cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BC woodlot management : basic management requirements, current and future challenges, and potential solutions for BC woodlot licensees
Creators: name: Walters, Duncan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Woodlots in BC play a key role in creating jobs in communities and providing personalized management options that address the concerns of local stakeholders. These small, area-based tenures face many challenges, however, including dealing with small economies of scale, forest health issues, climate change, market access, and coping with oftentimes ill-formed forest policy. By addressing the relevant legislation, this paper addresses the basic requirements for woodlot licensees to obtain and manage a woodlot; it also overviews many of the contemporary challenges faced by licensees, and poses possible solutions to those challenges. The most prominent barriers to financial and managerial success are associated with forest policies that result in significant administrative burden and limit the ability for woodlot licensees to diversify their revenue streams. Limited harvest volumes also leave them vulnerable to catastrophic events and unable to make large capital investments. The strengths of woodlots rest in their ability to serve value-added markets, and the small size of woodlots allows them to respond quickly to market demand. To improve the economic viability of woodlots forest policy must be specifically designed to deal with these small harvest volumes. More research, investment, and flexibility with regard to forest practices and alternative revenue streams are essential to provide woodlot licensees with the tools for continued success.
Data from: Self-amplifying RNA generated with the modified nucleotides 5-methylcytidine and 5-methyluridine mediate strong expression and immunogenicity in vivo
Creators: name: Azizi, Hiva
name: Renner, Tyler
name: Agbayani, Gerard
name: Simard, Bryan
name: Dudani, Renu
name: Harrison, Blair
name: Iqbal, Umar
name: Jia, Yimei
name: McCluskie, Michael
name: Akache, Bassel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Self-amplifying RNA
Self-replicating RNA
Modified nucleotides
alphavirus
VEEV
RNA
Vaccines
RNA therapeutics
lipid nanoparticles

description: When utilized in therapeutic applications, synthetic self-amplifying RNA can lead to higher and more sustained expression than standard messenger RNA. This feature is particularly important for gene replacement therapy applications where prolonged expression could reduce the dose and frequency of treatments. The inclusion of modified nucleotides in synthetic non-amplifying mRNA has been shown to increase RNA stability, reduce immune activation and enhance gene expression. Preclinical and clinical studies with self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) have so far exclusively relied on RNA containing the canonical nucleotides adenosine, cytidine, guanosine and uridine. For the first time, we show that non-canonical nucleotides, such as m5C and m5U, are sufficiently compatible with a replicon derived from Venezuelan equine encephalitis alphavirus mediating protein translation in vitro, while those containing m1ψ in place of uridine show no detectable expression. When administered in vivo, saRNA generated with m5C or m5U mediate sustained gene expression of the luciferase reporter gene with those incorporating m5U appearing to lead to more prolonged expression. Finally, distinct antigen-specific humoral and cellular immune responses were induced by modified saRNA encoding the model antigen ovalbumin. The use of modified nucleotides with saRNA-based platforms could enhance their potential to be used effectively in a variety of applications.
description: Funding provided by: National Research Council CanadaCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/04mte1k06Award Number:
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Deep Fields Data Release 2. I. The ELAIS-N1 field
Creators: name: Shimwell, T. W.
name: Hale, C. L.
name: Best, P. N.
name: Botteon, A.
name: Drabent, A.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Jelić, V.
name: de Jong, J. M. G. H. J.
name: Kondapally, R.
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
name: Tasse, C.
name: van Weeren, R. J.
name: Williams, W. L.
name: Bonafede, A.
name: Bondi, M.
name: Brüggen, M.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Callingham, J. R.
name: De Gasperin, F.
name: Duncan, K. J.
name: Horellou, C.
name: Iyer, S.
name: de Ruiter, I.
name: Małek, K.
name: Nair, D. G.
name: Morabito, L. K.
name: Prandoni, I.
name: Rowlinson, A.
name: Sabater, J.
name: Shulevski, A.
name: Smith, D. J. B.
name: Sweijen, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the final 6'' resolution data release of the ELAIS-N1 field from the LOw-Frequency ARray (LOFAR) Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields project (LoTSS Deep). The 144MHz images are the most sensitive achieved to date at this frequency and were created from 290 TB of data obtained from 505 hrs on-source observations taken over 7.5 years. The data were processed following the strategies developed for previous LoTSS and LoTSS Deep data releases. The resulting images span 24.53 square degrees and, using a refined source detection approach, we identified 154,952 radio sources formed from 182,184 Gaussian components within this area. The maps reach a noise level of 10.7 $μ$Jy/beam at 6'' resolution where approximately half of the noise is due to source confusion. In about 7.4% of the image our limited dynamic range around bright sources results in a further > 5% increase in the noise. The images have a flux density scale accuracy of about 9% and the standard deviation of offsets between our source positions and those from Pan-STARRS is 0.2'' in RA and Dec for high significance detections. We searched individual epoch images for variable sources, identifying 39 objects with considerable variation. We also searched for circularly polarised sources achieving three detections of previously known emitters (two stars and one pulsar) whilst constraining the typical polarisation fraction plus leakage to be less than 0.045%.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 16 figures, 1 table and 20 pages. The catalogues and images associated with this data release are publicly available via https://lofar-surveys.org/
title: Lessons Learned? South Korea’s Foreign Policy toward North Korea under the Moon Jae-In Administration
Creators: name: Mosler, Hannes
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Moon Jae-in
subject: North Korea
subject: South Korea
subject: Foreign Policy
subject: Two-level Game
subject: USA
subject: EU
subject: Korean Peninsula Policy
subject: Eurasia
subject: 320

