cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stimuler et pérenniser les investissements des jeunes agri-entrepreneurs - Outil de planification stratégique
Creators: name: Eiselen, Barbara
name: Fiedler, Yannick
Publisher: name: FAO and HAFL
Year: 2020

description: La réalisation des deux premiers Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) – l’éradication de la pauvreté et de la faim d’ici 2030 – nécessite une mobilisation d’investissements considérable. Ces investissements, publics et privés, devront être complètement alignés sur les ODD pour contribuer pleinement au développement durable. Dans ce cadre, il convient d’accorder à la jeunesse une place de premier rang dans les efforts de promotion et de mobilisation de ces investissements pour trois raisons: le développement de la sécurité alimentaire; la promotion de la valeur ajoutée des denrées alimentaires; et enfin l’évolution de l’emploi et du bien-être économique. Le présent outil de planification stratégique permet de stimuler et pérenniser les investissements des jeunes agri-entrepreneurs à l’échelle d’un pays ou d’une région. Il appuie une analyse approfondie des conditions-cadre relatives à l’investissement par les jeunes, ainsi qu'une appropriation des résultats par les preneurs de décisions par la mise en route d’un processus participatif. Ce processus de planification stratégique se déroule en quatre étapes: 1. Identifier des priorités d’intervention (filières agro-alimentaires prometteuses; régions-cibles et catégories de jeunes ayant à la fois le potentiel de devenir des agri-entrepreneurs à succès et ayant le plus besoin d’appui); 2. Analyser la situation actuelle des conditions-cadre et services existants permettant aux jeunes agri-entrepreneurs de réaliser des investissements responsables et durables dans l’agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires ; 3. Elaborer une vision commune de la situation souhaitée pour les jeunes agri-entrepreneurs investissant dans les filières agro-alimentaires; et 4. Proposer des solutions d’amélioration concrètes pour favoriser des investissements durables et responsables par les jeunes agri-entrepreneurs. L'outil a été déployé en Tunisie en 2019-2020 et les leçons tirées de cette expérience sont partagées dans le document.
Des poissons pour aider les agriculteurs à sortir la tête de l’eau
Creators: name: Gebhard, Caroline
Publisher: name: ESH Médias Editions
Year: 2020
Subjects: pisciculture aquaculture

description: Un projet d’aquaculture est à l’étude dans le district de Morges. L’objectif est de permettre aux paysans de rentabiliser des locaux vides en élevant des poissons, afin de dégager une nouvelle source de revenu.
Qualität aus Patientenperspektive
Creators: name: Menzi, Luise
name: Egger, Annette
name: Scheel-Sailer, Anke
name: Sigrist, Thomas
name: Tobler, Stephan
name: Vontobel, Jan
name: Köhn, Stefanie
Publisher: name: EMH Swiss Medical Publishers
Year: 2023

description: PROMs Dank Patient Reported Outcome Measures erhält die Patientenperspektive in der Qualitätsbeurteilung von Gesundheitseinrichtungen und -angeboten ihren festen Platz. Gleichzeitig stellen diese Indikatoren Health Care Professionals, Direktionen und Public-Health-Organisationen vor neue Herausforderungen.
Heteropiidae Dendy 1892
Creators: name: Cavalcanti, Fernanda F.
name: Bastos, Nilma
name: Lanna, Emilio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Calcarea
Leucosolenida
Heteropiidae

description: Family Heteropiidae Dendy, 1892
“ Leucosolenida with syconoid or leuconoid organization. The choanoskeleton is composed of a proximal layer of subatrial triactines and a distinct distal layer of pseudosagittal triactines and/or pseudosagittal tetractines, often separated by an intermediate layer that is supported by several rows of triactines and/or tetractines. The atrial skeleton is well developed” (Borojevic et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Cavalcanti, Fernanda F., Bastos, Nilma & Lanna, Emilio, 2015, Two new species of the genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892 (Porifera, Calcarea), with comments on the distribution of V. sericata (Ridley, 1881) along the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean, pp. 476-490 in Zootaxa 3956 (4) on page 477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/241110
Vosmaeropsis Dendy 1892
Creators: name: Cavalcanti, Fernanda F.
name: Bastos, Nilma
name: Lanna, Emilio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Porifera
Calcarea
Leucosolenida
Heteropiidae
Vosmaeropsis

description: Genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892
“ Heteropiidae with sylleibid or leuconoid organization. The choanoskeleton is composed of proximal subatrial triactine spicules and an irregular layer of scattered triactines and tetractines” (Borojevic et al. 2002).
description: Published as part of Cavalcanti, Fernanda F., Bastos, Nilma & Lanna, Emilio, 2015, Two new species of the genus Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892 (Porifera, Calcarea), with comments on the distribution of V. sericata (Ridley, 1881) along the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean, pp. 476-490 in Zootaxa 3956 (4) on page 478, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/241110
A National Data Library: the Modular Approach
Creators: name: Goldacre, Ben
name: Bacon, Seb
name: Stokes, Pete
name: Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Data Platforms
Data Library
Data Governance
National Data Library

description: The UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge, initiated by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), sought visionary approaches to enhancing access to UK public sector datasets. Evaluated by an expert panel, this paper was recognised as a distinguished and successful response to the call, offering innovative insights for creating a National Data Library that benefits both the research community and the public good.

