cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NIMBLE: A Non-rigid Hand Model with Bones and Muscles
Creators: name: Li, Yuwei
name: Zhang, Longwen
name: Qiu, Zesong
name: Jiang, Yingwenqi
name: Li, Nianyi
name: Ma, Yuexin
name: Zhang, Yuyao
name: Xu, Lan
name: Yu, Jingyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Emerging Metaverse applications demand reliable, accurate, and photorealistic reproductions of human hands to perform sophisticated operations as if in the physical world. While real human hand represents one of the most intricate coordination between bones, muscle, tendon, and skin, state-of-the-art techniques unanimously focus on modeling only the skeleton of the hand. In this paper, we present NIMBLE, a novel parametric hand model that includes the missing key components, bringing 3D hand model to a new level of realism. We first annotate muscles, bones and skins on the recent Magnetic Resonance Imaging hand (MRI-Hand) dataset and then register a volumetric template hand onto individual poses and subjects within the dataset. NIMBLE consists of 20 bones as triangular meshes, 7 muscle groups as tetrahedral meshes, and a skin mesh. Via iterative shape registration and parameter learning, it further produces shape blend shapes, pose blend shapes, and a joint regressor. We demonstrate applying NIMBLE to modeling, rendering, and visual inference tasks. By enforcing the inner bones and muscles to match anatomic and kinematic rules, NIMBLE can animate 3D hands to new poses at unprecedented realism. To model the appearance of skin, we further construct a photometric HandStage to acquire high-quality textures and normal maps to model wrinkles and palm print. Finally, NIMBLE also benefits learning-based hand pose and shape estimation by either synthesizing rich data or acting directly as a differentiable layer in the inference network.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures
title: Design and Evaluation of a Full-Wave Surface and Bottom-Detection Algorithm for LiDAR Bathymetry of Very Shallow Waters
Creators: name: Schwarz, Roland
name: Mandlburger, Gottfried
name: Pfennigbauer, Martin
name: Pfeifer, Norbert
Publisher: name: ELSEVIER
Year: 2019
Subjects: LiDAR
River
Bathymetry
Shallow Water
Full Waveform

description: Manuscript accepted by ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 8 February 2019. Embargo period ends 15 February 2021. Published article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.02.002. Sharing info: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing.
description: Airborne Laser Bathymetry (ALB) is an attractive technology for the measurement of shallow water bodies because of the high acquisition rate and high point densities that can be achieved. Of special interest is the application of ALB in non-navigable areas where the only alternatives are conventional terrestrial surveying by wading with a pole, multi-media photogrammetry, or spectrally based depth retrieval. The challenge for laser based approaches in such very shallow waters (< 2 m) is the difficulty of discriminating between echoes from the surface and the bottom. This work presents an algorithm for the detection of surface, volume, and bottom (SVB) designed to meet this challenge while requiring only a single wavelength (532 nm) sensor. The accuracy of the algorithm is cross validated against reference measurements obtained from terrestrial survey with a total station and shows negligible bias and virtually no depth dependence for the experimental dataset.
Inklusive Schule : Diese Fertigkeiten benötigt eine Ergotherapeutin/ein Ergotherapeut im Ausland
Creators: name: Leuenberger, Kerstin
name: Schrepfer, Lorena
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2016
Subjects: Occupational therapy
School
Inclusion
Enablement skills
615.8515: Ergotherapie

description: Darstellung des Themas: Ergotherapeutinnen, welche in ausländischen Regelschulen arbeiten, wenden unterschiedliche Fertigkeiten an, um die Partizipation von Kindern mit einer Behinderung im inklusiven Schulsetting zu fördern. Diese ergotherapeutische Unterstützung führt bei den Kindern zu einer höheren Sozialkompetenz und einer schnelleren Aneignung neuer Fertigkeiten.
Ziel: Diese Bachelorarbeit zeigt auf, welche Enablement Skills eine Ergotherapeutin in der inklusiven Beschulung in den Ländern Amerika, Kanada, Australien oder England in der gegenwärtigen Zeit benötigt.
Methode: Für die systematische Literaturrecherche wurden Ein- und Ausschlusskriterien definiert. Resultierend aus der Datenbankrecherche wurden vier Hauptstudien kritisch beurteilt. Die Ergebnisse wurden den Enablement Skills zugeordnet und diskutiert.
Ergebnisse: Ergotherapeutinnen wenden im inklusiven Schulsetting alle zehn Enablement Skills in unterschiedlichem Masse an. Die Fertigkeit „Collaborate“ wurde in den Ergebnissen mit der grössten Reichweite abgedeckt und ist für Ergotherapeutinnen im Ausland elementar.
Schlussfolgerung: Die Ergotherapeutin hat mit ihren Fertigkeiten die Möglichkeit, Schweizer Schulen in vielen Bereichen in ihrer Entwicklung zur Inklusion zu unterstützen. Durch die Etablierung der Ergotherapie in Schulen könnte das Wissen der Pädagogen mit dem medizinisch-therapeutischen Fachwissen der Ergotherapeutinnen ergänzt
und dadurch die Partizipation von Kindern mit einer Behinderung verbessert werden.
On characterizations of learnability with computable learners
Creators: name: Sterkenburg, Tom F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study computable PAC (CPAC) learning as introduced by Agarwal et al. (2020). First, we consider the main open question of finding characterizations of proper and improper CPAC learning. We give a characterization of a closely related notion of strong CPAC learning, and provide a negative answer to the COLT open problem posed by Agarwal et al. (2021) whether all decidably representable VC classes are improperly CPAC learnable. Second, we consider undecidability of (computable) PAC learnability. We give a simple general argument to exhibit such ndecidability, and initiate a study of the arithmetical complexity of learnability. We briefly discuss the relation to the undecidability result of Ben-David et al. (2019), that motivated the work of Agarwal et al.
description: Final version, as accepted for COLT 2022. Changes w.r.t. previous arXiv version: In response to reviewer comments, major revision of the discussion in Section 3.2, incl. reformulation of Question 2 (that in its original form had an easy answer) and retraction of Definition 6 and Proposition 2 (that lost their relevance in the revised discussion). Minor textual revisions elsewhere
Audiovisuelle Ablenkungsmethoden bei Kindern während Punktionen im Akutspital
Creators: name: Donat, Valentina
name: Odermatt, Madleina
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Children
Pediatric care
Pain
Pain management
Audiovisual distraction
618.92: Pädiatrie

description: Darstellung des Themas: Schmerz verbunden mit Stress und Angst bei Kindern während Punktionen im Akutspital ist ein bekanntes und häufiges Phänomen. Kinder im Alter von zwei bis zwölf Jahren sind in ihrem Schmerzmanagement auf externe Unterstützung angewiesen. Diese kann durch verschiedene Ablenkungsmethoden erfolgen, wobei in dieser Bachelorarbeit auf die audiovisuelle Form eingegangen wird.
Zielsetzung und Fragestellung: Das Ziel dieser Bachelorarbeit ist die Beantwortung folgender Frage: Was sagt die Literatur zur Effektivität audiovisueller Ablenkungsmethoden bei Kindern im Alter von zwei bis zwölf Jahren, welche im Akutspital schmerzhafte Punktionen erleben?
Methode: Mittels ausgewählten Keywords, welche mit Bool’schen Operatoren verbunden wurden, wurde eine systematische Literaturrecherche auf gesundheitsspezifischen Datenbanken durchgeführt. Anschliessend wurden die aus der Recherchearbeit generierten Studien analysiert, diskutiert und die Implikation für die Praxis herausgearbeitet.
Ergebnisse: Die analysierten Studien zeigen Ansätze positiver Auswirkung der audiovisuellen Ablenkung auf die Schmerzen während einer Punktion.
Schlussfolgerung: Um eine anästhesierende Wirkung mittels audiovisueller Ablenkung erzielen zu können, bedarf es an erfahrenem Pflegepersonal, kindgerechten Ablenkungsmedien und geeigneten Umgebungsbedingungen. Es besteht weiterer Forschungsbedarf zur Thematik der audiovisuellen Ablenkung.
Preventing congestion in crowd dynamics caused by reversing flow
Creators: name: Amaro, Giuseppe G.
name: Cristiani, Emiliano
name: Menci, Marta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we devise a microscopic (agent-based) mathematical model for reproducing crowd behaviour in a specific scenario: a number of pedestrians, consisting of numerous social groups, flow along a corridor until a gate located at the end of the corridor closes. People are not informed about the closure of the gate and perceive the blockage observing dynamically the local crowd conditions. Once people become aware of the new conditions, they stop and then decide either to stay, waiting for reopening, or to go back and leave the corridor for ever. People going back hit against newly incoming people who are not yet aware of the blockage or have already decided to stay. This creates a dangerous counter-flow which can easily lead to accidents. We run several numerical simulations varying parameters which control the crowd behaviour, in order to understand the factors which have the greatest impact on the dynamics. We conclude with some useful suggestions directed to the organizers of mass events.
Intrapartale Antibiotikaprophylaxe : Auswirkungen auf das Kind?
Creators: name: Baumgartner, Seraina
name: Vetterli, Jessica
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2019
Subjects: Intrapartale Antibiotikaprophylaxe
Intestinales Mikrobiom
Mikrobiota
Intrapartum antibiotics
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: Durch die steigende Zahl an Krankheiten wie Asthma, Diabetes und Allergien ist das menschliche Mikrobiom in den Fokus von Bevölkerung und Forschung gerückt. Gleichzeitig erhalten durch die steigende Anzahl einer Sectio caesarea sowie durch die relativ hohe Inzidenz von B-Streptokokken-Trägerinnen immer mehr Frauen Antibiotika unter der Geburt. 
Diese themengeleitete Arbeit will die Frage beantworten, inwiefern sich eine Antibiotikaprophylaxe unter der Geburt auf das kindliche intestinale Mikrobiom auswirkt. Dazu werden die aktuelle Literatur und die Meinung zweier Experten verwendet. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Hebammen über die Wirkung von Antibiotika und die Aufgaben des Mikrobioms zu informieren und Empfehlungen für die Praxis auszusprechen. 
Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass durch den Einsatz von Antibiotika unter der Geburt eine Veränderung bezüglich Menge und Diversität der Mikroben im Stuhl von Neugeborenen nachgewiesen werden kann. Diese sind unabhängig vom Geburtsmodus. Zudem werden die von der Mutter übertragenen Bakterien durch den Einsatz von Antibiotika selektioniert, sodass vorwiegend resistente Bakterien das Neugeborene kolonisieren. 
Weiterführende Forschung ist notwendig, um die Langzeitauswirkungen auf die Gesundheit des Kindes aufzuzeigen. Weitere Forschungsgebiete stellen das Stillen als modulierenden Effekt auf das Mikrobiom sowie der Einsatz von Probiotika gegen B-Streptokokken dar.
Migrant Protection Protocols: Implementation and Consequences for Asylum Seekers in Mexico, PRP 218
Creators: name: Leutert, Stephanie
Publisher: name: LBJ School of Public Affairs
Year: 2020
Subjects: Texas
public affairs
Mexico
Migrant
Asylum

description: In November 2018, the United States and Mexico negotiated the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). Before MPP, asylum seekers were allowed to wait in the United States during their asylum cases. However, with MPP, asylum seekers are now forced to wait in Mexican border cities as their cases move through the U.S. immigration system. In January 2019, U.S. officials began to implement MPP in San Diego and then extended the program across the rest of the border. As of April 2020, more than 64,000 asylum seekers had been returned to Mexico as part of the program. The majority of the asylum seekers returned to Mexico under MPP are from the Northern Triangle of Central America, although individuals from other nationalities have also been put in the program. As of March 2020, the highest number of MPP returnees were from Honduras, accounting for 35 percent of individuals in the program. This was followed by asylum seekers from Guatemala (24 percent), Cuba (12.7 percent), and El Salvador (12.5 percent). U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have exempted some groups from MPP, including unaccompanied minors, Mexican citizens, non-Spanish speakers (although Brazilians were eventually included), and asylum seekers in certain “special circumstances.” However, CBP officers have discretion regarding who is subject to the program, and these exemptions have not been consistently implemented. Additionally, CBP officers have also included members of “highrisk populations” in MPP, such as pregnant women, LGBTQ+ individuals, minors, and people who are disabled. Once asylum seekers are returned to Mexico, they face various challenges. Although the Mexican Migratory Law of 2011 guarantees asylum seekers the right to healthcare and education in Mexico, it can be difficult to access these services. Asylum seekers are also responsible for acquiring their own housing, even though they often have few resources. Further, they must navigate these situations while at risk of violence from criminal organizations or predatory actors. Criminal groups often target asylum seekers because they have no local ties or community and because they often have friends and family in the United States who can pay their ransom. This report recommends that MPP be immediately discontinued. However, understanding that this may be difficult in the short term, this report provides additional recommendations to address the most egregious conditions under MPP.These include improving safety for asylum seekers, excluding at-risk populations, and providing asylum seekers with greater access to due process and legal representation.
Long-range electron-electron interactions in quantum dot systems and applications in quantum chemistry
Creators: name: Knörzer, Johannes
name: van Diepen, Cornelis J.
name: Hsiao, Tzu-Kan
name: Giedke, Géza
name: Mukhopadhyay, Uditendu
name: Reichl, Christian
name: Wegscheider, Werner
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
name: Vandersypen, Lieven M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-range interactions play a key role in several phenomena of quantum physics and chemistry. To study these phenomena, analog quantum simulators provide an appealing alternative to classical numerical methods. Gate-defined quantum dots have been established as a platform for quantum simulation, but for those experiments the effect of long-range interactions between the electrons did not play a crucial role. Here we present the first detailed experimental characterization of long-range electron-electron interactions in an array of gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots. We demonstrate significant interaction strength among electrons that are separated by up to four sites, and show that our theoretical prediction of the screening effects matches well the experimental results. Based on these findings, we investigate how long-range interactions in quantum-dot arrays may be utilized for analog simulations of artificial quantum matter. We numerically show that about ten quantum dots are sufficient to observe binding for a one-dimensional $H_2$-like molecule. These combined experimental and theoretical results pave the way for future quantum simulations with quantum dot arrays and benchmarks of numerical methods in quantum chemistry.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, supplemental material: 4 pages, 3 figures
Universal Adversarial Examples in Remote Sensing: Methodology and Benchmark
Creators: name: Xu, Yonghao
name: Ghamisi, Pedram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks have achieved great success in many important remote sensing tasks. Nevertheless, their vulnerability to adversarial examples should not be neglected. In this study, we systematically analyze the universal adversarial examples in remote sensing data for the first time, without any knowledge from the victim model. Specifically, we propose a novel black-box adversarial attack method, namely Mixup-Attack, and its simple variant Mixcut-Attack, for remote sensing data. The key idea of the proposed methods is to find common vulnerabilities among different networks by attacking the features in the shallow layer of a given surrogate model. Despite their simplicity, the proposed methods can generate transferable adversarial examples that deceive most of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks in both scene classification and semantic segmentation tasks with high success rates. We further provide the generated universal adversarial examples in the dataset named UAE-RS, which is the first dataset that provides black-box adversarial samples in the remote sensing field. We hope UAE-RS may serve as a benchmark that helps researchers to design deep neural networks with strong resistance toward adversarial attacks in the remote sensing field. Codes and the UAE-RS dataset are available online (https://github.com/YonghaoXu/UAE-RS).
Erfolgreich integrieren
Creators: name: Bergamin, Stephan
name: Braun, Markus
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2015
Subjects: Integrationsmanagement
Fusion
Merger
Akquisition
Übernahme
Risikoprüfung
338: Produktion

description: Wer ein Unternehmen kauft, trifft eine weitreichende und risikobehaftete Entscheidung. Eine Firmenübernahme erfordert grosse finanzielle und personelle Ressourcen und spezifische Fähigkeiten. Der hohe Einsatz erlaubt keinen Misserfolg. Ein gutes Integrationsmanagement ist deshalb entscheidend.
title: Depth Measurement Bias in Pulsed Airborne Laser Hydrography Induced by Chromatic Dispersion
Creators: name: Schwarz, Roland
name: Pfeifer, Norbert
name: Pfennigbauer, Martin
name: Mandlburger, Gottfried
Publisher: name: IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Year: 2020
Subjects: laser hydrography
depth bias
group velocity
chromatic dispersion
refraction correction

description: In contrast to topographic laser scanning, laser hydrography must take into account the presence of two media. A pulsed laser beam, which enters the water from the air at an oblique angle, is refracted at the air–water boundary in the direction of the plumb line. This change in the direction described by Snellius’ law is caused by a slower speed of the light wave in the water, i.e., the phase velocity. Light scattering caused by turbidity gives rise to further deviations from the straight path. Together, the slower speed and the turbidity-induced path extension cause a longer pulse round trip time in the water than in the air. For an accurate measurement, it is important to correct this propagation time extension. It is a common practice to assume the phase velocity as the velocity for the laser pulses in water. In a dispersive medium, however, the phase velocity is only an approximation of the velocity of a pulse. In media with chromatic dispersion, the pulses propagate with a different velocity, i.e., the group velocity. In water, using the group velocity instead of the phase velocity reduces the range dependent bias of the depth measurement at a laser wavelength of 532 nm by more than 1.5%. We present an easy to perform an experiment, which shows that the group velocity differs so much from the phase velocity that this difference should be taken into account. We further discuss the use of group velocity to explain the depth bias using examples from the literature.
Alfred de Quervain (1879-1927) an Louis Rollier (1859-1931)
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1913

description: Brief aus Zürich, auf Briefpapier der Schweizerischen Meteorologischen Zentralanstalt.
Anfrage betr. Ausführung der Bestimmung von Meeresfossilien, die aus Grönland mitgebracht wurden
Leise Töne - grosse Wirkung : Wie sich Musiktherapie auf das Stresslevel von Frühgeborenen auf der Neonatologie auswirkt
Creators: name: Berecz, Noemi
name: Muffler, Sarah Julia
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Music therapy
Preterm
Stress
Vital signs
Neonatal intensive care unit
618: Geburtsmedizin und Hebammenarbeit

description: Frühgeborene auf der Neonatologie sind einer Vielzahl von Stressoren ausgesetzt, was einen negativen Einfluss auf ihre Entwicklung haben kann. Musiktherapie soll stressmindernd und entwicklungsfördernd auf das Frühgeborene wirken.

Die Fragestellung dieser Arbeit lautet: Welche Wirkung zeigt Musiktherapie als evidenzbasierte Therapieform zur Reduktion des Stresslevels eines Frühgeborenen, gemessen an den Vitalzeichen, auf der Neonatologie? Das Ziel der Arbeit ist, Evidenzen zusammenzutragen, um ein Argumentarium zu entwickeln, das Fachpersonen die Wirksamkeit von Musiktherapie aufzeigt.

Es handelt sich bei dieser Arbeit um ein systematisches Literaturreview. Mittels elektronischer Datenbanken wird nach geeigneter Literatur recherchiert. Sieben ausgewählte quantitative Studien werden kritisch gewürdigt und diskutiert.
Musiktherapie erzeugt meist eine positive Veränderung, manchmal keine Veränderung von einzelnen oder mehreren Vitalzeichen während oder nach der Therapie. Dies deutet auf eine kurzfristige Reduktion des Stresslevels der Frühgeborenen hin. Musiktherapie verzeichnet keine negativen Einflüsse auf die Vitalzeichen der Frühgeborenen.

Es wird weitere Forschungsarbeit bezüglich der stressreduzierenden Wirkung von Musiktherapie benötigt. Die unterschiedliche Wirkung der Musiktherapie je nach Gestationsalter der Frühgeborenen, Form sowie Lautstärke der Musiktherapie ist noch unklar.
No One Left Behind: Inclusive Federated Learning over Heterogeneous Devices
Creators: name: Liu, Ruixuan
name: Wu, Fangzhao
name: Wu, Chuhan
name: Wang, Yanlin
name: Lyu, Lingjuan
name: Chen, Hong
name: Xie, Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning (FL) is an important paradigm for training global models from decentralized data in a privacy-preserving way. Existing FL methods usually assume the global model can be trained on any participating client. However, in real applications, the devices of clients are usually heterogeneous, and have different computing power. Although big models like BERT have achieved huge success in AI, it is difficult to apply them to heterogeneous FL with weak clients. The straightforward solutions like removing the weak clients or using a small model to fit all clients will lead to some problems, such as under-representation of dropped clients and inferior accuracy due to data loss or limited model representation ability. In this work, we propose InclusiveFL, a client-inclusive federated learning method to handle this problem. The core idea of InclusiveFL is to assign models of different sizes to clients with different computing capabilities, bigger models for powerful clients and smaller ones for weak clients. We also propose an effective method to share the knowledge among multiple local models with different sizes. In this way, all the clients can participate in the model learning in FL, and the final model can be big and powerful enough. Besides, we propose a momentum knowledge distillation method to better transfer knowledge in big models on powerful clients to the small models on weak clients. Extensive experiments on many real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in learning accurate models from clients with heterogeneous devices under the FL framework.
description: Accepted by KDD22
Actual monograph on the strategy for the development of low carbon land use in the context of climate change
Creators: name: Lakov, Plamen
name: Lakov, Plamen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Review for the monograph by Anatolii Kucher «Strategic directions of the development of low carbon land use to strengthen resilience to climate change» is presented.
Von der Pflanze zur Arzneidroge : ein interaktives Ausstellungselement für den TCM-Arzneipflanzengarten
Creators: name: Plebani, Lorena
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: Arzneipflanzengarten
TCM (Traditionell Chinesische Medizin)
Heilpflanzen
Kultur-/Naturinterpretation
Informationsvermittlung
Narrative Environments
Ausstellungsdidaktik
Umweltkommunikation
580: Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Das Wissen über Heilpflanzen ist in westlichen Kulturen weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Vor allem in jüngeren Generationen sind Kenntnisse über die Wirkung und die Verwendungsmöglichkeit von bestimmten Kräutern kaum noch bekannt. Dennoch zeichnet sich in den letzten Jahren eine Trendwende ab. Immer mehr Menschen wünschen sich in einem von Hektik geprägten Alltag eine gesündere Lebensweise und sehnen sich nach einem stärkeren Zugang zur Natur. Gleichzeitig steigt das Interesse für alternative, naturnahe Heilmethoden und der Wunsch einen aktiven Beitrag an die eigene Gesundheit zu leisten wächst.
Während bei uns die Kenntnisse der Heilpflanzen überwiegend verloren oder verdrängt worden sind, wird in der Traditionell Chinesische Medizin das Wissen über die Arzneipflanzen seit Jahrtausenden von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben. Durch die Errichtung des TCM-Gartens (2016) der Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) in Wädenswil wurde die Möglichkeit geschaffen dieses Wissen weiterzugeben und einem breiten Publikum verfügbar zu machen.
description: The value and knowledge of medicinal plants seems to fall into oblivion in western civilisations. Particularly in younger generations the medicinal use of specific herbs is hardly known nowadays. However, it recently appears there is a changing tendency regarding the interest in alternative and plant based medicine. Due to the stressful and hectic pace of everyday, an increasing amount of people is striving for a healthier and more natureoriented lifestyle.
While in the western culture the knowledge of plant-based medicine is nearly forgotten, in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the knowledge and experiences are still preserved. Old techniques and methods have been passed from generation to generation since thousands of years. The construction of the TCM-Garden (2016) at the ZHAW (Zurich University Of Applied Sciences) has provided an opportunity to make the ancient knowledge of medicinal plants accessible to a wide range of people.
"Starte! Relaunch 2017"
Creators: name: Fohrler, Isabelle
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: "Starte!"
Pilotveranstaltung
Relaunch
Erfolgskontrolle
Evaluationsbericht
Empfehlungen
Pilot event
Performance review
Evaluation report
Recommendations
333.79: Energie
659: Werbung und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

description: Unter dem Projekttitel «starte! Relaunch 2017» entstand eine neues Format von der Informationsveranstaltung, für welche sich die Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), das Amt für Abfall, Wasser, Energie und Luft (AWEL) und die Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ) engagieren. Als Teil des Projektteams konnte die Autorin der vorliegenden Arbeit bei der Überarbeitung mitwirken, mit dem Ziel, passende Methoden zu erarbeiten, mit welchen die Pilotveranstaltung am 31. August 2017 evaluiert werden kann. Mit diesen Methoden, der Durchführung der Erfolgskontrolle und den Auswertungen entstand schlussendlich eine Sammlung von Empfehlungen.
Die Dokumentation zeigt den Prozess der Überarbeitung, die im Januar 2017 startete und mit der Pilotveranstaltung vom 31. August 2017 endete. Das neue Format beinhaltet eine Gesprächsrunde, welche nach Drehbuch läuft. Fünf animierte Kurzfilme führen in das jeweilige Thema ein, über welches anschliessend diskutiert wird. Mit der Gesamtüberarbeitung änderte sich zusätzlich das Logo mit dem Logozusatz und dadurch auch das ganze Design. Dieses entstand aus den Animationsfilmen und ist auf der Internetseite und den Druckunterlagen zu finden. Die Erneuerung dieser Veranstaltung verursachte Kosten von rund 200'000 CHF.
description: Under the title „starte! Relaunch 2017“, a new format of information event was created, in which the Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB), the department of Waster, Water, Energy and Air (AWEL) and the “Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ)” are working together. As part of the project team, the author of this paper was able to work towards the common goal of the project, which was to find fitting methods to evaluate the pilot event of August 31st 2017. With the help of these methods, the evaluation and the results of the analysis, a collection of recommendations were made.
The documentation shows the process of the relaunch that started in January 2017 and ended with the pilot event on August 31st 2017. The new format contains a round of scripted talks. Five animated short films introduce each topic that will be discussed afterwards. The relaunch also led to the redesign of the logo and therefore the whole corporate design of the format. The design was pulled from the style of the animated short films and is now visible on the website as well as in the printed documents.
Bestimmung der Wuchshöhe von Kleegrasflächen mittels drohnenbasierten Oberflächenmodellen
Creators: name: Hauswirth, David
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2018
Subjects: UAV
Drohnenbasiertes Oberflächenmodell
RGB
Differenzmethode
Vegetationshöhe
eBee Plus
DJI Phantom 4
Kleegrasmischung
eBee
Flughöhe
Räumliche Auflösung
004: Informatik
580: Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Due to the rapid development and falling prices of drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs), new areas of application arise. UAVs are increasingly being used in agriculture, whether for the precise delivery of pesticides or for the large-scale monitoring of fields in the area of precision farming. In this thesis it has been investigated whether the height growth of clover grass surfaces can be monitored by means of drone-based surface models. From an experimental area, a terrain model and then at intervals of one month, three surface models were created over the growing season. The surface models were created using three different types of drones (eBee, eBee Plus and Phantom 4) as well as three different spatial resolutions (1cm / pixel, 3cm / pixel and 6cm / pixel). After each exposure of the vegetation surface, the height of the vegetation was measured by hand to obtain reference heights that were compared with the heights of the surface models.
description: Durch die rasante Entwicklung und die sinkenden Preise von Drohnen (oder Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs) ergeben sich neue Einsatzgebiete. UAVs werden immer mehr in der Landwirtschaft eingesetzt, sei es für die präzise Abgabe von Pestiziden oder für das grossflächige Monitoring der Felder, im Gebiet des “Precision Farming“. In dieser Bachelorarbeit wurde untersucht, ob sich das Höhenwachstum von Kleegrasflächen mittels drohnenbasierten Oberflächenmodellen überwachen lässt. Von einem Versuchsfeld wurden über die Vegetationsperiode ein Geländemodell und anschliessend im Abstand von je einem Monat, drei Oberflächenmodelle erstellt. Die Oberflächenmodelle wurden mit drei unterschiedlichen Drohnenty-pen (eBee, eBee Plus und Phantom 4) sowie drei verschiedenen räumlichen Bildauflösungen (1cm/Pixel, 3cm/Pixel und 6cm/Pixel) erstellt. Nach jeder Aufnahme der Vegetationsoberfläche wurde die Höhe der Vegetation von Hand gemessen, um Referenzhöhen zu erhalten, die mit den Höhen der Oberflächenmodellen verglichen werden konnten.
LArQL: A phenomenological model for treating light and charge generation in liquid argon
Creators: name: Marinho, F.
name: Paulucci, L.
name: Totani, D.
name: Cavanna, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental data shows that both ionization charge and scintillation light in LAr depend on the deposited energy density ($dE/dx$) and electric field ($\mathcal{E}$). Moreover, free ionization charge and scintillation light are anticorrelated, complementary at a given ($dE/dx$, $\mathcal{E}$) pair. We present LArQL, a phenomenological model that provides the anticorrelation between light and charge and its dependence on the deposited energy as well as on the electric field applied. It modifies the Birks' charge model considering the contribution from the escape electrons at null and low electric fields, and reconciles with Birks' model prediction at higher fields. Deviations from current Birks' model are observed for LArTPCs operating at low $\mathcal{E}$ and for heavily ionizing particles. The LArQL model presents a satisfactory description at $dE/dx$ and field ranges for interacting particles in LArTPCs and fits well the available data. Improvements via data sets compilation and global fits are also interesting features of the model.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. Presented at LIDINE 2021 conference
The effect of motivational interviewing on physical activity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : a systematic review
Creators: name: Kahrmann, Nicolas
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chronisch obstruktive Lungenerkrankung
COPD
Motivierende Gesprächsführung
Physische Aktivität
Gesundheitsberatung
Verhaltensänderung
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Motivational Interviewing
Physical activity
Health counselling
Behavioural change
615.82: Physiotherapie

description: Background: 
Current guidelines emphasise the importance of physical activity (PA) in the treatment of people with COPD. However, the level of PA is generally lower in people with COPD compared to healthy subjects. Evidence whether counselling is effective in helping people with COPD increase their PA is inconclusive.

Objective: 
The aim of this bachelor’s thesis was to examine the effect of Motivational Interviewing (MI) on physical activity in people with COPD.

Method: 
A systematic literature review was performed to answer the research question. The quality of studies was assessed using the PEDro scale, the review form by Letts & Law et al. and the TIDieR checklist.
Results: Nine studies (seven randomised controlled trials, RCTs; two qualitative studies) were included in this review. Three RCTs found between-group differences that were clinically relevant. In two of these studies, the effects were also statistically significant.

Conclusions: 
MI counselling might have a positive short-term effect on PA in people with COPD. There was a lack of long-term effects in all studies. However, due to methodological constraints the results have to be taken with caution.
description: Hintergrund: 
Aktuelle Leitlinien betonen die Wichtigkeit von physischer Aktivität (PA) in der Behandlung von Personen mit chronisch obstruktiver Lungenerkrankung (COPD). Im Vergleich zu Gesunden ist die PA bei Personen mit COPD jedoch verringert. Es besteht eine Forschungslücke in Bezug auf die Wirksamkeit von Beratung zur Erhöhung der PA bei Personen mit COPD.

Ziel: 
Das Ziel dieser Bachelorarbeit war, den Effekt von motivierender Gesprächsführung (MI) auf das physische Aktivitätsniveau von Personen mit COPD zu untersuchen.
Methode: Es wurde eine systematische Literaturübersicht durchgeführt, um die Forschungsfrage zu beantworten. Die Qualität der Studien wurde mittels der PEDro-Skala, dem Beurteilungsformular von Letts & Law et al., sowie der TIDieR-Checkliste beurteilt.

Ergebnisse: 
Neun Studien (sieben randomisierte kontrollierte Studien, RCTs; zwei qualitative Studien) wurden in die Arbeit eingeschlossen. Drei RCTs fanden klinisch relevante Unterschiede zwischen der Interventions- und der Kontrollgruppe. In zwei davon waren die Effekte zusätzlich statistisch signifikant.

Schlussfolgerung: 
MI hat möglicherweise einen positiven kurzfristigen Effekt auf die PA bei Personen mit COPD. Langanhaltende Effekte konnten in keiner der Studien nachgewiesen werden. Aufgrund von methodologischen Einschränkungen sind die Resultate mit Vorsicht zu geniessen.
Long time blood-transfusion trend in a European general hospital
Creators: name: Enko, Dietmar
name: Herrmann, Markus
name: Baranyi, Andreas
name: Schnedl, Wolfgang J.
name: Halwachs-Baumann, Gabriele
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: anemia management
blood transfusion
transfusion practice

description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc855; ISSN 1611-2156
L’ERMA DI TEMISTOCLE DA OSTIA.  UNA NUOVA INTERPRETAZIONE
Creators: name: Di Bella, Fabiano Fiorello
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Messina.
Year: 2017

description: Il contributo propone una revisione della testa marmorea da Ostia iscritta con il nome di Temistocle. Stile e iconografia, analisi del contesto e delle fonti gettano nuova luce su questo controverso ritratto: esso è, contrariamente alla communis opinio, meglio riferibile a un atleta di stile severo (forse l’Ermolico visto da Paus. 1, 23, 10). Un’acquisizione che si collega all’origine del ritratto in Grecia.


The paper provides a re-examination of the marble head from Ostia inscribed with the name of Themistokles. Style and iconography, analysis of context and literary sources shed a new light on this controversial portrait: it is, in contrast to the communis opinio, more likely to be an athlete of the Severe Style (maybe the Hermolycus seen by Paus. 1, 23, 10). The outcome is related to the origin of Greek portrait sculpture.
description: PELORO, Vol 2, N° 1 (2017)
RAPPORTI ECONOMICI DEGLI EBREI MESSINESI CON PALERMO NEL XV SECOLO
Creators: name: Campagna, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Messina.
Year: 2017

description: L’analisi delle fonti notarili palermitane permette la ricostruzione degli interessi economici degli ebrei messinesi nella città di Palermo nel corso del XV secolo, in particolar modo i rapporti commerciali intercorsi con i loro correligionari palermitani, i cristiani locali e i mercanti stranieri, e di proporre un definitivo insediamento di alcuni di questi ebrei nella città.


The analysis of the notarial records of Palermo allows the reconstruction of the economic interests of the Jews of Messina in the city of Palermo during the fifteenth century, especially the trade relations with their coreligionists in Palermo, local Christians and foreign merchants, and to propose a definitive settlement of some of those in the city.
description: PELORO, Vol 2, N° 1 (2017)
NOTE SULLA STRUTTURA FAMILIARE SICILIANA IN ETÀ MODERNA: IL CASO TAORMINESE
Creators: name: Abbate, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Messina.
Year: 2017

description: L’articolo si propone di fornire una panoramica generale sugli aggregati domestici siciliani in età moderna alla luce dei dati emersi dall’analisi dei memoriali dei ʽcapi di casaʼ di Taormina redatti in occasione del ʽriveloʼ del 1681. Dati che attestano come in Sicilia, in perfetto accordo con i modelli europei, la struttura familiare maggiormente diffusa fosse quella incentrata su un’unica unità coniugale e sulla residenza neolocale.


This article aims to provide a general overview of the Sicilian households in the modern age. It is possible to get information on Taormina by the data emerging from the population census of 1681. As a result, it is confirmed that the most popular family structure in Sicily was centered on a single marital unit and the neo-house residence. Contemporary families in Europe had similar characteristics.
description: PELORO, Vol 2, N° 1 (2017)
Elasto-plastic and adhesive contact: an improved linear model and its application
Creators: name: Nan, Wenguang
name: Goh, Wei Pin
name: Rahman, Mohammad Tarequr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An improved linear model is developed for elasto-plastic and adhesive contact. New correlations are proposed and validated to estimate the key input parameters of the model, including contact stiffness, yield point, maximum pull-off force and time step. The newly proposed contact model is applied to the analysis of single particle contact behaviour upon impact and bulk particle flow behaviour by DEM simulations. The results show that both single particle and bulk powder behave more cohesively if contact plastic deformation is taken into consideration. A cohesion yield number is proposed to describe and govern the extent of yielding when cohesive particles are in contact with each other. There is critical particle size, below which the effect of plastic deformation must be considered. This provides a new framework and criteria for elasto-plastic and adhesive contact model, and a step towards understanding the effect of plastic deformation on the behaviour of cohesive particles.
description: already submitted to Chemical Engineering Science
LA ‘GUERRA DEI NERVI’. SHELL SHOCK, NEVROSI  TRAUMATICHE E PRIMO CONFLITTO MONDIALE
Creators: name: Milazzo, Fabio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Messina.
Year: 2017

description: Il contributo analizza lo «shell shock», il trauma psichico provocato dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale. Gli «shell shocked man» erano troppo traumatizzati e mentalmente disturbati per continuare a combattere la guerra. Questo articolo, inoltre, tratta la storia delle politiche di trattamento del trauma e le strategie di controllo dell’anormalità nei soldati traumatizzati durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale. Questa ricerca in particolare prende in considerazione i soldati del manicomio di Racconigi, in provincia di Cuneo, tra il 1909 e il 1919.


This paper focuses on «shell shock», the psychic trauma provoked by the First World War. The «shell-shocked man» was too traumatized and mentally broken to continue fighting the war. This article also outlines the history of trauma treatment policies and control strategies of the anormality in traumatized soldiers of the First World War, by taking into consideration the soldiers confined to Racconigi Asylum, in the province of Cuneo, between 1909 and 1919.
description: PELORO, Vol 2, N° 1 (2017)
Doubly Robust Distributionally Robust Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning
Creators: name: Kallus, Nathan
name: Mao, Xiaojie
name: Wang, Kaiwen
name: Zhou, Zhengyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Off-policy evaluation and learning (OPE/L) use offline observational data to make better decisions, which is crucial in applications where online experimentation is limited. However, depending entirely on logged data, OPE/L is sensitive to environment distribution shifts -- discrepancies between the data-generating environment and that where policies are deployed. \citet{si2020distributional} proposed distributionally robust OPE/L (DROPE/L) to address this, but the proposal relies on inverse-propensity weighting, whose estimation error and regret will deteriorate if propensities are nonparametrically estimated and whose variance is suboptimal even if not. For standard, non-robust, OPE/L, this is solved by doubly robust (DR) methods, but they do not naturally extend to the more complex DROPE/L, which involves a worst-case expectation. In this paper, we propose the first DR algorithms for DROPE/L with KL-divergence uncertainty sets. For evaluation, we propose Localized Doubly Robust DROPE (LDR$^2$OPE) and show that it achieves semiparametric efficiency under weak product rates conditions. Thanks to a localization technique, LDR$^2$OPE only requires fitting a small number of regressions, just like DR methods for standard OPE. For learning, we propose Continuum Doubly Robust DROPL (CDR$^2$OPL) and show that, under a product rate condition involving a continuum of regressions, it enjoys a fast regret rate of $\mathcal{O}\left(N^{-1/2}\right)$ even when unknown propensities are nonparametrically estimated. We empirically validate our algorithms in simulations and further extend our results to general $f$-divergence uncertainty sets.
description: Short Talk at ICML 2022
On the Dynamics of Solid, Liquid and Digital Gold Futures
Creators: name: Matsui, Toshiko
name: Al-Ali, Ali
name: Knottenbelt, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper examines the determinants of the volatility of futures prices and basis for three commodities: gold, oil and bitcoin -- often dubbed solid, liquid and digital gold -- by using contract-by-contract analysis which has been previously applied to crude oil futures volatility investigations. By extracting the spot and futures daily prices as well as the maturity, trading volume and open interest data for the three assets from 18th December 2017 to 30th November 2021, we find a positive and significant role for trading volume and a possible negative influence of open interest, when significant, in shaping the volatility in all three assets, supporting earlier findings in the context of oil futures. Additionally, we find maturity has a relatively positive significance for bitcoin and oil futures price volatility. Furthermore, our analysis demonstrates that maturity affects the basis of bitcoin and gold positively -- confirming the general theory that the basis converges to zero as maturity nears for bitcoin and gold -- while oil is affected in both directions.
description: 5 pages (incl. references)