description: What are the characteristics of President Moon Jae-in’s policy toward North Korea, and what lessons can be drawn for the future? More than 70 years have passed since the establishment of the two republics in 1948, during which continuous attempts have been made to achieve reconciliation, peace, and prosperity on the Korean peninsula. Even though the Korean War (1950–53) as well as the last authoritarian government in South Korea (until 1987) belong to the ever more distant past, neither, obviously, have the conflicts between the two Koreas ceased, nor has South Korea found a reasonable and effective way of addressing the conundrum. Against this backdrop of more than half a century of contentious inter-Korean relations, the paper examines the foreign policy (efforts) by the Moon administration (2017–2022) toward North Korea in order to shed light on challenges and opportunities for the future regarding the region of East Asia as well as inter-regional policy implications.
description: Working Papers on East Asian Studies, vol. 132
Monitoring biodiversity on highly reactive rock-paper-scissors models
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Ferreira, M. J. B.
name: de Oliveira, B. F.
name: Santos, W. A. dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work investigates how biodiversity is affected in a cyclic spatial May-Leonard model with hierarchical and non-hierarchical rules. Here we propose a generalization of the traditional rock-paper-scissors model by considering highly reactive species, i. e., species that react in a stronger manner compared to the others in respect to either competition or reproduction. These two classes of models, called here Highly Competitive and Highly Reproductive models, may lead to hierarchical and non-hierarchical dynamics, depending on the number of highly reactive species. The fundamental feature of these models is the fact that hierarchical models may as well support biodiversity, however, with a higher probability of extinction than the non-hierarchical ones, which are in fact more robust. This analysis is done by evaluating the probability of extinction as a function of mobility. In particular, we have analyzed how the dominance scheme changes depending on the highly reactive species for non-hierarchical models, where the findings lead to the conclusion that highly reactive species are usually at a disadvantage compared to the others. Moreover, we have investigated the power spectrum and the characteristic length of each species, including more information on the behavior of the several systems considered in the present work.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures. Version to appear in Applied Mathematics and Computation
Detecting long term changes in vegetation cover using historic aerial photographs and modern VRI data in the Kennedy Lake watershed
Creators: name: Yuan, Qiao Si
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Rivers and their associated floodplains produce a wide variety of ecosystem services. However, they are severely altered by human activities such as logging. Riparian vegetation plays an important role in contributing large woody debris to the streams, and the debris directly affects the physical character of the streams. Various vegetation types can have different impacts on the streams. Therefore, it is important to quantify and understand vegetation changes caused by logging. My objective is to assess vegetation changes after logging in Kennedy Lake watershed. Here, I combined historical aerial photography and modern Vegetation Resources Inventory data to quantify vegetation changes over time. Over the 60-year period, conifer abundance decreased by approximately 10% compared to its historical cover. Trees with heights from 30m to 40m experienced the largest decline in percent cover while trees with heights from 10m to 20m increased the most. Site productivity affected change in average tree height. The area with the highest site productivity decreased in average height whereas the average tree heights in areas with all other productivity classes increased. In contrast, average crown closure increased in area with very good site productivity and decreased in areas with lower productivities. Vegetation composition also varied in relation to site productivity classes. Very good site productivity was associated with more decrease in conifers, and increases in deciduous, conifer and deciduous mixed, and shrub and herb covers. My results indicate that historic logging activities had a large impact on vegetation today in the Kennedy Lake watershed, and understanding these patterns can guide potential restoration planning and watershed management.
