cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Mosaicking Landsat and Sentinel-2 Data to Enhance LandTrendr Time Series Analysis in Northern High Latitude Permafrost Regions
Creators: name: Runge, Alexandra
name: Grosse, Guido
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Permafrost is warming in the northern high latitudes, inducing highly dynamic thaw-related permafrost disturbances across the terrestrial Arctic. Monitoring and tracking of permafrost disturbances is important as they impact surrounding landscapes, ecosystems and infrastructure. Remote sensing provides the means to detect, map, and quantify these changes homogeneously across large regions and time scales. Existing Landsat-based algorithms assess different types of disturbances with similar spatiotemporal requirements. However, Landsat-based analyses are restricted in northern high latitudes due to the long repeat interval and frequent clouds, in particular at Arctic coastal sites. We therefore propose to combine Landsat and Sentinel-2 data for enhanced data coverage and present a combined annual mosaic workflow, expanding currently available algorithms, such as LandTrendr, to achieve more reliable time series analysis. We exemplary test the workflow for twelve sites across the northern high latitudes in Siberia. We assessed the number of images and cloud-free pixels, the spatial mosaic coverage and the mosaic quality with spectral comparisons. The number of available images increased steadily from 1999 to 2019 but especially from 2016 onward with the addition of Sentinel-2 images. Consequently, we have an increased number of cloud-free pixels even under challenging environmental conditions, which then serve as the input to the mosaicking process. In a comparison of annual mosaics, the Landsat+Sentinel-2 mosaics always fully covered the study areas (99.9–100 %), while Landsat-only mosaics contained data-gaps in the same years, only reaching coverage percentages of 27.2 %, 58.1 %, and 69.7 % for Sobo Sise, East Taymyr, and Kurungnakh in 2017, respectively. The spectral comparison of Landsat image, Sentinel-2 image, and Landsat+Sentinel-2 mosaic showed high correlation between the input images and mosaic bands (e.g., for Kurungnakh 0.91–0.97 between Landsat and Landsat+Sentinel-2 mosaic and 0.92–0.98 between Sentinel-2 and Landsat+Sentinel-2 mosaic) across all twelve study sites, testifying good quality mosaic results. Our results show that especially the results for northern, coastal areas was substantially improved with the Landsat+Sentinel-2 mosaics. By combining Landsat and Sentinel-2 data we accomplished to create reliably high spatial resolution input mosaics for time series analyses. Our approach allows to apply a high temporal continuous time series analysis to northern high latitude permafrost regions for the first time, overcoming substantial data gaps, and assess permafrost disturbance dynamics on an annual scale across large regions with algorithms such as LandTrendr by deriving the location, timing and progression of permafrost thaw disturbances
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 1009
Charis Thompson, Good Science. The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research, MIT Press, 2013
Creators: name: Beltrame, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
title: Gemcitabine-induced radiation recall myositis - rare cause for acute focal sartorius muscle inflammation.
Creators: name: Chaganti, Raja
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Biological effects
subject: Drugs / Reactions
subject: Inflammation

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To present a case of gemcitabine-induced radiation recall (GIRR) myositis of the left sartorius muscle, with discussion of the topic and review of imaging. GIRR myositis is a rare condition and an unusual cause of focal muscle injury induced by a...
Luigi Pellizzoni and Marja Ylönen (eds.), Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments, Ashgate, 2012
Creators: name: Allen, Barbara L.
