cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Normative framework of informed consent in clinical research in Germany, Poland, and Russia
Creators: name: Orzechowski, Marcin
name: Woniak, Katarzyna
name: Timmermann, Cristian
name: Steger, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: PARTICIPANTS
subject: RECRUITMENT
subject: INFORMATION
subject: DDC 170 / Ethics
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Biomedical research; Ethics
subject: Clinical trials as topic; Ethics
subject: Legislation, Medical
subject: Germany
subject: Poland
subject: Russia
subject: Biomedizin
subject: Medizinische Ethik
subject: Informed consent
subject: Deutschland
subject: Polen
subject: Russland

description: Background Biomedical research nowadays is increasingly carried out in multinational and multicenter settings. Due to disparate national regulations on various ethical aspects, such as informed consent, there is the risk of ethical compromises when involving human subjects in research. Although the Declaration of Helsinki is the point of reference for ethical conduct of research on humans, national normative requirements may diverge from its provisions. The aim of this research is to examine requirements on informed consent in biomedical research in Germany, Poland, and Russia to determine how each national regulatory framework relates to the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki. Methods For this analysis, we conducted a search of the legal databases “Gesetze im Internet” for Germany, “Internetowy System Aktow Prawnych” for Poland, and “ГAPAHT – Garant” for Russia. The search was complemented by a review of secondary literature contained in the databases Google Scholar, PubMed, Polish National Library, and eLibrary.ru. We have identified 21 normative regulations containing provisions on informed consent in clinical research in all three countries. The content of these documents was systematically categorized and analyzed. Results The normative framework in all three countries shows a strong commitment towards the core ethical principles of research envisaged in the Declaration of Helsinki. Nevertheless, provisions on informed consent vary between these three countries. The differences range from the method and language in which information should be provided, through the amount of information required to be disclosed, to the form of documenting consent or withdrawal. In the case of research on vulnerable groups, these differences are particularly visible. Conclusions The identified differences can negatively impact the ethical conduct of international clinical studies. Attention needs to be paid that flexibilities within national regulations are not misused to undermine the protection of research subjects. Achieving global or regional legislative harmonization might prove impossible. Such lack of legal consensus reinforces the significance of the international ethical agreements.
Supplementary document for Highly-efficient terahertz emission from hydrogen-bonded single molecular crystal 4-nitro-2,5-bis(phenylethynyl)aniline - 5073361.pdf
Creators: name: Sotome, Masato
name: Ogaki, Takuya
name: takimiya, kazuo
name: Ogawa, Naoki
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Materials
title: Checklisten für die Untersuchung und Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen
title: Anlagenbezogener Gewässerschutz: Checkliste 01: Stoffe
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Winkelmann-Oei, Gerhard
name: Platkowski, Jörg
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Gewässerschutz
subject: Risikomanagement
subject: Leitfaden
subject: anlagenbezogen
subject: Wasserverschmutzung
subject: Wasserschadstoffe
subject: Checkliste
subject: Chemikalien
subject: Chemicals

description: Basierend auf den Empfehlungen der internationalen Flussgebiets- und Gewässerkommissionen wurde ein Checklisten-Konzept entwickelt, welches eine effiziente Beurteilung des Zustandes von Anlagen mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen und Zubereitungen ermöglicht. Es enthält eine Übersicht  über potentielle Handlungsfelder sowie spezielle Checklisten, welche nach Funktionseinheiten, Branchen und Risikobereichen aufgeteilt sind.
title: Efficient and Secure Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing Enabled Wireless Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Qun
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: To support emerging applications such as autonomous vehicles and smart homes and to build an intelligent society, the next-generation internet of things (IoT) is calling for up to 50 billion devices connected world wide. Massive devices connection, explosive data circulation, and colossal data processing demand are driving both the industry and academia to explore new solutions.
Uploading this vast amount of data to the cloud center for processing will significantly increase the load on backbone networks and cause relatively long latency to time-sensitive applications. A practical solution is to deploy the computing resource closer to end-users to process the distributed data. Hence, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) emerged as a promising solution to providing high-speed data processing service with low latency.
However, the implementation of MEC networks is handicapped by various challenges. For one thing, to serve massive IoT devices, dense deployment of edge servers will consume much more energy. For another, uploading sensitive user data through a wireless link intro-duces potential risks, especially for those size-limited IoT devices that cannot implement complicated encryption techniques. This dissertation investigates problems related to Energy Efficiency (EE) and Physical Layer Security (PLS) in MEC-enabled IoT networks and how Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), prediction-based server coordination, and Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) can be used to mitigate them.
Employing a new spectrum access method can help achieve greater speed with less power consumption, therefore increasing system EE. We first investigated NOMA-assisted MEC networks and verified that the EE performance could be significantly improved. Idle servers can consume unnecessary power. Proactive server coordination can help relieve the tension of increased energy consumption in MEC systems. Our next step was to employ advanced machine learning algorithms to predict data workload at the server end and adaptively adjust the system configuration over time, thus reducing the accumulated system cost. We then introduced the PLS to our system and investigated the long-term secure EE performance of the MEC-enabled IoT network with NOMA assistance. It has shown that NOMA can improve both EE and PLS for the network. Finally, we switch from the single antenna scenario to a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system to exploit space diversity and beam forming techniques in mmWave communication. IRS can be used simultaneously to help relieve the pathloss and reconfigure multi-path links. In the final part, we first investigated the secure EE performance of IRS-assisted MISO networks and introduced a friendly jammer to block the eavesdroppers and improve the PLS rate. We then combined the IRS with the NOMA in the MEC network and showed that the IRS can further enhance the system EE.
Objections to pacific seasonal work programs in rural Australia
Creators: name: Mares, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Australia is debating whether Pacific Islanders should be granted temporary visas to undertake seasonal work in agriculture. The proposal has support from Australian farmers’ organisations, international development agencies and politicians on both sides of Parliament. Pacific Island governments are enthusiastic about the idea and have repeatedly raised it at regional meetings. However, Commonwealth government ministers have ruled out changes to current migration arrangements to allow the entry of unskilled workers on short term visas. The grounds given for opposing such schemes are numerous. This article identifies ten primary objections to a seasonal labour program for Pacific Islanders. It addresses each objection on its merits, in an attempt to disentangle legitimate questions of policy from unfounded perceptions and fears that often have deep historical roots.
Look who's talking
Creators: name: Russo, Angelina
name: Watkins, Jerry
name: Chan, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media such as blogs, podcasts and online video to encourage users to participate in their programs. Social media are variously described as 'online technologies and practices used to share opinions, insights, perspectives', 'software-supported social networking' (Chan) and 'many-to-many communication supported by web technology' (Watkins and Russo). This article argues that the social media space can be considered in terms of its effect on participation, communication and visitor incentive. It explores each of these in details using recent examples and findings on social media implementation in museums.
Erweiterte Konzepte zur Funktionsintegration
Creators: name: Wissmann, Klaus
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science
subject: CORBA: Computer architecture
subject: CORBA
subject: Datenbank
subject: Föderiertes Datenbanksystem
subject: Prozessmanagement
subject: RPC
subject: Systemintegration
subject: Verteiltes System
subject: XLink
subject: XML
subject: XPath
subject: XPointer

description: Anwendungssysteme stellen im Gegensatz zu DBMSen nur ein fest vorgegebenes API zum Zugriff auf die durch sie verwalteten Daten zur Verfügung. In dieser Arbeit soll zunächst ein Ansatz zur Integration von Anwendungssystemen durch die Beschreibung von Parameterabhängigkeiten vorgestellt werden. Darauf aufbauend wird die Anwendung dieses Ansatzes auf objektorientierte Systeme erläutert. Weiterhin werden Konstrukte zur Kontrollflußsteuerung und zur Fehlerbehandlung vorgestellt sowie der schreibende Fall behandelt. Anschließend wird die auf XML basierende Sprache FIX zur Beschreibung von Funktionsabbildungen vorgestellt. Zuletzt werden die Anforderungen an ein Ausführungsmodell beschrieben. Anhand von MQ Workflow wird die Eignung eines Workflow Management Systems als Ausführungsumgebung evaluiert.
Virial scaling of massive dark matter halos: why clusters prefer a high normalization cosmology
Creators: name: Evrard, August E.
name: Bialek, James
name: Busha, Michael T.
name: White, Martin
name: Habib, Salman
name: Heitmann, Katrin
name: Warren, Michael S.
name: Rasia, Elena
name: Tormen, Giuseppe
name: Moscardini, Lauro
name: Power, Chris
name: Jenkins, Adrian R.
name: Gao, Liang
name: Frenk, Carlos S.
name: Springel, Volker
name: White, Simon D.
name: Diemand, Jurg
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
Prediction of incidental osteoporotic fractures at vertebral-specific level using 3D non-linear finite element parameters derived from routine abdominal MDCT
Creators: name: Yeung, Long Yu
name: Rayudu, Nithin Manohar
name: Löffler, Maximilian
name: Sekuboyina, Anjany
name: Burian, Egon
name: Sollmann, Nico
name: Dieckmeyer, Michael
name: Greve, Tobias
name: Kirschke, Jan S.
name: Subburaj, Karupppasamy
name: Baum, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: incidental vertebral fracture
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Finite element analysis
subject: Multidetector computed tomography
subject: Osteoporosis
subject: Spine
subject: Spinal fractures
subject: Finite-Elemente-Methode
subject: Mehrzeilendetektorcomputertomographie
subject: Osteoporose
subject: Wirbelbruch

description: To investigate whether finite element (FE) analysis of the spine in routine thoracic/abdominal multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) can predict incidental osteoporotic fractures at vertebral-specific level; Baseline routine thoracic/abdominal MDCT scans of 16 subjects (8(m), mean age: 66.1 ± 8.2 years and 8(f), mean age: 64.3 ± 9.5 years) who sustained incidental osteoporotic vertebral fractures as confirmed in follow-up MDCTs were included in the current study. Thoracic and lumbar vertebrae (T5-L5) were automatically segmented, and bone mineral density (BMD), finite element (FE)-based failure-load, and failure-displacement were determined. These values of individual vertebrae were normalized globally (g), by dividing the absolute value with the average of L1-3 and locally by dividing the absolute value with the average of T5-12 and L1-5 for thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, respectively. Mean-BMD of L1-3 was determined as reference. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated for different normalized FE (Kload, Kdisplacement,K(load)g, and K(displacement)g) and BMD (KBMD, and K(BMD)g) ratio parameter combinations for identifying incidental fractures. Kload, K(load)g, KBMD, and K(BMD)g showed significantly higher discriminative power compared to standard mean BMD of L1-3 (BMDStandard) (AUC = 0.67 for Kload; 0.64 for K(load)g; 0.64 for KBMD; 0.61 for K(BMD)g vs. 0.54 for BMDStandard). The combination of Kload, Kdisplacement, and KBMD increased the AUC further up to 0.77 (p < 0.001). The combination of FE with BMD measurements derived from routine thoracic/abdominal MDCT allowed an improved prediction of incidental fractures at vertebral-specific level.
The major risks faced by Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations in the event of a tropical cyclone
Creators: name: Curnin, Steven
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Western Operations operates two bases in the most cyclone-prone region of the entire Australian coastline. In preparation for a tropical cyclone impacting either of the bases, a comprehensive risk assessment was performed and a major risk identified was the reduced operational capability of the service in the event of a tropical cyclone. The relocation of aircraft to a suitable alternate location can facilitate the operational capability of RFDS Western Operations during a period of cyclonic activity affecting a RFDS Western Operations base. The development of a Tropical Cyclone Plan incorporating the relocation of aircraft aims to address this issue in preparation for the 2009 - 2010 cyclone season.
Pancreatic cancer small extracellular vesicles (exosomes) : a tale of short- and long-distance communication
Creators: name: Waldenmaier, Mareike
name: Seibold, Tanja
name: Seufferlein, Thomas
name: Eiseler, Tim
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: pancreatic cancer
subject: small extracellular vesicle
subject: exosomes
subject: sEVs
subject: tumor growth
subject: immune evasion
subject: metastasis
subject: therapeutic sEVs
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Pancreas; Cancer
subject: Pancreatic neoplasms
subject: Neoplasm metastasis
subject: Biomarkers
subject: Exosomes
subject: Extracellular vesicles
subject: Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs
subject: Metastase
subject: Tumorwachstum
subject: Biomarker
subject: Exosom

description: Simple Summary Even today, pancreatic cancer still has a dismal prognosis. It is characterized by a lack of early symptoms and thus late diagnosis as well as early metastasis. The majority of patients suffer from pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDACs communicate extensively with cellular components of their microenvironment, but also with distant metastatic niches to facilitate tumor progression and dissemination. This crosstalk is substantially enabled by small extracellular vesicles (sEVs, exosomes) with a size of 30–150 nm that are released from the tumor cells. sEVs carry bioactive cargos that reprogram target cells to promote tumor growth, migration, metastasis, immune evasion, or chemotherapy resistance. Interestingly, sEVs also carry novel diagnostic, prognostic and potentially also predictive biomarkers. Moreover, engineered sEVs may be utilized as therapeutic agents, improving treatment options. The role of sEVs for PDAC development, progression, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment is the focus of this review. Abstract Even with all recent advances in cancer therapy, pancreatic cancer still has a dismal 5-year survival rate of less than 7%. The most prevalent tumor subtype is pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). PDACs display an extensive crosstalk with their tumor microenvironment (TME), e.g., pancreatic stellate cells, but also immune cells to regulate tumor growth, immune evasion, and metastasis. In addition to crosstalk in the local TME, PDACs were shown to induce the formation of pre-metastatic niches in different organs. Recent advances have attributed many of these interactions to intercellular communication by small extracellular vesicles (sEVs, exosomes). These nanovesicles are derived of endo-lysosomal structures (multivesicular bodies) with a size range of 30–150 nm. sEVs carry various bioactive cargos, such as proteins, lipids, DNA, mRNA, or miRNAs and act in an autocrine or paracrine fashion to educate recipient cells. In addition to tumor formation, progression, and metastasis, sEVs were described as potent biomarker platforms for diagnosis and prognosis of PDAC. Advances in sEV engineering have further indicated that sEVs might once be used as effective drug carriers. Thus, extensive sEV-based communication and applications as platform for biomarker analysis or vehicles for treatment suggest a major impact of sEVs in future PDAC research.
La questione operaia e il nazionalismo. Dalla crisi di Weimar all'avvento di Hitler, 1928-1933
Creators: name: Luggin, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2010

