cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
La mindfulness alla scuola dell'infanzia: confronto tra due esperienze
Creators: name: Gualea, Carolina Miranda
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2025
Subjects: Mindfulness
Calma
Emozioni
Respirazione
Scuola dell’infanzia

description: Questa tesi esplora l’applicazione della mindfulness nella scuola dell’infanzia, confrontando due percorsi svolti in due diverse sezioni. L’obiettivo principale è analizzare l’impatto della mindfulness sulla regolazione emotiva, sulla capacità di ritornare alla calma e sul benessere generale dei bambini di età compresa tra 3 e 6 anni. Attraverso un approccio qualitativo, la ricerca ha impiegato strumenti quali griglie di osservazione, interviste semi-strutturate e attività grafico-espressive. Le attività proposte, ispirate a tecniche di respirazione e consapevolezza corporea, sono state adattate alle esigenze specifiche dei gruppi classe coinvolti. I risultati evidenziano progressi nella capacità dei bambini di riconoscere e gestire le proprie emozioni, migliorando anche la concentrazione. In alcuni casi, i bambini hanno dimostrato di saper utilizzare autonomamente le tecniche apprese per affrontare momenti di agitazione. Il confronto tra i due percorsi mette in luce la flessibilità della mindfulness e il suo potenziale di integrazione nel programma scolastico per promuovere un clima positivo e favorire lo sviluppo socio-emotivo. La tesi sottolinea inoltre l’importanza di educare alla consapevolezza già dalla prima infanzia per gettare basi solide verso una crescita equilibrata e responsabile.
Enriching ALS-Derived Area-Based Estimates of Volume through Tree-Level Downscaling
Creators: name: Tompalski, Piotr
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: White, Joanne C.
name: Wulder, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Information on individual tree attributes is important for sustainable management of forest stands. Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) point clouds are an excellent source of information for predicting a range of forest stand attributes, with plot and single tree volume being among the most important. Two approaches exist for estimating volume: area-based approach (ABA) and individual tree detection (ITD). The ABA is now routinely applied in operational forestry applications, and results in generalized plot- or stand-level attribute predictions. Alternatively, ITD-based estimates provide detailed information for individual trees, but are typically biased due to challenges associated with individual tree detection. In this study, we applied an ABA to estimate tree counts and individual tree volumes by downscaling plot-level predictions of total volume derived using ALS data in a highly productive and complex coastal temperate forest environment in British Columbia, Canada, characterized by large volumes and multi-species and multi-age stand structures. To do so, a two-parameter Weibull probability density function (PDF) was used to describe the within-plot tree volume distribution. The ABA approach was then used to model the total plot volume and the two Weibull PDF parameters. Next, the parameters were used to calculate mean tree volume and derive the number of trees and the individual tree volume distribution. Tree count estimates were minimally biased with RMSE of 149 trees·ha−¹ or 24.4%. The volume distributions showed good agreement with reference data (mean Reynold’s error index = 71.7). We conclude that the approach was suitable for enriching ABA-derived forest stand attributes in the majority of the studied forest stands; however the accuracy was lower in multi-layered stands that had a multimodal individual tree volume distribution.
Demokratisch, partizipativ und simpel
Creators: name: Esselborn, Priya
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Es ist eine Geschichte, wie sie nur das Leben schreiben kann. Der Inder Shubhranshu Choudhary berichtete für die BBC, den Guardian und die Deutsche Welle 15 Jahre lang als Reporter aus Südasien, oft auch über Kriege und Konflikte. Doch es war der Kampfmaoistischer Rebellen gegen den indischen Staat, der ihn nicht losließ. Choudhary ging in Manendragarh zur Schule, im verarmten sogenannten Tribal Belt Zentralindiens; dort, wo noch besonders viele Stammesangehörige leben und wo den Maoisten große Sympathien entgegengebracht werden. 2004 änderte sich sein Leben schlagartig, als er ein Knight International Journalism Fellow wurde und, zusammen mit dem Amerikaner Bill Thies, CGNet gründete. Erst kürzlich wurde der 45-Jährige für seine Bemühungen, Stammesangehörigen in den entlegensten Gebieten Indiens eine Stimme zu geben, mit dem Google Digital Activism Award ausgezeichnet. Priya Esselborn hat mit ihm gesprochen.
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
title: An investigation of beauty and contemporary painting: Kant, Greenberg and Neuroscience
Creators: name: Banfield, Frank
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2004

description: My motivation for my research stems from my practice as an abstract painter whose interests centre on form, pictorial space, surface quality and beauty in painting. For a long time I have been interested in the need for both freedom and restraint in the production of painting. In my practice I use an unusual material, containing translucent silicon polymers, because it provides a beautiful surface quality for my work. This is difficult to use; it cannot be applied with brushes, and so I developed a simple semi-autonomous machine for producing an image on canvas. The machine enabled me to paint with silicon polymers, to achieve a beautiful surface, but it imposed very severe restraints on the form of the images. This difficulty compelled me to consider the problem of the conflict between autonomy and freedom at a practical level and that in turn led to a reflection on the nature of this problem at the intellectual and emotional level. This thesis is, in large part, my response to this conflict. I begin my enquiry with a critical discussion of Greenberg's essay Modernist Painting in terms of the Kantian authority that he claims for it. I then tum to a critique of that Kantian authority itself. Common to both Greenberg and Kant is systematic argumentation in terms of wholly autonomous entities that makes a resolution of the conflict between freedom and necessity very difficult. In the second half of the thesis I use the concepts and empirical observations of affective neuroscience (which does not deal in autonomous entities) to develop my own theory of the beautiful and to use it as a critical tool in relation to both Kantian aesthetics and my own painting practice.
Dose-response relationship between methadone dose and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive people who use illicit opioids
Creators: name: Lappalainen, Leslie
name: Nolan, Seonaid
name: Dobrer, Sabina
name: Puskas, Cathy M.
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Ahamad, Keith
name: Dong, Huiru
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Wood, Evan
name: Milloy, M-J
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2017

description: Background and Aims For HIV-positive individuals who use illicit opioids, engagement in methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) can contribute to improved HIV treatment outcomes. However, to our knowledge, the role of methadone dosing in adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has not yet been investigated. We sought to examine the relationship between methadone dose and ART adherence among a cohort of persons who use illicit opioids. Design and Setting: We used data from the ACCESS study, an ongoing prospective observational cohort of HIV-positive persons who use illicit drugs in Vancouver, Canada, confidentially linked to comprehensive HIV treatment data in a setting of universal no-cost medical care including medications. We evaluated the longitudinal relationship between methadone dose and the likelihood of ≥ 95% adherence to ART among ART-exposed participants during periods of engagement in MMT. Participants: 297 ART-exposed individuals on MMT were recruited between December 2005 and May 2013 and followed for a median of 42.1 months. Measurements: We measured methadone dose at ≥ 100 vs < 100 mg/day and the likelihood of ≥ 95% adherence to ART. Findings: In adjusted generalized estimating equation (GEE) analyses, MMT dose ≥ 100 mg/day was independently associated with optimal adherence to ART (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.08 – 1.77, p = 0.010). In a sub-analysis, we observed a dose-response relationship between increasing MMT dose and ART adherence (AOR = 1.06 per 20 mg/day increase, 95% CI: 1.00 – 1.12, p = 0.041). Conclusion: Among HIV-positive individuals in methadone maintenance therapy, those receiving higher doses of methadone (≥ 100 mg/day) are more likely to achieve ≥ 95% adherence to antiretroviral therapy than those receiving lower doses.
Staat im Staat im Staat
Creators: name: Imhasly, Bernard
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Das Attentat auf den pakistanischen Journalisten Hamid Mir zeigt, dass der demokratische Staat in Pakistan nur eine Fassade ist, hinter dem der „tiefe Staat“ ohne Furcht vor den demokratischen Institutionen operiert. Am 19. April 2014 geriet Hamid Mir, der bekannteste Fernsehjournalist Pakistans, auf dem Weg zur Arbeit in einen Hinterhalt. Sein Auto wurde von mehreren Seiten beschossen, und er wurde schwer verletzt. Aber er überlebte und beschuldigte noch von seinem Spitalbett aus den militärischen Geheimdienst ISI und dessen Chef persönlich als Hintermänner des Attentats.
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
Внезапное дистанционное обучение: первый месяц аврала (по результатам экспресс-исследования и экс- пресс-опроса): в 2 ч.
Creators: name: БЛИНОВ Владимир Игоревич
name: СЕРГЕЕВ Игорь Станиславович
name: ЕСЕНИНА Екатерина Юрьевна
Publisher: name: Профессиональное образование и рынок труда
Year: 2020
Subjects: цифровая дидактика
цифровая трансформация СПО
онлайн-курсы
дистанционное обучение

description: В статье представлены результаты экспресс-исследования, проведенного Научно-исследовательским центром профессионального образования и систем квалификаций ФИРО РАНХиГС по данным об особенностях организации онлайн-обучения в системе СПО, полученным в течение первых месяцев борьбы с пандемией коронавируса. В дальнейшем полученные выводы могут быть использованы в процессе цифровой трансформации профессионального образования, создания условий для совершенствования цифровых платформ обучения, реализации дистанционного обучения в профессиональных образовательных организациях и снятия препятствующих этому барьеров
Journalisten zwischen den Fronten
Creators: name: Al-Nasani, Ali
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Nur zu bereitwillig beugt sich die Regierung in Kathmandu dem Druck Chinas, wenn es um die Tibetfrage geht. Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit werden dadurch massiv beschnitten.
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
Puls der Nation überwachen
Creators: name: Medha
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Nach dem Riesenrummel der weltgrößten Wahlen ist die indische Regierung erstaunlich still geworden. Statt mit den Medien zusammenzuarbeiten, scheint die von Narendra Modi geführte neue Regierung lieber direkt durch die sozialen Netzwerke zu kommunizieren. Was bedeutet das für den traditionellen Journalismus und die Demokratie in Indien?
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
Warten auf Divakar
Creators: name: Upadhyaya, Sharad
name: Pandey, Heidemarie
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Der indische Autor Sharad Upadhyaya hat sich als Verfasser von Kurzgeschichten und satirischen Texten in Hindi einen Namen gemacht. Auch die Kurzgeschichte „Warten auf Divakar“ spielt mit satirischen Anklängen. Sie führt uns in das Milieu des Hindi-Literaturbetriebs. Ein alternder, frustrierter Schriftsteller ist glücklich, einen jungen Verehrer gefunden zu haben, der scheinbar seine Ideale teilt. Im Grunde lechzen aber beide nach Anerkennung und Ruhm. Und so nimmt die sich anbahnende „Guru-Schüler-Beziehung“ eine plötzliche Wende, die das Potenzial hat, das Verhältnis zwischen Lehrer und Belehrtem in sein Gegenteil zu verkehren. Die Kurzgeschichte greift damit eine Tendenz auf, die im modernen Indien immer häufiger zwischen den Generationen zu beobachten ist. (HP)
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on motor learning in healthy elderly individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Fusheng
name: Han, Yanbai
name: Wang, Hongli
name: Li, Yong
name: Tang, Dingyu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is widely used in motor recovery. Nevertheless, whether tDCS improves motor learning in healthy older adults is still controversial. This review aims to investigate the effectiveness of tDCS on motor learning in healthy elderly individuals. The PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science and Embase databases were initially searched from inception to December 5, 2022. The standard mean difference (SMD) with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were analysed via random-effect models. Compared with the sham group, no significant effects were found regarding improvement in motor learning based on the speed or accuracy of the task and reaction time for the tDCS intervention group. After subgroup analysis, a significant effect was found for improved motor learning based on reaction time in the primary motor cortex (M1)-cerebellar group. This review revealed that tDCS had no significant effect on improving the speed or accuracy of motor learning in healthy elderly adults. However, it has a significant effect on improving the motor learning ability based on the reaction time of the task (mainly referring to the tDCS stimulation position of M1 and cerebellar), although the results have obvious heterogeneity and uncertainty.
Literarische Indienbilder in der deutschen Literatur
Creators: name: Schein, Reinhold
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Während sich literarische Tendenzen des 19. Jahrhunderts auch im frühen 20. Jahrhundert fortsetzen, besonders die Auseinandersetzung mit der Person und Lehre Buddhas, aber auch die poetische Aneignung klassischer Sanskritdichtungen und die Faszination von der Exotik und Erotik Indiens, tritt im Jahrzehnt vor dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs ein neuer Megatrend hinzu: Deutschsprachige Literaten brechen zu ausgedehnten Bildungsreisen nach Indien auf. Ihre idealisierende Imagination bricht sich an der Wirklichkeit eines verarmten Landes unter Kolonialherrschaft. Die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit den Reiseerlebnissen findet Niederschlag in Form von Tagebüchern, Reiseberichten, Essays, vor allem aber in einer Vielzahl fiktionaler Texte in allen literarischen Gattungen. Auch in der Trivialliteratur halten nun indische Themen Einzug.
description: Südasien, Bd. 34 Nr. 3-4 (2014): Reporter ohne Freiheit
Ring opening of cyclopropylmethylidene with trimethylaluminum: Synthesis of 1-cyclopropylethyl ether as an acid labile protecting group for hydroxyl Protection and carbohydrate synthesis
Creators: name: Poudel, Madhav
name: Bustani, Zainab
name: Li, Xiaohua
name: Zhu, Jianglong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The 4,6-O-cyclopropylmethylidene (CPMD) moiety of a methyl α-glucoside derivative can be regioselectively opened by trimethylaluminum to afford a corresponding 1-cyclopropylethyl (CPE) ether at C4 and a free alcohol at C6. This 1-CPE ether was found to be an acid-labile hydroxyl protecting group and can be readily cleaved using 10% trifluoracetic acid in dichloromethane at room temperature. The utilization of 1-CPE ether as a hydroxyl protecting group has been demonstrated in the efficient synthesis of a trisaccharide.
title: Atlas des DOM. - La Réunion - Planche 28 : Industrie : notice, page 2 "II. Les principales industries (suite et fin)" et "III. Les problèmes de l'industrialisation de La Réunion"
Creators: name: Bertile, Wilfrid
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017
Subjects: usine
industrie
entreprise
activité industrielle
industrie agroalimentaire
industrie de transformation
industrie du bois
industrie métallurgique
secteur secondaire
culture industrielle
emploi
industrialisation
industrie du BTP
industrie mécanique
industrie électrique et électronique

description: Suite de la présentation des principales industries : les industries agricoles traditionnelles, l'industrie du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics et les industries de transformation. Présente les problèmes d'industrialisation de La Réunion. Un carton et un tableau appuient ces propos : un carton montre la répartition des entreprises du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics, un tableau donne la répartition des principales industries par secteur d'activité et le nombre de leurs employés. Une orientation bibliographique est fournie en fin de notice.
description: Relation: http://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/c7d32c57
description: Relation: http://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/edbd2e5b
description: Coverage: La Réunion
Emergency department use and hospitalizations among homeless adults with substance dependence and mental disorders
Creators: name: Cheung, Adrienne
name: Somers, Julian M.
name: Moniruzzaman, Akm
name: Patterson, Michelle
name: Frankish, Charles J.
name: Krausz, Michael
name: Palepu, Anita
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Homelessness, substance use, and mental disorders each have been associated with higher rates of emergency department (ED) use and hospitalization. We sought to understand the correlation between ED use, hospital admission, and substance dependence among homeless individuals with concurrent mental illness who participated in a ‘Housing First’ (HF) intervention trial. Methods The Vancouver At Home study consisted of two randomized controlled trials addressing homeless individuals with mental disorders who have “high” or “moderate” levels of need. Substance dependence was determined at baseline prior to randomization, using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview diagnostic tool, version 6.0. To assess health service use, we reviewed the number of ED visits and the number of hospital admissions based on administrative data for six urban hospitals. Negative binomial regression modeling was used to test the independent association between substance dependence and health service use (ED use and hospitalization), adjusting for HF intervention, age, gender, ethnicity, education, duration of lifetime homelessness, mental disorders, chronic health conditions, and other variables that were selected a priori to be potentially associated with use of ED services and hospital admission. Results Of the 497 homeless adults with mental disorders who were recruited, we included 381 participants in our analyses who had at least 1 year of follow-up and had a personal health number that could be linked to administrative health data. Of this group, 59% (n = 223) met criteria for substance dependence. We found no independent association between substance dependence and ED visits or hospital admissions [rate ratio (RR) = 0.85; 95% CI 0.62–1.17 and RR = 1.21; 95% CI 0.83–1.77, respectively]. The most responsible diagnoses (defined as the diagnosis that accounts for the length of stay) for hospital admissions were schizo-affective disorder, schizophrenia-related disorder, or bipolar affective disorder; collectively reported in 48% (n = 263) of admissions. Fifteen percent (n = 84) of hospital admissions listed substance dependence as the most responsible diagnosis. Conclusions Substance dependence was not independently associated with ED use or hospital admission among homeless adults with mental disorders participating in an HF trial. Hospital admissions among this cohort were primarily associated with severe mental disorders. Trial registration: ISRCTN57595077 and ISRCTN66721740
Multipartite quantum nonlocality using functional bell inequalities
Creators: name: He, Qiang
name: Cavalcanti, E. G.
name: Reid, Margaret
name: Drummond, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We show that arbitrary functions of continuous variables can be used to generate tests of local hidden variable theories. The effect of nonideal detectors and noise is included, revealing that optimized functional inequalities are robust.
Heimkehr
Creators: name: Wessler, Heinz Werner
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Premierminister Narendra Modi gibt sich als nationalpatriotischer Macher und wirtschaftsliberaler Modernisierer mit einem gesunden Sinn für die Sprache des kleinen Mannes. Seine Partei, die Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) steht auch neun Monate nach seiner siegreichen Wahl weiterhin voll hinter ihm, die internationale Politik hofiert ihn. Barack Obama sitzt demonstrativ zusammen mit Narendra Modi auf der Ehrentribüne bei der Feier des Verfassungstages am 26. Januar 2015. Modi, der aus einfachen Verhältnissen stammt und sich als junger Mann unter anderem als Teeverkäufer durchgeschlagen hat, kommt mit seinem Appell an Tugenden, Leistungswillen und Nationalbewusstsein bei unterschiedlichsten Schichten im Volk durchaus an. Im Hintergrund rüstet ein kämpferischer Hinduismus auf, der seine zum Teil abstrusen Ideen als nationale Anliegen darstellt. Es gibt aber auch vereinzelte Versuche von Seiten der BJP und der Regierung, auf die Minderheiten zuzugehen. Die religionspolitischen Signale, die von der Regierung Modi ausgehen, sind unterschiedlich, doch insgesamt weht den Minderheiten ein scharfer Wind ins Gesicht.
description: Südasien, Bd. 35 Nr. 1 (2015): Rechte einfordern!
New methyl compounds using the predicted data mining approach (PDMA), coupled with the biotransformation of Streptomyces peucetius O-methyltransferase
Creators: name: Chang, Te-Sheng
name: Ding, Hsiou-Yu
name: Wu, Jiumn-Yih
name: Lee, Chuan-Che
name: Yang, Ziting
name: Liu, Yu-Chuan
name: Wang, Tzi-Yuan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The structural modification of natural products using biotransformation is an effective way to produce organic compounds in a regioselective and/or stereoselective manner. O-methylation is a major modification in nature. The predicted data mining approach (PDMA) can efficiently screen out biotransformable precursor candidates to produce new (functional) compounds from thousands of derivatives. Herein, an O-methyltransferase (SpOMT2884) from Streptomyces peucetius (ATCC 27952 strain) was selected to biotransform eight precursors, screened from 4364 commercially available natural compounds via PDMA. Seven of the eight precursors (calceolarioside B, isomangiferin, mangiferin, methyl chlorogenate, plantagoside, protosappanin B, and wedelolactone) could be biotransformed from SpOMT2884. Fourteen biotransformed compounds were confirmed to be methyl products with a high-resolution mass analysis. Three methyl products from two precursors (plantagoside and protosappanin B) were selected for further production and identified using nucleic magnetic resonance spectral methods. One methyl product of protosappanin B was identified as 10-O-methyl protosappanin B (1), which gained potent anti-inflammatory activity (IC50 = 76.1 ± 4.7 μM) compared with its precursor, protosappanin B (IC50 = 157.7 ± 5.0 μM). In a case study, two methyl products of plantagoside were indeed identified as novel 4′-O-methyl plantagoside (3) and 5′-O-methyl plantagoside (4). This study demonstrates that PDMA is a good in silico approach for screening biotransformable precursor candidates for the in vitro production of new or bioactive compounds from numerous natural products.
Narziss und Goldmund
Creators: name: Imhasly, Bernard
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Es war ein „historischer Besuch“, bei der eingefleischte Ressentiments überwunden wurden. Aber was war echt und was eindrückliche Besuchsregie?
description: Südasien, Bd. 35 Nr. 1 (2015): Rechte einfordern!
„We demand system change, not climate change“
Creators: name: Littmann, Jakob
name: Littmann, Jakob
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Die „südasiatische Karawane für Ernährungssouveränität, Klima- und Gendergerechtigkeit“, ausgerichtet von der Bauernbewegung Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) und La Via Campesina, der internationalen Bewegung von Kleinbäuerinnen und Kleinbauern und Landarbeiter(inne)n, zog im November 2014 für drei Wochen insgesamt 1600 Kilometer von Bangladesch durch Westbengalen in Indien bis nach Nepal und hielt an jedem der zwölf Etappenorte Workshops, Informationsveranstaltungen und Demonstrationen ab.
description: Südasien, Bd. 35 Nr. 1 (2015): Rechte einfordern!
Data-driven HLS optimization for reconfigurable accelerators
Creators: name: Ferikoglou, Aggelos
name: Kakolyris, Andreas
name: Kypriotis, Vasilis
name: Masouros, Dimosthenis
name: Soudris, Dimitrios
name: Xydis, Sotirios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: High-Level Synthesis (HLS) has played a pivotal role in making FPGAs accessible to a broader audience by facilitating high-level device programming and rapid microarchitecture customization through the use of directives. However, manually selecting the right directives can be a formidable challenge for programmers lacking a hardware background. This paper introduces an ultra-fast, knowledge-based HLS design optimization method that automatically extracts and applies the most promising directive configurations to the original source code. This optimization approach is entirely data-driven, offering a generalized HLS tuning solution without reliance on Quality of Result (QoR) models or meta-heuristics. We design, implement, and evaluate our methodology using over 100 applications sourced from well-established benchmark suites and GitHub repositories, all running on a Xilinx ZCU104 FPGA. The results are promising, including an average geometric mean speedup of x7.2 and x1.35 compared to designer-optimized designs and resource over-provisioning strategies, respectively. Additionally, it demonstrates a high design feasibility score and maintains an average inference latency of 38ms. Comparative analysis with traditional genetic algorithm-based Design Space Exploration (DSE) methods and State-of-the-Art (SoA) approaches reveals that it produces designs of similar quality but at speeds 2-3 orders of magnitude faster. This suggests that it is a highly promising solution for ultra-fast and automated HLS optimization.
Elevated H3K18 acetylation in airway epithelial cells of asthmatic subjects
Creators: name: Stefanowicz, Dorota
name: Lee, Ja Y.
name: Lee, Kevin
name: Shaheen, Furquan
name: Koo, Hyun-Kyoung
name: Booth, Steven
name: Knight, Darryl
name: Hackett, Tillie-Louise
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Epigenetic adjustments of the chromatin architecture through histone modifications are reactive to the environment and can establish chromatin states which are permissive or repressive to gene expression. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression is cell specific and therefore, it is important to understand its contribution to individual cellular responses in tissues like the airway epithelium which forms the mucosal barrier to the inhaled environment within the lung. The airway epithelium of asthmatics is abnormal with dysregulation of genes such as epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), the ΔN isoform of the transcription factor p63 (ΔNp63), and signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6), integral to differentiation, proliferation, and inflammation. It is important to establish in diseases like asthma how histone modifications affect tissue responses such as proliferation and differentiation. Objectives: To characterize the global histone acetylation and methylation status in the epithelium of asthmatic compared to healthy subjects and to identify the impact of these variations on genes involved in epithelial functions. Methods: Whole lungs were obtained from healthy and asthmatic subjects (n = 6) from which airway epithelial cells (AECs) were isolated and airway sections were taken for analysis of histone lysine acetylation and methylation by immunohistochemistry. AECs were subjected to chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) using anti-H3K18ac and anti-H3K4me2 antibodies followed by RT-PCR targeting ΔNp63, EGFR, and STAT6. AECs were also treated with TSA and changes in ΔNp63, EGFR, and STAT6 expression were determined. Results: We identified an increase in the acetylation of lysine 18 on histone 3 (H3K18ac) and trimethylation of lysine 9 on histone 3 (H3K9me3) in the airway epithelium of asthmatic compared to healthy subjects. We found increased association of H3K18ac around the transcription start site of ΔNp63, EGFR, and STAT6 in AECs of asthmatics. However, we were unable to modify the expression of these genes with the use of the HDAC inhibitor TSA in healthy subjects. Discussion: The airway epithelium from asthmatic subjects displays increased acetylation of H3K18 and association of this mark around the transcription start site of ΔNp63, EGFR, and STAT6. These findings suggest a complex interaction between histone modifications and gene regulation in asthma.
Juristen auf den Barrikaden
Creators: name: Barhey, Rajkiran
name: Büns, Christina
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Das Recht auf ausreichende Ernährung ist noch nicht ausdrücklich in der Verfassung Bangladeschs verankert. Es gibt aber Gesetze, Regelungen und Programme, die für hungernde oder fehlernährte Bevölkerungsgruppen Abhilfe schaffen sollen. Das Nahrungssicherheitsgesetz und das dazugehörige Social Safety Net Programme zählen zu den jüngsten Versuchen der bangladeschischen Regierung, ihren Verpflichtungen nachzukommen. Die wirksame Umsetzung dieser Bestimmungen ist bisher allerdings weitgehend gescheitert. Daher nutzen Menschenrechtler nun verstärkt bestehende Rechtsmittel als Hebel, um das Recht auf Nahrung durchzusetzen, darunter das Recht auf Informationsfreiheit und das Recht auf Einklagung und gerichtliche Durchsetzung öffentlicher Anliegen. Bangladeschs Oberster Gerichtshof hat in mehreren Fällen bereits bahnbrechende Entscheidungen zum Recht auf Leben und Nahrungsmittelsicherheit getroffen. Inspiriert durch die Entwicklungen im Nachbarland Indien versuchen nun NRO in Kampagnen, neue Rechtsvorschriften und sogar Verfassungsänderungen in Bangladesch durchzusetzen, um den Menschenrechtsverletzungen auf diesem Gebiet ein Ende zu machen.
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The role of horse hemoglobin and horse heart myoglobin as green catalysts in the bioremediation of four classes of industrial textile dyes
Creators: name: Reynolds, Mark F.
name: Rao, Usha
name: Pogash, Sarah
name: Saul, Aiden
name: Barr, Grace
name: de Montellano, Enrique Ortiz
name: Falgie, Ben
name: Stefanic, Isabella
name: Barry, Daniel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Commercial textile dyes are a leading cause of industrial water pollution. We report here the results of the first study to assess the bioremediation potential of the heme proteins horse hemoglobin and horse heart myoglobin in the rapid decolorization of four common classes of synthetic dyes with hydrogen peroxide. The results demonstrate that horse hemoglobin or horse heart myoglobin, along with hydrogen peroxide, decolorize all four tested dyes, namely, the anthraquinone dye, RB-19; the azo dye, xylidine ponceau; the indigoid dye, indigo carmine; and the triarylmethane dye, malachite green. Michaelis-Menten kinetics indicate that horse hemoglobin decolorized all four dye types significantly faster and more efficiently than horse heart myoglobin, under a wide range of pH conditions (6.5 to 9.0) and hydrogen peroxide concentrations (5 to 60 mM), suggesting that the difference arises in part from the presence of four heme sites in tetrameric horse hemoglobin that are involved in the decolorization reaction, as compared to the single heme site in monomeric horse heart myoglobin. Horse hemoglobin and horse heart myoglobin both decolorized indigo carmine and the anthraquinone dye RB-19 significantly faster than the azo dye xylidine ponceau and the cationic triarylmethane dye malachite green, suggesting that the structures of the dyes and specific interactions between the dye and the heme protein also affect the observed decolorization rates. This study demonstrates the promise of these two heme proteins as potential green catalysts for decolorizing a wide range of industrial dyes and organic compounds in water treatment.
Erst wenn uns Land und Wald wieder gehören, gehört uns auch wieder unser Leben
Creators: name: Sarangi, Debjeet
name: --, Axaram
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Die weltweite indigene Bevölkerung wird auf 370 Millionen geschätzt. 104 Millionen davon sind Adivasis, die in Indien ihr Zuhause haben. Sie vertreten eine Vielfalt an Kulturen und Traditionen, die sie im Einklang mit ihrer Umwelt entwickelt haben. Ihre soziokulturellen und institutionellen Errungenschaften setzen sie dafür ein, ihren materiellen und sozialen Wohlstand zu sichern, was sich auch in ihrer speziellen Wirtschaftsweise ausdrückt. Materieller und sozialer Wohlstand werden hier durch Strategien der Kooperation und nicht des Wettbewerbs angestrebt.
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Verbündete im Staat gesucht
Creators: name: Ludermann, Bernd
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Acht Jahre nach dem Ende des Bürgerkriegs in Nepal fordern die Opfer Gerechtigkeit. Auch Menschenrechtsgruppen treten dafür ein, Kriegsverbrechen zu untersuchen und die Täter zu bestrafen. Doch die Führer der großen politischen Parteien wollen das verhindern.
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Es reicht nicht aus, ein Gesetz zu verabschieden
Creators: name: Ludwig, Diana
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Im Mai 2011 wurde in Nepal mit dem CBD & U Act (Caste-Based Discrimination and Untouchability (Offence and Punishment) Act) erstmals ein spezifisches Gesetz geschaffen, welches kastenbasierte Diskriminierung und die sogenannte Praxis der „Unberührbarkeit“ weitreichend kriminalisiert. Aktivisten wie Yam Bahadur Kisan haben lange Zeit für die Verabschiedung einer solchen Gesetzgebung gekämpft. In einer schriftlichen Befragung zu den Entwicklungen seit ihrer Einführung erläuterte er im Januar 2015, wie sie sich auf die Situation der Dalits in Nepal auswirkt, welche Probleme und Lücken weiterhin bestehen und was getan werden muss, um dem „sozialen Übel“ ein Ende zu bereiten.
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Young Academy Ireland Narrative CV Toolkit: Resources and Examples
Creators: name: Daly, Kevin G
name: Kämpfen, Fabrice
name: Müller, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Narrative CV

description: Young Academy Ireland hosted a workshop on narrative CVs in Royal Irish Academy, Dublin on January 22, 2025. This document stems from this event and includes examples of narrative CV snippets to guide researchers in crafting their own impactful narrative CVs in each of these four modules. It also features an exercise at the end to help apply these principles, as well as a curated list of useful resources to support further learning and development.
A highly efficient chemoenzymatic process to produce (R)-6,7-dihydroxygeraniol
Creators: name: Pienaar, Daniel P.
name: Mitra, Robin K.
name: Botes, Adriana L.
name: Brady, Dean
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The efficient asymmetric dihydroxylation of 6,7-epoxygeraniol was performed using a chemoenzymatic process employing a yeast epoxide hydrolase (EH) resolution stereoinversion step, followed by stereoretentive chemical hydrolysis of the remaining epoxide to produce (6 R)-6,7-dihydroxygeraniol at unprecedented high enantiometic excess (ee) (>97.5%) and high isolated yield (72 mol % overall yield over 5 steps from commercially available geraniol). The enzymatic process was completed within 2 h at 250 g/L substrate loading reaching > 49.5 mass % conversion of the racemic epoxide. The reaction was self-limiting and furnished both the homochiral (6 R)-triol and the residual (6 R)-epoxide at > 99% ee, due to enantio-inversion of the (6S)-epoxide. The (6 R)-epoxide was subsequently chemically hydrolysed, without first needing to separate the epoxide and triol products, to afford the desired (6 R)-triol product in >97.5% ee, at multigram scale. This chemoenzymatic procedure offers an excellent alternative to chemical asymmetric epoxidation or dihydroxylation for the production of enantiopure 6,7-dihydroxygeranyl and 6,7-epoxygeranyl type compounds in general. It exemplifies the benefits of using greener EH bioprocesses to produce such compounds in high ee’s and high isolated yields.
Georg Blume, Christoph Hein: Indiens verdrängte Wahrheit – Streitschrift gegen ein unmenschliches System; Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen: Indien: Ein Land und seine Widersprüche
Creators: name: Kirleis, Edda
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

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The wage effects of offshoring to the East and West: evidence from the German labor market
Creators: name: Koerner, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Offshoring
subject: Tasks
subject: Production chains
subject: Offshorabiliy
subject: Wages
subject: Globalization
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) Job complexity and (2) The characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the German manufacturing industries, information on a job's task bundle, and the evolution of imported inputs from low- or high-wage destinations, which are represented by Eastern and Western Europe, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring to the East entails the opposite effect. The overall effect adds up to a 4.2 percent increase in wages for jobs with high complexity, while low-complexity jobs see a 3.9 percent decrease in wages.
Etoposide induces cell death via mitochondrial-dependent actions of p53
Creators: name: Jamil, Sarwat
name: Lam, Irene
name: Majd, Maryam
name: Tsai, Shu-Huei
name: Duronio, Vincent
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Etoposide has been used clinically in cancer treatment, as well as in numerous research studies, for many years. However, there is incomplete information about its exact mechanism of action in induction of cell death. Methods: Etoposide was compared at various concentrations to characterize the mechanisms by which it induces cell death. We investigated its effects on mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) and focused on both transcriptional and non-transcriptional responses of p53. Results: Here we demonstrate that treatment of MEFs with higher concentrations of etoposide induce apoptosis and activate the transcription-dependent functions of p53. Interestingly, lower concentrations of etoposide also induced apoptosis, but without any evidence of p53-dependent transcription up-regulation. Treatment of MEFs with an inhibitor of p53, Pifithrin-α, blocked p53-dependent transcription but failed to rescue the cells from etoposide-induced apoptosis. Treatment with PES, which inhibits the mitochondrial arm of the p53 pathway inhibited etoposide-induced cell death at all concentrations tested. Conclusions: We have demonstrated that transcriptional functions of p53 are dispensable for etoposide-induced cell death. The more recently characterized effects of p53 at the mitochondria, likely involving its interactions with BCL-2 family members, are thus more important for etoposide’s actions.
Phase Symmetry and Criticality_ Structured Resonance at the Edge of Intelligence
Creators: name: Bostick, Devin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Nonlinear Dynamics
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Structured Resonance
subject: Critical Brain Hypothesis
subject: Phase Transitions
subject: Chirality
subject: Emergence
subject: CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems)

description: Main CODES Framework

Abstract

The Critical Brain Hypothesis (CBH) proposes that the brain’s optimal state for information processing emerges at a phase transition between subcritical and supercritical regimes—where order and disorder momentarily balance. While this insight has guided decades of cognitive and computational neuroscience, it remains observational: CBH identifies where complexity emerges, but not why it sustains, how it evolves, or what governs its recurrence across scales.

This paper introduces the Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems (CODES) as the structural resolution to that gap. CODES frames criticality not as a point, but as a chiral corridor of structured resonance—where asymmetrical feedback and prime-phase coherence dynamically stabilize emergent systems. Within this framework, intelligence is not an anomaly at the edge of chaos—it is the phase-locked optimization of dynamic asymmetry itself.

By aligning CBH with CODES, we reveal that the brain’s critical state is not merely a product of stochastic balance but an inevitable expression of structured resonance. We show that systems exhibiting intelligence—biological or artificial—are governed by the same underlying chirality that sustains coherent emergence across domains. The Resonance Intelligence Core (RIC) serves as a functional embodiment of this principle, architected to replicate and extend these dynamics in real time.

This synthesis suggests a decisive transition: from modeling the brain at the edge, to engineering systems within the corridor. From criticality as accident, to coherence as design.
Foreign direct investment and onshore employment dynamics: Evidence from German firms with affiliates in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Koerner, Konstantin
name: Moritz, Michael
name: Schäffler, Johannes
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: small and medium sized enterprises
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: coarsened exact matching
subject: multinational firms
subject: offshoring
subject: skills
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational enterprises (MNEs) that were active in the Czech Republic in 2010. Compared with former studies, the unique data set in this study includes a much higher fraction of small- and medium-sized firms and leads to strikingly different results for service MNEs. Applying coarsened exact matching for firms and an event-study design, we show that the domestic employment growth of MNEs decreases relative to that of non-MNEs and that the affected workers are those with low or medium educational attainment in the manufacturing sector and with medium or high educational attainment in the service sector. Regarding workers’ tasks, our results do not show that FDI affects routine jobs beyond a worker's skill level.
Mönche gegen Minderheiten und Frauen
Creators: name: Wijesinghe, Manuka
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Das besonders im Westen vorherrschende Klischee vom friedfertigen Buddhismus ist schon seit längerer Zeit angekratzt. Besonders seit dem Bürgerkrieg in Sri Lanka und der Flucht vieler Tamilen auch nach Deutschland hat die Sicht auf den Buddhismus als Religion der Sanftmut und Toleranz gelitten. Buddhistische Mönche spielten und spielen in Sri Lanka eine unrühmliche Rolle als Prediger von Gewalt gegen religiöse Minderheiten. Die unheilige Allianz zwischen Buddhismus und Nationalismus hat nicht nur zu einem jahrelangen Bürgerkrieg geführt, sondern auch zur Vernichtung kultureller und religiöser Vielfalt. Das Phänomen Buddhismus und Gewalt in Sri Lanka, im Besonderen Gewalt gegen Frauen, war das Thema eines Vortrags, den die Schriftstellerin Manuka Wijesinghe auf einer Tagung des Literaturforums Indien im Mai 2014 in Villigst gehalten hat. Ihre Thesen werfen ein neues Licht auf die aktuelle Situation in Sri Lanka.
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Zum fünften Jahrestag des Kriegsendes
Creators: name: Meier, Bettina
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Am 19. Mai 2009 endete in Sri Lanka der 26-jährige Bürgerkrieg der Regierungsarmee gegen die separatistische LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). Bettina Meier ist zu dieser Zeit in Sri Lankas Hauptstadt Colombo. Es kursieren viele Gerüchte, doch erst nach und nach wird ihr das Ausmaß der Gewalt bewusst. Ein persönlicher Bericht unserer Redaktionsmitarbeiterin Bettina Meier über die Wochen vor dem Kriegsende, den Triumphalismus und das Vergessen der zivilen Opfer.
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Wetterleuchten für Kriegsverbrecher
Creators: name: Rathgeber, Theodor
Publisher: name: Südasien
Year: 2021

description: Die Regierung Sri Lankas hat es lange Zeit verstanden, das ungeheure Ausmaß an Kriegsverbrechen und Menschenrechtsverletzungen mit der Opferrhetorik des vom Westen geknechteten und vom Terrorismus gegeißelten Dritte-Welt-Landes zu bemänteln. Nun ist der Schein auch bei den Staaten der Blockfreienbewegung dahin, und die Mechanismen der UNO zur Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen beginnen zu greifen, langsam zwar, aber zusehends umfassender. Der Autor hatte die Gelegenheit, diesen Prozess in Genf mit eigenen Augen zu verfolgen.
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