cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Problems of Security for Farmers in the United States, with a Case Study on the Extension of Social Security to Farmers in Maryland
Creators: name: Poffenberger, Paul R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: All people want security. This desire is a motivating force responsible for economic growth of agriculture, business and industry in the United States. This study is devoted to an analysis of the security status of farmers, an appraisal of the desirability of extending social security, especially the old age and survivors insurance program, to farmers, an evaluation of the possible need for such action and a summary of the attitudes of farmers about the extension of social security to farmers as obtained in the case study of Maryland farmers.
Knight Ridder/PSRA Poll # 2003-22099: Arguments for War
Creators: name: Knight Ridder
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: Threats to security (4); biggest threat to security (1); pre-emptive strikes (1); important priorities for foreign policy (2); Iraq (12); disarming North Korea (1); options for forces in South Korea (1); Iraq and Al Queda allied (1); Israel vs. Iraq (1); nationality of terrorist hijackers (1); knowledge of recent events (4); banned weapons in Iraq (2); argument for/against going to war (1); reason for going to war with Iraq (8); reasons for not going to war with Iraq (8).
Pennsylvania Economy League/The Pew Charitable Trusts Poll # 2003-23056: Quality of Life in Pennsylvania/Local Government/Public Education
Creators: name: Pennsylvania Economy League
name: Trusts, The Pew Charitable
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2007

description: Satisfaction with Pennsylvania (1); most important problem facing Pennsylvania (1); residential tenure and living in Pennsylvania (6); Pennsylvania state government job performance (17); confidence in state elected officials (1); Governor Ed Rendell (1); the Pennsylvania State Legislature (1); state senators and representatives (1); local government job performance (6); local public school district job performance (2); confidence in local elected officials (4); quality of life issues (10); education (10); healthcare (5); economic performance (9); financial status (2); taxes (6).
Newsweek Poll # 2008-NW08: Post-Conventions
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Interest in politics (1); voter involvement and interest (2); Barack Obama/Joe Biden vs. John McCain/Sarah Palin (6); Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden (2); political party for congress (2); partisanship (1); opinion of political figures (7); qualities of president (1); issue effecting vote--2008 presidential election (1); Barack Obama vs. John McCain (14); John McCain (1); Barack Obama (1); Joe Biden (1); Sarah Palin (14).
Problems of Security for Farmers in the United States, with a Case Study on the Extension of Social Security to Farmers in Maryland
Creators: name: Poffenberger, Paul R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 440708
subject: Public administration

description: All people want security. This desire is a motivating force responsible for economic growth of agriculture, business and industry in the United States. This study is devoted to an analysis of the security status of farmers, an appraisal of the desirability of extending social security, especially the old age and survivors insurance program, to farmers, an evaluation of the possible need for such action and a summary of the attitudes of farmers about the extension of social security to farmers as obtained in the case study of Maryland farmers.
Newsweek Poll # 2008-NW09: Post-2nd Presidential Debate
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2008

description: Interest in politics (1); voter involvement and interest (4); Barack Obama/Joe Biden vs. John McCain/Sarah Palin (4); Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden (1); satisfaction (1); George W. Bush job performance (1); opinion of political leaders (4); presidential qualities (1); issues effecting vote--2008 presidential election (1); Barack Obama vs. John McCain (8); John McCain (7); Barack Obama (7); Sarah Palin (7); campaigning (9).
Newsweek Poll # 2008-NW11: Gay Marriage/President-Elect Obama
Creators: name: Newsweek
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2009

description: Satisfaction (1); Barack Obama job performance (1); approval of Obama cabinet (1); approval of Obama choices (4); kinds of people in Obama cabinet (5); possible progress under Obama (9); George W. Bush viewed in history (1); gay/lesbian rights (10); gay/lesbian teachers (2); gay/lesbian marriage (1); banning gay/lesbian marriage (3); marriage as legal or religious (1); religion effecting views on gay/lesbian marriage (1); gay/lesbian couples divorce and child custody (1); morality in certain situations (4); affiliation with gays/lesbians (3).
A study of group-induced changes in self-perception
Creators: name: Bahr, Helen S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: It is the purpose of this study to determine whether, and to what extent, discussion and analysis of the dynamics of group interrelationships alter the perception of his own role in the participating individual.
LWE over cyclic algebras: a novel structure for lattice cryptography
Creators: name: Grover, Charles Everitt
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The work done in this thesis is an introduction to the use of cyclic algebras in post quantum cryptography, with a particular focus on lattice cryptography and the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem. Algebraic variants of the LWE problem are some of the most promising candidates for quantum resistant public key and signature schemes. Since different variants come with their own strengths and weaknesses, adding a version over cyclic algebras provides another flavour to study. The first part of the thesis establishes the hardness of the Learning With Errors Over Cyclic Algebras (CLWE) problem, basing its difficulty on short vector problems over certain structured lattices in the same manner as the analogous Ring and Module LWE problems. These structured lattices are applied in cryptography for the first time. The second part of the thesis constructs concrete families of cyclic algebras suitable for use in practice. The requirements on dimensions of ambient spaces for lattice cryptography are considered and precise cyclic algebras are constructed using a collection of novel techniques. The final part of this thesis explains carefully how to convert the theoretical construction of the CLWE problem into a form appropriate for real world cryptography. The problem is rephrased as a discrete problem, following which an example public key cryptosystem based on the CLWE problem is built in the style of other LWE based schemes. Overall, the thesis introduces and thoroughly justifies the construction of the CLWE problem, the first instance of non-commutative ring cryptography based on lattices, and provides the basic requirements and functionalities needed to construct cryptographic primitives in these algebras. It also leaves behind a substantial quantity of new open questions regarding the use of cyclic algebras in more intricate cryptographic constructions.
Scirtothrips casuarinae Palmer & Mound
Creators: name: Hoddle, Mark S.
name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Scirtothrips
Scirtothrips casuarinae

