cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Senegal Teacher's Guide for Multigrade Classrooms
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
subject: International and Comparative Education

description: This document is the result of an action research project initiated under the auspices of the LIRE (Learning Initiatives in Rural Education) Project, funded by the World Bank Trust Fund. Its purpose is to contribute to the improvement of school access and strengthening of educators’ capacity to deliver and support quality multi-grade education in low population density rural areas in Senegal and The Gambia. A two-part team conducted the project: 1) the Center for International Education of the University of Massachusetts in the United States: Rebecca Paulson, M.Ed, Paul St. John Frisoli, M.Ed, Sarah Kahando, M.Ed, Alicia Fitzpatrick, MAT, MS and Karla Sarr, under the supervision of Professor Jacqueline Mosselson, Professor Gretchen B. Rossman, and Dr. Mbarou Gassama Mbaye, Ed.D, with the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), a black women’s organization active in Senegal since 1975, is responsible for the financial management and logistics of the project, and 2) the Senegalese group, led by the LIRE Project In-Country Coordinator, Mr. Yaya Diatta, and made up of technical staff from the Directions Techniques du Ministère de l’Education (Ministry of Education Technical Office), elementary school teaching officers and teachers from the targeted regions (Podor, Kaffrine and Rufisque II), NGO resource people from the education sector (Actionaid, National Coalition for Education for All, Federation of Parent Teacher Associations, the National Commission for Girls’ Education and FAWE). They have greatly contributed to the achievement of this teacher’s guide and teaching manual.
description: This guide includes the following training modules: 1) Module 1 : Purpose and Background of Multigrade Teaching ; Provides the context of MGCs throughout the world and Senegal and explains their relevance and efficiency. 2) Module 2 : MG Classroom Management Tools; Presents teachers with various tools, techniques and their application. 3) Module 3 : MG Classroom Management Techniques; Examines different techniques, their use, as well as their benefits to students and teachers. 4) Module 4 : Community as Resource; and Addresses the relationship between the school and the community, local materials that can be used as teaching tools, and ways that the school can support the community and community members can contribute to student learning. 5) Module 5 : Student Learning Monitoring and Assessment. Examines the meaning of concepts as well as the various implementation tools.
Alcune teorie della monetizzazione a confronto
Creators: name: Rossini, Gianpaolo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: Is money going to be replaced by an information processor simila/ to the Walrasian auctioneer? At the heart of the question theae is the role of money in transactions. Niehans (1971) stated that money emerges as the good with the lowest transaction cost out of a barter economy and its appearance can also turn non—traded goods into traded—goods. Jones (1976) and Schoetter (1981) emphasize the institutional role of money whose diffusion parallels the provision of a public good.Freeman (1985) underlies the market completeness of money and its role in transa—ctions vis a vis other assets.Gale (1978;1983) says that markets cannot be Debreu—complete without outside money. The roles of money in Niehans,Jones,Schoetter can be superseded.The one in Freeman—Gale cannot,since money has a role even if information is perfect and free because it makes markets complete.A contract will never be equivalent to a money payment.
Subjective experiences of bicyclists being passed by motor vehicles: The relationship to motor vehicle passing distance
Creators: name: Beck, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: Background Feeling unsafe when riding a bicycle is a key barrier to cycling participation. To better understand the experiences of cycling on-road, this study aimed to explore the relationship between cyclists’ subjective experiences and the lateral passing distance of motor vehicles. Methods An on-road observational study was conducted in Victoria, Australia. Participants had a custom device installed on their bicycle that measured the lateral passing distance of motor vehicles and included a handlebar mounted “panic button” that participants could press when they felt that a passing event was too close or unsafe. A random effects logistic regression model was used to investigate the relationship between cyclist sex, motor vehicle type and infrastructure characteristics, and button press events. Results A total of 217 button press events were recorded (1.2 % of all passing events) from 60 participants. For events with a passing distance closer than 100 cm, 10.4 % of these events had a recorded button press. The adjusted odds of a button press event were over three-fold higher when the rider was passed by a truck, compared to when the rider was passed by a sedan. The predicted probability of a button press event was higher in events occurring in road environments with no bike lane and no parked cars (1.9 %) compared to no bike lane with parked cars (1.2 %), a bike lane with no parked cars (0.9 %) and a bike lane with parked cars (0.7 %). Conclusions The study identified important links between cyclists’ subjective experience of unsafe events, motor vehicle types and infrastructure characteristics. Greater emphasis needs to be placed on capturing subjective experiences to inform and advance the development and implementation of safe and comfortable cycling infrastructure.
Sustainability assessment of OSB and softwood plywood manufacturing in North America
Creators: name: Chan, George
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Canadian wood products industry, including structural panels, is very dependent on the US housing market. Since the US housing crisis in 2006, exports of Canadian wood products to the US significantly dropped annually at a devastating rate. With the growing trend for sustainable construction, the widespread influence of promotions from campaigns such as Wood First and Wood Works and as well as the building standards of the LEED rating system, the demand for wood products is steadily being restored. Amongst the primary construction materials, the manufacturing of structural products of OSB and softwood plywood has slightly higher environmental impact than the manufacturing of lumber due to the drying and pressing processes and the resins used as well. As the demand for structural panels is being slowly created, manufacturers in this industry need to lower the emissions generated from manufacturing to lower environmental impacts. This thesis contrasts and analyzes the emissions and emission control data from the Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Inventory reports for OSB and softwood plywood. In general, between both structural panel products, plywood is the more sustainable product of the two with lower energy utilized and fewer emissions of CO₂, SOx, NOx, VOC and particulate matter generated in the manufacturing process. To further reduce emissions associated with manufacturing of both panel products, the theoretically plausible solution is to combine the use of regenerative thermal oxidizer, which can remove 99% more VOC emissions than that of the wet electrostatic precipitator (NCASI, 1999), with an emissions trading legislature.
inancial Panic, Rational Expectations (Equilibrium) and Chaotic Dynamics: Power and Limits of Financial Market Stabilization under Stocastic Money Interest Rate and the Role of Internationl Asymmetries
Creators: name: Violi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: This paper analyses the concept of Rational Expectations Equilibrium in a simple dynamic model of assets price determination and the important implications for the relative concept of informational efficiency.
title: Ein Markt für morgen?: Hypothesen und Prognosen zur Elektromobilität
Creators: name: Dudenhöffer, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 380
subject: 330

