cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The influence of the composition of eight-atom Pt–Ir clusters on the magnetic properties
Creators: name: Nengwen Long
name: Jiguang Du
name: Jiang, Gang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Chemistry
Physics
Biophysics

description: The energetic stability, electronic structure and magnetic properties of Pt8–nIrn clusters have been investigated by employing the spin-polarised generalised gradient approximation. The cubic structure is expected to be the effective building block in Ir-rich clusters after optimisation extensively. The average binding energy of all the clusters presents the linear increment trend with iridium atoms, due to the stronger interaction between Ir atoms than Pt atoms. Bader charge analysis shows how tiny charge transfers from iridium to platinum. The atomic moments of Ir are larger than that of Pt, and the Ir-rich clusters show greater moments than the Pt-rich cluster, with the exception of Ir8 and Ir7Pt. A unique magnetic property is found in the Pt4Ir4 cluster, where two Pt atoms show antiferromagnetic alignment and the other atoms are found to be aligned ferromagnetically.
The Future of e-Research Infrastructures
Creators: name: Schroeder, Ralph
name: Meyer, Eric
name: Eccles, Kathryn
name: Kertcher, Zack
name: Barjak, Franz
name: Hüsing, Tobias
name: Robinson, Simon
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: e-Science
subject: e-Infrastruktur
subject: Forschungsinfrastruktur
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: In this paper, we present selected results of a systematic study of different types of e-Research infrastructures. The paper is based on ongoing research to compare a range of e-Infrastructures of broad diversity focusing on: geographical diversity, representing efforts from around the globe; disciplinary diversity, including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities; organizational diversity, for example, multi-institutional or federated; diverse levels of maturity, from those in the planning stage to those with a well-established user base; and diverse types of target user communities such as specialized niche, discipline-wide, or generic infrastructures. In presenting six initial cases, we discuss some general features that distinguish between different types of infrastructures across different fields of research. Previous analyses of e-Infrastructures have focused on the parallels between these infrastructures and the major infrastructures in society that support national populations. What our cases highlight instead is that e-Infrastructures consist of multiple types of overlapping and intersecting socio-technical configurations that serve quite diverse needs and groups of users. Indeed, the very term ‘infrastructures’ may be misleading insofar as it connotes support of whole communities of researchers on a large scale, which is currently still premature. The paper derives implications of this heterogeneity for the future outlook on e-Infrastructures.
Gas-liquid mass transfer intensification for bubble generation and breakup in micronozzles
Creators: name: Reichmann, Felix
name: Herath, Jakob
name: Mensing, Lena
name: Kockmann, Norbert
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Gas-liquid mass transfer
subject: Micronozzle
subject: Bubble breakup
subject: Resazurin oxidation
subject: 660

description: The local gas-liquid mass transfer was characterized during bubble generation in T-contactors and in an adjacent micronozzle. A colorimetric technique with the oxygen sensitive dye resazurin was investigated to visualize gas-liquid mass transfer during slug flow, bubble deformation, as well as laminar and turbulent bubble breakup in the wake of a micronozzle. Two optimized nozzle geometries from previous studies were evaluated concerning volumetric mass transfer coefficients for low pressure loss, narrow residence time distribution, or high dispersion rates. Highest values in kla up to 60 s−1 were found for turbulent bubble breakup and an optimized micronozzle design in respect to pressure drop and dispersion rate. The achieved mass transfer coefficients were correlated with the energy dissipation rate within the micronozzles and with the inverse Kolmogorov time scale in vortex dissipation in good agreement for laminar and turbulent breakup regimes.
description: Journal of flow chemistry;Vol. 11. 2021, issue 3, pp 429–444
Warum müssen moderne Geldwirtschaften wachsen?
Creators: name: Binswanger, Mathias
name: Beltrani, Guido
name: Kölbl, Robert
Publisher: name: Peter Lang
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: Drei Jahre lang beschäftigte sich eine Projektgruppe des Club of Vienna mit Aspekten des Kapitalismus, des Neoliberalismus und der Globalisierung. Das Ziel war, die innewohnenden Mechanismen, die Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen Sphären der Gesellschaft, der Politik, der Wirtschaft, der Ökosphäre zu verstehen, Fehlentwicklungen zu erkennen und Vorschläge für Problemlösungen zu formulieren. Die mit der kapitalistischen Ausbeutung verbundene Zunahme an so genanntem materiellen Wohlstand findet jedoch außerhalb bestehender Naturgrenzen statt, da wesentlich mehr Ressourcen aus sich erschöpfenden Vorräten abgebaut werden, als aus sich erneuernden Quellen nachfließen können. Verschärfend erzwingt das derzeitige und auf Regeln jenseits der Evolution errichtete Geldsystem Raubbau an den Ressourcen und ihre unsoziale Verteilung, wozu auch die technischen Möglichkeiten immer mehr genutzt werden. Es wird gezeigt, wie derartige Übel durch eine technische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung entstehen konnten, die immer mehr in zukünftiges und entferntes Leben eingreift, ohne von der synchronen Entwicklung einer ausreichenden Verantwortung begleitet zu sein.