description: La questione operaia e il nazionalismo. Dalla crisi di Weimar all'avvento di Hitler, 1928-1933
Roaming the Neighbourhood: Influences of Independent Mobility Parenting Practices and Parental Perceived Environment on Children’s Territorial Range
Creators: name: Vlaar, Janae
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Janssen, Ian
name: Mâsse, Louise C.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Children’s independent mobility (IM), their freedom to move about their neighbourhood without supervision by adults, has been in steady decline in recent decades. Previous research has linked perceptions of the environment with various measures of IM, but recently concerns have been raised regarding inconsistency in measuring IM. This study used various measures of IM and aimed to address how parental perceptions of the neighbourhood environment are associated with children’s territorial range (actual IM), as well as how this relationship is mediated by IM parenting practices (allowed IM). A sample of 105 child/parent dyads from Vancouver, Canada participated in this study. Children (age 10–13) wore a global positioning system (GPS) watch and an accelerometer and completed an activity diary for seven days to assess their territorial range. Parents completed a questionnaire that assessed perceptions of their neighbourhood environment and IM parenting practices—license for IM and roaming allowance. Path analyses were used to address the research aims. License for IM and roaming allowance mediated the relationship between perceived walking facilities, crime safety, and neighbourhood relations and children’s territorial range. Findings suggest that future interventions to increase children’s territorial range should focus primarily on attitude and behaviour change among parents to grant children more freedom.
Psychologische Wende zur Nachhaltigkeit
Creators: name: Häusler, Richard
name: Kristof, Kora
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: Der Soziologe und Verhaltenstherapeut Richard Häusler und die Volkswirtin Kora Kristof äußern sich zur Wende in den Köpfen, die notwendig ist für eine grundlegende Transformation Richtung Nachhaltigkeit. Quelle: www.forum-csr.net
Does Inoculation with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Reduce Trunk Disease in Grapevine Rootstocks?
Creators: name: Holland, Taylor
name: Bowen, Patricia
name: Kokkoris, Vasilis
name: Urbez-Torres, Jose Ramon
name: Hart, Miranda
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Ilyonectria is a weak pathogen known for causing black foot disease in young vines, infecting roots and vascular tissues at the basal end of the rootstock and restricting the movement of water and nutrients. This negatively impacts vine establishment during transplant into the vineyard. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are symbiotic fungi that associate with most plants and have been shown to mitigate the infection and effect of pathogens. This greenhouse study was designed to determine if the mycorrhizal fungi could mitigate Ilyonectria infection and whether this was dependent on inoculation timing. ‘Riparia gloire’ grapevine rootstocks (Vitis riparia) were infected with Ilyonectria either after AM fungi, at the same time as AM fungi, or to roots that were not inoculated by AM fungi. We measured the abundance using specific markers for both the pathogen and AM fungi. Colonization by AM fungi did not suppress Ilyonectria, but instead increased the abundance of Ilyonectria. Further, mycorrhizal rootstocks did not have enhanced growth effects on physiological parameters when compared to non-mycorrhizal rootstocks. These findings stand in contrast to the general perception that AM fungi provide protection against root pathogens.
Changing diets over time: knock-on effects of marine megafauna overexploitation on their competitors in the South-Western Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: Bas, Maria
name: Tivoli, Angélica M.
name: Briz i Godino, Ivan
name: Salemme, Mónica
name: Santiago, Fernando
name: Belardi, Juan Bautista
name: Borella, Florencia
name: Vales, Damián G.
name: Crespo, Enrique A.
name: Cardona, Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Magellanic penguin
Imperial shag
marine ecosystem
Stable isotopes
zooarchaeology

description: This study compares the δ15N values and the trophic position of two seabird species throughout the Late Holocene in three regions in the South-Western Atlantic Ocean to assess the hypothesis that the decimation of megafauna lead to changes in the trophic position of mesopredators. Modern and ancient mollusc shells were also analysed to account for changes in the isotopic baseline through time. Results revealed that modern Magellanic penguins have higher δ15N values than their ancient conspecifics in the three regions, after controlling for changes in the isotopic baseline. This was also true for modern Imperial shags compared to ancient unidentified cormorants/shags from the two areas where ancient specimens were recovered (Southern Patagonia and the Beagle Channel). Such temporal variability might be caused by three non-mutually exclusive processes: decreased availability of pelagic squat lobster resulting from decreasing primary productivity through the Late Holocene, increased availability of small fishes resulting from the sequential depletion of other piscivores (South American fur seal and sea lion and Argentine hake) since the late 18th century and modification of the migratory patterns of Magellanic penguins. Although disentangling the relative contribution of all those processes is impossible at this time, the results reported here demonstrate that the ecology of Magellanic penguins and Imperial shags has undergone major changes since the Late Holocene.
description: Funding provided by: Fundació Bosch i Gimpera
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008394
Award Number: 309765
Dental and maxillofacial cone beam CT—high number of incidental findings and their impact on follow-up and therapy management
Creators: name: Braun, Michael Johannes
name: Rauneker, Thaddäus Paul
name: Dreyhaupt, Jens
name: Hoffmann, Thomas K.
name: Luthardt, Ralph G.
name: Schmitz, Bernd
name: Dammann, Florian
name: Beer, Meinrad
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CBCT
subject: Incidental findings
subject: Impact on therapeutic management
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Cone-beam computed tomography
subject: Radiography, Dental
subject: Diagnostic imaging; Methods
subject: Diagnosis, Oral
subject: Computertomografie
subject: Bildgebendes Verfahren
subject: Kopfregion

