cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stiffening of double-shelled fullerene molecules under uniaxial strains
Creators: name: Huang, Nan
name: Chen, Yigang
name: Xie, Yaoping
name: Yang, Weiguang
name: Li, Jianming
name: Guo, Haibo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Onion-like fullerenes (OLFs) have spherical and tunable shell structures that make them perfect solid lubricants, but their molecular mechanical properties are largely unknown as they are extremely difficult to measure. In this computational study, double-shelled OLFs C60@C180, C80@C180, C60@C240 and C80@C240 are subject to uniaxial elastic strains to obtain their mechanical response. Compressive and tensile elastic moduli are calculated using density functional theory with van der Waals correction. We found that the tensile elastic moduli of the single- and double-shelled fullerenes are always larger than the compressive ones by about 50% to 100%. Inserting C80 into C180 causes an increase in compressive elastic modulus from 96.8 GPa to 178.6 GPa, while inserting C60 into C240 cause much smaller increases. The key factor that determines the stiffening effects is the relative sizes of the inner and outer shells.
Mycobiome characterization of “Ghimisone”, a Sardinian ancient barley sourdough traditionally used in Sardinia for making “Ogliathu” bread
Creators: name: Lai, Federico
name: Lai, Angelica
name: De Bellis, Roberta
name: Sisti, Davide
name: Potenza, Lucia
Publisher: name: Italian Journal of Mycology
Year: 2022

description: The sourdough is a biological complex matrix consisting of yeasts and lactic acid bacteria, derived from the spontaneous fermentation of the native microorganisms normally present in flour. In Italy, the microbiota of several hundred sourdoughs have been characterized at molecular and functional level and some of them have received the Protected Designation of Origin Annotation (PDO) or Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). Also in Sardinia, until the ‘50s, the barley carasau bread was produced using a sourdough named Ghimisone. The importance of keeping regional traditions alive and scientific curiosity have led to this work in which the mycobiota of Ghimisone was investigated for the first time. Three types of Ghimisones have been set up using flours of barley, naked barley, and a mixture of naked barley and “black lentil” of Calasetta. The mycobiota from these sourdoughs were investigated using independent molecular culture identification. Twenty different fungal species were found. The results were unexpected and showed that the mycobiome of Ghimisone is different from all other sourdoughs known in the literature. The diversity in the mycobiome of Ghimisone compared to known sourdoughs might suggests different nutritional and aromatic characteristics of its derived barley bread.
description: Italian Journal of Mycology, Vol. 51 (2022)
A facile, green synthesis of carbon quantum dots from folium cycas for rapid and sensitive determination of Fe3+ and cell imaging
Creators: name: Yin, Yongzheng
name: Lu, Huanhuan
name: Zhao, Yongfeng
name: Sun, Chunyan
name: Hu, Xiaofeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this study, biomass-derived carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were synthesized by an one-step hydrothermal method using folium cycas as a carbon source. By optimizing the reaction conditions, the fluorescence quantum yield of CQDs was obtained to be as high as 8.91%, and strong blue emission light was emitted. The characterization results showed that the CQDs were quasi-spherical with an average particle size of 2.69 ± 0.08 nm and contained a large number of hydrophilic functional groups with excellent water solubility and photostability. The CQDs showed high selectivity and sensitivity for the detection of Fe3+, with a low limit of detection of 0.72 μM and a wide linear range of 0–200 μM. The practical applicability of the CQDs was further established by carrying out Fe3+ detection in environmental sample analysis. Besides, CQDs have been successfully applied to in vitro cell imaging and bioimaging. The final by-product of the hydrothermal reaction, biochar, is used for dye adsorption. This work identifies the importance of using a relatively green process and an inexpensive biomass precursor to produce high-quality CQDs that hold a promising future for use in metal ion detection, bioimaging, and practical sensing applications.
Supplementary Information for COMGE-S-22-00228-R1
Creators: name: Ni, Tao
name: Sanavia, Lorenzo
name: Zaccariotto, Mirco
name: Galvanetto, Ugo
name: Schrefler, Bernhard A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is the supplementary information for the paper "Fracturing dry and saturated porous media, Peridynamics and dispersion" we submitted to "Computers and Geotechnics".
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication d'un tambourin, sculpture au bédane d'un rameau d'olivier
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
eDNAqua-Plan Deliverable 8:  Report on eDNA data workflows
Creators: name: Egge, Elianne
name: Laamanen, Tiina
name: Babo, Camila
name: Bacela-Spychalska, Karolina
name: Beermann, Arne
name: Boulanger, Emilie
name: Derycke, Sofie
name: Grabowski, Michal
name: Kavakiotis, Ioannis
name: Krawczyk, Dawid
name: Meissner, Kristian
name: Norros, Veera
name: Papakostas, Spiros
name: Suominen, Saara
name: Woollard, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This report contains an inventory of the workflows used in aquatic eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring in Europe. The inventory is based on manual research of guidelines and standards, manual search of reports from commissioned eDNA-based biomonitoring, the questionnaire survey developed within this work package, and automated collection of metadata from BioSamples in INSCD databases.

The conclusions highlight the need for standardized workflows and metadata requirements to support the scalability of eDNA monitoring in Europe and to ensure data adheres to FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).

Metadata and Data Storage: Current practices for storing European eDNA-related data in databases like BioSamples, GBIF, and OBIS were reviewed. Data from commissioned eDNA biomonitoring is seldom stored in publicly accessible databases. Written reports from smaller consultancy companies are often not public, and if they are, they lack bibliographic indexes. Compilation of metadata from European samples stored in the public databases showed that metadata is often incomplete, particularly in terms of sampling protocols and DNA extraction methods. Geographic data is often not in a standardized format. The lack of standardized metadata hampers data reusability.

The report identifies several critical gaps, including:

Limited accessibility to national protocols published only in local languages.

Inconsistent submission of eDNA data to repositories, leading to difficulties in finding and using this information.

The need for harmonized standards to ensure comparability across datasets from different regions and institutions.

Recommendations: The document stresses the importance of promoting open access to national monitoring protocols and international cooperation on standard development. It suggests exploring whether submission of eDNA data to repositories can be mandated, and highlights a need for incentives for proper documentation and metadata compliance.
Supplementary document for A polarization tunable transmitted full-color display with enhanced switchability - 6188181.pdf
Creators: name: Gao, Xufeng
name: Wang, Qi
name: Zhang, Shijie
name: Hong, Ruijin
name: Zhang, Dawei
name: Zhuang, Songlin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Clean revised manuscript
Greening the Marina : A Roadmap to Renewable Energy for the Clubhouse at Spruce Harbour Marina
Creators: name: Harland, Natasha
name: Varga, Natalie
name: Kummer, Lauren
name: Wang, Haoyue
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The energy industry is currently responsible for 78% of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. With the climate crisis worsening, it is crucial that carbon-intensive energy sources are transitioned to renewable and low-carbon sources to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and prevent further climate change. This project provides the research and resources necessary to adopt renewable energy technologies for the floating clubhouse at the Spruce Harbour Marina (SHM) in Vancouver, B.C. Spruce Harbour Marina is home to the Greater Vancouver Floating Home Co-operative (GVFHC), a nonprofit live-aboard marina community in the False Creek neighbourhood. This report recommends renewable energy technologies for the GVFHC to install, based on a set of weighted decision criteria and a cost-benefit analysis which accounts for the following project objectives: To identify the most viable renewable energy technologies for providing hot water heating and space heating for the clubhouse at Spruce Harbour Marina. To create a feasibility report that provides sufficient information for a grant application to fund the design and implementation of the proposed energy technologies. To provide a list of steps (a “roadmap”) to decrease the energy usage and install renewable energy technologies at the Marina.
title: »Partizipationsboom« in Japan: Zur (Un)Möglichkeit einer Bürgerselbstverwaltung
Creators: name: Haufe, Karoline
name: Foljanty-Jost, Gesine
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Politisches System
subject: Bürgerbeteiligung
subject: 323

description: Participation Boom in Japan: Citizens’ Autonomy and Political Empowerment? Citizens’ autonomy has not only been debated and postulated as a condition for substantial local autonomy by scholars of political science but also within everyday political practice for more than ten years in Japan. As a normative goal, citizens’ autonomy refers to the involvement of citizens as actors in politics. Therefore it has always implied complex forms of participation in local decision making processes which range from providing citizens with information on plans and future projects envisioned by the local authority to conferring certain rights and self administrative tasks on citizens’ committees and boards. Following this debate, this paper is a contribution to the question of whether and to what extent new modes of participation in local politics, which have experienced a boom in the last 15 years, can live up to the challenge of realizing citizens’ autonomy. In order to answer this question, firstly, an attempt is made to reconstruct the development of and changes in the concept of the term citizens’ autonomy itself, which refers to the democratic empowerment of citizens on the local level. Secondly the meaning and the use of the term ‘participation’ within the Japanese debate on citizens’ participation will be explained. Thirdly, current methods of participation will be presented and their characteristics will be highlighted. Tōru Satō’s typology of participation is used to categorize the above-discussed new types of participation along with the degree of citizens’ involvement in order to make statements on their implications for the realization of citizens’ autonomy. Finally, this paper shows that under the current conditions of dominant local authorities, most of the booming new opportunities for participation can be regarded as just the first step on the path to the implementation of citizens’ autonomy: at present, the function of the widely-touted new modes of participation is primarily limited to communication.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 89
Particle emission spectrum and thermodynamics phase transition of RN-AdS black hole in massive gravity via a new prescription
Creators: name: Chabab, Mohamed
name: Iraoui, Samir
name: Sriba, Hicham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the shadow and energy emission rate of a charged AdS black hole in massive gravity. We develop a new prescription based on maximum frequencies of emission spectrum to probe the thermodynamics of black holes and get an accurate insight into its phase transition criticality. We establish a link between the thermodynamic behavior and the maximum emission frequency of the black hole for both the photons and massive bosonic modes. We show that the frequency maximizing the spectrum combined to the shadow radius can serve as a powerful physical tool to delve into the thermodynamics and phase structure of RN-AdS black holes in massive gravity.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, accepted paper to appear in IJGMMP
title: Herausgefordert durch Wirtschaftskrise und Naturkatastrophe: Japanische Außenpolitik 2010/2011
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2010-2011
subject: 327

description: Challenged by an Economic Crisis and a Natural Catastrophe: Japanese Foreign Policy 2010/2011 This chapter provides an overview of the development and the changes in Japanese foreign policy in 2010 and 2011. It covers the bilateral relations between Japan and its major neighboring countries and global partners, as well as three policy areas, namely security policy, trade policy, and development policy. It argues that Japan is trying to respond to its declining influence in the world through intensified bilateral relations, a more flexible and responsive defense and security policy, and an increase in economic partnership agreements.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 121
title: Technologietransfer oder Import von Arbeitskräften?: Politische und wirtschaftliche Dimensionen des Trainings und Praktikums für Ausländer in Japan 1982 bis 2010
Creators: name: Kremers, Daniel
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
subject: Ausbildung
subject: Geschichte 1982-2010
subject: 331

description: Technology Transfer or Migrant Labour? Political and Economic Dimensions of the Industrial Training and Technical Internship Program in Japan 1982 to 2010 The Technical Intern Training Program (TITP) was implemented as a three year work and learn scheme for foreigners in Japan in 2010. It is the successor of the Industrial Training and Technical Internship Program (IT-TIP), which since 1993 combined one year of training with two years of practical work mostly at small- and medium sized Enterprises (SME) in Japan. This article will deal with the development of its legal framework, its institutional structure and its functions on the labour market, as well with its critics. I am going to show that the pretence of the not-for-profit-aim of “technology transfer” together with the huge interest of SME-employers towards the program has led to an extremely complex structure in which the Non-Profit-Sector plays a major role. This has made the program difficult to manage and gave rise to criticism of structural labour exploitation. The criticism is voiced from a wide range of intellectuals, a few political actors and some organized advocacy groups and gained considerable medial and international attention. However, there has been little reaction on the side of the policy makers. Besides from small legal improvements the program has been continuously expanded. This can partially be explained by immobilizing conflicts between the relevant ministries but also hints to strong lobbies, who have vested interests in the continuation of the program.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 147
Histological Study of Crop of Parent Pigeons From Hatching to The Weaning of Chicks
Creators: name: Rahman, Najla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study examines the histological and histomorphometric changes in the crop of Blondinette pigeons (Columba livia domestica) across four key reproductive and developmental stages: pre-mating, post-mating, hatching, and weaning. Eighteen healthy adult pigeons (9 males and 9 females) were included. Crop tissues were collected and processed for microscopic examination using routine histological and histochemical staining methods.
Throughout all stages, the crop wall consistently exhibited four main layers: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, and serosa. Notable structural changes occurred during the hatching period, where epithelial desquamation and intracellular lipid droplet accumulation were observed, especially in females, indicating active crop milk production. These features gradually diminished by the weaning stage, with the crop returning to its normal morphology, focused on food storage.
Histomorphometric analysis revealed significant sex-based differences in epithelial thickness. Females had thicker epithelium during hatching (p = 0.007), while males showed higher values during weaning (p = 0.0017), likely reflecting hormonal shifts and different parental roles. PAS staining confirmed active mucous secretion, and Masson’s trichrome staining revealed connective tissue remodeling, especially in the lamina propria during the crop milk phase. Increased vascularity and immune cell presence suggest additional roles in metabolic support and defense.
These findings highlight the crop’s structural and functional plasticity, underscoring its vital role in pigeon reproduction and chick nourishment. The study enhances our understanding of avian digestive histology and the physiological adaptations linked to breeding
title: Das Tōhoku-Erdbeben – wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen
Creators: name: Waldenberger, Franz
name: Eilker, Jens
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2010-2011
subject: 330

description: The Economic Impact of the Tōhoku Earthquake On March 11, 2011, one of the strongest earthquakes ever measured occurred 130 km off the coast of Japan’s main island Honshu. Its intensity was 1,400 times stronger than that of the Kōbe earthquake in the year of 1995. The earthquake triggered a number of tsunami, that devastated an area of around 500 square km. The tsunami also damaged the cooling systems in three reactors of the Fukushima I nuclear power station. The following meltdowns caused the release of radioactivity and resulted in evacuations of the local population. The incidents which occurred just within a few hours and days confronted Japan with its worst catastrophe since the Second World War. Regarding the loss of lives and the vast dimension of destruction, the damage on the economy appears to be limited. However, the economic impact is considerable. Total direct damages are estimated at 17 trillion yen, accounting for approximately 3.5 % of GDP and being considerably larger than the losses due to the Kōbe earthquake in 1995 (1.9 % of GDP). Income losses due to production downtimes sum up to an estimated 1 % of GDP. The financial burden is being shared by life and non-life insurance payments, damage compensation paid by Tokyo Electric, the operating company of the damaged power plant, and national and international relief organizations as well as volunteers. However, the Japanese government will shoulder the largest portion of all. Because of the adverse effects of devastation on a large number of highly specialized suppliers in the affected regions, supply shortages and subsequent production stoppages were inevitable in large parts of the national and international manufacturing industries. Nevertheless, through swift and extensive reconstruction efforts, most of the Japanese capacities will have been reestablished by the end of the summer. Impediments to recovery however still persist in the reduced electricity supply and therefore in the looming power shortages in the Kantō and Tōhoku regions that produce 40 % of Japanese GDP. Threats also exist for companies whose products and brands suffer from reputational losses due to consumers being insecure or having concerns about potential radioactive contamination. While the »economic aftershocks« of the March 11th earthquake will certainly still persist for a considerable amount of time, Japan has the opportunity to gain from its experience and solutions for preventing and managing similar incidents in Japan or in other countries.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 187
Linking radiomic PET features with metabolic tissue parameters using a hybrid mathematical model of tumor growth
Creators: name: Ahn, Hailey S. H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Tumor heterogeneity can be observed between and within tumors through medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET). Heterogeneity arises due to the genetic diversity in cancer cell populations and the dynamic microenvironments. Understanding the relationship between tumor tissue microparameters and quantitative PET radiomic features can offer a better strategy for caner diagnosis and treatment. Our goal was to develop a multiscale mathematical model for realistic tumor growth in vascularized tissue, and to generate synthetic PET images from the simulated images to study this relationship. The hybrid mathematical model used in the simulation combines an agent grid and partial differential equations to model the dynamic tumor microenvironments. The status of the cell and its behaviour is determined by the local concentration of oxygen and glucose which diffuse from the vessels to tissue. The simulated cell maps were converted to synthetic PET images by translating the spatial locations of the cells to the corresponding pseudo-standardized tracer uptake values of the PET tracer 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, which are unique to each cell type. Using different combinations of tissue microparameters, we were able to generate tumors with distinct phenotypic profiles that were visually distinguishable in the translated synthetic PET images. Four radiomic features were computed from the resulting images and this demonstrated that unique tumor phenotypes can be linked to radiomic PET features. Moreover, the identified optimal radiomic features can be used as biomarkers for tumor assessment.
title: Ethischer Konsum in Japan: Ein neuer Trend?
Creators: name: Kohlbacher, Florian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Verbrauch
subject: Ethik
subject: Konsumgesellschaft
subject: 178

description: Ethical Consumption in Japan: A New Trend? Social and ecological responsibility is of increasing importance for the economy and society on a global scale. Japan seems to have woken up to this challenge only recently, with a number of notable trends and initiatives. This article focuses on ethical consumer behavior (i.e. taking into account environmental and social responsibility of products and their production during consumers’ decision-making processes), which has become known in Japan as sōsharu shōhi, rinriteki shōhi or more recently eshikaru shōhi. As part of an international comparative study, 2000 individuals age 20 and older in Japan were surveyed on their attitudes toward ethics, the environment and corporate responsibility, as well as their actual ethical consumer behavior. 835 usable questionnaires were received for a response rate of 41 %. The article first gives an overview over ethical consumption in Japan, with a special focus on the ‘eco point’ program and the fair trade market. It then analyzes various influencing factors determining ethical consumer behavior in Japan, based on the empirical data. Results show that ethical consumption is a rather new and still small trend in Japan, but with a certain potential indicated by increasing media coverage and growth rates among certain product categories. The data also reveal the well-known phenomenon of window-dressing/mere intentions vs. real action/behavior as well as individual differences along demographic variables such as age and gender. Finally, implications for further academic research as well as for business practitioners and policy makers are discussed.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 227
A Hands-on Guide To Increasing the Impact of Digital Heritage Projects
Creators: name: Van Der Vaart, Merel
name: Meia Wippoo
name: Damala, Areti
name: Zabulis, Xenophon
name: Partarakis, Nikolaos
name: Adami, Ilia
name: Dubois, Arnaud
name: Beisswenger, Cynthia
name: McNeilly, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This publication is a hands-on guide for heritage professionals who are interested in enhancing the impact of their digital projects. Impact in the Mingei project is centred on impact that can be created over the course of a project’s duration, rather than after a product launch. This guide, therefore, focuses on the organisational learning that occurs throughout a project in four ways: better understanding your stakeholders and creating effective partnerships; collaboratively improving the relevance and impact potential of your product through co-creation; applying Teams-Based Inquiry to iteratively evaluate and improve impact; and using the Generic Learning Outcomes to plan for and assess impact. The first part of the report helps you to identify the people, groups and organisations that are relevant to your organisation or project. You will be guided to prioritise them in terms of their relevance. You will then be shown how to map your stakeholders while categorising them according to proximity, knowledge and trust. Guidance is given on how to establish contacts and build trust with your stakeholders.
 Once you know your stakeholders, we recommend co-creation as a tool that helps you use their perspectives to increase the relevance of your prototype or activity. We introduce the seven mindsets of co-creation and the five stages of co-creation. We share a guide to the types of co-creation activities that could be run with different stakeholders and share a link to the Waag Co-Creation Navigator where you can find more resources on co-creation.
 Next you are guided through Teams Based Inquiry, an iterative evaluation method developed by the Nanoscience Informal Science Education Network (NISE Net) to help education professionals reflect on their educational programmes, collect data and make changes (Nanoscience Informal Science Education Network (n.d. A)). Different components of the four stages of TBI - Question, Investigate, Reflect and Improve - are introduced. Appendix two sets out common techniques used in the investigation stage (observation, written feedback and interviews).
 Finally, the Generic Learning Outcomes are introduced as a way to plan, evaluate and improve, and report impact. It is introduced in the context of TBI cycles as a way to support the four different stages of the TBI, including, for example, the formulation of the question and the reflection (data analysis) stage.
 This tool is filled with examples from the Mingei project to help you apply the approaches outlined in this toolkit and to further share the learnings that we have experienced as a result. We hope that this will help you to increase the organisational impact of your digital heritage projects.
title: Neue Risiken, neues Selbstbild: Japan in verunsichernden Zeiten
Creators: name: Hommerich, Carola
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Sozialer Wandel
subject: Selbstbild
subject: Geschichte 1990-2011
subject: 303

description: New Risks, New Self-Image: Japan in Troubling Times By taking a closer look at the changes Japan underwent over the past twenty years, this paper attempts to explain feelings of anxiety and unhappiness to be found amongst the population today. After a short outline of some institutional characteristics of the middle-class era of the 1960s to 1980s, it will be analyzed how socio-economic changes since the 1990s have intervened with the functioning of processes of social mobility, cohesion and welfare services, and – together with a shift in self-perception towards an »inequality society« (kakusa shakai) – have led to growing feelings of vulnerability and helplessness among an increasing number of groups in the population. In this context, results of a nationwide survey carried out by the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in September 2009 will be discussed along with time-series data from related government surveys.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 259
title: Die familiale Tischgemeinschaft in Japan zwischen Ideal und Alltagspraxis vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart
Creators: name: Schmidtpott, Katja
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Familie
subject: Mahlzeit
subject: Ernährungserziehung
subject: 642

description: Family Meals in Japan between Ideal and Practice from the End of the 19th Century to the Present In the course of the present food education (shokuiku) campaign, the debate on the decline of the family meal has gained new momentum. Since family communication during a common daily meal (shokutaku de no ikka danran) is supposed to be of crucial importance for the cohesion of the family, the current individualization of food habits is regarded by some as a threat to the family and ultimately to the integration of society. This article puts the present debate in its historical context. It gives an overview of the history of the family meal since its introduction as an ideal and subsequent emergence as a ubiquitous social institution from the 1880s until present in order to show that the ideal has in fact rarely been put into practice. Thus, the present decline might not be so alarming after all. Furthermore, it examines the reasons behind the current changes in family meals. Special attention is paid to fluctuations in individual daily time allocations due to changes in work and education. Finally, the current debate puts special pressure on mothers, since it is focused on the physical and emotional well-being of children. The strategies mothers use to combine their duty to provide family meals able to meet societal demands with their rising labor force participation are also discussed.
description: Japan 2011 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 295
GenomeSpace: Interoperable bioinformatics tools with crowd-sourced analysis recipes
Creators: name: Liefeld, Ted
name: Garamszegi, Sara
name: Wu, Felix
name: Ocana, Marco
name: Hill, Barbara
name: Thorvaldsdottir, Helga
name: Reich, Michael
name: Mesirov, Jill
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: GenomeSpace is a cloud-based environment that provides interoperability between best-of-breed computational tools, enabling scientists to easily combine tool capabilities without needing to program. It offers a common space to utilize, contribute, and share an ever-growing range of genomic analysis tools. GenomeSpace provides support for cloud-based data storage and analysis, multi-tool analysis scenarios, automatic conversion of data between tools, and ease of connecting new tools to the environment. GenomeSpace is free for all users and is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

The GenomeSpace architecture consists of (1) a server running in the Amazon cloud that manages communications and data transfer between tools, and data storage; (2) the collection of computational tools, updated to communicate with the GenomeSpace server while retaining their original user interfaces; and (3) connections to Amazon, Dropbox, and Google Drive cloud-based data services. The connection between server, tools, and data is provided by a RESTful API that can be easily adopted by new tools. A web-based user interface provides an integrated tool bar and data view from which users can launch tools, perform analyses, and transfer data. GenomeSpace also provides single-sign-on across compatible tools via OpenID.

We will describe the open source GenomeSpace platform and how it can be used to support genomic analyses that utilize multiple independent tools including GenePattern, Galaxy, Cytoscape, and IGV. We will also show how developers can add their own tools to the GenomeSpace ecosystem. We will also describe the newly released GenomeSpace Recipe Resource, a repository of short, standalone guides for performing integrative bioinformatic analyses. Each recipe walks users step- by-step through the process of obtaining and analyzing data across multiple GenomeSpace-enabled tools. The Recipe Resource provides the GenomeSpace community with the ability to create, share, and collaborate on analytic recipes of common value.
NextflowWorkbench: reproducible and reusable workflows for beginners and experts
Creators: name: Kurs, Jason
name: Simi, Manuele
name: Campagne, Fabien
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Computational workflows and pipelines are often created to automate series of processing steps. For instance, workflows enable one to standardize analyses for large projects or core facilities, but are also useful for individual biologists who need to perform repetitive data processing.

Some workflow systems are designed for beginners: they offer a graphical user interface and have been very popular with biologists. In practice, these tools are infrequently used by more experienced bioinformaticians, who may require more flexibility or performance than afforded by the user interfaces, and seem to prefer developing workflows with scripting or command line tools.

This poster presents the NextflowWorkbench, a workflow system designed for both beginners and experts that blends the distinction between user interface and scripting language. This system extends and reuses the popular Nextflow workflow description language (http://nextflow.io) and shares its advantages. It is built using Language Workbench Technology, also used to develop the MetaR platform [1].

In contrast to Nextflow, NextflowWorkbench offers an integrated development environment that helps complete beginners get started with workflow development. Auto-completion helps users who do not know the syntax of the Nextflow language, and typesystem checks make it possible to validate a workflow as it is being developed, in order to provide immediate feedback to the developer. Expert bioinformaticians will also benefit from unique interactive features that help them work more productively with docker containers. Finally, reusable processes provide modular workflows, a feature useful to both beginners and experts.

We illustrate this tool with a workflow to estimate RNA-Seq counts using Kallisto. We found that beginners can be taught how to assemble this workflow in a two hours training session. The workflow can transparently run either on a laptop with docker, on a lab cluster, or in the cloud.

NextflowWorkbench simplifies the development of reproducible, implicitly parallel workflows [2]. Software is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and available at https://github.com/CampagneLaboratory/NextflowWorkbench, http://workflow.campagnelab.org.

References:

[1] Fabien Campagne, William ER Digan, Manuele Simi. MetaR: simple, high-level languages for data analysis with the R ecosystem. bioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/030254

[2] Jason P Kurs, Manuele Simi, Fabien Campagne. NextflowWorkbench: Reproducible and Reusable Workflows for Beginners and Experts. bioRxiv doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/041236
Automated Tumor Segmentation in PET/CT Scans of Lymphoma Patients
Creators: name: Yin, Leyi (Bellinda)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Lymphoma is a heterogeneous disease that can manifest in over 500 lymph nodes throughout the body in addition to several lymphatic organs like the bone marrow and spleen. Assessment of disease burden, staging and prognosis is typically done by visually assessing full-body PET/CT scans. With hundreds of tumors possible, manual detection and delineation of each individual lesion is extremely time-consuming, prone to inter- and intra-observer variability, and only results in a qualitative analysis, leaving out vital quantitative metrics. Although not routinely performed in clinics, full segmentation of patient tumors can provide valuable quantitative metrics (such as metabolic tumor volume) that aid in predicting outcome and developing individualized treatment. A fully automatic pipeline for PET/CT lymphoma images for detection and delineation of the lymphoma lesions is therefore, of great importance. In recent years, with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), numerous segmentation schemes based on supervised deep learning models have been proposed that require a large number of detailed delineated cases. While detection techniques only need roughly annotated data, they can not be used to extract exact tumor boundaries. For this thesis, an automatic segmentation pipeline based on conventional segmentation methods will be implemented in MATLAB with a focus on optimizing delineation algorithms. These results will then be used to refine the output of AI-based object detection techniques, such as YOLO network. Using this routine, the work of this thesis intends to present an accurate technique for individual lesion segmentation and enhance the diagnostic workflow.
LiteFarm Sustainability Assessment Framework
Creators: name: Wohlers, Amelia
name: Le, Edward
name: Stewart, Megan
name: Frame, Mikaela
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The primary research objective of this project is the development of a preliminary sustainability assessment framework that can be incorporated into LiteFarm’s goal of supporting and educating smallholder farmers (e.g. family-based farmers in lower/middle income countries on land ~2 hectares) on various facets of the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of their agricultural practices. The framework is made up of 9 indicators measuring 17 different approved parameters (data collection points) of sustainability. These parameters were checked against a list of criteria that was developed with a strong emphasis on accessibility. In addition to the 17 approved parameters, 19 conditionally approved parameters were found, and 7 parameters were rejected based on the developed criteria. The input required to quantify each parameter was developed with an exploration of the feasibility of data collection methods. These methods may be completed by the farmers themselves or data may be accessed from a third-party source such as global maps of farmland water availability risk data. A proposed set of designs for integrating potential indicators with the current LiteFarm app have also been drafted, along with suggestions for further research for the future development of the LiteFarm sustainability assessment framework.
MetaR: simple, high-level languages for data analysis with the R ecosystem
Creators: name: Campagne, Fabien
name: Pann, Alexander
name: Digan, William
name: Simi, Manuele
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Data analysis tools have become essential to the study of biology. Here, we applied language workbench technology (LWT) to create data analysis languages tailored for biologists with a diverse range of experience: from beginners with no programming experience to expert bioinformaticians and statisticians.

A key novelty of our approach is its ability to blend user interface with scripting in a single platform. This feature helps beginners and experts alike analyze data more productively.

This new approach has several advantages over state of the art approaches currently popular for data analysis: experts can design simplified data analysis languages that require no programming experience, and behave like graphical user interfaces, yet have the advantages of scripting. We report on such a simple language, called MetaR [1], which we have used to teach complete beginners how to call differentially expressed genes and build heatmaps. We found that beginners can complete this task in less than 2 hours with MetaR, when more traditional teaching with R and its packages would require several training sessions (6-24hrs). Furthermore, MetaR seamlessly integrates with docker to enable reproducibility of analyses and simplified R package installations during training sessions.

We used the same approach to develop the first composable R language. A composable language is a language that can be extended with micro-languages. We illustrate this capability with a Biomart micro-language designed to compose with R and help R programmers query Biomart interactively to assemble specific queries to retrieve data, (The same micro-language also composes with MetaR to help beginners query Biomart.)

Our teaching experience suggests that language design with LWT can be a compelling approach for developing intelligent data analysis tools and can accelerate training for common data analysis task. LWT offers an interactive environment with the potential to promote exchanges between beginner and expert data analysts. This poster presents the MetaR platform [1]. The talk presented at BOSC 2016 is available at https://prezi.com/x6nhbkext0ga/metar-bosc-2016/

Software is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and available at https://github.com/CampagneLaboratory/MetaR http://metaR.campagnelab.org.

 References:

[1] Fabien Campagne, William ER Digan, Manuele Simi. MetaR: simple, high-level languages for data analysis with the R ecosystem. bioRxiv

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/030254
Focus sul Deserto della Contea di Ruoqiang, Cina Occidentale
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Immagini satellitari
Google Maps
Google Earth Pro
Prospezioni minerarie
China
Cina
Taklamakan
Taklimakan
Ruoqiang County
ACME Mapper
ESRI imagery

description: Si commenta a proposito della puntata 18 di “Cose di questo mondo 3”, intitolata “Il mistero della mummia nel deserto”, 2017. La puntata non specifica il sito del supposto mistero. Tale sito è la Ruoqiang County, in Cina. Il pattern mostrato nel filmato, e ricavato da immagini satellitari, è relativo a prospezioni geologiche per lo sfruttamento minerario, come da me discusso nel 2012.
 Si aggiunge riferimento a notizie recenti (fine 2021) sulla Contea di Ruoqiang, relative a supposti target militari, per sottolineare che tali notizie non hanno nulla a che fare col pattern trovato nel 2012.
title: Japanische Innenpolitik 2011/12: Die Katastrophen von Fukushima (»3/11«) lasten auch 2012 weiter auf den Verantwortlichen in Politik und Wirtschaft
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 320

description: Japanese Domestic Policy 2011/2012: The Disasters at Fukushima (»3/11«) in 2012 Further Burden on the Leaders in Politics and Economy In retrospect, the year 2011/12 has to be recorded as just another year of bitter political infighting – both within the main governing party DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan) and between the government and the opposition led by the LDP (Liberal Democratic Party). Maneuvering rather skillfully, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda managed to reach his main political goal, an increase of the consumption tax to 10 % in two steps by 2015. He had to pay a high price: LDP and New Kōmeitō supported his plan in parliament, but only after he promised lower house elections »soon«. Strong forces in Noda’s own party were strictly against a raise in taxes, and in view of the ever decreasing popularity rates for Noda and the DPJ, many young DPJ politicians deserted the party, desperate for political survival. Taking the lead of these DPJ politicians, »destroyer « Ichirō Ozawa split just another party he helped to build and led to election victory in 2009. New challenges to established political forces sprang up in the region Ōsaka/Nagoya: Locally based political parties lay claim to a nationwide role, as represented by the Ōsaka Isshin no Kai-leader, political maverick Tōru Hashimoto. While searching for those responsible, in 2012 various commissions produced avalanches of contradictory technical data concerning »3/11«, ending only in mutual accusations. Meanwhile, displaced victims of the Fukushima catastrophes are still waiting for fundamental help, while nuclear reactors are being restarted – obviously against the expressed wish of the general public.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 27
Bibliographie der Geschichte, Landes- und Volkskunde von Stadt und Kanton Zürich: 1. September 1930 bis 31. August 1931
Creators: name: Sieber, Paul
Publisher: name: A. G. Buchdruckerei Zürcher Volkszeitung
Year: 1931
Subjects: subject: 010 Bibliografie
subject: Kanton Zürich
subject: Zürich
subject: Bibliografie
subject: Geschichte
subject: Landeskunde
subject: Volkskunde

description: Separatdruck aus dem "Zürcher Taschenbuch" für das Jahr 1932
title: Der neunte Foresight-Prozess in Japan 2010: Sind die Ergebnisse schon überholt?: Sind die Ergebnisse schon überholt?
Creators: name: Cuhls, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wissenschaftspolitik
subject: Technologiepolitik
subject: 338

description: The 9th Foresight in Japan – Published in 2010 – Already Outdated? In 2010, the Japanese National Institute of Science and Technology Policy published the 9th Foresight Activity. The Delphi surveys of this Foresight have been performed every 5 years since 1971 in order to update information about the future. The methodology broadened over time (see Cuhls 2007 und 2005a, b), was partly performed in international comparison, and meanwhile includes a Delphi survey, scenarios, bibliometrics and a demand-oriented (society-driven) survey (NISTEP 2010a-e). These Foresight studies are conducted under the auspices of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) and results are directly used (of course among others) for the Basic Plan on Science and Technology. Unfortunately, the 9th Foresight was published shortly before the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake occurred – in fact, the results were presented to the international public two days before the earthquake. The intended release of the new 4th Basic Plan on Science and Technology in March 2011 (for the period 2011 to 2016) was postponed until August 2011. Nevertheless, the Foresight data are rather long-term and are therefore still regarded as valid. What can already be observed is a shift in the priorities of the country, especially in the field of energy. This article asks the question of long-range policy priorities in Japan and if indeed they remain the same as intended after the 9th Foresight. It describes this latest Foresight Activity in both substantive and methodological aspects and mentions some findings from the Foresight surveys that are relevant for the long-term development of Japan. The Basic Plan that is based on these data is also examined, and an outlook is given how the development might go on.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 49