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
Sarah Masiak, Teufelskinder. Hexenverfolgung und gesellschaftliche Stigmatisierung im Hochstift Paderborn (1601–1703), Konstanz (UVK) 2020
Creators: name: Flurschütz Da Cruz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Sarah Masiak, Teufelskinder. Hexenverfolgung und gesellschaftliche Stigmatisierung im Hochstift Paderborn (1601–1703), Konstanz (UVK) 2020, X–538 S., zahlr. Diagr. u. Kt. (Konflikte und Kultur, 37), ISBN 978-3-7398-3095-7, EUR 64,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
The Pilgrimage Goes On... A Conversation with Liam Bannon about Humans, Machines, and their Interactions
Creators: name: Mattozzi, Alvise
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: By recollecting memories and experiences of his 40 years career through Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Interaction Design, Participatory Design (PD) and more in general the design of information systems, Liam Bannon outlines a history of the relation between design-related disciplines and social sciences. Based on such history, Bannon explains his long-term engagement with the cultivation of human capabilities through design and reflects, more in general, upon the meaning of human centeredness in design, taking also into consideration contributions and questions proposed by Science and Technology Studies on these issues.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
The Rise of the Insect Industry. Sustainable Potential or Wasteful Accumulation
Creators: name: Buiani, Roberta
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: In this paper I explore the relationship between insects, technoscience and sustainability culture made possible by recent developments in fabrication, micro-robotics, and design. I define the resulting scenario as “Insect Industry”. This emerging agglomerate of practices and technological developments is comprised of practices and applications that promote, exploit and manipulate insects for their sustainable potentials. Among these practices is the flourishing of visionary micro-farming enclosures and experimental food-design, contributing to the urge to produce sustainable sources of food; the re-making of insects in micro-robotics; and the design of GM insects to help fight devastating diseases such as Dengue Fever. Although engaging with distinct fields of research and forms of creative entrepreneurship, these endeavors use very similar strategies and discursive patterns to promote innovation and sustainability, and the promise to fix the world. In illustrating a variety of examples in microrobotics, fabrication, and bioengineering, I ask: is this recent trend really marking the beginning of a new phase in sustainable innovation based on Humans/animals balanced coexistence or it rather constitutes another (maybe more acceptable or more palatable) form of exploitation of the non-human? Is this newly emerging “insect industry” obeying or rather contradicting the imperatives of economic growth and the principles of technological innovation supported by Western Culture?
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
Retrospective Interference Alignment for the MIMO Interference Broadcast Channel
Creators: name: Torrellas, Marc
name: Agustin, Adrian
name: Vidal, Josep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The degrees of freedom (DoF) of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Interference Broadcast Channel (IBC) with 2 cells and 2 users per cell are investigated when only delayed channel state information is available at the transmitter side (delayed CSIT). Retrospective Interference Alignment has shown the benefits in terms of DoF of exploiting delayed CSIT for interference, broadcast and also for the IBC. However, previous works studying the IBC with delayed CSIT do not exploit the fact that the users of each cell are served by a common transmitter. This work presents a four-phase precoding strategy taking this into consideration. Assuming that transmitters and receivers are equipped with $M,N$ antennas, respectively, new DoF inner bounds are proposed, outperforming the existing ones for $ρ= \frac{M}{N} > 2.6413$.
description: 1 copyright page + 5 paper pages + 3 appendix pages, Submitted to IEEE ISIT 2015
Of Sensors and Sensitivities. Towards a Cosmopolitics of “Smart Cities”?
Creators: name: Sánchez Criado, Tomás
name: Tironi, Martin
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: This essay reviews diverse strands of empirical and theoretical work in different urban studies areas (urban planning, urban ethnography, urban geography, and STS) reflecting on the manifold ways in which the smart city project is being “opened up” for scrutiny through experimental projects developing digitally-mediated sensing practices of either a specific or broad kind: i.e., producing both devices formally devised for sensing specific parameters, and sensing devices – emerging from less specific digital technology arrangements – used to share experiences, show solutions or politicize different urban issues. In doing this, we seek to understand, from an STS standpoint, the different ways in which a broad range of works are analysing the development, intervention, maintenance, and opposition of these ideas. In the first section we focus on understanding the definitions, features and clashes that several of these corporate projects (mostly municipal in nature) have come across, deploying smart devices, such as sensors to produce an “algorithmic city”. In the second section we expand the meanings of “smartness,” focusing on grassroots appropriations of broader digital arrangements and politicizations of open source infrastructures to display other forms of urban sensitivities, contributing to the cosmopoliticization of the “smart city” project.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
The Social Bridging Project: Intergenerational Phone-Based Connections With Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Hewitt, L.
name: Olson, E.
name: Jones, J.
name: Woodall, T.
name: Whitlock, C.
name: Smythe, T.
name: Lanou, A.J.
name: Noble, L.W.
name: Silver, M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Millions of Americans aged 65+ are socially isolated and millions more report feeling lonely. Social isolation and loneliness in older adults were compounded by stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 prevention measures. Although many Americans experienced no difficulties transitioning to the use of electronic devices as their primary means of communication and connection, some older adults were not similarly able to espouse this shift. Our aim was to reduce the impact of social isolation on older adults, increase their comfort in expressing feelings of loneliness, and assist them in acquiring technology skills and accessing telehealth and community supports. Participants received wellness calls for conversation, resource access and technology-based support. Most participants reported decreased loneliness and increased connectedness after the calls; half reported increased ease in expressing their feelings. Programs that provide phone-based support for older adults may reduce loneliness and increase social connectedness.
