cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Etablierung von ELISA Tests für mögliche Lungenadenokarzinom-Antigene identifiziert IL-18 als potentiellen prognostischen Serummarker
Creators: name: Stöger-Heinisser, Verena Anna-Maria
Year: 2015

description: The identification of antigenic biomarkers that are tumor-specific could be an effective strategy for lung adenocarcinoma screening in human sera. In preliminary works by teams of scientists, proposed novel cancer biomarkers were identified on the basis of a comprehensive proteome analysis of surgical lung tumor versus healthy tissue resections. A subsequent “in silico” search restricted the number of potential soluble lung tumor markers to four candidates. The aim of my first diploma thesis [1] was to establish serum ELISA tests for these antigens and to determine whether they were specific markers in blood samples of lung adenocarcinoma patients. We were able to identify one candidate (Interleukin 18) as a potential biomarker, whose amount was significant higher in the cancer patient sera. In this thesis, the IL-18 findings and results will be specified in more detail.
Additionally, the connection of “smoking and lung cancer” will be illustrated in the context of lecture organization in Biology school teaching. A few examples for lecture holding and presentation will be given.
description: Die Identifizierung von tumorspezifischen antigenen Biomarkern könnte eine effektive Strategie für ein Screening von Lungenadenokarzinomen darstellen. In Vorarbeiten von wissenschaftlichen Teams wurde auf Basis einer proteomischen Analyse von chirurgisch reseziertem Gewebe von Lungenadenokarzinomen eine Reihe von potentiellen tumorspezifischen Proteinen identifiziert. Eine darauffolgende „in silico“ Analyse schränkte die Anzahl möglicher, im Serum zu findender Tumormarker auf vier Kandidaten ein. Ziel der Studie meiner ersten Diplomarbeit [1] war es, einen robusten Test-ELISA für jedes dieser Antigene zu etablieren und damit Blutproben von Patienten zu analysieren. Wir konnten einen Kandidaten (Interleukin 18) als potentiellen Marker identifizieren, der in den Blutsera von Krebspatienten signifikant erhöht war. In dieser Arbeit soll IL-18 in seiner Bedeutung als möglicher Tumormarker in unseren Ergebnissen eingehender beschrieben werden.
Zusätzlich soll ein Bogen zum Konnex „Rauchen und Lungenkrebs“ gespannt wer-den, wie er im Biologieunterricht thematisch gut vermittelt werden kann. Beispiele zur Stundenplanung sollen hier dargestellt werden.
Auswirkungen von Traumatisierungen auf die Empathiefähigkeit und die Anwendung von Emotionsregulationsstrategien
Creators: name: Fiereder, Raffaela
name: Großmann, Martina
name: Hanel, Ute Michaela
name: Scheller, Julia
name: Schaub, Malou
Year: 2015

description: Der Zusammenhang zwischen Emotionsregulation, Trauma und Empathie wurde bisher wenig untersucht. Es gibt jedoch Hinweise darauf, dass die Emotionsregulationsfähigkeit einer Person durch potentiell traumatische Ereignisse und die Symptome einer Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung beeinträchtigt wird. Ziel der Studie war die Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen potentiell traumatischen Erlebnissen, Empathie und Emotionsregulation. In der erhobenen Querschnittsstudie wurden insgesamt 697 Studenten und
Akademiker im Alter von 18-35 Jahren untersucht und der Großteil der Teilnehmer war weiblich (80.5%, n = 561). Die Empathie wurde mittels IRI/SPF und die
Emotionsregulationsstrategien mit ERQ und CERQ erfasst. Der THQ und die PCL-C dienten der Erfassung der Traumatisierungen und der damit verbundenen posttraumatischen Belastungsstörungen. Die Testung wurde mittels Online-Fragebogenbatterie durchgeführt. Die Traumaexposition in der Stichprobe war hoch (93.3%, n = 561). Es zeigte sich ein Zusammenhang zwischen den PTBS-Symptomen, Emotionsregulationsstrategien und der Empathie. Weiters konnte festgestellt werden, dass es einen signifikanten Unterschied
zwischen den PTBS-Ausprägungen (keine Symptome/ MTMT/ voll ausgeprägte PTBS) hinsichtlich der Neubewertung und Unterdrückung gibt, nicht jedoch bezüglich der Empathie. Personen ohne PTBS-Symptome benutzen demnach häufiger die Strategie der Neubewertung als Personen mit einer voll ausgeprägten PTBS. Im Vergleich dazu unterdrücken Personen mit PTBS häufiger ihre Emotionen als Personen ohne Symptome. Beim Vergleich von Personen mit hohen Empathiewerten zu Personen mit niedrigen Werten konnte festgestellt werden, dass diese sich signifikant häufiger der Strategie Neubewertung bedienen.
Additional file 1 of Adaptive treatment allocation and selection in multi-arm clinical trials: a Bayesian perspective
Creators: name: Arjas, Elja
name: Gasbarra, Dario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Materials.
Editorial: Reflection, Reconciliation, and Renewal
Creators: name: Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem, Jo-Ann
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: The theme of Reflection, Reconciliation, and Renewal for this volume of the Canadian Journal of Native Education (CJNE) brings together the past, pres­ent, and future, through my personal reflections as the CJNE theme editor for almost 25 years. This volume presents previously published CJNE arti­cles that address some aspect of reconciliation related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC, 2015) and renewal consider­ations for the CJNE. This editorial will be my last as the senior theme editor. Before I begin this editorial, I acknowledge that the land on which the University of British Columbia (UBC) is situated is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. This beau­tiful land meets the majestic Pacific Ocean every day. Often eagles can be seen flying overhead.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 39 No. 1 (2017)
Smart Grid Applications and Enhancements
Creators: Zhaoya Wang
Hamidreza Nazaripouya
S. M. Ali
G. Mokryani
B. Khan
C. A. Mehmood
M. Jawad
Omid Alizadeh-Mousavi
Jo�l Jaton
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2019

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Smart Grid Applications and Enhancements features: "Smarter Grids with Richer Data for Better Response to Natural Disasters", "Grid Resilience and Distributed Energy Storage Systems", "Smart Energy System for Human Body Control and The Roles of Edge Computing in Monitoring", "Control, Management and Digitalization of Distribution Grid".
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Fokkink, Wan
name: van Glabbeek, Rob
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation → Concurrency

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 140, 30th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2019), pages 0:i-0:xiv
Additional file 1 of Insulin resistance induced by de novo pathway–generated C16-ceramide is associated with type 2 diabetes in an obese population
Creators: name: Chathoth, Shahanas
name: Ismail, Mona H.
name: Alghamdi, Hanan M.
name: Zakaria, Hazem Mohamed
name: Hassan, Khairi Ahmed
name: Alshomimi, Saeed
name: Vatte, Chittibabu
name: Cyrus, Cyril
name: Alsaif, Hind S.
name: Mostafa, Ahmed
name: Shaaban, Heba
name: Al Ali, Amein
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1
Essential oils and compounds in palliative medicine, hospices and against pains
Creators: name: Schabauer, Lisa
Year: 2015

description: The positive impact of essential oils and compounds has been known for a long time. Essential oils are multicomponent mixtures and obtained by steam distillation of leaves or flowers or simply by pressing orange peels for example.
Due to the broad-spectrum activity, essential oils can be used for a variety of disorders like sleeping problems, colds or gastrointestinal complaints. The focus of this paper is the use of essential oils in palliative care, hospices and against pain. Essential oils are usually absorbed orally, transdermally or inhalatively.
In palliative care and hospices massages with aroma oils are very helpful to enhance people's sense of well-being. By the gentle touch of a massage or the pleasant scents – body and soul are benefiting. Essential oils may also be used in oral care, for example to treat Candida infections, xerostomia or mouth malodour. Furthermore, they can be used to control nausea or vomiting in cancer patients caused by chemotherapy. The broad use of analgesics like NSAIDs against headaches or menstrual cramps for example, is often associated with unpleasant side effects. Essential oils may help to reduce the analgesic doses.
description: Die positive Wirkung von ätherischen Ölen und den in ihnen enthaltenen Komponenten ist schon lange bekannt. Ätherische Öle sind Vielkomponentengemische, die durch Wasserdampfdestillation von z. B. Blättern oder Blüten oder durch Auspressen von beispielsweise Orangenschalen gewonnen werden. Durch das vielseitige Wirkspektrum können sie bei den verschiedensten Indikationen, wie z. B. Schlafstörungen, Erkältungskrankheiten oder Magen-Darm-Beschwerden erfolgreich eingesetzt werden. In dieser Diplomarbeit wird auf die Anwendung von ätherischen Ölen in der Palliativmedizin und Hospiz sowie gegen Schmerzen näher eingegangen. Die Aufnahme von ätherischen Ölen kann oral, inhalativ aber auch transdermal erfolgen. In der Palliativmedizin und Hospiz ist die Massage mit aromatischen Ölen eine gute Möglichkeit, um das Wohlbefinden der Patienten zu steigern. Zum einen durch die angenehmen Düfte und deren Wirkung auf den Körper aber auch durch die Berührungen der Massage selbst. Ätherische Öle können auch in der Mundpflege, z.B. bei Infektionen mit Candida albicans, Mundtrockenheit oder Mundgeruch verwendet werden. Bei Krebspatienten können sie Übelkeit und Erbrechen vermindern. Der breite Einsatz von Schmerzmitteln, wie beispielsweise NSAIDs, sei es bei Menstruationsbeschwerden oder bei Kopfschmerzen, ist oft mit einer Vielzahl an Nebenwirkungen verbunden. Durch die Verwendung von ätherischen Ölen könnte die Einnahme von Schmerzmitteln reduziert werden.
A Special Issue on the Internet of Things
Creators: Clinton A. Vince
Jennifer Morrissey
Don Rankin
Mirrasoul J. Mousavi
James Stoupis
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on Internet of Things which features "Smart Cities", "Modernizing Our Infrastructure as a Platform For Exciting Technology", "Advanced Meter Infrastructure Reporting and the Case for Virtual Metering" and "The State of Digitalization in Distribution Systems"
Low energy processes to distinguish among seesaw models
Creators: name: Biggio, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the three basic seesaw scenarios (with fermionic singlets, scalar triplets or fermionic triplets) and discuss their phenomenology, aside from neutrino masses. We use the effective field theory approach and compare the dimension-six operators characteristic of these models. We discuss the possibility of having large dimension-six operators and small dimension-five (small neutrino masses) without any fine-tuning, if the lepton number is violated at a low energy scale. Finally, we discuss some peculiarities of the phenomenology of the fermionic triplet seesaw model.
description: 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of IFAE08, Bologna, Italy
Smart Grid and Microgrid Resiliency
Creators: Vivek Kumar Singh
Manimaran Govindarasu
Vigna K Ramachandaramurthy
Sudhakar Babu Thanikanti
KRISHNAKUMAR R. VASUDEVAN
Zhaoyu Wang
Kaveh Dehghanpour
Mehmet Cintuglu
Dmitry Ishchenko
Abdollah Kavousi-Fard
Mohammad Ghiasi
Moslem Dehghani
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2020

Newsletter
Issue on Smart Grid and Microgrid Resiliency featuring "Design of Attack-Resilient System for Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection, and Control in Smart Grid", "Enhancing Resiliency Through Sustainable Microgrids and Value Creation Using Smart Grid ",  "Networked Microgrids for Enhancing Grid Resiliency "
"Resilient Networked Microgrids"
and "Investigating Overall Structure of Cyber-Attacks on Smart-Grid Control Systems to Improve Cyber Resilience in Power System"
A Portable Implementation of RANLUX++
Creators: name: Hahnfeld, Jonas
name: Moneta, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High energy physics has a constant demand for random number generators (RNGs) with high statistical quality. In this paper, we present ROOT's implementation of the RANLUX++ generator. We discuss the choice of relying only on standard C++ for portability reasons. Building on an initial implementation, we describe a set of optimizations to increase generator speed. This allows to reach performance very close to the original assembler version. We test our implementation on an Apple M1 and Nvidia GPUs to demonstrate the advantages of portable code.
description: 8 pages; submitted to vCHEP 2021
Optical pumping and vibrational cooling of molecules
Creators: name: Viteau, Matthieu
name: Chotia, Amodsen
name: Allegrini, Maria
name: Bouloufa, Nadia
name: Dulieu, Olivier
name: Comparat, Daniel
name: Pillet, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The methods producing cold molecules from cold atoms tend to leave molecular ensembles with substantial residual internal energy. For instance, Cs2 molecules initially formed via photoassociation of cold Cs atoms are in several vibrational levels, v, of the electronic ground state. Here we apply a broadband femtosecond laser that redistributes the vibrational population in the ground state via a few electronic excitation - spontaneous emission cycles. The laser pulses are shaped to remove the excitation frequency band of the v = 0 level, preventing re-excitation from that state. We observe a fast and efficient accumulation, about 70% of the initially detected molecules, in the lowest vibrational level, v = 0, of the singlet electronic state. The validity of this incoherent depopulation pumping method is very general and opens exciting prospects for laser cooling and manipulation of molecules.
description: 8 pages
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Harrison, John
name: O'Leary, John
name: Tolmach, Andrew
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Theory of computation → Logic

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 141, 10th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2019), pages 0:i-0:xiv
Additional file 1 of Borrowing information across patient subgroups in clinical trials, with application to a paediatric trial
Creators: name: Turner, Rebecca M.
name: Turkova, Anna
name: Moore, Cecilia L.
name: Bamford, Alasdair
name: Archary, Moherndran
name: Barlow-Mosha, Linda N.
name: Cotton, Mark F.
name: Cressey, Tim R.
name: Kaudha, Elizabeth
name: Lugemwa, Abbas
name: Lyall, Hermione
name: Mujuru, Hilda A.
name: Mulenga, Veronica
name: Musiime, Victor
name: Rojo, Pablo
name: Tudor-Williams, Gareth
name: Welch, Steven B.
name: Gibb, Diana M.
name: Ford, Deborah
name: White, Ian R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Excel spreadsheet illustrating the correspondence between weights allocated to the data from older children and beliefs about the uncertainty range for the treatment difference in younger children. Figure S2. Drawing materials and counters provided to help experts visualise their probability beliefs.
A Special Issue on the Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability
Creators: Doug Houseman
Pierluigi Mancarella
Ryan Wiser
Andrew Mills
Todd Levin
Audun Botterud
Michael Emmanuel
Ramesh Rayudu
Ian Welch
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on the Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability which features "Comments on DOE Staff Report on Electricity Markets and Reliability", "Keeping the Green Lights On: Experiences from and Comparison with the Australian National Electricity Market", "Techno-Economic Screening Analysis for Variable Renewable Energy Sources? A Forward-Looking Alternative for a Seamless Baseload Generation Retirement " and "The Impact of Wind and Solar on Wholesale Power Markets and Generation Assets"
title: Per una didattica inclusiva. Esperienze di ricerca e formazione nei corsi di specializzazione sul sostegno
Creators: name: Guerini, Ines
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2023

description:

Il volume intende riflettere sulle finalità pedagogiche del corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno didattico agli alunni con disabilità. In proposito, al suo interno vengono anche presentati alcuni risultati emersi da ricerche condotte nell’ambito degli ultimi cicli del corso. Mediante contributi teorici e di ricerca le autrici e l’autore desiderano ragionare sulle strategie didattiche essenziali per lavorare come insegnante di sostegno e sul ruolo che il percorso formativo del corso riveste sul futuro professionale di quanti e quante lo intraprendono. A riguardo, il tirocinio (diretto e indiretto) previsto dal Decreto Ministeriale 30 settembre 2011 che ha definito i criteri e le modalità per lo svolgimento dei corsi di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno gioca un ruolo decisivo in quanto i corsisti e le corsiste hanno modo di confrontarsi con docenti esperti/e sulle competenze metodologiche necessarie e sui modelli culturali che animano le istituzioni scolastiche. In tal senso, il corso di formazione per il conseguimento della specializzazione per le attività di sostegno diviene anche occasione per ripensare il background degli specializzandi e delle specializzande i/le quali talvolta faticano ad abbandonare atteggiamenti pregiudizievoli e stereotipati circa la disabilità, il genere femminile e la provenienza da un Paese diverso dal proprio.
Smart Grid and Power System Topologies
Creators: Mehrdad Rostami
Mehrdad Boolochi
Shamsul Aizam Zulkifli
Ronald Jackson
Abhishek Balakrishnan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2020

Newsletter
Issue on Smart Grid and Power System Topologies featuring
"How DERs may change grid topology and affect system status and performance",
"Mix Generations with Self-Synchronization During Unbalanced Condition In Microgrid",
"Automating the Utility-Customer DER Interconnection Process",
and "An Interview with Mehrdad Boolochi"
A Special Issue on the Smart Grid in the European Region
Creators: Ferdinanda Ponci
Antonello Monti
Nouredine Hadjsaid
Carol L. Stimmel
Corrie Goldman
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2016

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on Smart Grid in the European Region which features, "The Digitalization of Distribution Systems", "Are Smart Grids Enablers for Smart Cities?", "Smart Energy Regions: A Key Strategy to Scaling the Transition to a Low-Carbon Society", and "Microgrids are Key to Integrting Renewables into the Smart Grid".
A Special Issue on Rebuilding Power Systems After Extreme Weather Events - The Case of Puerto Rico
Creators: Johnny Price
Jeremy McVey
Aaron Anaya
Mark Feasel
Dan Bishop
Arif Ahmed
Daniel Burmester
Fiona Stevens Mcfadden
Ramesh Rayudu
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on Rebuilding Power Systems After Extreme Weather Events - The Case of Puerto Rico which features "Smart Restoration in Puerto Rico - The NYSUC Experience", "Efforts to Restore Sustainable and Resilient Power to Puerto Rico Center on Microgrids" , "DC Power, Green Storage and Communication: Basis for Interconnected Micro Grids" and "DC Distribution for Puerto Rico - Planning Anew, Planning with Weather Effects in Mind"
A Special Issue on Markets & Service Providers
Creators: Panos Moutis
Anthony Giacomoni
Ahmed R. Abdulaal
Ramin Moghaddass
Shihab Asfour
Sri Chandrasekaran
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on Markets & Service Providers which features," Markets and Service Providers Tackle Critical Challenges and Developments", "Achieving Public Policy Goals through Competitive Wholesale Electricity Markets", "Why are Non-Residential Consumers Key Enablers of Smart Grid?" and "Advancing Technology For The Benefit Of Humanity - A Closer Look at LVDC".
Verstehen von Texten unterschiedlicher Funktionalstile im Russischen
Creators: name: Kyselova, Alina
Year: 2015

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf die Besonderheiten des Verständnisses der geschriebenen Texte eingegangen, wenn die LeserInnen die Fremdsprache (das Russische) auf Niveau A2-B1 beherrschen. Es wird untersucht, wie sie den jeweiligen Text auf lexikalischer, grammatikalischer und syntaktischer Ebene wahrnehmen, wie viel vom Textinhalt sie verstehen können und – als Mittelpunkt unserer Untersuchung – wie viel Grammatikwissen sie benötigen, um diesen Text zu verstehen. Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, werden sechs Texte, die zu unterschiedlichen Funktionalstilen gehören, einer Analyse aus der Sicht der Rezipientinnen mit Sprachniveau A2-B1 unterzogen. Das Ziel ist, an Beispielen dieser Texte anschaulich zu machen, wie verständlich die Texte für die LeserInnen mit diesem Sprachniveau sein sollten.
Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow
Creators: name: Collaboration, H. E. S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of gamma rays from extragalactic sources followed by fading afterglow emission, are associated with stellar core collapse events. We report the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the afterglow of GRB 190829A, between 4 and 56 hours after the trigger, using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). The low luminosity and redshift of GRB 190829A reduce both internal and external absorption, allowing determination of its intrinsic energy spectrum. Between energies of 0.18 and 3.3 tera-electron volts, this spectrum is described by a power law with photon index of 2.07 $\pm$ 0.09, similar to the x-ray spectrum. The x-ray and VHE gamma-ray light curves also show similar decay profiles. These similar characteristics in the x-ray and gamma-ray bands challenge GRB afterglow emission scenarios.
Addressing vaccine hesitancy and access barriers to achieve persistent progress in Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination program
Creators: name: Rosen, Bruce
name: Waitzberg, Ruth
name: Israeli, Avi
name: Hartal, Michael
name: Davidovitch, Nadav
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: COVID-19 vaccination program
subject: Israel
subject: vaccine hesitancy
subject: vaccines
subject: strategies

description: As of March 31, 2021, Israel had administered 116 doses of vaccine for COVID-19 per 100 population (of any age) – far more than any other OECD country. It was also ahead of other OECD countries in terms of the share of the population that had received at least one vaccination (61%) and the share that had been fully vaccinated (55%). Among Israelis aged 16 and over, the comparable figures were 81 and 74%, respectively. In light of this, the objectives of this article are: 1. To describe and analyze the vaccination uptake through the end of March 2021 2. To identify behavioral and other barriers that likely affected desire or ability to be vaccinated 3. To describe the efforts undertaken to overcome those barriers Israel’s vaccination campaign was launched on December 20, and within 2.5 weeks, 20% of Israelis had received their first dose. Afterwards, the pace slowed. It took an additional 4 weeks to increase from 20 to 40% and yet another 6 weeks to increase from 40 to 60%. Initially, uptake was low among young adults, and two religious/cultural minority groups - ultra-Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs, but their uptake increased markedly over time. In the first quarter of 2021, Israel had to enhance access to the vaccine, address a moderate amount of vaccine hesitancy in its general population, and also address more intense pockets of vaccine hesitancy among young adults and religious/cultural minority groups. A continued high rate of infection during the months of February and March, despite broad vaccination coverage at the time, created confusion about vaccine effectiveness, which in turn contributed to vaccine hesitancy. Among Israeli Arabs, some residents of smaller villages encountered difficulties in reaching vaccination sites, and that also slowed the rate of vaccination. The challenges were addressed via a mix of messaging, incentives, extensions to the initial vaccine delivery system, and other measures. Many of the measures addressed the general population, while others were targeted at subgroups with below-average vaccination rates. Once the early adopters had been vaccinated, it took hard, creative work to increase population coverage from 40 to 60% and beyond. Significantly, some of the capacities and strategies that helped Israel address vaccine hesitancy and geographic access barriers are different from those that enabled it to procure, distribute and administer the vaccines. Some of these strategies are likely to be relevant to other countries as they progress from the challenges of securing an adequate vaccine supply and streamlining distribution to the challenge of encouraging vaccine uptake.
A Special Issue on Operations
Creators: Amir Kalantari
David Schoenwald
Michael Emmanuel
Ramesh Rayudu
Ian Welch
Ian Madley
David Healey
Zhong Fan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

Newsletter
IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on the Operations which features," Below-Grade Intelligence: A Necessity for Efficient Underground Asset Management and Healthy Power Grids", "Active Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations in the Western Interconnection: Recent Developments", "Distributed Energy Resources Operations in the Modern Grid", and "SEND - Pointing the Way to an Integrated Smart Energy Network".
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Timpf, Sabine
name: Schlieder, Christoph
name: Kattenbeck, Markus
name: Ludwig, Bernd
name: Stewart, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Information systems → Geographic information systems
subject: Information systems → Location based services
subject: Computing methodologies → Natural language processing
subject: Computing methodologies → Spatial and physical reasoning

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: LIPIcs, Vol. 142, 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019), pages 0:i-0:xx
title: Alfalfa Weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Response to Environmental Factors in Alfalfa Fields in Northern Utah
Creators: name: Jech, Larry Edward
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: Economic damage to forage alfalfa by the alfalfa weevil occurs frequently enough in northern Utah to warrant applications of an insecticide in some years but not all. Currently a five to ten day period is available to recognize injurious populations then make applications.
Sticky boards, pitfall traps, Berlese funnels sweep samples, stem bouquets, climatic variation and marking techniques were evaluated for alfalfa weevil population predictions. The prevailing climate was the most important factor controlling early adult activities. Early adult feeding and sexual development was the key to forecasting later larval populations. Regional surveys were not adequate for local control recommendations.
The effects of climate (especially temperature) on both weevils and alfalfa in six fields in areas with frequent alfalfa weevil damage were selected and studied in detail. The fields were selected for comparable age, alfalfa variety, type of irrigation and harvest practices. The development of both alfalfa and weevils were monitored using accumulated degree days at a developmental threshold of 9°C for the alfalfa weevil and 5°C for the alfalfa. When there was significant early season accumulated degree days (9°C), a weevil outbreak was likely. Adult weevils fed heavily and females developed eggs during this period. Cool spring conditions did not favor early weevil activity while alfalfa plants developed due to the lower development threshold.
When the climatic history of an alfalfa field was not known, growth about 5 May was an effective indicator of accumulated degree days. When the alfalfa was less than 25 cm tall and there were 3-4 total combined oviposition and feeding punctures per ten stems an injurious outbreak of weevil larvae invariably occurred about a month later. the method was not sensitive enough to detect marginal injurious population levels.
Additional file 1 of Increasing loss of mature boreal forests around protected areas with red-listed forest species
Creators: name: Määttänen, Aino-Maija
name: Virkkala, Raimo
name: Leikola, Niko
name: Heikkinen, Risto K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Temporal trends in forest cover change around the studied protected areas. Table S1. List of species. Table S2. The change of forest cover between the four consecutive periods around the protected areas with red-listed forest species. Figure S1. Summed red-listed species importance index standardised by the size of the protected area. Figure S2. Scatterplot of the number of red-listed forest species in the protected areas in relation to latitude. Figure S3. Temporal trends of forest clear fellings around the protected areas with red-listed forest species occurrences. Figure S4. Scatterplot of the RFPA area and red-list species index. Figure S5. Scatterplot of PA size and the sum of red-listed species importance. Figure S6. Scatterplot of RFPA distance to nearest road and red-list species index. Figure S7. Scatterplot of the amount of protected forest within 1 km from the RFPA and red-list species index. Figure S8. Ranking RFPAs based on IUCN classes of species observed within them.
Die Erfahrungen von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten in Selbstvertretergruppen und deren Bedeutung für ihre Agency
Creators: name: Wiesinger, Katharina
Year: 2015

description: Selbstvertretung kann Veränderungen im Leben von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten erzielen und viele davon können unter dem Begriff Agency zusammengefasst werden. Diese Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich deshalb mit den Erfahrungen, die Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten als SelbstvertreterInnen machen und dessen Auswirkungen auf ihre Agency. Um sich dieser Fragestellung anzunähern, ist ein Mann mit Lernschwierigkeiten, der neu in einer Selbstvertretergruppe zu arbeiten begonnen hat, über ein halbes Jahr hinweg begleitet worden. Es ist einmal im Monat ein Interview mit ihm geführt worden, wobei sich die ersten drei Interviews mit der Lebensgeschichte des Mannes beschäftigt haben und in den letzten drei Interviews konkrete Fragen zu Themen gestellt wurden, die sich aus der ersten Auswertung ergeben haben. Weiters gab es nach jedem Interview ca. zwei Wochen später eine Nachbesprechung, bei der die Lebensgeschichte, die anhand der Erzählungen aus den Interviews verfasst worden ist, durchgegangen worden ist. Die transkribierten Interviews sind mit der Grounded Theory nach Strauss und Corbin ausgewertet worden. Es hat sich herausgestellt, dass der Mann mit Lernschwierigkeiten durch seine Arbeit Veränderungen für andere KlientInnen erzielen und deren Strukturen erweitern will, aber auch die eigene Handlungsfähigkeit ausbauen möchten, da Selbstvertretung Möglichkeiten für die persönliche Weiterentwicklung bietet. Es werden von anderen Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten Anforderungen an den Selbstvertreter gestellt und seine Arbeit auch kritisiert, wenn diese nicht erfüllt werden. Der Selbstvertreter erhält in seiner Tätigkeit Möglichkeiten zur Selbstbestimmung, da er sich seine Aufgaben selbst einteilen und selbstständig Entscheidungen treffen kann und dadurch wird seine Agency gefördert. Seine Handlungsfähigkeit wird aber von höheren Instanzen eingeschränkt, da diese die endgültigen Entscheidungen treffen, ob Anliegen durchgesetzt werden oder nicht. Durch Selbstvertretung hat sich der Blickwinkel des Mannes mit Lernschwierigkeiten verändert, da ihm mehr Dinge anvertraut werden, und er lernt das Arbeiten im Team kennen. Weiters erfordert die Tätigkeit als SelbstvertreterIn viel geistige Arbeit und es können viele neue Fertigkeiten gelernt und somit die Handlungsfähgikeit erweitert werden.
A Special Issue on the Paris Climate Agreement and the Role of the Smart Grid
Creators: Panos Moutis
Soheil Mohseni
Alan Brent
Mike Voll
Steve Widergren
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2018

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IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on the Paris Climate Agreement and the Role of the Smart Grid which features "The Paris Climate Agreement and the Role of the Smart Grid", "Smart Grid and Zero-Emissions Energy Systems: The Need for a Multi-Dimensional Investment Planning Perspective", "A Commercial Microgrid to Benefit All - The David Johnston R+T Park Microgrid", and "Enabling an Interactive Grid: A Strategic Vision for Interoperability".
Diverse Strategies and Applications
Creators: Vishu Gupta
Rajesh Kumar
BK Panigrahi
Aleski Paaso
Daniel Kushner
Peter Palensky
Ties van der Heijden
M. Beccali
M. Bonomolo
B. Di Pietra
M.G. Ippolito
G. Leone
F. Monteleone
R. Musca
E. Riva Sanseverino
G. Zizzo
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2019

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Issue on Diverse Strategies and Applications features "Electric Vehicle Charging Management- Battery Charging vs. Swapping in Densely Populated Environment", "Developing Microgrids to Provide Resilience for the Grid and the Community", "Control of Flood Defense Infrastructure for Demand Response Purposes", and

"Are Small Islands Feasible Prototypes for Future Smart Grids?"
Heavy-light hadrons and their excitations
Creators: name: Burch, Tommy
name: Hagen, Christian
name: Lang, Christian B.
name: Limmer, Markus
name: Schäfer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the excitations of hadrons containing a single heavy quark. We present meson and baryon mass splittings and ratios of meson decay constants resulting from quenched and dynamical two-flavor configurations. Light quarks are simulated using the Chirally Improved (CI) lattice Dirac operator. The heavy quark is approximated by a static propagator, appropriate for the $b$ quark on our lattices ($1/a \sim 1-2$ GeV). We also include some preliminary calculations of the heavy-quark kinetic corrections to the states.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, poster presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 14-19 July 2008, Williamsburg, VA, USA
„Wenn Mama und Papa sich scheiden lassen …“
Creators: name: Griesbaum, Carina
Year: 2015

description: Den Ausganspunkt dieser Arbeit bildet das im Februar 2013 in Österreich beschlossenes Gesetz, das Eltern, welche sich einvernehmlich scheiden lassen möchten, dazu verpflichtet, eine Elternberatung nach § 95 Absatz 1a Außerstreitgesetz in Anspruch zu nehmen. Eltern müssen vor Abschluss der Scheidung dem Gericht bescheinigen, dass sie sich über die aus der Scheidung resultierenden individuellen Bedürfnisse ihrer minderjährigen Kinder bei einer zuständigen Einrichtung beziehungsweise Beraterin im Rahmen eines Gruppen-, Paar oder Einzelsettings beraten haben lassen. Ohne die Absolvierung einer Elternberatung ist es nicht möglich, sich einvernehmlich scheiden zu lassen. Dieses Gesetz erlaubt nun beiden Elternteilen die gemeinsame Verantwortung gegenüber ihren Kindern auch rechtlich tragen zu können.

Das Kernstück der vorliegenden Masterarbeit bildet eine qualitative erkundende Studie, in der vier Experteninterviews durchgeführt wurden, die es erlauben, Beraterinnen zu ihren Erfahrungen, Einschätzungen und dem Tätigkeitsfeld hinsichtlich einer Elternberatung nach § 95 Abs. 1a AußStrG zu befragen. Dem zugrunde liegt die Absicht, sich ein Verständnis darüber zu verschaffen, wie das Setting und das Konzept gestaltet, die Chancen und Möglichkeiten sowie die persönliche Einschätzung der Beraterinnen zu einer Elternberatung eingeschätzt werden.

Anhand dieser vier Gesichtspunkte ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit, aus der Sicht der Beraterinnen ein Bild zu gewinnen, welche Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer Elternberatung gemäß § 95 innewohnen. Darüber hinaus werden hierzu Überlegungen angestellt, um Empfehlungen für künftige Elternberatungen nach § 95 Abs. 1a AußStrG in Österreich geben zu können.
La Carnefice: Ontologia del Trauma e Dinamiche Nichilistiche
Creators: name: PsykoSapiens
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Il testo indaga la natura concreta della distruzione sistematica operata da entità che non rappresentano forze vitali, ma negazioni radicali dell’esistenza stessa. Il “mostro” non è un concetto astratto né simbolico: è un agente della dissoluzione che si nutre dell’altro, incarnando un nichilismo perverso.

La figura della carnefice non è riducibile alle categorie psicologiche convenzionali (come il “narcisista perverso maligno”), bensì è la manifestazione di una volontà di annientamento che agisce con metodica seduzione, manipolazione e dominio. Il suo scopo non è trasformare, ma perforare ontologicamente la vittima, disgregandone l’identità in un processo di fredda erosione sistematica.

Il trauma inflitto dalla carnefice non è solo psicologico ma ontologico, un innesto nella sostanza dell'essere che ridefinisce la vittima e ne altera la struttura esistenziale. Questo non conduce semplicemente a una sofferenza passeggera, ma un dolore, una lacerazione irreversibile che impone una trasfigurazione: la sopravvivenza non è ritorno allo stato originario, bensì mutazione radicale.

L’imperativo del testo è disvelare il mostro, smascherare il nichilismo mascherato, riconoscendo che non tutte le forze possono essere integrate o superate. Il recupero dell’autonomia ontologica avviene attraverso la consapevolezza e la trasformazione del trauma in una nuova dimensione dell’essere.
A Special Issue on Distribution-Customer-Transmission
Creators: Julieta Giraldez
Andy Hoke
Earle Ifuku
Reid Ueda
Marc Asano
Amir Kalantari
Sasan Mokhtari
Babak Enayati
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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IEEE Smart Grid presents a Special Issue on "Voltage Regulation with Rooftop Solar PV in Hawaii", "What are the Impacts to the Utility and PV Customers?", "High Performance Grids and the Significance of Strategic Project Development", "The Power of Disruption in the Business of Energy", and "Renewable Distributed Energy Resources - Technical Benefits and Challenges".
FEATURES OF DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH METHODS IN SURGICAL TACTICS FOR TREATMENT OF SPLEEN INJURIES
Creators: name: Khakimov, M.Sh.
name: Zhumanazarov, A.U.
name: Ismailova, U.A.
name: Aripov, Sh.Sh.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The incidence of spleen injury is 22.3-30% in abdominal organ trauma and ranks second among parenchymatous organ ruptures.
title: Bluetongue Virus Evolution: Sequence Analyses of the Gene Coding for the Major Serogroup Antigen
Creators: name: Kowalik, Timothy F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: A study was undertaken to better understand the genetic relationship of five United States prototype bluetongue virus serotypes. Genomic double-stranded RNA segment S1, which encodes the major core protein and serogroup antigen, VP7, was used as a marker gene for the sequence analyses. The S1 segments from BTV-2, 11, 13, and 17 were cloned and sequenced by methods developed during the course of this investigation. These results were compared with previously published sequence data from segment S1 of BTV-10. The Sl segments are 1156 base pairs long and contain a common open reading frame capable of coding for a protein (VP7) of 349 amino acids. This reading frame is flanked by an 18 base 5' noncoding stretch and an 89 base 3' noncoding region. Both termini are well conserved among the serotypes. The 3' end of each serotype has the potential to form a stable stem-loop structure. VP7 is very well conserved among the five serotypes. It has a predicted charge of +1 to +1.5 at pH 7.0. Hydropathy and secondary structure predictions show an alternating pattern of hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acid regions. Based on this data, an eight-stranded ß-barrel is predicted for VP7. Proteins of similar function in single-stranded RNA viruses have this same structure. This observation suggests a common origin of bluetongue viruses with single-stranded RNA viruses. The ß-barrel may also serve as a target for antiviral drugs as is the case with picornaviruses. Phylogenetic analyses show that BTV-2, 10, 11, and 17 are closely related and that BTV-13 is the most distant of the five United States serotypes. Similar comparisons of the previously published L2 sequence show a similar pattern. By using the 29-year span between the appearance of BTV-10 and BTV-2 in the United States, an evolutionary rate of 2.2 x 10-3 nucleotide substitutions/site/year was estimated. This is similar to the gag gene of retroviruses and the RNA polymerase gene of influenza. A rate of this magnitude is evidence that double-stranded RNA viruses, like single-stranded RNA viruses, do not have polymerase proofreading activity.
The design of rural development : experiences from South China, 1949-1976
Creators: name: Ip, David Fu-Keung
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Rural Guangdong before 1949 was characterized by an exploitive system derived from the alliance of wealth and power among the landlords, clans, the rich and the gentry. This network of exploitive relations not only controlled the resources--i.e., land, credit and markets—which were most essential to the livelihood of the peasants, but also created numerous blockages in the system making it impossible to have any input injected from the outside trickle down. Rural development in Guangdong after 1949 began with the land reform movement, but it was only when collectivization was carried out through the establishment of cooperatives and rural communes, such exploitive relations were eradicated. A rural development strategy, however, did not emerge until after the fateful years of agricultural crisis and the Soviet pull-out. This strategy was aimed at the development of infrastructure for both agricultural and rural development through collectivization. It postulated that only when the infrastructure for agriculture was strengthened, could agricultural production be increased and funds and surplus for the development of supportive structure, such as rural industries, health care and education in the rural system be generated. And only when such supportive structure was developed and consolidated could new inputs be created to increase agricultural production further. It was through such a spiral process of generating, reinvesting and retaining rural surplus that rural development was implemented and realized. And it was in such a manner that rural development fulfilled various objectives to become an integral part of a strategy for development.
Change of human mobility during COVID-19: A United States case study
Creators: name: Elarde, Justin
name: Kim, Joon-Seok
name: Kavak, Hamdi
name: Züfle, Andreas
name: Anderson, Taylor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the onset of COVID-19 and the resulting shelter in place guidelines combined with remote working practices, human mobility in 2020 has been dramatically impacted. Existing studies typically examine whether mobility in specific localities increases or decreases at specific points in time and relate these changes to certain pandemic and policy events. In this paper, we study mobility change in the US through a five-step process using mobility footprint data. (Step 1) Propose the delta Time Spent in Public Places (Delta-TSPP) as a measure to quantify daily changes in mobility for each US county from 2019-2020. (Step 2) Conduct Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce the Delta-TSPP time series of each county to lower-dimensional latent components of change in mobility. (Step 3) Conduct clustering analysis to find counties that exhibit similar latent components. (Step 4) Investigate local and global spatial autocorrelation for each component. (Step 5) Conduct correlation analysis to investigate how various population characteristics and behavior correlate with mobility patterns. Results show that by describing each county as a linear combination of the three latent components, we can explain 59% of the variation in mobility trends across all US counties. Specifically, change in mobility in 2020 for US counties can be explained as a combination of three latent components: 1) long-term reduction in mobility, 2) no change in mobility, and 3) short-term reduction in mobility. We observe significant correlations between the three latent components of mobility change and various population characteristics, including political leaning, population, COVID-19 cases and deaths, and unemployment. We find that our analysis provides a comprehensive understanding of mobility change in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
description: Current under review at PLOS One
A Special Issue on The Year in Review - 2017
Creators: Massoud Amin
Panos Moutis
Peter Wung
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2017

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IEEE Smart Grid presents a Year in Review (2017) which features "Year in Review and What's Next in 2018" , "A Note from the Managing Editor", and "Technology Foresight - Shaping the R&D Potential of the Smart Grid"