cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamik der Metropolisierung als Problem der räumlichen Entwicklung in Asien
Creators: name: Bronger, Dirk
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Metropolization, i.e. the concentration process of demographic and functional primacy in a single metropolitan city is a recent phenomenon and to be understood as a direct consequence of the population explosion since 1950. Former research regarding the primacy pattern of metropolitan cities in the Third World revealed, firstly, that the extent of functional primacy in almost all spheres of life exceeds that of the metropolises of the industrialized countries. Secondly, this statement is valid independent of the politico-economic system of the country concerned. The outstanding functional primacy of the Third World metropolitan cities results in pronounced regional disparities. In the first chapter the interdependencies between these two phenomena are demonstrated in a worldwide context. In part two the different opinions about the role of the metropolitan cities in the development process are reviewed. The results lead to the general question of what measures have been taken after independence to reduce the overwhelming functional primacy of the metropolitan cities. Taking Bombay/Maharashtra as an example, the various obstacles to achieving these goals are investigated throughout the past three decades, 1960-1990. The findings lead us to a fundamental dilemma: Immediate results could be obtained only from the infrastructurally advanced, i.e. the metropolitan regions, first and foremost Bombay itself. In view of the limited financial resources its development therefore seems sensible and advisable. Such a regional policy, however, will not reduce the regional disparities in Maharashtra. The final chapter deals with the question: What role does the overall stage of development play in reducing these regional disparities in general and the metropolitan primacy in particular? Taking Seoul/South Korea and Manila/The Philippines as examples the author investigates how successful these countries have been in managing their regional conflicts in the past 25 years (1960-1985). Although the conditions in South Korea were less favourable than those in the Philippines, South Korea has been far more successful in reducing the regional disparities. Finally, the various reasons for this different regional development pattern are discussed.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 1-2 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
PETER GETREUER (comp.): Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Japan-Schrifttums 1988-1989. Nebst Ergänzungen zu den Jahren 1980-1987
Creators: name: Zöllner, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
DIETER KUHN: Status and Ritus. Das China der Aristokraten von den Anfängen bis zum 10. Jahrhundert nach Christus
Creators: name: Linck, Gudula
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
WOLFGANG BAUER: Das Antlitz Chinas. Die autobiographische Selbstdarstellung in der chinesischen Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis heute
Creators: name: Sievers, Armin
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
HELMUT BUCHHOLT: Kirche, Kopra, Bürokraten. Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung und strategisches Handeln in Nord Sulawesi/Indonesien
Creators: name: Märtin, Oliver
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Olfaction, emotion and memory: an investigation of the affective impact of odours in memories using the Swinburne Sensory Emotion Association Survey (SSEAS)
Creators: name: Owen, Caroline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Swinburne Sensory Emotion Association Survey (SSEAS) was developed in a study designed to evaluate and model the relationship between awareness of the impact of odours, odour sensitivity, general emotional state and the emotionality of memories associated with odours. A model was developed based on research by Wrzesniewski, McCauley, and Rozin (1999), Herz (2004), and Chen and Dalton (2005) which suggested that differences in odour ability, awareness of the impact of odours, and general background emotional state can impact on responses to differently valenced odour-related memories. A sample of 402 volunteers (age range 13 – 82 years) completed the SSEAS online. The model was assessed using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique, using Maximum Likelihood criterion with the Bollen-Stine bootstrap and standardised estimates in the output. Evaluation of the proposed model revealed that the model was an excellent fit for the total group. The hypothesis that increased awareness of the impact of odours and greater sensitivity to odours would be positively associated with emotional responsivity to odour-related memories was supported. While there was only limited support for the hypothesis that an increased emotional state would be associated with heightened emotionality of memories associated with odours, evaluation of the model revealed background emotional state makes a limited but important contribution to odourrelated memory responses. Further analysis revealed the strength of the model’s ability to highlight gender- and age-related differences in odour memory responses, with both the female group and the younger group associated with increased awareness of emotional responses to odours. Use of the techniques used in this study as a basis for future research will enhance understanding of the physiological and psychological processes associated with gender and age differences which contribute to memories and emotional responses to odours.
Bridging Loop Quantum Gravity and the Foam-Plexus Model
Creators: name: Wilkins, Dennis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Spin Network
Loop Quantum Gravity
LQG
Foam Plexus
Quantum Gravity

description: We show that spin networks, the fundamental quantum states of geometry in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), emerge naturally as coarse-grained snapshots of wormhole-connected subnetworks (plexuses) in the Foam-Plexus model.
Scandinavian and Finnish design: exhibitions in Australian galleries, 1962-1976
Creators: name: Jackson, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The current vogue for Scandinavian design recalls a time when an alternative taste first emerged to challenge the British and American hegemony of local design education, design practice and aesthetics. In Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, a taste for Scandinavian design was evident everywhere: in the blonde and teak timber of local furniture and architectural detailing; in the organic forms of pottery and glassware; and in the strong, simple patterns of fabrics. [Introduction]
Phenomenological approach to 3D spinning combustion waves: numerical experiments with a rectangular rod
Creators: name: Strunin, Dmitry V.
name: Suslov, Sergey
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The spinning waves occur in solid flames and detonation when the plane uniformly propagating reaction front loses stability. As a result, the front breaks into localized zones of intensive reaction. We study a 3D phenomenological model aimed at modeling such phenomena. The model constitutes a nonlinear partial differential equation. This work contains preliminary results demonstrating the capacity of the model to reproduce basic experimental features of the unstable front: metastability of the uniform state and formation of self-sustained regime with predominantly lateral propagation of the front curvature.
Design Justice Zine (printable).pdf
Creators: name: Benetatou, Kassandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 330313
subject: Social design
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 330306
subject: Design practice and methods

description: Printable version of the zine. This version was made using https://nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger. Instructions for printing (taken from zinearranger): Hold the page with the front cover at the bottom right.Fold in half (hamburger style).Cut along the top of the back cover, to create a slit in the middle of the paper.Unfold, then fold in half (hotdog style).Push the two sides in, allowing the middle pages to split out into a diamond.Starting with the back cover, fold the pages together until the back is opposite the front.
Design Justice Zine.pdf
Creators: name: Benetatou, Kassandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 330306
subject: Design practice and methods
classificationCode: 460805
subject: Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems

description: This zine is part of a coursework for a module called "Design Justice", as part of an HCI MSc. It explores the evolution of Google’s technological infrastructure—from its early PageRank algorithm to its central role in surveillance capitalism. Using frameworks of Design Justice and Data Feminism, the zine examines how Google’s systems, while innovative, have contributed to the exploitation of personal data and the wearing of digital autonomy. It calls for a reimagining of tech design that prioritizes transparency and ethical accountability.
Design_Justice-Not_Yours_To_Generate
Creators: name: Vergopoulou, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460299
subject: Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction

description: "Not Yours to Generate" is a critical design zine created for the Design Justice module in the Human-Computer Interaction Master’s program at City, University of London (2025). It explores how generative AI tools — like DALL·E and Midjourney — reproduce Indigenous, Black, and non-Western cultural aesthetics without consent, attribution, or compensation.The zine critiques these practices through the lenses of Design Justice and Data Feminism, combining real-world cases with ethical analysis and bold visual storytelling. It proposes consent-based alternatives to current AI systems, advocating for transparency, cultural sovereignty, and justice in tech design.
Familiarizing postgraduate ESL students with the literature review in a WAC/EAP engineering classroom
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, enrolls a culturally and linguistically diverse group of ESL students into its postgraduate coursework (M.A.) and Ph.D. research programs, many of whom also enroll in a semester-long (12 week) English for Academic Purposes (EAP) class called 'Presenting Academic Discourse--Engineering.' Enrollees include those who do not meet the minimum language requirements and others who are recommended to take the course by their thesis supervisors. During the research period discussed here, a majority of students who completed the classes were from Southeast Asia, and EAP class size averaged twenty five students. Initially most were coursework masters students; as time passed, an increasingly significant number came from research (Masters and PhD) programs. The combination of research and coursework students created a slight tension in that the first group had immediate need to write a literature review and the second did not. These students arrive in Australia with varied levels of English proficiency, diverse cultural backgrounds, and prior educational experiences. Students from Asia often come not only with limited English proficiency but also with other academic practices that may be obstacles to good writing in a Western academic context, including conservative rather than critical learning approaches and issues with establishing an academic voice through writing (Ballard & Clanchy 1984; Ramanathan & Atkinson 1999). Ward (2001) notes that Engineering students in Thailand often learn strategies to avoid reading engineering texts in English in their undergraduate training, a practice which may perhaps extend to other Asian countries. Not surprisingly, a limited ability to read required texts is not conducive to learning to write a literature review. This paper has foregrounded the need for students to understand and engage in critical analysis through an assessment process that culminates in a literature review task and oral presentation based on discipline-specific research sources.
Strategies for the evolution of shared vision
Creators: name: O'Brien, Andrew
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis explores strategies that facilitate the evolution of shared vision amongst twenty-three leaders of a university campus services organisation, Monyx, based at Monash University in Australia. At the time of the research Monyx had approximately three hundred and fifty staff. The study took place during the three years following a complex merger of eight diverse organisational units. This research utilised the learning history method which involved working with a learning history team of insiders and outsiders to study the evolution of shared vision at Monyx. Shared vision is defined as a shared understanding of purpose, values, a sense of the future, current reality, strategy and mental models. Strategies for the evolution of shared vision are explored and presented in a revised model which includes major strategies involving leadership, conversation, learning, executive teams, personal mastery and change management. These are supported by strategies such as business planning tools, project teams, action learning, action research, executive development, systems thinking, stories, metaphor, physical environment, social networks and visual communication. This thesis further developed the learning history methodology through the presentation of research findings as strategic images and cartoons. These images were included to enhance the appeal of the learning history and its effectiveness as a catalyst for reflective conversation and double loop learning amongst readers. Findings showed a significant degree of shared vision amongst the Monyx leaders and it was noticeable that as the leaders looked further into the future, the level of shared understanding became more abstract. Leaders suggested that shared vision was stronger amongst leadership teams than outside these teams and shared vision attracted people to the organisation and may have encouraged others to leave. A series of enabling and disabling actions and behaviours for fostering shared vision and overcoming resistance to change were identified and these were included in the revised strategies for the evolution of shared vision model.
Living with Conflict among Javanese and Tagalog Filipinos: An Anthropological Comparison
Creators: name: Mulder, Niels
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The ways Javanese and Tagalog Filipino middle class people live with conflict in the inner, moral circle of life, appear to be rather similar. The special position of the mother in both cultures is explored as the key to the nature of familial relationships. It appears that conscience is located in relationships that are felt to be obliging and that one normally depends on the acceptance by others for one’s self-assurance. In this construction the avoidance of confrontations has strategic importance; often conflict is side-stepped rather than faced, people withdrawing when it threatens, remaining passive, and complying with the demands of a hierarchical moral order. At the psychological level, conflict tends to be denied or repressed; in dealing with it, Javanese seem to activate their inner resources while Tagalogs tend to excessive gregariousness. Practically, Javanese are more resolute in cutting ties that have become intolerable; the Tagalog moral unvierse seems to be softer and more ’understanding'.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Staat oder Markt - Gesellschaft oder Individuum? Hintergründe und Perspektiven des Demokratisierungsprozesses in Vietnam
Creators: name: Pfeifer, Claudia
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The VII. Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam was held in June 1991 in Hanoi. The reports and programmes published reflect the difficulties of renewal in the political sphere in Vietnam. The difficult economic situation compelled the political leaders to allow extensive reforms. But there has been no liberalisation of political and ideological thinking so far. The reasons therefore do not lie only in the communist ideology. Nationalism, Confucianism and metaphysically interpreted Marxism are essential components of Vietnamese political culture. This is important for the theory and methodology. Large socio-cultural differences between East Asian and West European (Northamerican) intellectual history are obvious.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Vietnam siebzehn Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung: Wunsch und Wirklichkeit
Creators: name: Lulei, Wilfried
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Seventeen years after reunification in 1975 unity is generally accepted in Vietnam. The government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Communist party went to a lot of trouble to realise a policy of comprehensive and far-reaching renewal of socio-economic life (doi moi). In the last few years there has been visible progress in production as well as in the transformation of socio-economic structures and in the material life of the people. After the Sixth Party Congress in 1986 various reform policy decrees were issued and the economy entered a phase of change. Production in agriculture, handicrafts and industry is rising, the food shortage is disappearing. Today Vietnam is one of the largest exporters of rice, and consumer goods are on display in the stores. But on the other hand the political and economic process is full of difficulties and contradictions. There are many questions to answer: the relationship between a centrally planned economy and a market economy; rising production, but a rising number of unemployed, too. And the main question: how will the Communist party of Vietnam achieve its aim given at the Seventh Party Congress: "Reality has shown that renewal is a profound revolution in all spheres of social life ... If only one certain aspect or link is renewed, the renewal cause cannot achieve the desired results."
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
MPEC 2025-J32 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2025 May 4)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Posters presented at the occasion of the Belgian EOSC Tripartite Event on 16 April 2024
Creators: name: Belspo
name: EWI
name: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The posters presented at the occasion of the Belgian EOSC Tripartite Event on April 2024, in the framework of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, provide a unique perspective on the diversity of Open Science related initiatives in Belgium. Although the focus of the conference related to the integration of Belgian research outputs into the EOSC, the posters cover a diversity of topics, from institutional Open Science strategies to citizen science.
Intellektuelle und politische Kultur in der "Neuen Ordnung" Indonesiens
Creators: name: Wessel, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The article deals with the role of intellectuals in the authoritarian "new order" and with the perception of a new "openness" in Indonesia. In the existing political culture there is little room for a critical opposition. Nevertheless intellectuals have never stopped trying to bring new elements into the political culture. They used different methods and means, from petitions to open protests, all demanding the democratization of Indonesian society. The changes in Eastern Europe since 1989 made the Suharto government realize that - at least to a certain extent - it would have to accommodate to the new global situation. So more discussion on sensitive issues in the mass media, more openness was allowed. But real changes did not occur. The Democratic Forum, created in April 1991, was recognized only as a new debating club, it was prohibited as a new organization for the growing opposition to the Suharto government.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Familienplanung in Indonesien: Staatliche Ideologie und die Rolle von Frauen in der Entwicklungsplanung
Creators: name: Gerke, Solvay
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Since the empowerment of the New Order regime in Indonesia in 1965, pembangunan (development) and kemajuan (progress) are the catch words of a new national development ideology. Women are given special attention in the country’s development process because they are regarded as the prime socializer of the family which is perceived as crucial to the government’s development process. It also gives women the responsibility for family planning to support the government’s development goals. This article deals with the unintended effects of governmental family planning. It argues that because of the option to modify the timing and number of pregnancies, women are able to control an important aspect of their life and to choose between alternatives. Furthermore, they take personal responsibility for changing their life instead of still relying on fate. Thus, women perceive themselves not only as housewives and mothers, but are demanding qualified jobs and more control over their own lives.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Panel inicio Sendero acequias de Alcázar y los Casarones de Jérez del Marquesado
Creators: name: University of Granada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: El municipio de Jérez del Marquesado se ubica en una posición excepcional, entre la vega y a las faldas de la cara norte de la cordillera de Sierra Nevada. Esto ha hecho que sea una localidad con abundante agua, encauzada principalmente a través de tres ríos: el Alhorí, el Bernal y el Alcázar.El manejo de esta agua a través de las acequias, que se remonta a época andalusí (entre los siglos VIII y X), ha marcado profundamente la conformación de la localidad, quedando fosilizado el pasado medieval en el paisaje y en parte del entramado urbano. Jérez del Marquesado posee cinco sistemas de regadío que toman sus aguas a través de azudes en los ríos que canalizan el agua a través de acequias de riego, ampliando enormemente el espacio de distribución de las aguas fluviales y conformando espacios de cultivos irrigados: las vegas.Durante esta ruta circular, conoceremos una de estas canalizaciones, la acequia de Alcázar. Su trazado, nos irá guiando por una serie de hitos históricos, culturales y medioambientales. Conocerás de primera mano la gestión y el mantenimiento de estas acequias por parte de las comunidades de regantes, sus beneficios ambientales, además del patrimonio cultural y agrícola que generan a su paso.
Islamic Educational Networks Between Singapore and the Middle East
Creators: name: Abaza, Mona
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The exchange of ideas, books, goods and knowledge between the Middle East and Southeast Asia is a topic which demands further research. This paper attempts to look at the networks created by Islamic education between Egypt, and in particular al-Azhar University, and the Muslim community of Singapore. Since early times Singapore has played a significant role in controlling the pilgrimage industry and in forming a crucial link to the Middle East. Although the intensity of such networks may have decreased, this paper attempts to highlight this ongoing relationship and the impact of the religious schools in sending students to Cairo.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Inklusion von Kindern im Autismus-Spektrum. Eine Auswertung aktueller Ratgeberliteratur
Creators: name: Stamm, Julia
Publisher: name: Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik
Year: 2024
Subjects: Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Inklusion
Autismus-Spektrum
Kind
Ratgeberliteratur

description: Vor dem Hintergrund der gesetzlichen Verankerung der Inklusion seit der Ratifizierung der UNBRK im Jahr 2014 und der damit einhergehenden wachsenden Anzahl von Kindern im Autismus-Spektrum in der Regelschule, gewinnt das Thema der inklusiven Bildung an Bedeutung. Lehrpersonen befinden sich vielfach in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Separation und Inklusion und sehen sich mit Herausforderungen und teils fehlender Handlungskompetenz in der Begleitung von Kindern im Autismus-Spektrum konfrontiert.Zahlreiche Ratgeber zum Thema Autismus und Inklusion versprechen praktische Tipps für Lehrpersonen zu geben. Diese werden unter der Forschungsfrage der vorliegenden Arbeit betrachtet: Welche Handlungsempfehlungen werden in der Ratgeberliteratur formuliert, um die Inklusion von Kindern im Autismus-Spektrum in der Regelschule zu gewährleisten? Das Ziel der Masterarbeit besteht darin, einen Überblick über die vorhandenen Handlungsempfehlungen zu geben, sie auf Gemeinsamkeiten hin zu verdichten und schlussendlich auf ihre theoretische Fundierung hin zu prüfen.Anhand einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse werden ausgewählte Ratgeber analysiert. Dabei wird ein modifiziertes Kategoriensystem aus dem theoretischen Rahmen abgeleitet und zur systematischen Identifikation von Handlungsempfehlungen angewendet. Zentrale Aspekte finden sich dabei einerseits in der Anpassung der Lernumgebung durch den Abbau von Barrieren und andererseits im Aufbau von Kompetenzen bei den Lehrkräften und Kindern im Autismus-Spektrum. Die Auswertung der Handlungsempfehlungen zeigt, dass neben der Erweiterung von Handlungsoptionen, die Entwicklung eines autismussensiblen Blickes auf der Basis von Wissen über autismusspezifische Wahrnehmungs- und Verhaltensbesonderheiten essenziell ist.
Information, e-government and opportunity: a public housing estate online
Creators: name: Meredyth, Denise
name: Hopkins, Liza
name: Ewing, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper draws on data from an entrepreneurial ‘wired community’ established at Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy, Melbourne. It summarises a four year study of the effects on 800 low-income and multiethnic households of access to free networked computers, training and information resources. The question was whether these low-income households would make use of online health, housing education and employment services, as distinct from using the resources to play games or seek entertainment. Results suggest that, although what people went looking for online varied, tenants could and did seek information on social services and did explore government websites and the resources of community agencies. This finding emerges from a study drawing on focus groups, interviews, surveys and the analysis of tenants’ patterns of network use. Patterns of use show convincing evidence that the benefits of the wired community initiative include the encouragement of informal learning and self-directed information-seeking, as well as the more effective delivery of publicly and privately provided social services. The example has broader implications for debates on social partnerships, community-building and electronic government.
Xinyong or How to Trust Trust? Chinese Non-Contractual Business Relations and Social Structure: The Singapore Case
Creators: name: Menkhoff, Thomas
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: One key for an understanding of Chinese economic behaviour in Singapore, Hong Kong or Malaysia is tmst - a term which has not been thoroughly dealt with in contemporary studies. With reference to the Chinese business community in Chinese-dominated Singapore and sociological concepts of trust, the article aims at analyzing the different levels of meaning of the trust mechanism (Chinese: xinyong) which is seen as essential lubricant in Chinese personalistic and non-contractual business relations. But trust in itself is no guarantee of cooperative behaviour. To enable interpersonal trust as precommitment and basis of local or international trading networks and commercial cooperation to unfold its efficacy, certain sociostructural conditions must be fulfilled. Interpersonal relations and structures of such (trading) networks are important to generate (business) trust and to hinder malfeasance.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
The maximum standardized uptake value of 18 F-FDG PET scan to determine prognosis of hormone-receptor positive metastatic breast cancer
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian
name: Jia, Zhen
name: Ragaz, Joseph
name: Zhang, Ying-Jian
name: Zhou, Min
name: Zhang, Yong-Ping
name: Li, Gang
name: Wang, Bi-Yun
name: Wang, Zhong-Hua
name: Hu, Xi-Chun
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Whether PET scan maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) could differentiate luminal A from luminal B and help predict the survival of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients with luminal subtype is still unknown and need to be investigated. Methods 305 MBC patients with luminal subtypes were screened with PET/CT. Eligible patients were prospectively followed up. Results In total, 134 patients were eligible for this study. SUVmax was significantly related to the number of metastatic sites and presence of visceral metastasis on univariate analysis. SUVmax could not effectively differentiate patients with luminal A from luminal B subtype. Although luminal subtype at diagnosis could predict the relapse-free interval, it could not predict progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) after developing relapse. In contrast, SUVmax was predictive of both PFS and OS and this effect was maintained in multivariate COX regression model. Conclusions SUVmax of MBC did not correlate with molecular subtypes of primary tumor. While molecular subtype may be a valuable prognostic factor at primary diagnosis of breast cancer, the SUVmax, rather than molecular subtype, does have a potential to predict independently in multivariate analysis for the PFS and OS in patients with metastatic disease of luminal subtype.
The Transformation of the Informal Sector in Penang/Malaysia: The Case of Small-scale Metal-working Enterprises
Creators: name: Borsutzky, Dieter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: This article summarizes the author’s empirical research results on the informal metal small-scale enterprise sector in Penang/Malaysia. The main focus area was the urban small machine-shop sector in Georgetown with less than 20 workers and with electric-powered tools (e.g. lathe or milling machines). The main assumption is that within this sector a differentiation process is taking place which enables some enterprises to cope with modern requirements even from multinational companies and to act as a subcontract base for their needs. This empirical research work provides new insights into the ongoing differentiation process and the innovation capacity within this particular part of the informal sector. The coexistence of a vanishing old (traditional) and mushrooming new (modern) sector of small metal-manufacturing enterprises on Penang Island are the two sides of the medal. It can, however, lead to further consequences for an appropriate development policy and the integrated promotion of small-scale enterprises in general.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
DeepMEND: Reliable and Scalable Network Metadata Geolocation from Base Station Positions
Creators: name: Martínez-Durive, OE
name: Bakirtzis, S
name: Ziemlicki, C
name: Zhang, J
name: Wassell, IJ
name: Fiore, M
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024
Subjects: 4605 Data Management and Data Science
46 Information and Computing Sciences
Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD)

description: Metadata geolocation, i.e., mapping information collected at a cellular Base Station (BS) to the geographical area it covers, is a central operation in the production of statistics from mobile network measurements. This task requires modeling the probability that a device attached to a BS is at a specific location, and is presently addressed with simplistic approximations based on Voronoi tessellations. As we show, Voronoi cells exhibit poor accuracy compared to real-world geolocation data, which can, in turn, reduce the reliability of research results. We propose a new approach for data-driven metadata geolocation based on a teacher-student paradigm that combines probabilistic inference and deep learning. Our DEEPMEND model: (i) only needs BS positions as input, exactly like Voronoi tessellations; (ii) produces geolocation maps that are 56% and 33% more accurate than legacy Voronoi and their state-of-the-art VoronoiBoost calibration, respectively; and, (iii) generates geolocation data for thousands of BSs in minutes. We assess its accuracy against real-world multi-city geolocation data of 5,947 BSs provided by a network operator, and demonstrate the impact of its enhanced metadata geolocation on two applications use cases.
title: 01_0917
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Aggrandizement of Prime Minister's Power: The Transformation of the Office of the Prime Minister in Malaysia
Creators: name: Leong, Ho Khai
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Since Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s accession to the Malaysian prime ministerhip in July 1981, there has been a visible and increasing concern about the aggrandizement of prime-ministerial power vis-a-vis other institutions in Malaysia. Such a trend has changed both the role and style of functioning of the office of Prime Minister. This paper shows how the aggrandizement of the Prime Minister’s power in Malaysia is further supported by two related developments, namely, the changes sought by new prime ministers so as to mould structure and process to their personalities, management styles and political objectives, and the institutional and organizational changes within the Prime Minister’s Department.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
A Goldilocks Higgs
Creators: name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2019

description: Navigating the Swampland, Madrid, IFT Madrid, Spain, 25 Sep 2019 - 27 Sep 2019
description: The Higgs could couple to a topological 4-form sector which yields a complex vacuum structure. In general such couplings could lead to direct CP violation in the Higgs sector. In many of the Higgs vacua electroweak symmetry is unbroken. In just as many it breaks when the 4-form flux is large enough. For a fixed value of flux, the symmetry breaking vacua have a smaller vacuum energy than the symmetric ones, where the difference is quantized because it is set by the 4-form flux. This leads to the possibility that there is a value of the 4-form flux for any UV contributions to the Higgs $\it vev$ that automatically cancels it down to the right value, $\sim$ TeV, if the 4-form charges are quantized in the units of the electroweak scale. This would still leave the cosmological constant which could be selected anthropically.
Entrepreneurship policies in Thailand: focus, direction, and critical success factors
Creators: name: Virasa, Thanaphol
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Entrepreneurship-oriented policies are beginning to appear in economic policy statements in many countries as highlighted in Stevenson and Lundstorm (2001). That said, very little research has been done to examine what governments are actually doing to move towards an entrepreneurship policy perspective and how this is being carried out. This current study attempts to examine entrepreneurship policies and practices in Thailand by using international benchmarking study and GEM Thailand 2002 and 2005 studies. The primary data is gathered from face-to-face interviews with government officials about their entrepreneurship policies and practices. The data collection includes an examination of government economic and social policy documents, SME/entrepreneurship programs, and policy or program evaluation results.
Die steigende Verschuldung Indiens und ihre wirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen
Creators: name: Von Hauff, Michael
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: At the beginning of the 80s when the debt crisis became evident with the insolvency declarations of Mexico, Brasil and other developing countries, India was considered as an unproblematical and reliable debtor nation. India’s total external debt as well as the external debt in relation to GNP was low, especially compared to highly indebted countries in Latin Amercia. India still had a positive reputation due to regular repayments of credit and interest services. However, at the end of the 80s, the situation of indebtedness in India changed dramatically. The external debt presently amounts to more than 70 billion US-$. Now India is the third largest debtor nation of the Third World after Mexico and Brasil. Considerable internal debt has also definitely aggravated India’s debt problem. The economic consequences are manifold and it is becoming increasingly evident that especially the poor population suffers greatly from this situation.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 3-4 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
Johann Martin Pohlmann (1726–1800). Architect of the period of Frederick the Great
Creators: name: Adamska, Monika Ewa
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2015
Subjects: 2nd half of the 18th century, Frederician colonization, development of metallurgy, central arrangements, Silesia

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
Transformation of function – new life of the monument. Reason for the choice of function which could be used to adaptation of the architectural monument
Creators: name: Lukomska, Zoriana
name: Lukomska, Halyna
Publisher: name: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2015
Subjects: adaptation of architecture monument, Spa architecture, Spa “basic module”

description: ARCHITECTUS; ISSN 1429-7507
title: Antibiotic in Surgery
title: Antibiotic Use in Surgery
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dormenu, Andrew Elikem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Antibiotics
Surgery
Prophylaxis
Therapeutics
Resistance
SSI
Antibiotic Stewardship
Ghana
Healthcare
Infection Control

description: Title: Antibiotics in Surgery

Author: Andrew Elikem Dormenu ( MBChB )

Affiliation: Surgery Department – Pentecost Hospital, Madina - Ghana

Description:

This presentation offers a comprehensive overview of antibiotic use in surgical practice, emphasizing both prophylactic and therapeutic applications. It explores the historical development of antibiotics, their classifications, mechanisms of action, and relevance in preventing surgical site infections (SSIs). The presentation highlights global and Ghana-specific guidelines, common pathogens, and resistance trends, and provides insights into challenges such as antibiotic resistance and resource limitations. Emerging trends, such as personalized medicine, alternative therapies (e.g., phage therapy, probiotics), and antibiotic stewardship programs, are also discussed. The content is tailored for medical professionals, educators, and researchers seeking to optimize antibiotic use in surgical settings and promote better patient outcomes.

 

Keywords: Antibiotics, Surgery, Prophylaxis, Therapeutics, Resistance, SSI, Antibiotic Stewardship, Ghana, Healthcare, Infection Control
title: Self-organization of Nonlinear Networks and Applications to Information Processing
Creators: name: Pöschel, Thorsten
name: Ebeling, Werner
name: Boseniuk, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Manchester University Press
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Neural networks, Error-backpropagation, structure self-organization, evolution algorithm

description: The Hopfield Associative Memory (AM) can be understood as an extremely simple Error Backpropagation Network (EBN). This feature we use for the initialisation of the synaptic matrix. Motivated by findings of neural physiology we further consider networks of artificial neurons with multiplicative couplings. Two proposals for the self-organisation of the network architecture are given in the third section.
MPEC 2024-P68 : 2024 PX
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 PX

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Self-regulation and entrepreneurial career choice
Creators: name: Bryant, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Why certain people choose to pursue an entrepreneurial career has been identified as one of the defining questions of entrepreneurship (Shane & Venkataraman, 2003). Recent studies of entrepreneurial career choice have focused on the role of 'entrepreneurial cognition' which incorporates the use of mental models, heuristic thinking, intuition and pattern recognition (Baron, 2004). Another important cognitive factor in career selection is self-regulation, which refers to setting goals and then self-directing cognition and behavior towards the achievement of those goals (Vancouver, 2000). Like a number of earlier studies, I explored entrepreneurial self-regulation and career choice in terms of self-efficacy (e.g. Forbes, 2005). However, I also investigated two other important self-regulatory constructs, known as regulatory pride (Higgins & Friedman, 2001) and metacognitive awareness (Schraw, 1994), which have not been studied previously in relation to entrepreneurship (Baron, 2004). The literature suggests that all three constructs are related to career choice in terms of goal-setting and pursuit. Therefore, the investigation of these additional aspects of self-regulation extends and deepens previous research into entrepreneurial career choice and cognition.
WILFRIED WAGNER (Hrsg.): Strukturwandel im pazifischen Raum. Referate der Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Pazifik vom 9.-11. September 1987 in Bremen
Creators: name: Kreisel, Werner
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 23 Nr. 1-2 (1992): Internationales Asienforum
BRITE Engineering at the Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) and Capabilities for the Future
Creators: name: Kekez, Daniel D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The BRITE satellites were designed at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Students, Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), and based upon its Generic Nanosatellite Bus. This 20 cm cube, 7 kg nanosatellite platform with an advanced attitude control system was developed to meet the challenging requirements of the BRITE mission and also served as the platform for 7 other satellite missions at SFL. This talk will outline the capabilities of the satellites, followed by challenges and solutions found during orbit operations. It will conclude by exploring the current satellite platforms at SFL and what they can offer to future astronomy missions.
Children’s Astronomy. Shape of the earth, location of people on earth and the day/night cycle according to polish children between 5 and 8 years of age
Creators: name: JELINEK (Poland), JAN AMOS
Publisher: name: Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education
Year: 2020
Subjects: Shape of the earth, location of people on earth, the day/night cycle, mental models, children

description: This article presents findings with regard to mental models of the shape of the earth, location of people on earth and the day/night cycle, established on the basis of statements of 49 polish children aged from 5 to 8 years. During the interviews, the children made moving representations of the day and night sky and explained the position of and mutual relations between the earth, sun and moon using self-made plasticine models. The article establishes a high degree of similarity with the Vosniadou and Brewer models and states that children's astronomical knowledge mainly comes from extracurricular sources of information.
description: Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education, Forthcoming papers