cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Latent variable mixture models to test for differential item functioning: a population-based analysis
Creators: name: Wu, Xiuyun
name: Sawatzky, Richard
name: Hopman, Wilma
name: Mayo, Nancy
name: Sajobi, Tolulope T.
name: Liu, Juxin
name: Prior, Jerilynn C., 1943-
name: Papaioannou, Alexandra
name: Josse, Robert G.
name: Towheed, Tanveer
name: Davison, K. S.
name: Lix, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Comparisons of population health status using self-report measures such as the SF-36 rest on the assumption that the measured items have a common interpretation across sub-groups. However, self-report measures may be sensitive to differential item functioning (DIF), which occurs when sub-groups with the same underlying health status have a different probability of item response. This study tested for DIF on the SF-36 physical functioning (PF) and mental health (MH) sub-scales in population-based data using latent variable mixture models (LVMMs). Methods: Data were from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos), a prospective national cohort study. LVMMs were applied to the ten PF and five MH SF-36 items. A standard two-parameter graded response model with one latent class was compared to multi-class LVMMs. Multivariable logistic regression models with pseudo-class random draws characterized the latent classes on demographic and health variables. Results: The CaMos cohort consisted of 9423 respondents. A three-class LVMM fit the PF sub-scale, with class proportions of 0.59, 0.24, and 0.17. For the MH sub-scale, a two-class model fit the data, with class proportions of 0.69 and 0.31. For PF items, the probabilities of reporting greater limitations were consistently higher in classes 2 and 3 than class 1. For MH items, respondents in class 2 reported more health problems than in class 1. Differences in item thresholds and factor loadings between one-class and multi-class models were observed for both sub-scales. Demographic and health variables were associated with class membership. Conclusions: This study revealed DIF in population-based SF-36 data; the results suggest that PF and MH sub-scale scores may not be comparable across sub-groups defined by demographic and health status variables, although effects were frequently small to moderate in size. Evaluation of DIF should be a routine step when analysing population-based self-report data to ensure valid comparisons amongst sub-groups.
The use of multimedia video and animation to empower children to change their parents' smoking behaviour: a public health campaign
Creators: name: Mat Desa, Mohd Asyiek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Smoking of a program designed to curb smoking, especially among teenagers. The research program described here extended this focus to 7-9 year olds, with the intention of developing and testing a television-based anti-smoking campaign. Based on the Human Centred-Design model, two engenders a significant economic, social and individual burden on society. In developing countries such as Malaysia, the habit of smoking especially among young children is increasing and the tobacco industry wields significant influence over them. A range of anti-smoking education programs has been developed and implemented nationally as well as internationally. The Malaysian TakNak media campaign is one example modes of delivery, video and animated cartoon, were developed with the aim of educating young children and employing them as agents of change among their family and social networks. Experimental designs were used to test and compare the efficacy of those two modes against three measures: knowledge, attitude and behaviour/practice. The efficacy results showed considerable evidence that both the video and animated cartoon media can stimulate behavioural change, create awareness and lead to discussions about smoking among young children. However, the impact is more pronounced in the animation cartoon mode. The latter will therefore form the basis of a television campaign to be launched in Malaysia. The research also provides guidelines for the future development of television-based anti-smoking campaigns in the areas of theoretical framework, design model, character profile development, storyboard conceptualizing, technical applications, and efficacy testing.
The Woman and the Dragon: Dinosaur, New Woman, and Degeneration Anxiety in The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
Creators: name: Panha, Ming
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2016
Subjects: Victorian
Degeneration
Dinosaurs
New Woman
Patriarchy

description: วารสารประวัติศาสตร์ ธรรมศาสตร์, 3, 2, 225-304
สนธิสัญญาสันติภาพเอาก์สบวร์ก, 1555: ความเสื่อมถอยของสังคมระหว่างประเทศในยุคคริสเตียน
Creators: name: ชุติเดช เมธีชุติกุล
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2016
Subjects: สนธิสัญญาสันติภาพเอาก์สบวร์ก 1555
สังคมระหว่างประเทศในยุคคริสเตียน
สำนัก English School
ความชอบธรรม

description: วารสารประวัติศาสตร์ ธรรมศาสตร์, 3, 2, 307-344
Buchbesprechung: Poor Malays Speak Out: Paddy Farmers in Muda von Shukor Kasim, David Gibbons, Halinah Todd
Creators: name: Rose, Wilfried
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

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Socio-cognitive factors that affect decision-making in cancer multidisciplinary team meetings
Creators: name: Soukup Ascencao, Tajana
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDMs) are a mandatory part of the cancer care pathway in the UK. While they facilitate diverse disciplinary input into formulation of treatment recommendations, evidence of this approach is unclear with a common pattern of skewed inputs by senior physicians and biomedical aspects of the disease. The decision-making (DM) in MDMs is a highly intricate process, however. The team is exposed to an intense period of cognitive activity in a context that necessities them to process information and formulate decisions not only cognitively on an individual person basis, but also interactively between the team members, and in the face of multiple layers of complexity pertaining to the clinical elements of the disease, external circumstances, and those emanating from within the MDM itself. Adding to current body of knowledge, the thesis provides an original contribution to two very specific strands of research. On the one hand, the thesis provides evidence that intense and prolonged periods of cognitive activity, evident in cancer MDMs, lead to fatigue and deterioration not only in the quality of DM and chairing, but also in the quality of team interactions; and that the team’s cognitive resources can be replenished with evidence based strategies, such as for e.g., a rest break, and organisation of workload according to case-complexity. As such, the findings address a gap in the current literature, which is focused largely on the healthcare worker fatigue arising from excessive working hours and shift work. They also carry implications for cancer patient safety and quality of care planning. On the other hand, the thesis provides evidence that the quality of team interactions is closely linked to the team’s ability to reach a recommendation and to the DM process itself, with negative socio-emotional responses having an inhibitory effect on the MDT. Although superior to lone DM, the thesis reveals certain drawbacks for cancer teams; specifically, that securing one’s turn to speak is a challenging task, presenting as an additional cognitive burden, as MDMs are characterised by rapid turn transitions and a high level of interactivity with overlaps between speakers mainly competitive in nature. As the time-workload pressure increases, the quality of team DM processes is compromised with the most common interaction style being between two to three disciplines only, and the value of nursing input becomes particularly evident. Overall, the findings contribute to narrowing the gap in the MDT literature, to-date focused largely on evaluating team work from a macro-level perspective, and offer distinct directions for improving the flow of work through MDTs and addressing team fatigue.
Attenuating immune pathology using a microbial-based intervention in a mouse model of cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation
Creators: name: Bazett, Mark
name: Biala, Agnieszka
name: Huff, Ryan D
name: Zeglinksi, Matthew R
name: Hansbro, Philip M
name: Bosiljcic, Momir
name: Gunn, Hal
name: Kalyan, Shirin
name: Hirota, Jeremy A
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2017

description: Background: Cigarette smoke exposure is the major risk factor for developing COPD. Presently, available COPD treatments focus on suppressing inflammation and providing bronchodilation. However, these options have varying efficacy in controlling symptoms and do not reverse or limit the progression of COPD. Treatments strategies using bacterial-derived products have shown promise in diseases characterized by inflammation and immune dysfunction. This study investigated for the first time whether a novel immunotherapy produced from inactivated Klebsiella (hereafter referred to as KB) containing all the major Klebsiella macromolecules, could attenuate cigarette smoke exposure-induced immune responses. We hypothesized that KB, by re-directing damaging immune responses, would attenuate cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation and bronchoalveolar (BAL) cytokine and chemokine production. Methods: KB was administered via a subcutaneous injection prophylactically before initiating a 3-week acute nose-only cigarette smoke exposure protocol. Control mice received placebo injection and room air. Total BAL and differential cell numbers were enumerated. BAL and serum were analysed for 31 cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors. Lung tissue and blood were analysed for Ly6CHI monocytes/macrophages and neutrophils. Body weight and clinical scores were recorded throughout the experiment. Results: We demonstrate that KB treatment attenuated cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation as shown by reductions in levels of BAL IFNγ, CXCL9, CXCL10, CCL5, IL-6, G-CSF, and IL-17. KB additionally attenuated the quantity of BAL lymphocytes and macrophages. In parallel to the attenuation of lung inflammation, KB induced a systemic immune activation with increases in Ly6CHI monocytes/macrophages and neutrophils. Conclusions: This is the first demonstration that subcutaneous administration of a microbial-based immunotherapy can attenuate cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation, and modulate BAL lymphocyte and macrophage levels, while inducing a systemic immune activation and mobilization. These data provide a foundation for future studies exploring how KB may be used to either reverse or prevent progression of established emphysema and small airways disease associated with chronic cigarette smoke exposure. The data suggest the intriguing possibility that KB, which stimulates rather than suppresses systemic immune responses, might be a novel means by which the course of COPD pathogenesis may be altered.
Modelling for policy in health care: developing innovative approaches to model use of healthcare services and associated expenditure
Creators: name: Cecchini, Michele Serafino
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: Devising suitable approaches to model use of healthcare services and associated expenditure is at the centre of healthcare modelling. Current models focus on predicting total healthcare expenditure at the aggregate level, without accounting for potential interactions between healthcare services. This project aims to develop and test mathematical models designed to: i) model the use of a comprehensive set of healthcare services and total healthcare expenditure as the sum of healthcare service-specific expenditure; and ii) to better understand the potential interactions between different healthcare services. The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is the primary source of data for the analysis. The models developed as part of this project are tested in a series of case studies. In a first case study, devised models are used to assess the potential savings that could be produced by implementing a set of prevention policies to tackle obesity. Models are then used to project healthcare expenditure up to 2025 by reweighting and projecting MEPS data. A third case study assesses the potential cost associated with substituting informal home healthcare services with formal home healthcare services and gauges the relationship between use of informal home healthcare services and other healthcare services. In a final case study, a generalized propensity score matching approach is used to evaluate the dose-response effect of increasing levels of use of office-based services on inpatient care and other healthcare services in patients with type II diabetes. The resulting models can be used as self-standing tools or may be implemented in more complex attempts as, for example, microsimulation models. Future research should further investigate the dynamics of interaction and substitution between healthcare services to inform policy strategies aimed to curb raising healthcare expenditure.
Malaysia - Indonesien
Creators: name: Franke, Peter
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: "Konfrontasi", so wird die Ära der Konfrontation Indonesiens gegen Malaysia 1963 bis 1966, genannt. Der "Nusantara" Traum hingegen umschreibt die Vision einer Vereinigung des malaiischen Archipels zu einem großen Reich, wie in den vorkolonialen Zeiten. Vor 20 Jahren endete der militärische Teil dieser Konfrontation.
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Multiscale modelling of conjugated polymers for use in energy applications.
Creators: name: Pearce, Andrew
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Organic materials offer unique advantages to improve the sustainability of applications within many realms of technology. In this work I use a range of computational methods for modelling materials to investigate systems within the application space of energy materials. I specifically investigate a class of emerging linear conjugated polymers for use as photocatalysts for water splitting, and molecular dynamics is used to identify solvation as a key explanation for differing hydrogen evolution rates. I then proceed to uncover the role solvation plays in the stabilisation of the hydrogen evolution reaction, finding that the first charge separation becomes energetically favourable as the polarity of the medium increases. In addition to this I investigate polymers in solution that have been explored for applications in which charge transport is important (such as OFETs and OPV). I also look at how chemical structure impacts the conformation in solvent and how that correlates to device level performance.
Computational modelling and topological design of porous organic cages
Creators: name: Santolini, Valentina
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: Porous organic cages are a class of materials constructed by intermolecular packing of discrete organic molecules, that contain void space in an internal cavity, and are typically solution processable. Many experimental and computational studies have been conducted on porous cages, however design and prediction of new molecular structures still represents a great theoretical challenge. During my PhD, I developed a computational strategy to generate new porous organic molecules and test their experimental feasibility. An automated pipeline assembles building blocks with different numbers of reactive ends into cages with the underlying topology of geometric polyhedra. The topologies are defined and classified according to a new nomenclature, which is based on the topicity of the precursors contained in each cage. Once multiple topologies are generated from a pair of precursors, the geometry and energy of each molecule are investigated to understand which structure is the most experimentally likely to form. The structures that do not retain a cavity are “inflated” with a constrained molecular dynamics technique that simulate the scaffolding effect of the solvent, which is otherwise not taken into account. The prediction strategy has been successfully tested on a number of experimentally available structures, and on a wide range of novel organic cages in the context of a computational-experimental collaboration with the group of Prof. A. Cooper (University of Liverpool). The experimental part was carried out by the Cooper’s group, who used a high-throughput screening platform to carry out the synthesis of 78 new cages, starting from a selection of different functional precursors mixed in a combinatorial way. I carried out the computational part of the project, which was dedicated to the prediction of the same cages, and results were compared to rationalise the criteria for optimal design of porous organic cages. The pipeline can be now integrated with crystal structure prediction methods to suggest promising novel porous organic materials for the synthesis.
Nano-engineered materials to probe and affect natural killer cell function
Creators: name: Loftus, Christian
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: The nanoscale biological structures and dynamics that occur within cells have slowly been recognized as important features that determine cellular function. In the field of Immunology the receptors which determine a cell's response have recently been observed to organize on the nanoscale, forming clusters which vary in size, shape, and density. While these supramolecular structures have been observed, their function is still unknown, and current methods used to discern their function could be improved. Here, biomaterials with spatially controlled nanoscale features have been produced and developed with this goal in mind. Engineered nanomaterials have advantages over many biological techniques, especially in nanoscale manipulation and reduced experimental complexity. In this thesis two new nanoscale biomaterial approaches are developed, focusing on controlling the nanoscale spatial presentation of ligands to Natural Killer (NK) cells. The first is the fabrication of a supramolecular reagent which clusters Monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) using a Nanoscale Graphene Oxide (NGO) framework. These clusters are on the same scale and density as receptor nanoclusters and exhibit properties that better mimic natural receptor ligation---such as interconnected ligands and local ligand density. Nanoscale Graphene Oxide-Monoclonal Antibody (NGO-mAb) species were found to augment degranulation and cytokine secretion of primary (human) NK (pNK) cells in comparison to equivalent concentrations of unclustered mAbs. Secondly, gold nanoparticle arrays, a nanotechnology used to create mimetic cell surfaces with nanometer control of ligand spacing, were imaged with Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), a single molecule localization technique, to characterize their biological functionalization. This characterization step is necessary to confirm the nanoscale patterning, but remains difficult, and new methods for its accurate measurement are needed. Results obtained indicate that in spite of measured underoccupation, regions could be discerned as having spatial properties and patterning that would be expected of a functionalized array by three independent analytical methods.
