cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Conclusion and recommendations
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: This research provided insights into the comfort and energy-consuming behaviours of home occupants and into grouping these home occupants based on their individual differences. This was achieved by using a human-centered approach to an engineering challenge, by assuming comfort as a holistic experience of the home environment, and by treating the ‘occupant-environment’ interactions as a dynamic system. Such an approach drew methods typically used in design and ethnographic research, by gathering both qualitative and quantitative data from both the occupant and the building. The occupant data was collected quantitatively with the use of a questionnaire (self-reported) and qualitatively with interviews (procedural knowledge) and finally with generative techniques (interpretive knowledge). In such a way, different types of occupant knowledge were elicited and collected. The building data was gathered with checklists, monitoring, and energy readings. With the questionnaire data and a clustering technique -the TwoStep cluster analysis- five distinct types of occupant, or archetypes, were discovered and they were progressively enhanced and substantiated with the interview and generative techniques data. Additionally, data of building characteristics, indoor environmental factors, and actual energy consumption completed the details of the archetypes. The following paragraphs provide the conclusion and recommendations drawn from this research. First each of the key questions are answered followed by the answer to the main research question; in which the final description of the archetypes is presented. This is followed by the strengths and limitations of this work and recommendations for the future process. Then for each archetype, environmental design parameters are presented. This finishes with recommendations for future research and the implications of this work.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
Konzepte zur Trennung von Sprachsignalen in unterbestimmten Szenarien
Creators: name: Sandmair, Andreas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Blinde Quellentrennung
akustische Lokalisation
lineare Zeit-Frequenz-Darstellungen
Signalverarbeitung

description: Bei der Aufnahme von Sprachsignalen mit zentral positionierten Mikrofonen sind im Sensorsignal zumeist Anteile verschiedener akustischer Quellen enthalten. Zur weiteren Verarbeitung der Signale muss das Sensorsignal in die verschiedenen Quellsignale zerlegt werden. Die Arbeit befasst sich mit unterschiedlichen Konzepten zur Trennung der Sprachsignalen. Durch die Verwendung mehrerer Mikrofone können positionsspezifische Merkmale für die Sprecher ermittelt und zur Separation genutzt werden.
Temperature effects in excitonic condensation driven by the lattice distortion
Creators: name: Do, Thi-Hong-Hai
name: Nguyen, Huu-Nha
name: Nguyen, Thi-Giang
name: Phan, Van-Nham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of the excitonic condensation at low temperature driven by a coupling of electrons to vibrational degrees of freedom in semimetal two-dimensional electronic system is discussed. In the framework of the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation, we derive a set of equations to determine both the excitonic condensate order parameter and lattice displacement self-consistently. By lowering temperature we find out a semimetal-insulator transition in the system if the coupling is large enough. The insulating state typifies an excitonic condensation accompanied by a finite lattice distortion. Increasing temperature, both excitonic condensate order parameter and the lattice distortion decrease and then disappear in the same manner. Microscopic analysis in momentum space strongly specifies that the excitonic condensate driven by the lattice distortion favours the BCS type.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Hochtemperaturaufladung von gasgetragenen Partikelsystemen
Creators: name: Reuter-Hack, Kerstin
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Hochtemperatur
Partikelaufladung
Gasionisation

description: Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Mechanismen und Einflussfaktoren der Hochtemperaturaufladung gasgetragener Partikelsysteme. Dieses Ziel wurde durch Experimente, Modellbildung und Simulation verfolgt. Das beinhaltete die systematische Untersuchung der verfahrenstechnisch bedeutendensten Prozessparameter Temperatur, Partikelanzahlkonzentration und Partikelgröße. Die Ladung hängt ausserdem auch von den Materialien von Rohrwand und Partikeln und dem Trägergas ab.
Stochastic Frontier I & D of fractal dimensions for technological innovation
Creators: name: Ramos-Escamilla, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper presents an analysis of the study variables such as gdp, employment levels, the level of R & D and technology that will serve as the basis for stochastic modeling of production possibilities frontier in the goodness of fractal dimensions Ex Ante and Ex Post a priori to determine the levels of causality immediately and check its accuracy and power of indexing, using high frequency data and thus address the response this assumption of stochastic frontiers with level N of partitions in time.
description: 21 pages, in Spanish
Using focus groups data to finalize the Archetypes
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
name: Kim, Dong Hyun
name: Bluyssen, Philomena M.
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: A previous study clustered home occupants into archetypes with a questionnaire. This study uses qualitative methods to strengthen those previously-found archetypes with data pertaining to the participants’ home experiences. Focus groups were carried out where generative activities were conducted involving the generation of collages. The first activity dealt with the expression of ‘meaning of energy use at home’ and the second one with the ‘ideal home experience’. Analyses were done with content and thematic analysis. Codes were drawn from the data and were assimilated through an affinity diagram. The diagram produced two categories: building themes and human themes, along with five sub-categories (home, financial, energy, psychological, and behavioural aspects). The outcome shows that each archetype expresses needs and meanings of an ideal home experience and energy use differently from each other. The results provide evidence that generative techniques can be used in energy research. In this case, to validate and substantiate the quantitative archetypes previously produced with a questionnaire. Interpretive knowledge in energy research allows for a better understanding of occupants’ differing behavioural patterns in regards to energy use and comfort. It allows customizing interventions to the archetypes’ specific needs to decrease energy consumption while maintaining comfort.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
Ultrafast nonlinear silicon waveguides and quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers
Creators: name: Vallaitis, Thomas
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Nonlinear optics
Silicon photonics
Quantum dots
Wavelength conversion
Ultrafast spetroscopy

