp. as aberrant Camptoptera Foerster and we agree. These specimens show that the limits between Camptoptera and Stephanocampta are less clear cut in some places.
Remarks. Stephanocampta can be recognized using the key in Huber & Lin (1999). In Luft Albarracin et al. (2009), it would key together at the same couplet as Camptoptera, from which it differs in having translucent, mesh-like lamellae on the propodeum.
Biology and hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Afrotropical, Oriental, Nearctic (USA—Florida) and Neotropical (from Costa Rica south to Brazil (Huber 1999) and Argentina).
description: Published as part of Aquino, Daniel A. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2014, New World Stephanocampta (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) — descriptions of a new species from Argentina and of the male of S. masoni, pp. 446-450 in Zootaxa 3866 (3) on pages 446-447, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/227364
Gottlieb H. Legler (1823-1897) an Arnold Escher von der Linth (1807-1872)
Creators: name: Legler, Gottlieb Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1870

description: Brief aus Weesen.
Zusätzlich darauf notiert: Notizen ohne inhaltlichen Bezug
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Achalasia mimicking large paraesophageal hiatal hernia
Creators: name: Sollien Berger, Siv Mari
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Oesophagus
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Barium meal
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Dynamic swallowing studies
subject: Dilatation
subject: Motility
subject: Swallowing disorders

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 67 years
description: Clinical History: An outpatient was referred to an esophagram (barium swallow) because of worsening symptoms including reflux, daily vomiting, meal-related pain, and weight loss. Relevant medical history with onset ten years ago included reflux and aspiration pneumonias. D... Final Diagnosis: Achalasia