cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Applied Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Nondestructive Evaluation NDE4.0
Creators: name: Osman, Ahmad
name: Kaftandjian, Valerie
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2025
Subjects: NDE 4.0

description: The journey of NDE 4.0 is just beginning, and this Special Issue paves the way toward new horizons. How can we ensure AI earns the trust of engineers and regulators in life or-death applications? Developing explainable models and universal validation metrics is a pressing next step. As sensor networks flood us with data, scaling NDE through cloud, edge, and fog computing beckons as an urgent challenge - and opportunity. The partnership between human inspectors and AI assistants remains uncharted; optimizing this relationship could unlock new efficiencies. With industries racing toward composites and 3D-printed parts, adapting these methods to novel materials is also worthwhile. We invite researchers, engineers, and industry pioneers to address these questions. Imagine an NDE 4.0 that does not just detect flaws but predicts and prevents them - saving time, costs, and lives. This collection is your springboard; dive in, explore, and shape the future of this vibrant field.
Psychological distress among Ebola survivors discharged from Elwa 3 in Monrovia, Liberia – a qualitative study
Creators: name: Ionara Rabelo
name: Lee, Virginia
name: Mosoka P  Fallah
name: Massaquoi, Moses
name: Evlampidou, Iro
name: Decroo, Tom
name: Bergh, Rafael Van Den
name: Severy, Nathalie
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this study was to understand the mental distress experienced by Ebola survivors in Monrovia (Liberia) during hospitalization and reintegration in their community. The authors observed that exposure to death in the Ebola Treatment Unit and stigma in the communities induced post-traumatic stress reaction and depression among Ebola survivors.
Recycling contamination in the North Shore
Creators: name: Fedianina, Olga
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Human population and innovative technologies are increasing, creating growing waste in landfills. However, some waste products can be recycled and are recycled around the world. There are certain guidelines on proper recycling that have to be followed in order to achieve desired results. Yet, many people recycle incorrectly creating problems, such as contamination. Recycling contamination is a term referred to items placed in bins that cannot be recycled or materials disposed of in the wrong recycling carts (Vantol, 2011). Recycling contamination is a significant problem and is most common in multi-family dwellings (MFDs). To compare to single-family dwellings (SFDs), MFDs have lower participation rates and higher contamination rates (Vantol, 2011). The problem exists around the world. Many different levels of governments and corporations have tried to tackle the problem of contamination. In some cases proposed solutions were successful, however in some they were not. A municipal agency - The North Shore Recycling Program offers recycling services to North Vancouver. Their mission is “to make conservation second nature on the North Shore by moving the community from environmental awareness to sustainable action” (North Shore Recycling website). The agency comes across the problem of recycling contamination extremely often. Thus, they would like to be informed of the reasons behind increased recycling contamination rates in MFDs and solutions that were successfully used in other areas, as well as some that were not, in order to overcome the barriers the agency experiences.
Precision glass molding process enhancing the expanding of chip-on-tip endoscopes
Creators: name: Jiang, Cheng
name: Friedrichs, Marcel
name: Grunwald, Tim
name: Bergs, Thomas
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023
Subjects: Endoscope
Chip-on-tip
Miniaturization
Affordability
Precision glass molding
Production chain

description: A new endoscope structure called chip-on-tip is designed to reach both miniaturization and affordability beyond the conventional rigid endoscope. Hence, the precision glass molding process as a replicative manufacturing method can be integrated into the endoscopes production chain and deliver the optics with not only high quality but also reasonable cost under large production volume.
title: Gender-Aspekte bei der Einführung und Akkreditierung gestufter Studiengänge
Creators: name: Becker, Ruth
name: Jansen-Schulz, Bettina
name: Kortendiek, Beate
name: Schäfer, Gudrun
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 21
Evolution of reactive surfaces in turbulent flows
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Tejas Umesh
name: 0000-0002-2293-4053
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Turbulent premixed combustion
Turbulent burning rate enhancement

description: The growth of reactive surfaces in turbulent flows is of intrinsic interest to turbulent premixed combustion modeling. In the regimes of turbulent combustion relevant to technological flows, the global fuel burning rate is directly proportional to the area of the propagating reactive front. This dissertation aims to investigate the growth rate of the area of reactive surfaces in unsteady flow configurations and identify its functional dependence on various parameters, particularly the Reynolds number. First, a canonical flow configuration of spherical turbulent premixed flame in decaying isotropic turbulence is considered. A mathematical framework based on the flame surface density function is developed to analyze a database of large-scale direct numerical simulations. The surface area enhancement through turbulent wrinkling is found to be proportional to the product of the thickness of the turbulent flame brush; a region of space where the flame is found over repeated experiments, and the peak flame surface density within the brush. Both these quantities are studied in detail through their evolution equation derived within the proposed framework. Subsequently, the analysis is extended to the investigation of a more realistic flow configuration of the swirling von-Kármán flow device. The device consists of a set of counter-rotating impellers that generate intense turbulence through mean shear. In particular, the Reynolds number dependence of the evolution of large surfaces in shear-generated turbulence is addressed briefly.
PIGTALE. Formale Modelle für die Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Lebensmittelproduktion
Creators: name: Hausmann, Kathrin
name: Rose, Thomas
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2020
Subjects: Optimierung von Produktionsprozessen
evidenz-basierte Entscheidungsunterstützung
Rationalisierung von Tierwohl
erzeugerorientiertes Feedback von Haltungsänderungen

description: Veränderungen in der Tierhaltung, wie beispielsweise die Stalltechnik, haben weitreichende Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit der Tiere und die Effizienz der Haltungsprozesse. Gefordert sind formale Modelle, mit denen die Auswirkungen von Änderungen prognostiziert werden können. Heutige Prognosen sind vielfach qualitativer Natur. Dieses Papier stellt einen quantitativen Ansatz in den Mittelpunkt, der mit statistischer Analytik Kausalitäten zwischen Haltungsentscheidungen und Tiergesundheit ableitet. Hiermit lassen sich nicht nur Entscheidungen der Tierhaltung ökonometrisch bewerten, sondern auch der Faktor Tierwohl rationalisieren. Konkret illustrieren wir unseren Ansatz mit Prognosemodellen für Lungenerkrankungen bei Mastschweinen. Unsere Modellentwicklung basiert auf operativen Datensätzen renommierter Stakeholder der Schweinemast, die ca. 80 Millionen Tiere pro Jahr in Deutschland produzieren. Ökonomische Effizienz und Tierwohl sind keine Kontrahenten, sondern genetische Zwillinge bei quantitativer Analyse und damit rationaler Betrachtung.
title: Das Exzellenznetzwerk GARNET
Creators: name: Graf, Antonia
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 33
Implementing systematic HIV testing in a nutritional program in Niger
Creators: name: Uwiragiye, Pie
name: Tschishimbi, Donatien
name: Aboubacar Abdou  Bara
name: H. Moumouni
name: Casademont, Cristian
name: Ferreyra, Cecilia
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been supporting and integrating HIV care in the Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centers (ITFC) of Madaoua and Bouza Hospitals since 2006. This study shows higher prevalence of HIV in children admitted at ITFC than in the general population, and highlights the importance of integrating HIV activities to reduce mortality in infected children in this type of settings.
title: Interdisziplinäre und internationale Grenzüberschreitungen in der Wissenschaft - Das Maria Sibylla Merian-Postdoc-Programm
Creators: name: Schüller, Liane
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 36
Use of New Technologies for Enhanced CO2 Reduction Reactions
Creators: name: Mohammad Javad Gandomi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Carbon Dioxide
Pollution
Greenhouse Gases

description: Carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption is one of the key technologies in combating climate change. With increasing concerns about the effects of greenhouse gases, carbon capture and storage (CCS) methods have been considered as one of the effective solutions to reduce CO2 emissions. The search for sustainable and practical carbon absorption technologies has intensified in recent years. Because scientific models show that preventing catastrophic climate change means limiting carbon dioxide concentrations to less than 450 parts per million by the year 2100. The conductive electrodes are coated with a compound called polyanthraquinone, a natural chemical absorber for carbon dioxide under certain conditions. When these special conditions are not present, polyanthraquinone does not tend to absorb carbon dioxide. When activated by a low-level electric current, the charged battery reacts with passing carbon dioxide molecules and draws them to its surface. When the battery is saturated, carbon dioxide can be released as a pure gas stream with a small voltage change. Verdax technology should be able to absorb carbon dioxide from the air and its emission sources at the level of mega and gigatons. According to the assessment of the International Panel on Climate Change, the world needs to remove 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide annually by 2050, in order to keep the global temperature, rise below 2 degrees Celsius. Verdex is also developing systems for the efficient absorption and removal of carbon dioxide from the ambient air.
“When my hours are done, they are still calling me” a qualitative study of sex worker peer educators’ perspectives on their role in an HIV project in Mozambique and Malawi
Creators: name: O’Connell, Lucy
name: Venables, Emilie
name: Perez, Guillermo Martinez
name: Giuliani, Ruggero
name: Liesbet Ohler
name: Machemba, Violet
name: Jassitene, Humberto
name: Ellman, Tom
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: As part of a larger Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project supporting HIV prevention and care among sex workers in Malawi and Mozambique, the authors discuss a study on the perspectives of sex-worker peer educators on their roles as health workers.
Supplementary document for Multifunctional transmission polarization conversion metasurface based on dislocation induced anisotropy at terahertz frequency - 6130210.pdf
Creators: name: Guo, Wenpeng
name: Tan, Peng
name: Wang, Jing
name: Li, Li
name: Li, Shuai
name: Wang, Guanchao
name: Zhou, Zhongxiang
name: Tian, Hao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supporting material contains data and theoretical derivations that are not given in the manuscript, and it is a supplement to this work.
Machine Learning Meets Medicine with Jenessa Peterson
Creators: name: Peterson, Janessa
name: Seifert, Megan
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2022

description: Jenessa Peterson is a former teacher turned data scientist/engineer and Director of Learning Engineering at The Learning Agency. Her more recent work in data science has included building a web-based voter data tracking platform, anomaly detection models for skin lesions and eye disease, and a satellite imagery pipeline for NASA.
‘Trial and Error’ operational reflections on the set-up of a community engagement programme for a phase ii/iii clinical trial to identify new MDR-TB treatments in Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Pardington, Naomi
name: Stringer, Beverly
name: Bern Thomas  Nyang’wa
name: Alpamis Babaniyazov
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Led by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a multi-centre, multi-arm randomized phase II/III clinical trial in Uzbekistan aimed to identify new improved multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment regiments. This poster presents a description of the program and highlights the importance of engagement from trial onset.
title: Das Gender-Portal der Universität Duisburg-Essen
Creators: name: Mense, Lisa
name: Schönborn, Anette
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 41
Physics-Informed Learning of Aerosol Microphysics
Creators: name: Harder, Paula
name: Watson-Parris, Duncan
name: Stier, Philip
name: Straßel, Dominik
name: Gauger, Nicolas R.
name: Keuper, Janis
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Machine Learning
Aerosol particle
GPU

description: Aerosol particles play an important role in the climate system by absorbing and scattering radiation and influencing cloud properties. They are also one of the biggest sources of uncertainty for climate modeling. Many climate models do not include aerosols in sufficient detail due to computational constraints. In order to represent key processes, aerosol microphysical properties and processes have to be accounted for. This is done in the ECHAM-HAM global climate aerosol model using the M7 microphysics, but high computational costs make it very expensive to run with finer resolution or for a longer time. We aim to use machine learning to emulate the microphysics model at sufficient accuracy and reduce the computational cost by being fast at inference time. The original M7 model is used to generate data of input-output pairs to train a neural network on it. We are able to learn the variables’ tendencies achieving an average 𝑅2 score of 77.1%. We further explore methods to inform and constrain the neural network with physical knowledge to reduce mass violation and enforce mass positivity. On a GPU we achieve a speed-up of up to over 64x compared to the original model.
Contextual effects on auditory processing of moving sounds
Creators: name: Semenova, Varvara
name: Shestopalova, Lidia
name: Petropavlovskaia, Ekaterina
name: Vaitulevich, Svetlana
name: Nikitin, Nikolay
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Contextual effects on the discrimination of the relevant signal in the continuous acoustic input formed by concurrently active sound sources represent an important aspect of the auditory scene analysis in humans. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of stimulus context on active and passive discrimination of moving sound signals. Different contexts were created by reversing the role of standard and deviant stimuli in the odd-ball blocks, while their acoustical features were kept the same. Three types of stimuli were used as standards or deviants in different blocks: stationary midline noises and two patterns of sound motion produced by linear or abrupt changes of interaural time differences. In passive listening conditions (the sound stimulation ignored), auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded and mismatch negativity potentials (MMNs) were obtained. Active discrimination of sound motion was measured by hit rate (percent of correct responses) and false alarm rate, along with reaction time.

The results indicate that the influence of the stimulus context on active and passive discrimination of the moving sound stimuli manifested itself as the phenomenon known as effect of deviance direction. The hit rate and MMN amplitude were higher when the deviant moved faster than the standard. MMN magnitude was more responsive to the velocity of sound motion than the hit rate and false alarm rate. The psychophysical measurements of active motion discrimination in the reversed contexts suggest that smooth and abrupt sound motion may be subsumed under the same perceptual category of ‘moving sounds’, whereas the stationary stimuli form another perceptual category.
Who should I trust? A Visual Analytics Approach for Comparing Net Load Forecasting Models
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Kaustav
name: Kundu, Soumya
name: Chakraborty, Indrasis
name: Dasgupta, Aritra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Net load forecasting is crucial for energy planning and facilitating informed decision-making regarding trade and load distributions. However, evaluating forecasting models' performance against benchmark models remains challenging, thereby impeding experts' trust in the model's performance. In this context, there is a demand for technological interventions that allow scientists to compare models across various timeframes and solar penetration levels. This paper introduces a visual analytics-based application designed to compare the performance of deep-learning-based net load forecasting models with other models for probabilistic net load forecasting. This application employs carefully selected visual analytic interventions, enabling users to discern differences in model performance across different solar penetration levels, dataset resolutions, and hours of the day over multiple months. We also present observations made using our application through a case study, demonstrating the effectiveness of visualizations in aiding scientists in making informed decisions and enhancing trust in net load forecasting models.
description: Accepted for publication in the proceedings of 2025 IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference & Exposition (Grid Edge)
title: Promotion - und was danach?
Creators: name: Möller, Christina
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 45
Participation Readiness Assessment: Eine Grundlage zur Reflexion der Partizipationsfähigkeit zur Steuerung von Wirkungen
Creators: name: Bissling, Renaud
name: Gittig, Beatrix
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: Participation
Assessment
Readiness
Partizipation
Impact
Reflexion
Wirkung
Steuerung
Co-Creation
Kooperation

description: Die Durchdringung von Partizipation, ihre erfolgreiche Anwendung sowie ihre Wirkungsvielfalt und Potenzialschöpfung stellen die verschiedenen (auch erfahrenen) Akteure der Quadrupelhelix (dem systemischen Gefüge aus Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Politik und Forschung) regelmäßig vor große Herausforderungen, die zu einer einfachen, aber relevanten Frage führen: »Wie können Akteure reflektieren, ob sie bereit (ready) sind, Partizipation erfolgreich umzusetzen?« Das vorliegende Papier gibt einen kompakten Überblick über die verschiedenen, auf die Partizipationsfähigkeit von Akteuren innerhalb der Quadrupelhelix einwirkenden Dimensionen und deren Steuerbarkeit.
Commercial shipping noise impacts on the critical habitat of the southern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca)
Creators: name: Crystal, Danica
name: Moseley, Kristina
name: Paterson, Cassandra
name: Ryvola, Rebeka
name: Wang, Shasha
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Southern resident killer whales (SRKWs), found commonly on the south coast of British Columbia, are an endangered species struggling to maintain its population size. The critical habitat of the SRKW, an area important to the recovery of the species, is also an area traversed by commercial ships on a daily basis. Among other challenges to the whales such as habitat destruction and contamination, noise pollution produced by these commercial ships is one of the threats preventing the recovery of the SRKWs, through masking of whale communications. Masking, the interruption of killer whale vocalizations by background noise produced by ships, reduces group cohesion and forces the whales to spend more time and energy foraging, ultimately decreasing their ability to reproduce and sustain their population. The Canadian Federal Court recently established that protection of this endangered species, managed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), must take into account the impact of noise pollution on the whales, a factor that has not yet been considered. With an expected increase in commercial shipping to BC facilitated by expansions at two ports, there is potential for further threats to the SRKWs through masking of vocalizations. The purpose of this study is to examine the current masking sounds created by commercial ships in the critical habitat of the SRKW and to determine whether imposing speed limits on ships can reduce the amount of masking that occurs. The objectives of this study are to: 1. Identify the areas on the south coast of BC where ships have the potential to mask the SRKW vocalizations when the whales are inshore (May through October). 2. Determine the frequency of masking within these areas. 3. Model speed limit scenarios imposed on ships and assess the effectiveness of these limits at reducing masking sounds. 4. Recommend further research that will contribute to minimizing the effect of ship noise on this endangered population.
Human brain functional asymmetry and moving sound localization
Creators: name: Semenova, Varvara
name: Petropavlovskaia, Ekaterina
name: Shestopalova, Lidia
name: Shkurko, Aleksandra
name: Nikitin, Nikolay
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Functional asymmetry is a basic property of the human brain which affects motor, sensory and cognitive processes. There is a lot of evidence that in right-handed people right hemisphere of the brain is better fitted for the spatial information processing, regardless of the sensory modalities. The ability to localize short stationary and moving sounds under dichotic stimulation was tested in 9 right-handers and 7 left-handers. The stimuli were white noise bursts of 100, 200 and 400 ms duration with constant or linearly changing interaural time differences (ITD).

Both groups of subjects had symmetrical subjective acoustic space and equal percentage of moving stimuli perceived as stationary. In the right-handed subjects, the stationary stimuli of similar ITDs were lateralized further from the head midline. This suggests that the functional asymmetry affects subjective acoustic space metrics. The subjective onset position of moving stimuli was shifted further in the direction of motion in right-handers then in left-handers. The offset position shift differently depended on the motion parameters in two groups of subjects.  The observed differences are related to specialization and dynamic interaction of the right and left hemispheres of the brain during the localization of a moving sound source.
WMS MARKTREPORT KOMPAKT 2024
Creators: name: Malberger, Laura
name: Wings, Linda Maria
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: Marktreport
warehouse logistcs
warehouse management system
WMS
logistics
intralogistics
materialflow

description: Der »WMS MARKTREPORT KOMPAKT 2024« ist die Fortsetzung der Studienreihe des Teams von »warehouse logistics« am Fraunhofer-Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik IML. Der Report zeigt die bestimmenden Marktfaktoren sowie die neuesten Entwicklungen und Forschungstrends im Bereich der Warehouse Management Systeme (WMS) auf. Seit 24 Jahren betreibt das Team von »warehouse logistics« eine der weltweit führenden Informationsplattformen zum Vergleich von Logistik IT-Systemen. Die in den jährlichen Validierungen aufgenommenen Daten zu funktionalen und non-funktionalen Aspekten werden für den »WMS MARKTREPORT KOMPAKT« alle 2 Jahre ausgewertet. Der Marktreport stellt die Trends und Entwicklungen auf dem WMS-Markt im übersichtlichen Folienformat dar. Es werden z. B. Einblicke in den WMS-Markt hinsichtlich Marktvolumen oder Erfolgsfaktoren generiert. Ebenso wird das WMS in seinen Entwicklungsschwerpunkten oder nachgefragten Funktionalitäten näher beleuchtet. In diesem Jahr wurde der Schwerpunkt auf das Thema Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) gelegt. Im Rahmen des Marktreportes 2024 wurden verschiedene Fragestellungen untersucht, darunter: Wie hoch ist der Anteil der WMS-Anbieter, die KI einsetzen? In welcher Form wird KI angewendet und welche spezifischen Schwerpunkte werden dabei verfolgt? Diese und viele weiter Fragestellungen und Analysen finden Sie im »WMS MARKTREPORT KOMPAKT 2024«.
Sensor Requirements For Developing Robust Environment Perception Systems
Creators: name: Martin, Ron
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024

description: In recent years, sensor systems for environment perception have become increasingly important - whether for adaptive robotics, automated driving, industrial process and quality control, or condition monitoring. The aim is always to detect and interpret certain environmental characteristics. In doing so, it’s important to choose not only the right algorithm but also the right sensor or sensor system. The choice of sensor depends, of course, on its characteristics, but more importantly on the specific requirements of the application, the environmental conditions, the necessary precision and resolution, and how well it can be integrated into existing systems. The first step is to define the requirements and specifications of the application.
A UX journey into the world of early drug discovery
Creators: name: Karamanis, Nikiforos
name: Rowland, Francis
name: Cham, Jenny
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We have been designing the Open Targets* web platform (www.targetvalidation.org), a new scientific service to support researchers working within the pharmaceutical industry and academic organisations with the aim to make early drug target identification more efficient.

Developing new medicines is an extremely challenging process with more than 50% of new medicines failing in late-stage development where the cost is the greatest. One of the main reasons for attrition is insufficient knowledge about the nature of the gene or protein (target) involved in a disease. Scientists in pharmaceutical research and development use diverse data and software applications to aid decision-making for drug target identification and validation.

We will report on how we applied a range of participatory design methods including interviews, observations, sketching workshops, paper prototyping and usability testing to understand how experts carry out the very early stages of drug discovery. We will discuss the challenges of working in this domain and the extent to which standard User Experience (UX) approaches helped us understand what matters for our potential users so we could design and deliver solutions within an Agile framework.

*Open Targets is a partnership between the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, GlaxoSmithKline and Biogen. It was called Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation (CTTV) when these slides were presented.
title: Does gender matter?: Ein Vergleich männlicher und weiblicher Führungskräfte an Universitäten und im NPO-Sektor in Deutschland
Creators: name: Zimmer, Annette
name: Krimmer, Holger
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 49
Near infrared fluorescence lifetime imaging of biomolecules with carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Sistemich, Linda
name: Galonska, Phillip
name: Stegemann, Jan
name: Kruss, Sebastian
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023
Subjects: nanosensors
fluorescence lifetime
confocal microscopy
single wall carbon nanotubes
FLIM
TCSPC
dopamine

description: Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are versatile building blocks for biosensors. Their near infrared (NIR) fluorescence enables detection of biomolecules in the optical tissue transparency window. The fluorescence intensity of SWCNTs changes in response to an analyte and this interaction can be chemical tailored by the surface chemistry. However, optical signals based on intensity are affected by external factors such as sample movement or fluctuations in excitation light. Here, we demonstrate fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) of SWCNT-based sensors in the NIR as calibration-free method. For this purpose, we tailored a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) for NIR signals (>800 nm) and employed time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC). (GT)10-DNA functionalized SWCNTs are then used as sensors because they increase their fluorescence (995 nm) in response to the important neurotransmitter dopamine. Their fluorescence lifetime (> 900 nm) follows a biexponential decay and the longer lifetime component (370 ps) changes with dopamine concentration. It increases by up to 25 % with detection limits in the nM range. These sensors serve as paint to cover cells and report extracellular dopamine in 3D via FLIM. We therefore show the potential of using fluorescence lifetime in combination with confocal microscopy as readout for SWCNT-based sensors.
Visual Journaling as Reflective Research: Daily Manifestations of Creativity
Creators: name: Oppedal, Camille
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Creative process
Autoethnography

description: The premise of this project is to examine what exactly constitutes the creative process. I have attempted to record a visual journal entry every day for the span of 8-9 months, while also documenting through cellular applications relevant statistical information such as step count, weather, location, and mood. Through the documentation of my own visual creations, my mental state, and data regarding the statistical outline of the day, I have attempted to catalogue in a linear fashion the creative fluctuations of a specific time in my life. After the specified time period of keeping daily journals, I analyzed my collected data in both visual, linguistic, and numerical form, inputted it into data collection software, and examined trends and frequencies to produce a bigger picture of what my journal reflected for my creativity. Through this process, I found that creativity is a difficult concept to analyze through data. In the future, this project would be beneficial with clearer parameters, and a more focused approach, considering only one or two metrics, rather than a broad collection of various factors. Furthermore, a shorter time frame would work to combat feelings of being overwhelmed, as well as easier data analysis later on. The component of the project that proved to be the most enlightening and satisfying to me was evaluating and interpreting my chosen exhibit pieces, looking at the specific symbolism and language that was used in those pages and deciphering them through a lens of outside research, historical information regarding symbolism, and also my own memory and recollection of those days. Therefore, other potential avenues of this type of work would be relating it to psychology and the impact that visual journaling has on the mind.
title: Die Geschlechterdimension von "Social Software“ am Beispiel von Weblogs
Creators: name: Hesse, Franka
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 63
Survey on personnel resource planning in warehouses - European results
Creators: name: Kretschmer, Alina
name: Schmeltzpfenning, Kira
name: Maier, Daniela
name: Minkhofer, Stephan
name: Wienninger, Lutz-Friedrich
name: Manemann, Jona
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: RPS
Resource Planning System
Resource Planning
Personnel Resource Planning
Logistics IT
Warehouse Logistics
Intralogistik
Personelle Ressourcenplanung
Ressourcenplanungssystem
Ressourcenplanung
Logistik IT

description: The correct planning of personnel resources in warehouses poses major challenges for many companies. Increasing fluctuations in the volume and structure of incoming orders and the decreasing availability of urgently needed skilled workers are just two of the many challenges in day-to-day warehouse operations. Resource planning systems (RPS) can help to plan personnel resources efficiently. Based on the processes, the order load and the available personnel, an RPS optimizes personnel deployment, taking into account qualitative and quantitative employee capacities. The survey on personnel resource planning in warehouses creates transparency about the current use of resource planning systems in European warehouses and spreads knowledge about possible tools and methods for personnel resource planning in logistics. The survey was conducted by Fraunhofer IML via online questionnaires and took place in the period from 2nd of January 2024 to 5th of May 2024. 166 locations of at least 83 companies participated. Various industries and company sizes were integrated to provide a comprehensive overview of the usage of resource planning systems. The survey was conducted in Europe with focus on the DACH region, Italy, France, Poland, UK and Spain.
title: Chancen und Grenzen der Telemedizin für Frauen in der kardiologischen Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Osterloh-Trittmann, Iris
name: Hornberg, Claudia
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 66
Effect of a Fungal Biopesticide on the Honey Bee
Creators: name: Shultz, Riley
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Honey bees
Entomology

description: Honey bee health has been declining; annual hive loss rates have exceeded 35% in recent years. While there are many factors that are contributing to poor honey bee health, including pathogens, poor nutrition and pesticides, the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor is the most commonly reported cause of hive deaths. Washington State University’s Entomology and Plant Pathology programs have worked to develop a new strain of entomopathogenic fungus in the genus Metarhizium that kills mites. Previous research suggests treatment with fungal spores that are nonpathogenic to bees results in an increase expression of immune function genes in honey bees. Although Metarhizium shows promise in relation to boosting bee immune function, it has yet to be completely characterized.
description: An experiment was conducted to test whether Metarhizium brunneum has significant effect on V. destructor mortality rates, as well as increased longevity and immune function of Apis mellifera. Caged bees were treated with varying doses of Metarhizium (control, low, medium, or high) and incubated at 32°C. Varroa and honey bee mortality was tracked for 20 days. It was found that treatment did not significantly increase mite mortality in relation to control; however, bees treated with a high dose lived significantly longer than control bees (t-test p=0.05 set a-priori). RNA was extracted from the honey bees and gene expression of immune related genes was analyzed using quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR). Some immune regulation genes, such as Apidaecin and Dorsal 2 had statistically significant immune regulation trends. While not all data had significant differences, there were promising trends that could be further confirmed with larger sample sizes. Subsequent trials with stronger doses of Metarhizium should be performed to find significant data across each immune regulator.
Quantum Neural Networks under Depolarization Noise: Exploring White-Box Attacks and Defenses
Creators: name: Winderl, David
name: Franco, Nicola
name: Lorenz, Jeanette Miriam
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: quantum machine learning
QML
quantum computing
adversarial robustness
adversarial attack

description: Leveraging the unique properties of quantum mechanics, Quantum Machine Learning (QML) promises computational breakthroughs and enriched perspectives where traditional systems reach their boundaries. However, similarly to classical machine learning, QML is not immune to adversarial attacks. Quantum adversarial machine learning has become instrumental in highlighting the weak points of QML models when faced with adversarial crafted feature vectors. Diving deep into this domain, our exploration shines light on the interplay between depolarization noise and adversarial robustness. While previous results enhanced robustness from adversarial threats through depolarization noise, our findings paint a different picture. Interestingly, adding depolarization noise discontinued the effect of providing further robustness for a multi-class classification scenario. Consolidating our findings, we conducted experiments with a multi-class classifier adversarially trained on gate-based quantum simulators, further elucidating this unexpected behavior.
Energy conservation and behaviour change opportunities at UBC
Creators: name: Karu, Chris
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This project was undertaken over a 4 month course entitled Geography 419 Research in Environmental Geography and in conjunction with the community partner UBC SEEDS (Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Studies). The overarching aim, as requested by UBC SEEDS was to use community based social marketing (CBSM) to determine what barriers exist for UBC staff in the workplace to reduce energy consumption regarding lighting, computer use, and shared equipment use. The results of this were used to recommend how best to motivate staff to decrease their energy conservation consumption accordingly. As per the CBSM methodology and course requirements, a literature review of the theoretical and empirical studies of behaviour change and energy conservation was undertaken to better understand the subject. Following this a survey was designed, edited, piloted, and then administered attempting to understand the barriers to implementation. Results of the survey demonstrate which of the activities are least performed and why individuals do not undertake them. From these results, select behaviour change tools are recommended to be implemented by UBC SEEDS in conjunction with the UBC Sustainability Office.
title: Vielfalt in der Unternehmerschaft. Das Selbstbild von Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmern im internationalen Vergleich
Creators: name: Borryss, Christine
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Gelsenkirchen 05/19/2006, organisiert von Andrea D. Bührmann, Katrin Hansen, Martina Schmeink, Aira Schöttelndreier
description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 79
Finding the Middle Market: Creating A Senior Living Product That Will Serve Middle-Income Americans
Creators: name: Warren, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Senior living communities

description: By 2050, there will be more than 80 million residents in the United States who are over the age of 65, and of those, roughly 8.75 million are expected to reside in senior living communities. Currently, there are only about 3.15 million senior housing units. The industry will need to nearly triple in size to accommodate this population. Unfortunately, the present market only accommodates two paying groups: those who are wholly or partially funded by the government, and those who privately fund their housing and care without government assistance. A large middle market exists between the 41 st and 80th income percentiles consisting of seniors who have too much money to qualify for government assistance but too little to fund the model that is currently available. This research aims to find out how the middle market can be served, what resources would need to be available, and at what price it would be affordable. While creating an affordable product to accommodate a large, aging demographic is a global challenge, this research focuses on finding a solution in the United States. For this study, five focus groups were conducted, each made up of 7-10 participants, with 41 participants in total. Discussion topics included potential amenities and services within the community, dining options, resident perceptions, healthcare, property operations, pricing, staff characteristics, and COVID-19. Once the focus groups’ responses were transcribed, qualitative analysis software Atlas.ti was used to find commonalities in the data. This study presents the most widespread ideas from participants on the aforementioned discussion topics and addresses the importance and feasibility of each.
Episodic Ozone Pollution in the Lower Fraser Valley, BC: A Tale of Three Episodes
Creators: name: Moisseeva, Nadya
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The spatiotemporal characteristics of episodic ozone pollution in the Lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia have changed markedly over the past two decades. These changes are documented by Ainslie and Steyn (2007), who hypothesize that they have come about because of reductions in ozone precursor emissions strength, driven by aggressive air quality management plans. This study sheds further light on this phenomenon by a parallel spatiotemporal analysis of three notable episodes, one in 1988, one in 1998 and one in 2009. These three episodes span the emissions reductions initiatives, and the analysis is designed to cast light on potential for future air quality management strategies. The analysis is based on a combined air quality and meteorological definition of an ozone episode. This paper investigates the particular meteorological conditions during each of these episodes, and shows that the most recent episode is characterized by record high temperatures, and suppression of the mixed layer, distinct from other episodes. In spite of reduced total emissions, the unusual meteorological conditions provide a context in which ozone pollution can still exceed applicable standards. The paper speculates on the implications for ozone pollution episodes in changed climates.
title: Re-Visionen der Zukunft: Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung: Internationaler wissenschaftlicher Kongress 4. bis 6. Mai 2006, TU Braunschweig
Creators: name: Vieth, Annette
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300

description: Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW, vol. 2006, no. 21, p. 82
Defining Utopia: Continuity and Change in Back-to-Land Movements in the Pacific Northwest, 1890s-2010s
Creators: name: Wavra, Lucy
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Back-to-Land Movements
Pacific Northwest
Environmental Conservation
Regions of the United States

description: The history of counterculture movements in the Pacific Northwest is expansive, and people have been creating small countercultural communities centered around the back-to-land movement since the industrial revolution. Modernity pushed humanity farther from the land as machines slowly began taking the jobs of humans, and as facets of life (such as farming) became more industrialized. The Pacific Northwest has been fertile ground for counterculture groups over the last 100 years. These groups have resisted this abandonment of tradition for various reasons – for example, colony members along the Puget Sound in the 1890s resisted industrialism as a way to resist industrial capitalism and turn toward anarchism, socialism, and communism. Another example takes shape in the 1970s in the wake of the environmental movement, as radical counterculturalists reached back to their small-scale farming roots in order to become more sustainable and extend the longevity of the planet. Furthermore, with the rise in popularity of the internet for promoting social movements, Tilth has reached into contemporary social media strategies for spreading their back-to-land ideologies. This paper ultimately argues that in three key periods the countercultural impulse to go back to the land, rely on community dynamics, and become sustainable took a regional form in the Pacific Northwest, and that this pattern of rejecting mainstream societies reemerges throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as forms of social activism; furthermore, in the context of these groups there is a primary focus on alternative forms of communication, gathering, and community.
description: In order to study these cultural trends in the Northwest across time, I used Washington State University and University of Washington archival resources, and compared them against secondary literature on a wide range of contexts and subjects. This project required me to study Washington State history in the nineteenth century, and the economic and feminist contexts of History 469 with Dr. Sanders. In this class, we studied Washington State University’s Tilth collection, and wrote an original research paper using the sources available through the university. This paper is an extension of that original research, and a majority of this paper will focus on the Tilth Alliance’s origins in the 1970s and its contexts. This research will also analyze the precedents set by the colonies in the 1890s and the legacies in communications and gatherings of the present day will show the continuity of the back-to-land counterculture across time and space in the Northwest; therefore, it adds context for the countercultural movements that preceded Tilth in the Northwest – this paper also extends Tilth’s back-to-land reaches into the twenty-first century, and the use of social media in food activism.