description: Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) is increasingly used for dental and maxillofacial imaging. The occurrence of incidental findings has been reported, but clinical implications of these findings remain unclear. The study’s aim was to identify the frequency and clinical impact of incidental findings in CBCT. A total of 374 consecutive CBCT examinations of a 3 year period were retrospectively evaluated for the presence, kind, and clinical relevance of incidental findings. In a subgroup of 54 patients, therapeutic consequences of CBCT incidental findings were queried from the referring physicians. A total of 974 incidental findings were detected, involving 78.6% of all CBCT, hence 2.6 incidental findings per CBCT. Of these, 38.6% were classified to require treatment, with an additional 25.2% requiring follow-up. Incidental findings included dental pathologies in 55.3%, pathologies of the paranasal sinuses and airways in 29.2%, osseous pathologies in 14.9% of all CBCT, and findings in the soft tissue or TMJ in few cases. Clinically relevant dental incidental findings were detected significantly more frequently in CBCT for implant planning compared to other indications (60.7% vs. 43.2%, p < 0.01), and in CBCT with an FOV ≥ 100 mm compared to an FOV < 100 mm (54.7% vs. 40.0%, p < 0.01). Similar results were obtained for paranasal incidental findings. In a subgroup analysis, 29 of 54 patients showed incidental findings which were previously unknown, and the findings changed therapeutical management in 19 patients (35%). The results of our study highlighted the importance of a meticulous analysis of the entire FOV of CBCT for incidental findings, which showed clinical relevance in more than one in three patients. Due to a high number of clinically relevant incidental findings especially in CBCT for implant planning, an FOV of 100 × 100 mm covering both the mandible and the maxilla was concluded to be recommendable for this indication.
L'educazione alla scienza. Il dibattito sulla "Höflichkeit" erudita del 1670-1730 e il primo illuminismo tedesco
Creators: name: Gierl, Martin
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2010

description: L'educazione alla scienza. Il dibattito sulla "Höflichkeit" erudita del 1670-1730 e il primo illuminismo tedesco
Industrial globalisation: the design of collaborative industry models for small economies
Creators: name: Prebble, Dean Richard
name: Maritz, Alex
name: de Waal, Gerrit Anton
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: New Zealand is a small, relatively isolated economy with approximately four million people. Despite its size, it has launched a number of innovative products onto the world stage. The innovators behind these successful commercialisations have often come from engineering and manufacturing backgrounds. The supply of these innovators is now at risk. Globalisation has changed the game for New Zealand innovators. Manufacturing is experiencing a decline caused by competition from larger, lower wage economies. Many New Zealand innovators and entrepreneurs are now re locating offshore or dealing direct with offshore manufacturers. Although some argue that New Zealand can still survive as a design led economy, the reality is that much of our innovation base is linked to the knowledge that our engineers and manufacturers build over time through working in their respective industries. The objective of this research was to review the literature on collaborative business models and then apply some of the thinking to the New Zealand manufacturing sector. A series of qualitative interviews were undertaken with plastics manufacturers that serve the high growth sectors of marine navigation and healthcare. Brand owners and strategic suppliers were also interviewed. Initial interviews aimed at clarifying the concepts used in the industry and to establish a conceptual framework that could be developed and refined throughout each interview in an attempt to develop a common language and visual representation of the elements being discussed. The research resulted in the design of four new collaborative business models summarised as: 1. The Collaborative Brand Owner Model: driven by an established brand owner, focused on their end customer requirements; 2. The Collaborative Start Up/High Growth Model: driven by suppliers. This model requires an appointed co-ordinator to identify and organise a collaborative effort with emerging brand owners; 3. The Collaborative Technology Model: driven by an idea carrier (engineer, brand owner etc). It requires a coordinator to pull together project teams around technical innovations; 4. The Formalised Industry Collaboration Model: membership driven. Focussed on continual innovation across all areas, i.e. equipment, machinery, materials, process, product, distribution and service. This model is the most radical aimed at generating new wealth for an evolving membership base.
Les limites du pouvoir en Allemagne au dix-neuvième siècle: l'Etat de droit et les droits publics subjectifs
Creators: name: Gozzi, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Year: 2010

description: Les limites du pouvoir en Allemagne au dix-neuvième siècle: l'Etat de droit et les droits publics subjectifs
Supplementary document for Polarization-sensitive optical diffraction tomography - 5074444.pdf
Creators: name: Saba, Amirhossein
name: Lim, Joowon
name: Emam, Ahmed Bassam
name: Antoine, Elizabeth
name: Psaltis, Demetri
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics
Optical Technology

description: Supplemental Document
Recent results from PHOBOS at RHIC
Creators: name: Pak, Robert
name: Back, B. B.
name: Baker, M. D.
name: Barton, D. S.
name: Betts, R. R.
name: Ballintijn, M.
name: Bickley, A. A.
name: Bindel, R.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Busza, W.
name: Carroll, A.
name: Decowski, M. P.
name: Garcia, E.
name: George, N.
name: Gulbrandsen, K.
name: Gushue, S.
name: Halliwell, C.
name: Hamblen, J.
name: Heintzelman, G. A.
name: Henderson, C.
name: Hofman, D. J.
name: Hollis, R. S.
name: Holynski, R.
name: Holzman, B.
name: Iordanova, A.
name: Johnson, E.
name: Kane, J. L.
name: Katzy, J.
name: Khan, N.
name: Kucewicz, W.
name: Kulinich, P.
name: Kuo, C. M.
name: Lin, W. T.
name: Manly, S.
name: McLeod, D.
name: Michalowski, J.
name: Mignerey, A. C.
name: Nouicer, R.
name: Olszewski, A.
name: Park, I. C.
name: Pernegger, H.
name: Reed, C.
name: Remsberg, L. P.
name: Reuter, M.
name: Roland, C.
name: Roland, G.
name: Rosenberg, L.
name: Sagerer, J.
name: Sarin, P.
name: Sawicki, P.
name: Skulski, W.
name: Steadman, S. G.
name: Steinberg, P.
name: Stephans, G. S. F.
name: Stodulski, M.
name: Sukhanov, A.
name: Tang, J.-L.
name: Teng, R.
name: Trzupek, A.
name: Vale, C.
name: van Nieuwenhuizen, G. J.
name: Verdier, R.
name: Wadsworth, B.
name: Wolfs, F. L. H.
name: Wosiek, B.
name: Wozniak, K.
name: Wuosmaa, A. H.
name: Wyslouch, B.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The PHOBOS experiment at RHIC has recorded measurements for Au-Au collisions spanning nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies from √SNN = 19.6 GeV to 200 GeV. Global observables such as elliptic flow and charged particle multiplicity provide important constraints on model predictions that characterize the state of matter produced in these collisions. The nearly 4π acceptance of the PHOBOS experiment provides excellent coverage for complete flow and multiplicity measurements. Results including beam energy and centrality dependencies are presented and compared to elementary systems.
Nonlinear optimal control for aircraft ground manoeuvres
Creators: name: Zexin Huang
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Despite recent advances in flight control systems, aircraft ground manoeuvres are still conducted manually. This thesis aims to improve the efficiency and safety of airport operations by developing a real-time optimal controller forground operations, especially high-speed runway turnoff. A reliable and robust controller is able to improve airport traffic capacity and reduce runway events of incursion, excursion, and confusion. A high-fidelity fully-parameterised aircraft model is developed to capture aircraft ground dynamics. The nonlinearities enter the system via sub-models of tyres and aerodynamics. A numerical continuation method is used to compute and track steady-state solutions under the variation of parameters, providing a global picture of the system stability within a typical operation envelop. Dynamic simulations are carried out to analyse transient behaviourswhich are not captured by the bifurcation analysis. Three controllers are employed to investigate the automation of aircraft runway exit manoeuvres. An Expert Pilot Model is developed to represent manoeuvres that are manually operated by pilots. To evaluate the optimality of the proposed Expert Pilot Model (EPM), Generalised Optimal Control (GOC) is employed to numerically investigate the optimal solutions for aircraft runway exit manoeuvres. A formal solution of real-time optimal steering control problem is desired in light of the gap between the Expert Pilot Modeland Generalised Optimal Control. Therefore, Predictive Steering Control is developed based on Linear Quadratic method with lookahead, which is able to deliver near-optimal manoeuvres.
Furthering an open science culture at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences
Creators: name: Lindroos, Hanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: data management
open data

description: Open access to curated research data contributes to spreading of knowledge and to an increased ability for public and private players, as well as private individuals, to contribute to a more sustainable, democratic society and more efficient information exchange.