Previous attempts at delivering national data infrastructure have relied - unwisely - on moving all the data to a single box, and giving all delivery work to huge single teams managed within large single organisations. That model is bad for privacy, scalability, accountability, and delivery. Those projects have gone badly.

Here we set out a new model: a network of single function components, stitched together into a working data service by the National Data Library.

This model is better because it:

Follows best practice in delivery of large data and digital projects;

Ensures clarity, transparency, and accountability for each component and team;

Drives best use of existing tools and teams;

Leaves the best legacy for future work;

Ensures scalability;

Facilitates resilience;

Lets you pick the best team for each component.

This paper summarises: the context; the reasons why recent government data platforms have failed; and the best technical design of an NDL, including the components and the overarching network. It then sets out a series of organisational approaches to help government define the cultures and market incentives to drive success. It ends with a concrete proposal for a small project to illustrate this way of working.
Crowdfunding: Alternative Finanzierungsmethode mit hohem Aufwand
Creators: name: Stensrud, Kirsten Erik
name: Estermann, Beat
name: Tokarski, Kim Oliver
Year: 2014

description: Als alternative Finanzierungsmethode hat Crowdfunding in den letzten Jahren an Bekanntheit gewonnen. Eine qualitative Studie der Berner Fachhochschule beleuchtet die Chancen und Grenzen dieser Finanzierungsmethode.
Phalangogonia hawksi Smith 2003
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Phalangogonia
Phalangogonia hawksi

description: Phalangogonia hawksi Smith, 2003.
The holotype was previously the only known specimen of this species. An additional specimen was found at Parque Nacional Corcovado, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 15.xi.2012 (Matthias Seidel, Halle, Germany, personal communication).
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2021, Two New Species of Phalangogonia Burmeister, 1844 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), pp. 259-265 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 264, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.259, http://zenodo.org/record/4837141
Phalangogonia jamesonae Smith and Moron 2003
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Phalangogonia
Phalangogonia jamesonae

description: Phalangogonia jamesonae Smith and Morón, 2003.
Rivera-Gasper´ın et al. (2013) reported this species from Rancho Canaletas (18.977142°N, 96.786167°W), Paso del Macho, Veracruz, Mexico, which was a new state record. There is also a record (17.27402°N, 94.757527°W) near Jesús Carranza, Veracruz, Mexico (18.vii.2009) in iNaturalist: www.inaturalist.org/observations/33202228.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2021, Two New Species of Phalangogonia Burmeister, 1844 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), pp. 259-265 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 264, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.259, http://zenodo.org/record/4837141
Phalangogonia obesa Burmeister 1844
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew B. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Phalangogonia
Phalangogonia obesa

description: Phalangogonia obesa Burmeister, 1844.
A female specimen from JMSC and labeled “GUATEMALA, Izabal / Sierra Merendon, Caral / Finca Firmeza, 1100 m. / agusto 2000 Jose Monzon / y Victor O. Becker col.” represents the first specific locality data for Guatemala. This locality is somewhat disjunct from the rest of the known localities in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz, Mexico. More specimens from Guatemala will need to be studied to fully confirm the current concept for this species.
description: Published as part of Smith, Andrew B. T., 2021, Two New Species of Phalangogonia Burmeister, 1844 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), pp. 259-265 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 264, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.259, http://zenodo.org/record/4837141
Free improvisation: nod to the future, crystallization of the present or reminiscence of the past ?
Creators: name: Sudan, Raphaël
Year: 2021
Subjects: Improvisation
free improvisation
free jazz
intuitive music
undeterminacy in music
avant-garde
experimental music

description: Based on the fundamental question Is free improvisation a musical genre , this presentation, will investigate the problematic of the definition of Free Improvisation. Since its appearance in the beginning of the 1970s, free improvisation has worn different aspects and even names : Non-idiomatic improvisation, generative improvisation, free music, intuitive music... Some of those names incarnate either an alternative, a synonymous or a subgenre of the generic. Each concept and approach is bound to a specific geographical, cultural and temporal context. Every musical situation gives life to a certain music, which dies at the end of the performance until it is reborn in a new context. It seems impossible and useless to give free improvisation an absolute universal definition, because the musical output is not its only important parameter. Therefore, the use of standard musicological tools is unsufficient because as a collective creative activity, free improvisation's phenomenology is also related to social sciences. When free improvisation entered into the academy, the need to give it a clear definition was even more urgent, and more ambiguous at the same time. The post-68 revolutionnary urgency that once generated this music was gone, and it is legitimate to question wether academy polished its subversive underground characteristics, or if it kept its wilderness. When free improvisers define their activity, in articles, interviews or round tables, there is a significant difference that can be explained according to the context. Many improvisers prefer to consider free improvisation as an attitude rather than as a style ; which gives it a certain lattitude, but can also be considered as a lack of responsability by the performers. A closer look into those two distinct considerations will show that a transversal use of attitude and style can give a clearer and broader conceptualisation of what free improvisation can be.
Mit Nudging zu mehr Spenden auf Webseiten anregen. Können Soziale-Norm-Nudges die Bereitschaft für Onlinespenden auf Schweizer Webseiten von Nonprofitorganisationen erhöhen?
Creators: name: Harder, Deane
name: Keller, Lukas
Publisher: name: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Year: 2021

