cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: "A sleeping hermaphrodyte and two satyrs": The Description of Strawberry Hill (1774, 1784) and Horace Walpole’s Taste for Ambiguity
Creators: name: Plummer, Patricia
name: Kazmi, Syed
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 000

description: The article is about the context of our research project “Unveiling Orientalism: Ambiguity in British Discourse on Travel of the Long Eighteenth Century.” In it, we explore different facets of ambiguity and Orientalism in connection with Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. While the house and garden reflect Walpole’s taste for the Gothic and the Oriental, respectively, the ‘curiosities’ and ‘uniquities’ collected, categorised, described and displayed in Walpole’s Gothic folly, reflect the author’s taste for ambiguity.
description: Der Beitrag stellt den Forschungskontext des Teilprojektes „Unveiling Orientalism: Ambiguität im britischen Reisediskurs des langen 18. Jahrhunderts“ vor. Wir untersuchen unterschiedliche Facetten von Ambiguität und Orientalismus am Beispiel von Horace Walpoles Landsitz Strawberry Hill. Während das weitläufige Haus und der Garten von der Vorliebe des britischen Schriftstellers für Schauerromantik und Orient geprägt sind, zeugen die vielfältigen ,Kuriositäten‘ und ,Unikate‘, die Walpole sammelte, kategorisierte, beschrieb und zur Schau stellte, von seinem Sinn für Ambiguität.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 18
title: Lost in Migration?: Zur verschwindenden Ambiguität der Neuchristen aus Apulien im Venedig der Renaissance
Creators: name: Scheller, Benjamin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Der Artikel untersucht die Migration der Neuchristen aus Apulien in die adriatische Metropole Venedig während des 15. Jahrhunderts und versucht, die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen der geografischen Mobilität der Neuchristen aus Apulien in der Adria und ihrer Wahrnehmung als Personen und/oder Gruppe mit einer mehrdeutigen religiösen Identität und Zugehörigkeit aufzuzeigen.
description: This article investigates migrations of New Christians from Puglia into the Adriatic metropolis of Venice during the 15th century and strives to highlight the interrelations between the geographical mobility of the New Christians from Puglia in the Adriatic and their perception as persons and/or a group with an ambiguous religious identity and affiliation. The New Christians of Puglia were descendants of Jews who had been baptized at the end of the 13th century in the context of a mass conversion. They can be traced in the sources from that time on as Neofiti, Christiani Novi, Cristiani Novelli and, from the end of the 15th century, also as Marrani. Research on the migration of converted Jews and/or their descendants to Venice has so far focused on Sephardic Jews and Conversos, leaving the New Christians of Puglia mostly disregarded. Prosopographical research based on archival documentation from Puglia and Venice shows that there was a continuous presence of New Christians from Puglia in Venice during the first half of the 15th century and that their community there had a significant size. Yet, the degree to which the New Christians of Puglia were perceived as persons and/or a group with an ambiguous religious identity and affiliation in Venice was rather low. Designations that labelled them as religiously ambiguous can be found only rarely in the sources from Venice. Generally, their contemporaries there seem to have perceived their religious conduct and identity as unambiguously Christian.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 40
title: Über den Begriff „Ambiguität“: Zeynep Tüfekçioğlu im Gespräch mit Tanıl Bora
title: Ein Interview mit Tanıl Bora: Über die Rezeption von Thomas Bauer und das Konzept der Ambiguität in der heutigen Türkei
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 890

description: Dies ist ein Gespräch mit Tanıl Bora, dem türkischen Übersetzer von Thomas Bauers „Die Kultur der Ambiguität: Eine andere Geschichte des Islam.“ Das Interview enthält Fragen zum Übersetzungsprozess und zur Rezeption von Bauers Studie in der Türkei sowie zu den Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Konzepts der Ambiguität im türkischen Kontext
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 52
Sorry, I Don't Follow You: The Translation of Donald Trump's Tweets in Dutch Newspaper De Volkskrant
Creators: name: Berkum, Elise van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This research focuses on the extent of the visibility of the translator in the transferring of the information in the tweets of Donald Trump in De Volkskrant and the credibility of these news articles. The research question is: How does the visibility of the translation of Donald Trump’s tweets from 2016 to 2017 in Dutch newspapers impact the credibility of the news articles and the tweets?
Neofusicoccum arbuti : survey of a latent endophytic pathogen reveals widespread infection, broad host range, and a hidden threat.