Exploring GRBs and supernovae connection: does a superluminous hypernova population exist?
Creators: name: Fiore, Achille
name: Menegazzi, Ludovica Crosato
name: Stratta, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of several gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that are temporally and spatially compatible with energetic supernovae (hypernovae) has established their common origin. In one case (GRB 111209A/SN 2011kl) the associated supernova was classified as superluminous (SN 2011kl). The exceptional duration of the observed gamma-ray prompt emission of GRB 111209A (about 7 hours) is widely considered key to unlocking the physics behind the still mysterious origin of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). We review the main observational and theoretical findings that may link some ultra-long GRBs to SLSNe. Specifically, we examine notable events, the role of progenitors and host galaxies in shaping these phenomena, and focus on the proposed models. While a magnetar central engine is a plausible mechanism for both luminous and long-duration GRBs, a conclusive answer remains elusive, as alternative explanations are still viable. Further observational and theoretical work is required to clarify progenitor pathways and explosion mechanisms, potentially extending the classical GRB-SN connection to rare superluminous hypernovae.
description: Invited contribution to the special issue "Gamma-Ray Bursts in Multiwavelength: Theory, Observational Correlations and GRB Cosmology". 60 pages, 7 figures, Accepted by Galaxies
Galactic warps: from cosmic noon to the current epoch
Creators: name: Reshetnikov, Vladimir P.
name: Chugunov, Ilia V.
name: Marchuk, Alexander A.
name: Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.
name: Kozlov, Matvey D.
name: Savchenko, Sergey S.
name: Makarov, Dmitry I.
name: Antipova, Aleksandra V.
name: Sypkova, Anastasia M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Approximately half of all disc galaxies exhibit appreciable warps in both their stellar and HI discs. The typical warp amplitude is small (a few degrees), and only becomes noticeable at the periphery of the galaxy disc. As a result, warps remain a relatively poorly studied phenomenon. In this study, we investigate a large sample of distant edge-on galaxies (approximately 1,000 objects) in order to examine the frequency and characteristics of stellar disc warps up to a redshift of $z \sim 2$. For the selected galaxies, we utilize HST data from the Cosmic Evolution Survey field and JWST observations from the Cosmic Dawn Center Archive. We measured the properties of disc warps and investigate their evolution as a function of redshift. Our results indicate a potential evolution in the observed frequency of strong S-shaped warps (with an amplitude greater than 4$^\circ$) in stellar discs as a function of redshift. At $z \approx 2$, the frequency of strong warps reaches approximately 50%, while at $z \approx 0$, this fraction decreases to around 10-15%. We attribute the observed evolution in the occurrence of strong warps to the changing frequency of galaxy interactions and mergers. If galaxy interactions represent one of the primary mechanisms responsible for the formation of warps, then the prevalence of vertical disc deformations should increase in tandem with the rising interaction and merger rate.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A Letters
Interpreting the piano sonatas of Anatoly Alexandrov : a performer’s approach
Creators: name: Teo, Clarisse
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2024
Subjects: Piano sonata
Interpretation
Soviet
Russian
Music performance
Practice-based research
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov
Anatolii Nikolayevich Aleksandrov
20th century
Piano music

description: The Soviet composer-pianist and pedagogue Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (also transliterated as Anatolii Nikolayevich Aleksandrov) (1888-1982) was the longest-lived and one of the most prolific composers amongst his Soviet contemporaries. Despite considerable success in his homeland as a pedagogue and children’s music composer during his lifetime, Alexandrov and his music have since faded into obscurity. This research project explores Alexandrov’s fourteen piano sonatas (1914-71) from a performer’s perspective. These sonatas form one of the most substantial contributions to the piano sonata genre in the 20th Century and demonstrate the evolution of Alexandrov’s compositional style. This heart of this research project comprises a critical commentary and four Artistic Projects. Since theoretical approaches to the analysis of music have predominantly characterised research on Alexandrov’s music and little has been written about the sonatas from a performer’s perspective, this critical commentary aims to fill this lacuna by providing interpretative insights to each sonata. These insights were derived from applying a hermeneutics-inspired approach which I formulated through the studying of the sonatas’ scores and an investigation into Alexandrov’s pianism. Consequently, the interpretative insights which are detailed in the critical commentary are manifested through my Artistic Projects, where I performed all fourteen of Alexandrov’s sonatas over four live recitals. These performances also served the dual purposes of promoting awareness of these relatively obscure works within the 20th Century and Soviet piano sonata repertoire and possibly establishing a performance tradition for future interpretations.
Topological linear and nonlinear gap modes in defected dimer lattice with fourth-order diffraction
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoyang
name: Fu, Qidong
name: Huang, Changming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we investigate the optical properties of linear and nonlinear topological in-phase, out-of-phase, and edge modes in a defected dimer lattice with fourth-order diffraction, encompassing their bifurcation characteristics, localized field distributions, and stability properties. Both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are considered. Within the nontrivial regime, in-phase, out-of-phase, and edge modes can emerge within the gap. Numerical results reveal that three types of topological gap solitons bifurcate from their corresponding linear localized modes. The dimerization parameter can be tuned to drive the system from a trivial to a nontrivial configuration. We observe that as the strength of the fourth-order diffraction increases, the size of the spectral gap also enlarges, with this parameter effectively broadening the stability window for solitons. Our findings offer novel insights into the properties of both linear and nonlinear modes in topologically defected structures.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
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Creators: name: Ressort Presse In Der Stabsstelle Des Rektorats Der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Schwerpunkt: Künstliche Intelligenz Mehr als ein schlauer Mensch? Algorithmen entdecken Karies Hilfe gegen Fake News
description: CAMPUS:REPORT, vol. 20 (2022), no. 1
Quantifying scale-free behaviors in Rock-Paper-Scissors Models as a function of Mobility
Creators: name: Bazeia, D.
name: Bongestab, M.
name: Ferreira, M. J. B.
name: de Oliveira, B. F.
name: Santos, J. E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the scale-free behavior of the spatial rock-paper-scissors model with May-Leonard dynamics, analyzing specific quantifiers that engender the power-law feature. The main results show that an important parameter that drives the scale-free behavior is the mobility, which can be used to quantitatively describe several scale-free aspects of the model, such as the number of clusters, the characteristic length, the individuals' lifespan and its corresponding mean traveled distance. All of these are novel quantifiers of current practical interest for the study of biodiversity.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, Version to appear in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
The jet and circumstellar environment of the young binary DF Tau
Creators: name: Dodin, A. V.
name: Burlak, M. A.
name: Kiryukhina, V. A.
name: Lamzin, S. A.
name: Shaposhnikov, I. A.
name: Strakhov, I. A.
name: Tatarnikov, A. A.
name: Tatarnikov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jets and disc winds play an important role in the evolution of protoplanetary discs and the formation of planetary systems. However, there is still a lack of observational data regarding the presence and parameters of outflows, especially for close young binaries. In this study, we aim to find the HH flow near the young sub-arcsecond binary DF Tau and explore its morphology. Narrow-band H$α$ and H$_2$ 2.12 $μ$m imaging and spectroscopic observations of DF Tau and its vicinity were performed. We have discovered several emission nebulae near the binary, which likely result from the interaction of gas outflow from the binary components with the surrounding medium. The outflow appears to occur both in the form of jets, generating numerous Herbig-Haro objects (HH 1266 flow), and as a weakly collimated wind responsible for the formation of the ring-like nebula around the binary and the rim of the cometary globule. We have found that the angle between the jet and the counter-jet is $168^\circ$ and discuss the complex morphology of the HH flow.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters
title: Breaking the Wall of Deaf Learners’ Mathematics Potential
Creators: name: Krause, Christina
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Deaf
subject: mathematics
subject: sign language
subject: design for learning
subject: embodiment
subject: 370

description: Research shows how sign language influences the way Deaf learners’ knowledge is structured. Still, math instruction and material rarely consider their differences, but only try to overcome disabilities. Building on diverse fields of research, we design and evaluate a digital learning opportunity that seeks to foster fruitful signed mathematical discourse by grounding it in action as embodied experience. SignEd|Math leverages the potential of using sign languages as a resource for mathematics learning and instruction of Deaf students while enhancing our knowledge about learning itself.
I Did: A Journal of My Newlywed Year
Creators: name: Broadwick, Jocelyn
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: marriage
newlywed
millennials
journal
diary
memoir
Christianity

description: Her entire life, Jocelyn Broadwick thought getting married would save her. She grew up in a conservative Christian culture where marriage was the highest form of relationship—mirroring Christ’s relationship to the Church. However, Jocelyn’s own devout parents were divorced, reflecting a family history of divorce, which was a blemish in her understanding of what it meant to have a godly family. So at the age of ten—Jocelyn’s age when her parents first separated—she took it upon herself to get and stay married someday. Since marriage was the thing in Jocelyn’s life that had always been missing, surely it was the solution to all of her problems. She couldn’t have been more wrong. 
I Did: A Journal of My Newlywed Year chronicles what it’s like to be young and married in modern American culture. Structured as a journal of the author’s first year of marriage to her husband Patrick, I Did showcases what happens when the author’s expectations of marriage—everything from sex to family to gender roles—inevitably fail to meet her reality. While Jocelyn begins an idealistic young wife, as her religious faith falls away, she is forced to question why she ever wanted to get married in the first place and whether or not she wants to stay married in light of her secular revelations.
Phenotypic characterization fungal symbionts of the mountain pine beetle (MPB)
Creators: name: Zhang, (Sophia) Yiyuan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae ,causes one of the most serious diseases of pines in western North America. The three primary fungi associates carried by the beetles are Grosmannia clavigera, Leptographium longiclavatum and Ophiostoma montium. Multipartite symbioses contribute to the success of beetle survival, reproduction and outbreaks. In this study, phenotypic experiments were conducted in vitro by growing isolates of the fungal associates belonging to the three species distributed across western North America. Both the growth rate and area under the curve were measured and compared inta-specifically and inter-specifically. The results suggest that there are interspecific and intraspecific differences in growth rate at different temperatures, supporting the coexistence of fungal species in multipartite relationships.
Towards User-Centred Design of AI-Assisted Decision-Making in Law Enforcement
Creators: name: Nowack, Vesna
name: Alrajeh, Dalal
name: Muñoz, Carolina Gutierrez
name: Thomas, Katie
name: Hobson, William
name: Benjamin, Patrick
name: Hamilton-Giachritsis, Catherine
name: Grant, Tim
name: Kloess, Juliane A.
name: Woodhams, Jessica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an important part of our everyday lives, yet user requirements for designing AI-assisted systems in law enforcement remain unclear. To address this gap, we conducted qualitative research on decision-making within a law enforcement agency. Our study aimed to identify limitations of existing practices, explore user requirements and understand the responsibilities that humans expect to undertake in these systems.
 Participants in our study highlighted the need for a system capable of processing and analysing large volumes of data efficiently to help in crime detection and prevention. Additionally, the system should satisfy requirements for scalability, accuracy, justification, trustworthiness and adaptability to be adopted in this domain. Participants also emphasised the importance of having end users review the input data that might be challenging for AI to interpret, and validate the generated output to ensure the system's accuracy. To keep up with the evolving nature of the law enforcement domain, end users need to help the system adapt to the changes in criminal behaviour and government guidance, and technical experts need to regularly oversee and monitor the system. Furthermore, user-friendly human interaction with the system is essential for its adoption and some of the participants confirmed they would be happy to be in the loop and provide necessary feedback that the system can learn from. Finally, we argue that it is very unlikely that the system will ever achieve full automation due to the dynamic and complex nature of the law enforcement domain.
description: 10 pages
title: Der Streit, Episode 13 - Mit Annelie Pentenrieder über ihr Buch "Algorithmen im Alltag"
Creators: name: Armbruster, André
name: Seyfert, Robert
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Podcast
subject: Soziologie
subject: Review
subject: Besprechungen
subject: 300

