cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Integration von Flow in die Mensch-Computer-Interaktion? Potenziale für die Gestaltung interaktiver Systeme
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Marc-André
name: Reuter, Christian
Publisher: name: Begleitforschung Mittelstand-Digital WIK GmbH
Year: 2022

description: Flow-Erleben beschreibt das „reflexionsfreie, gänzliche Aufgehen in einer glatt laufenden Tätigkeit, die man trotz hoher Beanspruchung noch unter Kontrolle hat“. Dabei zeigt die bestehende Literatur vielversprechende Effekte der Flow-Theorie auf, etwa positiver Affekt, verbessertes Lernen, Mitarbeiterproduktivität und Kundenloyalität, die einen Mehrwert in der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion und der Gestaltung interaktiver Systeme darstellen. Die Betrachtung der theoretischen Grundlagen zeigt, dass Flow ein komponentenreiches Konstrukt ist, welches kontextsensitiv erforscht werden muss: Die Beschaffenheit der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe und des interaktiven Systems, sowie demografische, individuelle und situative Faktoren beein flussen das Flow-Erleben. Zur Messung des Flow-Erlebens wurden eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Messmethoden entwickelt, welche die gegenwärtige Erfahrung, etwa der FQ oder die ESM, oder eine vergangene Erfahrung im Nachgang, etwa komponentenbasierte Fragebogen und qualitative Methoden, erfassen. In der Gestaltung interaktiver Systeme im sinne der MCI wird einerseits die Betrachtung pragmatischer Qualitätskriterien (Effizienz, Durchschaubarkeit, Verlässlichkeit) der Usability und hedonistischer Qualitätskriterien (Attraktivität, Neuheit, Stimulation) der User Experience angestrebt. Andererseits untersucht ein separater Forschungsstrang die Relevanz der Flow-Theorie für die MCI. Während der Einfluss theoretischer Konstrukte des Flow-Erlebens bereits deutlich untersucht wurde, fehlt die systematische Verknüpfung zu konkreten Designanforderungen zur Unterstützung des Flow-Erlebens in interaktiven Systemen. Damit die Potenziale der Flow-Theorie in der Gestaltung interaktiver Systeme bestmöglich berücksichtigt werden können, sind vor allem vier Herausforderungen in der Forschung und Praxis zu adressieren: 1. Definition der theoretischen Kontextfaktoren: Wie kann die Flow-Theorie in der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion ganzheitlich bestimmt werden? 2. Operationalisierung der Flow-Theorie: Wie können Bedingungen, Erleben und Auswirkungen des Flow-Erlebens genau und systematisch gemessen werden? 3. Integration in die Mensch-Computer-Interaktion: In welchem exakten Zusammenhang stehen die Konzepte Flow, Usability und User Experience? 4. Ableitung praktischer Designanforderungen: Wie können praktische Anforderungen zum Design des Flow-Erlebens in interaktiven systemen abgeleitet werden? Dieser Beitrag hat dazu die theoretischen Grundlagen des Flow-Erlebens, bestehende Methoden und Metriken sowie verwandte Konzepte der MCI eingeleitet und diskutiert, um einerseits die systematische Erforschung der Flow-Theorie in der MCI und andererseits die Ableitung praktischer Designanforderungen zu motivieren.
Brief an [Étienne Guyon]
Creators: name: Staal, Hans Jakob von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1601

description: von Jo[hann] Jacobus de Staal
description: Brief Nr. 589.
description: Lateinisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2017/August 2022 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln iho
title: Επεξεργασία στραγγιδίων Χ.Υ.Τ.Α. με φυγοκεντρικό φίλτρο
title: Landfill leachate treatment via centrifugal filter
Creators: name: Παπαδοπουλος Σαββας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Στην παρούσα  εργασία ερευνάται η επεξεργασία αυτών των στραγγιδίων μέσω ενός φυγοκεντρικού φίλτρου. Τα συγκεκριμένα στραγγίδια προερχόντουσαν από το Χ.Υ.Τ.Α. Πέρα Γαληνών του Ηρακλείου και ύστερα κατευθυνόντουσαν προς επεξεργασία  από ένα φυγοκεντρικό διαχωριστή. Δεχτήκαμε συνολικά 11 ημερών επεξεργασμένα στραγγίδια (δείγματα) στα οποία  έγιναν μετρήσεις για τον έλεγχο του βαθμού απόδοσης - επεξεργασίας  του συστήματος (φυγοκεντρικό φίλτρο) όπως  pΗ, TOC, BOD, COD, TSS, Αγωγιμότητα, θολερότητα, θειικά, αμμωνιακά NH3-N, Ολικό φώσφορο, ολικό άζωτο, TS. Κάποια από αυτά  ήταν μετά τη χρήση κροκιδωτικών και άλλα χωρίς να έχουν προστεθεί κροκιδωτικά. Το φυγοκεντρικό φίλτρο παρουσίασε  καλά ποσοστά απομάκρυνσης σε πολλές παραμέτρους όπως θα αναφερθεί και παρακάτω αλλά για την απομάκρυνση τόσο ισχυρού ρυπαντικού φορτίου όπως των Χ.Υ.Τ.Α. ώστε οι εκροές να συμπίπτουν με τα περιβαλλοντικά όρια κρίνεται απαραίτητη είτε η περαιτέρω  ανάπτυξη της μεθόδου είτε η προσθήκη και άλλων διεργασιών ως βοήθεια.
description: This diploma work researches the treatment of these leachates via a centrifugal filter. The specific leachates are originated from the landfill of  ‘’Pera Galinwn’’ of Heraklion and then are going to be treated  by a centrifugal separator. We received a total of 11 days treated leachate (samples) to which measurements have been carried out to test the removal performance of the system (centrifugal filter) at different parameters such as  pH, TOC, BOD, COD, TSS, turbidity, conductivity, sulphates, ammonium NH3-N, Total phosphorus, nitrogen, TS (Total solids). Some of the leachates were after the use of flocculants and others without having added flocculant. The centrifuge filter presented good removal rates on many parameters which are mentioned below but for the removal of so strong polluting loads as a landfill site so that the outflows match with the environmental limits is necessary either  the further development of the method or the addition of other processes to help.
Questions Related to the Equation of State of High-Density Matter
Creators: name: Miller, M. Coleman
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: dense matter
equation of state
neutron star

description: Astronomical data about neutron stars can be combined with laboratory nuclear data to give us a strong base from which to infer the equation of state of cold catalyzed matter beyond nuclear density. However, the nuclear and astrophysical communities are largely distinct; each has their own methods, which means that there is often imperfect communication between the communities regarding caveats about claimed measurements and constraints. Here we present a brief summary from one astronomer’s perspective of relevant observations of neutron stars, with warnings as appropriate, followed by a set of questions that are intended to help enhance the dialog between nuclear physicists and astrophysicists.
D2.2.13 – Report on applications, methods and procedures to impute nutrient values for composite foods
Creators: name: KTL
name: AFSSA
name: NEVO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: D2.2.13 – Report on applications, methods and procedures to impute nutrient values for composite foods
title: L’enseignement des stratégies métacognitives permettant l’autorégulation de la compréhension en lecture à l’école primaire
title: L’enseignement des stratégies métacognitives permettant l’autorégulation de la compréhension en lecture à l’école primaire
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Lusenti, Pauline
name: Nasri, Sarah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: lecture
subject: compréhension en lecture
subject: métacognition
subject: stratégies métacognitives
subject: autorégulation
subject: enseignement explicite

description: Tout au long de leur scolarité obligatoire et au-delà, les élèves sont constamment amené·e·s à mobiliser leurs compétences en lecture et plus précisément celles concernant la compréhension. L’enseignement/apprentissage de la lecture débute de manière informelle dès la 1ère Harmos et conserve une place centrale durant l’ensemble de l’école primaire. Dans ce domaine, la compétence de l’enseignant·e à enseigner la compréhension en lecture a un impact considérable sur la réussite des élèves. Dans le cadre de cette recherche, nous nous intéressons aux stratégies métacognitives permettant aux élèves de développer leur compétence à autoréguler leur compréhension lorsqu’elles ou ils lisent un texte. Nous cherchons à déterminer si les pratiques effectives et déclarées des enseignant·e·s incluent un travail sur ces stratégies de compréhension en lecture et de quelle manière celles-ci sont enseignées. Pour répondre à notre question de recherche, nous avons assisté à deux leçons portant sur l’enseignement de la compréhension en lecture dans des classes différentes. Chacune des leçons a été suivie d’un entretien avec l’enseignante concernée, afin d’obtenir des précisions quant à la leçon observée et des informations sur leur enseignement de la lecture en général. Les résultats de cette recherche ont démontré que les stratégies métacognitives de compréhension font effectivement partie intégrante de l’enseignement de la compréhension en lecture des deux enseignantes. Toutefois, elles ne semblent pas avoir pleinement conscience de la quantité et de la variété des stratégies qu’elles enseignent. De plus, leurs pratiques d’enseignement incluent certaines étapes de l’enseignement explicite, telles que le modelage et la pratique dirigée.
WHITE PAPER: the role of Artificial Intelligence within in silico medicine
Creators: name: Liesbet, Geris
name: Rousseau Cécile, F.
name: Noailly Jerome
name: Afshari Payman
name: Auffret Michaël
name: Wen-Yang, Chu
name: De Cunha-Burgman Martha,
name: Lafon Yoann
name: Marchal Thierry
name: Mark, Palmer
name: Voisin Emmanuelle, M.
name: Viceconti Marco
name: Hoekstra Alfons, G.
name: Gordon, Johnston
name: Alessandrello Rossana
name: Bril Antoine
name: Dall'Ara Enrico
name: Kulesza Alexander
name: Raphaëlle, Lesage
name: Bastien, Martin
name: Reiterer Markus
name: Waterkeyn Alicia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence, In Silico Medicine, Computational Modelling and Simulation

description: Currently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data are receiving significant attention in terms of policy activities and research funding at the European level and across the globe. At the same time, computer modelling and simulation are increasingly mentioned as a separate technology next to artificial intelligence. However, there is no clarity as to differences and similarities of these technologies. The Avicenna Alliance (AA) is an association of industry, academia and healthcare organisations, the latter two represented through the Virtual Physiological Human institute (VPHi), that has a strong interest in the development and adoption of in silico technologies in all areas of healthcare. With this white paper, the authors aim to provide clarity on the overlap and synergies between the different in silico medicine approaches (including AI), as well as their respective place within the overarching continuum of in silico medicine and digital healthcare. After an introduction into the different concepts, this paper presents a dedicated in silico strategy from the perspective of the users of the technologies. Subsequently, it discusses the in silico spectrum from knowledge- driven to data-driven methodologies. Afterwards, an overview is provided of how these in silico technologies can be used, in which context, and at what point in time. It then explains how public health can benefit from the combination of different in silico approaches rather than from any a priori focus on a single technology, illustrated by several examples. Finally, a number of elements related to the assessment of credibility of the in silico evidence are discussed, in the context of health and medicine. The paper ends with a conclusion and recommendations to policy makers, regulators and payers in Europe and beyond.
Effect of Irradiation and Detection of Long-Lived Polyenyl Radicals in Highly Crystalline Ultra-High Molar Mass Polyethylene (UHMMPE) Fibers
Creators: name: Forster, Amanda L.
name: Tsinas, Zois
name: Al-Sheikhly, Mohamad
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: polyethylene
electron-beam irradiation
gamma irradiation
oxidation
crosslinking
electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
high strength fibers
UHMWPE
UHMMPE

description: To improve properties such as thermal conductivity, low temperature thermal strain, and creep resistance of ultra-high molar mass polyethylene (UHMMPE) fibers, several researchers have previously undertaken efforts to crosslink these fibers using radiation. Ionizing radiation is commonly used to crosslink bulk UHMMPE in other applications, such as artificial joints. However, UHMMPE fibers differ from bulk UHMMPE in that they have a higher crystallinity (approximately 85% to 90%) and are very highly oriented during manufacturing in which the fibers are stretched 50 to 100 times their original length. Thus, the amorphous fraction of the UHMMPE fibers is also highly ordered. Several experiments were conducted to crosslink the UHMMPE fibers using both low dose rate (gamma) and high dose rate (electron beam) irradiation, all in the absence of oxygen. In all cases, the tensile strength of the fiber was greatly reduced by the irradiation. The oxidation index was also measured for the irradiated samples, and oxidation was not found to play a major role in the reduction of tensile strength in the fibers after irradiation. While this work did not achieve the desired result of improving the mechanical properties of the UHMMPE fiber, a significant result was found. The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectrum of the UHMMPE fibers was measured shortly after irradiation, and a mixture of allyl and alkyl radicals were detected. The irradiated samples were stored in dark ambient conditions for at least six years, then reexamined using EPR for free radical characterization. Surprisingly, the gamma-irradiated samples showed clear evidence of long-lived polyenyl radicals present in the material. Free radicals are very reactive species that will typically migrate to the surface of the crystalline domain and decay in a relatively short time through various reactions in the amorphous regions. It is hypothesized herein that due to the high crystallinity and large anisotropy of the highly drawn UHMMPE fiber, the polyenyl radicals were trapped in the crystal phase and were unable to migrate and decay. An experiment was performed to test this hypothesis, by which samples of the irradiated fibers were heated to temperatures above first the alpha relaxation and then melting point of polyethylene, and EPR measurements were taken. Results showed that the polyenyl radical signal persisted below the Tm, but was rapidly eliminated upon melting of the crystals. These experiments support the hypothesis that the long-lived polyenyl radicals are trapped in the crystalline region of the polyethylene fibers.
Brief Julio [Echter von Mespelbrunn]
Creators: name: Staal, Hans Jakob von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1601

description: von Jo[hann] Jac[ob vom] Staal
description: Brief Nr. 585.
description: Lateinisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2017/August 2022 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln iho/HBr
title: Μελέτη της υφιστάμενης κατάστασης των υδατικών πόρων στη λεκάνη του Τυμπακίου με χρήση του μοντέλου Visual Modflow και μετρήσεων ηλεκτρικής αγωγιμότητας
Creators: name: Αγιουταντη Ελευθερια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζεται το φαινόμενο της υφαλμύρισης των παράκτιων υδροφορέων. Συγκεκριμένα, μελετάται το πρόβλημα στην περιοχή του Τυμπακίου όπου το φαινόμενο φαίνεται να έχει πάρει μεγάλες διαστάσεις. Η περιοχή είναι κατά κύριο λόγο αγροτική, γεγονός που υποδηλώνει ότι η ταπείνωση του υδροφόρου ορίζοντα έχει προκληθεί από την υπεράντληση των υπόγειων υδάτων, με σκοπό την άρδευση των καλλιεργειών.
Σε πρώτο επίπεδο έγινε μία σύντομη περιγραφή των χαρακτηριστικών των υδροφορέων, όπως επίσης και των βασικών εξισώσεων που διέπουν την κίνηση του υπόγειου νερού. Στη συνέχεια, ακολούθησε μία εκτεταμένη αναφορά στο φαινόμενο της υφαλμύρισης, συμπεριλαμβανομένων των μαθηματικών προσεγγίσεων, που έχουν αναπτυχθεί κατά καιρούς. Οι παραπάνω ενότητες αποτελούν τον πρώτο άξονα της εργασίας, ο οποίος επικεντρώνεται στο θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο του θέματος.
Ο δεύτερος άξονας, περιλαμβάνει ενότητες που σκιαγραφούν πιο αναλυτικά την περιοχή μελέτης. Αρχικά γίνεται μια περιγραφή της περιοχής, όπως επίσης και όλων παραγόντων, που επιδρούν στη ροή του υπόγειου υδροφορέα. Ακολουθεί μία σύντομη περιγραφή του μοντέλου προσομοίωσης του υπόγειου υδροφορέα Visual Modflow και των δεδομένων που εισάχθηκαν. Έπειτα πραγματοποιήθηκε μία εμπειρική διαδικασία βαθμονόμησης έτσι ώστε να υπάρχει ικανοποιητική συμφωνία μεταξύ των δεδομένων του πεδίου και της εκτιμώμενης πιεζομετρίας.
Μία νέα προσέγγιση που δεν έχει υλοποιηθεί μέχρι τώρα στην περιοχή του Τυμπακίου είναι η εκτίμηση της έκτασης της υφαλμύρισης μέσω μετρήσεων ηλεκτρικής αγωγιμότητας του νερού και αναπαράσταση αυτών σε χάρτη χωρικής κατανομής με διαφορετικές τεχνικές της γεωστατιστικής.
Το βασικό ερώτημα που καλείται να απαντήσει η παρούσα εργασία είναι εάν ο συνδυασμός δεδομένων ηλεκτρικής αγωγιμότητας, μετρήσεων πιεζομετρίας σε συγκεκριμένες θέσεις και προσομοίωση της ροής του υπόγειου υδροφορέα μπορεί να αποδώσει ικανοποιητικά την έκταση της υφαλμύρισης.
Additional file 1 of NFATc2-dependent epigenetic upregulation of CXCL14 is involved in the development of neuropathic pain induced by paclitaxel
Creators: name: Liu, Meng
name: Zhang, Su-Bo
name: Luo, Yu-Xuan
name: Yang, Yan-Ling
name: Zhang, Xiang-Zhong
name: Li, Bo
name: Meng, Yan
name: Chen, Yuan-Jie
name: Guo, Rui-Xian
name: Xiong, Yuan-Chang
name: Xin, Wen-Jun
name: Li, Dai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. (PDF 138 kb)
DRAS-TIC Linked Data: Evenly Distributing the Past
Creators: name: Jansen, Gregory
name: Coburn, Aaron
name: Soroka, Adam
name: Thomas, Will
name: Marciano, Richard
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: distributed database
linked data platform
Fedora Commons repository
horizontal scaling

description: Memory institutions must be able to grow a fully-functional repository incrementally as collections grow, without expensive enterprise storage, massive data migrations, and the performance limits that stem from the vertical storage strategies. The Digital Repository at Scale that Invites Computation (DRAS-TIC) Fedora research project, funded by a two-year National Digital Platform grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is producing open-source software, tested cluster configurations, documentation, and best-practice guides that enable institutions to manage linked data repositories with petabyte-scale collections reliably. DRAS-TIC is a research initiative at the University of Maryland (UMD). The first DRAS-TIC repository system, named Indigo, was developed in 2015 and 2016 through a collaboration between U.K.-based storage company, Archive Analytics Ltd., and the UMD iSchool Digital Curation Innovation Center (DCIC), through funding from an NSF DIBBs (Data Infrastructure Building Blocks) grant (NCSA “Brown Dog”). DRAS-TIC Indigo leverages industry standard distributed database technology, in the form of Apache Cassandra, to provide open-ended scaling of repository storage without performance degradation. With the DRAS-TIC Fedora initiative, we make use of the Trellis Linked Data Platform (LDP), developed by Aaron Coburn at Amherst College, to add the LDP API over similar Apache Cassandra storage. This paper will explain our partner use cases, explore the system components, and showcase our performance-oriented approach, with the most emphasis given to performance measures available through the analytical dashboard on our testbed website.
Additional file 2 of NFATc2-dependent epigenetic upregulation of CXCL14 is involved in the development of neuropathic pain induced by paclitaxel
Creators: name: Liu, Meng
name: Zhang, Su-Bo
name: Luo, Yu-Xuan
name: Yang, Yan-Ling
name: Zhang, Xiang-Zhong
name: Li, Bo
name: Meng, Yan
name: Chen, Yuan-Jie
name: Guo, Rui-Xian
name: Xiong, Yuan-Chang
name: Xin, Wen-Jun
name: Li, Dai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. The Nucleotide Sequences of CXCL14 or NFATc2. (DOC 14 kb)
title: An institutional ethnographic exploration of nurses' work in labour and delivery
Creators: name: Kelly, Paula
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2022

description: Background: Although intermittent auscultation during low-risk labour is recommended (Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Canada, 2007, 2018, 2020), nurses often use continuous electronic monitoring to assess fetal heart rate during the intrapartum period irrespective of women’s risk levels. Electronic fetal monitoring confines women to the birthing bed, thus preventing positions and movements that leverage gravity in the natural progress of labour. Its routine use also increases the risk of adverse effects of instrumental vaginal and surgical births. While some nurse researchers have examined barriers to the implementation of best practice guidelines during fetal health surveillance, research exploring the associated broader social forces to gain a deeper understanding of nurses’ work in labour and delivery, has not yet been conducted. Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation research was to gain insight into nurses’ work by examining how nurses carry out fetal health surveillance, particularly how and why nurses choose to use continuous electronic fetal monitoring. The specific research questions were: What are the everyday experiences of labour and delivery nurses related to fetal health surveillance? What social relations organize and influence how labour and delivery nurses conduct fetal health surveillance? Answering these questions is the critical first step in promoting best practices in the nursing care of labouring women. Methods: An institutional ethnographic study was conducted in a labour and delivery unit. Data sources included documents (e.g., national practice guidelines, unit policies, and patient chart forms), semi-structured interviews of inter-disciplinary practitioners, and participant observation. Data analysis included indexing, mapping, and writing accounts. Findings: Powerful textually-mediated ruling relations organize and influence nurses’ work. Notably, biomedical and medical-legal discourses infiltrate the “boss text” (i.e., national practice guidelines) and establish an ideological space that influences fetal health surveillance policies and procedures (e.g., electronic fetal monitoring). Nurses’ everyday work decisions are shaped by organizational texts (i.e., patient chart forms) that require considerable time devoted to documentation of biophysical data (e.g., fetal heart rate) and limit focus on holistic nursing care practices. Conclusions: Labour and delivery nurses are choosing continuous electronic fetal monitoring over intermittent auscultation to fulfill mandated documentation requirements that are regulated by biomedical and medical-legal discourses. Documentation reflects the influence of these discursive ruling relations—primarily the valuing of biomedical, technological interventions over supportive nursing care measures and safeguarding the institution against risk of litigation.
Assessment of Himawari-8 AHI Aerosol Optical Depth Over Land
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenhao
name: Xu, Hui
name: Zhang, Lili
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: aerosol optical depth
Himawari-8
AHI
AERONE
assessment

description: This study conducted the first comprehensive assessment of the aerosol optical depth (AOD) product retrieved from the observations by the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Himawari-8 satellite. The AHI Level 3 AOD (Version 3.0) was evaluated using the collocated Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) level 2.0 direct sun AOD measurements over the last three years (May 2016–December 2018) at 58 selected AERONET sites. A comprehensive comparison between AHI and AERONET AOD was carried out, which yielded a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.82, a slope of 0.69, and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.16. The results indicate a good agreement between AHI and AERONET AOD, while revealing that the AHI aerosol retrieval algorithm tends to underestimate the atmospheric aerosol load. In addition, the expected uncertainty of AHI Level 3 AOD (Version 3.0) is ± (0.1 + 0.3 × AOD). Furthermore, the performance of the AHI aerosol retrieval algorithm exhibits regional variation. The best performance is reported over East Asia (R 0.86), followed by Southeast Asia (R 0.79) and Australia (R 0.35). The monthly and seasonal comparisons between AHI and AERONET show that the best performance is found in summer (R 0.93), followed by autumn (R 0.84), winter (R 0.82), and spring (R 0.76). The worst performance was observed in March (R 0.75), while the best performance appeared in June (R 0.94). The variation in the annual mean AHI AOD on the scale of hours demonstrates that AHI can perform continuous (no less than ten hours) aerosol monitoring.
title: Non-additive approaches to aggregation
Creators: name: Hart, James
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Sometimes we ought to aggregate lesser harms to many such that they outweigh greater harms to a few, and sometimes we ought not to. This seems self-evident, but it has proven surprisingly difficult to construct a coherent moral theory out of this basic observation. In particular, it is difficult to explain (in a principled way) when we ought to aggregate. Relevance views attempt to solve this problem by arguing that sufficiently lesser harms are irrelevant to greater harms and thus should not be taken into consideration. My thesis develops and defends a new relevance view. The first half of the thesis focuses on when lesser harms can aggregate and outweigh stronger harms. I start by solving a ‘fatal’ dilemma for all relevance views. I show that one horn of the dilemma is fatal but avoidable, whilst the other is unavoidable but not fatal, and that the dilemma rests on a faulty assumption of weak-additivity. I then develop a new relevance view based around the principle that we ought to balance harms by similarity (i.e., we ought to balance greater harms against similarly great harms and lesser harms against other lesser harms) before deciding whether lesser harms are relevant to greater harms. The second half focuses on when lesser harms can aggregate and tiebreak between stronger harms. First, I show that relevance views cannot capture our intuition that sufficiently lesser harms should not tiebreak between greater harms, without forfeiting our intuitions in other important cases. Secondly, I demonstrate that relevance views are sometimes inappropriately insensitive to the number of harms in tiebreaking cases. To solve these problems, I distinguish between two types of relevance, and I introduce Broomean fairness into my account. Doing so allows my view to capture all our intuitions about when lesser harms can tiebreak between stronger harms.
title: Έλεγχος ιζηματοποίησης σε νερά σε περιοχή της Ιεράπετρας
Creators: name: Βατουγιου Ευαγγελια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2016

description: Το νερό άρδευσης για την περιοχή της Ιεράπετρας είναι ζωτικής σημασίας, ιδιαίτερα τους θερινούς μήνες, κατά τους οποίους οι ανάγκες σε νερό αυξάνονται κατακόρυφα. Οι καλλιεργούμενες εκτάσεις της Ιεράπετρας αρδεύονται από τις πηγές της ευρύτερης περιοχής, στις οποίες συγκαταλέγονται και οι πηγές της Θρυπτής. Το υδροδυναμικό της Θρυπτής είναι σημαντικό και μπορεί να προσφέρει περισσότερα στις υψηλές απαιτήσεις για άρδευση. Εμπόδιο αποτελούν οι επικαθίσεις που δημιουργούνται στο αρδευτικό δίκτυο και έχουν ως αποτέλεσμα τη μείωση της παροχής του νερού. Στην παρούσα εργασία, για τη μελέτη και την εκτίμηση της ποιότητας των υπόγειων νερών της Θρυπτής, πραγματοποιήθηκαν δειγματοληψίες τον Ιούνιο του 2015 και τον Μάρτιο του 2016. Αφού καταγράφηκε η θερμοκρασία, το pH και η ηλεκτρική αγωγιμότητα των δειγμάτων, αναλύθηκαν οι κύριες παράμετροι που σχετίζονται με την ποιότητα του υπόγειου νερού: σκληρότητα, αλκαλικότητα, κατιόντα (Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+), ανιόντα (Cl-, SO42-, NO3-) και ιχνοστοιχεία (Sr2+, Zn2+, Ba2+, B3+, Co, Cu). Η μελέτη των αποτελεσμάτων των αναλύσεων έδειξε ότι τα νερά παρουσιάζουν δύο κύριους υδροχημικούς τύπους: Ca2+-HCO3- και Ca2+-SO42-. Στον δεύτερο υδροχημικό τύπο ανήκουν οι πηγές που εμφάνισαν τη μεγαλύτερη σκληρότητα (~1000mg/l CaCO3) και την υψηλότερη συγκέντρωση σε ασβέστιο (~300ppm) και θειικά ιόντα (~800ppm). Όπως αποδείχτηκε μέσα από ερμηνευτικούς δείκτες και ιοντικούς λόγους, τα συγκεκριμένα νερά έρχονται σε επαφή με ορυκτά πλούσια σε γύψο. Στο πλαίσιο αυτού του ζητήματος πραγματοποιήθηκε ένα πείραμα για την απομάκρυνση της υψηλής σκληρότητας με χημική ιζηματοποίηση, χρησιμοποιώντας τη μέθοδο της προσθήκης υδροξείδιου του ασβεστίου και ανθρακικού νατρίου. Τα αποτελέσματα ήταν θετικά, σημειώνοντας μείωση της ολικής σκληρότητας της τάξεως του 73-83%. Στην παρούσα εργασία προτείνονται ως λύσεις οι μέθοδοι της χημικής ιζηματοποίσης ή της χρήσης αναστολέων ανάπτυξης κρυστάλλων, καθεμία από τις οποίες απαιτεί περαιτέρω έρευνα, ενώ γίνεται μια προσπάθεια να υπογραμμιστούν οι παράγοντες οι οποίοι χρειάζονται διερεύνηση.
title: Color superconductivity from the chiral quark–meson model
Creators: name: Sedrakian, Armen
name: Tripolt, Ralf-Arno
name: Wambach, Jochen
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description: We study the two-flavor color superconductivity of low-temperature quark matter in the vicinity of chiral phase transition in the quark–meson model where the interactions between quarks are generated by pion and sigma exchanges. Starting from the Nambu–Gorkov propagator in real-time formulation we obtain finite temperature (real axis) Eliashberg-type equations for the quark self-energies (gap functions) in terms of the in-medium spectral function of mesons. Exact numerical solutions of the coupled nonlinear integral equations for the real and imaginary parts of the gap function are obtained in the zero temperature limit using a model input spectral function. We find that these components of the gap display a complicated structure with the real part being strongly suppressed above 20, where 0 is its on-shell value. We find 0 40 MeV close to the chiral phase transition.
REDUCTION OF THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF FUELS AND PETROCHEMICALS STARTING FROM VEGETABLE OILS
Creators: name: GALLI, FEDERICO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: In this work developments and innovative studies are proposed for the current biodiesel technology in order to make the whole productive process more efficient. In particular, three main aspects were deeply investigated, the oil deacidification, as a pre-step to the oil transesterification, working on the optimization of the operative parameters and developing a suitable kinetic model able to predict, in a wide range of concentrations and temperatures, the acid conversion and the eventual double phase system formation. Moreover, the extraction of carotenes from crude palm oil was investigated, focusing on finding the operative parameters that permitted its complete preservation. Experimental results showed that at the optimized condition these molecules were adsorbed on the catalyst, giving encouraging information regarding their extraction from crude oils. Secondly, the transesterification reaction was studied in a novel way, trying to overcome the mass limitation due to the low methanol solubility in oil using a suitable co-solvent and CaO as catalyst. Good results were obtained when THF was used, the biodiesel yield was comparable to the homogeneous catalyzed process. Finally, a possible improvement of biodiesel to valuable chemical was studied. In particular the synthesis of epoxidized biodiesel was firstly optimized and then performed on biodiesel and distilled biodiesel, obtaining with this latter substrate a product with an epoxide content comparable to a commercial product, giving positive suggestion for its application as bioplasticizer.
Additional file 5 of NFATc2-dependent epigenetic upregulation of CXCL14 is involved in the development of neuropathic pain induced by paclitaxel
Creators: name: Liu, Meng
name: Zhang, Su-Bo
name: Luo, Yu-Xuan
name: Yang, Yan-Ling
name: Zhang, Xiang-Zhong
name: Li, Bo
name: Meng, Yan
name: Chen, Yuan-Jie
name: Guo, Rui-Xian
name: Xiong, Yuan-Chang
name: Xin, Wen-Jun
name: Li, Dai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S4. Differentially enriched peaks in promoter region. (DOC 42 kb)
title: Σύγκριση παραμετρικών συνθηκών λειτουργίας και σχεδιασμού εγκαταστάσεων επεξεργασίας αστικών λυμάτων
Creators: name: Φράγκος Νικόλαος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2005

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Policies: The Role of Digital Communication and Knowledge Exchange in the T20/G20 Transnational Policy Community
Creators: name: Lynders, Eva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: paradigm shifts
digital communication
digitalisation
knowledge exchange
T20
environmental policy
earth system

description: Discussion:
 Do you see paradigm shifts in environmental policies in Indonesia?
 Can transnational research based policy advice, as performed by the T20, be an incubator for paradigm shifts?
 What role does/could/should digital knowledge exchange play?
description: Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE, Grant Agreement #873119
title: Αξιολόγηση επενδυτικών σχεδίων ανάπτυξης συστημάτων θέρμανσης με στερεά βιομάζα
Creators: name: Γουσγουριώτης Ηλίας
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2005

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
title: Μελέτη θερμο-μηχανικής συμπεριφοράς συστήματος πέδησης κατασκευασμένου από ινοπλισμένα κεραμικά υλικά
Creators: name: Ταμβάκης Δημήτριος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2005

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Экран для датчика протонного магнитометра
Creators: name: В.В., Любимов
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1980
Subjects: магнитное поле, магнитные измерения, модульные измерения, протонные магнитометры, датчик протонного магнитометра, экранирование

description: В рационализаторском предложении №609/71 от 18.09.1980 г. даётся описание и реализация оригинальной конструкции экрана для погружного датчика протонного переносного магнитометра
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Drone Laser Scanning for Modeling Riverscape Topography and Vegetation: Comparison with Traditional Aerial Lidar
Creators: name: Resop, Jonathan P.
name: Lehmann, Laura
name: Hession, W. Cully
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: UAVs
lidar
streams
floodplains
topography
vegetation
stream restoration
roughness

description: Lidar remote sensing has been used to survey stream channel and floodplain topography for decades. However, traditional platforms, such as aerial laser scanning (ALS) from an airplane, have limitations including flight altitude and scan angle that prevent the scanner from collecting a complete survey of the riverscape. Drone laser scanning (DLS) or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based lidar offer ways to scan riverscapes with many potential advantages over ALS. We compared point clouds and lidar data products generated with both DLS and ALS for a small gravel-bed stream, Stroubles Creek, located in Blacksburg, VA. Lidar data points were classified as ground and vegetation, and then rasterized to produce digital terrain models (DTMs) representing the topography and canopy height models (CHMs) representing the vegetation. The results highlighted that the lower-altitude, higher-resolution DLS data were more capable than ALS of providing details of the channel profile as well as detecting small vegetation on the floodplain. The greater detail gained with DLS will provide fluvial researchers with better estimates of the physical properties of riverscape topography and vegetation.
title: Το πρόβλημα του βέλτιστου σχεδιασμού ενός ολοκληρωμένου συστήματος μεταφοράς-αποθήκευσης-διανομής
Creators: name: Μπέας Γεώργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1997

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
IL COLLEGIO SINDACALE NELLE BANCHE
Creators: name: PEDERSOLI, EDOARDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: This thesis is aimed at outlining the role of the Board of the Statutory Auditors (the so called ?Collegio Sindacale?) in the Italian banks. Specifically, the statutory auditors perform a control that has conventionally been considered to be ex-post and periodic, normally a spot check, for the purpose of informing the shareholders of illegal acts, misconduct, or negligence by the directors. Instead, the monitoring of the Board of Statutory Auditors in the banks seems to assume different connotations in relation to the control assigned to it in "ordinary" companies, as it can be classified as a sort of supervisor of the overall system of internal controls: such monitoring can be implemented not so much subsequently and in a context of sanctions in relation to management irregularities, but more in a preventive context of continuous cooperation with the directors in the correction of organizational structures. Moreover, the goal of the last chapter of the thesis is to analyze if the Board of Statutory Auditors can perform an ?ex-ante? control also in the ordinary companies, taking into account the need of protection of the minority shareholders, the creditors and the stakeholders.
title: Πληροφοριακό σύστημα διοίκησης πωλήσεων της εταιρείας SUZUKI εξωλέμβιες ως αποτέλεσμα της εφαρμογής πολιτικής μάρκετινγκ
Creators: name: Καραμάνης Κωνσταντίνος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1997

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
title: Βελτιστοποίηση παραμέτρων αλγορίθμων δρομολόγησης σε δορυφορικά και επίγεια δίκτυα
Creators: name: Ιωαννίδου Ευτυχία
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2001

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Innovation in Newcastle Disease Virus Vectored Avian Influenza Vaccines
Creators: name: Kim, Shin-Hee
name: Samal, Siba K.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Newcastle disease virus
live attenuated NDV-vectored vaccines
chimeric NDV vector
poultry

description: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and Newcastle disease are economically important avian diseases worldwide. Effective vaccination is critical to control these diseases in poultry. Live attenuated Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vectored vaccines have been developed for bivalent vaccination against HPAI viruses and NDV. These vaccines have been generated by inserting the hemagglutinin (HA) gene of avian influenza virus into NDV genomes. In laboratory settings, several experimental NDV-vectored vaccines have protected specific pathogen-free chickens from mortality, clinical signs, and virus shedding against H5 and H7 HPAI viruses and NDV challenges. NDV-vectored H5 vaccines have been licensed for poultry vaccination in China and Mexico. Recently, an antigenically chimeric NDV vector has been generated to overcome pre-existing immunity to NDV in poultry and to provide early protection of poultry in the field. Prime immunization of one-day-old poults with a chimeric NDV vector followed by boosting with a conventional NDV vector has shown to protect broiler chickens against H5 HPAI viruses and a highly virulent NDV. This novel vaccination approach can provide efficient control of HPAI viruses in the field and facilitate poultry vaccination.
title: Συγκριτική μελέτη αρχιτεκτονικών αναίρεσης της ηχούς με τεχνολογίες FPGA και DSP για πολυκαναλικούς εξυπηρετητές ISDN
Creators: name: Πενογλίδης Χρήστος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2001

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
title: Αυτόνομο σύστημα πολλαπλών αισθητήρων για πλοήγηση και χαρτογράφηση τρισδιάστατου χώρου
Creators: name: Στογιάννος Παναγιώτης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 1997

description: Μη διαθέσιμο
Literature Review of Net Zero and Resilience Research of the Urban Environment: A Citation Analysis Using Big Data
Creators: name: Hu, Ming
name: Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2019

description: According to the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report, the urban environment is responsible for between 71% and 76% of carbon emissions from global final energy use and between 67% and 76% of global energy use. Two important and trending domains in urban environment are “resilience” and “net zero” associated with high-performance design, both of which have their origins in ecology. The ultimate goal of net zero energy has become the ultimate “high-performance” standard for buildings. Another emerging index is the measurement and improvement of the resilience of buildings. Despite the richness of research on net zero energy and resilience in the urban environment, literature that compares net zero energy and resilience is very limited. This paper provides an overview of research activities in those two research domains in the past 40 years. The purpose of this review is to (1) explore the shared ecological roots of the two domains, (2) identify the main research areas/clusters within each, (3) gain insight into the size of the different research topics, and (4) identify any research gaps. Finally, conclusions about the review focus on the major difference between the net zero movement and resilience theory in the urban environment and their respective relations to their ecological origins.
Seeking Sense in the Hox Gene Cluster.
Creators: name: Gaunt, Stephen J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022

description: The Hox gene cluster, responsible for patterning of the head-tail axis, is an ancestral feature of all bilaterally symmetrical animals (the Bilateria) that remains intact in a wide range of species. We can say that the Hox cluster evolved successfully only once since it is commonly the same in all groups, with labial-like genes at one end of the cluster expressed in the anterior embryo, and Abd-B-like genes at the other end of the cluster expressed posteriorly. This review attempts to make sense of the Hox gene cluster and to address the following questions. How did the Hox cluster form in the protostome-deuterostome last common ancestor, and why was this with a particular head-tail polarity? Why is gene clustering usually maintained? Why is there collinearity between the order of genes along the cluster and the positions of their expressions along the embryo? Why do the Hox gene expression domains overlap along the embryo? Why have vertebrates duplicated the Hox cluster? Why do Hox gene knockouts typically result in anterior homeotic transformations? How do animals adapt their Hox clusters to evolve new structural patterns along the head-tail axis?
description: Funding provided by The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, U.K
Prediction of three-dimensional flood-flow past bridge piers in a large-scale meandering river using convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Khosronejad, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The machine learning codes (in Python) are uploaded. These codes can be used for: 1- first-order flow statistics prediction; 2- second-order flow statistics predictions; and 3- flow predictions by considering the "divergence-free" constraint. A series of sample training datasets are also included as " trainingdata.zip". Plus, some sample results (prediction results) are placed in "resultdata.zip." Below, we explain how to use each of these codes: The codes here works in the following steps:
 1. run readdata.py to preprocess data from ASCII tecplot format to binary numpy format.
 this step can be skipped since all data are prepared in ./train, ./test and ./check
 2. run main.py to train the CNN for u, v, w components separately.
 3. run check.py to run the trained model and output the predictions.
 4. run fluctuation.py to calculate u', v', w' for second-order statistics code. contents in subfolders:
 flc1 --u' v' w' data
 input --input data of CNN, instantaneous flow fields
 target --LES flow fields, target for training and testing
 output --CNN predictions
The viability and economics of townships economies
Creators: name: Edgars, Prof Tal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sub-Saharan African history
Behavioural economics
Econometric and statistical methods
Sociological methodology and research methods
African literature

description: Townships have a long and complicated history in South Africa. Before 1994, the townships were forced to function outside of the mainstream economy and so were a major tool in the racial segregation and economic marginalisation of black people. After 1994, the institutionalised system of racial segregation came to a formal end and the government has since worked to integrate the townships into the formal economy. However, the formal disbandment of the previous system did not eliminate these underdeveloped, (typically) urban residential areas located on the outskirts of metropolitan areas.
 Currently there are over 500 townships in the country, whose combined land mass surpasses that of Johannesburg and Durban combined and which are home to an estimated 40% of South Africa’s urban population. Much like the rest of the country, townships are plagued with high unemployment rates.
 Most township businesses are necessity-based and unable to grow beyond a store front or small-scale operation. Additionally, these businesses tend to operate informally, with low financial and employment returns. The World Bank estimates that only 15% of township enterprises are formally registered, compared with 30% of similar enterprises in urban areas, and they generally do not provide goods or services that reach larger markets or create quality jobs.
 Despite these characteristics, governments at various levels have focused on leveraging township communities, and the entrepreneurs and small businesses that operate within them, to support economic growth at the provincial and national levels. Initiatives have been implemented over the last few decades to support township small businesses, though many of these efforts have been criticised as only improving townships at a superficial level, rather than an ecosystem level. The ineffectiveness of these interventions is evidenced by the stagnant state of the overall South African MSME sector over the past decade, as the total number of MSMEs in the country dropped by nearly 300,000 between 2008 and 2017.