Why the humanities are in crisis
Creators: name: McLaren, Glenn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A recent article in The Wall Street Journal titled Humanities Fall From Favour reveals a further escalation in the crisis affecting the humanities. Harvard University, “a standard-bearer of American letters”, is failing to attract students to its humanities courses seemingly on the grounds that there are no jobs for graduates. The solutions proposed in the article are for humanities departments to aggressively market themselves, create broader interdisciplinary networks and develop internship networks.
Weitere Anmerkungen zum Film "Killing Fields"
Creators: name: Franke, Peter
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Inzwischen sind in deutscher Sprache eine Reihe von Besprechungen zu dem Film erschienen und die öffentliche Diskussion darüber ist von anderen Themen verdrängt. Die folgenden Anmerkungen wurden aufgrund der Unzufriedenheit mit den Bemerkungen der Kambodscha Solidarität zu dem Film in der Nr.l/85 der SOA Informationen geschrieben.
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The Specificity of the Neural Response To Speech at Birth
Creators: name: May, Lillian Anne
name: Gervain, Judit
name: Carreiras, Manuel
name: Werker, Janet Feldman, 1951-
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2019

description: In this work we ask whether at birth, the human brain responds uniquely to speech, or if similar activation also occurs to a non-speech surrogate “language”. We compare neural activation in newborn infants to the language heard in utero (English), to an unfamiliar language (Spanish), and to a whistled surrogate language (Silbo Gomero) that, while used by humans to communicate, is not speech. Anterior temporal areas of the neonate cortex are activated in response to both familiar and unfamiliar spoken language, but these classic language areas are not activated to the whistled surrogate form. These results suggest that at the time human infants emerge from the womb, the neural preparation for language is specialized to speech.
Kampuchea - Jahrzehnt des Völkermords
Creators: name: Chomsky, Noam
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Die Qualen, die Kampuchea im "Jahrzehnt des Völkermordes" durchmachen mußte, sind eines der dunklen Kapitel der Neuzeit, noch dazu eines, das noch lange nicht zu Ende ist. Die Koalition des Demokratischen Kampuchea, die sich vor allem auf Pol Pots Rote Khmer stützt, führt immer noch einen Grenzkrieg gegen vietnamesische Truppen, die das Heng Samrin Regime eingesetzt haben. Die Roten Khmer erhalten massive Unterstützung von China, während die Vereinigten Staaten ihre indirekte Hilfe für die Koalition des Demokratischen Kampuchea mehr als verdoppelt haben. Das amerikanische State Department hat in der Zwischenzeit erklärt, die Vereinigten Staaten unterstützten die Koalition, weil sie in Kontinuität zum Pol Pot-Regime stehe. Der Westen weigert sich, Kampuchea Entwicklungshilfe zu gewähren, und wenngleich die Verwüstungen der 70er Jahre zum Teil beseitigt sind, so hat das Land doch noch eine ungeheure Aufgabe vor sich, bevor die Ökonomie wieder wirklich lebensfähig ist.
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title: Who do you trust: Peers or Technology? A conjoint analysis about computational reputation mechanisms
Creators: name: Stevens, Gunnar
name: Bossauer, Paul
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: Peer-to-peer sharing platforms are taking over an increasingly important role in the platform economy due to their sustainable business model. By sharing private goods and services, the challenge arises to build trust between peers online mostly without any kind of physical presence. Peer rating has been proven as an important mechanism. In this paper, we explore the concept called Trust Score, a computational rating mechanism adopted from car telematics, which can play a similar role in carsharing. For this purpose, we conducted a conjoint analysis where 77 car owners chose between fictitious user profiles. Our results show that in our experiment the telemetric-based score slightly outperforms the peer rating in the decision process, while the participants perceived the peer rating more helpful in retrospect. Further, we discuss potential benefits with regard to existing shortcomings of user rating, but also various concerns that should be considered in concepts like telemetric-based reputation mechanism that supplements existing trust factors such as user ratings.
title: Making Home Work Places
Creators: name: Ciolfi, Luigina
name: Gray, Breda
name: Pinatti de Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: This exploratory paper makes the case for deepening and expanding CSCW research on how knowledge and digital professionals work at home. The steady rise of flexible and “mobile” working policies and burgeoning of freelance work and solo entrepreneurs, means that working from home is now commonplace. Yet, there is a dearth of investigations in relation to how people make working from home ‘work’. In response to this gap, this paper focuses on how homes become sites of complex coordination and negotiation for those people who use them as workplaces. In particular, the paper reviews the relevant literature and shows how it frames debates about working from home. Additionally, it opens up a set of research questions which should be urgently tackled. We argue that CSCW research needs to attend more closely to those intricate emplaced negotiations and coordination efforts that occur at home, not only to collaborate remotely with colleagues and clients, but also in relation to the more ‘intimate’ relationships of households families, as well as how both sets of relationships are shaped by the spatial and environmental organisation of the home as a shared space for most.
title: Psychosocial ICT: The Potential, Challenges and Benefits of Self-help Tools for Refugees with Negative Mental Stress
Creators: name: Ertl, Tanja
name: Aal, Konstantin
name: Diraoui, Hoda
name: Tolmie, Peter
name: Wulf, Volker
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has penetrated almost all areas of life today and has the potential to create positive change. This paper addresses the opportunities offered by ICT for improving the resilience and psychosocial well-being of refugees who have experienced mentally stressful events when forced to leave their home country and seek shelter in a different host country. We want to distinguish between perceived stress and clinically-defined trauma, for which therapeutic interventions require direct personal contact with psychological experts. However, we also want to focus on the digital possibilities that currently exist to support establishing this kind of personal connection. Many refugees need to seek psychological help, but social, economic and cultural barriers hold them back. Our qualitative study with refugees, psychologists and volunteers provides insights into how refugees deal with their mental issues and the challenges they face in everyday life. We aim to show that ICT can play a major role in terms of addressing awareness and self-empowerment as an entry point for this vulnerable group. We also discuss the potential challenges and benefits of ICT for refugees seeking to recover their mental stability.
Vietnamisierung von Kambodscha
Creators: name: E.V., Kambodschia-Solidarität
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Am 20. Februar 1984 unterzeichneten Erzlehungsminister Pen Navouth und Din Tu, Hanois Minister für Berufs- und Welterführende Bildung, in Phnom Penh einen Vertrag. Darin hieß es: "Vietnam wird Kampuchea bei der Ausarbeitung und Herstellung von Lehrmaterial für verschiedene Stufen der Schul- und Berufsausbildung unterstützen". (1) Diese Vertragsunterzeichnung blieb in der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbeachtet. Aber eine solche Entwicklung hat für Südostaslen weitreichende Bedeutung und Ist in bezug auf Vietnams Absichten in Kampuchea äußerst aufschlußreich. Wenn die Behörden eines Landes sich die Möglichkeit verschaffen, für ein Nachbarland Lehrmaterial auszuarbeiten und zu publizieren, spricht das Bände über ihren neuen Rechte. Tatsächlich schreibt die Kommunistische Partei Vietnams die Geschichte neu, damit sie von der heutigen Generation der Khmerschüler und allen, die nach ihnen kommen, so gelernt wird. Die Vietnamisierung der Erziehung in Kampuchea ist nur ein Teil des Gesamtplans von Hanoi, ein vereinigtes Indochina unter vietnamesischer Vorherrschaft zu erreichen. Dieser Artikel ist die erste gründliche Analyse eines Prozesses, der heute allgemein mit dem Begriff Vietnamisierung bezeichnet wird und der sich gegenwärtig innerhalb des Regimes von Phnom Penh vollzieht, ein Regime, das von Vietnam bereits stark bevormundet wird.
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title: Understanding data and cooperation in a public sector arena.
Creators: name: Seidelin, Cathrine
name: Lee, Charlotte P.
name: Dittrich, Yvonne
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: This note explores how data work takes place in a public sector arena. We report on findings from a 3-year research project with a Danish organisation, which, amongst other things, aimed to improve current data practices in the organisation. We make use of the notion of ‘social arenas’ as a lens to understand the complex setting the organisation is situated in. We find that data work in this context takes place among multiple stakeholders and requires cooperation across organisational boundaries. Moreover, changes in data practices in one site changes cooperation among multiple stakeholders in the arena. Additionally, we develop a diagram of this complex setting, which constitutes an analytical tool that supports our understanding of the site (or sites) of intervention where data work is examined. Our study contributes to the field of CSCW by proposing and showing how the notion of sub-arena helps to comprehend the cooperation and interaction within the surprisingly complex public sector and locate the (sub-)arenas and stakeholders affected by a change in how data is provided and used.