description: Scirtothrips casuarinae Palmer & Mound
[Fig. 5]
Scirtothrips casuarinae Palmer & Mound, 1983: 512 ­513.
In common with S. solus, the only other species in this genus with seven instead of eight antennal segments, S. casuarinae appears to be associated with the foliage of young Casuarina plants [Casuarinaceae]. Although taken at several sites in eastern New South Wales and Queensland, the species has been collected rarely. As in S. solus, the tergal median discal setae are further apart than in many Australian Scirtothrips species, and the metanotum has weak equiangular reticulation with the median setae well behind the anterior margin. The forewing posteromarginal cilia are mainly straight in this species, but two or more cilia near the base of the wing are weakly undulating. The male bears a pair of long dorsally­curving drepanae on the ninth tergite, but the aedeagus does not bear any spines or stout setae.
description: Published as part of Hoddle, Mark S. & Mound, Laurence A., 2003, The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 268 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157021
title: Die Expansion des Vereins „Klosterneuburg hilft“
Creators: name: Ernst, Jakob
Year: 2018

description: Die Flüchtlingsbewegungen nach Europa im Sommer 2015 hatten das zivilgesellschaftliche Engagement Vieler zur Folge. Auch in Österreich nahmen tausende Menschen große Anstrengungen auf sich, um geflüchteten Menschen zu helfen. Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einen Beitrag zur Geschichtsaneignung leisten. Sie liefert auch eine Einschätzung, um welche Art von „Bewegung“ es sich eigentlich bei der Willkommenskultur-Bewegung handelt. Der Verein Klosterneuburg hilft wurde dafür über die letzten Monate mit einer transdisziplinären Herangehensweise beforscht. Wie der Verein im Sinne der sozialen Bewegungsforschung zu bewerten ist, welche Entwicklungen der Verein und die darin Engagierten durchgemacht haben, waren zentrale Fragen. Bürokratische Zwänge formten die Bewegungsorganisation in den ersten beiden Jahren ebenso, wie die Bedürfnisse der Geflüchteten. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass soziales Engagement eine Form der Askese ist, durch die sich die Helfenden selbst weiterentwickelten.
description: The refugee movements to Europe in the summer of 2015 resulted in the civic engagement of many. Thousands of people in Austria also made great efforts to help refugees. The present work should not only contribute to the appropriation of history. It also provides an idea of what kind of movement the Willkommenskultur-Bewegung actually is. The association Klosterneuburg hilft has been researched over the past few months with a transdisciplinary approach. How the association is to be evaluated in the sense of social movement research and what developments the association and those involved in it have undergone were central questions. Bureaucratic constraints shaped the organization of movement in the first two years as well as the needs of the refugees. In the second part of the thesis, it is shown that social engagement is a form of asceticism through which the helpers themselves developed.
title: Optimierung des holographisch erzeugten Raumladungsfeldes in einem photorefraktiven Lithium-Niobat-Kristall
Creators: name: Franck, Michael
Year: 2018

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit war, das beim Schreiben eines Hologramms mit Zweistrahlinterferenz entstehende Raumladungsfeld zu maximieren. Zunächst wurde der Einfluss von Vibrationen und Luftbewegungen auf den Schreibprozess reduziert. Danach wurde versucht, das optimale Verhältnis von Lichtintensität und Belichtungszeit zu bestimmen, indem mehrere Hologramme, geschrieben mit näherungsweise gleicher Belichtung aber unterschiedlichen Intensitäten und Schreibdauern, verglichen wurden. Schließlich wurde die optimale Belichtungsdauer bestimmt. Diese Experimente wurden für die Gitterkonstanten 456nm und 571nm durchgeführt. Es wurde festgestellt, dass die Intensität des einfallenden Lichtes einen großen Einfluss auf die Rate des Anstieges des Raumladungsfeldes mit zunehmender Belichtung hat. Für eine Lichtleistung von 265mW konnte ein klares Maximum bei den Raumladungsfeldern gefunden werden. Das stärkste gemessene Feld wurde jedoch mit 540mW 70s bei einer Gitterkonstante von 571nm eingeschrieben. Bessere Ergebnisse könnten jedoch noch mit 80s oder 90s Belichtungszeit erzielt werden, sollte es gelingen, Vibrationen beim Schreibvorgang weiter einzudämmen.
description: The objective was to maximize the holographic space-charge field in a lithium-nobate-crystal using two-beam-interference. First, the influence of vibrations and airmovement on the writingprocess were reduced. Next a series of holograms with identical exposure to light but a varying relation between time und intensity was created to determine the optimal relation between these two factors. At last the optimal exposure time was determined. These experiments have been conducted for gratings with 456nm and 571nm grating spacing. The results show, that the intensity of the ingoing light has a huge influence on the rate the space-charge field rises with the exposure. For an intensity of 265mW a clear maximum was found. Yet the highest space-charge field was achieved at an 540mW and 70s for 571nm grating spacing. The data indicates that better results might still be possible at 80s or 90s if the influence of vibrations can further be reduced.
Dissecting the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar motor using subtomogram averaging and rationally designed protein chimeras
Creators: name: Henderson, Louie Derek
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Bacterial cells must traverse a variety of environments to survive and thrive. To achieve motility, they have evolved the bacterial flagella motor. This complex proteinacious nano-machine is composed of up to 25 different proteins, which assemble together in a range of stoichiometries across multiple membranes. They are able to harness the flux of ions across inner membrane bound stators, to kick a cytoplasmic C-ring, thus generating torque. Rotational torque is then transmitted through the periplasmic axle, which can be augmented by additional protein scaffolds, to the external hook and filament, propelling the cell forwards. Through developments of in situ Electron Cryo-Tomography (ECT), increased structural complexity in the motors of species such as Campylobacter jejuni have been explored to nanometer resolutions. This has revealed additional, intricate complexes which enable increased base and novel functions. Using the C. Jejuni motor as a model, I have applied and developed a number of methods to study its complexity, in hopes of understanding the structures of functional proteinacious nanomachines in their native context. By dissecting the in situ structure of the cytoplasmic C. jejuni C-ring, I have revealed the domain placements of FliG C terminal, FliM, FliN and FliY. Combining this with phylogenetic and operon analysis, I have also explored the evolved structural role of FliNY intercalation at the distal tip of the C-ring, revealing the greater role FliY plays in the structural anchoring of the ATPase complex to the C-ring in C. jejuni. Furthermore, I’ve characterised a previously unknown component of the periplasmic scaffold dubbed Mot1, which acts as a stabilising outer brace by anchoring the proximal and sub-basal disks. To overcome the resolution limitations of ECT, which prevent unambiguous identification of protein components in nano-machines, I’ve developed software which identifies protein chains to insert into macromolecules without disrupting tertiary or quaternary structure to act as electron dense tags.
Upward mobility within a profession
Creators: name: Allen, Philip James
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Upward mobility has often been treated in published literature in terms of leadership. An adequate investigation of the phenomenon, therefore, might well begin with a review of the leadership studies. The leadership literature has been examined by the present investigator, and many specific findings have been noted. The problem has been found to be extremely complex. The text that follows this introductory chapter will present the results of an investigation of some aspects of this problem, as they were found relating to one particular professional group.
Kaiser Family Foundation Poll: HIV/Global Health Survey 2009
Creators: name: Kaiser Family Foundation
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2010

description: Satisfaction with family life (1); most urgent health problem (2); effect of HIV/AIDS (3); concern of infection (2); information regarding HIV/AIDS (23); federal government spending (10); helping developing countries (59); personal contributions (2); preventing HIV/AIDS (1); personal image in regards to HIV/AIDS (1); attention to health issues (1); ever traveled to developing country (1); comfort around HIV/AIDS (4); know anyone affected by HIV/AIDS (2); personal testing for HIV/AIDS (16); personal testing for other STDs (2).
Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood
Creators: name: Hoddle, Mark S.
name: Mound, Laurence A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Scirtothrips
Scirtothrips dorsalis