Creators: name: McGregor, Rob Roy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Arbutus menziesii is an iconic tree species of the Pacific Northwest that has been in decline for the past 40 years. Neofusicoccum arbuti, a latent endophytic fungal pathogen in the Botryosphaeriaceae family, has been implicated as the primary cause of disease in A. menziesii, causing wart-like cankers on the stem and branches when the host is stressed. Neofusicoccum arbuti is suspected of causing the symptoms of decline in A. menziesii in Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, BC. Little is known about the host range of N. arbuti, which has only been reported on A. menziesii, Vaccinium corymbosum, and once from Cytisus scoparius. A survey of Lighthouse Park was carried out to determine the cause and prevalence of cankers on A. menziesii in Lighthouse Park and to identify additional hosts of N. arbuti. Neofusicoccum arbuti was the fungus most commonly associated with cankers on A. menziesii. The pathogen was isolated from 87% of cankers sampled. Cankers were prevalent throughout the park, with at least 75% of arbutus trees having one or more cankers at the majority of sites. Furthermore, the host range of N. arbuti is much broader than previously thought. Seven non-arbutus hosts, spanning four taxonomic orders were identified, including Amelanchier alnifolia, Cytisus scoparius, Gaultheria shallon, Ilex aquifolium, Rosa sp., Sorbus sitchensis, and Spiraea douglasii. These hosts could act as a reservoir providing additional inoculum or may be infected by spores produced on arbutus. The impact of these additional hosts is unknown.
title: Religious Belongings: The question of religious affiliation in the Hemshin settlements in the 19th century
Creators: name: Kıranoğlu, Gülbin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 890

description: Throughout the changing political context of the 19th century in the Ottoman Empire, the relationship of the Hemshinli people to Islam was not monolithic. More importantly, particular settlements in the Hemshin region demonstrated differing forms of adherence to Islam. This paper addresses the question of religious affiliation in the Hemshinli settlements in the 19th century. For this purpose, the differences among these settlements in the Hemshin region – Elevit, Karadere, Khodorchur, and Hopa – are explored in terms of their religious affiliation. The cases drawn from missionary reports, travel writings and official documents show that it is not possible to generalize about the religious belongings of the people in the Hemshin area in the 19th century.
description: In dem sich wandelnden politischen Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts im Osmanischen Reich war die Beziehung der Hemshinli zum Islamnicht monolithisch. Noch wichtiger ist, dass einzelne Siedlungen in der Hemshin-Region unterschiedliche Formen der Zugehörigkeit zum Islam aufwiesen. Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Frage der Religionszugehörigkeit in den Hemshin-li-Siedlungen im 19. Jahrhundert. Zu diesem Zweck werden die Unterschiede zwischen den Siedlungen in der Hemshin-Region – Elevit, Karadere, Khodorchur und Hopa– im Hinblick auf ihre religiöse Zugehörigkeit untersucht. Die Fallbeispiele aus Missionsberichten, Reiseschriften und offiziellen Dokumenten zeigen, dass es nicht möglich ist, die religiöse Zugehörigkeit der Menschen in der Hemshin-Region im 19. Jahrhundert zu verallgemeinern.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 60
title: Procesos participativos para la acción colectiva y la sostenibilidad
Creators: name: Ortiz-Riomalo, Juan Felipe
name: Castro-Salvador, Sofía
name: Koessler, Ann-Kathrin
name: Engel, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Participatory governance
subject: Social dilemmas
subject: Collective action
subject: Sustainability
subject: 300 - Social sciences
subject: 320 - Political science
subject: 330 - Economics
subject: 333.7 - Natural resources, energy and environment
subject: 350 - Public administration
subject: 43.00 - Umweltforschung, Umweltschutz: Allgemeines

description: Este documento de política pública resume aprendizajes y lecciones para la organización de procesos participativos en la gestión ambiental. Sus mensajes centrales se alimentan de revisiones de la literatura, así como de trabajos en campo y laboratorio con métodos cualitativos y experimentales para indagar sobre el potencial de procesos participativos para fortalecer la acción colectiva y alcanzar resultados sostenibles.
title: Lovely Renegades: Seduction and Conversion in Susanna Rowson’s 'Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom'
Creators: name: Furlanetto, Elena
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 890

description: The genre of the Barbary captivity narrative lingers on the convergence of conversion and seduction. The temptation to share the Algerian masters’ beds and religion represents a source of anxiety for the white American protagonists of eighteenth-century Barbary captivity literature and inspires dramatic gestures of resistance.