description: In this book, nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid waveguides and quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers are investigated. Advantageous applications are identified, and corresponding proof-of-principle experiments are performed. Highly nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid waveguides show potential for all-optical signal processing based on fourwave mixing and cross-phase modulation. Quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers operate as linear amplifiers with a very large dynamic range.
Wirbelstromsensorbasierte Lokalisierung von Schienenfahrzeugen in topologischen Karten
Creators: name: Hensel, Stefan
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Wirbelstromsensor
Verdeckte Markowmodelle (HMM)
Bayes-Filter
Lokalisierung

description: Diese Arbeit beschreibt ein Verfahren für die präzise Lokalisierung von Schienenfahrzeugen unter alleiniger Nutzung eines Wirbelstromsensorsystems. Die Geschwindigkeit wird mit Laufzeitkorrelationsverfahren und einem Kalman-Filter gewonnen. Die Erkennung der Weichen wird durch den Einsatz verdeckter Markowmodelle erreicht. Die Fusion in einer topologischen Karte, basierend auf sequentiellen Monte Carlo Verfahren, liefert schließlich die gewünschte Positionsangabe.
title: Pedro Azevedo Carneiro
Creators: name: Araujo, Renata
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica de Pedro de Azevedo Carneiro na plataforma eViterbo
description: Araújo, Renata. 2022. Pedro Azevedo Carneiro in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Broadband active tuning of unidirectional scattering from nanoantenna using combined radially and azimuthally polarized beams
Creators: name: Xi, Zheng
name: Wei, Lei
name: Adam, A. J. L.
name: Urbach, H. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an approach to actively tune the scattering pattern of a Mie-type spherical antenna. The scheme is based on separate control over the induced electric dipole and induced magnetic dipole using two coherent focused beams of radial polarization and azimuthal polarization. By carefully tuning the amplitude and phase relation of the two beams, a broadband unidirectional scattering can be achieved, even at the wavelength where the antenna scatters most efficiently. By moving the focus of one beam, a drastic switch of the unidirectional scattering can be observed. Such scheme enables the design of ultra-compact optical switches and directional couplers based on nanoantennas.
Health-related quality of life in patients with chronic venous disease: a systematic review
Creators: name: Silva, Whesley
name: Ávila, Matheus
name: Lima, Vanessa
name: Figueiredo, Pedro
name: Costa, Henrique
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Epidemiology
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Chronic venous disease
subject: Life of Quality
subject: Venous insufficiency