description: Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood
[Figs 6, 7, 26, 27, 52, 59]
Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood, 1919: 90 ­91.
This is a highly polyphagous and widespread tropical insect. It is found from Pakistan to Japan and Taiwan, and south to the Solomon Islands and northern Australia, but no specimens have been seen from south of Brisbane. It is recorded as a pest on many different crops, from chillies and lotus plants to tea and strawberries. In life it is often recognisable from the dark wings contrasting with the pale body. Amongst the Scirtothrips recorded in Australia, the only one with microtrichia extending across the median area of the abdominal sternites is S. aurantii, and these can be distinguished by means of the key above.
Female macroptera. Colour: Body yellow with brown marking medially on tergites III – VII, sternites without brown markings but antecostal ridges on tergites and sternites dark brown; forewings usually strongly shaded but paler toward apex; antennal segment I pale, II shaded, III –VIII dark.
Structure: Head about twice as wide as long, postocular and ocellar region closely striate; ocellar setae pair III arise between the posterior ocelli, well behind tangent between their anterior margins; compound eyes with no ommatidia strongly pigmented; two pairs of post­ocellar setae as long as ocellar setae pair III. Pronotum closely striate, usually with 1 pair of anteromarginal setae, 10­12 discal setae; 4 pairs of posteromarginal setae, S 2 30 – 35 microns, clearly longer than S1. Metanotal sculpture variable, usually transversely arcuate anteriorly, with irregular longitudinal reticulations or striations posteriorly; median pair of setae far behind anterior margin. Forewing scale with 4 marginal setae; second vein with 2 setae; posteromarginal fringe cilia all straight. Tergites III­V with bases of median setae usually closer together than length of these setae; tergal microtrichial fields with 3 discal setae; VIII with discal microtrichia present anteromedially, posteromarginal comb complete; tergite IX with discal microtrichia present posteromedially. Sternites with microtrichia extending across median area on posterior half; median setae on sternite VII arising slightly in front of posterior margin.
Male macroptera. Similar to female in colour and sculpture, but smaller; aedeagus apparently with no armature.
description: Published as part of Hoddle, Mark S. & Mound, Laurence A., 2003, The genus Scirtothrips in Australia (Insecta, Thysanoptera, Thripidae), pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 268 on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157021
Upward mobility within a profession
Creators: name: Allen, Philip James
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Upward mobility has often been treated in published literature in terms of leadership. An adequate investigation of the phenomenon, therefore, might well begin with a review of the leadership studies. The leadership literature has been examined by the present investigator, and many specific findings have been noted. The problem has been found to be extremely complex. The text that follows this introductory chapter will present the results of an investigation of some aspects of this problem, as they were found relating to one particular professional group.
Host serum protein biomarkers of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Morris, Thomas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Rapid, accurate, affordable, user-friendly and robust diagnostic tests are needed for use in sub-Saharan Africa, where the incidence and case fatality rates of TB are highest. Pathogen detection is such settings is challenging, owing to low abundance in sputum, and the associated need for laboratory-based assays. An alternative to pathogen detection are host-derived biomarkers, from which accurate diagnostic biosignatures can been derived. Of these, host serum proteins are a favourable option owing to their large diversity and abundance, range of clinical sources, response to pathological processes and amenability to immunocapture, including by multiplexed lateral flow immunoassay. In this thesis, I evaluated two approaches to discovering immunocapture-based serum protein diagnostic signatures for TB in cohorts recruited from Malawi and South Africa, primarily from secondary care. The first is to re-test 22 proteins from which a 7-protein signature was recently discovered in a cohort recruited from primary care in Africa. This signature showed potential for use as a screening test in this setting. In our study, a 9-protein signature is discovered that may perform in a similar manner in secondary care. We also studied the levels of a subset of these 22 proteins in a smaller paediatric cohort before and after TB treatment. The second approach was to evaluate the translatability of serum protein biomarkers that were discovered using a mass spectrometry-based platform in our cohort to immunocapture. Results on three such proteins are presented, each with differing but informative outcomes. Patients recruited to our studies were characterised with regards to demographic and clinical variables. In the final part of the thesis, I explore associations between serum protein levels in TB and these variables in order to gain further insight into the biology of TB. Novel associations were discovered with age, body mass index, smear grade and CD4+ count.
title: Das Projektmanagement in Übersetzungsbüros bei Dolmetsch- und Übersetzungsaufträgen
Creators: name: Putz, Manuela
Year: 2018

description: Im Laufe der Geschichte hat sich die Vorstellung vom Projektmanagement stark gewandelt. Historische Beispiele für frühes Projektmanagement sind der Bau einer Pyramide oder später die Organisation einer Friedenskonferenz. Im Laufe der Zeit bekam das Projektmanagement einen breiteren Anwendungsbereich und resultierte im strategischen Kontext der Unternehmensführung. Auch Übersetzungsbüros sind stark projektorientierte Unternehmen und wickeln dabei die verschiedensten Sprachendienstleistungen ab. Dabei liegt der Fokus der Projekte auf zwei Hauptkategorien. Diese sind Übersetzungs- und Dolmetschaufträge. In der Translationswissenschaft ist bekannt, dass die Modi Übersetzen und Dolmetschen sehr unterschiedlich in ihrem Ablauf sind und daher verschiedene Voraussetzungen verlangen. Dieser Unterschied soll auf die Auftragsabwicklung beider Modi umgelegt werden und mit den empirischen Ergebnissen verglichen werden, sodass ein klarer Kontrast der Organisationsformen zwischen den zwei Auftragsarten gezeichnet werden kann.
description: Throughout history, the idea of project management has changed tremendously. Historical examples of early project management include pyramid construction or later the organization of a peace conference. Over time, project management has become broader in scope and resulted in the strategic context of corporate governance. Translation agencies are strongly project-oriented companies and handle various language services. The focus is on two main categories, namely translation and interpretation orders. In translational science it is known that the modes of translating and interpreting are different and require pertinent conditions. This difference will be compared to the order processing of both modes as well as to the empirical results, so that a clear contrast of the two modes can be drawn.
Microfluidic polymer particle and capsule formation: from the molecular to the macroscale
Creators: name: Sharratt, William Nicholas
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: In this work the physics underpinning polymer particle formation is explored, particularly probing Å to 100s of nm length scales with small angle neutron scattering (SANS) to macroscopic scales with microscopy. Two approaches are used to generate micron-sized particles from polymer solution droplets; droplet solvent extraction (DSE) concerns the introduction of an `extraction' solvent, which removes the solvent from the polymer-containing droplet, to form a polymer-rich skin and kinetically arrest the shrinking particle. Secondly, ionic gelation occurs upon addition of multivalent ions to a polyelectrolyte solution droplet, which rapidly forms a gel-like front which propagates into the droplet. Micro- and milli-fluidic approaches are used to generate droplets and visualise and map the formation pathways. Chapter 1 introduces background theory and the motivation for investigating these formation pathways. In Chapter 2, SANS measurements of model polymer/solvent/non-solvent mixtures, designed to probe the DSE pathway, are presented. In Chapter 3, the impacts of molecular structure (chain length and chemical substitution), concentration and droplet size on the DSE pathway are established; demonstrated here for model poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) to yield particles with well-de fined shape, dimensions and internal microstructure. Chapter 4 presents a comparative study with FlashNanoPrecipitation (FNP); another approach which utilises rapid mixing of ternary mixtures of polymer, solvent and non-solvent under confinement to yield nanoparticles. Chapter 5 details a SANS study on the effect of added mono- and divalent salt on the solution structure of sodium carboxymethyl cellulose (NaCMC). The formation of microcapsules from NaCMC and, instead, trivalent Fe3+ is detailed in Chapter 6. Optical measurements reveal the frontal behaviour and kinetics of the gelation process. Chapter 7 details a SANS study of these 'gelation fronts' to probe the evolution of nanostructure within the gel. Chapter 8 presents brief concluding remarks and an outlook for the future of microfluidic polymer particle and capsule formation.
Plant-fungal interactions in alpine ecosystems
Creators: name: Arraiano Castilho, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The fundamental understanding of diversity, composition and functions of biological communities and their ecological drivers has long been recognized as essential for the study of climate change and its implications for ecosystems. Despite significant advances on our understanding of the dynamics of animal and plant communities and how they respond to environmental variability, little is still known about belowground dynamics, particularly those involving ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi that play pivotal roles in soil nutrient cycling and plant nutrition. This mutualistic symbiosis is the dominant plant-fungus association in alpine ecosystems, which are among the most threatened by experiencing rapid change as a consequence of climatic shifts and human-related activities. Therefore, to better understand the resilience of these ecosystems to climate variability, it is of paramount importance to study the EM fungal communities that help sustain these habitats. In this thesis I aim to generate baseline diversity data and investigate the biotic and abiotic drivers of alpine EM fungal communities across the European Alps. To do this I assessed the EM fungal communities in the soil and roots of i) 47 populations of Dryas octopetala, Bistorta vivipara and Salix herbacea across altitudinal and environmental gradients in 5 countries of the Alps and ii) from 87 willows across a hybrid zone between Salix purpurea and Salix helvetica in the Rhône glacier valley. The results reveal that alpine and sub-alpine habitats harbour a high diversity of EM fungi mostly dominated by lineages with non- or inconspicuous reproductive structures such as Tomentella-Thelephora, Sebacina and Cenococcum. Moreover, alpine EM fungal communities are mostly generalists and functionally redundant, influenced by fine-scale habitat changes in edaphic properties, like soil pH and total nitrogen, rather than elevation or biotic variables such as host phylogeny (at family or genus level). This thesis provides important contributions to our understanding of the diversity and ecology of belowground alpine EM fungal communities in the European Alps and how they may respond to future environmental change. It is expected that the outcomes of this study aid the development of management and mitigation plans to tackle the decline of unique alpine habitats in the face of a changing climate.
Interactive visualization of variable-resolution simulation data with napari
Creators: name: Havlin, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Lightning talk presented at the engageNCSA series. Event page at https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/NED/2024-6-25+Lightning+Talks

Talk summary:

Napari is a popular open source multidimensional image-viewer Python package for the interactive visualization and analysis of a wide range of image formats. Originally developed within the bio-imaging community, napari has become more of a general purpose visualization tool in large part thanks to its easily extensible plugin framework. In this presentation I'll describe my efforts to build on recent developmental support in napari for dynamic, on-demand loading of multi-dimensional image subsets in order to provide a platform for the interactive visualization and analysis of HPC-scale, variable resolution simulation data.
Management of ecosystem evolution: the effect of macro and micro influencers on a firm's ecosystem management activities
Creators: name: Yildirim, Ahmet
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis intends to contribute to the academic understanding of a recent buzzword: ecosystems. It addresses how ecosystem evolution is led by organisations under various macro and micro level effects, such as the institutional context, ecosystem formation, or individual employees. The thesis aims to address the direction of these effects via a compilation of three separate research papers with different methodological approaches. The first study is a systematic literature review in the form of a thematic synthesis, and provides a general outline of how the ecosystem management of a central organisation has been considered in previous research throughout an ecosystem's emergence, development and renewal/decline stages. It suggests that the cooperation or competition orientation in the business model of the ecosystem is determined by the ecosystem type, value complexity and relative resource power of the organisations. The second abductive study investigates how competing ecosystems of a home country spread in a different economic context. The research focuses on ecosystems that originate from a developed economy, and compete in an emerging economy with institutional voids. It argues that institutional conditions in the destination economy and the business logics of the ecosystems interplay to determine ecosystem establishment and spread by affecting entrepreneurial activities. The third study is concerned with individuals, especially the impact of employees on the ecosystem evolution of large companies. The quantitative case study shows the nature and demographic sources of evolution in the lower organisational hierarchies. Overall, the thesis focuses on the firm as an actor that guides the evolution of its ecosystem via its decisions which are affected by institutional, ecosystem-based and individual level influencers. Mechanisms and contingencies are identified within the emergent framework.
title: Die Einhaltung des Krankenanstalten-Arbeitszeitgesetzes in der Theorie und im Klinikalltag unter Berücksichtigung der KA-AZG-Novelle 2014
Creators: name: Niederkorn, Eva
Year: 2017

description: Diese Dissertation untersucht die Arbeitszeitregelungen für österreichische Spitalsärzte – festgehalten im Krankenanstalten-Arbeitszeitgesetz (KA-AZG) – sowie deren Umsetzung im Spitalsalltag. Als Ansatzpunkt diente die Annahme, dass die diesbezüglichen Bestimmungen in den Krankenanstalten nicht vollumfänglich eingehalten wurden. Hieraus ergibt sich die zentrale Aufgabenstellung, nämlich die Identifizierung von Ursachen für KA-AZG-Verstöße. Zu diesem Zweck enthält die Arbeit einerseits eine theoretische Aufarbeitung der betroffenen rechtlichen Regelungen. Andererseits werden die Ergebnisse der für diese Dissertation geführten leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews mit an AKH Wien und LKH Graz beschäftigten Spitalsärzten dargestellt. Aus alldem leiten sich die dargestellten Gründe für KA-AZG-Verstöße ab, wobei eine Unterteilung in Problemfelder auf der Organisations-, Praxis- und Gesetzesebene erfolgt. Referenzpunkt stellt in diesem Zusammenhang die KA-AZG-Novelle 2014 dar, die weitreichende Änderungen im Krankenanstalten-Arbeitszeitrecht mit sich brachte. Insbesondere wird der Einfluss der letzten gesetzlichen Anpassungen auf die praktische Umsetzung der KA-AZG-Bestimmungen sowie auf die Gesetzeseinhaltung in Zukunft thematisiert.
Evaluation by Clients: A Survey of Ex-Clients' Attitudes toward a Social Agency
Creators: name: Solon, Jerry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Social agencies have long been tormented by the helpless feeling that comes upon being asked (by others or by themselves) for objective evidence of the value of their services. They are acutely aware of the lack of objective measures of results by which to justify their existence, their effects, their expenditures. As crusaders, their own convictions are grounded in an intuitive faith. But they operate in an increasingly materialistic culture which advances vexing practical questions while fingering the pursestrings. And sometimes even crusaders themselves experience shafts of doubt.
Time Soundings # 8530
Creators: name: Time
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2012

description: 1972 presidential election (1); vote in last years election (1); opinion of the country (4); most important problems facing the country (4); confidence in the future (1); personal worries (4); opinion of certain statements (7); minority groups receiving attention (1); confidence in Gerald Ford (2); best path for government to follow (1); providing jobs or curbing inflation (1); favor/oppose certain party platforms (8); impression of Jimmy Carter (1); impression of Gerald Ford (1); Jimmy Carter vs. Gerald Ford (7); presidential election making an impact (2); Ronald Reagan vs. Gerald Ford (1); Jimmy Carter vs. Gerald Ford vs. Eugene McCarthy (1); reasons for voting for Gerald Ford (6); reasons for voting for Jimmy Carter (5); reasons for uncertainty in the 1972 Presidential election (8); statements about Jimmy Carter (13); statements about Gerald Ford (12); Vice Presidential candidates impacting election (2); political affiliations of candidates (4);
Engineering a minimal gene drive system for integral replacement in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Nash, Alexander
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Gene drives represent a powerful tool for the control of vector-borne diseases. By suppressing or replacing vector populations, laboratory studies have highlighted the potential for this group of tools to make a powerful impact on the burden of zoonotic disease. Current genetic drive systems have a number of limitations, namely their complexity, susceptibility to genetic resistance, and a high regulatory threshold. Here we suggest a novel design paradigm for the creation of replacement gene drives, which we have termed ‘Integral Replacement’. By splitting drive constructs, and integrating components into endogenous loci, we have aimed to engineer a minimal drive system, with low fitness cost, higher resilience to resistance alleles, and with greater flexibility for field testing. In so doing we have generated a model that illustrates increases in efficacy versus existing drive systems, and expanded on work performed on intronic gRNA cassettes. We subsequently were able to build prototype Integral Gene Drive (IGD) components, and demonstrate their efficacy using the model organism Drosophila melanogaster, providing evidence for an initial proof-of-principle for this novel design paradigm.
Evaluation by Clients: A Survey of Ex-Clients' Attitudes toward a Social Agency
Creators: name: Solon, Jerry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4409
subject: Social work

description: Social agencies have long been tormented by the helpless feeling that comes upon being asked (by others or by themselves) for objective evidence of the value of their services. They are acutely aware of the lack of objective measures of results by which to justify their existence, their effects, their expenditures. As crusaders, their own convictions are grounded in an intuitive faith. But they operate in an increasingly materialistic culture which advances vexing practical questions while fingering the pursestrings. And sometimes even crusaders themselves experience shafts of doubt.
Postwar Programs of Information About the U.S. Merchant Marine
Creators: name: Boardman, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Few aspects of merchant marine policy have been more roundly and constantly criticized than the public information programs. They have been charged with being nonexistent, inadequate, unrealistic, propagandist, and ineffectual. Even their defenders admit at least the inadequacy. Yet almost all merchant marine supporters give at least lip service to the necessity and importance of such programs.
Sofres Opinion, Youth Study (15-20 Years) (79003)
Creators: name: Sofres Opinion
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1997

description: Wish for best friend's; falling in love; respondent's love life and parent's knowledge of it; premarital sex; love without sexual relations; attitude toward virginity; use of contraceptives; marriage; elements important for happiness; respondent's sexual relations; knowledge of National Office for Information on Education and Professions; respondent's knowledge of studies; respondent's choice of profession; present profession; guidance counseling; evaluation of countries; social reforms; future crises; evaluation of political and other personalities; voting age; legislative candidate preference; respondent as conservative/liberal; demographics.
British Gallup Poll: CQ 121B
Creators: name: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Limited
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 1996

