cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Characterization of Dairy Waste Whey and Its' Utilization for the Production of Ethanol
Creators: name: Wubshet, Alemu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The objective of this study was characterization of dairy wastes (cheese whey) and its utilization for the production of bioethanol. The key to the utilization of this resource has been changing the perception of cheese whey from a 'waste material' to an 'opportunity' for further processing. Dairy cheese whey consisted of biological oxygen demand (BOD = 230mg/mL) and chemical oxygen demand (COD = 70mg/mL). It represents largely disaccharide sugar content lactose (0.036 – 0.048 mg/mL or 3.36 – 4.48 %) and thereby, it is managed by converting into bioethanol with the help of yeast strain. In this work, kluyveromyces delphensis yeast strain was used for bioethanol production from cheese whey in batch fermentation (Erlenmeyer flasks). The composition of cheese whey was determined and characterized to identify its impacts on environment. The experimental design was studied with central composite design (CCD) to investigate the effects of significant factors including initial lactose concentration (4.5, 6.15 & 7.8g/L), yeast cell concentration (5, 7.5 & 10g/L), temperature (27 o C, 31 o C & 35 o C) and pH (5, 5.5 & 7) on fermentation process. The response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to investigate the interaction effect of fermentation process variables and to achieve maximium yield of bioethanol from cheese whey. The best operating conditions were found to be initial lactose concentration 6.15g/L, yeast cell concentration 10g/L, temperature 27 o C and pH 5.5. Under this condition, 15.5 mL of bioethanol per 500mL of cheese whey was fermented as a final point. The maximum ethanol yield obtained from cheese whey was 20.4 %. The functional groups of cheese whey Bioethanol were determined by using FT-IR with the help of IR correlation charts and moreover, the characteristics of bioethanol was investigated. This ascertained that the product obtained from cheese whey is definitely ethanol due to the confirmation of regions. Consequently, cheese whey is a good resource for production of bioethanol.
Characterization of the recovery of mechanical properties of ion-implanted diamond after thermal annealing
Creators: name: Mohr, M.
name: Picollo, F.
name: Battiato, A.
name: Bernardi, E.
name: Forneris, J.
name: Tengattini, A.
name: Enrico, E.
name: Boarino, L.
name: Bosia, F.
name: Fecht, H. J.
name: Olivero, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their outstanding mechanical properties, diamond and diamond-like materials find significant technological applications ranging from well-established industrial fields (cutting tools, coatings, etc.) to more advanced mechanical devices as micro- and nano-electromechanical systems. The use of energetic ions is a powerful and versatile tool to fabricate three-dimensional micro-mechanical structures. In this context, it is of paramount importance to have an accurate knowledge of the effects of ion-induced structural damage on the mechanical properties of this material, firstly to predict potential undesired side-effects of the ion implantation process, and possibly to tailor the desired mechanical properties of the fabricated devices. We present an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) characterization of free-standing cantilevers in single-crystal diamond obtained by a FIB-assisted lift-off technique, which allows a determination of the Young's modulus of the diamond crystal after the MeV ion irradiation process concurrent to the fabrication of the microstructures, and subsequent thermal annealing. The AFM measurements were performed with the beam-bending technique and show that the thermal annealing process allows for an effective recovery of the mechanical properties of the pristine crystal.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
Im Rahmen begrenzter Möglichkeiten: Wie Ärzt:innen Klimaschutz- und -anpassungsmaßnahmen umsetzen
Creators: name: Baltruks, Dorothea
name: Voss, Maike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Nach einer ersten Umfrage im Frühjahr 2022 hat die Stiftung Gesundheit im Auftrag des Centre for Planetary Health Policy (CPHP) eine zweite Befragung zu den Beschlüssen des 125. Deutschen Ärztetages (DÄT) durchgeführt. Dabei wurde die Ärzt:innenschaft zu vier Kernthemen befragt: 1. Hitzeschutz im ärztlichen Alltag 2. Stand der Umsetzung der Beschlüsse des 125. Deutschen Ärztetages 3. Unterstützungsbedarf für die Umsetzung der Beschlüsse 4. Unterstützung bei der Umsetzung durch Landesärztekammern und Fachgesellschaften
Automation of a remote observatory for the purpose of photometric observations and general student education
Creators: name: Landes, H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Erfahrungsaustausch zum Einsatz von Lernstrategien des selbstregulierten Lernens im Unterricht
title: DigitUS Handout
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reith, Sabrina
name: Arvaneh, Begüm
name: Bannert, Maria
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Handout mit Diskussionsfragen in Bezug auf Erfahrungen mit dem Einsatz von Strategien des selbstregulierten Lernens (unter Einsatz digitaler Medien) im Unterricht.
Mano de Irulegi. Análisis del rayado de la inscripción.
Creators: name: Iñigo Otsoa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: basque, iberian, paleohispanic languages

description: Se han planteado discrepancias entre el rayado y el punteado en algunos signos de la inscripción por parte de J. Gorrotxategi en los primeros análisis. Han surgido además transcripciones alternativas en base a ciertos signos que presentan dudas de lectura. Por ejemplo, se ha cuestionado la KU de zorioneKU cuyo rayado podría indicar una KE. La presencia de un signo BE con similitudes a una Ŕ. Un signo para N y separador que se podria interpretar como N y BA o incluso como Ś, la presencia de una N al final de la inscripción, así como la presencia y el papel de los puntos de separación. Con objeto de resolver estas dudas se ha hecho una reproducción manual lo mas fiel posible del rayado de la placa al margen del punteado y se analizan las posibles razones del autor y cual sería la transcripción mas probable.
Mano de Irulegi. Análisis del rayado de la inscripción.
Creators: name: Iñigo Otsoa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: basque, iberian, paleohispanic languages

description: Se han planteado discrepancias entre el rayado y el punteado en algunos signos de la inscripción por parte de J. Gorrotxategi en los primeros análisis. Han surgido además transcripciones alternativas en base a ciertos signos que presentan dudas de transcripción. Por ejemplo, se ha cuestionado la KU de zorioneKU cuyo rayado podría indicar una KE. La presencia de un signo BE con similitudes a una Ŕ. Un signo para N y separador que se podria interpretar como N y BA o incluso como Ś, la presencia de una N al final de la inscripción, así como el papel de los puntos de separación. Con objeto de resolver estas dudas se ha hecho una reproducción manual lo más fiel posible del rayado de la placa al margen del punteado y se analizan las posibles razones del autor y cual sería la transcripción más probable. 
A Spatial and Temporal Non-Local Filter Based Data Fusion
Creators: name: Cheng, Qing
name: Liu, Huiqing
name: Shen, Huanfeng
name: Wu, Penghai
name: Zhang, Liangpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The trade-off in remote sensing instruments that balances the spatial resolution and temporal frequency limits our capacity to monitor spatial and temporal dynamics effectively. The spatiotemporal data fusion technique is considered as a cost-effective way to obtain remote sensing data with both high spatial resolution and high temporal frequency, by blending observations from multiple sensors with different advantages or characteristics. In this paper, we develop the spatial and temporal non-local filter based fusion model (STNLFFM) to enhance the prediction capacity and accuracy, especially for complex changed landscapes. The STNLFFM method provides a new transformation relationship between the fine-resolution reflectance images acquired from the same sensor at different dates with the help of coarse-resolution reflectance data, and makes full use of the high degree of spatiotemporal redundancy in the remote sensing image sequence to produce the final prediction. The proposed method was tested over both the Coleambally Irrigation Area study site and the Lower Gwydir Catchment study site. The results show that the proposed method can provide a more accurate and robust prediction, especially for heterogeneous landscapes and temporally dynamic areas.
Finding Planet Nine: apsidal anti-alignment Monte Carlo results
Creators: name: Marcos, C. de la Fuente
name: Marcos, R. de la Fuente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distribution of the orbital elements of the known extreme trans-Neptunian objects or ETNOs has been found to be statistically incompatible with that of an unperturbed asteroid population following heliocentric or, better, barycentric orbits. Such trends, if confirmed by future discoveries of ETNOs, strongly suggest that one or more massive perturbers could be located well beyond Pluto. Within the trans-Plutonian planets paradigm, the Planet Nine hypothesis has received much attention as a robust scenario to explain the observed clustering in physical space of the perihelia of seven ETNOs which also exhibit clustering in orbital pole position. Here, we revisit the subject of clustering in perihelia and poles of the known ETNOs using barycentric orbits, and study the visibility of the latest incarnation of the orbit of Planet Nine applying Monte Carlo techniques and focusing on the effects of the apsidal anti-alignment constraint. We provide visibility maps indicating the most likely location of this putative planet if it is near aphelion. We also show that the available data suggest that at least two massive perturbers are present beyond Pluto.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Revised to match version published in MNRAS
title: Lernaktivitäten und digitale Anwendungen zur Unterstützung des selbstregulierten Lernens
title: DigitUS Handout
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reith, Sabrina
name: Arvaneh, Begüm
name: Bannert, Maria
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Handout mit Beispielen von Lernaktivitäten und digitalen Anwendungen für die unterschiedlichen Lernstrategien des selbstregulierten Lernens und Unterrichtsphasen
Exact transparent boundary conditions for the parabolic wave equations with linear and quadratic potentials
Creators: name: Feshchenko, R. M.
name: Popov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper exact 1D transparent boundary conditions (TBC) for the 2D parabolic wave equation with a linear or a quadratic dependence of the dielectric permittivity on the transversal coordinate are reported. Unlike the previously derived TBCs they contain only elementary functions. The obtained boundary conditions can be used to numerically solve the 2D parabolic equation describing the propagation of light in weakly bent optical waveguides and fibers including waveguides with variable curvature. They also are useful when solving the equivalent 1D Schrödinger equation with a potential depending linearly or quadratically on the coordinate. The prospects and problems of discretization of the derived transparent boundary conditions are discussed.
Prävention vor ambulant vor stationär: Für Gesundheit innerhalb planetarer Grenzen
Creators: name: Baltruks, Dorothea
name: Wabnitz, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: planetary health
planetare Gesundheit
Gesundheitsversorgung
Krankenhausreform

description: Die deutsche Gesundheitsversorgung stößt aktuell an ihre Grenzen und hat gleichzeitig einen nicht unerheblichen ökologischen Fußabdruck. Es bedarf einer gesundheitsförderlichen und präventiven Umgestaltung von Lebens(um)welten, um Bedarfe an Gesundheitsdienstleistungen in Zukunft zu reduzieren und damit die Versorgung zu entlasten. Dies würde einerseits Leid durch vermeidbare Krankheitslast sowie andererseits Klima- und Umweltbelastungen minimieren. Diese Beobachtungen geben Anlass dafür, eine langfristige Vision für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen als Teil einer gesamtgesellschaftlichen Transformation für Gesundheit innerhalb planetarer Grenzen zu skizzieren. In diesem Impuls stellen Katharina Wabnitz und Dorothea Baltruks drei transformative Zielstellungen für das Gesundheitswesen zur Debatte: 1. Minimierung des Bedarfs an (stationärer) Gesundheitsversorgung; 2. Minimierung von Über-, Unter und Fehlversorgung; 3. Minimierung des ökologischen Fußabdrucks von Gesundheitsversorgung.
Study of adsorption performance of BFA for removal of MG and MB dye mixture from aqueous solution
Creators: name: G/Meskel, Azeb
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The excessive release of dye pollutants from the textile, paper, and leather industries are major sources of environmental pollution. Adsorption process is among the most effective techniques for color removal from wastewater. In this study, bagasse fly ash has been used as an adsorbent for the removal of Malachite Green (MG) and Methylene Blue (MB) mixture of dyes from aqueous solution. Characterization of the BFA was made by proximate analysis to determine the optimum particle size that should be used for the adsorption process and also Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to reveal the functional group responsible for the process. Particle size of less than 250 μm bagasse fly ash was employed for all experiments due to its high ash content of 81.63%. The raw bagasse fly ash obtained was treated using H2O2 and tested for its efficiency and compared with the untreated bagasse fly ash. The adsorption studies were carried out to assess the effect of various parameters such as initial dye concentration, contact time, adsorbent dose and pH and determine the maximum operating condition of the process for the removal of both dyes. Initial adsorption study carried out using 0.5 g adsorbent dose for concentrations (50, 75 and 100 ppm), pH (6, 8, and 10) and different time (10, 30, 60, and 90 min) resulted in a maximum adsorption capacity of 21.16 mg/g (79.39%) for MG and 16.59 mg/g (71.05%) for MB. This maximum values were all obtained at concentration of 100 ppm, pH 10, and time of 90 minute. In order to understand the mechanism of the adsorption process, the sorption data were analyzed using Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. The linear form of both models was fitted with the data and resulted in good conformation with both models and for each dyes. Finally, the rate of the adsorption process was investigated using Pseudo-first order kinetics and Pseudo second-order kinetic models. Pseudo second-order kinetic model was found to be well fitted to the data obtained.
An iterative cluster formation routing protocol for wireless sensor network
Creators: name: Hasan, Mohammad Rashedul.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Narrow C IV absorption doublets on quasar spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Creators: name: Zhi-fu, Chen
name: Qiu-sheng, Gu
name: Luwenjia, Zhou
name: Yanmei, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we extend our works of Papers I and II, which are assigned to systematically survey \CIVab\ narrow absorption lines (NALs) with \zabs$\ll$\zem\ on quasar spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), to collect \CIV\ NALs with \zabs$\approx$\zem\ from blue to red wings of \CIVwave\ emission lines. Together with Papers I and II, we have collected a total number of 41,479 \CIV\ NALs with $1.4544\le$\zabs$\le4.9224$ in surveyed spectral region redward of \lya\ until red wing of \CIVwave\ emission line. We find that the stronger \CIV\ NALs tend to be the more saturated absorptions, and associated systems (\zabs$\approx$\zem) seem to have larger absorption strengths when compared to intervening ones (\zabs$\ll$\zem). The redshift density evolution behavior of absorbers (the number of absorbers per redshift path) is similar to the history of the cosmic star formation. When compared to the quasar-frame velocity ($β$) distribution of \MgII\ absorbers, the $β$ distribution of \CIV\ absorbers is broader at $β\approx0$, shows longer extended tail, and exhibits a larger dispersion for environmental absorptions. In addition, for associated \CIV\ absorbers, we find that low-luminosity quasars seem to exhibit smaller $β$ and stronger absorptions when compared to high-luminosity quasars.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, prublished by MNRAS
CAS-CNN: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Image Compression Artifact Suppression
Creators: name: Cavigelli, Lukas
name: Hager, Pascal
name: Benini, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lossy image compression algorithms are pervasively used to reduce the size of images transmitted over the web and recorded on data storage media. However, we pay for their high compression rate with visual artifacts degrading the user experience. Deep convolutional neural networks have become a widespread tool to address high-level computer vision tasks very successfully. Recently, they have found their way into the areas of low-level computer vision and image processing to solve regression problems mostly with relatively shallow networks. We present a novel 12-layer deep convolutional network for image compression artifact suppression with hierarchical skip connections and a multi-scale loss function. We achieve a boost of up to 1.79 dB in PSNR over ordinary JPEG and an improvement of up to 0.36 dB over the best previous ConvNet result. We show that a network trained for a specific quality factor (QF) is resilient to the QF used to compress the input image - a single network trained for QF 60 provides a PSNR gain of more than 1.5 dB over the wide QF range from 40 to 76.
description: 8 pages
Production of Particle Board from Cotton Stalk
Creators: name: Natnal, Mola
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Cotton stalk is a waste by-product of cotton farming and a problem of dispose or burned in open air in Ethiopia, farmers try to burn immediately, after harvesting to protect parasites such bollworm, so the stalks contributes to the emission of harmful greenhouse gases which pollute the environment. In this study, cotton stalk collected and particle board (CSPB) was produced with adhesives of urea formaldehyde using factors hot pressing time, temperature and varying resin contents with hydraulic mechanical manually pressing operations. At first the cotton stalk was analyzed using the ASTM method its morphological structure, proximity and chemical compositions was determined to compare with hard wood characteristics and has good properties. Then cotton stalk particle board (CSPB) was produced using 21 cm by 21 cm mould for mat forming and the ratio of the coarse(1-1.8)mm and fin (2-3.5)mm particle size and ratio was 60:40 wt. % respectively. Effects of operating parameters were tested using universal testing machine on the physical and mechanical properties. The cotton stalk board was examined, results for modules of strength (MOR) 11.58 MPa and modules of elasticity in in bending (MOE) 2273 MPa and internal bond (IB) 0.58 MPa respectively. The physical properties thickness swelling (TS) and water absorption (WA) were tested using water bath. The average result were TS 69.7, 75.4 % And WA 122.7, 129.7 wt. % for 2 and 24 hour immersion time. In order to obtain optimal quality boards compering to standards. The optimal physical and mechanical properties were obtained at a pressing temperature of 150 °C for 10 min with 11 % resin content of urea formaldehyde at constant operation pressure 15 MPa and target density of 0.75g/cm iii 3 with hot pressing. CSPB with urea formaldehyde blend adhesive has comparable mechanical properties to the fabricated board form hard woods. So, it has potential to serve as alternative row materials for particle board productions.
Open Discourse – eine digitale Quellenkritik: Goldstandard-Korpus-Evaluation als Methode
Creators: name: Ramisch, Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digitale Quellenkritik
Datenkritik
Goldstandardkorpus
Open Discourse
Epistemologie
Digital source criticism
Gold standard corpus

description: The volume of large-scale, digitised, and born-digital historical text corpora has seen a significant surge in recent years. While this growth opens up new avenues for innovative research, it simultaneously presents challenges in terms of source and data criticism. This poster, using the Open Discourse Corpus—a structured collection of all speeches delivered in the German Bundestag since 1949—as a case study, unveils a novel method of source and data criticism. Through a sample study conducted on a gold standard corpus, it is revealed that the corpus has substantial structural deficiencies, thus restricting its suitability for historical research. This poster is part of the poster session at the Digital History Tagung 2023 in Berlin.
Resource-aware ubiquitous data stream querying
Creators: name: Agarwal, Iti.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity
Creators: name: Roshan, Mahmood
name: Shojai, Fatimah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new covariant generalization of Einstein's general relativity is developed which allows the existence of a term proportional to $T_{αβ}T^{αβ}$ in the action functional of the theory ($T_{αβ}$ is the energy-momentum tensor). Consequently the relevant field equations are different from general relativity only in the presence of matter sources. In the case of a charged black hole, we find exact solutions for the field equations. Applying this theory to a homogeneous and isotropic space-time, we find that there is a maximum energy density $ρ_{\text{max}}$, and correspondingly a minimum length $a_{\text{min}}$, at early universe. This means that there is a bounce at early times and this theory avoids the existence of an early time singularity. Moreover we show that this theory possesses a true sequence of cosmological eras. Also, we argue that although in the context of the standard cosmological model the cosmological constant $Λ$ does not play any important role in the early times and becomes important only after the matter dominated era, in this theory the "repulsive" nature of the cosmological constant plays a crucial role at early times for resolving the singularity.
Line-of-Sight Extrapolation Noise in Dust Polarization
Creators: name: Poh, Jason
name: Dodelson, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The B-modes of polarization at frequencies ranging from 50-1000 GHz are produced by Galactic dust, lensing of primordial E-modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by intervening large scale structure, and possibly by primordial B-modes in the CMB imprinted by gravitational waves produced during inflation. The conventional method used to separate the dust component of the signal is to assume that the signal at high frequencies (e.g., 350 GHz) is due solely to dust and then extrapolate the signal down to lower frequency (e.g., 150 GHz) using the measured scaling of the polarized dust signal amplitude with frequency. For typical Galactic thermal dust temperatures of about 20K, these frequencies are not fully in the Rayleigh-Jeans limit. Therefore, deviations in the dust cloud temperatures from cloud to cloud will lead to different scaling factors for clouds of different temperatures. Hence, when multiple clouds of different temperatures and polarization angles contribute to the integrated line-of-sight polarization signal, the relative contribution of individual clouds to the integrated signal can change between frequencies. This can cause the integrated signal to be decorrelated in both amplitude and direction when extrapolating in frequency. Here we carry out a Monte Carlo analysis on the impact of this line-of-sight extrapolation noise, enabling us to quantify its effect. Using results from the Planck experiment, we find that this effect is small, more than an order of magnitude smaller than the current uncertainties. However, line-of-sight extrapolation noise may be a significant source of uncertainty in future low-noise primordial B-mode experiments. Scaling from Planck results, we find that accounting for this uncertainty becomes potentially important when experiments are sensitive to primordial B-mode signals with amplitude r < 0.0015 .
description: 20 pages, 11 figures
The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort
Creators: name: Koplenig, Alexander
name: Meyer, Peter
name: Wolfer, Sascha
name: Mueller-Spitzer, Carolin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed by the ordering of the words for languages like Mandarin Chinese, or Vietnamese, the word ordering is much less restricted for languages such as Inupiatun or Quechua, as those languages (also) use the internal structure of words (e.g. inflectional morphology) to mark grammatical relationships in a sentence. Based on a quantitative analysis of more than 1,500 unique translations of different books of the Bible in more than 1,100 different languages that are spoken as a native language by approximately 6 billion people (more than 80% of the world population), we present large-scale evidence for a statistical trade-off between the amount of information conveyed by the ordering of words and the amount of information conveyed by internal word structure: languages that rely more strongly on word order information tend to rely less on word structure information and vice versa. In addition, we find that - despite differences in the way information is expressed - there is also evidence for a trade-off between different books of the biblical canon that recurs with little variation across languages: the more informative the word order of the book, the less informative its word structure and vice versa. We argue that this might suggest that, on the one hand, languages encode information in very different (but efficient) ways. On the other hand, content-related and stylistic features are statistically encoded in very similar ways.
title: Lernzirkel zum selbstregulierten Lernen mit digitalen Medien
title: DigitUS Arbeitsblatt
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reith, Sabrina
name: Arvaneh, Begüm
name: Bannert, Maria
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Arbeitsblatt mit vier verschiedenen Stationen. Jede Station stellt ein Beispiel dar, wie Lernstrategien des selbstregulierten Lernens mit Unterstützung von digitalen Anwendungen umgesetzt werden können.
Efficient information gathering for dynamic selection of web services
Creators: name: Padovitz, Amir.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The dust-to-stellar mass ratio as a valuable tool to probe the evolution of local and distant star forming galaxies
Creators: name: Calura, F.
name: Pozzi, F.
name: Cresci, G.
name: Santini, P.
name: Gruppioni, C.
name: Pozzetti, L.
name: Gilli, R.
name: Matteucci, F.
name: Maiolino, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The survival of dust grains in galaxies depends on various processes. Dust can be produced in stars, it can grow in the interstellar medium and be destroyed by astration and interstellar shocks. In this paper, we assemble a few data samples of local and distant star-forming galaxies to analyse various dust-related quantities in low and high redshift galaxies, to study how the relations linking the dust mass to the stellar mass and star formation rate evolve with redshift. We interpret the available data by means of chemical evolution models for discs and proto-spheroid (PSPH) starburst galaxies. In particular, we focus on the dust-to-stellar mass (DTS) ratio, as this quantity represents a true measure of how much dust per unit stellar mass survives the various destruction processes in galaxies and is observable. The theoretical models outline the strong dependence of this quantity on the underlying star formation history. Spiral galaxies are characterised by a nearly constant DTS as a function of the stellar mass and cosmic time, whereas PSPHs present an early steep increase of the DTS, which stops at a maximal value and decreases in the latest stages. In their late starburst phase, these models show a decrease of the DTS with their mass, which allows us to explain the observed anti-correlation between the DTS and the stellar mass. The observed redshift evolution of the DTS ratio shows an increase from z~0 to z~1, followed by a roughly constant behaviour at 1
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRAS
NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year Two: Asteroid Diameters and Albedos
Creators: name: Nugent, C. R.
name: Mainzer, A.
name: Bauer, J.
name: Cutri, R. M.
name: Kramer, E. A.
name: Grav, T.
name: Masiero, J.
name: Sonnett, S.
name: Wright, E. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission continues to detect, track, and characterize minor planets. We present diameters and albedos calculated from observations taken during the second year since the spacecraft was reactivated in late 2013. These include 207 near-Earth asteroids and 8,885 other asteroids. $84\%$ of the near-Earth asteroids did not have previously measured diameters and albedos by the NEOWISE mission. Comparison of sizes and albedos calculated from NEOWISE measurements with those measured by occultations, spacecraft, and radar-derived shapes shows accuracy consistent with previous NEOWISE publications. Diameters and albedos fall within $ \pm \sim20\%$ and $\pm\sim40\%$, 1-sigma, respectively, of those measured by these alternate techniques. NEOWISE continues to preferentially discover near-Earth objects which are large ($>100$ m), and have low albedos.
description: Accepted to AJ
Extinction law in the range 0.4-4.8 $μ$m and the 8620 $Å$ DIB towards the stellar cluster Westerlund 1
Creators: name: Damineli, Augusto
name: Almeida, Leonardo A.
name: Blum, Robert D.
name: Damineli, Daniel S. C.
name: Navarete, Felipe
name: Rubinho, Marcelo S.
name: Teodoro, Mairan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The young stellar cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1: $l$=339.6$^\circ$, b=$-$0.4$^\circ$) is one of the most massive in the local Universe, but accurate parameters are pending on better determination of its extinction and distance. Based on our photometry and data collected from other sources, we have derived a reddening law for the cluster line-of-sight representative of the Galactic Plane (-5$^\circ$ 4).
description: to appear in MNRAS, 16 pages, 22 figures
Land Holders Willingness to Accept Compensation to Voluntarily Protect Natural Forest for Regeneration: Case of Kuyu Woreda
Creators: name: Seyoum, Milkessa
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The thesis assessed the compensation needed by small scale land holders to voluntarily protect degraded natural forests on the land they held in hypothetical protection program. Protection of the existing degraded natural forest brings cost to the holders as they lose benefits they have been getting if protected. Creating incentives (compensation) to the local people to voluntarily participate in the conservation and restoration of natural forests is important. This study developed a hypothetical market in which the 'Kuyu Woreda' small scale land holders are given compensation incentives to voluntarily stop the natural forest degrading activities and leave their lands for natural regeneration of indigenous forests and conservation of the remaining wild animals. The study used contingent valuation survey to identify factors affecting the WTA compensation of the small scale farmers and estimate their minimum WTA. It found that bid levels, livestock wealth, size of degraded forest land, sex of the household head, availability of substitutes, and the existence plan to change the land into farm land are significant factors affecting WTA. The mean minimum WTA is 1,170 birr per-hectare per year using single-bounded binary question and 3,073 birr per-hectare per-year using open-ended follow up questions. The ratio of open ended follow up mean to binary question mean is 2.63, which inflated the WTA. Totally, 168 households asked a compensation of 74,660.6 birr per year for about 63.8 hectares of degraded natural forest land using mean 1,170 birr per-year per-hectare.
Study of 𝐽/𝜓 production vs event multiplicity in 𝑝+𝑝 and 𝑝+𝐴𝑢 collisions in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC
Creators: name: Collaboration, Ming X. Liu For The PHENIX
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation at DIS2022.
Assessment of Opportunities and Challenges of Electricity Export (The Case of Ethio - Sudan)
Creators: name: Afework, Kbreab
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: This paper focuses on assessment of opportunities and challenges of electricity export - the case of Ethio-Sudan. As its focus is in electricity export to Sudan which is a newly emerging business area to Ethiopia, the study carried out different activities so as to collect primary and secondary data from different sources respectively through interviewing the designated officials of EEP and EEU and focal persons discussion along with working documents like power purchase agreement, Minutes of Understanding(MoU), Minutes of meeting in different times to negotiate and discuss on issues about the export, financial statements EEU for four years since its start is too short to take data beyond four years. Extensive literature survey was undertaken to underpin the opportunities and challenges regarding the export so that they can be synchronized with what is actually being experienced in the case under this study. The research has identified opportunities such as very competitive cost (tariff rate -5 against 13.18 USD cents in east African countries)by which the electricity revenue is to be aggressively increased, abundant resources and excess supply within, unsatisfied demand in neighboring country-Sudan. Moreover, the interconnection increases energy security and reliability, stability, peace and security along with the developing their national economy. On the other hand, the paper has outlined that electricity export is being challenged by unsatisfied domestic demand, inadequate generating capacity and reserve margin due to the huge infrastructural facilities it demands, lack of managerial skill for such activities. Moreover, the intangible social resettlement cost as well as lots of acres of land used for hydropower dam construction remained to be an opportunity cost for the exporting country- Ethiopia and an opportunity to Sudan. Finally, the research forwarded recommendations based on the findings of the study as follows; Since Ethiopia remains to be a net exporter of electricity to Sudan, it is better to insist on developing generating capacity, managerial skills to administer the contract, utilize the foreign and internal source of finances and aggressively engage in the export activity even with other neighbor countries like South Sudan, Kenya, Djibouti, Eritrea, and others so as to create a new capital in hard currency as major additions to GDP. Key words: Hydropower, Tariff, Electricity, Revenue, Megawatt hours, Energy, Transmission lines, Cross border, Substations, transformers, Financers, GDP.
Charge Transport in Dendrimer Melt using Multiscale Modeling Simulation
Creators: name: Bag, Saientan
name: Jain, Manish
name: Maiti, Prabal K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a theoretical calculation of the charge carrier mobility in two different dendrimeric melt system (Dendritic phenyl azomethine with Triphenyl amine core and Dendritic Carbazole with Cyclic Phenylazomethine as core), which have recently been reported1 to increase the efficiency of Dye-Sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by interface modification. Our mobility calculation, which is a combination of molecular dynamics simulation, first principles calculation and kinetic Monte Carlo simulation, leads to mobilities that are in quantitative agreement with available experimental data. We also show how the mobility depends on the dendrimer generation. Furthermore, we examine the variation of mobility with external electric field and external reorganization energy. Physical mechanisms behind observed electric field and generation dependencies of mobility are also explored.
Modeling generic aspects of ideal fibril formation
Creators: name: Michel, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many different proteins self-aggregate into insoluble fibrils growing apically by reversible addition of elementary building blocks. But beyond this common principle, the modalities of fibril formation are very disparate, with various intermediate forms which can be reshuffled by minor modifications of physico-chemical conditions or amino-acid sequences. To bypass this complexity, the multifaceted phenomenon of fibril formation is reduced here to its most elementary principles defined for a linear prototype of fibril. Selected generic features, including nucleation, elongation and conformational recruitment, are modeled using minimalist hypotheses and tools, by separating equilibrium from kinetic aspects and in vitro from in vivo conditions. These reductionist approaches allow to bring out known and new rudiments, including the kinetic and equilibrium effects of nucleation, the dual influence of elongation on nucleation, the kinetic limitations on nucleation and fibril numbers and the accumulation of complexes in vivo by rescue from degradation. Overlooked aspects of these processes are also pointed: the exponential distribution of fibril lengths can be recovered using various models because it is attributable to randomness only. It is also suggested that the same term "critical concentration" is used for different things, involved in either nucleation or elongation.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
Creators: name: Caplar, Neven
name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Birrer, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We analyze the role of first (leading) author gender on the number of citations that a paper receives, on the publishing frequency and on the self-citing tendency. We consider a complete sample of over 200,000 publications from 1950 to 2015 from five major astronomy journals. We determine the gender of the first author for over 70% of all publications. The fraction of papers which have a female first author has increased from less than 5% in the 1960s to about 25% today. We find that the increase of the fraction of papers authored by females is slowest in the most prestigious journals such as Science and Nature. Furthermore, female authors write 19$\pm$7% fewer papers in seven years following their first paper than their male colleagues. At all times papers with male first authors receive more citations than papers with female first authors. This difference has been decreasing with time and amounts to $\sim$6% measured over the last 30 years. To account for the fact that the properties of female and male first author papers differ intrinsically, we use a random forest algorithm to control for the non-gender specific properties of these papers which include seniority of the first author, number of references, total number of authors, year of publication, publication journal, field of study and region of the first author's institution. We show that papers authored by females receive 10.4$\pm$0.9% fewer citations than what would be expected if the papers with the same non-gender specific properties were written by the male authors. Finally, we also find that female authors in our sample tend to self-cite more, but that this effect disappears when controlled for non-gender specific variables.
description: Abridged version to be submitted to Nature Astronomy. Comments welcome. For readers with very little time, the central result of the paper is covered by Figure 6 (Section 5)
Femminismi a confronto
Creators: name: Furnari Luvarà, Giusi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Feminist Philosophies; Post-feminism; Self-construction; Butler; Bodies

description: Editorial by Giusi Furnari Luvarà (Univeristy of Messina) to vol. 8 (I/2021) of the journal P.O.I. - Points of Interest, entitled Femminismi. A che punto è la notte? (Feminist Philosophies. What of the Night?)
MUSE searches for galaxies near very metal-poor gas clouds at z~3: new constraints for cold accretion models
Creators: name: Fumagalli, Michele
name: Cantalupo, Sebastiano
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Morris, Simon L.
name: O'Meara, John M.
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Theuns, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the search for galaxies in the proximity of two very metal-poor gas clouds at z~3 towards the quasar Q0956+122. With a 5-hour MUSE integration in a ~500x500 kpc^2 region centred at the quasar position, we achieve a >80% complete spectroscopic survey of continuum-detected galaxies with m<25 mag and Lyα emitters with luminosity L>3e41 erg/s. We do not identify galaxies at the redshift of a z~3.2 Lyman limit system (LLS) with log Z/Zsun = -3.35 +/- 0.05, placing this gas cloud in the intergalactic medium or circumgalactic medium of a galaxy below our sensitivity limits. Conversely, we detect five Lyα emitters at the redshift of a pristine z~3.1 LLS with log Z/Zsun < -3.8, while ~0.4 sources were expected given the z~3 Lyα luminosity function. Both this high detection rate and the fact that at least three emitters appear aligned in projection with the LLS suggest that this pristine cloud is tracing a gas filament that is feeding one or multiple galaxies. Our observations uncover two different environments for metal-poor LLSs, implying a complex link between these absorbers and galaxy halos, which ongoing MUSE surveys will soon explore in detail. Moreover, in agreement with recent MUSE observations, we detected a ~90 kpc Lyα nebula at the quasar redshift and three Lyα emitters reminiscent of a "dark galaxy" population.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. MNRAS in press
Solar-cycle variation of the rotational shear near the solar surface
Creators: name: Barekat, Atefeh
name: Schou, Jesper
name: Gizon, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Helioseismology has revealed that the angular velocity of the Sun increases with depth in the outermost 35 Mm of the Sun. Recently, we have shown that the logarithmic radial gradient ($\rm d\lnΩ/\rm d\ln r $) in the upper 10~Mm is close to $-1$ from the equator to $60^\circ$ latitude.We aim to measure the temporal variation of the rotational shear over solar cycle 23 and the rising phase of cycle 24 (1996-2015). We used f mode frequency splitting data spanning 1996 to 2011 from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) and 2010 to 2015 from the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI). In a first for such studies, the f mode frequency splitting data were obtained from 360-day time series. We used the same method as in our previous work for measuring $\rm d\lnΩ/d\ln r $ from the equator to $80^\circ$ latitude in the outer 13~Mm of the Sun. Then, we calculated the variation of the gradient at annual cadence relative to the average over 1996 to 2015. We found the rotational shear at low latitudes ($0^\circ$ to $30^\circ$) to vary in-phase with the solar activity, varying by $\sim \pm 10$\% over the period 1996 to 2015. At high latitudes ($60^\circ$ to $80^\circ$), we found rotational shear to vary in anti-phase with the solar activity. By comparing the radial gradient obtained from the splittings of the 360-day and the corresponding 72-day time series of HMI and MDI data, we suggest that the splittings obtained from the 72-day HMI time series suffer from systematic errors. We provide a quantitative measurement of the temporal variation of the outer part of the near surface shear layer which may provide useful constraints on dynamo models and differential rotation theory.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures