cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
150 years of Maxwell's (other) equations and application to plasma wakefield acceleration
Creators: name: Mehrling, Timon
name: Osterhoff, Jens
name: Robson, Robert
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017

description: 3rd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy, 24 Sep 2017 - 30 Sep 2017
description: In 1867, just two years after laying the foundations of electromagnetism, J. Clerk Maxwell presented a fundamental paper on gas dynamics, in which he described the evolution of the gas in terms of certain "moments" of its velocity distribution function. This inspired Ludwig Boltzmann to formulate his famous kinetic equation, from which followed the H-theorem and the connection with entropy. The present talk celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Maxwell's formalism, and discusses how its generality and adaptability enable it to play a key role in efficient modeling of electron beams in plasma wakefield acceleration.
title: Kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Streifzug durch den Themenbereich Tod und Ritual
Creators: name: Grünfelder, Petra Elisabeth
Year: 2012

description: Die Arbeit möchte sich über Beschäftigung und Auseinandersetzung mit Konzepten rund um den Akt des Sterbens, der Sterbebegleitung, Bestattungspflicht und kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Übergangsritualtheorien dem Themenbereich Tod und Ritual aus der Sicht der kultur- und sozialanthropologischen Religions- und Bewusstseinsforschung annähern. Das Begehen des letzten lebenszyklischen Übergangs im Leben eines Menschen steht stets im Zentrum der Überlegungen, wird erst theoretisch und weiters anhand der Heranziehung des Rituals einer evangelisch-gottesdienstlichen Feier der Bestattung religionspraktisch reflektiert. Die die Forschung leitenden Fragen „Wo findet Sterben heute statt? Passiert es allein oder (von Konzepten) begleitet? Welche wesentlichen Funktionen kommen dem Übergangsritual Bestattung zu? Wie wird in öffentlichen Krankenhäusern über den Tod gesprochen?“ bestimmen den Spannungsbogen, der über zwei Teile, einen theoretischen und einen empirischen gebunden wird.
description: Funeral rituals, aspects and functions of church funerals and burials (especially those celebrated according to the Lutheran Church Rite Form), concepts and theories of palliative care, accomplied dying and the processual disposition of the funeral as a “rite de passage” – the very last “rite de passage” in a man’s lifetime, is the topic of this paper. The main research questions are: “Where and how does dying happen today?” and “How is the discussion about death and dying going under professionals?” The analysis considers notions about mortality, coping with death and mortality and religion as a cultural pattern, in brief, the issues are belonging, ritualising and believing. The paper is divided to a first chapter that deals theoretically with mortality, with death and ritual, the necessarity and social functions of (funeral) rituals and that discusses if, and if yes how religions help to copy with death and to legitimize it. The content of the second chapter is the documentation of an empirical study that I conducted in the field of a small hospital in Styria (Austria) in a four week field research.
title: Identifiability in penalized function-on-function regression models
Creators: name: Scheipl, Fabian
name: Greven, Sonja
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Regression models with functional responses and covariates constitute a powerful and increasingly important model class. However, regression with functional data poses well known and challenging problems of non-identifiability.  This non-identifiability can manifest itself in arbitrarily large errors for  coefficient surface estimates despite accurate predictions of the responses, thus invalidating substantial interpretations of the fitted models. We offer an accessible rephrasing of these identifiability issues in realistic applications of penalized linear function-on-function-regression and delimit the set of circumstances under which they are likely to occur in practice.Specifically, non-identifiability that persists under smoothness assumptions on the coefficient surface can occur if the functional covariate's empirical covariance has a kernel which overlaps that of the roughness penalty of the spline estimator. Extensive simulation studies validate the theoretical insights, explore the extent of the problem and allow us to evaluate their practical consequences under varying assumptions about the data generating processes. A case study illustrates the practical significance of the problem. Based on theoretical considerations and our empirical evaluation, we provide immediately applicable diagnostics for lack of identifiability and give recommendations for avoiding estimation artifacts in practice.
title: Cooperation and Trustworthiness in Repeated Interaction
Creators: name: Cagala, Tobias
name: Glogowsky, Ulrich
name: Grimm, Veronika
name: Rincke, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cooperation; trustworthiness; rent extraction; methods for laboratory experiments; panel vector autoregressive model
subject: 330

description: Public goods provision often involves groups of contributors repeatedly interacting with administrators who can extract rents from the pool of contributions. We suggest a novel identification approach that exploits the sequential ordering of decisions in a panel vector autoregressive model to study social interactions in the laboratory. Despite rent extraction, contributors and administrators establish a stable interaction with cooperation matching the level from a comparable Public Goods Game. In the short run, temporary changes in behavior trigger substantial behavioral multiplier effects. We demonstrate that cooperation breeds trustworthiness and vice versa and that one-time disruptions are particularly damaging in settings with a lack of cooperative attitudes and trust.
title: Unleashing Animal Spirits - Self-Control and Overpricing in Experimental Asset Markets
Creators: name: Kocher, Martin G.
name: Lucks, Konstantin E.
name: Schindler, David
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Behavioral finance, trader behavior, self control, experimental asset markets, overpricing
subject: 330