description: In unsere Zukunft mit Elektroautos blickt Ferdinand Dudenhöffer. Er definiert die verschiedenen Arten von Elektroautos, diskutiert Angebot, Nachfrage sowie Produktion und entwirft ein Marktszenario für Elektrofahrzeuge.
description: E-Mobility is a new phenomenon governed by its own market rules, drawn from new experiences in consumer behavior. Today, the heart of e-mobility is defined by battery-powered electric vehicles. This raises issues about acceptable driving distances, a park and plug infrastructure, higher car prices and charging time frames for electricity. Together, this results in a new usage of cars. Central to the use of battery-powered electric cars are car sharing and car rental systems in megacities like Shanghai or Paris. Thus there exists a smaller demand for pure battery-powered electric vehicles than is often assumed. The most important part of e-mobility appears to be the full hybrid and plug-in hybrid world. These cars seem to combine two worlds. On the one hand, the customers experience with conventional cars, and on the other hand, the advantages of new technology. This world is developing rapidly, as product-planning strategies of carmakers show. To put this in numbers: in a market scenario we derived a demand for 4.4 million battery-powered electric cars sales around the year 2025, whereas plugin hybrids will count for 17.5 million vehicles sales in 2025 and hybrid cars for 34.2 million sales. To put it in perspective, we are moving into a new world, but not as quickly as is sometimes assumed.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 39Ingenieurwissenschaften: Herausforderung Elektromobilität, p. 102
Bathoxiphus Pilsbry & Sharp 1897
Creators: name: Souza, Leonardo S.
name: Caetano, Carlos Henrique S.
name: Scarabino, Fabrizio
name: Costa, Paulo Márcio S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Gadilida
Entalinidae
Bathoxiphus

description: Bathoxiphus Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897
 Type species. Dentalium ensiculus Jeffreys,1877, by subsequent designation (BOISSEVAIN,1906:48).
Diagnosis. Shell small to medium in size, strongly arched, solid, polished, usually smooth or with thin longitudinal sculpture. Apex truncated, lumen circular. Section oval, strongly laterally compressed. Radula with high rachidian tooth, anterior margin simple, rounded with latter half folded inward; lateral teeth present two pointed primary cusps and 5 to 6 subequal secondary cusps; marginal teeth slightly curved (adapted from SCARABINO, 1995; SCARABINO & SCARABINO, 2010).
 Remarks.Aside from the type species, three other are currently included in the genus: Bathoxiphus soyomaruae Okutani, 1964 (bathyal and abyssal, Japan, New Caledonia and the Indian Ocean), Bathoxiphus inexpectatus Scarabino, 1995 (bathyal, New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean) and Bathoxiphus kathieae Scarabino & Scarabino, 2010 (bathyal, Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean) (CHISTIKOV, 1983; SCARABINO, 1995, 2008; SCARABINO & SCARABINO, 2010).
 The species of Bathoxiphus usually have smooth shells, but B. kathieae presents longitudinal sculpture of thin ribs which is the main difference from his congeners. Despite the different sculpture, B. kathieae has the conspicuous radular morphology shared by all species of the genus. The diagnosis of the genus is updated here.
description: Published as part of Souza, Leonardo S., Caetano, Carlos Henrique S., Scarabino, Fabrizio & Costa, Paulo Márcio S., 2020, New records and a new species of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-12 in Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2020023) (e 2020023) 110 on page 2, DOI: 10.1590/1678-4766e2020023, http://zenodo.org/record/13266286
title: Verkehr und Logistik: Beiträge zum Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet
Creators: name: Juchelka, Rudolf
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 380

description: Mit der Wechselbeziehung zwischen Verkehr und Infrastruktur sowie der Logistikwirtschaft in ihrer Bedeutung für den so genannten Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet beschäftigt sich der Beitrag von Rudolf Juchelka. Gerade im Ruhrgebiet erscheint die Verzahnung und verknüpfte Betrachtung Verkehr und Logistik im Kontext des Strukturwandels von zwingender Notwendigkeit.
description: So-called structural change is an ongoing process in the Ruhr area and will unquestionably remain so into the future. Meanwhile, a spatial as well as a chronological differentiation within the Ruhr area itself can be observed, which has been linked to a focus on content as well as on specialization. The logistics industry, being tightly connected to traffic infrastructure as a location factor, assumes a crucial role when it comes to the ever increasing needs of a globalized world economy and its ‚ondemand‘ services. In this context, it can be of significant importance both spatially and employment-wise for regional structural change to take place at single, preferred locations.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 38Geistes-/Gesellschaftswissenschaften: Beiträge zur "Ruhr 2010", p. 64
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Shire, Karen A.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 300

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 40Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational, p. 6
Supplementary document for Degenerate optical parametric amplification in CMOS silicon - 6137786.pdf
Creators: name: Heydari, David
name: Catuneanu, Mircea
name: Ng, Edwin
name: Gray, Dodd
name: Hamerly, Ryan
name: Mishra, Jatadhari
name: Jankowski, Marc
name: Fejer, Martin
name: Jamshidi, Kambiz
name: Mabuchi, Hideo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Forest and flood : aftermath of the 1998 Yangtze River flood
Creators: name: You, XinZong
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: There has been a long debate over the effect of logging on flood events. The 1998 Yangtze River Flood sounded the alarm for Chinese Government to take actions to protect her environment for sustainable development and Chinese Government proposed strict logging ban after this disaster. Unexpectedly, these well-intentioned environmental policies received controversy criticism from the international community. The main reason behind this phenomenon is that the relationship between forest and flood is still unclear. Based on intense literature research, this paper uses Yangtze River Watershed as a specific example to explore the relationship between forests, floods, and the biophysical environment. Chinese Government’s policy taken after 1998 Yangtze River Flood will also be evaluated according to conclusions made regarding the relationship between logging and flood.
Inflation, Growth and Stabilization Policies in Italy: 1960-1984
Creators: name: Onofri, Paolo
name: Salituro, Bruno
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: In 1963 the Italian economy experienced, for the first time after the reconstruction period, the stringency of external constraints.
Cadulus Philippi 1844
Creators: name: Souza, Leonardo S.
name: Caetano, Carlos Henrique S.
name: Scarabino, Fabrizio
name: Costa, Paulo Márcio S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Gadilida
Gadilidae
Cadulus

description: Cadulus Philippi, 1844
 Type species. Dentalium ovulum Philippi,1844, by monotypy.
 Diagnosis. See CAETANO et al. (2006).
description: Published as part of Souza, Leonardo S., Caetano, Carlos Henrique S., Scarabino, Fabrizio & Costa, Paulo Márcio S., 2020, New records and a new species of Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, pp. 1-12 in Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2020023) (e 2020023) 110 on page 4, DOI: 10.1590/1678-4766e2020023, http://zenodo.org/record/13266286
title: „Eine Stadt für alle Bürger.“: Zur Integrationsproblematik in komplexen Gesellschaften
Creators: name: Kolb, Karin
name: Loenhoff, Jens
name: Schmitz, H.
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Am Beispiel eines Projekts mit der Stadt Mülheim an der Ruhr erläutert dieser Beitrag aus der Kommunikationswissenschaft Wege zu einem möglichst viele Bevölkerungsgruppen integrierenden Kommunikationskonzept. Bei dem Projekt gewannen die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erstaunliche Einblicke in das Selbstverständnis der Mülheimerinnen und Mülheimer.
description: The Ruhr area looks back over a long history of migration and cultural diversity. People from many different cultures and social milieus live in the cities of the Ruhr area. That being said, discourses have emerged in contemporary society about the recognition of cultural difference and the opportunities and problems of co-existence under multi-cultural conditions. Modern cities and those responsible for them attempt to understand the complexity of these conditions by commissioning scientific expertise in order to manage cooperation among the heterogeneous cultures and to enter into a communicative relationship with local residents. It is against this background that researchers at the Institute for Communication Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen have investigated how the city Mülheim/Ruhr can represent itself to local residents, both with and without a migration background, as cosmopolitan and tolerant, and how the city’s communication with its residents enables Mülheim to be perceived as a “city for all residents”. In the process, surprising insights arose concerning the assumptions of municipal authorities and the actual perceptions of Mülheim residents about the reality of life in the city.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 38Geistes-/Gesellschaftswissenschaften: Beiträge zur "Ruhr 2010", p. 72
The International Transmission of Fisal Policy on Welfare, Investment and Trade: an Inter-temporal Approach
Creators: name: Chiesa, Gabriella
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: The remarkable increase in the real rate of interest all over the world and the appreciation of the dollar real exchange rate, toghether with the large fiscal stimulus from President Reagan's program has brought government deficits and their effects on the economy back to the foreground of the policy debate.
Sentiero di traversa e convergenza
Creators: name: Violi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Lo scopo principale di questo lavoro è di estendere i risultati del paragrafo VII di Gozzi e Zamagni. Tale paragrafo concerne lo studio della convergenza del sentiero di traversa al sentiero di crescita bilanciata per il modello neo-austriaco integrato, sotto l'ipotesi di salario fisso.
AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers
Creators: name: Wuttke, Alexander
name: Aßenmacher, Matthias
name: Klamm, Christopher
name: Lang, Max M.
name: Würschinger, Quirin
name: Kreuter, Frauke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional methods for eliciting people's opinions face a trade-off between depth and scale: structured surveys enable large-scale data collection but limit respondents' ability to voice their opinions in their own words, while conversational interviews provide deeper insights but are resource-intensive. This study explores the potential of replacing human interviewers with large language models (LLMs) to conduct scalable conversational interviews. Our goal is to assess the performance of AI Conversational Interviewing and to identify opportunities for improvement in a controlled environment. We conducted a small-scale, in-depth study with university students who were randomly assigned to a conversational interview by either AI or human interviewers, both employing identical questionnaires on political topics. Various quantitative and qualitative measures assessed interviewer adherence to guidelines, response quality, participant engagement, and overall interview efficacy. The findings indicate the viability of AI Conversational Interviewing in producing quality data comparable to traditional methods, with the added benefit of scalability. We publish our data and materials for re-use and present specific recommendations for effective implementation.
title: Transformation Studies: How Society and Science React to the Limits of the Earth System
Creators: name: Leggewie, Claus
name: Messner, Dirk
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 320

description: The new social contract comprises the proactive state, an active civil society, innovative business and technology, and scientific reflection and guidance. These four partners today are subject to a fundamentally new condition: the limits of the Earth system and the sheer physics of climate change mean that time is running out. Delaying solutions today will only make the problems of tomorrow and beyond all the greater, perhaps even insurmountable.
description: Die Autoren argumentieren, dass der Übergang zu einer klimaverträglichen (Welt-)Wirtschaft eine „Große Transformation“ darstellt, die Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft vor umfassende Herausforderungen stellt. Diese Transformation geht über technologische Innovationen weit hinaus. Ein neuer Gesellschaftvertrag muss entstehen. In einer solchen gedachten Übereinkunft verpflichten sich Individuen, zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen, Unternehmen, Wissenschaft und Staaten, Verantwortung für den Schutz der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und die Erhaltung globaler Gemeinschaftsgüter zu übernehmen. Auf dem Weg zu einem Gesellschaftsvertrag für Nachhaltigkeit gilt es insbesondere fünf Fragen zu klären, die kontrovers diskutiert werden. Welche Rolle spielt die Politik im Transformationsprozess? Gefährdet die Transformation individuelle Freiheiten? Impliziert die Transformation einen Normen- und Wertewandel? Welche neuen Muster internationaler Kooperation können die Transformation beschleunigen? Wer zahlt für die Transformation und wie könnte eine gerechte Lastenteilung aussehen?
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 40Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational, p. 8
Aggregazione, separabilita' e verifica delle ipotesi di base del modello neo-classico
Creators: name: Gardini, Attilio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/05 Econometria

description: In questo lavoro saranno analizzate le caratteristiche delle funzioni di domanda dei prodotti alimentari e misurate le elasticità di sostituzione e le elasticità di reddito al fine di valutare la conformità della teoria economica del comportamento del consumatore rispetto all'evidenza statistica.
L'analisi delle interdipendenze settoriali in un contesto intertemporale: i modelli teorici e la verifica econometrica
Creators: name: Violi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1985
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Lo scopo principale di questo lavoro è di delineare un coerente quadro teorico per la verifica econometrica di modelli che descrivono la struttura produttiva dell'economica secondo una prospettiva intertemporale.
The effect of forest harvesting on streamflow recession curves at Carnation Creek, British Columbia
Creators: name: Nelson, Brett
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: At the Carnation Creek Experimental Watershed on southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the effect of harvesting, regeneration and road building were analyzed through the use of stream discharge data collected at a weir on the catchment outlet. The study was separated into a Pre-Logging period from 1971-1975, Logging from 1976-1981, and two Post-Logging periods from 1982-1985 and 1985-90 respectively. The current study focussed on the effects of harvesting on streamflow recession curves, which are an indicator of the ability of coastal watersheds to maintain low flows (base-flow) during the water-limited dry season. Approximately 30 years of discharge data along with rainfall and temperature were segmented into corresponding forestry operation periods. Using the linear relationship between log[|dQ/dt|] and log[Qm] according to storage-discharge theory, multiple linear models were created and a regression was used to investigate the significance of each of the forestry operations. It was found that the effect of the roads increased lateral slope interception of sub-surface flow and directed water along the ditch systems to the channel at a greater rate, steepening the recession curves at all discharge levels in the short term, but only persisting at low discharge levels. Harvesting increased the water table height, because of the reduction in transpiration via loss of interception, and low flows and total flows increased over both post-logging periods, which partially offset the effect the roads had on the recession. Regeneration began to occur over the harvested sections of the catchment and it was found their effect between post-logging periods was only significant with the inclusions of extremely low discharge levels. However, a second logging pass in 1987, removing 21% of the forested catchment in the headwaters is believed to have confounded the regeneration effects.
Recenti sviluppi nella teoria monetaria
Creators: name: D'Adda, Carlo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1984
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Vista da molto lontano la traiettoria della luna intorno al sole potrebbe essere descritta in modo simile a quella della terra: se non si va per il sottile, terra e luna procedono vicine nella loro rivoluzione intorno al sole.
Determinanti caotiche e stocastiche delle fluttuazioni irregolari
Creators: name: Candela, Guido
name: Gardini, Attilio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 1984
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: Qual è l'oggetto della teoria delle fluttuazioni? E' questo un capitolo dell'economica politica che sembra mancare ancora di un preciso accordo sul suo specifico oggetto di studio.
title: Rhein-Maas interdisziplinär: Das Institut für niederrheinische Kulturgeschichte und Regionalentwicklung
Creators: name: Engelbrecht, Jörg
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Der federführende Autor dieser UNIKATE-Ausgabe, Jörg Engelbrecht, berichtet über das InKuR, das Institut für niederrheinische Kulturgeschichte und Regionalentwicklung an der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Vor zwölf Jahren an der damaligen Duisburger Mercator-Universität gegründet, ist das Institut zu einer festen Größen geworden, was die Erforschung der so genannten Rhein-Maas-Region betrifft.
description: The Institut für niederrheinische Kulturgeschichte und Regionalentwicklung (InKuR) (The Institute for Lower Rhine Cultural History and Regional Development) is devoted to researching the history of the Rhine- Maas-Region; comprising, roughly speaking, the Benelux-States plus North Rhine-Westphalia. It is made up of scholars and students from fields ranging from history and geography to literature and linguistics. Besides research and teaching, the InKuR is occupied with the transfer of scientific knowledge to the broader public, including teachers within the Rhine-Maas-Region. Furthermore, the InKuR advises archives, museums and historical societies in their research activities. As far as regional development is concerned, the InKuR is well aware of the fact that the Rhine-Maas- Region is in the process of becoming an economic and cultural entity once more; which it had been in the period stretching from the Middle Ages up to the beginning of the 19th century. The institute tries to support this process and at the same time works towards preparing students to cope with the challenges of finding work on both sides of the border.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 38Geistes-/Gesellschaftswissenschaften: Beiträge zur "Ruhr 2010", p. 94
title: Corruption as an Obstacle to Development?: Taking Stock of Research Findings and the Effectiveness of Policy Strategies
Creators: name: Pech, Birgit
name: Debiel, Tobias
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 320

description: The authors recommend a step-by-step approach which sets priorities and combines concrete measures of anti-corruption policies with the adjustment of existing institutional arrangements. Within such an overall concept it may make sense not to immediately aim at decreasing the level of corruption but to first convert the most harmful “corruption syndromes” into less harmful forms.
description: Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre hat sich in Entwicklungsforschung und -politik ein breiter Konsensus mit Folgewirkungen herausgebildet: Korruption ist ein Entwicklungshemmnis. Doch sind die Grundannahmen und die darauf aufbauenden Anti-Korruptions-Politiken wirklich stimmig? Diesen Fragen geht der vorliegende Beitrag nach. Zunächst definiert er Korruption und befragt die bisherige Forschung zu den Verbindungen von Korruption, Wohlfahrt und der Konsolidierung von Staatlichkeit. In einem zweiten Schritt untersucht der Artikel Maßnahmen der Korruptionsbekämpfung, deren Bilanz ernüchternd ausfällt. Ein wichtiger Grund hierfür: Gängige Politikmodelle beachten nur unzureichend bestehende institutionelle Arrangements und Machtverhältnisse. Zudem werden die Möglichkeiten externer Akteure, lokale Prozesse zu beeinflussen, tendenziell überschätzt. Daraus folgt jedoch nicht, dass externe Akteure die Good-Governance-Agenda aufgeben und Korruption ignorieren sollten. Allerdings sind statt blaupausenartiger Maßnahmenpakete, die sich am OECD-Modell liberaler, marktwirtschaftlich verfasster Demokratien orientieren, Politiken erforderlich, die auf konkrete Gegebenheiten vor Ort zugeschnitten und nicht blind sind für die dort herrschenden polit-ökonomischen Macht- und Loyalitätsbeziehungen. Um die tieferliegenden Ursachen der Korruption anzugehen, müssen sowohl die staatliche Handlungsautonomie als auch gesellschaftliche Gegengewichte gestärkt werden. Ein politisch informiertes Verständnis von Korruption, das sich an jeweils spezifische politische Kulturen anpasst, muss gegebenenfalls auch anerkennen, dass Korruption unter Bedingungen fragiler Staatlichkeit und krisengefährdeter Transformation zeitweise durchaus stabilisierende und kooperationsfördernde Wirkungen haben kann. Dieses kann insofern vorübergehend durchaus als notwendig akzeptiert werden, solange differenzierte Anti-Korruptions- Politiken parallel die graduelle Änderung bestehender institutioneller Arrangements im Blick behalten.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 40Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational, p. 16
Cosmic view of life
Creators: name: CA, RYN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: cosmic perspective
subject: humanity
subject: philosophy
subject: astrophysics
subject: Existentialism
subject: anthropocentrism
subject: Ethics

description: A reflective essay exploring humanity’s role in the universe, questioning our perceived superiority, and promoting a humbling view of life as a product of cosmic randomness. It touches on evolution, Earth’s fragility, and the universe’s indifferent nature.
title: Earthquake – Tsunami – Nuclear Accident: Geo-Risk-Space and Risk Society Japan in Light of the Triple Disaster 2011
Creators: name: Flüchter, Winfried
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 550

description: Nature strikes, and forces human-beings under its yoke. This is the geo-deterministic argument. Hazard research contributes an alternative understanding, pointing to how humans attempt to bring nature under their control, in the belief that the more developed the technology, the better our control. The effect, however, is heightened vulnerability.
description: Bei der Analyse sogenannter Naturkatastrophen hat sich die Hazardforschung zu sehr auf die Bedeutung der Natur und der daraus resultierenden Gefahren konzentriert, zu wenig jedoch auf man-made hazards, die der Mensch durch das Wagnis zum Risiko hervorruft und durch Hazardmanagement zu entschärfen sucht. Der Georisikoraum Japan dient dafür als hervorragendes Beispiel. Der Beitrag nimmt das Große Erdbeben von Ostjapan 2011 zum Anlass, zunächst die Bebenstärke, die seismischen Wirkungen und den Katastrophenschutz Japans zu analysieren. Er fokussiert auf die Optionen einer Risikogesellschaft: den Umgang mit dem Restrisiko unter Aspekten einer flexiblen Konfliktökonomie. Im Zentrum steht der durch die Tsunami-Naturkatastrophe ausgelöste menschengemachte Atomunfall von Fukushima als Brennpunkt systemischer Schwächen – und Auslöser institutionellen Wandels?
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 40Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational, p. 26
WKB energy levels in gapped graphene under crossed electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Nimyi, I. O.
name: Sharapov, S. G.
name: Gusynin, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a single layer of graphene subjected to a magnetic field $H$ applied perpendicular to the layer and an in-plane constant radial electric field $E$. The Dirac equation for this configuration does not admit analytical solutions in terms of known special functions. Using the WKB approximation, we demonstrate that for gapped graphene the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition for eigenenergies includes an additional valley-dependent geometrical phase. When this term is accounted for, the WKB approximation exhibits good agreement with results from the exact diagonalization method except to the lowest Landau level.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Open Research Knowledge Graph
Creators: name: Stocker, Markus
Publisher: name: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur
Year: 2022

description: Der Vortrag wird den Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) als Forschungsinfrastruktur für das FAIRe Management von wissenschaftlichem Wissen einführen. Die seit 2018 an der TIB angesiedelte Initiative setzt sich zum Ziel, die FAIR Datenprinzipien auf wissenschaftliches Wissen in Publikationen anzuwenden, um die Nachnutzung von wissenschaftlichem Wissen zu verbessern. Die Infrastruktur unterstützt die Produktion, Kuratierung und Nachnutzung von strukturiertem wissenschaftlichem Wissen. Der Vortrag erläutert Hintergründe und Motivation, Kernfunktionalität und Integrationen.
description: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur, Sommersemester 2022
ELGAR: Expressive Cello Performance Motion Generation for Audio Rendition
Creators: name: Qiu, Zhiping
name: Jin, Yitong
name: Wang, Yuan
name: Shi, Yi
name: Wang, Chongwu
name: Tan, Chao
name: Li, Xiaobing
name: Yu, Feng
name: Yu, Tao
name: Dai, Qionghai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The art of instrument performance stands as a vivid manifestation of human creativity and emotion. Nonetheless, generating instrument performance motions is a highly challenging task, as it requires not only capturing intricate movements but also reconstructing the complex dynamics of the performer-instrument interaction. While existing works primarily focus on modeling partial body motions, we propose Expressive ceLlo performance motion Generation for Audio Rendition (ELGAR), a state-of-the-art diffusion-based framework for whole-body fine-grained instrument performance motion generation solely from audio. To emphasize the interactive nature of the instrument performance, we introduce Hand Interactive Contact Loss (HICL) and Bow Interactive Contact Loss (BICL), which effectively guarantee the authenticity of the interplay. Moreover, to better evaluate whether the generated motions align with the semantic context of the music audio, we design novel metrics specifically for string instrument performance motion generation, including finger-contact distance, bow-string distance, and bowing score. Extensive evaluations and ablation studies are conducted to validate the efficacy of the proposed methods. In addition, we put forward a motion generation dataset SPD-GEN, collated and normalized from the MoCap dataset SPD. As demonstrated, ELGAR has shown great potential in generating instrument performance motions with complicated and fast interactions, which will promote further development in areas such as animation, music education, interactive art creation, etc.
FAIR-Prinzipien und Tools für die Evaluation und das Assessment
Creators: name: Czerniak, Andreas
Publisher: name: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur
Year: 2022

description: FAIR steht im wissenschaftlichen Kontext für das Akronym Findable, Accessible, Interoperable und Reusable. Der Vortrag gibt im ersten Teil einen kurzen theoretischen Überblick über die FAIR-Prinzipien und stellt die Aktivitäten der Research Data Alliance (RDA) vor. FAIR-Projekte wie FAIRsFAIR, GOFAIR, aber auch die Aktivitäten der European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) werden behandelt. Im zweiten Teil werden zwei existierende Tools zur Unterstützung der Evaluierung exemplarisch vorgestellt. F-UJI aus dem FAIRsFAIR Projekt und der OpenAIRE FAIR-Assistant Validator. Der Vortrag scließt mit einem Ausblick auf aktuelle Entwicklungen in der FAIR-Community und den Evaluator-Tools.
description: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur, Sommersemester 2022
Colibri - Corpus Libri et Liberi. Digitalisierung von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ein kooperatives Digitalisierungsprojekt
Creators: name: Hagen, Isabell
name: Rimmert, Edith
Publisher: name: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur
Year: 2022

description: Im ersten Teil des Vortrags werden neben Entstehung, Abläufen und Datenflüssen im Projekt Colibri die Besonderheiten im Vergleich zu anderen Digitalisierungsprojekten beleuchtet. Im zweiten Teil werden Einblicke in die praktische Arbeit mit der Open-Source-Software Goobi, die an der UB Bielefeld zur Steuerung von Workflows in Digitalisierungsprojekten eingesetzt wird, gegeben.
description: Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur, Sommersemester 2022
title: Yes He Can: Why Obama’s Government Communication is Successful
Creators: name: Diermann, Melanie
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 320

description: This article examines the leading question of what Obama did differently to Clinton and to what extent varying strategies helped him succeed where Clinton failed. The institutional conditions and aims for both reforms were similar, yet Obama managed to pass the necessary bills while Clinton did not.
description: Was macht Obama erfolgreich? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wird insbesondere seine Regierungskommunikation einer genaueren Betrachtung unterzogen. Die Gesundheitsreform aus dem Jahr 2010 bildet dabei den Untersuchungsgegenstand. Kontrastiert wird diese Betrachtung mit der Analyse einer Gesundheitsreform der Regierung Clinton aus dem Jahr 1993. Beide Reformen glichen sich hinsichtlich der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, des Politikfeldes und der inhaltlichen Zielsetzung, unterschieden sich aber bezüglich des Erfolges. Während es Obama gelang, entsprechende Gesetze zu implementieren, scheiterte Clinton mit diesem Vorhaben. Die Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage erfolgt auf der Basis eines Vergleichs der Strategien in der Regierungskommunikation in beiden Fällen. Als wesentliche Erkenntnis kann auf dieser Basis festgehalten werden, dass es Obama besser als seinem demokratischen Vorgänger Clinton gelang, den kommunikativen Korridor zu nutzen, der ihm auf der Basis der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der USA zur Verfügung steht.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, no. 40Social Sciences: Comparative, International, Transnational, p. 128
Cyber Security Data Science: Machine Learning Methods and their Performance on Imbalanced Datasets
Creators: name: Lopez-Ledezma, Mateo
name: Velarde, Gissel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cybersecurity has become essential worldwide and at all levels, concerning individuals, institutions, and governments. A basic principle in cybersecurity is to be always alert. Therefore, automation is imperative in processes where the volume of daily operations is large. Several cybersecurity applications can be addressed as binary classification problems, including anomaly detection, fraud detection, intrusion detection, spam detection, or malware detection. We present three experiments. In the first experiment, we evaluate single classifiers including Random Forests, Light Gradient Boosting Machine, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree. In the second experiment, we test different sampling techniques including over-sampling, under-sampling, Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique, and Self-Paced Ensembling. In the last experiment, we evaluate Self-Paced Ensembling and its number of base classifiers. We found that imbalance learning techniques had positive and negative effects, as reported in related studies. Thus, these techniques should be applied with caution. Besides, we found different best performers for each dataset. Therefore, we recommend testing single classifiers and imbalance learning techniques for each new dataset and application involving imbalanced datasets as is the case in several cyber security applications.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. Digital Management and Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific-Practical Conference (ISPC 2024), Hybrid, October 10-11, 2024. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-88052-0_45
4XMM J175136.8-275858: A New Magnetar Candidate?
Creators: name: Webbe, Robbie
name: Khan, Norman
name: Webb, N. A.
name: Quintin, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetars are very rare astrophysical objects, with $\sim$31 known to date. They are best understood as highly magnetised neutron stars, but a greater number need to be found to constrain their role in stellar evolution pathways. We apply a novel approach for the detection of fast, transient X-ray sources, using a revised version of the EPIC XMM-Newton Outburst Detector (EXOD) with the aim of detecting and identifying new and rare variable compact objects. We detect a transient, variable source notable for its strong variability and hard spectrum. The emission from 4XMM J175136.8-275858 is well characterised by a blackbody, with temperatures between $\sim$1.8--5\,keV during its lower luminosity phase. Its temperature is poorly constrained during its brightest phase, and we observe an increase in luminosity by two orders of magnitude over timescales of a few ks. This is driven by increased emission of X-rays at energies above 2\,keV, with a luminosity decay potentially over weeks or months. Derived luminosities for 4XJ1751-2759 range up to $\sim10^{35} \text{\,erg s}^{-1}$ at 8\,kpc at the Galactic centre, but neutral hydrogen column densities are greater than predicted Galactic values possibly implying a greater distance to the source, still within our galaxy, further increasing its luminosity. A consideration of optical and IR information in combination with the X-ray observations allow us to exclude the possibility that 4XJ1751-2759 is a star, rotationally powered pulsar or supergiant fast X-ray transient. This rapid, hard, variability is closest to that of outbursts in magnetars than any other known class of X-ray transient.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Accepted to MNRAS
Nonlinearity of transparent SNS weak links decreases sharply with length
Creators: name: Fatemi, Valla
name: Kurilovich, Pavel D.
name: Akhmerov, Anton R.
name: van Heck, Bernard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductor-normal material-superconductor (SNS) junctions are being integrated into microwave circuits for fundamental and applied research goals. The short junction limit is a common simplifying assumption for experiments with SNS junctions, but this limit constrains how small the nonlinearity of the microwave circuit can be. Here, we show that a finite length of the weak link strongly suppresses the nonlinearity compared to its zero-length limit -- the suppression can be up to a factor of ten even when the length remains shorter than the induced coherence length. We tie this behavior to the nonanalytic dependence of nonlinearity on length, which the critical current does not exhibit. Further, we identify additional experimentally observable consequences of nonzero length, and we conjecture that anharmonicity is bounded between zero and a maximally negative value for any non-interacting Josephson junction in the presence of time-reversal symmetry. We promote SNS junction length as a useful parameter for designing weakly nonlinear microwave circuits.
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