The routines necessary for open access to research data will not only further “good data hygiene” among the research community, but also clarify in which situations data is in need of special protection. To achieve this degree of data management, certain levels of routines, standardization and infrastructure are required. In addition to this, a supporting culture and acceptance of the concept is required from researchers. 

We aim to create the physical, organizational and cultural conditions necessary to make more research data from SLU available according to the FAIR principles. A well-functioning process; from project planning, data acquisition, analysis and storage through to archiving and publication of research results, requires an equally well-functioning collaboration between the functions involved in data management support. It also requires clear routines as well as hard- and software that can connect the different parts of the process. In addition to all this, it depends on researchers and managers gaining an understanding of the value it may generate and a willingness to adapt routines to this.
Resource and Climate Protection through integrated Waste Management Projects in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries - Example India
Creators: name: Vogt, Regine
name: Stubbusch, Andrea
name: Lakshmi, K. Vijaya
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Klimaschutzpotenzial
subject: climate protection potential
subject: waste management concepts
subject: India
subject: E+D-countries
subject: greenhouse gas calculations
subject: Bangalore
subject: Haridwar
subject: Bhopal
subject: Waste | Resources

description: On the example of the Indian cities of Bangalore, Bhopal and Haridwar, it is explained which climate protection potential the introduction of integrated waste management in emerging and developing countries holds. In order to describe the waste management systems of the 3 cities, unavailable data was completed by local expertise and assumptions. Greenhouse gas balances according to the LCA method for waste management for the respective status quo and realistic optimization scenarios demonstrate the significant reduction potential resulting from a diversion of waste from landfill. An extrapolation of the results shows that measures in a large number of smaller cities can also be of relevance.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 215 (27. Jg.), September 1997
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Supplementary document for Polarization-sensitive optical diffraction tomography - 5074444.pdf
Creators: name: Saba, Amirhossein
name: Lim, Joowon
name: Emam, Ahmed Bassam
name: Antoine, Elizabeth
name: Psaltis, Demetri
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Classical and Physical Optics
Optical Technology