description: Das Genre der „Barbary captivity narrative“ verweilt an der Konvergenz von Konversion und Verführung. Die Versuchung, die Betten und die Religion der algerischen Herren zu teilen, war eine Quelle der Angst für die weißen amerikanischen Protagonisten der Barbary Gefangenschaftsliteratur des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts und inspirierte dramatische Gesten des Widerstands. Susanna Rowsons Theaterstück Slaves in Algiers (1794) bietet eine etwas andere Vorlage, da sie ein gynozentrisches Universum einführt, in dem zwei Figuren muslimischer Frauen davon träumen, zum Christentum zu konvertieren und christliche Männer zu heiraten. Diese beiden Frauen, Zoriana und Fetnah, und ihre (un)erwünschten Beziehungen mit christlichen Männern stellen bedeutende Orte der Ambiguität dar. Ihre Liebe zum Christentum und zu den Christen verkompliziert die strenge Gleichung zwischen Weißsein, Christentum und Eignung für die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft, und die Handlung schreibt sie in die amerikanischen Diskurse von „Liberty“ und „Pursuit of Happiness“ ein. Ihre Anwesenheit stürzt auch die Schablonen der Barbary Konversion in eine Krise, da Zoriana und Fetnah unangenehm in die verfügbaren Kategorien wie Konvertit, Ungläubiger oder Renegat passen.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 70
VIEW @ KU Leuven: Core Facility for Heritage Science and Digitisation Technologies in context of new approaches for the study of heritage materials
Creators: name: Watteeuw, Lieve
name: Vandermeulen, Bruno
name: De Pril, Ward
name: Hameeuw, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Heritage artefacts and collections are crossroads where historical context, materiality, content and technology join. In the field of heritage science, scholars deploy methodologies from the humanities and applied sciences to increase the understanding of heritage artefacts and collections through the use of advanced technology and infrastructure. Within VIEW, KU Leuven Core Facility for Heritage Science and Digitisation Technologies, several labs have joined their expertise and infrastructure. VIEW deploys digitisation technologies and techniques such as advanced imaging, high-end digitisation and data extraction to create rich datasets, provide new insights and facilitate cutting edge research of documentary heritage, heritage collections and heritage materials in a nondestructive way. The focused use of such infrastructure and technology represents an important accelerator in conservation science projects for documents on papyrus, parchment and paper.
title: Verborgene Theologie?: Ambiguität und Poetik im konfessionellen Zeitalter
Creators: name: Thelen, Julius
name: Wesche, Jörg
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 800

description: Dieser Artikel untersucht konfessionelle Implikationen in der barocken Poetik und konzentriert sich damit auf die verschiedenen Handbücher, die das Schreiben deutscher Dichtung lehren. In Ergänzung zu der wachsenden Forschung zu Ideen, die zwischen oder jenseits konfessioneller Paradigmen angesiedelt sind, untersuchen wir konfessionelle Ambiguität in zwei Fallstudien. Diese widmen sich Martin Opitz’ Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey (1624) und Sigmund von Birkens Teutscher Rede-bind- und Dicht-Kunst (1679).
description: This article examines confessional implications in baroque poetics, focusing on the various manuals teaching German poetry writing. Adding to the growing scholarship on ideas situated between or beyond confessional paradigms in Early Modern texts, we explore confessional ambiguity in two case studies – Martin Opitz’s Buch von der Deutschen Poeterey (1624) and Sigmund von Birken’s Teutsche Rede-bindund Dicht-Kunst (1679), originating in Silesia and Nuremberg respectively. Drawing on our research group’s model that links ambiguity to the perspectives of specific observers, we argue for a contextualizing method, allowing for an analysis of poetics in the distinct constellations in which they were written. Using this approach, we show how both texts question confessional concepts differently. While in Opitz’s writing, an unclear relationship to hermeticism is at stake, in Birken’s case, spiritualist implications call into question an orthodox understanding of poetry.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 82
title: Neue Deutungsmöglichkeiten: Die osmanische Manuskriptmalerei als Movens ambiger Bildkonzepte in der Gegenwartskunst der Türkei
Creators: name: Liedtjens, Eva
name: Genge, Gabriele
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 700

description: Der Artikel untersucht Ambiguitätsphänomene innerhalb verschiedener Diskursebenen. In einem ersten Schritt werden übergreifende Diskurse zur Manuskriptmalerei auf ihre ambige Struktur hin geprüft, anschließend werden die Fallbeispiele, also die künstlerischen Positionen, analysiert und kontextualisiert.
description: Departing from the exhibition Min-yatür 2.0 – Miniature in Contempo-rary Art, shown in winter 2020/21 at the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, this article discusses con-temporary artworks dealing with Ottoman manuscript paintings. The analysis focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity that arises through the processes of appropriation of this art form by contemporary artists from Turkey as well as the overlapping of diverse narrations. Three of the exhibited artworks, by CANAN, Halil Altındere and Cansu Çakarare discussed here with regard to their artistic approach to this tra-ditional art form. The analysis discusses these artworks against the backdrop of discourses built upon binary constructions, like Orient and Occident, tradition and modernity, the discourse on ‘Islamic Art’, and the ambiguous relation to the Ottoman past throughout the history of Turkey. Moreover, this article explores concepts of time and space used in Ottoman manuscript paintings and how these concepts are incorporated by the artists discussed. Contemporary and critical artistic approaches challenges constructed differences and open up an ambiguous space of resistance.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 92
title: Auf ins Unbekannte!: Denkfiguren und das Leben mit abstrakten Unterscheidungen
Creators: name: Buchenau, Barbara
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 000

description: In der Frühen Neuzeit und im Zeitalter der Revolutionen gab es in Nordamerika viele Menschen, die etablierte Verfahren der christlichen Figuraldeutung nutzten, um sich in ihrer eigenen unübersichtlichen Welt der (oftmals erzwungenen) Migration zu orientieren. Die Identifikation mit biblischen Figuren ergänzte programmatische Repertoires der Ungewissheit und der Unlesbarkeit. Das Scheitern des Verstehens verlor so seine Schrecken.
