cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evaluation of structural reliability for reinforced concrete buildings exposed to corrosion
Creators: name: Carrillo-Bueno, Carlos A.
name: Ruiz, Sonia E.
name: Tolentino, Dante
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A probabilistic criterion proposed by Cornell et al (2002) and extended by Tolentino et al (2012) is used here to study the effect of long-term material degradation due to corrosion of reinforced concrete buildings located in the Pacific Coast of Mexico. The criterion considers, by means of closed form mathematical expressions, the simultaneous variation of the structural capacity and of the structural demand, over time. The structural reliability is represented in terms of two alternative indicators: a) the expected number of failures over a time interval, and b) the confidence factors as functions of time, within a Demand and Capacity Factor Design format. The reliability indicators are extended here in order to take into account the structural deterioration due to corrosion over a time interval. Both, aleatory and epistemic uncertainties are taken into account. The structural reliability is evaluated for a 4-story building subjected to a set of real seismic ground motions recorded in Acapulco Bay, Mexico.
Supplementary document for Highly sensitive short-range mode resonance sensor with multilayer structured hyperbolic metamaterials - 6229651.pdf
Creators: name: Shen, Jian
name: Li, Zhiqi
name: zhang, yizhuo
name: Guo, Xiaowan
name: Tong, Chenghao
name: chen, xiaoying
name: Li, Chaoyang
name: zeng, yu
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This supplementary document is an additional derivation of Eq. (19) in the manuscript.
The Effect of Mobile Banking on Financial Performance of Commercial Banks Listed in Nairobi Securities Exchange
Creators: name: Mwita, Denis
name: Mwita, Denis
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Accounting

description: The study sought to examine the effect of mobile banking on financial performance of listed commercial banks in Kenya. The research adopted a causal research design. The research targeted the 12 listed commercial banks that operated between 2016 to 2020. Annual panel data sources running from 2016 to December 2020 was adopted in the current study.” The collected panel data for the period of between 2016 and 2020 was analyzed using Microsoft excel. The study adopted OLS regression model for the purpose of estimating the coefficients and associated p-values to enable the fitting the model and forecasting. The effect of mobile phone-based loans on financial performance was direct and major. The study also showed that Mobile Banking Volume of Transactions had a direct and significant effect on financial performance. Mobile Banking Value of Transactions also had a direct and significant. The analysis also revealed that the effect of asset quality on financial performance was inverse and significant. The effect of Capital Adequacy on financial performance was direct but not significant. Finally, the effect of Bank size on financial performance was positive and significant. The study thus concluded that mobile banking, asset quality, capital adequacy and bank size had a significant effect on financial performance of listed commercial banks in Kenya. The study thus suggests to management of listed commercial banks to improved mobile banking technologies and platform for easy access and use by customers. Management of listed commercial banks to issue high quality loans to customers. The banks should continue performing back ground check on customers’ credit worthiness to lower incidences of nonperforming loans. Management of listed commercial banks to continue increasing the size of their banks. The banks can increase their investment in financial assets such as treasury bills and bonds.
The Future is Biopunk and What it Means to be Human
Creators: name: Garcia-Gamble, Megan
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Universities and colleges--Graduate work
subject: American literature
subject: September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)

description: The essay explores the futurity of the United States post-September 11, 2001 using course readings for support.
The Future is Biopunk and What it Means to be Human
Creators: name: Garcia-Gamble, Megan
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Universities and colleges--Graduate work
subject: American literature
subject: September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)

description: The essay explores the futurity of the United States post-September 11, 2001 using course readings for support.
Fragility functions for pipeline in liquefiable sand : a case study on the Groningen gas-network
Creators: name: Miraglia, Simona
name: Courage, Wim
name: Meijers, Piet
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Any pipeline network is of strategic importance for the country in which it is located, both because its correct functioning is of vital importance for today’s functioning of the community and because any disruption, malfunctioning or rupture represents a hazard for the community. In this paper the fragility function for a simple segment of a high pressure pipeline installed in loose, saturated sand is investigated with respect to shallow earthquakes. These earthquakes can cause local permanent ground deformation due to liquefaction effects.
Adapting to Space: The International space Station Archaeological Project
Creators: name: Walsh, Justin
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: International Space Station
subject: Space archaeology

description: The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP), co-directed by Alice Gorman and me, is the first full-scale, systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in space. We started in late 2015, in response to a number of phenomena, including a growing desire to move the focus of space archaeology away from heritage studies and purely theoretical discussions and towards deep interpretation of material culture and more practical applications of archaeological effort. The obstacles to carrying out archaeological research in space have been discussed Alice Gorman elsewhere in this volume. This chapter tells the story of
ISSAP from concept to execution, providing a view into space archaeology as a social science in the early twenty-first century.
D7.1.1: Applications Addressing Major Socio-economic Challenges
Creators: name: Szpindler, Maciej
name: Zieliński, Marcin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Deliverable
HPC
Research infrastructure
Application support

description: The PRACE project provides continuous support for European HPC applications. One of the objectives of the PRACE-3IP Work Package 7 ‘Application Enabling and Support’ is to extend the support with a focus on key community codes that address major socio-economic challenges.
 This deliverable contains a report on major socio-economic challenges that are addressed with a selected set of community codes. These challenges are focused on problems that have substantial impact on our lives and environment or on areas that drive Europe’s economic competitiveness. The list of identified socio-economic challenges includes: Safe and Environmental-friendly energy production. Rational drug design. Future aircraft transportation. Sustainable food supply. ‘Big data’ management and processing. Multiscale modelling of the human cells and organs. Understanding of climate change. Natural environment protection. A set of European and other community codes has been carefully selected to address challenges in the identified areas. For each code, this Task will either enable the application to use HPC systems, or improve its performance. The application codes have been chosen with the support of the PRACE Scientific Committee, assuring the independence and quality of the selection. The process used for selection of these applications is described in the report.
 For each of the identified socio-economic challenges at least one enabling project has been defined, including its objectives, work scope, current state and the expected improvement of a given application or a set of applications. The objectives of these projects include code porting to selected Tier-0 architectures, tuning specific computational kernels to enable simulations at a desired scale, optimization of an application workflows and multi-application environment couplings.
 The enabling support of the selected codes associated with socio-economic challenges has already started. This deliverable presents an initial progress report for each application.
Research Activity: Office of Phosphorus
Creators: name: Merck, Ashton
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Politics and government
subject: Federal government
subject: Phosphorus--Environmental aspects
subject: Phosphorus
subject: Public administration

description: This guide outlines a collaborative research activity that introduces students to the governance challenges associated with phosphorus management at both the state and federal level in the United States, through open-ended, exploratory research that allows them to practice identifying, using, and evaluating publicly available resources related to governance. The activity materials include a fictional "Executive Order" establishing the Office of Phosphorus, and a set of step-by-step instructions and questions to investigate public information on governance of phosphorus at the federal level and in North Carolina. This activity can be readily modified to investigate state and local governance structures in other states. This research activity is appropriate for 10th graders through college students. Modified versions of this activity could be used for advanced 8th and 9th graders who have taken at least one course in civics or American government. This activity could be used in a variety of courses related to government, political science, and civics that have a unit focused on environmental regulation and governance. The activity could also be used in classes on environmental science, sustainability, and organizational communication.
Research Activity: Office of Phosphorus
Creators: name: Merck, Ashton
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Phosphorus
subject: Phosphorus--Environmental aspects
subject: Politics and government
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Federal government
subject: Public administration

description: This guide outlines a collaborative research activity that introduces students to the governance challenges associated with phosphorus management at both the state and federal level in the United States, through open-ended, exploratory research that allows them to practice identifying, using, and evaluating publicly available resources related to governance. The activity materials include a fictional “Executive Order” establishing the Office of Phosphorus, and a set of step-by-step instructions and questions to investigate public information on governance of phosphorus at the federal level and in North Carolina. This activity can be readily modified to investigate state and local governance structures in other states. This research activity is appropriate for 10th graders through college students. Modified versions of this activity could be used for advanced 8th and 9th graders who have taken at least one course in civics or American government. This activity could be used in a variety of courses related to government, political science, and civics that have a unit focused on environmental regulation and governance. The activity could also be used in classes on environmental science, sustainability, and organizational communication.
Probabilistic modeling of system deterioration with inspection and monitoring data using Bayesian networks
Creators: name: Luque, Jesus
name: Straub, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: To facilitate the estimation of the reliability of deteriorating structural systems conditional on inspection and monitoring results, we develop a modeling and computational framework based on Bayesian Networks (BNs). The framework enables accounting for dependence among deterioration at different system components, for dependence due to the structural system behavior, but also dependence introduced by information obtained on selected parts of the system, which effects the reliability estimates of other system parts. The proposed model and algorithm is applicable to aging structures, including offshore platforms, bridges, ships, aircraft structures, considering deterioration process such as corrosion and fatigue. To efficiently model dependence among component deterioration states, a hierarchical structure is defined. This structure facilitates the solution of the Bayesian model updating of the components in parallel. For illustration, a Daniels system subjected to fatigue is used as a case study. The computational efficiency of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of Markov Chain Monte Carlo and found to be orders of magnitude higher.
Firelogue Deliverables
Creators: name: National Observatory of Athens
name: Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis
name: Pau Costa Foundation
name: Trilateral Research & Consulting
name: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
name: Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers
name: CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
name: Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
name: Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial
name: Center for Security Studies
name: Universidad de Alcalá
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Find here the public Deliverables of Firelogue Project.

New additions will be mabe by the end of 2025.
Supplementary document for Suppression of coupling between optical aberration and tilt-to-length noise in a space- based gravitational wave telescope - 6229906.pdf
Creators: name: Wu, Yanxiong
name: Lin, Hongan
name: Li, Jiancong
name: Huang, Yaozhang
name: Yu, Miao
name: Luo, Jiaxiong
name: Wang, Zhi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Detailed derivation process of Eq. (2)
title: Zuverlässigkeit und strukturelle Parameter von Verkehrsnetzen
Creators: name: Dudek, Mariusz
name: Richter, Matthias
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Verkehrsnetz
subject: Zuverlässigkeit
subject: Graph
subject: Regressionsanalyse
subject: 620

description: Im Vortrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Zuverlässigkeit und gewissen strukturellen Parametern eines Verkehrsnetzes besteht. Das Verkehrsnetz wird hierzu als bewerteter Graph aufgefasst. Zur Analyse der Verkehrsnetzzuverlässigkeit werden die Kanten mit ihren Verfügbarkeiten (>Zuverlässigkeiten<) bewertet. Die Zuverlässigkeit des Verkehrsnetzes hat einen großen Einfluss auf die Beurteilung des Straßennetzes. Im Sinne einer Regressionsanalyse soll der Zusammenhang mit weiteren, speziell für die Betrachtung von Verkehrsnetzen entwickelten strukturellen Kenngrößen untersucht werden, das sind insbesondere die Dispersion des Verkehrsnetzes und die Unterentwicklung des Netzes. Aus der Vielzahl der theoretisch denkbaren Verkehrsnetzstrukturen spiegelt die Ring-Radius-Struktur die realen Straßennetze am besten wider. Solche Ring-Radius-Strukturen kommen in vielen Städten vor. Die Berechnung der Verkehrsnetzzuverlässigkeit erfolgt mittels eines Algorithmus, der auf dem Prinzip der vollständigen Enumeration aller möglichen Kombinationen der Verfügbarkeit bzw. Nichtverfügbarkeit der einzelnen Kanten basiert und die gewünschte Kenngröße exakt bestimmt. Obwohl der Algorithmus speziell auf eine möglichst geringe Rechenzeit ausgerichtet ist, bleibt das Verfahren doch numerisch recht aufwendig. An Hand von zehn verschiedenen Ring-Radius-Strukturen wird der Nachweis eines Zusammenhangs zwischen den strukturellen Kenngrößen und der Verkehrsnetzzuverlässigkeit geführt. Damit können mittels struktureller Bewertungen (die mit einem vergleichsweise geringen Aufwand an Input-Daten und Rechenzeit bestimmbar sind) Aussagen über die Zuverlässigkeit des Verkehrsnetzes getroffen werden.
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003
A dynamic Bayesian network framework for risk assessment of systems based on sensor measurements
Creators: name: Tien, Iris
name: Pozzi, Matteo
name: Der Kiureghian, Armen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In this paper, a framework based the dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) is proposed to dynamically monitor the response of structures to hazards. The methodology enables the probabilistic analysis of the response of a system to a hazard that is stochastic, e.g., an earthquake ground motion, as it dynamically evolves in time, based on sensor measurements that are uncertain. The developed DBN framework is applied to the estimation of the inter-story drift of a multi-story shear-type building under earthquake hazard based on accelerometer measurements. Using a simulation approach, the ability of the method to accurately assess the system response is shown. In addition, robustness of the method to system uncertainties, including uncertainties in the structural characteristics, is demonstrated.
"These Colors Don't Run:" Chemistry, Politics and Red Textiles, 1870-2002
Creators: name: Lowengard, Sarah
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Popular culture
subject: Political campaigns
subject: Textile industry
subject: Textile fabrics
subject: History

description: In this presentation, I outline and reposition the entangled histories of certain objects, technologies, and rhetoric, to show how consumption and consumer identity are reflected in their combination and that each category is never far from the other two.  A narrated iteration of a recent presentation. I consider this an interim version as I seek comments from colleagues and plan to further revise the format. Please observe the usual courtesies of attribution.
"These Colors Don't Run:" Chemistry, Politics and Red Textiles, 1870-2002
Creators: name: Lowengard, Sarah
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Textile industry
subject: Popular culture
subject: History
subject: Textile fabrics
subject: Political campaigns

description: In this presentation, I outline and reposition the entangled histories of certain objects, technologies, and rhetoric, to show how consumption and consumer identity are reflected in their combination and that each category is never far from the other two.