description: Der Streit – Podcast über neue soziologische Literatur. Mit Robert Seyfert und André Armbruster. Premiere: Zum ersten Mal streiten wir uns mit einem Gast. Mit Annelie Pentenrieder diskutieren wir ihr Buch „Algorithmen im Alltag. Eine praxistheoretische Studie zum informierten Umgang mit Routenplanern“ (2020, Campus). Es geht um den Beitrag von Algorithmen zu sozialen Praktiken, um die Handlungsträgerschaft und um den Akteursstatus von Algorithmen.
description: Der Streit - Über neue soziologische Literatur: Podcast
A sustainable ski resort? : tourism development in Valemount, BC
Creators: name: Dengler, Lia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Tourism development is a hot topic in many small single industry towns in British Columbia. While a resort development can bring much needed economic stimulus to a stagnating resource economy, it also creates new challenges and fundamentally alters the nature of the community itself. This research examines the sustainability of a proposed all-season ski resort development near the Village of Valemount, in the interior of British Columbia. It uses a literature review to try to discern the most common challenges and benefits associated with ski resort development, then evaluates the formal proposal against the 10 guiding principles of the Green Party of BC. However, it is important to note that this study is confined to a literature review, and without a consultation of stakeholders in the project, it may overlook current debates of local support or opposition related to this development. While ski resort developments are often controversial and high impact, the Valemount Glacier Destination (VGD) proposal exhibits an unusually high stated commitment in environmental and social sustainability. However, more information, and time, is needed to see whether it can fully meet all the goals it claims to achieve. With respect to the 10 guiding principles, several are satisfied and several are not. According to the definitions provided by the Green Party, the resort fulfills the principles of social justice, non-violence, gender equality, and diversity. However, the principles of sustainability, personal and global responsibility, and ecological wisdom are not met. The principles of grass roots democracy, community based economy, and decentralization are uncertain, with evidence for both sides, and require more information to know with certainty if they are fulfilled or not. Therefore, it may be necessary to monitor the status of the project information as it becomes available to ensure the Green Party stance best reflects the actual development of the project.
Phase Transitions in Quasi-Periodically Driven Quantum Critical Systems: Analytical Results
Creators: name: Fang, Jiyuan
name: Zhou, Qi
name: Wen, Xueda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study analytically the phase transitions in quasi-periodically driven one dimensional quantum critical systems that are described by conformal field theories (CFTs). The phase diagrams and phase transitions can be analytically obtained by using Avila's global theory in one-frequency quasiperiodic cocycles. Compared to the previous works where the quasiperiodicity was introduced in the driving time and no phase transitions were observed [1], here we propose a setup where the quasiperiodicity is introduced in the driving Hamiltonians. In our setup, one can observe the heating phases, non-heating phases, and the phase transitions. The phase diagram as well as the Lyapunov exponents that determine the entanglement entropy evolution can be analytically obtained. In addition, based on Avila's theory, we prove there is no phase transition in the previously proposed setup of quasi-periodically driven CFTs [1]. We verify our field theory results by studying the time evolution of entanglement entropy on lattice models.
description: 20 pages, many figures
title: Plagiate: Wie vermeide ich den Ideendiebstahl
Creators: name: Poensgen, Julius
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Kurzgesagt!: 30-Minuten-Recherchetipps für eine bessere Hausarbeit
title: Digitalisierung in bautechnischen Berufsfeldern: Auswahlhilfe für Mikrocontroller-Experimente zur Anwendung in bautechnischen Lehr-Lernsettings
Creators: name: Karl, Christian
name: Germes, Jan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microcontroller
subject: Digitalisierung
subject: Automatisierung
subject: Berufsausbildung
subject: Auswahlhilfe
subject: Bautechnik
subject: Bauwesen
subject: Experiment
subject: Calliope
subject: Arduino
subject: Raspberry
subject: Internet of Things
subject: 620
subject: 370

description: report fachdidaktik bau:technik, vol. 2, 2022
A Full Circle Farm initiative : Powell River, British Columbia
Creators: name: Stansfield, Leigh
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The Full Circle Farm (FCF) proposed for Powell River, British Columbia, is an initiative by the Society for the Advancement of Local Sustainable Agriculture (SALSA), an organization that emerged from the Powell River Farmers Institute, to grow the region’s agricultural industry and to encourage local organic consumption. Though the FCF has the potential to provide the community with many benefits, it is not without resistance, especially from several local farmers as well as the Powell River Agricultural Association. Thus it has been deemed prudent for this report to investigate strategies to promote public support for the project, and to encourage participation with its various initiatives and programs. Through a comprehensive literature and case study review, focused around four key research questions, this report presents a set of recommendations. These are divided between those directed at local farmers and those directed at the general public, however there are many commonalities: - Consumer education and inclusion - Sustainable norm creation through extensive branding and marketing - Addressing the positive income effect for organic consumption by creating greater accessibility to the FCF’s products and programs - Transparency and accountability
SPOKE 6 Project VINO - D8.3 Report on climate change data for historical and future scenarios at fine spatial resolution and indicators for sectoral analysis
Creators: name: Adinolfi, Marianna
name: Giugliano, Giuseppe
name: Barbato, Giuliana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Climatic changes
subject: Temperature Models
subject: Bioclimatic Indicators
subject: ECS00000036
subject: Vino Project
subject: Spoke 6 - Primary Agroindustry

description: Document describing the analysis of climate conditions for actual and future periods under two different climate scenarios and idicators, for conducting specific analysis for climate change impacts on vineyards or other cultivations. 

 

This document is a deliverable of the project VINO ("VIneyard management for viNeprOduction"), which proposes research for sustainable innovation supported by the digitalisation of the wine sector with the primary objective of creating new solutions and readapting existing practices to cope with the effects of climate change in viticulture.

 

 

This document is part of the project NODES which has received funding from the MUR – Missione 4, Componente 2, Investimento 1.5 – Creazione e rafforzamento di “Ecosistemi dell’innovazione”, costruzione di “leader territoriali di R&S'' – del PNRR funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU with grant agreement no. ECS00000036
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Creators: name: Verein Für Sozialgeschichte Des 20. Und 21. Jahrhunderts E.V.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 31
title: Das Vollzugsorgan des nationalsozialistischen Polizeisystems. Zur Geschichte der Gestapo: Teil 1: Entstehung und Konsolidierung
Creators: name: Rübner, Hartmut
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: The “myth” of the Gestapo as an omniscient agency of terror has been largely refuted recently. The Gestapo was merely a bureaucratic institution equipped with far-reaching powers to take action. Its repressive effectiveness is often explained by the widespread willingness to denounce others in the Volksgemeinschaft. In fact, the apparatus functioned as a control, surveillance and persecution network, based on a division of tasks, in which many cooperating official bodies participated and which also made use of information from rival organisations such as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The article, which describes the process of the Gestapo’s emergence and the independence of the Political Police in the polycratic system of rule under National Socialism, is the first in a series of three parts. The second part will deal with the ideological radicalisation and persecution practice of the State Police as it continued under the auspices of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt with the beginning of the war in 1939.
description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 31, p. 13
Stable Perovskite Solar Modules: strategy and optimization route from n-i-p to p-i-n architecture on rigid & flexible substrate
Creators: name: Castriotta, Luigi Angelo
name: Di Giacomo, Francesco
name: Matteocci, Fabio
name: Vesce, Luigi
name: Stefanelli, Maurizio
name: Babu, Vivek
name: Fuentes Pineda, Rosinda
name: Taheri, Babak
name: Yaghoobi Nia, Narges
name: Zendehdel, Mahmoud
name: Brunetti, Francesca
name: Wojciechowski, Konrad
name: Di Carlo, Aldo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Perovskite Technology is advancing at unprecedented levels in the last years, with efficiencies reaching up to 25.7%. These incredible results are obtained at very small area scale (<0.1cm2), reducing consistently its efficiency when increasing the area, with certified efficiency reaching up to 19.3% on 5x5cm2 substrate area[1]; Module design is needed in order to reduce the impact of the resistivity of the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) on the performance of the system. The introduction of modules consisting of series connected cells brought a huge improvement both on efficiency and fill factor of the device, since the module’s output current is that of one subcells, reducing in this way resistive losses. Stability on perovskite technologies is an hot topic nowadays, and very few works shown stability also at module scale. [2] In this work, we conducted an assessment strategy on design of perovskite modules, in both architecture n-i-p[3] and p-i-n[4], and on both substrate types available in the market, on glass rigid and on pet flexible substrate. By doing so, and by optimizing the interface between perovskite and transporting layers, we were able to reach up to 19.1%[5] and 18.1% efficiency on 5.5x5.5cm2 substrate area on rigid n-i-p and p-i-n structure, respectively, and 12.1%[6] and 10.5%[7] efficiency on flexible n-i-p and p-i-n structure, respectively. Furthermore, we were able to demonstrate, for the first time, an outstanding light stability of Perovskite Modules over 1000 h. We believe that, by using the best optimized laser parameters, by reducing defects occurring during deposition and by passivating perovskite film, these technologies could exploit in the market and be the main actor in the photovoltaic field.
Intratesticular abscess: Correlation of B-mode, Color Doppler and Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound
Creators: name: Skountzos, Georgios
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Abscess

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: male, 19 years
description: Clinical History: A 19 year old man was referred to our department reporting sudden onset of testicular pain and swolleness. He had been examined sonographically at a private clinic, where it has been reported of a suspicious lesion in his right testicle.Physical examinati... Final Diagnosis: Testicular abscess
title: Analysis of Process Data to Advance Computer-Based Assessments in Multilingual Contexts
Creators: name: Hlosta, Martin
name: Herzing, Jessica M. E.
name: Seiler, Simon
name: Nath, Sukanya
name: Keller Zai, Florian
name: Bergamin, Per
name: Erzinger, Andrea
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2024