description: Why is it that colonial America is literally famous today for its array of bridge builders, brokers, go-betweens, middling men and women, but also well known for advancements of racializing divisions and stark forms of collective disempowerment? In the transitional era of early modernity, a large variety of people in North America engaged in processes of transculturation, translation and transfer that had developed from established forms of Christian figural interpretation. These transcultural figurations not only served the trade in new ideas, they also neutralized the trade of disenfranchized people. Gestures of identification and unanimous association accompanied epistemological exercises built on programmatic repertoires and scripts of uncertainty, unreadability, and failure of understanding. The resulting identitarian oscillation between various possibilities of belonging and of distinction soon became constitutive of textual and visual expressions of coloniality and nationality in North America. In this setting, it is especially three recurring figurations that document and inform the implementation of abstract distinctions of religion and race in the Americas: the Native American or African American Christian neophyte, the renegade, and the creole. These figures of thought traversed oceans, centuries, and geographical contexts rather effortlessly, thus establishing connections and continuities where there had been none. The ensuing figural interpretations thrive in an ontological ‘grey zone’ between two and often more than two cultural, religious, political, and social affiliations. They animate an affirmative epistemology of doubt and uncertainty that allowed for various democratizations of the colonial and early national social orders at a rather high price. These figurations normalized and empowered the male and propertied members of white settler communities, while destabilizing the power and the legal claims of indigenous and African people.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 58Geisteswissenschaften: Uneindeutigkeit und kultureller Wandel, p. 108
Turkey as a Mediator
Creators: name: Sofos, Spyros S.
Publisher: name: University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Global Transitions
Peace Processes
Turkey

description: Findings suggest that Turkey aspires to become an international player with the potential to influence and achieve positive outcomes. However, this aspiration is not matched by the results of Turkey’s engagement in this field, if adopting established definitions of mediation as an institutionalised process. The Global Transitions Series looks at fragmentations in the global order and how these impact peace and transition settlements. It explores why and how different third-party actors – state, intergovernmental, and non-governmental – intervene in conflicts, and how they see themselves contributing to reduction of conflict and risks of conflict relapse. The series critically assesses the growth and diversification of global and regional responses to contemporary conflicts. It also asks how local actors are navigating this multiplicity of mediators and peacebuilders and how this is shaping conflict outcomes and post-conflict governance.
Supplementary document for (S+C)-band polymer waveguide amplifier based on Tm3+ and Er3+ layer-doped core-‍shell nanoparticles - 6156550.pdf
Creators: name: Fu, Yuewu
name: Sun, Tonghe
name: Li, Jun
name: Tang, Ying
name: Yang, Yu
name: Tao, Siliang
name: Wang, Fei
name: Zhang, Da-Ming
name: Qin, Guanshi
name: Jia, Zhixu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Synthesis method, experimental data, calculation process, etc.
title: IMPACT - „Implications of conversing with intelligent machines in everyday life for people's beliefs about algorithms, their communication behavior and their relationship building“
Creators: name: IMPACT
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 300

description: In dem interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt IMPACT untersuchen Expert:innen aus den Bereichen Informatik, Psychologie, Ethik und Recht gemeinsam die Kommunikation mit künstlich intelligenten Dialogsystemen. Um die Forschungsfragen ganzheitlich zu beantworten, werden unterschiedliche Nutzergruppen analysiert. Die Studien erfolgen mit Kindern, Erwachsenen und Senior:innen, sodass der Umgang mit künstlicher Intelligenz über die gesamte Lebensspanne hinweg betrachtet wird.
Do common ectomycorrhizal networks play a role in dampening competition amongst conifer species?
Creators: name: Wallace, Cory
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Niche theory predicts that the coexistence of species is the result of dissimilar demands on the resources available in their ecosystem. This is contradictory, however, to the observation that species with similar needs and even individuals of the same species often live in close proximity to one another. Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) have been proposed as a possible explanation of this phenomenon via their ability to acquire and transfer nutrients between plants. To test this hypothesis, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa C. Lawson) seedlings were grown in autoclaved and non-autoclaved soil. Seeds were sown in a grid formation to keep density consistent and the plants were allowed to grow for 34 weeks. To assess resource allocation and the effects of competition, Gini coefficients were calculated for height, basal diameter, dry shoot biomass, and dry root biomass. Gini coefficients tended to be lower in non-autoclaved than autoclaved pots for three out of four variables measured for Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), but differences were not statistically significant. There appears to be some evidence that CMNs affect intraspecific competition among Douglas-fir.