description: One possible determinant of overpricing on asset markets is a lack of self-control abilities of traders. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired behavioral tendencies such as impulses and to refrain from acting on them. We implement the first experiment that is able to address a potential causal relationship between self-control abilities and systematic overpricing on financial markets by introducing an exogenous variation of self-control abilities. Our experimental conditions seek to detect some of the channels through which individual self-control problems could transmit into irrational exuberance on the aggregate level. We observe a strong effect of inhibited self-control abilities on market overpricing. Our findings are furthermore robust to reducing self-control abilities only for a moderate share of traders in a market. Low self-control traders engage in more speculative behavior early on, but because others imitate their trading patterns, they do not end up earning less and are not driven out of the market.
title: Cooperating over losses and competing overgains: a social dilemma experiment
Creators: name: Ispano, Alessandro
name: Schwardmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: cooperation, traveler’s dilemma, social dilemma, loss domain, diminishing sensitivity, cognitive hierarchy
subject: 330

description: Evidence from studies in international relations, the politics of reform, collectiveaction and price competition suggests that economic agents in social dilemma situationscooperate more to avoid losses than in the pursuit of gains. To test whether the prospect of losses can induce cooperation, we let experimental subjects play the traveler’s dilemma in the gain and loss domain. Subjects cooperate substantially more over losses. Our experimental design allows us to show that this treatment effect is best explained by reference-dependent risk preferences and referencedependent strategic sophistication. We discuss policy implications and relate our findings to other experimental games played in the loss domain.
Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016
Creators: name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Liu, Wan-Gang
name: Bai, Ming
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Maladera
Maladera jaintiaensis

description: Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016
Figures 32 I–M, 103
Maladera jaintiaensis Ahrens & Fabrizi, 2016: 224.
Additional material examined. China: 1 ♂ “ Pingshiang Süd-China Dr. Kreyenberg ” (DEIC), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 9.4.1938 (Fukien) / Paratype Autoserica fusca G. Frey 1972 “ (ZFMK), 1 ♂ “ Kuatun (2300 m) 27, 40 n. Br. 117,40 ö. L. J. Klapperich 29.4.1938 (Fukien)” (CF). Laos: 1 ♂ “ Laos: Bolikhamsai pr. 18°16’N 103°11’E, 70 km NEE Vientiane, 27.-30.iv. 1997, 150m, Vit Kuban leg./ 266 Sericini Asia spec.” (CP).
Remarks. The species was originally described from northeastern India and China (Ahrens & Fabrizi 2016).
Distribution. See map (Fig. 103) and Table 1.
description: Published as part of Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-400 in Zootaxa 4922 (1) on pages 149-150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4496316
title: Modeling Exposure-Lag-Response Associations with Penalized Piece-wise Exponential Models
Creators: name: Bender, A.
name: Scheipl, F.
name: Küchenhoff, H.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Survival analysis, piece-wise exponential model, exposure-lag-response association
subject: 510

description: We present a novel approach for the flexible modeling of exposure-lag-response associations, i.e., time-to-event data where multiple past exposures are cumulatively associated with the hazard after a certain temporal delay. Our method is based on piece-wise exponential models and allows estimation of a wide variety of effects, including potentially smooth and time-varying effects as well as cumulative effects with leads and lags, taking advantage of the advanced inference methods that have recently been developed for generalized additive mixed models.
Supplementary materials - Understanding the Influence of Copper on the color of glasses and glazes: copper environment and redox
Creators: name: Cormier, Laurent
name: Noirot, Cécile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Glass
subject: Glaze
subject: Colors

description: Supplementary materials to the article : Understanding the Influence of Copper on the color of glasses and glazes: copper environment and redox

by Laurent Cormier and Cécile Noirot
title: "Mother-father-tongue ... when children are raised in two languages
Creators: name: Hartmann, Sonja
Year: 2012

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit Mother-Father-Tongue … when children are raised in two languages: A multiple case study on German-English bilingual families in Austria behandelt das Thema der Zweisprachigkeit in der Familie. Die Arbeit ist in vier größere Abschnitte gegliedert, wobei die ersten zwei Kapitel das theoretische Gerüst bilden und die Letzteren die empirische Untersuchung beschreiben und deren Ergebnisse präsentieren. Der theoretische Teil gibt einen Überblick über bisherige wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse im Forschungsbereich der Zweisprachigkeit. Ein spezielles Augenmerk ist hier auf frühe Zweisprachigkeit und auf die zweisprachige Sprachentwicklung von Kindern gelegt. Weiters bildet eine Diskussion über Sprachen und Sprachpolitik in Österreich, sowie die hypothetische Begutachtung der zweisprachigen Familie den sozialen, kulturellen und sprachlichen Kontext für die empirische Studie. Die Theorie ist relevant für das Verstehen der Komplexität von Zweisprachigkeit, sowohl als individuelles Phänomen, als auch als Konstrukt in der Familie. Im empirischen Teil der Arbeit wird die genaue Vorgehensweise der Forschungsarbeit beschrieben und deren Ergebnisse präsentiert. Die Studie umfasst eine Untersuchung von sechs, Deutsch-Englisch zweisprachigen Familien aus Wien und Umgebung. Qualitative, narrative Interviews mit jeweils beiden Elternteilen dieser Familien als auch von allen Familienmitgliedern verfasste Sprachenportraits erlauben, das Phänomen der Zweisprachigkeit in der Familie besser zu verstehen. Die Datenanalyse beinhaltet eine praktische Diskussion relevanter Themen dieser Familien, die sich im Rahmen der Forschungsarbeit herauskristallisierten. Diese umfassen Erfahrungsberichte der Familien, positiv und negativ, sowie fundamentale Fragen in Verbindung mit Zweisprachigkeit wie Sprachenidentität und Sprachstatus.
title: Joining the battle
Creators: name: Behmen, Osmannihad
Year: 2012