description: Government approval rating(1); political party leaders(3); political party(3); 1987 election(1); personal financial situation(1); Labour vs Conservative party(1); Labour government(1); homeless population(4); people begging on the street(3).
Investigating the role of B56-PP2A during HTLV-1 infection
Creators: name: Minnell, Jordan J.
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: To establish retroviral infection, a DNA copy of the viral RNA genome needs to be inserted as a provirus in the host chromatin: a reaction catalysed by the virally encoded enzyme integrase (IN). Integration site selection is influenced by interactions between integrase and host proteins; lentiviral pre-integration complexes (PICs) are targeted to the body of transcription units by LEDGF, whilst BET proteins tether gamma-retroviral PICs to transcription start sites. There are no hot spots of integration of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1, a delta-retrovirus), but proviruses are enriched in actively transcribed regions of the genome, with a minor but significant proportion of integration sites in proximity to certain transcription factor binding sites. Previous work from our laboratory identified B56-protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) as a binding partner and putative host factor for delta-retroviral integration. The work in this thesis builds on the hypothesis that PP2A-B56 is usurped by HTLV-1 during infection from two distinct angles. Firstly, the X-ray crystal structure of B56 in complex with HTLV-1 IN was solved, which highlighted that HTLV-1 mimics a Short Linear Motif found in endogenous binding partners of B56 and informed the design of IN mutants which retain wild-type intrinsic integration activity but do not bind B56 members. These mutants displayed a defect in infection compared to the wild type, as measured by reductions in transactivation of a reporter system and the proviral load. Secondly, a strategy is described for the generation of a B56 KO cell line negative for most B56 members, which will be infected with WT HTLV-1.
Postwar Programs of Information About the U.S. Merchant Marine
Creators: name: Boardman, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Few aspects of merchant marine policy have been more roundly and constantly criticized than the public information programs. They have been charged with being nonexistent, inadequate, unrealistic, propagandist, and ineffectual. Even their defenders admit at least the inadequacy. Yet almost all merchant marine supporters give at least lip service to the necessity and importance of such programs.
Experimental and numerical investigation of turbomachinery blade vibration
Creators: name: Heller, Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Despite constant research on Blade Tip-Timing (BTT) for decades, the major limitation of this turbomachinery blade vibration measurement technique in terms of insufficient data sampling is still not overcome. Complex vibrations cannot reliably be analysed and, to tackle this issue, an innovative data analysis approach to increasing the amount of useful data was developed. Instead of only being used for determining vibration parameters on the basis of times of blade arrival at a sensor, complete waveforms produced by stationary casing-mounted sensors are processed. Such waveforms usually hold multiple data points of the blade vibration trajectory, yet these data points are hidden and not directly accessible when eyeing the sensor output. Their analysis thus provides new opportunities in respect of the following: characterising multi-mode vibrations occurring within the same instant of time; detecting non-linear vibration responses arising from excitation of engine components with non-linear behaviour; ascertaining axial, radial, and tangential blade positions during operation. After an introduction to state-of-the-art BTT, the novel concept of investigating blade vibration in turbomachinery is presented on the principle of Blade Tip-Timing (BTT) and clearance sensor waveform analysis (BLASMA), which was filed for patent protection by Rolls-Royce. It is shown that the modulation of the sensor output by blade vibration can offer additional information compared with under-sampled time-of-arrival (TOA) data from traditional BTT applications. The sensor data can help to not only dispel doubts on the validity of statements on blade vibration but also lessen the dependence on contact-based strain gauges measurements for producing reference data. A numerical and experimental study was conducted to evaluate the merit of sensor waveform analysis for describing multi-harmonic blade vibration. Results are carefully discussed in this work and future strategies for proceeding with BLASMA are proposed.
title: Das Potential der komischen Katharsis für das Gegenwartstheater am Beispiel des Stücks "Grillenparz" von Thomas Arzt
Creators: name: Piegger, Christina
Year: 2018

description: Eine Katharsis, wie sie von Aristoteles für die Tragödie definiert wurde, kann auch durch Komik hervorgerufen und im Gegenwartstheater nutzbar gemacht werden. Zuerst wird anhand des aristotelischen Katharsisbegriffs das Konzept einer komischen Katharsis entworfen. Der auslösende Affekt der komischen Katharsis ist das Lachen, das 1. aus medizinisch-therapeutischer Sicht gesundheitsfördernd, 2. aus moralisch-pädagogischer Sicht gemeinschaftsfördernd und identitätsstifend und 3. aus intellektueller Sicht aktivierend und stimulierend wirkt. Essentiell für eine umfassende komische Katharsis ist das Nahverhältnis von Komik und Katastrophe. Je nach emotionaler Distanzierung vom Gegenstand wirkt dieser komisch oder tragisch. Im analytischen Teil der Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass das Stück Grillenparz von Thomas Arzt aus dem Jahr 2008 eine geeignete Textgrundlage zur Erzielung einer komischen Katharsis im Gegenwartstheater darstellt. Es wird veranschaulicht, wie im Stück die Themen Globalisierung, Verdrängung, Gewalt, Vergewaltigung und Mord mit Elementen der Komik verknüpft werden.
description: A catharsis as it was defined by Aristoteles for the tragedy can also be evoked by comicality and is utilizable in contemporary theatre. First the concept of a comic catharsis is outlined, based on Aristoteles' concept of catharsis. The triggering affect for a comic catharsis is laughter, which is: 1. health enhancing from a medical and therapeutic point of view 2. community enabling and identity-establishing from a moral and educational point of view 3. intellectually activating and stimulating. For a thorough comic catharsis the proximity between comicality and catastrophe is essential. Depending on the emotional distance to the subject it appears to be comical or tragical. The analytical part will show that the play Grillenparz by Thomas Arzt from 2008 presents a qualified text basis to obtain a comic catharsis in contemporary theatre. It will be illustrated how the play intertwines topics as globalization, suppression, violence, rape and murder with comical elements.
The Multicultural Context and Multidimensional Scope of Peace
Creators: name: MALAN, JANNIE
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Since culture is deeply rooted in human beings of all groups, its role in both causing conflict and resolving conflict can be quite dynamic. Through time-proven traditions of dealing with conflict, culture can function constructively and meaningfully. Culture can also harbour divisive elements, however, which lead to discrimination against people of other cultures, and to conflict. When a breakthrough to mutual cultural understanding and respect has taken place, however, much more than an ad hoc peace agreement can be reached. A transformed and coexistential situation can become a reality. Both traditional and contemporary methods of dealing with conflict should be explored and utilised as necessary. Appropriate development, of which the people concerned can take ownership and to which they can commit themselves, should be supported. A climate of harmonious but realistic and natural coexistence should be promoted.