description: Supplemental Document
Capture and Detection of Circulating Glioma Cells Using the Recombinant VAR2CSA Malaria Protein
Creators: name: Bang-Christensen, Sara R.
name: Pedersen, Rasmus S.
name: Pereira, Marina A.
name: Clausen, Thomas M.
name: Løppke, Caroline
name: Sand, Nicolai T.
name: Ahrens, Theresa D.
name: Jørgensen, Amalie M.
name: Lim, Yi Chieh
name: Goksøyr, Louise
name: Choudhary, Swati
name: Gustavsson, Tobias
name: Dagil, Robert
name: Daugaard, Mads
name: Sander, Adam F.
name: Torp, Mathias H.
name: Søgaard, Max
name: Theander, Thor G.
name: Østrup, Olga
name: Lassen, Ulrik
name: Hamerlik, Petra
name: Salanti, Ali
name: Agerbæk, Mette Ø.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Diffuse gliomas are the most common primary malignant brain tumor. Although extracranial metastases are rarely observed, recent studies have shown the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of glioma patients, confirming that a subset of tumor cells are capable of entering the circulation. The isolation and characterization of CTCs could provide a non-invasive method for repeated analysis of the mutational and phenotypic state of the tumor during the course of disease. However, the efficient detection of glioma CTCs has proven to be challenging due to the lack of consistently expressed tumor markers and high inter- and intra-tumor heterogeneity. Thus, for this field to progress, an omnipresent but specific marker of glioma CTCs is required. In this article, we demonstrate how the recombinant malaria VAR2CSA protein (rVAR2) can be used for the capture and detection of glioma cell lines that are spiked into blood through binding to a cancer-specific oncofetal chondroitin sulfate (ofCS). When using rVAR2 pull-down from glioma cells, we identified a panel of proteoglycans, known to be essential for glioma progression. Finally, the clinical feasibility of this work is supported by the rVAR2-based isolation and detection of CTCs from glioma patient blood samples, which highlights ofCS as a potential clinical target for CTC isolation.
Unreliable evidence: why investors misjudge the technological expertise of founders of high technology ventures
Creators: name: Levie, Jonathan
name: Gimmon, Eli
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We report the reflections of five venture capitalists and five business angels drawn from US, the UK, and Israel on their evaluation criteria for early stage high tech investments and their interpretations of selected prior research related to evaluation of founder's human capital. We found that these early stage high tech investors tended to focus on harvest potential and miss factors that predict early survival and growth. The interviews confirmed a gap between in use and espoused criteria, and extensive use of gut feeling in decision-making. We offer criteria that investors could consider to improve their funding decision processes.
Supplementary document for Maskless fabrication of plasmonic metasurfaces in polymer film using spatial light modulator - 5074508.pdf
Creators: name: Bitarafan, Mohammad
name: Annurakshita, Shambhavee
name: Toivonen, Juha
name: Bautista, Godofredo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Storytelling, employee engagement and reputation
Creators: name: Gill, Robert
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Employer of choice (EOC) for Australian organisations is an emerging issue, as it relates to the way organisations provide a safe, healthy and progressive working environment. By informing employees about their EOC structure through stories, a stronger commitment from staff towards the organisation can be fostered resulting in improved reputation, both internally and externally. Corporate storytelling can be used as an effective means to improve engagement between employers and staff by communicating and reinforcing the employee opportunities, developments and benefits associated with working for the organisation. The characteristics of storytelling make it an excellent medium for the organisation to engage with employees on a more personal level and can aid in the retention of information valuable to building an employee-focussed work culture. The use of corporate stories as an internal communication instrument may result in employees becoming reputation champions for their organisation. Narration that positively represents the organisation can be adopted by staff and adapted to become more relevant to the particular stakeholders they encounter through their work. Staff who are more engaged with, and have a deep trust for, their employer are likely to feel more buoyant about their work and conduct themselves in a constructive manner, resulting in improved productivity, a healthier brand and a decreased risk of staffing loss.
title: Comparative Studies in Rangeland Management: Examining the Foundational Assessments Relationship to the Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat Assessment Framework and Assessment of Predicted Cattle Distributions Using GPS Collars in Rich County, Utah
Creators: name: Anderson, Michael T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is being used as an umbrella species to manage for 350 plant and animal species that also depend on rangeland communities. Sage-grouse habitat assessments have been carried out using multiple methods. Standard sage-grouse methods described by Connelly et al 2003, include line intercept (LI) and Daubenmire frames (DF) measuring canopy cover. These methods were adopted broadly among sage-grouse biologist and used to develop habitat objectives for greater sage-grouse. Federal land management agencies now use the Habitat Assessment Framework (HAF). Specifically, HAF employs line-point intercept (LPI), to assess foliar cover in sage-grouse habitat. While there is evidence that the different methods are not entirely compatible in their specifics plant cover estimates, researchers who helped develop the methods used by land management agencies suggest that when determining the suitability of habitat, outcomes would be similar. To date there has been no effort to reconcile the outcomes of standard sage-grouse methods and HAF methods in the context of the sage-grouse habitat objectives framework. Of the 74 sites sampled 19 fell within the range of implication and demanded the outcomes of standard sage grouse biologist and HAF methods be reconciled. Over all 19 sites secondarily sampled 67% showed agreement in outcomes. More specifically the sites produced the same outcome 83% of sites sampled for shrub species and 60% of sites sampled for herbaceous species.
The primary commercial use of rangelands in the U.S. is livestock grazing. An economical and consistent means of predicting and visualizing cattle distributions in rangelands could help inform managers to make grazing decisions. Open Range Consulting has developed the Piosphere tool that uses abiotic GIS data to quantify and predict cattle distributions. The intent of this study is to evaluate the Piosphere tool using observed global positioning system (GPS) cow collar data. The GPS collar data was combined with the same set of abiotic GIS data that informs the Piosphere tool and was used to build a resource selection function (RSF) independently of the Piosphere tool. This RSF controls for the telemetry bias associated with collar data and produces a landscape scale analysis that was used to evaluate the Piosphere tool’s predicted distribution. Validation was performed in two ways. Firstly, calculating the proportion of cow collar locations captured within the predicted distribution of the Piosphere tool and secondly a comparison of pixel values for each landscape scale analysis across the whole study area. 96% of collar location fell within the predicted distribution of the Piosphere tool. Regressing each of the landscape analyses produced and R2 of 0.64.
Animal Research, Accountability, Openness and Public Engagement: Report from an International Expert Forum
Creators: name: Ormandy, Elisabeth H.
name: Weary, Daniel M.
name: Cvek, Katarina
name: Fisher, Mark
name: Herrmann, Kathrin
name: Hobson-West, Pru
name: McDonald, Michael
name: Milsom, William
name: Rose, Margaret
name: Rowan, Andrew
name: Zurlo, Joanne
name: Von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: In November 2013, a group of international experts in animal research policy (n = 11) gathered in Vancouver, Canada, to discuss openness and accountability in animal research. The primary objective was to bring together participants from various jurisdictions (United States, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom) to share practices regarding the governance of animals used in research, testing and education, with emphasis on the governance process followed, the methods of community engagement, and the balance of openness versus confidentiality. During the forum, participants came to a broad consensus on the need for: (a) evidence-based metrics to allow a “virtuous feedback” system for evaluation and quality assurance of animal research, (b) the need for increased public access to information, together with opportunities for stakeholder dialogue about animal research, (c) a greater diversity of views to be represented on decision-making committees to allow for greater balance and (d) a standardized and robust ethical decision-making process that incorporates some sort of societal input. These recommendations encourage aspirations beyond merely imparting information and towards a genuine dialogue that represents a shared agenda surrounding laboratory animal use.