MODES: model-based optimization on distributed embedded systems
Creators: name: Shi, Junjie
name: Bian, Jiang
name: Richter, Jakob
name: Chen, Kuan-Hsun
name: Rahnenführer, Jörg
name: Xiong, Haoyi
name: Chen, Jian-Jia
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 004

description: The predictive performance of a machine learning model highly depends on the corresponding hyper-parameter setting. Hence, hyper-parameter tuning is often indispensable. Normally such tuning requires the dedicated machine learning model to be trained and evaluated on centralized data to obtain a performance estimate. However, in a distributed machine learning scenario, it is not always possible to collect all the data from all nodes due to privacy concerns or storage limitations. Moreover, if data has to be transferred through low bandwidth connections it reduces the time available for tuning. Model-Based Optimization (MBO) is one state-of-the-art method for tuning hyper-parameters but the application on distributed machine learning models or federated learning lacks research. This work proposes a framework MODES that allows to deploy MBO on resource-constrained distributed embedded systems. Each node trains an individual model based on its local data. The goal is to optimize the combined prediction accuracy. The presented framework offers two optimization modes: (1) MODES-B considers the whole ensemble as a single black box and optimizes the hyper-parameters of each individual model jointly, and (2) MODES-I considers all models as clones of the same black box which allows it to efficiently parallelize the optimization in a distributed setting. We evaluate MODES by conducting experiments on the optimization for the hyper-parameters of a random forest and a multi-layer perceptron. The experimental results demonstrate that, with an improvement in terms of mean accuracy (MODES-B), run-time efficiency (MODES-I), and statistical stability for both modes, MODES outperforms the baseline, i.e., carry out tuning with MBO on each node individually with its local sub-data set.
description: Machine learning;Vol. 110. 2021, issue 6, pp 1527-1547
Ab ins Ausland - Im Ausland leben, reisen, studieren, arbeiten
Creators: name: Winistörfer, Norbert
Publisher: name: Beobachter
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 659 - Werbung & Public Releations (PR)

description: Lust auf Kofferpacken? Sehnsucht nach Exotischem? Jährlich realisieren 32'000 Schweizerinnen und Schweizer diesen Wunsch und wandern aus. Die Neuausgabe des Beobachter-Standardwerks zeigt, wie der Auslandsaufenthalt gelingt. Welche Chancen bieten sich im Ausland? Wie bereiten sich Globetrotter, Arbeitnehmende, Pensionäre oder Studierende am besten vor? Was ist in Sachen AHV, Steuern, Kranken- und Pensionskasse vorzukehren? Wie gelingt die Rückkehr in die Schweiz? Das Handbuch bietet handfeste Informationen zu allen relevanten Themen: Finanzen, Versicherungen, Abmeldung und Umzug. Das neu erarbeitete Handbuch enthält viele praktische Tipps und rund 100 Adressen, die bei der seriösen Reiseplanung hilfreich sind. So rückt der Traum vom Ausland in greifbare Nähe.
To know or not to know: the uses of transference in PhD supervision
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Drawing on my personal experience of supervision, this paper demonstrates how crucial an analysis of transference may be to the outcome of PhD projects in the discipline of writing in particular. Taken in its specificity, the term ‘transference’ applies strictly to analytic treatment. However, both Freud and Lacan have, in their own ways, pointed to its wider implications for understanding human interactions in the field of pedagogy. Freud’s definition of transference as a ‘displacement from one idea to another’ led Lacan to reconceptualise it in terms of the three registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real with reference to the role of ‘the subject supposed to know’ (Freud 1900: 562; Lacan 1977 [1964]: 232). Further, over the last twenty years, writing teachers have vigorously discussed the implications of both Freudian and Lacanian models. This paper is in two parts. First, focusing on the Lacanian model, it demonstrates how an analysis of transference between candidate and supervisor may be instrumental to the success of PhD candidatures in writing. Second, it offers three supervision casestudies where transference was particularly problematic in order to identify factors that are critical to the positive outcome of the supervisory relationship, and hence the successful completion of doctorates.
Excavation of buried Dun Mountain–Maitai terrane ophiolite by volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic field, New Zealand
Creators: name: KB Spörli
name: PM Black
name: JM Lindsay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: We present a description of the crustal rocks that underlie the Auckland Volcanic Field (AVF) based on a diverse suite of country rock-derived lithic clasts in the phreatomagmatic tuff of Glover Park and Taylors Hill volcanoes. The clasts are dominated by mafic schistose and non-schistose, amphibolite grade, meta-igneous (metabasite) rocks. Structural and mineralogical studies of these rocks reveal a complex structural and metamorphic history, including metasomatism and retrogressive metamorphism, which can be linked to their deformation history. These metabasites have no genetic relationship with associated AVF basalts. Location, composition, deformation, metamorphism and metasomatism indicate that the metabasite clasts come from a melange along the eastern boundary of the ophiolite that causes the regional Junction Magnetic Anomaly (JMA), which passes beneath the Auckland region and connects up with exposures of the Dun Mountain–Maitai terrane of the South Island. This conclusion is supported by one specimen from a suite of lower-grade metamorphic, greywacke-type clastic ejecta that contains shell fragments which we interpret as equivalents of the Atomodesma fragments in the Dun Mountain–Maitai terrane. Other lithic ejecta are sandstones from the underlying Miocene Waitemata Group, Mesozoic greywacke with prehnite veins, and chert. Pervasive cataclasite networks in the lithic clasts indicate that the Glover Park and Taylors Hill volcanoes mined a crustal fault zone within the Mesozoic basement several hundred metres deep, at an unconformity between basement rocks and overlying Cenozoic sediments.
Ring galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations
Creators: name: Elagali, Ahmed
name: Lagos, Claudia D.P.
name: IvyWong, O.
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Trayford, James W.
name: Schaller, Matthieu
name: Yuan, Tiantian
name: Abadi, Mario G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We study the formation and evolution of ring galaxies in the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) simulations. We use the largest reference model Ref-L100N1504, a cubic cosmological volume of 100 cMpc on a side, to identify and characterize these systems through cosmic time. The number density of ring galaxies in EAGLE is in broad agreement with the observations. The vast majority of ring galaxies identified in EAGLE (83 per cent) have an interaction origin, i.e. form when one or more companion galaxies drop-through a disc galaxy. The remainder (17 per cent) have very long-lived ring morphologies (> 2Gyr) and host strong bars. Ring galaxies are HI-rich galaxies, yet display inefficient star formation activity and tend to reside in the green valley particularly at z ≳ 0.5. This inefficiency is mainly due to the low pressure and metallicity of their interstellar medium (ISM) compared with the ISM of similar star-forming galaxies.We find that the interaction(s) is responsible for decreasing the ISM pressure by causing the ISM gas to flow from the inner regions to the outer disc, where the ring feature forms. At a fixed radius, the star formation efficiency of ring galaxies is indistinguishable from their star-forming counterparts, and thus themain reason for their integrated lower efficiency is the different gas surface density profiles. Since galaxy morphologies are not used to tune the parameters in hydrodynamical simulations, the experiment performed here demonstrates the success of the current numerical models in EAGLE.
In-plane drift capacity of point fixed glass facade systems
Creators: name: Sivanerupan, Siva
name: Gad, Emad
name: Lam, Nelson
name: Wilson, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The point fixed glass facade system (PFGFS), also known as a spider glass system, is popular as it is the most elegant option among architects particularly compared to framed glass facade systems. The system is fixed onto the support structure at minimal points using bolts and metal clamps. Generally the racking performance of these systems is not considered at the design stage. If the system does not have enough in-plane drift capacity it will be vulnerable in racking actions mainly during earthquakes and wind actions. A unique real scale in-plane racking laboratory test on a typical point fixed glass facade system was conducted. The major aim of the project is to assess the in-plane racking performance of PFGFS. In this paper, the laboratory test setup and the experimental results are discussed. A maximum drift of 2.1% was measured which was much larger than initially anticipated due to the rigid body articulation of the system. Analytical studies were carried out to interpret the racking behaviour of the PFGFS using the experimental results and presented and future research prospects are also discussed.
'Research skills are vital in all facets of life': research perceptions, expectations and experiences of undergraduate students
Creators: name: Lang, Catherine
name: Buzwell, Simone
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Our university, like many others in Australia, is determined to explore different strategies to build stronger research experiences for undergraduate students into the curriculum. During the course of a recent investigation, students were surveyed to ascertain their perceptions, expectations and experiences of research in their undergraduate degrees. The purpose of the student survey was to explore students’ attitudes to a proposal for a research intensive minor which was being proposed as an option in undergraduate courses. The student responses indicate that the majority of those surveyed had a varied and broad understanding of what constituted research. Many of the student opinions and definitions specifically related to the discipline that they were currently studying. We were pleased to find that many of those surveyed expressed an appreciation of the importance of independent research skills to their future employability. The findings from this survey contribute the student voice to the wider discourse around building stronger teaching–research links into undergraduate degree programs.