description: Unlike traditional large-scale assessments, computer-based assessments collect process data that provide information about test-takers actions in the assessment platform while solving test items, for example, response and reaction times, number of clicks, and skipping. In computer-based assessments in multilingual contexts, the comparability of test scores across different assessment languages is essential and challenges assessment design principles regarding fairness. To achieve comparability, test items must be independent of language specificities, test-takers should be homogeneous in their ability to solve the test items, and the test setting must be standardized across test-takers. Using process data in assessments is often limited to identifying cognitive response mechanisms. On the other hand, little is known about how process data can contribute to multilingual assessments’ test development and administration process, hence, quality assurance. Based on the existing literature, we conceptualize a framework with five aspects of how process data can be used for assessment quality improvement. In addition, we set these aspects in the context of computer-based assessments in multilingual contexts. We illustrate three ways in which process data can contribute to the quality assurance of standardized educational computer-based assessments: (a) assisting in identifying suspicious items or blocks across different languages, (b) investigating potential issues of position effects and how they might affect different languages, and (c) clustering test-takers to understand their evolving behavior. This strand of research aims to better understand how process data in computer-based assessments can contribute to quality assurance and inform assessment developers, practitioners, and researchers in large-scale assessments.
title: Kindererholungsheime als Forschungsgegenstand: Erwachsene Zeitzeug*innenschaft am Beispiel eines Beschwerdebriefes im Adolfinenheim auf Borkum
Creators: name: Röhl, Anja
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: From the 1950s to the 1980s, many healthy children were systematically sent away to children’s homes, where they lived apart from their parents for weeks at a time. Only recently, these sent-away children (Verschickungskinder), as they call themselves, have begun to publicly share their experiences. In more than 5,000 individual, publicly available reports, former sent-away children report on the cruel and violent treatment many of them experienced, and on the feelings of helplessness and anxiety that accompanied their stay. This article focuses on one such home, the Adolfinenheim on the island of Borkum, Germany. The article is centered around a letter of complaint, written by three young interns who worked in the home for several weeks, and it describes the circumstances and events they witnessed. Through letters exchanged between stakeholders, the article documents how the reports of these courageous witnesses were initially recognized but then increasingly minimized and dismissed. These letters also show how monetary gain was for many individuals, but also for the entire island of Borkum, a driving force in keeping these children’s homes running, even after knowledge of the abusive practices that children residing there were exposed to became widespread. The article closes with statements from former sent-away child witnesses confirming the allegations made by the three interns.
description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 31, p. 61
A Survey on Spoken Italian Datasets and Corpora
Creators: name: Giordano, Marco
name: Rinaldi, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: A.1; I.2.7; J.5

description: Spoken language datasets are vital for advancing linguistic research, Natural Language Processing, and speech technology. However, resources dedicated to Italian, a linguistically rich and diverse Romance language, remain underexplored compared to major languages like English or Mandarin. This survey provides a comprehensive analysis of 66 spoken Italian datasets, highlighting their characteristics, methodologies, and applications. The datasets are categorized by speech type, source and context, and demographic and linguistic features, with a focus on their utility in fields such as Automatic Speech Recognition, emotion detection, and education. Challenges related to dataset scarcity, representativeness, and accessibility are discussed alongside recommendations for enhancing dataset creation and utilization. The full dataset inventory is publicly accessible via GitHub and archived on Zenodo, serving as a valuable resource for researchers and developers. By addressing current gaps and proposing future directions, this work aims to support the advancement of Italian speech technologies and linguistic research.
description: Published on IEEE Access Journal on Feb 2025
Emergent oscillations and chaos in non-compliant microfluidic networks
Creators: name: Shao, Yanxuan
name: Angilella, Jean-Regis
name: Motter, Adilson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Incompressible fluids in microfluidic networks with non-rigid channels can exhibit flow rate oscillations analogous to electric current oscillations in RLC circuits. This is due to the elastic deformation of channel walls that can store and release fluid, as electric capacitors can store and release electric charges. This property is quantified through the compliance of the system, defined as the volume change relative to the pressure change. In systems with rigid walls and incompressible fluid, compliance vanishes and no oscillations can occur through this mechanism. Here, we show that not only oscillations but also chaos can emerge in the flow-rate dynamics of non-compliant microfluidic networks with incompressible fluid. Notably, these dynamics emerge spontaneously, even under time-independent driving pressures. The underlying mechanism is governed by the effect of fluid inertia, which becomes relevant at moderate Reynolds numbers observed in microfluidic systems exhibiting complex flow patterns. The results are established using a combination of direct numerical simulations and a reduced model derived from modal analysis. This approach enables us to determine the onset of oscillations, the associated bifurcations, the oscillation frequencies and amplitudes, and their dependence on the driving pressures. These findings can inspire novel studies and applications of previously unexplored oscillatory and chaotic regimes in non-compliant microfluidic systems.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Fluids