Protocol for "AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Skill Transformation in the Industry"
Creators: name: Babashah, Leili
name: Barbosa, Carlos Eduardo
name: Lima, Yuri
name: Lyra, Alan
name: Salazar, Herbert
name: Argôlo, Matheus
name: de Almeida, Marcos Antonio
name: Souza, Jano Moreira de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Welcome to the Rapid Review Protocol repository for the article "AI in the Workplace: A Systematic Review of Skill Transformation in the Industry". The repository contains a detailed protocol and an organized spreadsheet with each selection process step.
Resistance Committees and Sudan's Political Future
Creators: name: Abbashar, Aida
Publisher: name: University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conflict Management
Peace Processes
Sudan

description: Resistance committees in Sudan have an extensive history of organising, and have come to the forefront of non-violent resistance movements since the coup of October 2021. Despite the variety of committee activities that support Sudanese society, many resistance committees have been excluded from Sudanese political processes. Since the start of the conflict in April 2023, resistance committees have played a central role in providing social protection and humanitarian relief provisions to citizens. Committees continue to prioritise and emphasize the need for long-term, meaningful, sustainable change across the country, and promote inclusion, economic prosperity, adequate social service provision, and peace. Resistance committees would benefit greatly from financial and capacity building support from a variety of relevant stakeholders. This support would allow them to carry out their activities effectively and make meaningful contributions to nation-building activities and political processes.
Roles of the fungal and oomycetes species in the decline of birch in South-central Kootenay area in British Columbia, Canada
Creators: name: Sarmiento, Carlo
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Increasing reports of large-scale birch dieback in British Columbia could have huge implications towards the health of future forest stands. Many studies suggest that birch decline is caused by stress from changing climatic conditions. However, recent studies in Europe have determined that fungal and water mold species can play a key role in the birch decline. In this study, a survey of logs, fruiting bodies, soils and roots associated with birch species was conducted around the South-central part of the Kootenay Area of British Columbia, Canada, to determine the role of fungal and water mold species in the current decline of birch. Pure fungal cultures were isolated from roots and small sections of wood from the sampled logs. Soils were tested for Phytophthora species using a baiting technique. DNA barcoding was used for species identification. Thirteen species with max identity < 95% and E-value of 0 were identified from the logs and fruiting bodies. No Phytophthora species were detected in soils. This is sifnificant since this group of pathogens is known worldwide to cause sever epidemics in forests (eg. Sudden Oak Death, Jarrah Dieback). This is the first timea thorough survey for Phytophthora species in association with birch decline was conducted in North America. From the species identified, Fomes fomentarius, Cryptosporella tomentella, Armillaria ostoyae and Cerrena unicolor are possible pathogens that could be contributing to birch decline thus, suggesting that pathogens could play a role in the current decline in British Columbia. However, they can also be secondary pathogens saprobes, and not be primary agents. There was not a singe pathogenic species associated with all declining birches, suggesting that other factors are involved in the decline. This work was important to eliminate potential pathogen species following a thorough survey.
AI Powered Smart Car
Creators: name: Pratik Funde, Pratham Uttekar, Prathamesh Tawale, Prof.Vivek More
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The growing accessibility of open-source hardware and embedded programming has enabled the development of lowcost autonomous robotic systems for education and research. This project presents the design and implementation of amultifunctional DIY self-driving car using the Arduino Uno microcontroller and ESP32 Bluetooth module, combined withvarious sensors and modules to achieve intelligent autonomous behavior. The vehicle integrates multiple navigation andinteraction features including line following, obstacle avoidance with pathfinding, GPS-based outdoor navigation, Bluetoothremote control, and offline voice command execution.At the hardware level, the system utilizes a 4-wheel drive chassis powered by a lithium-polymer (Li-Po) battery. Keycomponents include a US-100 ultrasonic distance sensor mounted on a servo motor for 180-degree scanning, an IR sensor arrayfor line tracking, a GPS module (NEO-6M) for real-time geolocation, and an L298N motor driver for motor control. The ESP32module handles Bluetooth-based mobile app control and interprets voice commands using a standalone offline recognitionmodule. The software is developed using the Arduino IDE and leverages libraries such as Servo.h, SoftwareSerial, TinyGPS++,and PID_v1 to manage various control mechanisms.The significance of this research lies in its integration of multiple autonomous and interactive features into a compact and costeffective robotic platform. Unlike previous DIY car models that were limited to basic obstacle avoidance or indoor use, thissystem offers outdoor mobility, modular control modes, and extended runtime. Furthermore, its educational value is substantial,making it a practical tool for robotics, automation, and embedded systems training. The modularity and scalability of the designalso allow for future upgrades such as machine learning, camera-based perception, IoT connectivity, and advanced pathplanning.
INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND MARITAL STATUS ON OCCUPATIONAL STRESS  AND JOB DISSATISFACTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN BAYELSA  STATE, NIGERIA
Creators: name: MICHAEL-OLOMU, Oyintonyo
name: Boroh, Stanley Ebitare
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Gender
Marital Status
Job Dissatisfaction
Occupation
Secondary School Teachers
Nigeria

description: This study examined how gender and marital status influences the occupational stress and job dissatisfaction among secondary school teachers in Bayelsa State of Nigeria The study was guided by two research questions and their corresponding null hypotheses which were tested at 0.05 level of statistical significance. The exposé-facto research design was adopted for the study with a sample of 382 teachers that were drawn using stratified and convenience sampling techniques. The two instruments used for data collection, Teachers Occupational Stress Assessment Scale (TOSAS) and Teachers' Dissatisfaction Scale (TDAS), were properly validity by experts. Reliability using Cronbach Alpha Method showed that the TOSAS had reliability coefficient of 0.744, while TDAS had a coefficient of 0.716. Data analysis was done using summated mean and standard deviation for the research questions, and two-way ANOVA for the hypotheses. Result showed that gender and marital status had significant influence on the stress level of teachers, as well as their perceived job dissatisfaction. On the basis of the result, it was recommended that teachers should be helped to map out strategies to deal with stressors, especially those arising from students' behavioural problems.
3D Seismic Attribute Analysis for Structure and Stratigraphy Identification in Maui field, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Creators: name: Alhakeem, Aamer
name: Almubarak Haidar
name: Liu, Kelly
name: Al-Bazzaz, Waleed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: The Kapuni group within the Taranaki Basin in New Zealand is a potential petroleum reservoir. The objective of the study includes building a sequential approach to identify different geological features and facies sequences within the stratigraphy. Moreover, the study aimed to visualize the targeted formations by interpreting and correlating the regional geological data, 3D seismic, and well data. The study follows a sequential workflow. First, seismic interpretation is performed targeting Kapuni group formations, mainly, the Mangahewa C-Sand and Kaimiro D-Sand. Synthetic seismogram and well tie are conducted for structural maps, horizon slices, isopach and velocity maps. Then, attribute analyses including RMS, dip and azimuth, and eigenstructure coherence are implemented to identify discontinuity, unconformity, lithology, and bright spots. Algorithmic analysis is written in Python programming to generate and overlay the attributes to be displayed in 3D view. Overlaying of all attributes in a single 3D view significantly strengthens the summation of the outputs and supports the seismic interpretation. The attribute measurements are utilized to characterize the subsurface structure and depositional system such as fluvial dominated channels, point bars, and nearshore sandstones. The study follows a consecutive workflow that leads to several attribute maps for identifying the potential prospects and characterizing the targeted reservoir by using the available seismic and well data.
Location and energy of electrons producing the radio bursts from AD Leo observed by FAST in December 2021
Creators: name: Zarka, Philippe
name: Louis, Corentin K.
name: Zhang, Jiale
name: Tian, Hui
name: Morin, Julien
name: Gao, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, we presented circularly polarized radio bursts detected by the radio telescope FAST from the flare star AD Leo on December 2-3, 2021, which were attributed to the electron cyclotron maser instability. In that context we use here two independent and complementary approaches\pz{, inspired from the study of auroral radio emissions from solar system planets,} to constrain for the first time the source location (magnetic shell, height) and the energy of the emitting electrons. These two approaches consist of (i) modeling the overall occurrence of the emission with the ExPRES code, and (ii) fitting the drift-rate of the fine structures observed by FAST. We obtain consistent results pointing at 20-30 keV electrons on magnetic shells with apex at 2-10 stellar radii. Emission polarization observed by FAST and magnetic topology of AD Leo favour X-mode emission from the southern magnetic hemisphere, from which we draw constraints on the plasma density scale height in the star's atmosphere. We demonstrate that sensitive radio observations with high time-frequency resolutions, coupled to modelling tools such as ExPRES, analytical calculations and stellar magnetic field measurements, now allow us to remotely probe stellar radio environments.} We provide elements of comparison with solar system radio bursts (Jovian and Solar), emit hypotheses about the driver of AD Leo's radio bursts and discuss the perspectives of future observations, in particular at very low frequencies (<100 MHz).
description: 21 pages, 14 figures
The Effect of AVID and Non-AVID Programs on College Readiness
Creators: name: Crawford, Corrin
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate).

description: The
purpose
of
this
study
was
to
examine
whether
or
not
the
Advancement
Via
Individual
Determination
(AVID)
program
more
adequately
prepared
high
school
students
for
college
and
career
by
comparing
the
High
School
Assessment
(HSA)
scores
of
AVID
and
non
-
AVID
student
groups.
The
measurement
tool
was
the
English
portion
of
the
Maryland
State
Department
of
Education’s
HSAs
.
There
was
a
significant
ly
higher
achievement
rate
among
all
students
in
the
AVID
group
.