description: Chronic venous disease is a condition of high prevalence and incidence in the general population, with a clinic that includes asymptomatic for ulcerations in advanced forms. We will carry out a systematic review of the literature in the databases MEDLINE, CINAHL, Science Web, LILACS and Scopus, using the terms "Venous insufficiency", "Quality life" Chronic venous disease "," HRQoL "," Venous disease chronic "and" Varicose veins ". We intend to perform meta-analysis and subgroup analyzes by age, sex and severity of the disease.
Pose Annotation Project for Artworks. A participatory annotation platform for automated body pose estimation in art.
Creators: name: Bernasconi, Valentine
name: Negueruela del Castillo, Darío
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Many projects in the domain of digital humanities have shown a growing interest for object recognition in artworks [1], and, more specifically, for the task of Human Pose Estimation (HPE). HPE is a well defined challenge in computer vision and benefits from large training datasets of annotated images that allow the creation of highly performative machine learning models. However, these datasets are usually made of recent photographs collected in the web, capturing a loose western perspective with all its biases Moreover, their content diverges from artworks created in past Centuries. For the case of figurative paintings, visual features, such as brush marks and color shades, but also the morphology of bodies, dressing codes or the overall composition, have an impact on the accuracy of HPE models. These many differences do not enable the field of digital art history to fully benefit from the performance of existing models and the lack of a proper training dataset for artworks makes it difficult to retrain them. Therefore, we present the Pose Annotation Project for Artworks (PAPA), which goal is to produce a training dataset for body pose estimation on artworks through a platform for participatory annotations of images.
Measuring Light Echos in NGC 4051
Creators: name: Turner, Tracey Jane
name: Miller, Lance
name: Reeves, James N.
name: Braito, Valentina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Five archived X-ray observations of NGC 4051, taken using the NuSTAR observatory, have been analysed, revealing lags between flux variations in bands covering a wide range of X-ray photon energy. In all pairs of bands compared, the harder band consistently lags the softer band by at least 1000s, at temporal frequencies ~5E-5 Hz. In addition, soft-band lags up to 400s are measured at frequencies ~2E-4 Hz. Light echos from an excess of soft band emission in the inner accretion disk cannot explain the lags in these data, as they are seen in cross-correlations with energy bands where the softer band is expected to have no contribution from reflection. The basic properties of the time delays have been parameterised by fitting a top hat response function that varies with photon energy, taking fully into account the covariance between measured time lag values. The low-frequency hard-band lags and the transition to soft-band lags are consistent with time lags arising as reverberation delays from circumnuclear scattering of X-rays, although greater model complexity is required to explain the entire spectrum of lags. The scattered fraction increases with increasing photon energy as expected, and the scattered fraction is high, indicating the reprocessor to have a global covering fraction ~50% around the continuum source. Circumnuclear material, possibly associated with a disk wind at a few hundred gravitational radii from the primary X-ray source, may provide suitable reprocessing.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures. Published in MNRAS
Psychological interventions for auditory hallucinations: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Brand, Rachel
name: Thomas, Neil
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: hearing voices; hallucinations; psychological intervention

description: A prospectively registered protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological interventions for auditory hallucinations.
Integrating qualitative and quantitative research to develop the final archetypes
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
name: Bluysse, Philomena M.
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: To better understand home energy consumption, it is important to study the behaviours of occupants in their homes, especially in relation to their comfort needs. A mixed methods study comprising of a questionnaire, interviews, indoor environmental parameters monitoring, and energy consumption readings was performed to group home occupants based on their behavioural patterns. The TwoStep cluster analysis produced five clusters of home occupant with the data from 761 questionnaire respondents. The clustering model comprised of 28 variables including constructs of emotions, comfort affordances, and locus of control. Then, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted and IEQ monitoring and energy readings were taken with 15 of the questionnaire respondents. The results of the field study were used to substantiate the findings of the questionnaire. The combination of the statistical clusters with the data from the field study resulted in five archetypes: five distinct types of home occupants, differing in their behavioural motivations towards achieving comfort, and their use of energy when doing so. This study shows that a mixed methods approach is valuable for better understanding energy consumption and implementing archetype-customized lines of action to reduce energy use and maintain comfort.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
Dynamic Model of the Price Dispersion of Homogeneous Goods
Creators: name: Kaldasch, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Presented is an analytic microeconomic model of the temporal price dispersion of homogeneous goods in polypoly markets. This new approach is based on the idea that the price dispersion has its origin in the dynamics of the purchase process. The price dispersion is determined by the chance that demanded and supplied product units meet in a given price interval. It can be characterized by a fat-tailed Laplace distribution for short and by a lognormal distribution for long time horizons. Taking random temporal variations of demanded and supplied units into account both the mean price and also the standard deviation of the price dispersion are governed by a lognormal distribution. A comparison with empirical investigations confirms the model statements.
Hořava's quantum gravity illustrated by embedding diagrams of the Kehagias-Sfetsos spacetimes
Creators: name: Goluchová, Kateřina
name: Kulczycki, Konrad
name: Vieira, Ronaldo S. S.
name: Stuchlík, Zdeněk
name: Kluźniak, Włodek
name: Abramowicz, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possible astrophysical consequences of the Hořava quantum gravity theory have been recently studied by several authors. They usually employ the Kehagias-Sfetsos (KS) spacetime which is a spherically symmetric vacuum solution of a specific version of Hořava's gravity. The KS metric has several unusual geometrical properties that in the present article we examine by means of the often used technique of embedding diagrams. We pay particular attention to the transition between naked singularity and black-hole states, which is possible along some particular sequences of the KS metrics.
description: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-015-1976-3
The profile of giving and non-giving young alumni to the Scotsman Club at Presbyterian College
Creators: name: Smith, Megan Moore
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this study was to identify young alumni from 1993 through 2007, both likely and unlikely, to make financial contributions to The Scotsman Club, the fund-raising arm of Presbyterian College's athletics department. This was accomplished by examining the relationship between athletics giving behavior and various characteristics of the young alumni population at Presbyterian College. The results of this study showed the variables graduating class, gender, number of awards/honors received as a student, number of extracurricular activities participated in as a student and undergraduate major all had a significant relationship with an individual's membership status with The Scotsman Club. Furthermore, all variables, excluding undergraduate major, had a significant relationship with the amount an individual decided to contribute financially to The Scotsman Club. This study provides a better understanding of how the undergraduate experience at Presbyterian College influences future young alumni giving to the athletics department.
Exploring Moravian (Text) Worlds
Creators: name: Lasch, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Moravian Church
Collaboration

description: "Exploring Moravian (Text) Worlds"-Präsentation für das Panel "PN-W2G: Transforming the Pietist Tradition" auf der DH2023 ("Collaboration as Opportunity") vom 10.-14. Juli 2023 in Graz. Im Mittelpunkt steht die virTUos-Kooperation mit Katherine Faull (Bucknell University) and Juan Garcés (SLUB Dresden).
Questionnaire testing, validating, and preliminary results
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
name: Bluyssen, Philomena M.
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: Abstract This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of the TwoStep cluster analysis and the development and first results of a new questionnaire for measuring comfort, health, and energy habits. The justification for the questionnaire is to consolidate questions of six specific domains about occupants' energy consumption patterns, from the behavioural and psychological perspectives into one instrument. The questionnaire was developed from a literature review, iterative conceptualization, and testing. The resulting instrument was administered to a sample of home occupants, comprising of bachelor students of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. The objective of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the TwoStep cluster analysis to produce occupant profiles. 316 emails were sent out inviting participants to complete the questionnaire. With the TwoStep cluster analysis, it was possible to distinguish six different archetypes of occupants based on their behavioural characteristics. These were the Relaxed Optimists, Unconcerned Indifferents, Restrained Sensitives, Positive Absolutists, Incautious Negativistics, and Resigned Savers. The results provide promising evidence of the questionnaire's potential to distinguish different occupant energy-consumption profiles based on distinct psychosocial domains in a single and concise instrument, while also showing that the analysis method is appropriate for the type of variables gathered. The value of recognizing these profiles allows for a better understanding of occupants' differing energy consumption patterns in their homes and tailoring interventions to their specific needs.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
Introducing Comfort, Energy, and Behaviours
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: There is a need for reducing dwellings’ energy consumption while maintaining a comfortable and healthy indoor environment. This review was performed to provide a steppingstone for identifying new methods for studying everyday home energy use and comfort. First, an overview of comfort is given as seen from different disciplines, depicting the subjective and multidimensional nature of comfort. This is followed by the biological component of comfort, reflected as an emotional, behavioural, and physiological reaction to environmental stimuli. Subsequently, links between comfort, health, and wellbeing are introduced. The second part of the review focuses on energy and buildings, with the connection between energy and behaviours-detailing possible explanations of performance gaps, and the pathways from energy to health. To conclude, human sensation of comfort is more complex than the perception of thermal, acoustical, visual stimuli, or air quality environment. Comfort is a reaction to the environment that is strongly influenced by cognitive and behavioural processes. Habits and controllability have been identified as paramount in the links between comfort and energy consumption. In this holistic view of comfort linked to health, comfort is referred to as ‘wellbeing’. he first steps for new directions of the study of comfort and energy are presented.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
The huge human cost of tuberculosis on one Irish city
Creators: name: BREATHNACH, CIARA
name: Clancy, Stuart
name: Murphy, Rachel A
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: History, heritage and archaeology

description: Tuberculosis is a chronic disease, its slow pace contrasting sharply with the acute, rapid onset of short duration diseases like influenza. Although it can attack several parts of the body, it is most commonly associated with lung disease.
Time reversibility from visibility graphs of non-stationary processes
Creators: name: Lacasa, Lucas
name: Flanagan, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Visibility algorithms are a family of methods to map time series into networks, with the aim of describing the structure of time series and their underlying dynamical properties in graph-theoretical terms. Here we explore some properties of both natural and horizontal visibility graphs associated to several non-stationary processes, and we pay particular attention to their capacity to assess time irreversibility. Non-stationary signals are (infinitely) irreversible by definition (independently of whether the process is Markovian or producing entropy at a positive rate), and thus the link between entropy production and time series irreversibility has only been explored in non-equilibrium stationary states. Here we show that the visibility formalism naturally induces a new working definition of time irreversibility, which allows to quantify several degrees of irreversibility for stationary and non-stationary series, yielding finite values that can be used to efficiently assess the presence of memory and off-equilibrium dynamics in non-stationary processes without needs to differentiate or detrend them. We provide rigorous results complemented by extensive numerical simulations on several classes of stochastic processes.
Shape-aware Surface Reconstruction from Sparse 3D Point-Clouds
Creators: name: Bernard, Florian
name: Salamanca, Luis
name: Thunberg, Johan
name: Tack, Alexander
name: Jentsch, Dennis
name: Lamecker, Hans
name: Zachow, Stefan
name: Hertel, Frank
name: Goncalves, Jorge
name: Gemmar, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important role in medical image analysis, e.g. in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic measurements or in the process of aligning intra-operative navigation and preoperative planning data. In such scenarios, one usually has to deal with sparse data, which significantly aggravates the problem of reconstruction. However, medical applications often provide contextual information about the 3D point data that allow to incorporate prior knowledge about the shape that is to be reconstructed. To this end, we propose the use of a statistical shape model (SSM) as a prior for surface reconstruction. The SSM is represented by a point distribution model (PDM), which is associated with a surface mesh. Using the shape distribution that is modelled by the PDM, we formulate the problem of surface reconstruction from a probabilistic perspective based on a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). In order to do so, the given points are interpreted as samples of the GMM. By using mixture components with anisotropic covariances that are "oriented" according to the surface normals at the PDM points, a surface-based fitting is accomplished. Estimating the parameters of the GMM in a maximum a posteriori manner yields the reconstruction of the surface from the given data points. We compare our method to the extensively used Iterative Closest Points method on several different anatomical datasets/SSMs (brain, femur, tibia, hip, liver) and demonstrate superior accuracy and robustness on sparse data.
Defining Modern European Regional Identities through Italy and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Rouleau, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The following thesis defines regional identity and describes the historical development of regional identity in Italy and the United Kingdom.  Case studies of those nations (Piedmont, Calabria, Scotland, and England) are used to illustrate different components of regional identity and compared.  This study is guided by how the concepts of regional identity challenge their nation’s political-administrative and socio-economic centrality as relating to factors including history of both the nation and region, religious affiliation and importance, and politics.  This research synthesizes information to ultimately contribute to constructivist analyses of international politics.
Throughput Analysis of Manual Order Picking Systems with Congestion Consideration
Creators: name: Huber, Christian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Order Picking
Congestion
Blocking
Queueing Theory

description: Throughput in manual order picking systems with narrow aisles suffers from congestion as pickers cannot pass each other. Only few models incorporate congestion but they have very strict assumptions. In this work, queueing theory is used to analyze systems with traversal routing as well as different storage policies. The models are able to estimate throughput for many alternative designs in a relatively short amount of time. New guidelines for narrow-­aisle order picking systems are introduced.
Zeichensprache : Text und Bild bei Rolf Dieter Brinkmann und Pop-Autoren der Gegenwart
Creators: name: Rümmele, Klaus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Text und Bild
Rainald Goetz
Fotografie
Neue Medien

description: Neue Quellen und Bezüge verändern den Blick auf die Text-Bild-Kompositionen Rolf Dieter Brinkmanns in den 60er und 70er Jahren. Das Ergebnis ist die erste umfassende Typologie der intermedialen Werke des Kölner Autors vom sprachlichen Foto bis zur Bildergeschichte. Das der Einteilung zugrunde liegende Instrumentarium bewährt sich auch bei einer Analyse der Text-Bild-Arbeiten von Pop-Autoren der Gegenwart: Rainald Goetz, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre und Kathrin Röggla.
Κεραίες Συστοιχίας Φάσης: Βελτιστοποίηση του Παράγοντα Διάταξης με χρήση Γενετικού Αλγόριθμου
Creators: name: Χαδούλης Ρίζος-Θεόδωρος Αργυρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Παράγοντας Διάταξης
Κεραίες Συστοιχίας Φάσης
Γενετικός Αλγόριθμος
Array Factor
Phased Array Antennas
Genetic Algorithm

description: Οι Κεραίες Συστοιχίας Φάσης (Phased Array Antennas - PAAs) είναι από τις τεχνολογίες που έχουν καταλυτική συμβολή στην έλευση του 5G. Η βελτιστοποίηση των παραμέτρων μιας Κεραίας Συστοιχίας Φάσης είναι μια περίπλοκη εργασία, ειδικά για κεραίες με μεγάλο αριθμό στοιχείων. Οι παραδοσιακές μέθοδοι βελτιστοποίησης που είτε βασίζονται σε άπληστη, τοπική βελτιστοποίηση, όπως οι μέθοδοι κλίσης είτε αποτελούνται από τυχαίες αναζητήσεις σε ένα μεγάλο χώρο λύσεων, δεν είναι ιδανικές για την επίλυση του προβλήματος της σύνθεσης του διαγράμματος ακτινοβολίας σε μονοδιάστατες και δυσδιάστατες συστοιχίες κεραιών. Από την άλλη πλευρά, οι φυσικές μέθοδοι βελτιστοποίησης, π.χ. γενετικοί αλγόριθμοι, μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν για την αποτελεσματική αντιμετώπιση αυτού του προβλήματος. Σε αυτή τη διπλωματική εργασία, αναπτύχθηκε ένας γενετικός αλγόριθμος για τη βελτιστοποίηση μιας επίπεδης δισδιάστατης Κεραίας Συστοιχίας Φάσης, χρησιμοποιώντας μια προσαρμοσμένη αντικειμενική συνάρτηση (objective function) έτσι ώστε ο παράγοντας συστοιχίας (array factor) να έχει συγκεκριμένα χαρακτηριστικά, όσον αφορά την κατευθυντικότητα, το πλάτος δέσμης και το επίπεδο πλευρικού λοβού (SLL). Τα πειραματικά αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι ο γενετικός αλγόριθμος μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί για τη βελτιστοποίηση μιας δισδιάστατης Κεράιας Συστοιχίας Φάσης με πολύ ικανοποιητικά αποτελέσματα
description: Phased Array Antennas (PAAs) are among the most important 5G enabling technologies. Optimizing a PAA is an elaborate task, especially for PAAs with large number of elements. Traditional optimization methods that are either based on greedy, local optimization such as gradient methods or consist of random walk solution space searches, are far from ideal for solving the problem of arbitrary pattern synthesis in 1D and 2D antenna arrays, mainly due to the high dimensional, multimodal functional domains involved but also due to the inherent limitations of these approaches e.g., the majority of these methods assume the object function is continuous or even differentiable. On the other hand, natural optimization methods, e.g., genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and particle swarm optimization can be used to tackle this problem efficiently. In this study, a genetic algorithm was developed for optimizing a Planar (2D) Phased Array Antenna, using a custom objective function so that the Array Factor has specific characteristics, in terms of directivity, beamwidth and side-lobe level (SLL). The experimental results showed that the genetic algorithm can be used for optimizing a 2D PAA with very satisfactory results
Stress caused by blood sampling in mice: comparing corticosterone concentrations between different sampling techniques and locations - Protocol
Creators: name: van der Mierden, Stevie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Animal Sciences
subject: Other Animal Sciences
subject: blood sampling
subject: corticosterone
subject: Mice
subject: protocol
subject: stress
subject: systematic review

description: Protocol for a systematic review looking into differences in corticosterone concentrations as an indicator of stress caused by different blood sampling techniques/locations in mice.
Developing an Interactive Tutorial on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with Single Photons
Creators: name: Singh, Chandralekha
name: Marshman, Emily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are developing a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) on a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with single photons to expose upper-level students in quantum mechanics courses to contemporary applications. The QuILT strives to help students develop the ability to apply fundamental quantum principles to physical situations and explore differences between classical and quantum ideas. The QuILT adapts visualization tools to help students build physical intuition about quantum phenomena and focuses on helping them integrate qualitative and quantitative understanding. We also discuss findings from a preliminary in-class evaluation.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1510.01300
Observational biases in flux magnification measurements
Creators: name: Hildebrandt, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux magnification is an interesting complement to shear-based lensing measurements, especially at high redshift where sources are harder to resolve. One measures either changes in the source density (magnification bias) or in the shape of the flux distribution (e.g. magnitude-shift). The interpretation of these measurements relies on theoretical estimates of how the observables change under magnification. Here we present simulations to create multi-band photometric mock catalogues of Lyman-break galaxies in a CFHTLenS-like survey that include several observational effects that can change these relations, making simple theoretical estimates unusable. In particular, we show how the magnification bias can be affected by photometric noise, colour selection, and dust extinction. We find that a simple measurement of the slope of the number-counts is not sufficient for the precise interpretation of virtually all observations of magnification bias. We also explore how sensitive the shift in the mean magnitude of a source sample in different photometric bands is to magnification including the same observational effects. Again we find significant deviations from simple analytical estimates. We also discover a wavelength-dependence of the magnitude-shift effect when applied to a colour-selected noisy source sample. Such an effect can mimic the reddening by dust in the lens. It has to be disentangled from the dust extinction before the magnitude-shift/colour-excess can be used to measure the distribution of either dark matter or extragalactic dust. Using simulations like the ones presented here these observational effects can be studied and eventually removed from observations making precise measurements of flux magnification possible.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Kinetische Untersuchungen von Reaktionen kurzlebiger Intermediate im Zündfunken und bei der Verbrennung
Creators: name: Sommerer, Jörg
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Chemische Kinetik
Zündfunken
Spektroskopie
Laserinduzierte Fluoreszenz
Hydroxyl-Radikale (OH)

description: Der Ablauf von Verbrennungsprozessen wird erheblich durch die Reaktionskinetik kurzlebiger Intermediate bestimmt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich einerseits mit der Bildungskinetik von CN-Radikalen in Zündfunken, deren Lumineszenz für diagnostische Verfahren herangezogen wird und zum anderen mit den Reaktionen von OH-Radikalen mit den Rußvorläufern Diacetylen und Vinylacetylen. Zur Untersuchung der beiden Teilaspekte kommen spektroskopische Methoden zum Einsatz.
Gravitational perturbations of the Higgs field
Creators: name: Albareti, Franco D.
name: Maroto, Antonio L.
name: Prada, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possible effects of classical gravitational backgrounds on the Higgs field through the modifications induced in the one-loop effective potential and the vacuum expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor. We concentrate our study on the Higgs self-interaction contribution in a perturbed FRW metric. For weak and slowly varying gravitational fields, a complete set of mode solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation is obtained to leading order in the adiabatic approximation. Dimensional regularization has been used in the integral evaluation and a detailed study of the integration of nonrational functions in this formalism has been presented. As expected, the regularized effective potential contains the same divergences as in flat spacetime, which can be renormalized without the need of additional counterterms. We find that, in contrast with other regularization methods, even though metric perturbations affect the mode solutions, they do not contribute to the leading adiabatic order of the potential. We also obtain explicit expressions of the complete energy-momentum tensor for general nonminimal coupling in terms of the perturbed modes. The corresponding leading adiabatic contributions are also obtained.
description: 15 pages. Version accepted for publication in PRD. Error corrected in the angular integration in Appendix B. Conclusions changed. New section included
Texturbasierte Modellierung anisotroper Fließpotentiale
Creators: name: Tsotsova, Rumena
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Kristallographische Textur
Tensorielle Texturkoeffizienten
Plastische Anisotropie
Nichtlineare Schranken erster Ordnung

description: In dieser Arbeit wird eine Formulierung der starr-viskoplastischen Fließpotentiale kubisch-flächenzentrierter Kristalle durch eine tensorielle Fourier-Reihenentwicklung mit Texturkoeffizienten entwickelt. Aus der Einkristallformulierung werden die makroskopischen Fließpotentiale durch die Berechnung der elementaren Schranken, sowohl im Spannungs- als auch im Dehnratenraum näherungsweise bestimmt. Numerische Beispiele demonstrieren die Güte der texturbasierten Approximation.
Vergleich von Mehrträger-Übertragungsverfahren und Entwurfskriterien für neuartige Powerline-Kommunikationsysteme zur Realisierung von Smart Grids
Creators: name: Bauer, Michael
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: Powerline Kommunikation
Kanalmodell
Smart Grid
Mehrträgermodulation
Zuverlässigkeit

description: Diese Arbeit zeigt, wie PLC-Systeme zu einer IKT-Infrastruktur für Smart Grids beitragen können. Auf Basis möglicher Anwendungen werden Anforderungen und Systemansätze vorgestellt. Analysen des Übertragungskanals nach EN 50065 dienen als Basis für die Evaluation von Modulationsverfahren unter quasi-realen sowie eines PLC-Systems unter realen Bedingungen. Dargelegt werden Kriterien zur Auswahl von Modulationsverfahren und ein Systementwurf zur Steigerung der Zuverlässigkeit der Datenübertragung.
Introduction
Creators: name: SANCHEZ, Marco Antonio ORTIZ
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: People spend about 60% of their time in their homes: environments in which the person should feel comfortable and be healthy on account of the technical services and systems in their building (Jia, Srinivasan, & Raheem, 2017). The supply of a comfortable environment should be achieved in an energy efficient way, especially if we are to achieve the EU 2020 or 2030 targets of residential energy consumption. However, in spite of the technological advancements and energy efficient technologies that have already been developed to provide comfort, energy consumption is not decreasing at the rate it should (Tsemekidi Tzeiranaki et al., 2019). There are several complex factors affecting energy consumption of which occupant behaviours is one of them, and building systems, services, and products being some of the others. Moreover, the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) field seems to focus mainly on the thermal and other physiological aspects of comfort and energy expenditure. Yet, collaboration of the IEQ field with the fields of energy engineering and social sciences to combine knowledge to have a better grasp of both sides –building and occupant- of the issue of consumption, does not seem to occur (D’Oca, Hong, & Langevin, 2018; Sovacool, 2014). Therefore, the problem that energy savings have not been achieved with the currently available technological developments could be related to the behavioural factors influencing energy consumption.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2019): Home Occupant Archetypes
title: Pierre Gilles de Saint-Paul
Creators: name: Conceição, Margarida
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada biográfica sobre Pierre Gilles de Saint-Paul, na plataforma eViterbo
description: Conceição, Margarida Tavares da. 2022. Pierre Gilles de Saint-Paul in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
Continuous symmetry breaking and a new universality class in 1D long-range interacting quantum systems
Creators: name: Maghrebi, Mohammad F.
name: Gong, Zhe-Xuan
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous symmetry breaking (CSB) in low-dimensional systems, forbidden by the Mermin-Wagner theorem for short-range interactions, may take place in the presence of slowly decaying long-range interactions. Nevertheless, there is no stringent bound on how slowly interactions should decay to give rise to CSB in 1D quantum systems at zero temperature. Here, we study a long-range interacting spin chain with $U(1)$ symmetry and power-law interactions $V(r)\sim1/r^α$, directly relevant to ion-trap experiments. Using bosonization and renormalization group theory, we find CSB for $α$ smaller than a critical exponent $α_c(\le 3)$ depending on the microscopic parameters of the model. Furthermore, the transition from the gapless XY phase to the gapless CSB phase is mediated by the breaking of conformal symmetry due to long-range interactions, and is described by a new universality class akin to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Our analytical findings are in good agreement with a numerical calculation. Signatures of the CSB phase should be accessible in existing trapped-ion experiments.
description: 5+4 pages, 3 figures
Effects of Time-Varying Magnetic Fields in the Frequency Range 1 kHz to 100 kHz upon the Human Body : Numerical Studies and Stimulation Experiment
Creators: name: Bohnert, Julia
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Magnetic Particle Imaging
subject: Magnetic Stimulation
subject: Specific Absorption Rate
subject: Physiological Effects
subject: Biomedical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: In this work, the physiological effects of time-varying magnetic fields up to 100 kHz have been investigated, namely magnetic stimulation and body warming. Simulation studies were based on numerical calculations on sophisticated cell and body models. In addition, magnetic stimulation thresholds have been determined experimentally. The project was carried out within the scope of the development of Magnetic Particle Imaging, a new imaging technology for medical diagnostics.
Sensitive Identification of Nearby Debris Disks via Precise Calibration of WISE Data
Creators: name: Patel, Rahul
name: Metchev, Stanimir
name: Heinze, Aren
name: Trollo, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data from the WISE All-Sky Survey, we have found >100 new infrared excess sources around main-sequence Hipparcos stars within 75pc. Our empirical calibration of WISE photospheric colors and removal of non-trivial false-positive sources are responsible for the high confidence (>99.5%) of detections, while our corrections to saturated W1 (3.4um) and W2 (4.6um) photometry have for the first time allowed us to search for new infrared excess sources around bright field stars in WISE. The careful calibration and filtering of the WISE data have allowed us to probe excess fluxes down to roughly 8% of the photospheric emission at 22um around saturated stars in WISE. We expect that the increased sensitivity of our survey will not only aid in understanding the evolution of debris disks, but will also benefit future studies using WISE.
description: To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314 (Cambridge University Press), J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds
The next generation of FETs: CNTFETs
Creators: name: Marani, Roberto
name: Perri, Anna Gina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present an exhaustive description of the basic types of CNTFETs. In particular we review two models, already proposed by us, which allow an easy implementation in circuit simulators, both in analog and in digital applications.
description: 14 pages, 17 figures