Improving undergraduates' performance via an embedded generic skills program
Creators: name: Bamforth, Jill
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Government and students expect universities to provide skills, knowledge and attributes that contribute to the country’s and individual’s gain. In 2008, the Bradley Report highlighted deficiencies in this regard, and called for universities to provide quality academic provision, increased student enrolments and higher completion rates. Central to achieving this is the development of generic skills, which provide the foundation through which discipline specific knowledge and skills are demonstrated. Whilst their importance is universally recognised, research into their successful development is limited and shows mixed performance results. This paper aims to contribute to these goals by reporting on the preliminary findings of an embedded intervention program targeting first year management students at Swinburne University of Technology. The program invites students to identify perceived areas of concern in their generic skill sets, which are then used to customise a workshop delivered early in the term as part of their unit. Preliminary analysis shows most students entered the management unit with both high, unrealistic result expectations and significant confidence in their generic skill sets. During the term, both changed, with over 50% finding the embedded program useful. The overall impact of the program on academic results compared to previous years was marginal but insights into specific areas of concern were identified. These may assist those considering implementing generic skill support programs. More research is now needed to identify the parameters of the response needed to bring significant change in performance.
MPEC 2025-J09 : 2025 HP22
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 HP22

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Product design engineering: interdisciplinary pedagogy integrating engineering science with 'designerly ways'
Creators: name: de Vere, Ian
name: Melles, Gavin
name: Kapoor, Ajay
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Product design and development teams are now multidisciplinary environments which require designers and engineers to collaborate harmoniously. This integrated approach enables new synergies and an extension of service provision, which leads engineering into fresh areas of professional activity but challenges traditional engineering education. The characteristics of product design and development have also changed. There is greater focus on sustainable design, socially responsible design and design for need; opportunities exist for designers to make a positive contribution to the welfare of global communities whilst advancing technologies that support sustainable development. In this changing environment, design engineers must assume new responsibilities and a greater role to achieve successful product realisation. However to be effective, they require new skills including creative design ability and a human-centred approach. These are not attributes commonly addressed by engineering curricula, but are evident in an emerging paradigm; Product Design Engineering (PDE) which integrates industrial design and mechanical engineering curricula. These interdisciplinary engineers are proficient in both design and engineering roles and make valuable contributions to more integrated product design and development environments. This paper investigates the emergence of this paradigm and the innovative curricula developed though collaboration between the design and engineering faculties at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Peak seismic displacement demand and second corner period
Creators: name: Lumantarna, E
name: Wilson, John
name: Lam, Nelson
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The displacement demand on linear elastic single-degree-of-freedom systems for 5% damping would typically increase monotonically with increasing natural period up to the limit which is known as the second corner period (T2). The maximum displacement demand (RSDmax) and the associated T2 phenomena has great engineering significance in situations where the estimated RSDmax value is within the drift capacity of the structure as the latter can be deemed safe irrespective of its natural period properties. The earthquake magnitude dependence of T2 is well established. The displacement response spectrum model stipulated by the current Australian Standard for Seismic Actions has the value of T2 specified at 1.5 seconds based on an assumed earthquake magnitude of 7. Results presented in this paper offer support for this recommendation, but also reveal a possible influence on the value of T2 from the regionally dependent stress drop associated with the earthquake rupture. This finding offers a plausible explanation for the diverse range of T2 values that have been observed from earthquakes across the globe.
Performance of tall reinforced concrete chimney structures in the 2010 Chilean earthquake
Creators: name: Wilson, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper describes the performance of four tall reinforced concrete chimneys which were subject to significant ground shaking during the 2010 Mw8.8 Chilean earthquake event. The chimneys were all recently constructed using the 'New Chimney Design' where the reinforced concrete chimney is designed for ductility in accordance with the CICIND code and the internal face is directly lined with the 'Pennguard Block' lining system. Such chimneys are expected to perform well under seismic loading due to their ductile behaviour and lightweight lining. Overall the 'New Chimney Design' performed very well under extreme earthquake ground shaking. The two northern power station chimneys of height 95m were subject to ground shaking with a PGV in the order of 100mm/sec, whilst the two southern power station chimneys of height 130m and 100m were located directly within the fault rupture zone region, with PGV in the order of 200-250mm/sec. All chimneys performed very well, with either no cracking or minor circumferential cracks with a maximum thickness of around 0.2mm. The paper provides an overview of the expected ground motion in the form of response spectra and compares the predicted and actual response behaviour of the chimney structures.
Patriotism and its discontents: a small town in a great strike
Creators: name: Kimber, Julie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Much ink has been spilt on the question of the General Strike of 1917. Despite nuances of interpretation there exists a general consensus that the strike was a product of the deeply disruptive social, economic and political circumstances of World War I. This paper seeks to add to that discussion through a vignette of the strike, as it played out in the town of Orange in central western NSW. The battle for the meaning of words unleashed during the period illustrates the now well-known fault lines of power and social control embedded in Australia.
A professional development framework for teaching in higher education
Creators: name: Brown, Natalie
name: Bower, Matt
name: Skalicky, Jane
name: Wood, Leigh
name: Donovan, Diane
name: Bloom, Walter
name: Joshi, Nalini
name: Loch, Birgit
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper outlines a professional development framework for teachers in higher education, based on the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework. The framework outlined in this paper has been designed to align with a range of other evolving models of tertiary teaching standards, extending these to identify performance indicators at three different levels of operation: teaching classes, coordinating units and, leading programs. The model is generic in terms of its overall design, but explicitly incorporates disciplinarity within the levels of operation to enable application to a variety of fields. The way in which this framework will be tailored for teaching mathematical sciences, as part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Project, is also discussed.
Novartis: Demonstrating Leadership through Emissions Reductions
Creators: name: Mathews, Helen
name: Daub, Claus-Heinrich
Publisher: name: Greenleaf Publishing
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 650 - Management

description: This chapter analyses the reasons for Novartiss voluntary commitment to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. It explores firstly the background to the corporate feeling of a moral imperative to reduce emissions. The wide range of internal measures taken to achieve the reduction target are then discussed, along with the challenges of implementing them in a decentralised firm. These internal measures include energy efficiency improvements, raising employees energy awareness and transitioning to a cleaner car fleet. As internal emission reductions are projected to be insufficient to achieve the target in the given time-frame, investments have also been made in external emission reduction projects. The chapter concludes that the implementation of the voluntary target may have increased shareholder value by lowering employee turnover, improving reputation, lowering exposure to future costs of carbon and lowering the cost of capital. Improvements in data capture systems are required to accurately quantify these effects.
Erfolgreich durch neue Management- und Marketingstrategien in Zeiten der Wirtschaftskrise?
Creators: name: Ergenzinger, Rudolf
name: Krulis-Randa, Jan S.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 650 - Management

description: Gegenstand des Sammelbands sind Erfolgsfaktoren für das Management von Unternehmen. In insgesamt 16 Beiträgen werden angemessene Konzepte u.a. aus dem Strategischen Management, dem Marketing, der Finanzierung und dem Personalmanagement dargestellt. Die Autoren sind Professoren aus Europa sowie den USA sowie namhafte Praktiker.
Employing interdisciplinary collaborations to redefine academic practices in a university nursing program
Creators: name: Lawrence, Jeanette
name: Loch, Birgit
name: Galligan, Linda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper documents how interdisciplinary collaborations between academic staff helped redefine academic practices in the first year undergraduate Nursing program conducted at the University of Southern Queensland. The interdisciplinary collaborations constituted a response to the various contexts currently impacting the higher education sector in Australia. These contexts include changes in pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, academic identity, technology, research-informed learning, student and stakeholder expectations as well as the challenges of managing an increasingly diverse student body. The interdisciplinary boundaries were crossed so that academic practices were integrated to assist student nurses to transfer the academic, literacy, numeracy, e-learning and information technology attributes they need if they are to succeed at university and in the nursing profession. This research study used a continuous evaluative methodology to test the effectiveness of these academic practices from three perspectives: the staff, student and institutional perspectives. Overall, the evidence suggests that these interdisciplinary, embedded, situated and scaffolded academic practices enhance students' capabilities to make successful transitions both to the university and into the nursing profession.
Communities and Personalization for Individual Products
Creators: name: Koch, Michael
name: Möslein, Kathrin
name: Schubert, Petra
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Virtual Communities
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: The use of electronic media for economic transactions adds a new potential to the vendor-buyer relationship. It gives the customer a voice, an input channel from which he or she can participate in a number of activities such as product development, feedback, support for other customers, recommendations etc. This can be in the form of active participation or simply a sharing of preferences. The structuring and organization of this participation may empower the customer and may result in new kinds of dynamics in customer collaboration.
Borne and bread: McDonaldization, individualization and ethnicity
Creators: name: Benny, Helen
name: Ballantyne, Glenda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two broad strands can be discerned in theoretical approaches to production and consumption of food in contemporary societies. On the one hand, there has been a focus on rationalization process with attention centred on the standardizing and homogenizing outcomes. The other significant focus has been on differentiation where, initially, arguments dealt with class-based differentiation. More recently, arguments addressing the spread and intensification of individualization in the contemporary world have challenged both the thesis of homogenization and class-based differentiation. There have been few attempts to bring the two strands together into a comprehensive theoretical or conceptual framework for the sociology of food. A conspicuous absence in both theses concerns the interconnections of food and ethnicity. Where ethnicity and food are considered together they are treated as expressions of self-identity or symbolic ethnicity. These issues are important but don‘t consider the relevance of enduring ethnic cuisines to the question of rationalization and its limits. In this regard, a focus on the persistence of ethnic cuisines sheds light on localization, the countertrends to homogenization, the continuing significance of collective belonging, and the interplay between traditional foodways, individualization and the industrialized food industry.
Internet-Plattform für eine Learning Community im Projektmanagement (2. Erfahrungsbericht)
Creators: name: Leimstoll, Uwe
name: Schubert, Petra
name: Dettling, Walter
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB), Institut für angewandte Betriebsökonomie (IAB)
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Distance Learning
subject: Document Management
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Die Vermittlung von praxisnahem Wissen ist eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Fachhochschulen. Aus diesem Grund führen die Studierenden der Betriebsökonomie der Fachhochschule beider Basel (FHBB) im dritten und vierten Semester eine Projektarbeit durch. Diese Arbeiten in Teams von vier bis fünf Studierenden, die über ca. sieben Monate gehen, werden von einer interessierten Firma in Auftrag gegeben und von einem Dozierenden begleitet. Am Departement Wirtschaft, das ein Kompetenzzentrum für E-Business beherbergt, ist es naheliegend, dass bei der Abwicklung dieser Projektarbeiten ein internetbasierendes Werkzeug zum Einsatz gelangt. Das Institut für angewandte Betriebsökonomie (IAB) übernimmt dabei die Rolle der Auftragsakquisition, Koordination und Qualitätssicherung. Die zuständigen Mitarbeiter betreiben aktiv und ganzjährig Kommunikation mit Unternehmen aus der Region Basel und akquirieren Aufträge für Projekt- und Diplomarbeiten für die Studierenden der Betriebsökonomie.
Elektronische Beschaffung - E-Business pragmatisch
Creators: name: Dettling, Walter
Publisher: name: SAGE
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Der Einkauf via Internet rückt mehr und mehr in den Fokus vieler Unternehmen. 60% der internetnutzenden Firmen geben an, das Internet für die Beschaffung zu verwenden. Ziel dieser Projekte sind nicht so sehr Umsatz- als vielmehr Effizienzsteigerungen: Bei grösserer Auswahl schneller beschaffen und gleichzeitig interne Prozesse optimieren. Dabei gehen die Unternehmen heute pragmatisch vor. Kleinere, gut abgegrenzte Projekte ohne visionären Anspruch sind heute die Realität im E-Business. Das aber mit Erfolg, wie Walter Dettlings Schlussfolgerungen aus 12 Projekten verschiedener Unternehmen zeigen.
Evolution des teneurs en polyamines dans les boutons floraux, les fleurs et les jeunes baies de Vitis vinifera L. (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon) atteints d’eutypiose
Creators: name: Rifai, L. A.
name: Koussa, T.
name: Fassouane, A.
name: Dubos, B.
name: Broquedis, M.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Development of polyamine levels in flower buds, flowers and young berries of Vitis vinifera L. (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon) infected by eutypiosis fungus, Eutypa lata Effects of eutypiosis on polyamines (PAs) and tyramine contents in flower buds, flowers and young berries of grapevine were studied to determine the relationship between these components and disease development. The study was performed using organs (1) from healthy vines, (2) healthy appearing organs from vines with one symptomless arm and one diseased arm, and (3) diseased organs. Free PAs, conjugated polyamines ( PAs-fpm) and wall-bound polyamines (PAs-mm) were analysed in Vitis vinifera L. cv. Cabernet Sauvignon which is sensitive to eutypiosis. An increase of PAs-mm and a decrease of free PAs were observed in diseased organs; particularly putrescine and diaminopropane were concerned. On the other hand these substances were not affected by eutypiosis in the healthy appearing organs. Alterations of free PAs and PAs-mm in diseased organs were correlated with alteration of the flowering process. In contrast, the PAsfpm levels decreased in diseased organs in response to eutypiosis whereas they increased in healthy appearing organs. This group of PAs seems to play an important role in the response to Eutypa lata attacks to prevent the expression of symptoms. Accumulation of the conjugated tyramine in diseased and healthy appearing organs as a response to eutypiosis might be used as marker of Eutypa lata infection.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 3 (2004): Vitis
Effects of resveratrol, viniferins and pterostilbene on Plasmopara viticola zoospore mobility and disease development
Creators: name: Pezet, R.
name: Gindro, K.
name: Viret, O.
name: Richter, H.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: The effects of stilbenes (resveratrol, δ- and ε-viniferins, and pterostilbene) on the mobility of zoospores of Plasmopara viticola and on subsequent disease development were studied in vitro. δ-viniferin and pterostilbene are the most toxic stilbenes concerning zoospore mobility (ED50 : 14.6 and 28.3 μM) and disease development (ED50 : 14.7 and 12.7 μM). The analysis of stilbenes in leaf cells of resistant (Solaris) and susceptible (Chasselas) grape cultivars artificially inoculated with P. viticola has shown that very high amounts of stilbenic phytoalexins accumulate at the site of infection of the resistant cultivar compared to the susceptible one.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 3 (2004): Vitis
Legal Issues of Personalized E-Commerce Applications
Creators: name: Schubert, Petra
name: Kummer, Mathias
name: Leimstoll, Uwe
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Personalisierung
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Using electronic media for interaction with customers enables enterprises to integrate customer activity and knowledge about customers resulting in a high-quality relationship thus turning buying processes more efficient. In this paper we review the basics of personalization - how it works, where it can be used (the applications) and what makes it work (the enablers). Our discussion is structured around the four steps of the customer profile life cycle: modelling customer profiles, data input, data processing, and information output.
Selection of lactic bacteria to induce malolactic fermentation in red wine of cv. Cencibel
Creators: name: Izquierdo, P. M.
name: García, E.
name: Martínez, J.
name: Chacón, J. L.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: This paper describes the procedure for the selection of three lactic acid bacteria strains from 40 indigenous strains isolated in two cellars of theSpanish region of Castilla-LaMancha. The isolates were identified by classical microbiological and molecular techniques: Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (pFGE) of bacterial chromosome fragments obtained from restriction enzymes. Selection was carried out considering the capacity to perform malolactic fermentation (MLF) in wine and the resistance to high alcoholic percentages and low pH levels. Three isolates (two Lactobacillus planta Tum and one Oenococcus oeni) which were able to pass the above mentioned tests were selected. These isolates produced low volatile acidity, showed a moderate resistance to SO2 and did not cause any degradation of residual sugars.
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 3 (2004): Vitis
Geschäftsprozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement - Effektive Wissensnutzung bei der Planung und Umsetzung von Geschäftsprozessen
Creators: name: Abecker, Andreas
name: Hinkelmann, Knut
name: Maus, Heiko
name: Müller, Heinz-Jürgen
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Erfolgreiches Wissensmanagement setzt voraus, dass es in die tägliche Arbeit integriert ist, wie sie durch die Geschäftsprozesse eines Unternehmens vorgegeben wird. Wissensmanagement muss deshalb als integraler Bestandteil von Geschäftsprozessen und deren Gestaltung betrachtet werden. Wissen ist für ein Unternehmen relevant, wenn es die Geschäftsprozesse verbessert. In diesem Buch werden praxisrelevante Techniken und Vorgehensweisen beschrieben, mit deren Hilfe relevantes Wissen identifiziert, gesichert und gezielt zur Bearbeitung von Prozessaktivitäten bereitgestellt werden kann.
Compatibility of the rootstock Börner with various scion varieties
Creators: name: Vršič, S.
name: Valdhuber, J.
name: Pulko, B.
Publisher: name: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
Year: 2015

description: Research Note
description: VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research, Vol. 43 No. 3 (2004): Vitis
'The dreaded [Italian] voting abroad issue has returned': the shifting Australian Government policy towards expatriate voting
Creators: name: Mascitelli, Bruno
name: Battiston, Simone
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In recent years there have been a growing number of countries pushing to enfranchise their citizens living permanently abroad (Spiro 2006: 214). Some countries have created ad hoc expatriate constituencies and representation in their national parliaments (Kull 2008: 462-463). Italy, for instance, altered its legislation governing the vote to Italian expatriates in the early 2000s. New legislation saw Italian citizenship holders living abroad granted the right to postal voting and parliamentary representation in Italian elections and referendums. The new legislation made the exercise of overseas voting accessible to all eligible voters through postal voting (2.9 million at the latest general election of 2008), created an overseas constituency divided in four vast electoral colleges (eg. a. Europe, b. South America, c. Central and North America, d. Africa-Asia-Oceania- Antarctica) and provided for representation for the Italian Parliament (12 members of the Chamber of Deputies and 6 Senators). Since 2003, Italian nationals resident abroad aged 18 or older (25 or older for Senate elections), including dual citizenship, ancestry citizenship (by descent) and naturalised (by marriage or adoption) Italians, were eligible to vote for Italian elections (2006 and 2008) and referendums (2003, 2005, 2006, and 2009). [Introduction]
THE COMBINATION OF INHALED BUDESONIDE AND FORMOTEROL AS AN EARLY TREATMENT FOR THE COVID-19 DISEASE
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Carlos
name: Veciana, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: coronavirus
covid-19
asthma
formoterol
budesonide
inhaler
inhalation
pandemic

description: The covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-cov2 coronavirus has sparked an unprecedented effort in the global scientific community. In a race against the clock, we are all on a mission to find a way to halt the so far unstoppable spread of the disease across the globe. Covid-19 would be one more viral disease among many others, if only it was not for the severe respiratory complications that occur in people with risk factors such as old age, high blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases or diabetes. The lethality of the disease is linked to the progression, towards a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in patients at risk. Here we propose a model that places the interplay of the renin-angiotensin system and the response of the lung’s innate immune system against the virus at the origin of SARS. Accordingly, we put forward a treatment plan for the consideration of the scientific and medical community. This treatment is, with small modifications, basically the same as in the so-called SMART asthma protocol that uses a combination of an inhaled glucocorticoid (preferentially budesonide) and an inhaled long acting beta-2 adrenergic agonist (LABA) (preferentially formoterol). We recommend to begin treating the patients at risk early on in the disease (at the time of presentation of the first flu-like symptoms), instead of waiting for the first signs of SARS (dyspnea). This will allow us to gain time and prevent deaths before we are able to deploy an effective vaccine against the SARS-Cov2 coronavirus.
Contributions of Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair Walleye Populations to the Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron, Recreational Fishery: Evidence from Genetic Stock Identification
Creators: name: Brenden, Travis O.
name: Scribner, Kim T.
name: Bence, James R.
name: Iyob Tsehaye
name: Kanefsky, Jeannette
name: Vandergoot, Christopher S.
name: Fielder, David G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences

description: Genetic stock identification analyses were conducted to determine spawning population contributions to the recreational fishery for Walleyes Sander vitreus in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron. Two spawning population groups were considered: (1) the Tittabawassee River, which has been identified as the largest source of spawning Walleyes for Saginaw Bay; and (2) an aggregate of six spawning populations from Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair that were found to be genetically similar. Overall, the Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair spawning populations were estimated to comprise approximately 26% of the Walleye recreational harvest in Saginaw Bay during 2008–2009. Contribution levels were similar for the 2 years in which genetic samples were collected. Contributions from the Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair spawning populations to the harvest of age-5 and older Walleyes were greater during summer (31.8%; SE = 6.2%) than during late winter and spring (6.0%; SE = 3.7%). Conversely, contributions from the Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair spawning populations to the harvest of age-3 and age-4 fish were fairly similar between seasons (late winter and spring: 31.2%, SE = 6.7%; summer: 41.7%, SE = 5.6%), suggesting that younger Walleyes migrate earlier or reside in Saginaw Bay for extended periods. Our finding that one-quarter of the Saginaw Bay recreational harvest of Walleyes comprises fish from Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair has important management implications, as policies for one lake may have bearing on the other lake—one of the challenges associated with managing migratory fish species. Fisheries management in the Laurentian Great Lakes has a history of being highly coordinated and cooperative among the states and province bordering the individual lakes. Results from this study suggest that cooperation may need to be expanded to account for fish movement between lakes.Received October 28, 2014; accepted February 11, 2015
Schlussbetrachtung: Elektronische Rechnungsabwicklung
Creators: name: Wölfle, Ralf
Publisher: name: Hanser
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: EBPP
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Einem Durchbruch von EBPP steht nichts im Weg. Die wichtigsten Voraussetzungen in Bezug auf Technik, Sicherheit und gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen sind gegeben.? Diese Feststellung treffen Tanner/Koch in ihrem Einleitungsbeitrag.
Elektronisch bestellen? 30 Prozent Kosten sparen
Creators: name: Göckel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: E-Business
subject: E-Procurement
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: Brütsch/Rüegger beliefert die Bauindustrie, den Werkzeug- und Formenbau und garantiert Service über IT-Applikationen: Die Bestellabwicklung, von der Artikelauswahl bis zur Rechnungsstellung kann elektronisch unterstützt werden.
The growth of SMEs in the ICT sector in Australia and Hungary: initial analysis of empirical results
Creators: name: Perenyi, Aron
name: Selvarajah, Christopher
name: Muthaly, Siva
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The paper examines the applicability of two different modelling techniques: CBSEM and PLS on the data set collected to investigate small and medium sized firm growth in the ICT industry in Australia and Hungary. The two analytical techniques are evaluated based on the research objectives and the conceptual model proposed by the authors. The data is tested for basic assumptions of CFA and CBSEM, as well as PLS. The results of CFA are discussed and the reliability indicators of the scales are presented. In reflection to the findings, PLS is the recommended technique for further analysis.
How to Do Computer Ethics - A Case Study: The Electronic Mall Bodensee
Creators: name: Bynum, Terrell
name: Schubert, Petra
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Soziale Aspekte
subject: Electronic Markets
subject: 330 - Wirtschaft
subject: 005 - Computer Programmierung, Programme und Daten

description: In this article the authors present a model of ethical analysis and decision making for the field of computer ethics--a model that actually works for all areas of applied ethics. It is argued that a rich and complex fabric of ?policies for conduct?--a ?received policy cluster (RPC)--is used by computer ethics decision makers in a dynamic process similar to Rawls?s ?wide reflective equilibrium? (WRE). This ?policy-cluster model? makes use of Moor?s classic definition of the field of computer ethics and van den Hoven?s suggested use of Rawlsian WRE.