Profiling of fine and coarse particle mass: Case studies of Saharan dust and Eyjafjallajökull/Grimsvötn volcanic plumes
Creators: name: Ansmann, A.
name: Seifert, P.
name: Tesche, M.
name: Wandinger, U.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: aerosol property
subject: atmospheric plume
subject: biomass burning
subject: concentration (composition)
subject: dust
subject: extinction coefficient
subject: mixing
subject: particulate matter
subject: photometer
subject: volcanic aerosol
subject: 550

description: The polarization lidar photometer networking (POLIPHON) method introduced to separate coarse-mode and fine-mode particle properties of Eyjafjallajökull volcanic aerosols in 2010 is extended to cover Saharan dust events as well. Furthermore, new volcanic dust observations performed after the Grimsvötn volcanic eruptions in 2011 are presented. The retrieval of particle mass concentrations requires mass-specific extinction coefficients. Therefore, a review of recently published mass-specific extinction coefficients for Saharan dust and volcanic dust is given. Case studies of four different scenarios corroborate the applicability of the profiling technique: (a) Saharan dust outbreak to central Europe, (b) Saharan dust plume mixed with biomass-burning smoke over Cape Verde, and volcanic aerosol layers originating from (c) the Eyjafjallajökull eruptions in 2010 and (d) the Grimsvötn eruptions in 2011. Strong differences in the vertical aerosol layering, aerosol mixing, and optical properties are observed for the different volcanic events.
The Surgical Operation that Led to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
Creators: name: Nakayama, Don K.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: The debate between individual rights and the limits of government has its roots in an operation in 17th century England. John Locke, the English philosopher whose concepts on the legitimacy of government are bedrocks of Western politics, was also a practicing physician who in 1668 was among a group of physicians that drained an infected hydatid cyst and thus saved the life of his political patron Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.Locke, who had been a classics scholar at Oxford with royalist sympathies, had by chance just joined the Cooper home as house physician and tutor the previous year. Forever grateful to his young doctor Lord Ashley nurtured Locke?s early involvement in politics. From his association with a powerful peer of the Realm Locke found himself at the very heart of English politics where he began to formulate the foundational principles of Anglo-American government.
title: Stump neuromas of cranial nerves following resection of malignant perineural spread
Creators: name: Abeysekera, Ashvini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology peripheral nerve
subject: Oncology
subject: MR
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Surgery
subject: Cancer
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Perineural spread (PNS) of head and neck cancers is a well-recognised form of tumour dissemination. (1) The management of these complex cases includes a combination of surgery and radiotherapy. It is well recognized in other areas of the body, that...
Latour in azione
Creators: name: Zampieri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: In this article, Latour's thought is analysed in a reflexive way from a philosophical perspective: the question is weather actor-network theory (mostly considered in his Latourian variation) has adequate traits to be a proper part of the ontology it designates; or if, on the contrary, it is a exception of itself. On the basis of the applicability of a reflexive analysis, Latour's philosophical production is divided in two temporal phases, each one undergoing a specific focus. A further level of reflexivity is finally adopted to discuss article's outcomes. The conclusion points out the need to imagine a "new" kind of "action", required to push further the attempt to think reflexively about ANT.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
title: A pictorial review of the poststyloid parapharyngeal space
Creators: name: Abeysekera, Ashvini
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Biopsy
subject: Radiation therapy / Oncology
subject: Surgery
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Defining the poststyloid parapharyngeal space from surrounding deep neck spaces and lesions that may arise within...