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit der Rolle der Frau in den gewählten Werken auseinander. Die Werke, die zum Genre Fantasie zählen, sind: Tolkiens Der Herr der Ringe, C.S. Lewis Die Chroniken von Narnia, Pullmans His Dark Materials, J.K.Rowlings Harry Potter und Scotts Die Geheimnisse des Nicholas Flamel. Dabei werden die unterschiedlichen Auffassungen dargestellt und auf den gemeinsamen Aspekt, das Kampfgeschehen hin, analysiert. Der Fokus liegt hierbei auf dem Kampffeld, als einer Möglichkeit der Gleichstellung beider Geschlechter, in der in anderen Lebensbereichen männerdominierten Welt. Neben der Rolle als Kämpferin wird hier auch auf andere Rollen, die Frauen einnehmen, Bezug genommen: Femme fatale, Ehefrau oder Mutter.
title: Kinderschutz als interdisziplinäres Aufgabengebiet
Creators: name: Wetschka, Barbara
Year: 2012

description: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Kooperationsprobleme zwischen Kindergärten und der Jugendwohlfahrt, in Fällen von Kindeswohlgefährdung auftreten können. Dabei wird ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf den Problembereich des Verdachts auf sexuelle Gewalt gegen Kinder gelegt. Die Literaturrecherche für den theoretischen Teil dieser Diplomarbeit hat ergeben, dass der Informationserwerb über Grundlagen und strukturierte Vorgehensweisen zur Aufklärung von sexueller Kindesmisshandlung von zentraler Bedeutung ist. Darüber hinaus ist die interne sowie externe Berufsgruppenzusammenarbeit der einzelnen Hilfesysteme, für eine gelingende Kinderschutzarbeit unerlässlich. Um die genannte Forschungslücke zu den Sichtweisen und Erfahrungswerten der KindergartenpädagogInnen bezüglich des Umgangs mit der Thematik der sexuellen Kindesmisshandlung in den Kindertagesstätten sowie der kooperativen Arbeit mit der Jugendwohlfahrtsbehörde zu schließen, wurden sieben problemzentrierte Interviews mit PädagogInnen aus Kindergärten des Bundeslandes Wien geführt und nach der Forschungsmethode der Qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Dabei konnte aufgezeigt werden, dass die Auseinandersetzung mit einem Verdacht auf sexuelle Gewalt, sich in dem kontroversen Feld von professionellem Handeln, Verunsicherung, Bagatellisierung und Verleugnung bewegt und von Hemmnissen in der internen und externen Berufsgruppenzusammenarbeit begleitet sein kann. Angesichts der facettenreichen Problematik stellt die Vermittlung von konzeptuellen Grundlagen und geregelten Verfahrensabläufen ein wesentliches Merkmal dar, welches zum Abbau von fachlichen Unsicherheiten beitragen kann. Zentrale Herausforderungen bestehen nach wie vor in der Implementierung von eindeutig geregelten Informationswegen zugunsten eines koordinierten Vorgehens in den Kindergärten sowie in der Überwindung von strukturellen und individuellen Barrieren zwischen Kindergärten und Jugendwohlfahrt, um ein planvolles und zielorientiertes Zusammenwirken in der systematischen Hilfeplanung bei Kindeswohlgefährdung zu gewährleisten.
Encountering the more-than-human in urban fantasy literature
Creators: name: Beckwith, Carissa Marie
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: Ecocriticism
Enchantment
Fantasy Literature
More-Than-Human
Sense of Place
Urban Fantasy

description: Certain types of literature have been heavily studied for their relevancy to the environment, but fantasy literature has been left out of this critical discussion. Ecocriticism of fantasy literature has been dismal, despite the popularity of the genre. I argue that fantasy resonates so strongly with our current era because of what it offers that the Anthropocene lacks. Urban fantasy literature epitomizes this. In urban fantasy, readers can become re-enchanted with their everyday lives, and open their perspectives to include the more-than-human world that surrounds them. In urban fantasy, readers can experience the more-than-human community in a salient way, with more-than-human beings and forces interacting, communicating, and serving as agents. And, in urban fantasy, readers can witness how characters react and adapt to changing places and spaces while still maintaining a positive, holistic sense of place that extends beyond the human. Urban fantasy offers healthy, environmentally progressive ways to encounter the more-than-human.
Functional specialization for aggression and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in vertebrates
Creators: name: Morris, Jeremy S.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: aggression
functional trade-offs
locomotion
sexual dimorphism
sexual selection
whole-organism performance

