cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Predictive estimation of optimal signal strength from drones over IoT frameworks in smart cities
Creators: name: Hamood Alsamhi, Saeed
name: Almalki, Faris A
name: Ma, Ou
name: Samar Ansari, Mohammad
name: Lee, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: The integration of drones, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) domains can produce exceptional solutions to today complex problems in smart cities. A drone, which essentially is a data-gathering robot, can access geographical areas that are difficult, unsafe, or even impos?sible for humans to reach. Besides, communicating amongst themselves, such drones need to be in constant contact with other ground-based agents such as IoT sensors, robots, and humans. In this paper, an intelligent technique is proposed to predict the signal strength from a drone to IoT devices in smart cities in order to maintain the network connectivity, provide the desired quality of service (QoS), and identify the drone coverage area. An artificial neural network (ANN) based efficient and accurate solution is proposed to predict the signal strength from a drone based on several pertinent factors such as drone altitude, path loss, distance, transmitter height, receiver height, transmitted power, and signal frequency. Furthermore, the signal strength estimates are then used to predict the drone flying path. The findings show that the proposed ANN technique has achieved a good agreement with the validation data generated via simulations, yielding determination coefficient R 2 to be 0.96 and 0.98, for variation in drone altitude and distance from a drone, respectively. Therefore, the proposed ANN technique is reliable, useful, and fast to estimate the signal strength, determine the optimal drone flying path, and predict the next location based on received signal strength.
CyberUnits Brock 1.0 Documentation
Creators: name: Dietrich, Johannes Wolfgang Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biophysics
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60304 Ethology and Sociobiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 60113 Synthetic Biology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: 111602 Human Biophysics
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: 111603 Systems Physiology
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: 80102 Artificial Life
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling

description: CyberUnits is a library of cross-platform units for medical cybernetics and systems biology.

The Bricks collection is a set of Pascal units that provides a class library for rapid programming of high-performance computer simulations in life sciences. It also delivers a class library that facilitates the generation of visual block diagrams in software.
Borehole Measurements and Basal Velocity of Rhonegletscher: Analysis of Borehole Measurements and Determination of the Basal Sliding Velocity of Rhonegletscher
Creators: name: Gräff, Dominik
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Bauder, Andreas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017
Subjects: glacier basal sliding
ice flow
hot water drilling
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550
Earth sciences

description: Basal sliding of glaciers and the ratio between the sliding velocity at the bed-ice interface and the glacial surface motion is of critical importance for ice flow models. Although the surface velocities of glaciers can be measured easily by satellite, GPS or classic geodetic methods, the sliding velocity at the ice- bedrock interface is difficult to determine experimentally.
During a field campaign on the tounge of Rhonegletscher in August 2017, we drilled three boreholes from the glacier surface to the bed by using a hot water drill. For one borehole, fine-grained sediments that were swirled up by the turbulent outflow of the hot water drill, settled on the bottom of the borehole and thus made it possible to observe the glacier bed visually with a borehole camera. Pictures of the glacier bed taken with the borehole camera show a hard bedrock partially covered by a thin till layer of a few centemeters thickness. Isolated and repeated measurements within a ten-day period allow estimation of basal sliding velocity and sliding direction of the glacier.
Here we present the deduced sliding velocity vector together with data from surface motion measurements at four differential GPS stations in the neighborhood of the borehole. We discuss these results in terms of general glacier dynamics and offer an outlook on future applications of our approach.
High Frequency Pressure Oscillations at the Bed of Rhonegletscher
Creators: name: Gräff, Dominik
name: Lipovsky, Bradley P.
name: Walter, Fabian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: crack waves
Krauklis waves
Subglacial drainage system
seismic resonance
Glacier bedrock
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550
Earth sciences

description: Resonating water-filled fractures in glaciers have been observed repeatedly by their emission of elastic waves with passive seismic instrumentation. At the ice-bedrock interface of glaciers, such hydraulic fractures are often assumed to take the form of thin sheets of water.
During a field campaign on the tounge of Rhonegletscher in August 2017, we drilled three boreholes to the glacier bed by using a hot water drill. With a kHz-sampled pressure sensor located approximately one meter above the bedrock, we measured crack waves and sound waves originating from a resonating water-filled fracture at the ice-bedrock interface. Two types of resonance modes were observed: short-lasting oscillations with durations of a few seconds, and long-lasting ones with duration of about one minute.Here we estimate the aperture and length of the resonating hydraulic fracture using both its frequency and attenuation caracteristics.
Sexual conflict and the evolution of asexuality at low population densities
Creators: name: Gerber, Nina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Theories for the evolution of sex rarely include facultatively sexual reproduc- tion. Sexual harassment by males is an underappreciated factor: it should at first sight increase the relative advantage of asexual reproduction by increasing the cost of sex. However, if the same females can perform either sexual or asexual life cycles, then females trying to reproduce asexually may not escape harassment. If resisting male harassment is costly, it might be beneficial for a female to accept a mating and undertake a sexual life cycle rather than ‘insist’ on an asexual one. We investigate the effects of sexual harassment on the maintenance of sex under different population densities. Our model shows that resisting matings pays off at low population densities, which leads to the complete extinction of males, and thus to the evolution of comple- tely asexual populations. Facultative sex persists in a narrow range of slightly higher densities. At high densities, selection favours giving up resisting male mating attempts and thus sexual reproduction takes over. These interactions between the outcomes of sexual conflict and population density suggest an explanation for the rarity of facultative sex and also patterns of geographical parthenogenesis, where marginal environments with potentially low densities are associated with asexuality.
Development of a multi-method chronology spanning the Last Glacial Interval from Orakei maar lake, Auckland, New Zealand
Creators: name: Peti, Leonie
name: Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E.
name: Hopkins, Jenni L
name: Nilsson, Andreas
name: Fujioka, Toshiyuki
name: Fink, David
name: Mifsud, Charles
name: Christl, Marcus
name: Muscheler, Raimund
name: Augustinus, Paul C.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Northern New Zealand is an important site for understanding Last Glacial Interval (LGI) paleoclimate dynamics, since it is influenced by both tropical and polar climate systems which have varied in relative strength and timing of associated changes. The Auckland Volcanic Field maar lakes preserve these climatic influences on the regional paleoenvironment, as well as past volcanic eruptions, in their sedimentary infill. The sediment sequence infilling Orakei maar lake is continuous, laminated, high-resolution and provides a robust archive from which to investigate the dynamic nature of the northern New Zealand climate system over the LGI. Here we present the chronological framework for the Orakei maar sediment sequence. Our chronology was developed combining Bayesian age modelling of combined radiocarbon ages, tephrochronology of known-age rhyolitic tephra marker layers, 40Ar/39Ar-dated eruption age of a local basaltic volcano, luminescence dating (using post infrared-infrared stimulated luminescence, or pIR-IRSL), and the timing of the Laschamp paleomagnetic excursion. We also investigated the application of meteoric (cosmogenic) Beryllium-10 variability to improve the age-depth model by complementing relative paleointensity measurements. However, the results were apparently influenced by some unaccounted catchment process and unable to reach satisfactory interpretation, apart from confirming the presence of the Laschamp excursion, and therefore the 10Be data are not used in the production of the final age model. We have integrated our absolute chronology with tuning of the relative paleointensity record of the Earth’s magnetic field to a global reference curve (PISO-1500).

The maar-forming phreatomagmatic eruption of the Orakei maar is now dated to > 130,120 yr (95 % confidence range 128,665 to 131,560 yr). Our new chronology facilitates high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction for northern New Zealand spanning the last ca. 130,000 years for the first time as most NZ records that spall all or parts of the LGI are fragmentary, low-resolution and poorly dated. Providing this chronological framework for LGI climate events inferred from the Orakei sequence is of paramount importance in the context of identification of leads and lags in different components of the Southern Hemisphere climate system as well as identification of Northern Hemisphere climate signals.
description: Geochronology Discussions
description: ISSN:2628-3735
Circulation timescales of Atlantic Waters in the Arctic Ocean determined from anthropogenic radionuclides
Creators: name: Wefing, Anne-Marie
name: Casacuberta, Núria
name: Christl, Marcus
name: Gruber, Nicolas
name: Smith, John N.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: The inflow of Atlantic Waters to the Arctic Ocean is a crucial determinant for the future trajectory of this ocean basin with regard to warming, loss of sea-ice and ocean acidification. Yet many details of the fate and circulation of these waters within the Arctic remain unclear. Here, we use the two long-lived artificial radionuclides 129I and 236U together with two tracer age models to constrain the pathways and circulation times of Atlantic waters in the surface and in the mid-depth Atlantic layer (250–800 m depth). We thereby benefit from the unique time-dependent tagging of Atlantic waters by these two isotopes. In the surface layer, a binary mixing model yields tracer ages of Atlantic Waters between 9–16 years in the Amundsen Basin, 12–17 years in the Fram Strait (East Greenland Current) and up to 20 years in the Canada Basin, reflecting the pathways of Atlantic Waters through the Arctic and their exiting through Fram Strait. In the mid-depth Atlantic layer (250 to 800 m), the transit time distribution (TTD) model yields mean ages in the central Arctic ranging between 15 and 65 years, while the mode ages representing the most probable ages of the TTD range between 2 and 30 years. The estimated mean ages are overall in good agreement with previous studies using artificial radionuclides or ventilation tracers. Although we find the overall flow to be dominated by advection, the shift of the mode age towards a younger age compared to the mean age reflects also the presence of a substantial amount of lateral mixing. For applications interested in how fast signals are transported into the Arctic's interior, the mode age appears to be a suitable measure. The short mode ages obtained in this study suggest that changes in the properties of Atlantic Waters will quickly spread through the Arctic Ocean and can lead to relatively rapid changes throughout the upper water column in future years.
description: Ocean Science Discussions
description: ISSN:1812-0806
description: ISSN:1812-0822
Morphological study of embryonic Chd8+/- mouse brains using light-sheet microscopy
Creators: name: Gómez, Harold F.
name: Hodel, Leonie
name: Michos, Odyssé
name: Iber, Dagmar
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Light-sheet microscopy
Chd8
Mouse brains
Autism
Tissue clearing
Morphometry
Lewis' Law
Aboave-Weaire’s Law

description: Objective: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) encompasses a group of neurodevelopmental conditions that remain poorly understood due to their genetic complexity. CHD8 is a risk allele strongly associated with ASD, and heterozygous Chd8 loss-of-function mice have been reported to exhibit macrocephaly in early postnatal stages. In this work, we sought to identify measurable brain alterations in early embryonic development. Results: We performed light-sheet fluorescence microscopy imaging of N-cadherin stained and optically cleared Chd8+/- and wild-type mouse brains at embryonic day 12.5 (E12.5). We report a detailed morphometric characterization of embryonic brain shapes and cortical neuroepithelial apical architecture. While Chd8+/- characteristic expansion of the forebrain and midbrain was not observed this early in embryogenesis, a tendency for a decreased lateral ventricular sphericity and an increased intraocular distance in Chd8+/- brains was found compared to controls. This study advocates the use of high-resolution microscopy technologies and multi-scale morphometric analyses of target brain regions to explore the etiology and cellular basis of Chd8 haploinsufficiency.
description: bioRxiv
Teachers' Experiences in Managing Pupils with Disabilities in Tanzania Inclusive Primary Schools: Challenges and Coping Strategies
Creators: name: Samwel, Lilian
name: Pembe, Alphoncina
name: Basela, January
Publisher: name: Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language
Year: 2025

description: This study assessed teachers' experiences in managing pupils with disabilities in inclusive primary schools in Muleba District in Tanzania. Specifically, the study assessed challenges faced by teachers in managing pupils with disabilities and strategies to overcome them. The study employed a qualitative approach with a case study design. Data were collected through interviews and observation and analysed through thematic analysis. A purposive non-probability sampling technique selected three schools from three wards. Ten participants appeared in each selected school. The findings revealed that most teachers faced challenges in managing pupils with disabilities in inclusive primary schools. These challenges were pupils’ isolation that caused teachers to face difficulty in teaching them, drop out, insufficient professional teachers, shortage of teaching and learning materials, and poor infrastructure. Educating teachers and society at large on inclusive education and improvisation of teaching aids were adopted by the teachers to manage pupils with disabilities in the schools. It was recommended that the government provide professional development to teachers on inclusive education. Moreover, in collaboration with the school management and education stakeholders, the government has to promote inclusive education practices and create inclusive learning environments for pupils with disabilities in primary schools.
description: Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language, Online First
Plant breeding - from cross breeding to genome editing
Creators: name: Grossniklaus, Ueli
name: Messmer, Monika
name: Peter, Roland
name: Romeis, Jörg
name: Studer, Bruno
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Climate change, emerging pests and scarce resources – sustainable production of sufficient food of high quality requires plant varieties to be continuously adapted to current and future production systems. Regardless of the crop, the basic principle of plant breeding always remains the same: it is based on genetic diversity, which either arose naturally or was created by humans using various methods. The resulting plants are then characterised in detail, evaluated in the field over many years, and ultimately registered in the catalogue of varieties after being officially approved. Over the past decades, the range of methods available for plant breeding has continually been extended. Mutation breeding can be used to increase genetic diversity, and genetic engineering makes it possible to introduce genes across the species barrier. Genome editing, the latest set of tools, can be used to make directed changes at a specific position in the genome of a crop species.
description: Swiss Academies Factsheets, 15 (3)
Marine boundary layer stable water isotope variability in the Southern Ocean: An investigation using the regional COSMOiso model
Creators: name: Jansing, Lukas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/500
subject: Natural sciences
subject: FOS: Natural sciences

description: The Southern Ocean overturning strength constitutes an essential control mecha- nism for future anthropogenic carbon uptake. The atmospheric water cycle, in turn, exerts an influence on upwelling intensity via buoyancy forcing induced by fresh- water fluxes. Stable water isotopes (H216O, H218O, HDO) are a powerful tool to constrain processes of the atmospheric water cycle and can therefore help to gain a more comprehensive picture on the Southern Ocean region. In order to fully ex- ploit this potential, simulations with the isotope-enabled, regional numerical model COSMOiso are combined with isotope and meteorological measurements of high temporal resolution, conducted during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in austral summer 2016/2017. For the first time, the COSMOiso model per- formance with respect to meteorology and stable water isotopes is assessed in the Southern Hemisphere, along Leg 1 and Leg 2 of ACE. The validation confirms a re- liable representation of meteorology and isotope processes over the open ocean, but reveals model shortcomings with respect to isotopic variability in proximity to the Antarctic continent. Non-fractionating snow-atmosphere interactions are identified as a main factor limiting the model performance. Consequently, the implementa- tion of equilibrium fractionation during surface snow sublimation and deposition improves the skill of COSMOiso significantly (correlation increases from 0.1 to 0.7 for d-variables). This points out the potential of further model development in order to reproduce the entire spectrum of processes a↵ecting stable water isotopic variabil- ity in polar regions with COSMOiso. Furthermore, a newly developed Lagrangian budget model for isotopes and humidity is presented. The model framework incorpo- rates the processes of horizontal advection, ocean evaporation and marine boundary layer mixing. In a first, exploratory case study, the air parcel-based box model is used to study the isotopic signal along trajectories associated with a marine cold air outbreak. By comparing the box model simulations to COSMOiso, entrainment of depleted, free-tropospheric air is identified as an important factor, besides ocean evaporation, influencing the observed isotopic variability during the event. Down- ward mixing of air masses from the lower troposphere e ciently replaces the origi- nal Antarctic moisture along the transport pathway. The box model framework is a promising starting point for future e↵orts to further constrain the marine boundary layer moisture budget.
Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
Creators: name: Troncoso, Carmela
name: Payer, Matthias
name: Hubaux, Jean-Pierre
name: Salathé, Marcel
name: Larus, James
name: Bugnion, Edouard
name: Lueks, Wouter
name: Stadler, Theresa
name: Pyrgelis, Apostolos
name: Antonioli, Daniele
name: Barman, Ludovic
name: Chatel, Sylvain
name: Paterson, Kenneth
name: Capkun, Srdjan
name: Basin, David
name: Beutel, Jan
name: Jackson, Dennis
name: Roeschlin, Marc
name: Leu, Patrick
name: Preneel, Bart
name: Smart, Nigel
name: Abidin, Aysajan
name: Gürses, Seda
name: Veale, Michael
name: Cremers, Cas
name: Backes, Michael
name: Tippenhauer, Nils O.
name: Binns, Reuben
name: Cattuto, Ciro
name: Barrat, Alain
name: Fiore, Dario
name: Barbosa, Manuel
name: Oliveira, Rui
name: Pereira, José
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: This document describes and analyzes a system for secure and privacy-preserving proximity tracing at large scale. This system, referred to as DP3T, provides a technological foundation to help slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by simplifying and accelerating the process of notifying people who might have been exposed to the virus so that they can take appropriate measures to break its transmission chain. The system aims to minimise privacy and security risks for individuals and communities and guarantee the highest level of data protection. The goal of our proximity tracing system is to determine who has been in close physical proximity to a COVID-19 positive person and thus exposed to the virus, without revealing the contact's identity or where the contact occurred. To achieve this goal, users run a smartphone app that continually broadcasts an ephemeral, pseudo-random ID representing the user's phone and also records the pseudo-random IDs observed from smartphones in close proximity. When a patient is diagnosed with COVID-19, she can upload pseudo-random IDs previously broadcast from her phone to a central server. Prior to the upload, all data remains exclusively on the user's phone. Other users' apps can use data from the server to locally estimate whether the device's owner was exposed to the virus through close-range physical proximity to a COVID-19 positive person who has uploaded their data. In case the app detects a high risk, it will inform the user.
description: arXiv
“Colored raindrops from the sky” An entry in JMM Case Reports Image of the Month Competition
Creators: name: Ng, Wenfa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Mention microbes and people would naturally become cautious or afraid. But, microbes are everywhere: in air, on and in the soil, on various surfaces and even in water if we left it exposed on our desk for too long. Most importantly, many microorganisms are harmless and some are even beneficial or essential to life on Earth. The standard approach for culturing microorganisms is the solid medium (or agar medium) method where microorganisms are spread on agar with nutrients formulated to facilitate the growth of more microbes. By their name, microorganisms are invisible to the naked eye and could only be seen under a microscope. Thus, expansion of cell numbers through growth on solid medium is an indirect method for visualizing microbes since each individual microbe cell give rise to a visible colony. And, they exhibit myriad colors through the pigments they secrete. Moreover, when contrasted with the colorless background of the formulated agar medium they grew on, the microorganism colonies appeared to be “colored raindrops from the sky”. Taking a different perspective in observing things around us often give us a refreshing take on a mundane topic that enables us to open up a problem previously not obvious or could not be solved. Similarly, in medicine, revisiting an old assumption and taking a fresh look at the circumstances can help unlock a solution path to a problem not anticipated or encountered. This is a repost of an entry to January 2014 JMM Case Reports Image of the Month competition and the original photo is appended. The link to the entry is: http://www.microbiologysociety.org/publications/journals/jmm-case-reports-image-gallery/index.cfm
Emergent behavioral organization in heterogeneous groups of a social insect
Creators: name: Ulrich, Yuko
name: Kawakatsu, Mari
name: Tokita, Christopher K.
name: Saragosti, Jonathan
name: Chandra, Vikram
name: Tarnita, Corina E.
name: Kronauer, Daniel J.C.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: collective behavior
division of labor
self-organization
response threshold model
clonal raider ant

description: The composition of social groups has profound effects on their function, from collective decision-making to foraging efficiency. But few social systems afford sufficient control over group composition to precisely quantify its effects on individual and collective behavior. Here we combine experimental and theoretical approaches to study the effect of group composition on individual behavior and division of labor (DOL) in a social insect. Experimentally, we use automated behavioral tracking to monitor 120 colonies of the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, with controlled variation in three key correlates of social insect behavior: genotype, age, and morphology. We find that each of these sources of heterogeneity generates a distinct pattern of behavioral organization, including the amplification or dampening of inherent behavioral differences in colonies with mixed types. Theoretically, we use a well-studied model of DOL to explore potential mechanisms underlying the experimental findings. We find that the simplest implementation of this model, which assumes that heterogeneous individuals differ only in response thresholds, could only partially recapitulate the empirically observed patterns of behavior. However, the full spectrum of observed phenomena was recapitulated by extending the model to incorporate two factors that are biologically meaningful but theoretically rarely considered: variation among workers in task performance efficiency and among larvae in task demand. Our results thus show that different sources of heterogeneity within social groups can generate different, sometimes non-intuitive, behavioral effects, but that relatively simple models can capture these dynamics and thereby begin to elucidate the basic organizational principles of DOL in social insects.
description: bioRxiv
Methods and Concepts of Land Management: Diversity, Changes and New Approaches
Creators: name: Hepperle, Erwin
name: Paulsson, Jenny
name: Maliene, Vida
name: Mansberger, Reinfried
name: Auzins, Armands
name: Valciukiene, Jolanta
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: European Academy of Land Use and Development (EALD)
description: ISBN:978-3-7281-4026-5
description: ISBN:978-3-7281-4027-2
Virtual fatigue diagnostics of wake-affected wind turbine via Gaussian Process Regression
Creators: name: Avendaño Valencia, Luis David
name: Abdallah, Imad
name: Chatzi, Eleni
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Bayesian Calibration
fatigue
Gaussian Process Regression
Sensitivity analysis
uncertainty
Virtual sensing
wake
wind turbine

description: We propose a data-driven model to predict the short-term fatigue Damage Equivalent Loads (DEL) on a wake-affected wind turbine based on wind field inflow sensors and/or loads sensors deployed on an adjacent up-wind wind turbine. Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) with Bayesian hyperparameters calibration is proposed to obtain a surrogate from input random variables to output DELs in the blades and towers of the up-wind and wake-affected wind turbines. A sensitivity analysis based on the hyperparameters of the GPR and Kullback-Leibler divergence is conducted to assess the effect of different input on the obtained DELs. We provide qualitative recommendations for a minimal set of necessary and sufficient input random variables to minimize the error in the DEL predictions on the wake-affected wind turbine. Extensive simulations are performed comprising different random variables, including wind speed, turbulence intensity, shear exponent and inflow horizontal skewness. Furthermore, we include random variables related to the blades lift and drag coefficients with direct impact on the rotor aerodynamic induction, which governs the evolution and transport of the meandering wake. In addition, different spacing between the wind turbines and Wöhler exponents for calculation of DELs are considered. The maximum prediction normalized mean squared error, obtained in the tower base DELs in the fore-aft direction of the wake affected wind turbine, is less than 4%. In the case of the blade root DELs, the overall prediction error is less than 1%. The proposed scheme promotes utilization of sparse structural monitoring (loads) measurements for improving diagnostics on wake-affected turbines.
description: engrXiv
PUMA Repository HL7 engine 2.0 Documentation
Creators: name: Dietrich, Johannes Wolfgang Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Software
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111711 Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)

description: The HL7 engine is a collection of Pascal classes that provide functions for parsing, compiling and storing HL7 messages. Additionally, it supports reading and writing messages as files or streams.
PUMA Repository UnitConverter 1.3 Documentation
Creators: name: Dietrich, Johannes Wolfgang Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Computer Software
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80204 Mathematical Software

description: The Unit Converter is a Pascal unit that provides functions for parsing measurements consisting of measurement values and units. It also supports conversion of measurements from one unit to another one.
PSC Discovery Workshops, Forschungsheft #6 Adaptive Evolution. Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center.
Creators: name: Shimizu, K. Kentaro
name: Shimizu-Inatsugi, Rie
name: Mohn, Lucas
name: Rapo, Carole
name: Faller, Patrick
name: Paschke, Melanie
name: Dahinden, Manuela
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: In diesem Workshop untersuchen Schülerinnen und Schüler, wie sich Pflanzen an lokale Umweltbedingungen anpassen. Sie verstehen, wann und wie Adaptive Evolution stattfindet und wie Unterschiede im Genotyp und im Phänotyp zu erkennen sind. Am Beispiel von drei Schaumkraut-Arten, bestimmen die Workshop-Teilnehmenden die phänotypische Plastizität der Stomatadichte. Eine Führung durch das Functional Genomics Center Zürich gibt einen Einblick in die Arbeit der Forschenden.
description: Forschungsheft, 6
description: ISBN:978-3-906327-85-3
Plant Science Discovery Workshops: Lerneinheit #6 Adaptive Evolution. Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center
Creators: name: Faller, Patrick
name: Paschke, Melanie
name: Rapo, Carole
name: Schumacher, Ralph
name: Dahinden, Manuela
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Die Lerneinheit «Adaptive Evolution» besteht aus drei Teilen. Der erste und dritte Teil sind theoretische Lektionen, welche den zweiten praktischen Teil sinnvoll einbetten und die Relevanz des Themas verdeutlichen.
description: Lerneinheit, 6
PUMA Repository UnitConverter Documentation 1.3
Creators: name: Dietrich, Johannes Wolfgang Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Computer Software
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80204 Mathematical Software

description: The Unit Converter is a Pascal unit that provides functions for parsing measurements consisting of measurement values and units. It also supports conversion of measurements from one unit to another one.
PUMA Repository HL7 engine Documentation
Creators: name: Dietrich, Johannes Wolfgang Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Software
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111711 Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)

description: The HL7 engine is a collection of Pascal classes that provide functions for parsing, compiling and storing HL7 messages. Additionally, it supports reading and writing messages as files or streams.
The detection and prevention of adverse drug events in nursing home and home care patients: Study protocol of a quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Langenberger, Benedikt
name: Baier, Natalie
name: Hanke, Frank-Christian
name: Fahrentholz, Jacqueline
name: Gorny, Christina
name: Sehlen, Stephanie
name: Reber, Katrin Christiane
name: Liersch, Sebastian
name: Radomski, Ralf
name: Haftenberger, Jens
name: Heppner, Hans Jürgen
name: Busse, Reinhard
name: Vogt, Verena
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: adverse drug events
subject: home care intervention
subject: hospital admissions
subject: nursing home intervention
subject: quasi-experimental study design

description: Aim: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of an intervention facilitating the early detection of adverse drug events through the means of health professional training and the application of a digital screening tool. Design: Multi-centred non-randomized controlled trial from August 2018 to March 2020 including 65 nursing homes or home care providers. Methods: We aim to estimate the effect of the intervention on the rate of adverse drug events as primary outcome through a quasi-experimental empirical study design. As secondary outcomes, we use hospital admissions and falls. All outcomes will be measured on patient-month level. Once the causal effect of the intervention is estimated, cost-effectiveness will be calculated. For cost-effectiveness, we include all patient costs observed by the German statutory health insurance. Results: The results of this study will inform about the cost-effectiveness of the optimized drug supply intervention and provide evidence for potential reimbursement within the German statutory health insurance system.
Interconnectivity explains high canalicular network robustness between neighboring osteocyte lacunae in human bone
Creators: name: Bortel, Emely
name: Grover, Liam M.
name: Eisenstein, Neil
name: Seim, Christian
name: Suhonen, Heikki
name: Pacureanu, Alexandra
name: Westenberger, Peter
name: Raum, Kay
name: Langer, Max
name: Peyrin, Francoise
name: Addison, Owen
name: Hesse, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: bone mineral homeostasis
subject: canalicular network
subject: osteocyte lacunar networks
subject: synchrotron nano computed tomography

description: Osteocytes are the most frequent bone cells connected with each other through cell processes within tiny tubular-shaped canaliculi. The so-called osteocyte lacunar-canalicular network (LCN) plays a crucial role in bone remodeling and mineral homeostasis. Given the critical nature of these functions, it is herein hypothesized that the LCN must be structurally “overengineered” to provide network resilience. This hypothesis is tested by characterizing canalicular networks in human bone at the fundamental “building-block” level of LCN formed by two adjacent osteocytes. As the hierarchical micro- and macroscale structure of bone is influenced by anatomical location, subjected loads, and growth rate, three distinct tissue types are studied. These include femur, jaw, and heterotopic ossification (HO), a rapidly forming mineralized tissue found in soft tissue compartments following severe trauma. It is found that the LCNs at the fundamental level are composed of hundreds of canalicular segments but of only few separated groups of linked canaliculi (canalicular clusters), resulting in a strongly pronounced interconnectivity. Fluid permeability simulations on intact and artificially altered LCN suggest that the function of the LCN is not only to optimize rapid and efficient access to bone mineral, but also to maintain high permeability when inevitable local interruption of canaliculi occurs.
Romance gracioso y entretenido en que se refiere el testamento que hizo el maldito Judas: Digital edition
Creators: name: Betti Miguel
name: Leblanc Elina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel, published by the Andalusian printer José María Moreno (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool Transkribus (PAGE-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Randkulturen: Lese- und Gebrauchsspuren in Autorenbibliotheken des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Jaspers, Anke
name: Kilcher, Andreas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Einlagen, Randbemerkungen, An- und Unterstreichungen, selbst Eselsohren und andere physische Gebrauchsspuren, lassen Schlussfolgerungen über die Lektüre- und Schreibpraxis von Autorinnen und Autoren zu. Meist geben sie Auskunft darüber, mit welcher Intensität, mit welchen Interessen und unter welchen intellektuellen Voraussetzungen Werke gelesen wurden. Oft aber verschließen sie sich dem Verständnis. Erst in der Zusammenschau mit Briefen oder Manuskripten wird ihre Bedeutung ersichtlich, manchmal lässt sich ihr Weg ins Werk verfolgen. Lese- und Gebrauchsspuren sind Zeichen am Rande des Textes, denen Aufmerksamkeit gebührt und deren poetologischem und epistemologischem Potential sich dieses Buch widmet. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich sowohl in allgemeinen Perspektiven theoretisch als auch an spezifischen Beispielen exemplarisch mit dem Zusammenhang von Lesen und Schreiben, dem Kreislauf der Rezeption und Produktion von Büchern, wie er sich in Autorenbibliotheken abbildet.  Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Anna Busch, Birgit Dahlke, Yahya Elsaghe, Anke Jaspers, Caroline Jessen, Andreas Kilcher, Jane Newman, Magnus Wieland und Uwe Wirth.
description: ISBN:978-3-8353-3667-4
New integrated approaches to control Bemisia spp. gr. tabaci and their related virus problems on vegetable crops
Creators: name: Rapisarda, Carmelo
name: Farina, Alessia
name: Suma, Pompeo
name: Cocuzza, Giuseppe
name: Di Domenico, Marco
name: Girgenti, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This poster was presented at the XV International Agriculture Symposium “AGROSYM 2024”, which took part from 10–13 October 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.The H2020 project VIRTIGATION - Emerging viral diseases in tomatoes and cucurbits: Implementation of mitigation strategies for durable disease management - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000570.
Proboscis search & rescue. Worm-like Softrobot for Search and Rescue Missions: Focusproject, Final Report
Creators: name: Hadzic, Amir
name: Adzic, Andrej
name: Braun, Björn
name: Taubner, Felix
name: Häseli, Jamina
name: Disse, Luca
name: Siegwart, Malin
name: Unternährer, Timo
name: Felder, Tom
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: robotics
Pneumatics
Soft robotics
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/620
Engineering & allied operations

description: Even though earthquakes are older than mankind, rescue equipment is still quite
rudimentary. Currently, buried victims can be located with dogs or drones, but
to reach them, large amounts of debris and other obstacles have to be removed
carefully. This can take several days as heavy machinery and a lot of manpower is
required.
The goal of Focus Project Proboscis is to shortcut the rescue process and work on
a physical solution to establish an early contact to buried victims, with the aim to
supply them with water and liquid medicine if needed.
A challenge consisting of multiple obstacles was defined to simulate a realistic environment after a natural catastrophe. In order to satisfy all conditions, a slim,
lightweight system was required. It has to be able to push itself forward in rough
terrain, while still being flexible enough to maneuver through tight spaces. The
solution that was developed was a soft, worm-like robot consisting of an arrangement of two different modules, the drive modules and the flexible segments. To
reduce weight, the power sources for actuation were placed in the operation base.
The 3D printed, flexible segments are actuated pneumatically from the base and
allow steering around tight curves. With four drive modules, the robot can generate
forward propulsion regardless of the orientation.
This project lays a good foundation for further development. The main focus was
placed on proof of concept, and it is achieved in the sense that the robot can already
overcome a lot of real world obstacles. The experience and knowledge gathered
throughout the development process can be of good use for future projects dealing
with similar search and rescue robots.
SIPEC: the deep-learning Swiss knife for behavioral data analysis
Creators: name: Marks, Markus
name: Qiuhan, Jin
name: Sturman, Oliver
name: von Ziegler, Lukas
name: Kollmorgen, Sepp
name: von der Behrens, Wolfger
name: Mante, Valerio
name: Bohacek, Johannes
name: Yanik, Mehmet F.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Analysing the behavior of individuals or groups of animals in complex environments is an important, yet difficult computer vision task. Here we present a novel deep learning architecture for classifying animal behavior and demonstrate how this end-to-end approach can significantly outperform pose estimation-based approaches, whilst requiring no intervention after minimal training. Our behavioral classifier is embedded in a first-of-its-kind pipeline (SIPEC) which performs segmentation, identification, pose-estimation and classification of behavior all automatically. SIPEC successfully recognizes multiple behaviors of freely moving mice as well as socially interacting nonhuman primates in 3D, using data only from simple mono-vision cameras in home-cage setups.
description: bioRxiv
GRAVL: a new satellite mission concept aiming to detect earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.5 Mw and higher
Creators: name: Woodwark, Jerome
name: Štefko, Marcel
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Data from the US and German Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) showed indications of pre-, co-, and post-seismic mass redistributions associated with earthquakes down to a magnitude of 8.3 Mw. These demonstrated state-of-the-art capabilities in obtaining high spatial resolution space-based gravimetry, and helped to improve understanding of mantle rheology, potentially even providing a route to developing early warning capabilities for future seismic events. We describe a new mission concept, GRAvity observations by Vertical Laser ranging (GRAVL), which aims to extend the earthquake detection limit down to magnitude 6.5 Mw, significantly increasing the number of observable events.

GRAVL directly measures the radial component of the acceleration vector via “high-low” inter-satellite laser ranging, increasing gravity field sensitivity. A constellation of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites act as test masses, equipped with reflectors and high precision accelerometers to account for non-gravitational forces. Two or more larger satellites are placed above these, in Geostationary or Medium Earth Orbit (GEO / MEO), and measure the distance to the LEO satellites via time-of-flight measurement of a laser pulse. To do this, the GEO/MEO spacecraft are each equipped with a laser, telescope and detector, and additionally require highly  accurate timing systems to enable ranging accuracy down to sub-micron precision. To detect co-seismic mass redistribution events of the desired magnitude, we determine a gravity field measurement requirement of order 0.1 µGal at a spatial resolution of approximately 100 km over a 3-day revisit interval. These are challenging requirements, and we will discuss possible approaches to achieving them.

The GRAVL mission concept was developed during the FFG/ESA Alpbach Summer School 2019 by a team of science and engineering students, and further refined using the Concurrent Engineering approach during the Post-Alpbach Summer School Event at ESA Academy's Training and Learning Facility at ESEC-Galaxia in Belgium.
description: EGUsphere
Spontaneous confabulations in amnestic-mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease: a new (yet old) atypical variant?
Creators: name: Abbate, Carlo
name: Trimarchi, Pietro Davide
name: Rotondo, Emanuela
name: Inglese, Silvia
name: Nicolini, Paola
name: Rossi, Paolo Dionigi
name: Arosio, Beatrice
name: Mari, Daniela
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Confabulation may be present in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but usually it is not a primary feature of either its typical or atypical variants. In this report, we describe the case of an AD patient who showed an unusual and enduring neuropsychiatric phenotype characterized by early and prominent spontaneous confabulation. Surprisingly, such atypical AD presentation bears a striking resemblance to presbyophrenia, a subtype of dementia which was described at the beginning of the twentieth century and then sank into oblivion. In discussion, we speculate on the “return” of presbyophrenia as an unrecognized neuropsychiatric variant of AD and its possible neuroanatomical substrates.