description: In der Schweiz wurden im Jahr 2017 rund 1,85 Mrd. CHF an Nonprofitorganisationen (NPO) gespendet. Der Spendenmarkt ist gesättigt und durch die wachsende Anzahl an Stiftungen und Vereinen wächst der Wettbewerb weiter. Die NPOs müssen innovativ bleiben und das Fundraising weiterentwickeln, um langfristig überleben zu können. Eine Möglichkeit sind Onlinespenden, um Kosten zu sparen und eine größere Reichweite gegenüber herkömmlichen Medien zu erzielen. Um das Potenzial von Onlinespenden zu nutzen, werden in dieser Studie Soziale-Norm-Nudges zur Erhöhung der Spendenbereitschaft und Konversion auf Webseiten von NPO untersucht. Eine User-Gruppe bekam einen Nudge eingeblendet, eine Kontrollgruppe nicht. Anhand von Messwebapplikationen wie Google Analytics und Hotjar wurde das unterschiedliche Verhalten der beiden Gruppen aufgezeichnet. Statistisch wurde kein Einfluss der Nudges auf die Spendenbereitschaft oder Konversion festgestellt. Jedoch zeigten Heatmaps, wie das Klickverhalten und die Mausbewegungen der Webseitenbesucher waren. Daraus lässt sich ableiten, dass es durchaus Potenzial für Weiterentwicklungen gibt.
Soziale Ungleichheit in alterspolitischen Wohnfragen
Creators: name: Pardini, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Berner Fachhochschule, Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2023

description: Viele Gemeinden bemühen sich, den unterschiedlichen Wohnbedürfnissen der älteren Bevölkerung mit vielfältigen Angeboten zu entsprechen. Um allen eine lebensphasengerechte Wohn- und Lebensqualität zu garantieren, benötigt es jedoch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der Situation vulnerabler Senior*innen.
Part I of a two-step mixed-methods approach in developing the Growth Talent Mindsets for Sports Coaches Intervention: The design and targeting of the intervention
Creators: name: Nilsen, Dag André
name: Sigurjonsson, Thorsteinn
name: Ivarsson, Andreas
name: Pensgaard, Anne Marte
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: The overall aim of this two-part study was to develop an intervention targeting sports coaches’ mindsets about their talent as a coach (coach talent mindset, C-TM) and their athletes’ talent (athlete talent mindset, A-TM), called the GrowTMindS Intervention. In this Part I, the intervention was developed drawing on a user-centered design approach and implemented in a coach education program in Norway. The study involved 31 coaches (5 women, 26 men) from 22 to 69 years of age, representing the sports of bandy, golf, ski sports, swimming, and volleyball. Using a mixed-methods approach, the quantitative results showed that the coaches increased their A-TM from pretest to post-test, while their C-TM, which was high at baseline, remained more challenging to target. The qualitative findings helped us understand how most coaches, through reflective processes, perceived the delivery of the intervention as sense-making and substantiated their commitment to growth talent mindsets. The qualitative findings also highlighted areas for refinement and tailoring of the intervention to target all coaches’ talent mindsets. Overall, the study was considered a necessary first step in developing an intervention showing significant and meaningful changes in coaches’ self-reported talent mindsets, consistent with the guidelines of wise psychological intervention and behavior change. This study focuses on the design and development of the GrowTMindS Intervention, which aims to develop sports coaches’ growth mindsets about their talent as a coach and their athletes’ talent. The quantitative results helped us evaluate the numeric increase in talent mindsets, while the qualitative findings provided useful insight for further optimization. This study suggests and elaborates on how a coach education program should be developed upon a sound theoretical framework of psychology, i.e., wise psychological intervention and mindset, to develop coach behavior. The study is especially relevant for those responsible for coach education programs or intervention research and others working toward coach and athlete development.
Team resilience in high-performance women’s football: Contextual stressors and opportunities for development
Creators: name: Szabadics, Adrienn
name: Morgan, Paul
name: Sarkar, Mustafa
name: McEwan, Desmond
name: McCormack, Fiona
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study was to conduct a pre-intervention team resilience needs assessment in the context of high-performance women’s football. The needs assessment included a review of the literature, focus group discussions, and input from an expert steering group. Following scoping meetings with senior personnel from the National Governing Body, teams in the top two tiers of a professional women’s football league and within the academy structure were contacted. Five focus groups made up of football players were conducted. Altogether, 27 participants (Mage = 23.96, SD = 4.49) took part. The focus groups were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis from a critical realist standpoint. The study identified the contextual stressors that high-performance women’s football teams encounter (i.e., organizational stressors arising from a newly professionalized environment and on-pitch stressors arising from low social resources), effective team resilience practices currently employed by group members (i.e., establishing a strong foundation for high quality relationships; unity in managing pressure; and learning from setbacks to inform future preparation for adversity) and the perceived gaps for team resilience development (i.e., limited effectiveness and inconsistent use of deliberate pressure training; inadequate psycho-social resources; and lack of effective proactive group level strategies during pressure). The study highlighted the importance of a systematic needs assessment within an Intervention Mapping Framework prior to undertaking an intervention as several nuances to the specific context of high-performance women’s football were identified. With the intention of creating a context specific team resilience intervention, we sought the opinions of women’s football academies and professional teams, stakeholders, and practitioners as part of a needs assessment. The study identified the specific stressors they face, effective team resilience practices and some gaps for intervention development. Due to the high turnover of staff and players in this context, a continuous emphasis should be placed on the integration of new players to align with team values. Player leadership groups should be established based on empirical evidence/guidance and team members should be given specific leadership skills training. Sport psychology practitioners and coaches need to have greater collaboration amongst themselves so that workshop based off-pitch knowledge can be deepened through on-pitch simulation trainings.
Modèles d'affaires futurs
Creators: name: Gonin, Marc-André
name: Flühmann, Christoph Marco
Publisher: name: FRECEM
Year: 2020

description: En marge de l’initiative Forêt & bois 4.0, la Haute école spécialisée bernoise (BFH) a mis au point une procédure de soutien aux entreprises du secteur bois pour le développement de leurs modèles d’affaires dans le contexte de la transition numérique.
Use of Microencapsulated Phase Change Materials in Bitumen to Mitigate the Thermal Distresses in Asphalt Pavements
Creators: name: Kakar, Muhammad Rafiq Khan
name: Refaa, Zakariaa
name: Worlitschek, Jörg
name: Stamatiou, Anastasia
name: Partl, Manfred N.
name: Bueno, Moises
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2018

description: In asphalt pavements, the temperature variations due to extreme weather conditions are mainly responsible for thermal distresses. Cracking and rutting are the main types of damages in asphalt mixtures from extreme low and high temperatures. Recently, in building construction, phase change materials (PCM) are efficiently used as a source of thermal energy preservation by storing thermal energy in a latent form. The use of microencapsulated phase change material (μPCM) enables thermal energy storage and release inside bitumen. The PCM’s crystallization/melting temperature define the temperature at which thermal energy can be stored/released. In this study, a low temperature μPCM was incorporated in bitumen and its rheological and thermal properties were evaluated using dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) respectively. It was observed that upon cooling, the addition of 25% μPCM by mass of bitumen crystallizes and releases the stored thermal energy. The surface temperature variations captured by means of thermal infrared camera illustrate that compared to controlled specimen, in modified bitumen a delaying effect of cooling was found during the crystallization temperature of μPCM.
An intensified training schedule in recreational male runners is associated with increases in erythropoiesis and inflammation and a net reduction in plasma hepcidin
Creators: name: Moretti, Diego
name: Mettler, Samuel
name: Zeder, Christophe
name: Lundby, Carsten
name: Geurts-Moetspot, Anneke
name: Monnard, Arnaud
name: Swinkels, Dorine W.
name: Brittenham, Gary M.
name: Zimmermann, Michael B.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Subjects: Leistungssport physical exercise erythropoiesis hepcidin inflammation iron absorption physical exercise

description: Abstract Background: Iron status is a determinant of physical performance, but training may induce both low-grade inflammation and erythropoiesis, exerting opposing influences on hepcidin and iron metabolism. To our knowledge, the combined effects on iron absorption and utilization during training have not been examined directly in humans. Objective: We hypothesized that 3 wk of exercise training in recreational male runners would decrease oral iron bioavailability by increasing inflammation and hepcidin concentrations. Design: In a prospective intervention, nonanemic, iron-sufficient men (n = 10) completed a 34-d study consisting of a 16-d control phase and a 22-d exercise-training phase of 8 km running every second day. We measured oral iron absorption and erythroid iron utilization using oral 57Fe and intravenous 58Fe tracers administered before and during training. We measured hemoglobin mass (mHb) and total red blood cell volume (RCV) by carbon monoxide rebreathing. Iron status, interleukin-6 (IL-6), plasma hepcidin (PHep), erythropoietin (EPO), and erythroferrone were measured before, during, and after training. Results: Exercise training induced inflammation, as indicated by an increased mean ± SD IL-6 (0.87 ± 1.1 to 5.17 ± 2.2 pg/mL; P < 0.01), while also enhancing erythropoiesis, as indicated by an increase in mean EPO (0.66 ± 0.42 to 2.06 ± 1.6 IU/L), mHb (10.5 ± 1.6 to 10.8 ± 1.8 g/kg body weight), and mean RCV (30.7 ± 4.3 to 32.7 ± 4.6 mL/kg) (all P < 0.05). Training tended to increase geometric mean iron absorption by 24% (P = 0.083), consistent with a decreased mean ± SD PHep (7.25 ± 2.14 to 5.17 ± 2.24 nM; P < 0.05). The increase in mHb and erythroid iron utilization were associated with the decrease in PHep (P < 0.05). Compartmental modeling indicated that iron for the increase in mHb was obtained predominantly (>80%) from stores mobilization rather than from increased dietary absorption. Conclusions: In iron-sufficient men, mild intensification of exercise intensity increases both inflammation and erythropoiesis. The net effect is to decrease hepcidin concentrations and to tend to increase oral iron absorption. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01730521.
Milchproduktion mit Wiesenfutter als alleinige Futtergrundlage: Futterbau- und Herdenmanagement eines Vollweidebetriebes
Creators: name: Ineichen, Simon
name: Thomet, P.
Publisher: name: Jordi AG
Year: 2014