description: In many species, male reproductive fitness is dependent upon the ability to physically compete for access to mates. The direct link between performance in male contests and reproductive success has led to the evolution of male-biased sexual dimorphism in traits that improve fighting performance. However, species variation in social structure often leads to differences in the relative importance of intraspecific aggression and corresponding variation in the degree of sexual dimorphism. Traits such as body mass and canine size have received much attention because they have a clear impact on male fighting performance. However, additional musculoskeletal adaptations may also be under selection. Traits that improve strength, agility, and maneuverability (i.e., whole-organism performance capacities) may improve aggressive performance and this may lead to the evolution of sexual dimorphism throughout the musculoskeletal system. Because the postcranial anatomy also functions as the primary locomotor system, morphological specialization for aggression may directly conflict with locomotor performance, resulting in a functional trade-off. Given that locomotion represents a substantial proportion of total energetic expenditure in many species, compromises resulting from an aggression-locomotion trade-off may be vital to understanding the evolution of behavioral and phenotypic diversity. In this dissertation, I first investigated the prevalence of sexual dimorphism in skeletal morphology in three subspecies of gray wolf (Canis lupus). I then expanded this study to 26 species of carnivores and 11 species of primates. I found male-biased sexual dimorphism in skeletal traits that are predicted to improve aggressive performance, making males better equipped for intraspecific competition. Across species, the degree of dimorphism increased with the intensity of male competition. Consistent with sexual selection theory, the evolution of this dimorphism was best explained by mating system. To test for evidence of a functional trade-off between aggressive performance and locomotion, I measured male competitive ability through social competition trials in semi-natural enclosures and locomotor economy through running trials in an enclosed treadmill and open-flow respirometry. I found evidence for an aggression-locomotion functional trade-off. Together, this work improves our understanding of the role of aggression in the evolution of vertebrates and the impact that specialization for aggression may have on locomotion.
title: Die Informationspflichten börsenotierter Unternehmen unter Beachtung bestehender Verschwiegenheitspflichten
Creators: name: Haidenthaler, Christine
Year: 2012

description: Der Vorstand einer börsenotierten Aktiengesellschaft ist sowohl auf Grund der aktienrechtlichen Normen, als auch der kapitalmarktrechtlichen Vorschriften zur Verschwiegenheit und zur Wahrung von vertraulichen Angaben bzw. Insiderinformationen verpflichtet. Dieser Pflicht des Vorstands, die Gesellschaft vor einem Schaden zu bewahren und den Anforderungen des Kapitalmarkts in Hinblick auf Insiderinformationen gerecht zu werden, stehen weitreichende Publizitätspflichten gegenüber. Um das Funktionieren des Kapitalmarkts zu garantieren und das Anlegervertrauen zu stärken, aber auch durch die rasche und einfache Weitergabe und Zurverfügungstellung von Informationen, werden Informationspflichten immer weiter ausgedehnt.
Three essays on post-keynesian models of effective demand and income distribution
Creators: name: Barrales ruiz, Jose A.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: chaos
endogenous cycles and growth
income distribution
limit cycle
neural network
wavelets

description: This dissertation consists of three independent essays on cyclical fluctuations of functional income distribution and effective demand in the Post-Keynesian tradition. The first essay investigates the longer run relationship between wage share and measurements of economic activity. Our main tools are wavelet covariance and multiresolution analysis. Results indicate that (1) Goodwin type cycles are observed even at longer run and (2) when considering smooth trends for periodicities longer than 32 years, a long Goodwin cycle seems to appear from the 1940s to mid-1990s that collapses afterwards.  The second and third essays are related in the sense that they empirically  investigate the possibility of strong internal dynamics in the business cycle model of effective demand and income distribution.  Specifically, in the second essay, we study wage share and output gap in an univariate setting. Each time series is examined through chaos theory. The main tools are the nonlinear autoregressive neural network model, the dominant Lyapunov exponent,  coefficient of determination, and local Lyapunov exponent. Results indicate that output gap might behave quasi-chaotically and wage share noisy-stable.  Finally, the third essay inquires into the possibility of limit cycle in the two-dimensional model on wage share and output gap. For that, we use the multivariate nonlinear autoregressive neural network model. Our results indicate that limit cycle behavior describes well their dynamics and, furthermore, the instability is located on the wage share isocline. Chapters 1 through 3 open several questions that we hope further research will address.  In Chapter 1, we conjecture that globalization plays a crucial role in the stagnation of the trends in the late 1990s. However, further research is required. Chapter 2 concludes that instability is rooted in the goods market dynamics rather than the distributive dynamics. Results on Chapter 3 indicate that the demand regime is stable and wage share locally unstable. This possibility remains largely unexplored both in the theoretical and empirical literature, and it creates a contradiction with the results found in Chapter 2. Further research is necessary on the robustness of the result, and possible mechanisms.
Risk Assessment of Exposure to Bisphenols as Endocrine Disruptors and their Relation to Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: López Moro, Alejandro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420208
subject: Nutritional epidemiology
classificationCode: 321001
subject: Clinical nutrition
classificationCode: 321005
subject: Public health nutrition
classificationCode: 321004
subject: Nutritional science

description: In recent decades, EDs have been associated with a variety of diseases and a wide range of metabolic disorders. PBs are ED substances with high human exposure, BPA being the most widely used and known for its disruptive effects. For this reason, in recent years, it has begun to be replaced by other analogues whose health effects are still unknown. Therefore, in the present work, the aim is to review the information on human exposure to BP and the appearance and development of diabetic disorders.Advanced bibliographic searches will be carried out in the scientific databases PubMed and Web of Sciene. Only reviews, meta-analyses and various observational studies carried out in humans in the last 5 years and published in quality scientific journals will be included.
title: Tod und Bestattungsrituale im Islam
Creators: name: Ladurner, Corinna
Year: 2012

description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem komplexen Phänomen des Todes und den Bestat-tungsritualen im Islam. Der regionale Fokus liegt auf der muslimischen Gemeinschaft in Wien. Durch die Untersuchung der Sterbe-, Toten-, Begräbnis- und Trauerrituale wer-den die kulturellen und sozialen Werte der muslimischen Gemeinschaft und ihre Hal-tung zum Tod sichtbar. Im Islam ist der Tod nicht das Ende des Lebens, sondern die Rückkehr zu Allah. Er symbolisiert einen Übergang, der mit der Trennung der Seele beginnt und mit der Wie-dervereinigung von Körper und Geist endet sowie mit einer Statusveränderung einher-geht. Im Mittelpunkt des Islams steht die Gemeinschaft, die Loyalität und Solidarität. Der Glaube ist der Maßstab aller Handlungen und wird durch die Taten sichtbar. Der Tod ist nicht nur ein biologisches, sondern auch ein soziales Phänomen, dem eine zerstörerische Kraft inne wohnt. Postmortale Rituale begleiten soziale Übergänge und haben die Aufgabe den zerstörerischen Kräften des Todes entgegenzuwirken. Aus dem natürlichen Faktum Tod wird ein soziales Phänomen kreiert.
description: The work academically engages the complex phenomenon of death and funeral rituals in Islam. The regional focus is on of the Muslim community in Vienna. By investigat-ing the death, funeral and mourning rituals, the cultural and social values within the Muslim community and their attitudes to death become apparent. In Islam, death is not the end of life, but a return to Allah. It symbolises a transition that begins with the separation of the soul and ends with the reunion of body and soul as well as a change of status of the living and dead. Loyalty and solidarity are significant although at the heart of Islam is the community and not the individual. Faith is the measure of all actions and becomes visible through the actions of the person. Death is not only a biological but also a social phenomenon that is inherent in a destruc-tive force. Post-mortem rituals accompanying social transitions have the task of coun-tering the destructive forces of death. Death as a natural fact creates a social phenome-non.
Tuning optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors via donor-acceptor cocrystals and interfacial composites
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: donor-acceptor interaction
gas sensor
organic cocrystal
organic composite
organic semiconductor

description: Organic donor-acceptor (D-A) interaction has attracted intensive research interest because of the promising applications in electronic devices and renewable energy. Depending on the interaction process, the optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors may change dramatically. To improve their performance and expand the applications, we have investigated the structure-property relationship in D-A cocrystals and nanofibril composites. These materials provide unique D-A interface structures, thus allowing tunable charge transfer across the interface, which can be modified and controlled by exquisite molecule design and supramolecular assembly.  In Chapter 2, we studied the fabrication, conductivity, and chemiresistive sensor performance of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) - 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) charge transfer cocrystal microfibers. Compared to TCNQ and TTF, TTF-TCNQ cocrystal has much higher conductivity under ambient conditions, due to the high yield of charge separation, which also induces high polarization at the interface, resulting in different binding intensity towards alkyl and aromatic amines. Based on this investment, we developed a TTF-TCNQ chemiresistive sensor to efficiently discriminate alkyl and aromatic amine vapors.  In Chapter 3, we further designed a new series of D-A cocrystals, and studied the coassembly and optical properties. The cocrystal is composed of coronene and perylene diimide at 1:1 molar ratio and belongs to the triclinic system, as confirmed by X-ray analysis. The donor and acceptor molecules perform an alternate Ï€-Ï€ stacking along the (100) direction, leading to the strong one-dimensional growth tendency of macroscopic cocrystal. Additionally, due to the charge transfer interaction, the cocrystal shows a new and largely red-shifted photoluminescence band, compared to the crystals of the components.  In Chapter 4, we alternatively developed a series of donor-acceptor nanofibril composites, in which the donor and acceptor nanofibers become the building blocks. By changing the side chains into alkyl groups, the composite forms a homogeneous film with a large donor-acceptor interface and favorable photoinduced charge transfer, leading to a high photoconductivity enhancement, which is a three order magnification of the photoconductivity of the donor and acceptor nanofibers. Furthermore, our measurement proved the D-A interface with alkyl chains interdigitating is compatible and tunable to external alkane vapors, making the composite suitable for chemiresistive sensors for alkane detection.
title: Einheit - Entgegensetzung - Versöhnung in Friedrich Hölderlins "Hyperion" und "Empedokles"
Creators: name: Ramel, Stephan
Year: 2012

description: Diese Arbeit behandelt Friedrich Hölderlins Prosawerk ‚Hyperion‘ sowie dessen dramatische Arbeiten ‚Empdedokles‘. Dabei wird die Figur der Entgegensetzung der zentrale Untersuchungsgegenstand sein. Damit bezeichnet ist eine Bewegung, die aus der Einheit Differenz erzeugt. Ebenfalls untersucht wird die Auflösung dieser Dissonanzen in einer Bewegung der Versöhnung. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit wird die Form des Hyperion-Romans, insbesondere seine problematische Einordnung als Briefroman, einer genaueren Betrachtung unterzogen und Überlegungen über die funktionelle Organisation seiner Struktur angestellt. Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist das Jahr von Hölderlins Abschied aus Jena und seiner Ankunft in Frankfurt, 1796. Hier hatte sich Hölderlin die Vorarbeiten zum ersten Buch des ‚Hyperion‘ erarbeitet. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit wendet sich in einem close-reading Verfahren ausgewählten Textstellen des Hyperion-Romans zu und betrachtet die Ausführung der Gestaltung der literarischen und philosophischen Mittel des Autors. Hölderlins philosophische Überlegungen begleiteten auch seine dichterischen Arbeiten Diese Arbeiten sind nicht von einander abzugrenzen, sie beeinflussen einander fortlaufend. Im Zwischenteil erfolgt eine kontextuelle Verortung des Romans und die Bezüge zu den philosophischen Hintergründen werden erörtet. Im darauf folgenden zweiten Hyperion-Teil werden gleichfalls Textstellen eines close-reading Verfahrens unterzogen und Parallelen und Differenzen zum ersten Buch werden aufgezeigt. Diese werden abschließend thematisch in Gruppen gefasst und in ihrer Funktionalität für das Romanganze betrachte. In der abschließenden werden die in der Hyperion-Betrachtung erarbeiteten Figuren auf Hölderlins Empedokles-Projekt übertragen und erneute Überlegungen zu deren Transformation angestellt. Es soll somit gleichfalls ein interdisziplinärer Brückenschlag zwischen den Fächern Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft unternommen werden, insofern als philosophische, literaturwissenschaftliche und linguistische Modelle in Beziehung zu einer Textauswahl gesetzt werden.
There and back again: an adverbâ€™s tale
Creators: name: Blackham, John Hartley
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: again
counterdirectional
historical

description: This thesis summarizes decades of debate on the nature of the restitutive/repetitive ambiguity of English again, critically examines previous research testing hypotheses concerning the diachronic and future development of again, in particular investigating predictions made utilizing the theoretical Visibility Parameter that again is following a trajectory of losing its restitutive semantic sense. This thesis especially builds on the corpus-based diachronic research of again performed by Beck et al. and Gergel and Beck, which found evidence for the decline and loss of restitutive and counterdirectional again. Finally, this thesis produces an original corpus study with the aim of (a) confirming the findings of previous studies, and (b) making a plausible case for the adverb back and re- verbforms as candidates for influencing the decline of restitutive and counterdirectional readings of again. I conclude by suggesting future research into the nature of counterdirectional adverbs, the formal definition of counterdirectionality, and the nature of counterdirectionalityâ€™s apparent privileged relationship with the Visibility Parameter.
Biosensors for environmental monitoring via bioinhibition
Creators: name: Wang, Tao
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: Analytical chemistry
Biosensor
Inhibition
Laccase
Mitochondria

description: Biosensors are devices that recognize, analyze, and transduce signal for detection via biological materials with bio-recognition properties.  As of now, almost all kinds of biomaterials, including microbial cells, organelles, proteins, and nucleic acid, have been used for biosensors. In this dissertation, two kinds of biomaterials, enzymes and organelles, have been used for novel biosensor development. The primary focus of the research is the inhibition mechanism of laccase and mitochondria by different environmental toxins, like arsenic and pesticides. In Chapter 2, a laccase-based biosensor was developed for arsenic sensing. Inhibition of oxygen reduction by arsenic was observed electrochemically via laccase immobilized with anthracene-modified multiwalled carbon nanotubes on a Toray carbon paper electrode. First, it was found that laccase is inhibited by arsenite and arsenate, and the inhibition mechanism was further determined as mixed inhibition (with preference to an uncompetitive inhibition model). Second, the laccase-modified electrodes were then fabricated into a self-powered biosensor with flavin-adenine-dinucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase-based bioanodes. The biosensor was operated at 10% of its maximum current and demonstrated a detection limit of 13 ÂµM for arsenite and 132 ÂµM for arsenate. In Chapter 3, a mitochondrial paper-based biosensor was fabricated. Coupled mitochondria were isolated from bovine heart and demonstrated an amperometrical detection limit of 20 nM for malathion, a common pesticide. The inhibition mechanism by malathion to mitochondrial metabolism was studied electrochemically and was determined to be uncoupling rather than inhibition.  In Chapter 4, the inhibition mechanism of mitochondria by rotenone, carboxin, and antimycin was studied. It was also discovered that the synergy between riboflavin derivatives and ubiquinone can be altered by using different solvents during the electrode fabrication process. A further study indicated that lipid membrane is capable of altering the reaction dominance between ubiquinone and riboflavin derivatives. Finally, it was discovered that mitochondria release riboflavin derivatives under inhibition and it is believed that this alteration of the micro-environment was the cause of the change in mitochondrial electrochemistry when mitochondria were inhibited.
Normalization of deviance in mining engineering
Creators: name: Mitchell, Trent Russell
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: Compensation
Ethics
Mining Engineering
Normalization of Deviance
Risk Tolerance

description: Normalization of deviance has been thoroughly studied and proven to have a dramatic impact on the medical industry, particularly in the field of anesthesiology, and for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Few such studies have been conducted in the mining industry. This research was designed to show whether normalization of deviance is occurring within the subculture of mining engineers. This research project was based on a cross-sectional surveillance of a group of mining engineers and consultants belonging to the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).  There were three hypotheses for this research: 1) there is a correlation between ethics, compensation, risk tolerance, and normalization of deviance; 2) there are either positive or negative associations between each of the independent variablesâ€"ethics, compensation, and risk toleranceâ€"to the dependent variableâ€"normalization of deviance; 3) the data would make it possible to predict normalization of deviance among mining engineers. All three hypotheses were proven true in this study. This research is important because it shows that normalization of deviance exists among mining engineers.
[Wald]
Creators: name: Lüscher, R.
Publisher: name: Photographisch. Atelier R. Lüscher
Year: 1900
Subjects: Kanton Zürich

description: Blick auf das Dorf Wald, auf der rechten Bildhälfte ist der Bahnhof zu erkennen
description: Photographisch. Atelier R. Lüscher
description: Fotograf/in kann nicht näher identifiziert werden
description: Stempel verso: "PHOTOGRAPHISCH. ATELIER / R. LÜSCHER / WALD"
title: Preaspiration in Sienese Italian & Its Interaction with Stress in /VC:/ Sequences
Creators: name: Stevens, Mary
name: Hajek, John
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 400

description: This paper reports some initial results from our investigation into effects of stress in /VC:/ sequences in Sienese Italian. Our spontaneous speech data show preaspiration in /VC:/ sequences, not previously reported for any variety of Italian. We investigate preaspiration in /VC:/ sequences, and more specifically whether it should be considered a correlate of stress in Sienese Italian, as has been suggested for other languages. In addition we investigate how preaspiration interacts with vowel type, and vowel and consonant duration. We then seek to explain the patterns uncovered.
title: How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian
Creators: name: Stevens, Mary
name: Hajek, John
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 400

description: We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar process of sonorant devoicing before voiceless stops is often reported to occur, eg. Icelandic /vitt/ [viht] "breadth’ and /lampi/ [lam8pI] 'lamp' (Hansson, 2001:157). Given that voiceless geminate stops are also frequently preaspirated in Sienese Italian, in this pilot study we investigate whether devoicing of sonorants might also occur, given the cooccurrence of the two phenomena in other preaspirating languages. Our preliminary investigation of /lt/ sequences in spontaneous speech (6 speakers) shows that sonorant devoicing is very frequent, occurring in 85% of all tokens analysed. We provide specific details of its frequency according to speaker, and context, as well as information about its acoustic characteristics.
Maladera modestula
Creators: name: Fabrizi, Silvia
name: Liu, Wan-Gang
name: Bai, Ming
name: Yang, Xing-Ke
name: Ahrens, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melolonthidae
Maladera
Maladera modestula

description: Maladera modestula (Brenske, 1902) group
Key to species of the Maladera modestula (Brenske, 1902) group occurring in China (³³):
1 Body large (> 8.5 mm). Parameres distinctly shorter than phallobase................ Maladera rufotestacea (Moser, 1915)
1’ Body smaller (<8.0 mm). Parameres distinctly longer than phallobase........................................... 2
2 Anterior margin of labroclypeus moderately reflexed......................................................... 3
2’ Anterior margin of labroclypeus stongly reflexed............................................................ 4
3 Parameres long, distinctly longer than phallobase. Basal lobe of left paramere long, exceeding half of paramere..................................................................... Maladera jinghongensis Ahrens, Fabrizi & Liu, sp. n.
3’ Parameres distinctly shorter than phallobase. Basal lobe of left paramere very short or absent, not exceeding basal quarter of paramere.................................................................. Maladera taiwana Nomura, 1974
4 Filiform appendages, including basal lobe, longer (Fig. 34B)...................... Maladera modestula (Brenske, 1902)
4’ Filiform appendages, including basal lobe, shorter (Fig. 34F)............................ Maladera vethi (Moser, 1916)
description: Published as part of Fabrizi, Silvia, Liu, Wan-Gang, Bai, Ming, Yang, Xing-Ke & Ahrens, Dirk, 2021, A monograph of the genus Maladera Mulsant & Rey, 1871 of China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini), pp. 1-400 in Zootaxa 4922 (1) on page 154, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4496316
title: Comparing voiced and voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian: what role does preaspiration play?
Creators: name: Stevens, Mary
name: Hajek, John
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 450

description: This paper compares the acoustic phonetic appearance of voiced & voiceless geminate stops in Sienese Italian. In our spontaneous speech data voiceless geminate stops are frequently preaspirated, which is an extremely rare phenomenon cross-linguistically. Preaspiration of voiceless stops has been associated in other languages with devoicing of voiced stops. We compare the acoustic appearance & duration of voiceless /VC:/ sequences (with & without preaspiration) with voiced /VC:/ sequences in our language. Results indicate that long voiced stops in Sienese Italian are often partially devoiced - a phenomenon that has not been reported previously for any variety of Italian. We suggest that preaspiration & devoicing are likely related, & attempt to provide an articulatory explanation as to why they occur.
Wald
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1893
Subjects: Kanton Zürich

description: Anonyme/r Fotograf/in
description: Bildtitel gemäss handschriftlichem Vermerk auf der Rückseite des Kartons
description: Datierung anhand Bildinhalt (Reformierte Kirche Wald: Turmaufbau mit Spitzhelm im Jahre 1893)
description: Auf der Rückseite des Kartons handschriftliche Notiz mit schwarzer Tinte: "Da 3094"
description: Identifikation einer der verschiedenen Firmen Künzli nicht möglich
description: Aus dem Archiv der Firmen Künzli, Zürich (1883-1966, wechselnde Geschäftsnamen) Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv
title: A preliminary investigation of some acoustic characteristics of ejectives in Waima’a: VOT and closure duration
Creators: name: Stevens, Mary
name: Hajek, John
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 400

description: Waima’a is a little known language spoken in East Timor. From a typological perspective, its stop system is unusual for an Austronesian language: it has a fourway stop system which includes a set of voiceless ejectives. In this paper, we report on the results of our first experimental investigation of Waima’a, in which ejectives and pulmonic voiceless aspirated and unaspirated stops are compared. After first presenting some qualitative observations about ejectives, we examine voice onset time (VOT) duration, closure duration and overall duration i.e. closure + VOT. We then turn to a cross-linguistic comparison, looking in particular at the behaviour of ejectives relative to other voiceless stop types, and at possible place of articulation dependencies concerning VOT and closure duration.
title: Tonal Activity in Kara, an Austronesian language spoken in New Britain
Creators: name: Hajek, John
name: Stevens, Mary
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 400

description: This paper presents the results of a small phonetic investigation of tonal activity in Kara, a little-known Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Sketchy reports of some kind of tonal contrast in this language surfaced in the 1960s and 1970s, only to disappear in later published references to the language. Our auditory and acoustic investigations confirm the existence of contrastive tone in Kara. Native speaker intuitions also support such a conclusion. At least two tonemes (high and low) are identified. A third tone level (mid) is also noted but appears to be a variant of the low toneme.
Apparent spot areas in millionths of the solar disk Ap 1970; Scheinbare Flecken-Flächen in Millionsteln der Sonnenscheibe Ap 1970, erhoben von Osservatorio Astrofisico Catania.
Tabellenblatt (unnum.) mit Daten, eingetragen unter Max Waldmeier, Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich
Creators: name: Eidgenössische Sternwarte in Zürich (ETH Zürich bzw. vor 1911 Polytechnikum)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1970

description: Handschriftlich ausgefüllte Tabelle (Vordruck), verwendet für tägliche Werte.
Von unbekannter Hand geführt und als unnum. Blatt ins Jahresregister 1970 eingeordnet, vorgefunden 2019 als zweitletztes Blatt
description: ETH-Bibliothek
Wald
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1893
Subjects: Kanton Zürich

description: Anonyme/r Fotograf/in
description: Bildtitel gemäss handschriftlichem Vermerk auf der Rückseite des Kartons
description: Datierung anhand Bildinhalt (Reformierte Kirche Wald: Turmaufbau mit Spitzhelm im Jahre 1893)
description: Auf der Rückseite des Kartons handschriftliche Notizen mit schwarzer Tinte: "Da 3060 a" und "Die Berge im Hintergrund müssen ganz deutlich merken [?]"
description: Identifikation einer der verschiedenen Firmen Künzli nicht möglich
description: Aus dem Archiv der Firmen Künzli, Zürich (1883-1966, wechselnde Geschäftsnamen) Exemplar der Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv