cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MPEC 2024-K134 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 May 30)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Comparing performance of construction projects delivered through different delivery methods
Creators: name: Rigotti, Enrico
name: Migliaccio, Giovanni C.
name: De Marco, Alberto
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: When new delivery methods are introduced in public procurement, it is customary to analyze and compare their performance against traditional methods. Many early studies compared performance of different project delivery systems, and often developed decision support tools to help owners follow a structured path in measuring performance and, consequently, choose the most appropriate project delivery method. However, the measurement process adopted by these studies was mostly specific to the dataset to be analyzed. Only rarely, it took into account differences deriving from varying project characteristics, and, therefore was not generalizable. Building upon these studies, this study proposes a general framework for comparing performance of projects delivered through different delivery methods. A discussion of how the framework could also be adapted to every industry sector is included. This work can help owners choose a set of metrics to evaluate and compare the performance of project portfolios delivered with more than one delivery method and different industry sector.
Tetramethylguanidine-Functionalized Novel and Recyclable Nanocatalyst for the Synthesis of Pyrazolophthalazinediones
Creators: name: Mirzaei, Zahra
name: Mamaghani, Manouchehr
name: Mehrdad, Mortaza
name: Tavakoli, Fateme
name: Mirza, Behroz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The synthesis of pyrazolophthalazinediones has so far been carried out using acid, base, and ionic liquids catalysts, which in some cases are not easily recyclable, but in this work, three-component synthesis was carried out using a recyclable nanocatalyst. Therefore, a novel protocol was devised for the synthesis of pyrazolophthalazinediones by the reaction of phthalhydrazide, aryl aldehyde and 3-(1H-indol-3-yl)-3-oxopropanenitrile derivatives or malononitrile in ethanol and in the presence of newly synthesized Kit-6@HAp@Si(CH2)3-1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidine (Kit-6@HAp@TMG) nanocatalyst with high to excellent yields (84–95%). The structure of the catalyst was determined using various analytical techniques, including FT-IR, XRD, SEM, EDX, Mapping, TEM, and TGA. The structures of the products were confirmed by spectroscopic analyses (13C NMR,1H NMR, and FT-IR) and elemental analyses. The present method offers advantages, such as simplicity, high yields, and shorter reaction time, Easy method for separating the catalyst from the synthesized product, avoiding high temperatures and using low-risk solvents, atom economy, and catalyst recyclability up to four times without significant decrease in catalytic activity, which aligns with green chemistry principles.
MRCP: experience on 0.3 tesla machine, with pre and post- op comparison
Creators: name: Shah, Ghulam Ghaus
name: Uzma Rasool
name: Gul, Seema
name: Khan, Mohammad Naeem
name: Raza, Syed Shahmeer
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The study was done to evaluate the cause/level of biliary tract obstruction in obstructive jaundice with pre and post operative comparison. The aim was to access the sensitivity of Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) performed on 0.3 Tesla MRI scanner.

MRCP is a special type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam that produces detailed images of the hepatobiliary and pancreatic systems, including the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, pancreas and pancreatic duct
title: Developing SDG indicators for the assessment of yield capacity, land use intensity and vulnerability of agricultural soils in Germany
Creators: name: Gerighausen, Heike
name: Säurich, Annelie
name: Möller, Markus
name: Hartmann, Knut
name: Jarmer, Thomas
name: Steininger, Michael
name: Wittstruck, Lucas
name: Zepp, Simone
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 630

description: ESA (The European Space Agency) Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, 23-27 May 2022
Detection and fault diagnosis of blood glucose level.pdf
Creators: name: E N, ganesh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90302 Biomechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Several works have proposed in the past alternative control strategies for regulating the blood glucose levels inside a healthy range for patients who suffer Type I Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM). All of them considered the availability of accurate measurements of glycaemia, generally recorded from invasive methods. However, a common problem of this methodology, since the control point of view, is the variable delay depending of the type of sample extraction, that is subcutaneous (SC) or intravenous (IV). In the last decade, intensive research has been focused on developing and testing non-invasive sensors of blood glucose levels. However, it has been reported some faulty or inaccurate measurements with them. Up to now, nobody has considered the use of tolerant control for this kind of systems. Hence, in this paper a fault diagnosis and identification (FDI) system based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is used to detect faulty behaviour from those non-invasive sensors. The FDI is integrated to the Predictive functional controller (PFC), turning it as fault tolerant control which supports the decision about the correct insulin dosage. Several simulation results are presented by employing a rigorous endocrine model which can emulate the interaction among glucose-insulin-glucagon
Supplementary document for Parallel Temporal Signal Processing Enabled by Polarization-multiplexed Programmable THz Metasurfaces - 6109443.pdf
Creators: name: Tahmasebi, Omid
name: Abdolali, Ali
name: Rajabalipanah, Hamid
name: Momeni, Ali
name: Fleury, Romain
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The detailed explanations of A) External Biasing, B) Differentiation transfer function, C) Fractional-order Differentiation, D) Potential applications.
A relative energy prediction methodology to support decision making in deep retrofits
Creators: name: Gultekin, Pelin
name: Anumba, Chimay J.
name: Asce, F.
name: Leicht, Robert M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Various energy prediction tools and methods are widely used in the design process to reduce the energy consumption of buildings. It is also well known that not only the system selection but also the synergies of these critical system selection decisions have impact on building energy performance. However, these decisions are incorporated into simulations without synergies are considered early in design process. These late evaluations cannot go beyond the projection of energy performance that is already selected for design. Thus, this is a need for a decision support system that stimulates the integration of decisions to achieve higher levels of energy efficiency compared to considering individual measures. In the light of these indicators, this paper presents a critical review of energy conservation measures (ECM) used in retrofit project case studies. The individual impact of changes to these critical ECMs is modeled in EnergyPlus and eQuest. A simplified energy prediction methodology fed by a process model, and the possible synergies are presented. The prediction range is tested in three case studies with different energy performance levels. The calculation algorithm relies on determining individual system performance relative to the ASHRAE standard. This relative system performance evaluation is also useful in defining the scope of system retrofit by comparing options with the standard baseline. It assists collaborative design teams to evaluate the individual impact of system decisions and overall energy saving prediction rate earlier in the design of a variety of deep retrofit projects.
A systematic progress model for construction method innovation
Creators: name: Qiu, Yike
name: Qiu, Xiaoya
name: Chen, Fangjian
name: Long, Zhiqin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The rapid development of Construction Method has posed a challenge for construction industry. This paper utilizes current Technological Innovation Method to accelerate the development of Construction Method. The Rapid Innovation Model is established based on the traditional technology innovation. This model contains four parts which can be divided into nine steps: definition of problem, fundamental reason analysis, selection of target technique, functional model analysis, scheme evaluation, experiment method, effect evaluation, summary and further application. Moreover, this paper introduces the process of SPIP Method which contains three phases: interpreting the problem according to basic reasons, seeking the answer by patent analysis and construction model and getting the solution by TRIZ and invention principle. In summary, the rapid innovation model meets both the speed and the quality requirements of Construction model development, pointing out a new way of developing construction model.
Retinal processing optimizes contrast coding
Creators: name: Jihyun Kim
name: Batard, Thomas
name: Bertalmío, Marcelo
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The properties of human contrast perception show a close correlation to the responses of retinal ganglion cells (Kelly, 1977; Lee, 1990), whose spatial processing properties (the isotropic center-surround processing) are shaped by the local feedback from interneurons (horizontal / amacrine cells) to the feed-forward cells (photoreceptor, and bipolar / ganglion cells). In the current work we investigated the computational structure of this retinal feedback system. We first identified a simple form of a system of differential equations that realizes the retinal feedback architecture and analyzed its steady-state behaviour to a static stimulus input. Three main conclusions may be derived from the results of the analysis. Firstly, the system of equations preserves the ability to predict some human contrast perception properties such as spatial-frequency dependent contrast sensitivity and brightness induction (contrast and assimilation) as other existing retinal models predict (Kim & Bertalmío, 2015; submitted; van Hateren, 2007; Wilson, 1997), thus showing a minimum computational structure to emulate human contrast perception engendered at the retina. Secondly, the steady-state response of the system can be obtained in a single pass by convolving the original input with a single kernel (a combined product of different extents of receptive-fields of the retinal cells) and therefore our work proposes a computationally efficient way of modeling retinal cell responses and the resulting human contrast perception. Finally, finding the steady state solution is mathematically equivalent to solving an optimization problem of maximizing the spatial contrast in the encoded signals while being faithful to the local light intensity of the input stimulus, which suggests interesting connections with efficient coding theories and computational neuroscience models like the Wilson-Cowan equations (see Bertalmío, 2014). Our results shed light on the computational goal of the feedback architecture in the retinal circuit: an optimized representation of the spatial contrast in the incoming light pattern.
In vitro antiviral activity of Chlorella vulgaris extracts and fractions against SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Astorga-González, Beatriz
name: Villalobos-Sánchez, Erendira
name: Gutiérrez-Ortega, Abel
name: Bravo-Madrigal, Jorge
name: Mateos-Díaz, Juan Carlos
name: Elizondo-Quiroga, Darwin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: SARS-CoV-2 has been reported as one of the deadliest viruses in history. Currently, few antiviral treatments are available to prevent SARS-CoV-2 progression to severe disease, especially in low-income countries. Natural products stand as a potential source of bioactive compounds. The antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 of Chlorella vulgaris has been demonstrated, however, the nature of its antiviral compounds remains unexplored. In this study, in vitro antiviral activity of extracts and fractions derived from C. vulgaris algae dry powder, was assessed. To determine the in vitro antiviral activity Vero cells were incubated with different concentrations of extracts and fractions against 100 TCID50/ml of SARS-CoV-2 variants. C. vulgaris ethanolic and diethyl ether extracts showed no cytopathic effect in 100% of the replicates. Fractions F11, F12, and F21, composed of high-weight polysaccharides and small proteins, partially protect against viral infection. These results suggest that polysaccharides, proteins, and pigments are related to antiviral activity.
Heavy metals in poultry meat, Khyber, Pakhtunkhwa
Creators: name: Khan, Mohammad Naeem
name: Raza, Syed Shahmeer
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Some heavy metals are radioactive or possess radioactive isotopes. Metals become radioactive when the atomic number crosses 82 or if they have unstable isotopes even at low atomic number. Autopsies performed on the victims of Hiroshima atomic blast in 1945 showed total absence of white blood cells. These were usually the victims who stayed alive for 2 to 3 days. Radiation toxicity is difficult to diagnose and treat, causes irreversible damage and mostly carcinogenic.
COMBAT TB explorer, a TB data exploration workbench
Creators: name: Heusden, Peter Van
name: Ziphozakhe Mashologu
name: Christoffels, Alan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, ranks as one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with WHO recording 9.6 people falling ill with 1.5 million deaths in 2014. This disease burden has arguably been matched with continued increase in genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data for M. tuberculosis as a result of NGS technologies. This continued expansion of data is exemplified by the growth of data repositories such as the tuberculosis database TBDB and the pathosystems resource integrated center PATRICBRC. Unfortunately, these resources only present pre-computed data and do not provide the computational toolkit for biomedical researchers to analyze their own data. We have created the COMBAT TB Explorer, a Galaxy-based environment for annotating and exploring M. tuberculosis sequence data. COMBAT TB Explorer currently combines a genomic variant calling pipeline with a web based tool for exploring the relationship between variants and known annotation and allows the user to perform geneset enrichment analysis.
A Galaxy interactive environment for exploring the Neo4j graph database
Creators: name: Thoba Lose
name: Heusden, Peter Van
name: Christoffels, Alan
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Storing the entities that describe a genome and its annotation involves modeling and storing thousands of entities that are interrelated in complex ways. Graph databases, a recently emerging form of non-relational (NoSQL) database, are seen as a natural fit to the huge network of relationships between these entities. The recently initiated COMBAT-TB project aims to provide a platform for researchers to analyze and visualize their own M.tuberculosis genome sequencing data, primarily through a web interface (the COMBAT TB Explorer). This integrated platform relies on Neo4J, a highly scalable graph database, for storing and querying annotation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. To expose the full power of the Neo4J database and its Cypher declarative query language, we implemented a Galaxy Interactive Environment (GIE) to explore a Neo4J database from within Galaxy and demonstrate its utility for data mining the COMBAT TB annotation database.
Engaging biologists with big data using interactive genome annotation
Creators: name: Marenco, Remi
name: Leung, Wilson
name: Elgin, Sarah C.R.
name: Goecks, Jeremy
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Project goal: combine two successful and long-running projects—the Genomics Education Partnership and the Galaxy Project—to create an integrated, Web-based, and scalable environment (G-OnRamp) that will enable biologists to utilize large genomic datasets for interactive annotation of any genome, an activity that can serve as an introduction and training for “big data” biomedical analyses.
Governmental dust control in construction industry : a study of policies
Creators: name: Wang, Shibei
name: Ye, Kunhui
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Construction dust emission has become an outstanding issue in the construction industry. As a key content of green construction, governments around the world have the responsibility of mitigating the adverse effects of dust emission on the environment. However, little has been known of how governments can sharpen their efforts in this area. Using literature survey and content analysis, this study aims to identify the main roles of governments in construction dust control. Considerable policies were collected for analysis. It is found that governments have three characters in the dust control, namely opinion leaders, policy makers and technical supporters. As policy makers, governmental measures for dust emission control span widely, which include technology, economy, management and organizational governance. The results shed some lights on the measurement of governmental policies in the dust control.
Multi-objective route planning and hierarchical grid model modeling code
Creators: name: Wu, Beibei
name: Chen, Zhanlong
name: Lu, Xiechun
name: Xiao, Binghe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370402
subject: Earth and space science informatics

description: For multi-objective route planning (C++) and hierarchical grid model modeling(Python).
Scanned probe imaging of nanoscale magnetism at cryogenic temperatures with a single-spin quantum sensor
Creators: name: Pelliccione, Matthew
name: Jenkins, Alec
name: Ovartchaiyapong, Preeti
name: Reetz, Christopher
name: Emmanuelidu, Eve
name: Ni, Ni
name: Jayich, Ania C. Bleszynski
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High spatial resolution magnetic imaging has driven important developments in fields ranging from materials science to biology. However, to uncover finer details approaching the nanoscale with greater sensitivity requires the development of a radically new sensor technology. The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) defect in diamond has emerged as a promising candidate for such a sensor based on its atomic size and quantum-limited sensing capabilities afforded by long spin coherence times. Although the NV center has been successfully implemented as a nanoscale scanning magnetic probe at room temperature, it has remained an outstanding challenge to extend this capability to cryogenic temperatures, where many solid-state systems exhibit non-trivial magnetic order. Here we present NV magnetic imaging down to 6 K with 6 nm spatial resolution and 3 μT/$\sqrt{\mbox{Hz}}$ field sensitivity, first benchmarking the technique with a magnetic hard disk sample, then utilizing the technique to image vortices in the iron pnictide superconductor BaFe$_2$(As$_{0.7}$P$_{0.3}$)$_2$ with $T_c$ = 30 K. The expansion of NV-based magnetic imaging to cryogenic temperatures represents an important advance in state-of-the-art magnetometry, which will enable future studies of heretofore inaccessible nanoscale magnetism in condensed matter systems.
title: Information theoretic perspectives on en- and decoding in audition and vision
Creators: name: Daube, Christoph
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2022

description: In cognitive neuroscience, encoding and decoding models mathematically relate stimuli in the outside world to neuronal or behavioural responses. While both stimuli and responses can be multidimensional variables, these models are on their own limited to bivariate descriptions of correspondences. In order to assess the cognitive or neuroscientific significance of such correspondences, a key challenge is to set them in relation to other variables. This thesis uses information theory to contextualise encoding and decoding models in example cases of audition and vision. In the first example, encoding models based on a certain operationalisation of the stimulus are relativised by models based on other operationalisations of the same stimulus material that are conceptually simpler and shown to predict the same neuronal response variance. This highlights the ambiguity inherent in an individual model. In the second example, a methodological contribution is made to the problem of relating the bivariate dependency of stimuli and responses to the history of response components with high degrees of predictability. This perspective demonstrates that only a subset of all stimulus-correlated response variance can be expected to be genuinely caused by the stimulus, while another subset is the consequence of the response’s own dynamics. In the third and final example, complex models are used to predict behavioural responses. Their predictions are grounded in experimentally controlled stimulus variance, such that interpretations of what the models predicted responses with are facilitated. Together, these three perspectives underscore the need to go beyond bivariate descriptions of correspondences in order to understand the process of perception.
Lessons learned from using bio- and environmental sensing in construction : a field implementation
Creators: name: Lee, Wonil
name: Migliaccio, Giovanni C.
name: Lin, Ken-Yu
name: Russo, Francesca
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Both physiological status and jobsite environmental stressors influence workforce behavior and performance. Understanding these relationships at the individual worker level is paramount for sustainably managing the construction industry workforce. Astonishing improvements in sensing technology can benefit field research by providing ways to validate occupational performance models based on data that measure workers’ physiological variables and environmental stressors. However, only a few studies have taken advantage of these technological improvements to conduct construction field studies. This paper describes a field monitoring study hosted at a mid-rise, mixed-use building construction site in Seattle, WA. This study was valuable in term of its breadth and period of the observations because it used some of the latest off-shelf wearable biosensors to collect 339 hours of workers’ biosignal data from five subjects, during summer and fall, for a total of up to three weeks per subject. This research empirically validated that the heart rate is a good predictor of a worker’s physical strain. Descriptive statistics and a time series plot were used to analyze the heart rate pattern as a predictor of worker’s physical strain level. Correlation analysis was used to analyze the association between the workers’ heart rate and jobsite environmental stressors. Also, analyzing video recordings and questionnaires helped interpreting the analytical results. This paper reports the lessons learned and the challenges of implementing a selected combination of wearable biosensor and environmental sensing technologies. These research findings are preparatory to validating a demand and capability model to be used for predicting construction workers’ performance.
Threshold-based guidelines threaten preference-sensitive decision making in person-centred care
Creators: name: Kaltoft, Mette Kjer
name: Nielsen, Jesper Bo
name: Salkeld, Glenn
name: Dowie, Jack
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Thresholds which divide individuals into diagnostic or therapeutic categories on the basis of a single criterion are a threat to the preference-sensitive decision making essential in person-centred care and fully informed consent. Using bone health as our representative exemplar case, we investigated whether classification on the basis of FRAX assessment of fracture risk can lead to inappropriate management, irrespective of where the threshold cut-offs are placed, according to the principles of PCC as implemented in a multi-criterial decision support tool. In a series of interactive examples we show that NOGG guideline classifications and recommendations based on FRAX-assessed probability of fracture (with or without BMD) bear no necessary relationship to the results emerging from integrating a variety of multi-criteria importance weights with the best estimates available for the performance of the options on all criteria.
Workshop slides presenting Gene enrichment of anatomical structures using TopAnat
Creators: name: Robinson-Rechavi, Marc
name: Bastian, Frederic
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: At the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics SIB Days 2016, Frédéric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi organised a workshop "GO and beyond: gene list enrichment in ontologies". These are the slides of the second part of the workshop, presenting TopAnat, an enrichment tool build on bgee.org.
Green functionalization of clinoptilolite with MgO nano-platelets as adsorbent for different species of antibiotic residuals (levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and pefloxacin); equilibrium studies
Creators: name: Abukhadra, Mostafa R.
name: Basyouny, Mohamed Gameel
name: Khim, Jong Seong
name: Allam, Ahmed A.
name: Ajarem, Jamaan S.
name: Maodaa, Saleh N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Clinoptilolite zeolite was functionalized with green MgO nanoplatelets utilizing the extract of green tea leaves in the presence of sonication irradiation forming green nanocomposite (MgO(NP)/Clino). The MgO(NP)/Clino was evaluated as an enhanced adsorbent for three types of quinolones antibiotics (levofloxacin (LF), ciprofloxacin (CF), and pefloxacin (PF)). The maximum MgO(NP)/Clino uptake capacities for LF (169.4 mg/g), CF (196 mg/g), and PF (185.18 mg/g) was higher than both clinoptilolite and MgO components. The kinetic behaviors of LF, CF, and PF adsorption follow the Pseudo-First order model with equilibration intervals of 240 min (LF), 240 min (CF), and 180 min (LF). The equilibrium investigation suggests Langmuir isotherm properties of monolayer and homogenous uptake processes for LF, CF, and PF. The Gaussian energies of LF (6.65 kJ/mol), CF (6.3 kJ/mol), and PF (7.4 kJ/mol) related to physical, spontaneous, and exothermic adsorption mechanisms considering the thermodynamic parameters. The MgO(NP)/Clino achieved remarkable capacities for LF, CF, and PF antibiotics either in the co-presence of anions (SO42-, PO43-, and NO3−) or metal cations (Cd2+, Zn2+, and Pb2+). The recyclability assessment of MgO(NP)/Clino emphasized its high stability considering the five studied cycles.
Green functionalization of clinoptilolite with MgO nano-platelets as adsorbent for different species of antibiotic residuals (levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and pefloxacin); equilibrium studies
Creators: name: Wahab, Mostafa R. Abd El
name: Basyouny, Mohamed Gameel
name: Khim, Jong Seong
name: Allam, Ahmed A.
name: Ajarem, Jamaan S.
name: Maodaa, Saleh N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Clinoptilolite zeolite was functionalized with green MgO nanoplatelets utilizing the extract of green tea leaves in the presence of sonication irradiation forming green nanocomposite (MgO(NP)/Clino). The MgO(NP)/Clino was evaluated as an enhanced adsorbent for three types of quinolones antibiotics (levofloxacin (LF), ciprofloxacin (CF), and pefloxacin (PF)). The maximum MgO(NP)/Clino uptake capacities for LF (169.4 mg/g), CF (196 mg/g), and PF (185.18 mg/g) was higher than both clinoptilolite and MgO components. The kinetic behaviors of LF, CF, and PF adsorption follow the Pseudo-First order model with equilibration intervals of 240 min (LF), 240 min (CF), and 180 min (LF). The equilibrium investigation suggests Langmuir isotherm properties of monolayer and homogenous uptake processes for LF, CF, and PF. The Gaussian energies of LF (6.65 kJ/mol), CF (6.3 kJ/mol), and PF (7.4 kJ/mol) related to physical, spontaneous, and exothermic adsorption mechanisms considering the thermodynamic parameters. The MgO(NP)/Clino achieved remarkable capacities for LF, CF, and PF antibiotics either in the co-presence of anions (SO42-, PO43-, and NO3−) or metal cations (Cd2+, Zn2+, and Pb2+). The recyclability assessment of MgO(NP)/Clino emphasized its high stability considering the five studied cycles.
The Impact Mechanisms of International Investment Disputes in Belt and Road Initiative Countries on China's Outbound Direct Investment
Creators: name: Shenxin, Xin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 380107
subject: Financial economics

description: This paper investigates how international investment disputes hinder outward foreign direct investment by Chinese private enterprises. It explores the role of state-owned enterprises in mitigating these effects, with a focus on ownership heterogeneity.
Comparison of Vacuum Static Quadrupolar Metrics
Creators: name: Frutos-Alfaro, Francisco
name: Quevedo, Hernando
name: Sánchez, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of static and axisymmetric vacuum solutions of Einstein equations which generalize the Schwarzschild spherically symmetric solution to include a quadrupole parameter. We test all the solutions with respect to elementary and asymptotic flatness and curvature regularity. Analyzing their multipole structure, according to the relativistic invariant Geroch definition, we show that all of them are equivalent up to the level of the quadrupole. We conclude that the $q-$metric, a variant of the Zipoy-Voorhees metric, is the simplest generalization of the Schwarzschild metric, containing a quadrupole parameter.
The influence of public-private partnerships on design flexibility and downstream design feedback in the Presidio Parkway
Creators: name: Antillón, Eric I.
name: Javernick-Will, Amy
name: Molenaar, Keith R.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) offer the opportunity to improve integration among project stakeholders throughout a project’s life cycle. Stakeholder integration, in turn, can enhance design decision-making process by focusing on the project’s life cycle cost. The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast design decision-making in a P3 and design-bid-build (DBB) process to explore if life cycle considerations are better optimized under a P3 delivery method. To do this, we analyzed a project that included both P3 and DBB project delivery strategies—the Presidio Parkway. We collected data through 16 open-ended, semi-structured interviews with key project participants. We analyzed the data for design decision-making processes and found mixed evidence supporting the proposition that life cycle considerations can be better optimized under a P3 delivery method. Specifically, we found that the ability of the P3 contractor to influence project outcomes depends on the timing of the integration of the designer in a P3 and the degree of design criteria and flexibility allowed. In the case study analyzed, the P3 designer was able to influence downstream life cycle considerations, such as the operations and maintenance of the project; however, given the degree of definition of the design and the timing of integration of the P3 designer, it was not possible to influence the upstream design decisions. These findings allow researchers to better understand how P3s are being integrated from a design perspective and allow the public sector to realize how the timing and degree of definition of the design in P3s influences a concessionaire’s ability to make life cycle design choices.
title: COAPPARATION I, II, III
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Thealit
Publisher: name: thealit Frauen.Kultur.labor.
Year: 2022

description: COAPPARATION I, II, III

Edited by

Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick

Authors

Carla Anacker, Kate Andrews, Marcela Antipán Olate, Gili Ben-Zvi & Christine Kriegerowski, Sophia Bizer, Brigitte Boomgaarden aka Moni Lang, Qianxun Chen & Ayşegül Seyhan, Claudia Christoffel, Branka Čolić, D.O.C.H. (Katharina Dacrés, Julia Dambuk, Karin Demuth, Carolin Klapp & Lucia Mendelova), Künstler*innen Kollektiv ELAF, Martina Ernst, Elburuz Fidan & Ariane Litmeyer, Brigitte Helbling, Vivian Hernández Ramírez, Jiyoon Hyun, Elina Karimova, Maria Karpushina, Tomma Köhler, Irena Kukrić, Rebecca A. Layton, leer&gut, Lena Violetta Leitner, Yara Mekawei & Farzad Golghasemi, Wiebke Mertens & Anne Moder, Camilla Metelka, Ines Brost & Ruth Wulffen , schnelle musikalische hilfe, Hanna Paniutsich aka xyana, Julija Paškevičiūtė, Sabine Peter, Paule Potulski, Dagmar Rauwald, Claudia Reiche, Lisa Rein/ Hysterical Pixel, Vicc Repasi, Liudmila Savelyeva, Daria Sazanovich, Anngret Schultze, Müge Pelin Sen, Konstanze Spät, Yuliya Tsviatkova, Giulia Valenti, Katja Windau, beate maria wörz, Eva Zulauf

Verlag / Publisher

thealit Frauen.Kultur.labor.

Juni 2022

ISBN: 978-3-930924-24-0 

Impressum

Herausgegeben von | Edited by: Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick

Gestaltung | Design: Autor:innen | authors, Andrea Dilzer

© bei den Autor:innen, by the authors

Betreuung | Management: Dolores Castro Ruiz

Gefördert von | with the support of: Senator für Kultur Bremen

COAPPARATION? Kooperation ist zum einen ein Verfahren oder Verhalten, das von Kultur(politik) bis zur Evolution (und andersherum) als maßgeblich angesehen werden kann. Wie ein Antriebsapparat ermöglicht es Fortlauf oder Stopp von Funktionszusammenhängen, deren komplexe Rhythmen und Intervalle wiederum apparativ erscheinen können. In einer Apparition, französisch für ein Erscheinendes, vielleicht? COAPPARATION wäre so auch ein wenig COAPPARITION, denn auf ein gemeinsames Verstehen, Verständigen, Befragen, Zögern und Handeln geht jede Kooperation oder deren Ablehnung zurück.
Maintaining vertical gardens using quadrotor aerial inspection
Creators: name: Bulgakov, Alexey
name: Emelianov, Sergey
name: Schach, Rainer
name: Sayfeddine, Daher
name: Erofeev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The upkeep of the building requires continuous monitoring to maintain the safety aspects as well as aesthetic elements of the building including facades, marble constructions and gardens. With the decrease of the amount of green areas, human race will face climatic catastrophes, which will affect the quality, type and life longitude of the Earth habitants. To tackle this issue, vertical gardens were designed to fit in the overwhelming world of concrete and to adapt in order to do photosynthesis. The growth of the plants is supported by spraying insecticide periodically. In this paper, we offer to use an unmanned aerial vehicle, to recognize the targeted green areas using HSV algorithm, track the generated trajectory and perform the spraying process all along the recognized area. We believe this will automate the maintenance of the gardens, improve the effectiveness of the treatment and assist to the ecologic factor, by applying the necessary amount of chemicals on the targeted place only.
title: Deciphering the Complex Alteration Recorded in Primitive Asteroids
Creators: name: Findlay, Ross
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: CM chondrites are unequilibrated breccias sampling primitive asteroids altered by water-rock interactions. While much research has focused on bulk measurements, only tentative attempts have been made to elucidate the complex petrographic and O-isotopic heterogeneity at the clast and component scale utilising this high precision approach. 


Clasts of petrologic subtype CM1/2.0 – 2.8 were found in four falls and one very diverse find, LON 94101, the latter of which strengthens the case of a discrete parent body source for CM chondrites. The petrologic subtype of moderately altered clasts ranging from 2.2-2.6 appear to correlate well with variable ‘FeO’/SiO2 and Mg# compositions within their phyllosilicates, though this is poorly matched from meteorite to meteorite. Fully altered clasts (CM1/CM2.0) host an array of diverse textures ranging from dark, Mg-dominated matrix-rich clasts to those containing abundant chondrule pseudomorphs, comparable in large part to the diversity seen in CM2 material. An array of rarer, petrographically distinct lithologies, including incipiently altered, predominantly anhydrous examples, attest to the diversity of CM material in the meteorite record. 


Matrix phyllosilicates from 30 petrographically characterised CM lithologies and 4 cataclastic matrix fractions were micro-sampled to investigate lithology-specific aqueous alteration phenomena through their O-isotopes, obtained via a revised laser fluorination protocol for small, phyllosilicate-rich samples. The exclusion of a significant anhydrous precursor component within these fractions reveals a novel, apparently mass-dependent trend: the CM matrix fractionation line (CMF) at ~ Δ17O = -2.35 ± 0.46‰ (2σ), indicating the CM lithologies were altered within a narrow range of water to rock (WR) ratios and that historical O-isotope variation primarily just reflects variable amounts of anhydrous precursor. This weakens the case for a closed system style of alteration, where variable WR ratios may be expected; indeed, an open system may provide a better explanation where equilibration of water is achieved over a mineralogically diverse area on the CM asteroid.
Predictive modeling of prefabrication feasibility for the United States electrical contracting firms
Creators: name: Said, Hisham M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Electrical contractors have promoted offsite prefabrication after experiencing its potential in improving their operations. However, prefabrication is not a one solution that fits all. Accordingly, there is a need to develop better understanding of prefabrication feasibility for electrical contractors by analyzing its operational requirements and surrounding industry factors. The objective of this paper is to identify and model the determinants of electrical contractors’ prefabrication feasibility within the U.S. industry context, which can be used to predict the viability of prefabrication as a production approach for individual electrical contracting firms. The methodology of this study included four main phases. First, a qualitative analysis was performed to initially understand current prefabrication operations and practices of electrical contractors through a set of semi-structured interviews, site visits of prefabrication facilities, and prefabrication case studies. Second, a quantitative data collection task was performed by: 1) acquiring the internal business variables of a sample of electrical contractors using an online questionnaire; 2) complementing the questionnaire data with location-based economic data to represent external industry-related variables. Third, the collected data was used to develop and validate a binary logistic regression model that relates the prefabrication feasibility to its significant determinants. Fourth, a sensitivity analysis was performed for the developed model to provide a larger understanding of electrical construction prefabrication feasibility beyond the collected data. The developed predictive model provides useful insights about prefabrication feasibility dependency on union relations, labor conditions, market competition, supply chain relations, and building information modeling.
Back to baxterisation
Creators: name: Crampe, N.
name: Ragoucy, E.
name: Vanicat, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the continuity of our previous paper arXiv:1509.05516, we define three new algebras, $A_{n}(a,b,c)$, $B_{n}$ and $C_{n}$, that are close to the braid algebra. They allow to build solutions to the braided Yang-Baxter equation with spectral parameters. The construction is based on a baxterisation procedure, similar to the one used in the context of Hecke or BMW algebras.
 The $A_{n}(a,b,c)$ algebra depends on three arbitrary parameters, and when the parameter $a$ is set to zero, we recover the algebra $M_{n}(b,c)$ already introduced elsewhere for purpose of baxterisation. The Hecke algebra (and its baxterisation) can be recovered from a coset of the $A_{n}(0,0,c)$ algebra. The algebra $A_{n}(0,b,-b^2)$ is a coset of the braid algebra.
 The two other algebras $B_{n}$ and $C_{n}$ do not possess any parameter, and can be also viewed as a coset of the braid algebra.
description: 9 pages
Additional file 2 of Genomic analysis of qnr-harbouring IncX plasmids and their transferability within different hosts under induced stress
Creators: name: Nohejl, Tomas
name: Valcek, Adam
name: Papousek, Ivo
name: Palkovicova, Jana
name: Wailan, Alexander M.
name: Pratova, Hana
name: Minoia, Marco
name: Dolejska, Monika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S1. Experimental design of individual mating assayswith induced stress using pHP2 (IncX1) and p194 (IncX2
Multi-stage bidding for construction contracts : a game theory approach
Creators: name: Ahmed, Muaz O.
name: El-Adaway, Islam
name: Coatney, Kalyn
name: Eid, Mohamed S.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the construction industry, auctions have long been used as a method for allocating contracts. Not addressed in the literature (engineering or economics) is the fact that most, if not all, large jobs are awarded to a general contractor who in turn sub-contracts most, if not all, actual engineering services. Optimal bidding strategies in this setting require the general contractor to not only account for the optimal bidding strategies of rivals, but sub-contractors as well. Because the true cost of construction is not known until after the completion of the contract, adverse selection occurs when the winner of the contract is the one that most has under estimated the true cost. Due to the multi-stage bidding environment, adverse selection may be compounded. Therefore, not accounting for the potential for adverse selection by bidders may result in requested change orders by the general and sub-contractors or lower quality services. Either state ultimately results in an adversarial relationship between the sub-contractor and general contractor, and the client as well. This paper uses game theory to determine to what extent the multi-stage aspects of large construction contract bidding may contribute to inefficient allocation of contracts. This should better help in creating an efficient and effective contracting environment that result in less conflicts, claims and disputes for all the associated stakeholders.
OʻZBEKISTONDA KASABA UYUSHMA TASHKILOTLARINING SHAKLLANISH JARAYONLARI
Creators: name: Axmedov, Abdulxay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada mustaqillik sharoitida Oʻzbekistonda kasaba uyushma tashkilotlarining shakllanishi, huquqiy asoslari va rivojlanish jarayonlari tahlil qilinadi. Maqolada kasaba uyushmalari faoliyati, ishchilar huquqlarini himoya qilish mexanizmlari, xalqaro tajriba bilan bogʻliq islohotlar hamda ularning siyosiy-ijtimoiy ahamiyati yoritib beriladi. Shu bilan birga, kasaba uyushmalarining kelgusi taraqqiyot istiqbollari haqida fikr yuritiladi.
Additional file 4 of Genomic analysis of qnr-harbouring IncX plasmids and their transferability within different hosts under induced stress
Creators: name: Nohejl, Tomas
name: Valcek, Adam
name: Papousek, Ivo
name: Palkovicova, Jana
name: Wailan, Alexander M.
name: Pratova, Hana
name: Minoia, Marco
name: Dolejska, Monika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table S3. Experimental design ofindividual mating assays with pHP2 (IncX1) and p194 (IncX2) using variousbacterial background
Comparative study of relationship management in design-bid-build project delivery methods in infrastructure projects
Creators: name: Kereri, James O.
name: Gad, Ghada M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Supply chain management (SCM) concepts suggest that high fragmentation of roles on projects causes significant negative impacts such as lower processes integration and higher transaction volumes. Within the scope of construction SCM, relationship management (RM) is regarded as one of the most important aspects for achieving efficient SCM. The use of RM in construction projects administration worldwide is manifest on alternative procurement methods, drifting away from traditional systems to ones that are relationship-based. Despite the significance of relationships for project delivery, there were no previous studies that investigated the influence of supply chain RM on construction projects utilizing different project delivery methods (PDMs). The aim of this paper is thus, to determine how RM among parties may be influenced by the PDM utilized. This is achieved through conducting case studies to compare RM in multi-prime design-bid-build versus design-build projects. The researchers adopted the core values developed by Meng’s 2011 RM maturity model to assess RM on projects utilizing different PDMs. Based on the two case studies, the total project RM score was seen to be lower in DBB projects compared to DB projects suggesting that the PDM employed influences RM on construction projects. Such findings can serve as a preliminary evidence of PDM choice effect on project RM and can help project parties gain a better understanding of PDM association to effective supply chain RM implementation. This study could be further extended to encompass more projects to provide statistical evidence of the influence of PDM on RM.
Additional file 3 of Genomic analysis of qnr-harbouring IncX plasmids and their transferability within different hosts under induced stress
Creators: name: Nohejl, Tomas
name: Valcek, Adam
name: Papousek, Ivo
name: Palkovicova, Jana
name: Wailan, Alexander M.
name: Pratova, Hana
name: Minoia, Marco
name: Dolejska, Monika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S2. Bacterial strains used formating assays