description: Dieser Beitrag soll illustrieren, wie der Vollweidebetrieb von Markus und Lucia Bühlmann aus Ro-thenburg bei Luzern mit rund 60 Kühen auf 32 ha Land inklusive eigener Aufzucht jährlich über 300 t Milch produziert und Durchschnittsleistungen von 6‘000 kg ECM/Kuh und Laktation erreicht. Eine Ergänzungsfütterung findet einzig in der Wintersaison bzw. im Frühling zu Beginn der Lakta-tion und im Herbst statt. Jedoch ausschliesslich mit konserviertem Wiesenfutter. Auf die Gabe von Kraftfutter und Mais wird vollständig verzichtet. Anhand dieses einzigartigen Betriebes kann aufgezeigt werden, welche Möglichkeiten im Rahmen einer graslandbasierten Milchproduktion im Schweizer Mittelland bestehen. Im Folgenden wird dokumentiert, wie über die Kopplung des Laktations- und des Graswachstumsverlaufs, einem kon-sequenten Weidemanagement und der Züchtung einer systemangepassten Kuh eine wirtschaftlich hohe Betriebsleistung erreicht werden kann.
Dry granular avalanche impact force on a rigid wall of semi-infinite height
Creators: name: Albaba, Adel
name: Lambert, Stéphane
name: Faug, Thierry
name: Radjai, F.
name: Nezamabadi, S.
name: Luding, S.
name: Delenne, J.Y.
Publisher: name: EDP Science
Year: 2017

description: The present paper tackles the problem of the impact of a dry granular avalanche-flow on a rigid wallof semi-infinite height. An analytic force model based on depth-averaged shock theory is proposed to describethe flow-wall interaction and the resulting impact force on the wall. Provided that the analytic force modelis fed with the incoming flow conditions regarding thickness, velocity and density, all averaged over a certaindistance downstream of the undisturbed incoming flow, it reproduces very well the time history of the impactforce actually measured by detailed discrete element simulations, for a wide range of slope angles.
Wer hat das schönste Paradigma? Interpretationsforschung unter der Lupe
Creators: name: Bärtsch, Manuel
Year: 2016

description: Interpretationsforschung gehört zu den thematisch sehr breiten Forschungsfeldern, Orientierung ist da selbst für Insider nicht immer leicht. Dieser Artikel umreisst das Gebiet, indem er einige emblematische Ansätze der Forschung zur Klaviermusik vorstellt. Die scharfe Trennung dieser Vorgehensweisen beruht aber meist auf paradigmatischen Setzungen, deren Sinngehalt hinterfragt werden kann. Der Autor schlägt ein aus diesen Ansätzen gespeistes hybrides Orientierungsmodell vor; anhand einer Analyse zweier Interpretationen der „Arietta“ aus Beethovens op. 111 soll das Potential einer solchen Sichtweise abgeschätzt werden.
A comparison of polymineral and K-feldspar post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence ages of loess from Franconia, southern Germany
Creators: name: Rahimzadeh, Neda
name: Sprafke, Tobias
name: Thiel, Christine
name: Terhorst, Birgit
name: Frechen, Manfred
Publisher: name: Deutsche Quartaervereinigung
Year: 2021

description: Loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) are essential records for reconstructing Quaternary paleoenvironments. No previous study has provided numerical chronologies of loess in Lower Franconia, southern Germany; their chronostratigraphic assumptions have relied mainly on German (pedo)stratigraphic schemes. In this study, we provide for the first time a chronology for LPSs in Lower Franconia based on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating using quartz and a comparison of K-feldspar (63–100 µm) and the polymineral fraction (4–11 µm). Our results show that all obtained ages are in stratigraphic order, ranging from Holocene to late Pleistocene, and in general confirm the former stratigraphical interpretations. A good agreement of the obtained ages is observed between both feldspar grain size fractions; they also agree well with the quartz OSL ages up to ∼50 ka. However, a marked difference between the growth pattern of the dose response curves and consequently different saturation characteristics of fine and coarse grains is found. Even though in our samples the discrepancy in ages is not very significant, we suggest the use of coarse-grained K-feldspar whenever possible in order to not be confronted with unknowns such as the mineral composition of the polymineral fraction.
description: Löss-Paläoboden-Sequenzen sind wichtige Archive zur Rekonstruktion der quartären Umwelt. Bisher hat sich noch keine Arbeit mit der numerischen Chronologie mainfränkischer Lösse befasst; die bisherigen chronostratigraphischen Einordnungen haben ihren Ursprung in deutschen (pedo)stratigraphischen Schemata. In der vorliegenden Arbeit stellen wir erstmals eine auf optisch stimulierter Lumineszenz (OSL) basierende Chronologie für Löss-Paläoboden-Sequenzen in Mainfranken vor. Hierzu wurden Quarz und in vergleichender Weise sowohl K-Feldspat (63–100 µm) als auch die polymineralische Feinkornfraktion (4–11 µm) verwendet. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass alle gewonnenen Alter in stratigraphischer Reihenfolge sind, vom Holozän bis zum Spätpleistozän, und generell die früher angenommenen stratigraphischen Interpretationen stützen. Eine gute Altersübereinstimmung liegt für die beiden Feldspatfraktionen vor; die Alter stimmen weiterhin mit den Quarz-OSL-Altern bis 50 ka überein. Im Vergleich von Feldspat-Grobkorn und Feinkorn (polymineralische Fraktion) zeigt sich bei jedoch ein stark voneinander abweichendes Verhalten in den Wachstumsverläufen der Dose Response Curves und ein sich daraus ergebendes unterschiedliches Sättigungsverhalten. Auch wenn die Unterschiede für die hier vorliegenden Proben nicht übermäßig groß sind, so empfehlen wir, wenn immer möglich, die Verwendung von grobkörnigem K-Feldspat für die Datierung, um nicht mit möglichen Unbekannten, wie der Mineralzusammensetzung von polymineralischen Extrakten konfrontiert zu sein.
Communication aids for nursing staff, foreign-language patients and their relatives in paediatric care
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Beatrice
name: Drack, Murielle
name: Scheuermann, Arne
Year: 2018

description: Clear, comprehensible communication between medical experts and patients in their care is essential. Misunderstandings can cause a sense of insecurity and even incorrect action on the part of the patient. Therefore, foreign-language patients are a special challenge to nursing staff. This situation will become increasingly problematic as immigration rates rise. The aim of the initial project was to define guidelines for the type of communication aids needed by nursing staff in paediatrics. Such guidelines had to encompass the acceptability, comprehension and interpretation of the communication aid with the children. Research questions: • What aids can support communication between nursing staff and foreign-language paediatric patients? • What design parameters have to be considered when developing such aids so that they are accepted, understood and properly interpreted by children from different cultural backgrounds who have little or no understanding of the local language? Patients' needs were determined by means of two focus-group workshops. In workshop 1 (held with nurses), personal experiences were reported and methods and aids were discussed. Extant analog and digital tools were presented, and ideas for new aids were developed. In workshop 2, children with an immigrant background offered their interpretion of the visual depictions along with their preferences, and described procedures in visual terms. The evaluation of workshop 1 allowed conclusions to be made about the type of communication aids required by nursing staff. The results of workshop 2 offered recommendations for the design of such aids. Based on these findings, a follow-up project which is currently taking place, is focused on the development of these corresponding communication aids.
The effects of the Mindfulness, Acceptance and Self-Compassion in Sport (MASCS) program on the sport anxiety and self-compassion of elite tennis players
Creators: name: Terzioğlu, Zeynep Ayça
name: Çakir-Çelebi, Gülfem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examined the effect of a twelve-session Mindfulness, Acceptance and Self-Compassion in Sport (MASCS) program on self-compassion and somatic anxiety, worry and concentration disruption sub-dimensions of sport anxiety in elite tennis players. A randomized control group pretest and post-test experimental design was used in this study. The study involved sixteen elite tennis players attending a tennis club. Their ages ranged between 12 and 18 years, with a mean age of 14.25. The Sport Anxiety Scale-2 and the Self-Compassion Scale–Short Form were used as data collection instruments before and after the program. Elite tennis players in the experimental group participated in the MASCS program once a week for twelve weeks. The results showed that after the MASCS program, there was an increase in self-compassion and a decrease in somatic anxiety, worry, and concentration disruption sub-dimensions of sport anxiety in the experimental group. There were also significant differences between self-compassion and the somatic anxiety and concentration disruption sub-dimensions of sport anxiety post-test scores of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group. These findings suggest that elite athletes can improve their ability to cope with anxiety in sports by practicing mindfulness and self-compassion exercises. A twelve-session Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Self-Compassion in Sport program decreased somatic anxiety and concentration disruption in elite tennis players. The Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Self-Compassion in Sports program increased self-compassion in elite tennis players. The MASCS program has great potential in decreasing somatic anxiety and concentration disruption dimensions of sport anxiety and increasing self-compassion in elite athletes.More exercises focusing on cognitive processes can be included in the program to increase the program’s effectiveness on the worry sub-dimension of sport anxiety. The MASCS program has great potential in decreasing somatic anxiety and concentration disruption dimensions of sport anxiety and increasing self-compassion in elite athletes. More exercises focusing on cognitive processes can be included in the program to increase the program’s effectiveness on the worry sub-dimension of sport anxiety.
Distributed Ledgers in der Energieversorgung. Technologien und Geschäftsmodelle
Creators: name: Frecè, Jan Thomas
name: Pfister, Pascal
Publisher: name: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Year: 2021

description: Distributed Ledgers werden seit ihrer Entstehung 2009 von vielen Seiten als Mittel zur grundlegenden Umgestaltung ganzer Branchen angepriesen. Während die Technologie sicherlich Potenzial bietet, diverse Steuerungs- und Abwicklungsprozesse zu revolutionieren, bedingt eine solche Umstellung einerseits fundiertes Wissen hinsichtlich der Rollen und Prozesse im entsprechenden Wirtschaftsumfeld sowie der technologischen Grundlagen von Distributed Ledgers, um dauerhaft Mehrwert zu schaffen. Dieses Buchkapitel zeigt am Beispiel der Energieversorgung auf, welche Faktoren für eine mehrwertgenerierende, sichere Implementierung der Ledger-Technologie berücksichtigt werden müssen: von technologischen Fragen bis zur Frage nach neuen Geschäftsmodellen und den damit verbundenen Risiken.
Lessons Learned: The Multifaceted Field of (Digital) Neighborhood Development
Creators: name: Renyi, Madeleine
name: Hegedüs, Anna
name: Schmitter, Paul
name: Berger, Fabian
name: Ballmer, Thomas
name: Maier, Edith
name: Kunze, Christophe
Publisher: name: Journal of Community Informatics
Year: 2022
Subjects: neighborhood development
technology implementation
lessons learned

description: In a cross-national project, 14 neighborhoods from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were accompanied on their way to digitally supported neighborhood work. This paper discusses general requirements, choosing a suitable digital tool, the implementation process as well as the challenges faced by the various stakeholders. The following factors have been found to play a major role in sustainable neighborhood work: good fit with overall development strategy, interplay between online neighborhood work and physical interactions, strong existing neighborhood management structures, strategic planning of digitalization activities, start-up funding for innovation activities, and above all, the presence of a committed person or team as well as interesting content to attract users. Depending on the neighborhood, self-managed and individualistic solutions are preferred to generic and/or commercial solutions. There is no ‘fit-for-all’ path to sustainable digitally supported neighborhoods.
Creation of the Swiss aquaculture coordination centre: Report on the methodology, strategy, and establishment of the legal structure
Creators: name: Janssens, Thomas
name: Luce, Jean-Baptiste
name: Tschudi, Fridolin
Publisher: name: Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen (BLV)
Year: 2023

description: Swiss aquaculture, while a small sector, has experienced rapid growth in recent years and is diversifying through new production methods. This growth presents challenges and uncertainties for producers and authorities along the value chain. A workshop organised at FSVO on 4 July 2018 was the starting point for getting a structure on track, supposed to help the aquaculture sector in Switzerland to structure and organize itself efficiently to prepare for the future challenges. The event provided an opportunity to gather initial ideas on what thematic areas a coordination centre should cover. The main conclusion was that the representatives of the various groups involved in aquaculture sometimes have very different requirements and interests. There were also differences within the different groups. However, certain tasks, such as the creation of an information platform, were considered important by the vast majority of those present. It was now clear that there was an interest and need for such a structure, but that defining the tasks and creating such a centre would not be easy. A working group made up of several players wishing to take the discussion further was therefore set up to define the steps needed to establish a coordination centre. A project proposal was sent to the FSVO. The FSVO financed a first study in 2019-20, culminating in a report published in 2021. The results of this report can be interpreted as a representative picture of the current situation of the aquaculture sector in Switzerland and of the needs of the sector. The high response rate to the survey and the subsequent discussions have shown that the stakeholder groups are sensitive to the issue and support the idea. As expected, there were still major differences of opinion between the actors about what the main tasks of the coordination body should be and who should finance what. The study highlighted the necessity of such a single point of contact to professionally structure and support the growth of the emerging sector. Therefore, the FSVO decided to support the creation of the Swiss aquaculture coordination centre further. This second project focused on the creation of the coordination centre itself. More specifically, the tasks have been • the precise definition of the goals of the coordination centre while considering the tasks that are already covered by the existing organisations • the creation of a website for the coordination centre providing a real value to the community with important general information on aquaculture and information on more specific topics • the search for independent funding to ensure the continuity for the future, in particular through the development of non-existing services • the creation of the legal structure and definition of the team members to support it
Accounting for Field-Scale Dry Deposition in Backward Lagrangian Stochastic Dispersion Modelling of NH3 Emissions
Creators: name: Häni, Christoph
name: Flechard, Christophe
name: Neftel, Albrecht
name: Sintermann, Jörg
name: Kupper, Thomas
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: backward Lagrangian stochastic model
atmospheric surface-layer
micrometeorological techniques
atmospheric ammonia
dry deposition
open-path measurements
differential optical absorption spectroscopy

description: A controlled ammonia (NH3) release experiment was performed at a grassland site. The aim was to quantify the effect of dry deposition between the source and the receptors (NH3 measurement locations) on emission rate estimates by means of inverse dispersion modelling. NH3 was released for three hours at a constant rate of Q = 6.29 mg s−1 from a grid of 36 orifices spread over an area of 250 m2. The increase in line-integrated NH3 concentration was measured with open-path optical miniDOAS devices at different locations downwind of the artificial source. Using a backward Lagrangian stochastic (bLS) dispersion model (bLSmodelR), the fraction of the modelled release rate to the emitted NH3 (Q bLS /Q ) was calculated from the measurements of the individual instruments. Q bLS /Q was found to be systematically lower than 1, on average between 0.69 and 0.91, depending on the location of the receptor. We hypothesized that NH3 dry deposition to grass and soil surfaces was the main factor responsible for the observed depletion of NH3 between source and receptor. A dry deposition algorithm based on a deposition velocity approach was included in the bLS modelling. Model deposition velocities were evaluated from a ‘big-leaf’ canopy resistance analogy. Canopy resistances (generally termed R c ) that provided Q bLS /Q = 1 ranged from 75 to 290 s m−1, showing that surface removal of NH3 by dry deposition can plausibly explain the original underestimation of Q bLS /Q . The inclusion of a dry deposition process in dispersion modelling is crucial for emission estimates, which are based on concentration measurements of depositing tracers downwind of homogeneous area sources or heterogeneously-distributed hot spots, such as, e.g., urine patches on pastures in the case of NH3.
Gypogyna amazonica Ruiz & Costa & Bustamante 2021, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
name: Costa, Erika L. S.
name: Bustamante, Abel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Gypogyna
Gypogyna amazonica

description: Gypogyna amazonica Ruiz, sp. nov.
Figs 45–46, 63
Type material. Holotype: ♂ from Rio Tarumã-Mirim, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, 05.VIII.1979, J. Adis (IBSP 67104).
Etymology. The epithet is to be treated as a Latin adjective and refers to the Amazon forest, where the holotype was found.
Diagnosis. Among the three species, G. amazonica sp. nov. is more similar to G. forceps. In these two, male chelicerae extend almost parallelly forward (they are more divergent in G. mexicana sp. nov.), and the distal pair of promarginal teeth (DPT) is located near the articulation of the fang (as in Fig. 51) (DPT is more basal in G. mexicana; Fig. 52). Also, the abdomen in these two species does not have several pairs of dorsal dark spots, as in G. mexicana (Figs 53–56). The male of G. amazonica can be distinguished from that of G. forceps by the clear abdomen, without the typical color pattern of G. forceps, and by having a narrower cymbium (middle portion of cymbium is much wider in G. forceps). The female of G. amazonica is unknown.
Description. Male (holotype). Total length: 4.60. Carapace orange, 2.27 long, 1.54 wide, 0.97 high; intestinal diverticula can be seen within cephalic area through translucent cuticle. Ocular quadrangle 1.15 long. Anterior eye row 1.24 wide and posterior 1.19 wide. Labium, endites and sternum clear. Chelicera orange, as described to G. forceps. Palp as described for the genus (Figs 45–46). Legs 4312, yellow. Length: I 3.99 (1.32 + 1.15 + 1.52), II 3.73 (1.09 + 1.49 + 1.15), III 4.20 (1.45 + 1.61 + 1.14), IV 4.46 (1.65 + 1.38 + 1.43). Abdomen entirely clear, only with a pair of light areas in the middle, almost giving the impression of a constriction, and a small dark spot over the anal tubercle. Spinnerets brown.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 63).
description: Published as part of Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., Costa, Erika L. S. & Bustamante, Abel A., 2021, Revision of Gypogyna Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 241-259 in Zootaxa 5057 (2) on pages 248-250, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5057.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5588132
Default or profit scoring credit systems? Evidence from European and US peer-to-peer lending markets
Creators: name: Lyócsa, Štefan
name: Vašaničová, Petra
name: Hadji Misheva, Branka
name: Vateha, Marko Dávid
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: Profit scoring
Credit scoring
Financial intermediation
P2P
Fintech

description: For the emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) lending markets to survive, they need to employ credit-risk management practices such that an investor base is profitable in the long run. Traditionally, credit-risk management relies on credit scoring that predicts loans’ probability of default. In this paper, we use a profit scoring approach that is based on modeling the annualized adjusted internal rate of returns of loans. To validate our profit scoring models with traditional credit scoring models, we use data from a European P2P lending market, Bondora, and also a random sample of loans from the Lending Club P2P lending market. We compare the out-of-sample accuracy and profitability of the credit and profit scoring models within several classes of statistical and machine learning models including the following: logistic and linear regression, lasso, ridge, elastic net, random forest, and neural networks. We found that our approach outperforms standard credit scoring models for Lending Club and Bondora loans. More specifically, as opposed to credit scoring models, returns across all loans are 24.0% (Bondora) and 15.5% (Lending Club) higher, whereas accuracy is 6.7% (Bondora) and 3.1% (Lending Club) higher for the proposed profit scoring models. Moreover, our results are not driven by manual selection as profit scoring models suggest investing in more loans. Finally, even if we consider data sampling bias, we found that the set of superior models consists almost exclusively of profit scoring models. Thus, our results contribute to the literature by suggesting a paradigm shift in modeling credit-risk in the P2P market to prefer profit as opposed to credit-risk scoring models.
Back to the Roots: Applying the Concept of Individual Human Values to Understand Family Firm Behavior
Creators: name: Ruf, Julian
name: Graffius, Michael
name: Wolff, Sven
name: Moog, Petra
name: Felden, Birgit
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2021
Subjects: family firm
socioemotional wealth
values
behavior

description: This study examines the influence of individual owner-manager values on the different dimensions of socioemotional wealth in family firms. We argue that values of owner-managers in family firms are one of the underlying motivators for socioemotional wealth behavior and used structural equation modeling to test the assumed connection. The results of our data set with 1,003 cases show, in accordance with Schwartz’s value dimensions, that social- and person-oriented values influence different dimensions of the FIBER scale. Our findings help understand the importance of individual values, advance socioemotional wealth research, and contribute to the understanding of family firm behavior.