However,
when
scores
were
compared
by
gender
,
there
was
not
a
significant
difference
in
the
scores
of
the
AVID
and
non
-
AVID
females,
while
there
was
a
significant
difference
in
the
scores
of
the
AVID
and
non
-
AVID
males.
Analysis
of
the
data
from
this
study
indicates
that
the
AVID
program
is
effective
at
enhancing
student
literacy
skills
and
preparing
students
for
meeting
graduation
requirements,
which
are
necessary
for
college
and
success
in
the
workforce.
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Creators: name: Verein Für Sozialgeschichte Des 20. Und 21. Jahrhunderts E.V.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 32
Pharmacognostical, phytochemical, Pharmacological Evaluation of Leaves of Plant Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Delile
Creators: name: Walde Deepti, Ansari Rashid, Dr.Kailaspati Chittam, Dr.Umesh P. Joshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Medicinal plants play a crucial role in the health of individuals and communities, largely due to their chemical constituents that elicit specific physiological effects on the human body. Traditional systems of medicine, deeply rooted in cultural practices, remain prevalent across the globe, highlighting the enduring significance of herbal remedies in healthcare. The use of plants as medicine is humanity's oldest healthcare practice, underpinning the universal reliance on phytotherapeutic approaches throughout history. Phytochemistry, the study of plant-derived chemicals, seeks to elucidate the structures and functions of secondary metabolites, many of which exhibit potent antioxidant properties. These antioxidants, primarily sourced from fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, are vital for protecting health by neutralizing free radicals. Helminthic infections, which areamong the most widespread infectious diseases globally, particularly threaten public health in developing countries, contributing to conditions like anemia and malnutrition. Anthelmintics, or anti-parasitic drugs, have been essential in managing these infections, highlighting the historical importance of antimicrobial therapies since their inception in the early twentieth century. This study focuses on Balanites aegyptiaca Del., a tree belonging to the Balanitaceae family, known for its wide availability and potential medicinal benefits. The investigation aims to evaluate the Pharmacognostic, phytochemical, and pharmacological properties of B. aegyptiaca leaf extracts. Methodologies employed include thin layer chromatography, spectral analysis, and invitro assessments of antioxidant, anthelmintic, antibacterial, and antifungal activities. The findings will contribute to the understanding of this plant’s therapeutic potential and underscore the importance of traditional medicinal practices in modern healthcare.
Genetically modified poplars in China
Creators: name: Song, Xiao
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: China has vast areas of poplar plantations serving as wind shelter, erosion control facility and industry resource. The intensive utilization of clonal forestry with its minimal genetic diversity has aroused serious pest infestation. To solve this problem and ultimately eliminate insect-caused losses, genetically engineered pest-resistant poplar has been introduced in a large scale planting. This made China the first and only country allowing genetically modified (GM) trees to be released into open environment. [Omitted Images of Populs spp.] However, the long life span of trees is likely to increase the chance in detecting transgene instability and increasing the danger to biodiversity, especially genetic diversity. It should be highlighted that the open-pollinated mating system of poplar would speed the gene dispersal of these GMO genotypes and issues related to potential environmental consequences and biosafety issues caused by gene flow and transgene escape need to be addressed in a comprehensive manner. In this article, I will analyze the condition of GM poplars released in China, review the major concerns and raise some proposals on how to eliminate the likelihood of transgene escape under the current situation. In my perspective, a prudent approach that considers the consequences of releasing GM trees, large-scale commercialization with a monitoring and risk assessing system is preferred, and corrections should not be hesitated to be made.
Looking into the faintEst WIth MUSE (LEWIS): Exploring the nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Hydra I cluster III. Untangling UDG 32 from the stripped filaments of NGC 3314A with multi-wavelength data
Creators: name: Hartke, J.
name: Iodice, E.
name: Gullieuszik, M.
name: Mirabile, M.
name: Buttitta, C.
name: Doll, G.
name: D'Ago, G.
name: de la Casa, C. C.
name: Hess, K. M.
name: Kotulla, R.
name: Poggianti, B.
name: Arnaboldi, M.
name: Cantiello, M.
name: Corsini, E. M.
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Forbes, D. A.
name: Hilker, M.
name: Mieske, S.
name: Rejkuba, M.
name: Spavone, M.
name: Spiniello, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: UDG 32 is an ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidate in the Hydra I cluster that was discovered in the extended network of stellar filaments of the jellyfish galaxy NGC 3314A. This galaxy is affected by ram pressure stripping and it is hypothesised that UDG 32 may have formed from its stripped material. In this paper, we address whether UDG 32 can be associated with the stripped material of NGC 3314A and constrain its formation scenario in relation to its environment. We use new integral-field spectroscopic data from the MUSE large programme `LEWIS' in conjunction with deep multi-band photometry to constrain the kinematics and stellar populations of UDG 32. The new MUSE data allow us to reveal that the stripped material from NGC 3314A, traced by emission lines such as H$α$, extends much further from its parent galaxy than previously known, completely overlapping with UDG 32 in projection, and with ram pressure induced star formation. We determine the line-of-sight velocity of UDG 32 ($v_{\rm LOS} = 3080\pm120$ km/s) and confirm that UDG 32 is part of the same kinematic structure as NGC 3314A, the Hydra I cluster south-east subgroup. By fitting the UV and optical spectral energy distribution, we constrain the stellar population properties of UDG 32. We determine its mass-weighted age to be $7.7^{+2.9}_{-2.8}$ Gyr and its metallicity to be [M/H] = $0.07^{+0.19}_{-0.32}$ dex. We confirm the presence of two globular clusters (GCs) in the MUSE field of view, bound to the Hydra I cluster rather than to UDG 32, thus part of the Hydra I intracluster GC population. The metal-rich and intermediate-age nature of UDG 32 points towards its formation from pre-enriched material in the south-east group of the Hydra I cluster that was liberated from a more massive galaxy via tidal or ram-pressure stripping, but we cannot establish a direct link to the ram-pressure stripped material from NGC 3314A.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, abstract abridged for arxiv submission
title: Das Vollzugsorgan des nationalsozialistischen Polizeisystems: Zur Geschichte der Gestapo ; Teil 2: Verfolgung, Terror, Vernichtung
Creators: name: Rübner, Hartmut
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: The “myth” of the Gestapo as an omniscient agency of terror has been largely refuted recently. The Gestapo was merely a bureaucratic institution equipped with far-reaching powers to take action. Its repressive effectiveness is often explained by the widespread willingness to denounce others in the Volksgemeinschaft. In fact, the apparatus functioned as a control, surveillance and persecution network, based on a division of tasks, in which many cooperating official bodies participated and which also made use of information from rival organisations such as the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The article, which describes the process of the Gestapo’s emergence and the independence of the Political Police in the polycratic system of rule under National Socialism, comes in three parts. The first part has been published in SGO 31 (2022). This second part deals with the ideological radicalisation and persecution practice of the State Police as it continued under the auspices of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt with the beginning of the war in 1939.
description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 32, p. 11
Supplementary document for Design of an achromatic zoom metalens doublet in the visible - 6157170.pdf
Creators: name: Hu, Tie
name: xing, feng
name: Wei, Yunxuan
name: Wang, Shengqi
name: Wei, Yuhong
name: Yang, Zhen Yu
name: Zhao, Ming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: 1 supplentary material
title: Das Vollzugsorgan des nationalsozialistischen Polizeisystems: Zur Geschichte der Gestapo ; Teil 3: Das Gestapo-Personal nach dem Krieg. Ahndung – Rehabilitation – Reintegration
Creators: name: Rübner, Hartmut
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: The verdict of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg classified the Gestapo as a “criminal organisation.” However, most of its surviving members were freed after their Allied internment or even got away without punishment. The full extent of their crimes only became visible in the course of subsequent proceedings. Concerning former Gestapo members, the persecution cycles varied in the three successor states to the Third Reich. After an initial phase in which the perpetrators were brought to justice on a large scale, the intensity of persecution declined rapidly from the beginning of the 1950s. It was not until the 1960s that the crimes of the Gestapo were systematically investigated and the perpetrators searched for more intensely. Meanwhile, many former Gestapo members had managed to integrate themselves, often with astonishing success, into the postwar societies. All in all, the crimes of the Gestapo were not adequately penalised.
description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 32, p. 57
title: Die Arbeit regulieren?: Debatten um die Bäckergesellen
Creators: name: Colombani, Anouk
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 900

description: Der Text von Anouk Colombani leitet ein wichtiges Dokument der Pariser Kommune ein. Es handelt sich um die Debatte der Kommunarden über die Abschaffung der Nachtarbeit der Bäckergesellen von Paris, die am 28. April 1871 stattfand (S. 141–147). Weit davon entfernt, ein bloß noch historisches Interesse zu wecken, zeigt die Debatte ein bis heute ungelöstes Problem der Arbeiterbewegung auf: Soll die Arbeiterbewegung zur Verbesserung ihrer Lage auf den Staat als Institution zurückgreifen oder soll sie ihre Ziele ausschließlich in der direkten Auseinandersetzung mit ihren Chefs und den Unternehmern durchsetzen?
description: Anouk Colombani introduces an important document elaborated by the Paris Commune, i. e. the communards’ debate about and decree on the abolition of night work for bakery workers which took place on 28 April 1871. Being of interest well beyond its historical importance, this debate reveals a problem of the labour movement unresolved until this very day: should the labour movement make use of the state as an institution in its struggle for the improvement of its conditions or should it solely rely on its own means, thus directly facing bosses and capitalists in their struggle?
description: Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2022, no. 32, p. 129