A narrated iteration of a recent presentation. I consider this an interim version as I seek comments from colleagues and plan to further revise the format. Please observe the usual courtesies of attribution.
title: Textile Reinforced Concrete Part I: Process Model for Collaborative Research and Development
Creators: name: Chudoba, Rostislav
name: Butenweg, Christoph
name: Pfeiffer, Frank
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Beton
subject: Bewehrung
subject: Textilfaser
subject: Datenbank
subject: 620

description: The goal of the collaborative research center (SFB 532) >Textile reinforced concrete (TRC): the basis for the development of a new material technology< installed in 1998 at the Aachen University is a complex assessment of mechanical, chemical, economical and productional aspects in an interdisciplinary environment. The research project involves 10 institutes performing parallel research in 17 projects. The coordination of such a research process requires effective software support for information sharing in form of data exchange, data analysis and data archival. Furthermore, the processes of experiment planning and design, modification of material compositions and design parameters and development of new material models in such an environment call for systematic coordination applying the concepts of operational research. Flexible organization of the data coming from several sources is a crucial premise for a transparent accumulation of knowledge and, thus, for a successful research in a long run. The technical information system (TRC-TIS) developed in the SFB 532 has been implemented as a database-powered web server with a transparent definition of the product and process model. It serves as an intranet server with access domains devoted to the involved research groups. At the same time, it allows the presentation of selected results just by granting a data object an access from the public area of the server via internet.
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003
title: Hyperbolic Qp-scales
Creators: name: Cerejeiras, Paula
Publisher: name: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quaternion
subject: 620

description: The Qp-scales were first introduced in [1] as interpolation spaces between the Bloch and Dirichlet spaces in the complex space. ... However, such treatment presents the disadvantage of only considering the Euclidean case. In order to obtain an approach to homogeneous hyperbolic manifolds, the projective model of Gel'fand was retaken in [2]. With the help of a convenient fundamental solution for the hyperbolic (homogeneous of degree ®) D® (see [5]) it was introduced in [7] and [3] equivalent Qp scales for homogeneous hyperbolic spaces. In this talk we shall present and study some properties of this hyperbolic scale.
description: Internationales Kolloquium über Anwendungen der Informatik und Mathematik in Architektur und Bauwesen : 10. bis 12.06.2003, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vol. 16, 2003
Network reliability analysis for cluster connectivity using AdaBoost
Creators: name: Stern, Raphael E.
name: Song, Junho
name: Work, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In the aftermath of a natural disaster, knowledge of the connectivity of different regions of infrastructure networks is crucial to aid decision makers. For large-scale networks it can be extremely time-consuming to obtain a converged estimate by performing a large number of Monte Carlo simulations to compute the network failure probability. To reduce computational requirements, this work develops a surrogate model using an AdaBoost classifier for predicting probabilities of disconnections between node clusters in lifeline infrastructure networks. The proposed approach uses spectral clustering to partition the network, and it estimates the connectivity of these clusters using an AdaBoost classifier. Numerical experiments on a California gas distribution network demonstrate that using the surrogate model to determine cluster connectivity introduces less than five percent error and is two orders of magnitude faster than methods using an exact network model to estimate the probability of network failure through Monte Carlo simulations.
Enhancing Dental Education with AI: Development and Evaluation of ChatterMouth, a GPT-4 Powered Study Tool for INBDE Preparation
Creators: name: Shivani Shah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dental education
subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: GPT-4
subject: Natural language processing
subject: Prompt engineering
subject: Study Tools

description: This paper presents the development and evaluation of ChatterMouth, a GPT-4 powered chatbot designed to assist dental students in preparing for the Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE). By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and natural language processing, ChatterMouth generates multiple-choice questions in the style of the INBDE and provides hints and explanations to guide users towards the correct answers. The study explores the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in education, highlighting the potential of AI to revolutionize study processes and enhance critical thinking skills among students. The paper also discusses various prompt engineering techniques used to improve ChatterMouth's performance and accuracy.
Energy-based seismic collapse risk assessment of structures
Creators: name: Deniz, Derya
name: Song, Junho
name: Hajjar, Jerome F.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Structural collapse is traditionally associated with the exceedance of a target value of inter-story drift or plastic hinge rotation at structural components. However, such an approach may not accurately estimate the structural collapse potential due to load redistribution and variation of structural damage within the structure. Moreover, collapse prediction may be sensitive to such assumed threshold values. Therefore, in this study, energy balance of a structural system is utilized to represent the severe structural damage history that eventually leads to structural collapse. Performing energy-based collapse analyses, a new dynamic-instability based collapse criterion is developed and key collapse measures are identified. Using the results, a new collapse fragility model is then established for estimating and improving structural reliability against collapse. Moreover, extensive parametric studies are performed to investigate sensitivity of collapse fragilities to variability in structural and earthquake parameters.
Qaṣr al-Murabbaʿ
Creators: name: عبد الرحمن بن سليمان الرويشد
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: الرياض
قصر المربَّع

description: ʿAbd ar-Raḥman ar-Rushid, Qaṣr al-Murabbaʿ (Riyadh: Supreme Authority for the Development of Riyadh [2002]).
title: Vocational aspirations and gender: Fighting the normative impact of language and stereotypes
Creators: name: Pittet, Mégane
name: Gygax, Pascal
name: Gabriel, Ute
name: Oakhill, Jane
Publisher: name: Melusina Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: Language
gender
vocational aspirations
stereotypes

description: Gender and Education in Luxembourg and Beyond: Local Challenges and New Perspectives -
description: In the past 50 years, many professions have become more gender diversified in Europe. However, there is still substantial gender segregation, with women dominating in the health, welfare and education sector and men in technical and engineering professions. To overcome this situation, or at least to suggest interventions that may alleviate the issues at the foundations of this situation, we advocate an interdisciplinary perspective, at the crossroad between vocational psychology, social psychology, and psycholinguistics. In this chapter, we specifically suggest that vocational aspirations are very frequently based on gendered interests, which can be understood as internalised gender stereotypes associated with occupations. We argue that if interests are indeed fed by stereotypical expectations, the risk is that career choices are less (or not) informed by a person’s potential. To ground our argument, we present research on gender-typed vocational aspirations, and discuss how linguistic presentations – often underestimated – of occupations contribute to gendered interests in adolescents. Most crucially, we focus on adolescents, as the transition from childhood (ages from 12 to 18) to adulthood is an important stage in vocational development in which gender stereotyped perceptions of occupations play an essential role. We conclude by suggesting several avenues, in terms of research endeavour and more applied measures, to alleviate normative injunctions that may limit vocational aspirations in children and adolescents.
Political Mediation as a Tool of Conflict Resolution: Qatar as a Case Study
Creators: name: ALQubaisi, Asmaa Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: This paper explores the notion of political mediation as a tool for conflict resolution, focusing particularly on the case of Qatar. In recent years, political mediation has been as a popular alternative to armed conflicts and Qatar has proven itself to be an active mediator, seeking opportunities to help conflicting parties come to an agreement. The research question can be formulated in the following manner: What factors contribute to the success of Qatar's mediation and why it is not always successful in resolving the conflict? The literature review shows that Qatar enjoys a favourable combination of wealth, prosperity, and leadership stability that it uses to promote its role as an active mediator. The methodology that was used during the research relies on the use of three cases which involved Qatar: mediation in Lebanon, Sudan, and Yemen. Overall, the research is qualitative. It was found that in each of these cases, the country in question used its resources extremely efficiently in order to achieve mediation, but it was not successful in resolving the situation. Thus, in Lebanon, initially the negotiations that lead to the election of the new president were seen as a diplomatic victory, but the current state of affairs shows that it did not change much in the country, even though it prevented possible civil war. In the case of Sudan, Qatar was able to facilitate talks between the government and the rebel groups, but neither of them was able to agree on lasting peace. Finally, in the case of Yemen, Qatar is responsible for drafting two peace agreements, but the first has been broken and the second is likely to break as well. All this leads to the situation when Qatari mediation efforts are successful, yet they do not have a long-lasting effect.
Caratteristiche Craniofacciali in soggetti affetti da Displasia Ectodermica in età evolutiva
Craniofacial characteristics in children affected with Ectodermal Dysplasia
Creators: name: Khamis, Nadia <1980>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2016
Subjects: MED/28 Malattie odontostomatologiche

description: Obiettivo di questo studio osservazionale (caso-controllo) è descrivere le caratteristiche cranio-facciali di soggetti in età evolutiva affetti da Displasia Ectodermica mediante analisi cefalometrica di teleradiografie in proiezione latero-laterale. 
Il gruppo sperimentale è composto da 30 pazienti (7.9-13 anni) di genere maschile con diagnosi di Displasia Ectodermica; il gruppo controllo è composto da 32 pazienti appaiati per genere e età (7.5-13.6 anni) con anamnesi medica negativa. Sono state misurate e confrontate nei due gruppi (utilizzando il test statistico t di Student; p ≤0,05) le seguenti variabili cefalometriche: SNA, SNB, ANB, ANS-PNS/Me-Go,Ba-S-N, S-N/Go-Gn, Ar-Go-Me, FH/S-Me, N-S/ANS-PNS, N-S-Gn, SNPg, S-Ba, Go-Pg, N-ANS, N-Me, ANS-PNS, S-Pg, Ba-N, Go-Ar, S-ANS, ANS-Me, ANS-N-S, S-N. 
I risultati ottenuti evidenziano differenze significative nel pattern cranio-facciale nei pazienti affetti da Displasia Ectodermica: sul piano sagittale biretrusione mascellare rispetto alla base cranica, con tendenza alla terza classe scheletrica; sul piano verticale ipodivergenza mandibolare con riduzione della dimensione verticale del terzo inferiore del viso. 
Questo studio evidenzia l’utilità di integrare la pianificazione della riabilitazione odontoiatrica con una valutazione di tipo cefalometrico. Come prospettiva futura sarebbe interessante valutare se la riabilitazione odontoiatrica di questi pazienti si associ ad una modificazione del pattern di crescita cranio-facciale.
description: The aim of this observational (case-control)study was to describe the lateral cephalometric craniofacial characteristics of children affected with Ectodermal Dysplasia .
The experimental group consisted of 30 male patients diagnosed with Ectodermal Dysplasia (7.9-13 years); The control group used for comparison was composed of 32 patients matched for gender and age (7.5-13.6 years) with negative medical history. They variables measured and compared (using the Student t test; p ≤0,05)in the two groups are the follwing: SNA, SNB, ANB, ANS-PNS / Me-Go, Ba-SN, SN / Go- gn, Ar-Go-Me, FH / S-Me, NS / ANS-PNS, NS-Gen, SNPG, S-Ba, Go-Pg, ANS-N, N-Me, ANS-PNS, S-Pg, Ba-N, Go-Ar, S-ANS, ANS-Me, ANS-NS, SN.
The results showed significant differences in the craniofacial pattern in the study group: bimaxillary retrusion compared to the cranial base, a tendency to a Class III skeletal pattern; a hypodivergent mandible with reduced vertical height of the lower third of the face.
This study highlights the usefulness of performing a cephalometric assessment when planning oral prosthetic rehabilitations. A future field of research would be to assess the effects of prosthetic rehabilitation on the craniofacial growth pattern.
Prediction of creep and shrinkage based on gamma process models
Creators: name: Strauss, Alfred
name: Wendner, Roman
name: Vidovic, Anja
name: Zambon, Ivan
name: Frangopol, Dan M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In order to systematically study the main influence factors on bridge deformation probability prediction methods can be used. Gamma process has shown to be suitable for capturing evolving structural response quantities and deterioration mechanism like crack propagation, corrosion, creep and shrinkage. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the applicability of gamma process approaches for the prediction of the creep and shrinkage performance of pre-stressed concrete bridges. For this purpose the Colle Isarco Viaduct Bridge was used.
myMoment und youType - digitale Schreibplattformen für Schüler und Schülerinnen
Creators: name: Senn, Fabienne
Publisher: name: Verein Leseforum Schweiz
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Schreibunterricht
subject: Online-Schreiben
subject: Multimodalität
subject: myMoment
subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: MyMoment und youType sind Schreibplattformen, auf denen Kinder und Jugendliche eigene Texte veröffentlichen und solche von anderen kommentieren, bewerten oder an denen sie weiterschreiben können. Während myMoment für Kinder der Primarstufen 1 bis 5 konzipiert ist, richtet sich youType an Jugendliche ab der 5. Klasse bis Ende Sekundarstufe I. In diesem Artikel erfahren die Leser und Leserinnen mehr über den Aufbau der beiden Schreibplattformen und ihren Bezug zur Lebenswelt der Kinder und Jugendlichen. In einem weiteren Schritt werden zu beiden Plattformen die multimodalen Bezüge erläutert. Abschliessend erhalten die Leser und Leserinnen einen Einblick in den myMoment-Schul- und Schreiballtag einer fünften Klasse anhand eines konkreten Unterrichtsbeispiels.
Fragility curves of restoration processes for resilience analysis
Creators: name: Barberis, Fabiana
name: Malavisi, Marzia
name: Cimellaro, Gian Paolo
name: Mahin, Stephen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: In literature the fragility curves are usually adopted to evaluate the probability of exceedance of a given damage state, while in this paper is presented for the first time a procedure for building fragility curves of restoration processes which can be adopted for resilience analysis. The restoration process describes the capacity to recover of a system after a failure. In order to have a resilience system, it is necessary to reduce the consequences from failures by shortening the recovery time and reducing the probability of damage. The restoration process is one of the most uncertain variables in the resilience analysis therefore, it is necessary to consider it in probabilistic terms. The method has been applied to the performance of a hospital during an emergency. A discrete event simulation model has been built to simulate different restoration processes. The set of restoration processes obtained through Monte Carlo simulations has been analyzed statistically to determine the probability of exceedance of a given restoration state. Restoration Fragility Functions (RFF) are obtained using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach. The probability of restoration for a given earthquake intensity (e.g. MMI) level, x, can then be estimated as the fraction of records for which restoration occurs at a level lower than x. A lognormal cumulative distribution function is used to fit the data, to provide a continuous estimate of the probability of restoration as a function of MMI. Two different case scenarios are compared: the Emergency Department (ED) with and without emergency plan applied. Finally, different methods to build fragility curves are compared in order to evaluate the RFF.
Islamic State; Questions of Necessity and Impossibility
Creators: name: Alrefai, Ayman Kassem
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: ملخص البحثيكاد يتفق غالبية المفكرين السياسيين الإسلاميين منهم وغير الإسلاميين، أن الفكر السياسي الإسلامي بشكل عام يعاني من نقصٍ وضعفٍ، وعدم تكاملٍ في نظريته السياسية العامة. وبسبب هذا النقص والضعف، فقد اختلفت الآراء والأطروحات بشأن فكرة الحكم والدولة في الإسلام بشكل كبير جداً، حتى بلغت حدَّ التباين والتضارب التام - في أحيان كثيرة - حول المفهوم والماهية والأسس والمبادئ، وحتى حول مدى ارتباط هذه الفكرة بالإسلام كدين وشريعة، وكذلك حول مدى تواؤمها مع نموذج العصر الذي نحياه، والمتمثل في الدولة الحديثة، وطريقة تفاعلها معها، والأشكال التي يمكن أن تأخذها في ظل مفاهيمها الحداثية. وانطلاقاً من هذه الإشكالية قمنا في هذا البحث ومن خلال نمط الأبحاث المقارنة، بدراسة أطروحات وفرضيات الحكم والدولة في الإسلام، متخذين من فرضية الدولة المستحيلة لوائل حلاق نموذجاً وفرضية مركزية، قام بناء هيكل البحث بالاعتماد عليها، حيث تمت عملية مقارنتها ومقاربتها بالأفكار والأطروحات الأخرى، والتي شملت الأطروحات التي تتأسس على فكرة الدولة والحكم في الإسلام، مثل أطروحة (الخلافة) التراثية لدى أصحاب النظرية الاتباعية، وأطروحة الدولة الإسلامية لدى أصحاب الإسلام السياسي، والأطروحات الأخرى الناقدة لفكرة الدولة الإسلامية كأطروحة الدولة المستحيلة وما قاربها، أو تلك المعارضة بشكل عام لها كما هي عند العلمانيين وسواهم. وقد تم ذلك من خلال دراسة كل تلك الأفكار دراسة علمية واعية بكل تناقضات الفرضيات والحجج. حيث خلص البحث إلى نتيجة يرجح من خلالها بعض الآراء التي تتعلق بكلا مفهومي؛ الدولة الحديثة والحكم الإسلامي، والتي تتبنى؛ أن نموذج الدولة القومية الحديثة يعاني من وجود مأزق أخلاقي حقيقي، وأن نموذج الدولة الإسلامية، هو طرح غير ناضج حداثياً وغير راسخ إسلامياً.
title: Blackberry :
title: Guidelines for the Conduct of Tests for Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants..,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Year: 0
Subjects: New Varieties of Plants
Blackberry
Group identity

description: The purpose of these guidelines (“Test Guidelines”) is to elaborate the principles contained in the General Introduction (document TG/1/3), and its associated TGP documents, into detailed practical guidance for the harmonized examination of distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS) and, in particular, to identify appropriate characteristics for the examination of DUS and production of harmonized variety descriptions.
CLARIN Café: Project Management in Digital Humanities
Creators: name: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: project management
digital humanities
research infrastructures

description: This CLARIN Café was co-organised by CLARIN ERIC and the DH Course Registry Working Group as a follow-up to the DH Graduates: Bridging Gaps Between Industry & Education workshop, an initiative supported by CLARIN and the DARIAH Funding Scheme for Working Group Activities 2023-2025. The initiative examines how DH programs in Europe and the USA equip graduates for careers in academia, the public sector, and industry. It also investigates how research infrastructures, such as CLARIN and DARIAH, can assist universities in fostering their students' digital competencies through open access to language data repositories, language resources, services, tools, and learning materials.

Programme

15:00 - 15:15 Welcome and Introduction to CLARIN by Vincent Vandeghinste

15:15 - 15:30 Practical Approaches to Project and Data Management in the Digital Humanities: Skills, Challenges, and Lessons Learned  by Amelie Dorn and Seta Štuhec (ACDH-CH, OeAW)

15:30 - 15:45 Navigating the local streams of infrastructure development and DH education in Finland by Inés Matres (University of Helsinki, DH Hackathon team)

15:45 - 16:00 Applying High-Performance Management Principles in DH Projects by Maxi Gorynski and Supriya Rai

16:00 - 16:05 Break

16:05 - 16:20 Ten Years of Project Management in Digital Humanities: Lessons from Princeton’s CDH by Natalia Ermolaev (Princeton University)

16:20 - 16:45 Questions & Discussion 

The recordings can be viewed on the CLARIN YouTube channel.
The Perfect Formula: Engineering + Government Information Librarians = Success
Creators: name: Kenly, Patricia E.
name: Finn, B
Publisher: name: STEM Librarian South
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461099
subject: Library and information studies not elsewhere classified

description:   
Research consultations by faculty, staff, and students often involve interdisciplinary collaboration among librarians with different specialties. This teamwork helps address research needs effectively. In this session, we’ll focus on using free federal government information sources, which cover a wide range of topics, including STEM. These resources are valuable for their clear explanations and practical approaches, fostering lifelong learning and real-world problem-solving skills.
Supplementary document for Electro-optic fs pulsed laser deflection in KTN crystals using UV illumination - 6230675.pdf
Creators: name: Shang, Annan
name: Liu, Ruijia
name: Lee, Yun Goo
name: KABIR, MOHAMMAD AHSANUL
name: Ji, Yaoyang
name: Yin, Shizhuo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Estimation of coefficients and angular resolution, Modulation test setup, beam and PLM images, and UV Illuminated Deflection angle results at different propagation positions
META-LEARNING ADAPTIVE DEEP KERNEL GAUSSIAN PROCESSES FOR MOLECULAR PROPERTY PREDICTION
Creators: name: Chen, W
name: Tripp, A
name: Hernández-Lobato, JM
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023

description: We propose Adaptive Deep Kernel Fitting with Implicit Function Theorem (ADKF-IFT), a novel framework for learning deep kernel Gaussian processes (GPs) by interpolating between meta-learning and conventional deep kernel learning. Our approach employs a bilevel optimization objective where we meta-learn generally useful feature representations across tasks, in the sense that task-specific GP models estimated on top of such features achieve the lowest possible predictive loss on average. We solve the resulting nested optimization problem using the implicit function theorem (IFT). We show that our ADKF-IFT framework contains previously proposed Deep Kernel Learning (DKL) and Deep Kernel Transfer (DKT) as special cases. Although ADKF-IFT is a completely general method, we argue that it is especially well-suited for drug discovery problems and demonstrate that it significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods on a variety of real-world few-shot molecular property prediction tasks and out-of-domain molecular property prediction and optimization tasks.
CLOI: An Automated Benchmark Framework for Generating Geometric Digital Twins of Industrial Facilities
Creators: name: Agapaki, Eva
name: Brilakis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023

description: This paper devises, implements and benchmarks a novel framework, named CLOI, that can accurately generate individual labelled point clusters of the most important shapes of existing industrial facilities with minimal manual effort in a generic point-level format. CLOI employs a combination of deep learning and geometric methods to segment the points into classes and individual instances. The current geometric digital twin generation from point cloud data in commercial software is a tedious, manual process. Experiments with our CLOI framework reveal that the method can reliably segment complex and incomplete point clouds of industrial facilities, yielding 82% class segmentation accuracy. Compared to the current state-of-practice, the proposed framework can realize estimated time-savings of 30% on average. CLOI is the first framework to have achieved geometric digital twinning for the most important objects of industrial factories and provides the foundation for the generation of semantically enriched industrial digital twins.
Data-driven polynomial chaos basis estimation
Creators: name: Spiridonakos, Minas D.
name: Chatzi, Eleni N.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: A non-intrusive uncertainty quantification scheme based on Polynomial Chaos (PC) basis constructed from available data is introduced. The method uses properly parametrized basis functions in order to let them adapt to the given input-output data instead of predefining them based on the probability density function of the uncertain input variable. Model parameter estimation is effectively dealt with through a Separable Non-linear Least Squares (SNLS) procedure that allows the simultaneous estimation of both the PC basis and the corresponding coefficients of projection. Method’s effectiveness is demonstrated through its application to the uncertainty propagation modelling in two examples: a nonlinear differential equation with uncertain initial conditions and a nonlinear single degree-of-freedom system with an uncertain parameter. Comparisons with classical PC expansion modelling based on the Wiener-Askey scheme are used to illustrate the method’s performance and potential advantages.
Cashew nut testa tannin resin – preparation, characterization and adsorption studies
Creators: name: Nnaji, N. J.
name: Okafor, N. I.
name: Ekwonu, A. M.
name: Osuji, O. U.
name: Okwukogu, O. O.
name: Okoye, O.
name: Anozie, A. I.
name: Anene, S. C.
name: Ehiri, R. C.
name: Onuegbu, T. U.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Adsorption of metal ions and dyes from water by cashew nut testa tannin resin (CATAR) was studied and the effects of temperature, initial pH, initial concentration and time were investigated. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) reveal effective adsorption processes. Kinetic studies show that CATAR adsorption is complex and thermodynamic parameters calculated reveal spontaneous and endothermic adsorption of studied pollutants onto CATAR. The use of CATAR as an alternative adsorbent is proposed considering that of simulated wastewaters gave excellent removal performances of 94.0% (Cd ions), 99.4% (Cu ions) and 97.1% (Pb ions) at pH of 6 and 303 K using amount of CATAR. Removal performances obtained for simulated dye wastewaters using CATAR at similar conditions for removal of metal ions gave 71.1%, 79.2% and 86.6%, respectively for crystal violet, methylene blue and malachite green.