The Economics of a Lost Deal
Creators: name: Hourcade, Jean-Charles
name: Ghersi, Frederic
name: Hourcade, Jean-Charles
name: Ghersi, Frederic
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate negotiations
subject: 2010 carbon markets
subject: uncertainty about abatement costs

description: This paper examines compromise spaces between competing perspectives on four key climate change issues: costs, level of domestic action, environmental integrity, and developing world involvement. Based on extensive simulations of a model integration tool, SAP12 (Stochastic Assessment of Climate Policies, 12 models), the analysis considers options for fine-tuning the Kyoto Protocol, such as concrete ceilings or levies on carbon imports; restoration payments to be made on excess emissions; credits for sequestration activities in Annex B countries; and others. It shows the critical importance of the baseline against which the performance of each tool has to be assessed in the absence of direct economic penalties for noncompliance. The restoration payment option (also known as a safety valve) emerges as a superior means of addressing the core policy issues, including environmental integrity, and provides a large compromise space between payments of $35 to $100 per ton of carbon.
title: Cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in multiple sclerosis: is there any contributions to active and chronic disease differential diagnosis?
Creators: name: Oner, Serkan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by demyelination centered around cerebral veins in the white matter. Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) explaining this topographic relationship has been suggested as anew hypothesis...
Buchbesprechung: Dieter Riemenschneider/Michael Hase/Erich Hackl (Hrsg.): Lesebuch Dritte Welt
Creators: name: Schmidt, E.
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

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Belated Contributions on the Biology of Fish, Fisheries and Features of Their Ecosystems
Creators: name: Pauly, D. (Daniel)
name: Hood, Lincoln
name: Stergiou, Konstantinos I.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Age and growth of Mediterranean slimehead, Hoplostethus mediterraneus in the Ionian Sea, Greece, were studied and morphometric relationships of otolith morphological characteristics were established, based on samples collected in 1996-1997. The length-weight relationships were positively allometric (sexes separately and combined). A strong correlation was found between total length (TL) and otolith weight, with the morphological characteristics of the otoliths (i.e., length, diameter, width and perimeter). The maximum age recorded, based on otolith reading, was nine years, for a female individual of TL of 22.2 cm, while males reached a maximum age of six years (TL=19.9 cm). Five different growth models were compared: the von Bertalanffy growth function (VBGF), the generalized VBGF, the Gompertz model, the logistic model, and a power model. The VBGM and Gompertz had substantial support by the data of female growth, while Gompertz and the logistic model were substantially supported for the growth of males. With the combined sexes, three models had substantial support: VBGF, generalized VBGF, and Gompertz. The model-averaged asymptotic length of H. mediterraneus was estimated (point estimate and 95% confidence interval in parentheses): 22.5 cm (20.9 – 24.0), 22.0 cm (16.0 – 28.1) and 23.6 cm (21.4 – 25.8), for females, males, and combined sexes respectively. The estimated parameters of the von Bertalanffy equation for both sexes combined were: L∞=23.9 cm, K = 0.242 year-¹, and t₀= -1.39 years, whereas for the two sexes separately were estimated as: L∞=24.2 cm, K= 0.241 year-¹, t₀= -1.32 years, and L∞=23.2 cm, K= 0.244 year-¹, t₀= -1.52 years, for females and males respectively.
ASEAN, ANZUS und die Militarisierung des Pazifik
Creators: name: Schmidt, Frithjof
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Ein Gespenst geht um in Südostaslen und im Pazifik. Immer wieder taucht es in den Schlagzeilen auf, ruft Pressekonferenzen und Verhandlungen hervor, ja es soll sogar die "Sicherheitsinteressen" der USA empfindlich bedrohen: das Gespenst einer ganzen Kette von atomwaffenfreien Zonen zwischen Sumatra und Samoa. (...)
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Methodology for plantations
Creators: name: Almeida, César
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Plantation
chestnut
climate adaptation

description: ClimCast installed a network of 7 demonstration groves in different soil and climatic contexts of the country. These chestnut trees were made up of specimens of 11 chestnut cultivars and are equipped with meteorological stations. It was thought to be an embryonic basis of a knowledge network to serve the sector, according to the needs.
BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN WRITING INSTRUCTION
Creators: name: Ikhtiyorkhojayeva Jamilakhon Rustamjon qizi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Technology is increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives, and it is important for students to be prepared to use technology in their future careers. By integrating technology into writing instruction, we can help students to develop the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century workplace. This paper will analyze the benefits and challenges of integrating technology in writing instruction. Technology can make writing more engaging and motivating for students. For example, students may be more likely to write if they are using a computer or tablet, or if they are able to collaborate with classmates online.

Key words: portable and Internet-based reference tools, Google Drive, writing process, automation, Google Cardboard, virtual reality, handwriting, spelling,  skill limitations.