Understanding the “National Innovation System” Conceptual Approach as a Social and Governmental Technology
Creators: name: Sharif, Naubahar
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: Drawing on pioneering work by Pinch and Foucault, this paper argues that the national innovation system (NIS) conceptual approach that emerged from innovation studies in the 1980s and 1990s constitutes a social technology intended to induce policymakers to adopt a sophisticated model of the role of innovation in a national economy when formulating policies for stimulating economic growth and development. In this respect the NIS approach has also served as an instrument of governmentality, making an emphasis on technological innovation attractive to the relevant actors in policymaking, industry, and related institutions. The paper draws on qualitative empirical research to show that, like any social technology, the NIS approach can be used for purposes other than those for which it was designed by revealing its use as a rhetorical device by Hong Kong policymakers for political purposes. The study reinvigorates the concept of a social technology for science and technology studies.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
Additional file 15 of Genome-wide identification of ZmMYC2 binding sites and target genes in maize
Creators: name: Liu, Lijun
name: Zhang, Yuhan
name: Tang, Chen
name: Wu, Jine
name: Fu, Jingye
name: Wang, Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 15
Evolutionary status of Polaris
Creators: name: Fadeyev, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrodynamic models of short--period Cepheids were computed to determine the pulsation period as a function of evolutionary time during the first and third crossings of the instability strip. The equations of radiation hydrodynamics and turbulent convection for radial stellar pulsations were solved with the initial conditions obtained from the evolutionary models of population I stars (X=0.7, Z=0.02) with masses from 5.2 to 6.5 Msol and the convective core overshooting parameter 0.1 <= aov <= 0.3. In Cepheids with period of 4 d the rate of pulsation period change during the first crossing of the instability strip is over fifty times larger than that during the third crossing. Polaris is shown to cross the instability strip for the first time and to be the fundamental mode pulsator. The best agreement between the predicted and observed rates of period change was obtained for the model with mass of 5.4 Msol and the overshooting parameter aov=0.25. The bolometric luminosity and radius are L = 1.26e3 Lsol and R = 37.5 Rsol, respectively. In the HR diagram Polaris is located at the red edge of the instability strip.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, MNRAS in press
Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, Helmer J. Helmers (ed.), Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800), Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2021
Creators: name: Zwierlein, Cornel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, Helmer J. Helmers (ed.), Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800), Leiden (Brill Academic Publishers) 2021, XVII–444 p., 47 fig., 11 tab. (Library of the Written Word – The Handpress World, 92), ISBN 978-90-04-44888-9, EUR 143,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
Total OH reactivity measurements in Paris during the 2010 MEGAPOLI winter campaign
Creators: name: Dolgorouky, C.
name: Gros, V.
name: Sarda-Esteve, R.
name: Sinha, V.
name: Williams, J.
name: Marchand, N.
name: Sauvage, S.
name: Poulain, L.
name: Sciare, J.
name: Bonsang, B.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: aerosol
subject: air mass
subject: chemical reaction
subject: hydroxyl radical
subject: photochemistry
subject: trace gas
subject: troposphere
subject: volatile organic compound
subject: 550

description: Hydroxyl radicals play a central role in the troposphere as they control the lifetime of many trace gases. Measurement of OH reactivity (OH loss rate) is important to better constrain the OH budget and also to evaluate the completeness of measured VOC budget. Total atmospheric OH reactivity was measured for the first time in an European Megacity: Paris and its surrounding areas with 12 million inhabitants, during the MEGAPOLI winter campaign 2010. The method deployed was the Comparative Reactivity Method (CRM). The measured dataset contains both measured and calculated OH reactivity from CO, NOx and VOCs measured via PTR-MS, GC-FID and GC-MS instruments. The reactivities observed in Paris covered a range from 10 s−1 to 130 s−1, indicating a large loading of chemical reactants. The present study showed that, when clean marine air masses influenced Paris, the purely local OH reactivity (20 s−1) is well explained by the measured species. Nevertheless, when there is a continental import of air masses, high levels of OH reactivity were obtained (120–130 s−1) and the missing OH reactivity measured in this case jumped to 75%. Using covariations of the missing OH reactivity to secondary inorganic species in fine aerosols, we suggest that the missing OH reactants were most likely highly oxidized compounds issued from photochemically processed air masses of anthropogenic origin.
Unified multivariate trace estimation and quantum error mitigation
Creators: name: Liang, Jin-Min
name: Lv, Qiao-Qiao
name: Wang, Zhi-Xi
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Calculating the trace of the product of $m$ $n$-qubit density matrices (multivariate trace) is a crucial subroutine in quantum error mitigation and information measures estimation. We propose an unified multivariate trace estimation (UMT) which conceptually unifies the previous qubit-optimal and depth-optimal approaches with tunable quantum circuit depth and the number of qubits. The constructed circuits have $\lceil(m-1)/s\rceil$ or $n\lceil(m-1)/s\rceil$ depth corresponding to $(s+m)n$ or $s+mn$ qubits for $s\in\{1,\cdots,\lfloor m/2\rfloor\}$, respectively. Such flexible circuit structures enable people to choose suitable circuits according different hardware devices. We apply UMT to virtual distillation for achieving exponential error suppression and design a family of concrete circuits to calculate the trace of the product of $8$ and $9$ $n$-qubit density matrices. Numerical example shows that the additional circuits still mitigate the noise expectation value under the global depolarizing channel.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Folding a Paper Strip to Minimize Thickness
Creators: name: Demaine, Erik D.
name: Eppstein, David
name: Hesterberg, Adam
name: Ito, Hiro
name: Lubiw, Anna
name: Uehara, Ryuhei
name: Uno, Yushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we study how to fold a specified origami crease pattern in order to minimize the impact of paper thickness. Specifically, origami designs are often expressed by a mountain-valley pattern (plane graph of creases with relative fold orientations), but in general this specification is consistent with exponentially many possible folded states. We analyze the complexity of finding the best consistent folded state according to two metrics: minimizing the total number of layers in the folded state (so that a "flat folding" is indeed close to flat), and minimizing the total amount of paper required to execute the folding (where "thicker" creases consume more paper). We prove both problems strongly NP-complete even for 1D folding. On the other hand, we prove the first problem fixed-parameter tractable in 1D with respect to the number of layers.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
title: Retrospective comparison of full-core and side-notch biopsy needles for percutaneous renal biopsies.
Creators: name: Dave, Sameer
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Kidney
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Quality assurance
subject: Transplantation

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Percutaneous Renal Biopsies (PRBs) are essential for diagnosis and follow up of many renal pathologies including neopalsm and post-transplant subclinical rejection [i] - [ii] . Using a larger gauge biopsy needle has been shown to increased yield of...
Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization
Creators: name: Kubin, E.
name: Gray, K.
name: Kachanoff, F.J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Americans disagree about many things, including what threats are most pressing. We suggest people morally condemn and dehumanize opponents when they are perceived as rejecting the existence or severity of important perceived threats. We explore perceived "threat rejection" across five studies (N = 2,404) both in the real-world COVID-19 pandemic and in novel contexts. Americans morally condemned and dehumanized policy opponents when they seemed to reject realistic group threats (e.g., threat to the physical health or resources of the group). Believing opponents rejected symbolic group threats (e.g., to collective identity) was not reliably linked to condemnation and dehumanization. Importantly, the political dehumanization caused by perceived threat rejection can be soothed with a "threat acknowledgement" intervention.
Stefan Kopp, Tilman G. Moritz, Nicole Priesching (Hg.), Katholische Konfessionalisierung in Paderborn? Religiöse Prozesse in der Frühen Neuzeit, Münster (Aschendorff) 2021
Creators: name: Chaix, Gérald
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Stefan Kopp, Tilman G. Moritz, Nicole Priesching (Hg.), Katholische Konfessionalisierung in Paderborn? Religiöse Prozesse in der Frühen Neuzeit, Münster (Aschendorff) 2021, 270 S., 11 s/w Abb., ISBN 978-3-402-24820-1, EUR 29,80.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
Estimating the near-surface permafrost-carbon feedback on global warming
Creators: name: Schneider Von Deimling, T.
name: Meinshausen, M.
name: Levermann, A.
name: Huber, V.
name: Frieler, K.
name: Lawrence, D.M.
name: Brovkin, V.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: carbon cycle
subject: carbon emission
subject: climate modeling
subject: estimation method
subject: global warming
subject: greenhouse gas
subject: numerical model
subject: permafrost
subject: soil carbon
subject: soil property
subject: thawing
subject: vulnerability
subject: 550

description: Thawing of permafrost and the associated release of carbon constitutes a positive feedback in the climate system, elevating the effect of anthropogenic GHG emissions on global-mean temperatures. Multiple factors have hindered the quantification of this feedback, which was not included in climate carbon-cycle models which participated in recent model intercomparisons (such as the Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project – C4MIP) . There are considerable uncertainties in the rate and extent of permafrost thaw, the hydrological and vegetation response to permafrost thaw, the decomposition timescales of freshly thawed organic material, the proportion of soil carbon that might be emitted as carbon dioxide via aerobic decomposition or as methane via anaerobic decomposition, and in the magnitude of the high latitude amplification of global warming that will drive permafrost degradation. Additionally, there are extensive and poorly characterized regional heterogeneities in soil properties, carbon content, and hydrology. Here, we couple a new permafrost module to a reduced complexity carbon-cycle climate model, which allows us to perform a large ensemble of simulations. The ensemble is designed to span the uncertainties listed above and thereby the results provide an estimate of the potential strength of the feedback from newly thawed permafrost carbon. For the high CO2 concentration scenario (RCP8.5), 33–114 GtC (giga tons of Carbon) are released by 2100 (68 % uncertainty range). This leads to an additional warming of 0.04–0.23 °C. Though projected 21st century permafrost carbon emissions are relatively modest, ongoing permafrost thaw and slow but steady soil carbon decomposition means that, by 2300, about half of the potentially vulnerable permafrost carbon stock in the upper 3 m of soil layer (600–1000 GtC) could be released as CO2, with an extra 1–4 % being released as methane. Our results also suggest that mitigation action in line with the lower scenario RCP3-PD could contain Arctic temperature increase sufficiently that thawing of the permafrost area is limited to 9–23 % and the permafrost-carbon induced temperature increase does not exceed 0.04–0.16 °C by 2300.
Time to Rethink: Educating for a Technology-Transformed World
Creators: name: McDiarmid, G.W.
name: Zhao, Y.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Purpose We hope to provoke a conversation about preparing students for an uncertain future that unforeseeable technological innovations will transform in ways we cannot predict. The unprecedented disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic makes this an opportune time to reconsider all dimensions of education. Design/Approach/Methods We present information on how technology is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives and the threats we face from social media, climate change, and growing inequality. We then analyze the adequacy of proposals for teaching new skills, such as 21st-Century Skills, to prepare students for a world of work that is changing at warp speed. Findings Despite harbingers of a radically different future, most schools continue to operate much as they have for centuries, providing a one-size-fits-all education. Technology now enables an unprecedented degree of personalization. We can tailor learning opportunities to individual students' interests, talents, and potential with teachers serving as guides, resources, and critical friends. The Internet presents a cornucopia of learning opportunities' online courses, international experts, global collaborations, accessible databases, and libraries. Learning can occur virtually anywhere. Originality/Value The future depends on decisions we are making today about education. The value of the article is that we call for rethinking every component of education rather than considering each element independently.
Nina J. Koefoed, Andrew G. Newby (ed.), Lutheranism and social responsibility, Göttingen (V&R) 2022
Creators: name: Nickel, Justin
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Nina J. Koefoed, Andrew G. Newby (ed.), Lutheranism and social responsibility, Göttingen (V&R) 2022, 267 p., 23 fig. (Refo 500 Academic Studies, 82), ISBN 978-3-525-55868-3, EUR 99,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1
Analysis of exceedances in the daily PM10 mass concentration (50 μg m−3) at a roadside station in Leipzig, Germany
Creators: name: Engler, C.
name: Birmili, W.
name: Spindler, G.
name: Wiedensohler, A.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: concentration (composition)
subject: particulate matter
subject: synoptic meteorology
subject: temperature effect
subject: urban area
subject: wind field
subject: 550

description: Five years of PM10 and PM2.5 ambient air measurements at a roadside, an urban, and a regional background site in Leipzig (Germany) were analyzed for violations of the legal PM10 limit value (EC, 1999). The annual mean PM10 concentrations at the three sites were well below the legal threshold of 40 μg m−3 (32.6, 22.0 and 21.7 μg m−3, respectively). At roadside, the daily maximum value of 50 μg m−3 was exceeded on 232 days (13% of all days) in 2005–2009, which led to a violation of the EC directive in three out of five years. We analysed the meteorological factors and local source contributions that eventually led to the exceedances of the daily limit value. As noted in other urban environments before, most exceedance days were observed in the cold season. Exceedance days were most probable under synoptic situations characterised by stagnant winds, low temperatures and strong temperature inversions in winter time. However, these extreme situations accounted for only less than half of the exeedance days. We also noticed a significant number of exceedance days that occurred in the cold season under south-westerly winds, and in the warm season in the presence of easterly winds. Our analysis suggests that local as well as regional sources of PM are equally responsible for exceedances days at the roadside site. The conclusion is that a combined effort of local, national and international reduction measures appears most likely to avoid systematic exceedances of the daily limit value in the future.
Keeping Up Appearances in the Argentine Fertility Clinic. Making Kinship Visible through Race in Donor Conception
Creators: name: Ariza, Lucía
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: This article examines "phenotype matching", a procedure used in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) to coordinate the physical appearance of ova donors with that of recipients. Looking into phenotype matching as a socio-technical arrangement, and on the basis of an STS approach, the articles suggests that race is key in making kinship explicit, a making that is particularly important in the case of donor conception. By examining some of the ways in which race enters, and helps to sustain, a regime of visibility whereby family links need to be made visible in order to count as such, I make two concatenated claims. First, that race allows seeing the differences in bodily colours that may otherwise be too abstract to relate empirically. This making visible of certain features of body contributes, in turn, to the production of race as a material bodily substance. Second, I contend that the avoidance of racial in-coherence between mothers and offspring, which is argued both in "scientific" and "social" terms, helps to make kinship visible, that is, to make it real.
description: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
Additional file 1 of Management, risk factors and treatment outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment associated with giant retinal tears: scoping review
Creators: name: Quiroz-Reyes, Miguel A.
name: Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
name: Hussain, Rabia
name: Loh, Zhe Chi
name: Quiroz-Gonzalez, Erick A.
name: Quiroz-Gonzalez, Miguel A.
name: Lima-Gomez, Virgilio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Excessive Higgs pair production with little MET from squarks and gluinos in the NMSSM
Creators: name: Ellwanger, Ulrich
name: Teixeira, Ana M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of a light singlino-like LSP in the NMSSM, the missing transverse energy - MET - signature of squark/gluino production can be considerably reduced. Instead, a pair of Higgs bosons is produced in each event. We propose benchmark points for such scenarios, which differ in the squark and gluino masses, and in their decay cascades. Events for these points are simulated for the run II of the LHC at 13 TeV centre of mass energy. After cuts on the transverse momenta of at least four jets, and requiring two tau-leptons from one Higgs decay, we find that the invariant mass of two b-jets from the other Higgs decay shows clear peaks above the background. Despite the reduced MET, this search strategy allows to see signals for sufficiently large integrated luminosities, depending on the squark/gluino masses.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
title: Diagnostic utility and immunohistochemical characterisation of lung nodules at image guided (CT) percutaneous transthoracic lung needle biopsy (PTLNB)
Creators: name: Chaganti, Raja
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Lung
subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Biopsy
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Pathology

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: ”Enough is not enough” - under what circumstances might seemingly diagnostic CT guided percutaneous transthoracic lung needle biopsy (PTLNB) be insufficient for optimal patient management? In 20-30% of PTLNB procedures the pathologic material...
Transgender and Gender Diverse Community Connection, Help-Seeking, and Mental Health Among Black Transgender Women Who Have Survived Violence: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Creators: name: Balthazar, M.S.
name: Campbell, J.
name: Klepper, M.
name: Alexander, K.A.
name: Allgood, S.
name: Sherman, A.D.F.
name: Poteat, T.
name: Dunn, D.
name: Cannon, C.M.
name: Hill, M.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Black transgender women are disproportionately affected by violence and poor care-delivery, contributing to poor mental health. Little is known regarding the effect of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community connection (TCC) on health. This analysis (a) explores relationships between TCC, polyvictimization, and mental health and (b) analyzes how TCC influenced help-seeking following violent experiences among Black transgender women. Mixed-methods data from 19 Black transgender women were analyzed using correlational and thematic content analyses. Findings suggest that TCC is associated with improved help-seeking and mental health among Black transgender women, highlighting a need for longitudinal research to identify approaches for leveraging TCC.
Optimizing CALIPSO Saharan dust retrievals
Creators: name: Amiridis, V.
name: Wandinger, U.
name: Marinou, E.
name: Giannakaki, E.
name: Tsekeri, A.
name: Basart, S.
name: Kazadzis, S.
name: Gkikas, A.
name: Taylor, M.
name: Baldasano, J.
name: Ansmann, A.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: aerosol
subject: CALIPSO
subject: detection method
subject: dust
subject: lidar
subject: MODIS
subject: optical depth
subject: optimization
subject: spatial variation
subject: 550

description: We demonstrate improvements in CALIPSO (Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) dust extinction retrievals over northern Africa and Europe when corrections are applied regarding the Saharan dust lidar ratio assumption, the separation of the dust portion in detected dust mixtures, and the averaging scheme introduced in the Level 3 CALIPSO product. First, a universal, spatially constant lidar ratio of 58 sr instead of 40 sr is applied to individual Level 2 dust-related backscatter products. The resulting aerosol optical depths show an improvement compared with synchronous and collocated AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) measurements. An absolute bias of the order of −0.03 has been found, improving on the statistically significant biases of the order of −0.10 reported in the literature for the original CALIPSO product. When compared with the MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) collocated aerosol optical depth (AOD) product, the CALIPSO negative bias is even less for the lidar ratio of 58 sr. After introducing the new lidar ratio for the domain studied, we examine potential improvements to the climatological CALIPSO Level 3 extinction product: (1) by introducing a new methodology for the calculation of pure dust extinction from dust mixtures and (2) by applying an averaging scheme that includes zero extinction values for the nondust aerosol types detected. The scheme is applied at a horizontal spatial resolution of 1° × 1° for ease of comparison with the instantaneous and collocated dust extinction profiles simulated by the BSC-DREAM8b dust model. Comparisons show that the extinction profiles retrieved with the proposed methodology reproduce the well-known model biases per subregion examined. The very good agreement of the proposed CALIPSO extinction product with respect to AERONET, MODIS and the BSC-DREAM8b dust model makes this dataset an ideal candidate for the provision of an accurate and robust multiyear dust climatology over northern Africa and Europe.
title: Paediatric Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Creators: name: De Cicco, Peter
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Paediatric
subject: Respiratory system
subject: CT
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Education
subject: Other

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To discuss the radiological findings of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis and its...
Additional file 2 of Management, risk factors and treatment outcomes of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment associated with giant retinal tears: scoping review
Creators: name: Quiroz-Reyes, Miguel A.
name: Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
name: Hussain, Rabia
name: Loh, Zhe Chi
name: Quiroz-Gonzalez, Erick A.
name: Quiroz-Gonzalez, Miguel A.
name: Lima-Gomez, Virgilio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
On Representations of Affine Temperley--Lieb Algebras
Creators: name: Green, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the finite-dimensional simple modules, over an algebraically closed field, of the affine Temperley--Lieb algebra corresponding to the affine Weyl group of type $A$. These turn out to be closely related to the simple modules for a certain $q$-analogue of the annular algebra of V.F.R. Jones.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures. This paper was published in 1998 in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Representations of Algebras
title: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015): Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
title: Tecnoscienza Nr. 11
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal Of Science & Technology Studies
Publisher: name: Tecnoscienza – Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies
Year: 2015

description: Reproducive technologies, Smart cities, National innovation system, Insect industry, Participatory design
description: Christian Fuchs, Social Media. A Critical Introduction, Sage, 2014...166-169 Mercedes Martínez-Iglesias (ed.), Experts and Campaigners: scientific information and collective action in socio-ecological conflicts, Universitat de València, 2014...164-166 Tatiana Pipan (ed.), Presumed guilty. From statistics to medical records: An investigation of medical errors, Guerini, 2014...161-163 Charis Thompson, Good Science. The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research, MIT Press, 2013...157-160 Luigi Pellizzoni and Marja Ylönen (eds.), Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments, Ashgate, 2012...154-156 The Pilgrimage Goes On... A Conversation with Liam Bannon about Humans, Machines, and their Interactions...133-152 The Rise of the Insect Industry. Sustainable Potential or Wasteful Accumulation...109-131 Of Sensors and Sensitivities. Towards a Cosmopolitics of “Smart Cities”?...89-108 Latour in azione...61-88 Understanding the “National Innovation System” Conceptual Approach as a Social and Governmental Technology...33-60 Keeping Up Appearances in the Argentine Fertility Clinic. Making Kinship Visible through Race in Donor Conception...5-31 Connessioni (Cover’s Comment)
Tumor promoting roles of IL-10, TGF-β, IL-4, and IL-35: Its implications in cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Mirlekar, Bhalchandra
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2022

description: Cytokines play a critical role in regulating host immune response toward cancer and determining the overall fate of tumorigenesis. The tumor microenvironment is dominated mainly by immune-suppressive cytokines that control effector antitumor immunity and promote survival and the proliferation of cancer cells, which ultimately leads to enhanced tumor growth. In addition to tumor cells, the heterogeneous immune cells present within the tumor milieu are the significant source of immune-suppressive cytokines. These cytokines are classified into a broad range; however, in most tumor types, the interleukin-10, transforming growth factor-β, interleukin-4, and interleukin-35 are consistently reported as immune-suppressive cytokines that help tumor growth and metastasis. The most emerging concern in cancer treatment is hijacking and restraining the activity of antitumor immune cells in the tumor niche due to a highly immune-suppressive environment. This review summarizes the role and precise functions of interleukin-10, transforming growth factor-β, interleukin-4, and interleukin-35 in modulating tumor immune contexture and its implication in developing effective immune-therapeutic approaches.
title: Insights from implementation of an artificial intelligence assist device across a national radiology network
Creators: name: Karunasena, Sajith
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Quality assurance

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This poster highlights the challenges encountered during large-scale implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI) assist device for chest radiograph (CXR) interpretation across a national radiology network, how these challenges were overcome...
Marine Fiedler, Von Hamburg nach Singapur. Translokale Erfahrungen einer Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie in Zeiten der Globalisierung (1765–1914), Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2022
Creators: name: Demont, Vincent
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Marine Fiedler, Von Hamburg nach Singapur. Translokale Erfahrungen einer Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie in Zeiten der Globalisierung (1765–1914), Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2022, 517 S. (Peripherien, 8), ISBN 978-3-412-52433-3, EUR 90,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/1