Mit Bomben gegen die Vergangenheit die Gegenwart attackieren
Creators: name: Jung, Erika
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Es waren "Experten", die am 21. Januar mit 9 Bomben eines der indonesischen Nationalheiligtümer attackierten: 2 Buddha-Statuen des 1200 Jahre alten Borobodur-Tempels wurden völlig zerstört, 9 Stupas schwer beschädigt. "Fehlenden Nationalstolz" warf Präsident Suharto den Attentätern vor. 10 Tage später war die mitteljavanische Stadt Solo - neben Jogjakarta das Zentrum javanischer Kultur - Ziel eines erneuten Anschlags. Ein Großfeuer brannte weite Teile des "Kraton Susuhunan" aus, des Sultanspalastes von Solo. Der Kraton ist eine "Bastion" der javanisch-feudalistischen Kultur, das einstige Zentrum des mächtigen Königreichs von Mataram. Hierher stammt auch Frau Suharto. (...)
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1985): südostasien informationen
title: The incorporation of vaults in the traditional housing of the inner Alentejo
Creators: name: Rosado, Ana Costa
Publisher: name: Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2025

description: Almost unparalleled inside Portugal and akin only to neighbouring Spanish Extremadura, the incorporation of vertical brick vaults and timbrel vaults is a distinguishing feature of even the most common housing types in inner Alentejo. Research based on in loco architectonic and photographic surveys in four inner Alentejo cities combined with analysis of archive documentation from the 20th and 16th-18th centuries has produced data on the usage and types of vaults, including identification of the various types and geometries employed. This research proposes a chronology of vault construction in housing, indicating a likely beginning in the 17th century and its proliferation during the 18th century. Besides presenting the results, this paper examines various hypotheses to explain the transfer of an erudite technique into traditional housing by contextualising the historic and constructive moment of the Early Modern Age in Alentejo, with urban transformation due to warfare and consequent fortification.
description: Costa Rosado, A. 2025. The incorporation of vaults in the traditional housing of the inner Alentejo. Revista de História da Arte. 19 (Mar. 2025), 40–65. ISSN: 2182-3294
title: Multichromophore light harvesting in hybrid solar cells
Creators: name: Bandara, Jayasundera
name: Willinger, Katja
name: Thelakkat, Mukundan
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: 540

description: A new technologically relevant method for multichromophore sensitizing of hybrid blend solar cells is presented. Two dyes having complementary absorption in the UV-visible regions are individually adsorbed on nanocrystalline TiO2 powder. These dyed TiO2 nanoparticles are blended with an organic hole-conductor (HC) Spiro-OMeTAD in desired compositions and applied on a conducting substrate by doctor-blading at room temperature to fabricate multichromophore-sensitized hybrid blend solar cells. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) of the single hybrid layer system fabricated with two dyes, that absorb mainly UV (TPD dye) and visible regions (Ru-TPA-NCS dye), exhibited a clear panchromatic response with the sum of the EQE characteristics of each single dye cell. The first results of a multichromophore-sensitized solid-state solar cell showed Jsc of 2.1 mA cm−2, Voc of 645 mV, FF of 47% and efficiency of 0.65% at AM 1.5 G, 100 mW cm−2 illumination intensity. The Jsc of the multichromophore cell is the sum of the individually dyed solar cells. The process described here is technically very innovative and very simple in procedure. It has potentials to be adopted for panchromatic sensitization using more than two dyes in a single hybrid layer or layer-wise fabrication of a tandem structure at room temperature.
Rekordernte in Indonesien
Creators: name: Eckard, Wolfgang
name: Schmidt, Einhard
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: 1980 war Indonesien noch der größte Importeur von Reis; 745 Mio. US-Dollar wurden ausgegeben, um den Reisbedarf im Lande zu decken. 1982 waren Meldungen über Hungersnöte in mehreren Provinzen Indonesiens zu vernehmen gewesen, die das Land zu weiteren größeren Reisimporten zwangen. 1984 sprechen die Presseberichte über die zweite Rekordreisernte hintereinander. Demnach lagern in den Speichern der indonesischen Regierung derzeit 3 Mio. Tonnen Reis. Seit 1980 wurde die Reisproduktion um mehr als ein viertel gesteigert, und die Landwirtschaftsbehörde bemüht sich nun um einen Exportrmarkt für den Überschuß aus der 1984er Ernte. (...)
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1985): südostasien informationen
Supplementary document for Color vector similarity-based stereo matching for single-shot 3D measurement - 7427354.pdf
Creators: name: Usuda, Manabu
name: Nibu, Takahiro
name: Okino, Toru
name: Koyama, Shinzo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Riss im Einparteiensystem
Creators: name: Schneider, Larry
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: In einer Nachwahl im Oktober 1981 konnte erstmals ein Kandidat der Opposition in Singapur einen Parlamentssitz erringen: J.B. Jeyaretnam siegte in Anson, einem Hafengebiet, in dem damals 1900 Menschen wegen des Baus neuer Hafenanlagen um den Verlust ihrer Wohnungen fürchten mußten. Wird es der Opposition wieder gelingen, der Regierung einen oder gar mehrere Sitze abzujagen? So fragte man sich im Stadtstaat vor den Parlamentswahlen im Dezember 1984. Larry Schneider aus Singapur kommentiert den Wahlausgang.
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1985): südostasien informationen
Effect of neurodevelopmental stress in animal models of schizophrenia: role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)
Creators: name: Klug, Maren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Ph.D.-Thesis written by Maren Klug is titled 'Effect of neurodevelopmental stress in animal models of schizophrenia: Role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)'. The research looked at the question whether schizophrenia may be caused by an interaction between two neurodevelopmental factors in life, also called the 'two-hit' hypothesis. For this, animal models were used to study the interactions between genetic factors, stressful events and cannabis abuse on schizophrenia-like behaviour and neurochemical changes in adulthood. The research overall confirmed the 'two-hit' hypothesis and the results of this work provided new insight into neurodevelopmental mechanisms involved in schizophrenia.
title: Envisioning a Shared Checklist Display to Support Teamwork During Emergency Medical Care
Creators: name: Kulp, Leah
name: Sarcevic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: Information technology and systems in healthcare are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic, requiring design approaches that consider not only providers’ information needs and work practices, but also their perceptions and expectations about technology. In this paper, we describe an exploratory study conducted to assess the feasibility and impact of a shared checklist display for supporting teamwork during trauma resuscitations. Using the concept of technological frames, we explore how members of multidisciplinary emergency medical teams perceive current technology and what they expect from a future shared checklist display. Our results showed discrepancies in team members’ perceptions of technology and its roles. Some care providers envisioned a shared checklist display as a tool for achieving a global view of the process, improving communication and maintaining situation awareness. Others perceived it as a point of distraction, where team members may be checking each other’s work to ensure accuracy of documentation. These requirements and limitations extend beyond the capacity of a simple checklist, while also shifting the privacy of work from individuals to the entire team. We conclude by discussing design implications for a future shared display and how shifting to a multi-display environment within a safety-critical context may transform work practices.
Dokumentation: Deklaration zum Problem der Korruption in Malaysia
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: südostasien informationen
Year: 2018

description: Korruption ist eine gesellschaftliche Plage. Beispiele aus der Geschichte zeigen, daß Korruption ein wesentlicher Grund für den Niedergang und Verfall von Gesellschaften war. Korruption ist nicht nur einfach ein rechtlicher Begriff. Korruption beinhaltet politische, wirtschaftliche, psychologische und moralische Dimensionen. Deswegen betrachten wir Korruption von einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz. (...)
description: südostasien informationen, Bd. 1 Nr. 1 (1985): südostasien informationen
Neonatal respiratory morbidity following exposure to chorioamnionitis
Creators: name: Metcalfe, Amy
name: Lisonkova, Sarka
name: Sabr, Yasser
name: Stritzke, Amelie
name: Joseph, K. S.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Background: There are conflicting results in the literature on the impact of chorioamnionitis on neonatal respiratory morbidities. However, most studies are based on small clinical samples and fail to account for the competing risk of perinatal death. This study aimed to determine whether chorioamnionitis affects the incidence of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) after accounting for the increased risk of death. Methods: Retrospective cohort study using linked birth and infant death registration and hospitalization records from Washington State between 2002 and 2011 (n = 763,671 singleton infants and n = 56,537 singleton preterm infants). Logistic regression models based on the traditional and fetuses-at-risk approaches were used to model two composite outcomes namely RDS and perinatal death and BPD and perinatal death. Confounders adjusted for in the models included maternal age, race, diabetes, hypertension, antenatal corticosteroids, mode of delivery and infant sex. Results: While models using the traditional approach found a significant association only between chorioamnionitis and composite BPD and perinatal death (OR = 1.23, 95% CI: 1.01–1.50); using the fetuses-at-risk approach, there was a significant association between chorioamnionitis and both composite outcomes (RDS and perinatal death OR = 2.74, 2.50–3.01; BPD and perinatal death OR = 5.18, 95% CI: 4.39–6.11). Conclusion: The fetuses-at-risk approach models the causal impact of chorioamnionitis on the development of the fetal lung and shows an increased risk of RDS, BPD and perinatal death associated with such maternal infection.
title: Networks of Practices: Exploring Design Opportunities for Interconnected Practices
Creators: name: Lawo, Dennis
name: Engelbutzeder, Philip
name: Esau, Margarita
name: Stevens, Gunnar
Publisher: name: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
Year: 2020

description: For over a decade, researchers from the practice-centered computing community are taking social practices as a unit of design. While the first generation focused on a social practice in isolation, more recent work argues for the (inter-)connections of mutually influencing practices as the primary unit of design. We discuss these current approaches to motivate the notion of a network of practices. Utilizing the case of food practices, we construct and analyze a network populated by the answers of 60 participants. Based on this network we suggest how to identify central elements and clusters as well as points for intervention within the overall network, but also within and in-between clusters of practices. Based on this, our work critically discusses how an understanding of practices as a network could improve practice-based research and design.