cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monitoring framework for the use of natural resources in Germany
Creators: name: Frerk, Michel
name: Nuss, Philip
name: Golde, Michael
name: Günther, Jens
name: Kosmol, Jan
name: Müller, Felix
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Stoffstromanalyse
Kreislaufwirtschaft
Ressourcenpolitik

description: Indicators are required to monitor the progress of resource and circular economy policies. The German Sustainable Development Strategy and Resource Efficiency Program already include a number of indicators for mapping Germany's resource use and socio-economic metabolism. However, currently used indicators only include a subset of natural resources and often lack an impact evaluation (e.g., considering resource scarcity or environmental relevance). Resource and environmental footprints indirectly caused through the trade of goods have so far only partly been considered by German resource policy and in official statistics. As a result, burden shifting between different resource categories, world regions, or environmental effects can remain undetected. To fill this gap, we discuss the overall scope of natural resource monitoring in Germany and review existing resource indicators evaluating them against a set of predefined criteria. We then propose a possible monitoring framework for Germany consisting of a materials-layer (the focus of resource and circular economy policies to date) for the evaluation of material flows and stocks, and corresponding water, land, and emissions-layers which should be monitored simultaneously to track contributions to the overarching objectives of resource and circular economy policies. Possible indicators and data sources are discussed and an outlook for future research provided. © 2021 The Authors
2021-02-23 Data Standards for Open Science
Creators: name: Borghi, John
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Open Access
Data Standards

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4558279
description: Presentation notes from the fifth meeting of the open science reading group. The topic of the discussion was 'Data Standards for Open Science'.
Examining adolescent self-esteem in the context of development trajectories: Gender and trajectory group differences in social support, coping, stress, and academic achievement from Grades 8 to 11.
Creators: name: Silverthorn, Naida.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Developmental.

description: Previous research has identified multiple developmental trajectories of self-esteem in adolescence along with psychosocial factors that differentiate trajectory groups. Results of these and other studies have suggested relations between self-esteem and social support, coping, stress, academic achievement, and life satisfaction. In the first study of the present research, 469 adolescents (235 females and 234 males) were followed from Grades 8 to 10, through the transition to high school in Grade 9. Cluster analysis identified four trajectories of self-esteem: Consistently High (n = 147, 31.3%), Decreasing (n = 99, 21.1%), Increasing (n = 160, 34.1%), and Consistently Low (n = 63, 13.4%). These trajectories showed differential patterns on measures of reported friend, family, and esteem-enhancing social support, avoidant coping, and daily hassles. The Consistently High group reported increases in friend and esteem-enhancing support and decreased use of avoidant coping between Grades 8 and 10. The Increasing group reported increases in all three types of reported social support across the three years. The Decreasing group reported an increase in daily hassles between Grades 8 and 10. Although not different in reported self-esteem in Grade 8, the Consistently High and Decreasing groups were discriminated on the basis of all three types of reported social support, with students in the Decreasing group reporting less support. The Consistently High group demonstrated the most positive pattern of adjustment, the Consistently Low group demonstrated the most negative pattern, and the two changing groups generally demonstrated outcomes between the two other groups. Results supported the conceptualization of trajectories as representative of distinct patterns of development in adolescence. In the second study, a subset of 338 adolescents (166 females and 172 males) was followed up in their Grade 11 year. As in the first study, the Consistently High group demonstrated the most positive adjustment and the Consistently Low group had the most negative outcomes. However, there was no additional differentiation between the Decreasing and Increasing groups at Grade 11. Reported life satisfaction was the variable that most strongly distinguished the trajectory groups in Grade 11. Further research is needed to identify self-esteem trajectories that represent the entire developmental stage of adolescence, as well as to aid in the early identification of at-risk self-esteem groups for the purpose of targeting appropriate interventions.
The role of interpersonal trust and vigilance in the process of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition using social networks
Creators: name: Gordon, Scott
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This research examines the roles that an entrepreneurs dispositions to interpersonal trust, and vigilance play in the process of opportunity recognition. An entrepreneurs use of social networks as a resource in opportunity recognition is also examined. The basis of this investigation was an empirical study of information and communication technology (ICT) entrepreneurs in Queensland, Australia. A series of twelve hypotheses were developed and tested in this research. Despite a modest sample size support was found for six of the hypothesised relationships. An entrepreneurs disposition to both trust and vigilance were found effect the outcomes of their opportunity identification behaviours. A disposition to excess vigilance inhibited the development of entrepreneurial opportunities. While, an extended social network and a trusting disposition were seen to facilitate the development of entrepreneurial opportunities.
Introduction to Open Science: Why it is necessary and how we practice open science @ WIN
Creators: name: Gould van Praag, Cassandra
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2020

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.4079460
description: Short talk introducing the motivations behind the development of open science and the support available to learn and practice open science at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford. Presented in the introductory lectures of WIN magnetic resonance imaging graduate program, October 2020.
De wortels van de Randstad;
Overheidsinvloed en stedelijke hiërarchie in het westen van Nederland tussen de 13de en 20ste eeuw
Creators: name: Brand, Nikki
Publisher: name: Delft University of Technology, Delft
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 720 Architecture

description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment; ISSN 2212-3202
Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials with N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of schizophrenia
Creators: name: Yolland, Caitlin
name: Hanratty, Donal
name: Neill, Erica
name: Rossell, Susan
name: Berk, Michael
name: Dean, Olivia M.
name: Castle, David J.
name: Tan, Eric
name: Phillipou, Andrea
name: Harris, Anthony W. F.
name: Barreiros, Ana Rita
name: Hansen, Abigail
name: Siskind, Dan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320221
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)

description: Objective: There is accumulating evidence that adjunctive treatment with N-acetylcysteine may be effective for schizophrenia. This study aimed to conduct a comprehensive meta-analysis examining the efficacy of randomised control trials investigating N-acetylcysteine as an adjunct treatment for schizophrenia and the first to investigate cognition as an outcome. Methods: We systematically reviewed Medline, EmCare, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL Complete, China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database and the Cochrane Clinical Trials online registry for randomised control trials of N-acetylcysteine for schizophrenia. We undertook pairwise meta-analyses of N-acetylcysteine vs placebo for psychosis symptoms and cognition. Results: Seven studies, including n = 220 receiving N-acetylcysteine and n = 220 receiving placebo, met inclusion criteria for the pairwise meta-analyses. Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale negative and total scores were significantly improved in the N-acetylcysteine group after 24 weeks of treatment. The cognitive domain of working memory improved with N-acetylcysteine supplementation. Conclusion: Evidence supports the notion that N-acetylcysteine may be a useful adjunct to standard treatment for the improvement of schizophrenia symptoms, as well as the cognitive domain of working memory. Treatment effects were observed at the later time point (> 24 weeks), suggesting that longer interventions are required for the success of N-acetylcysteine treatment.
Open Science Pathways in the Earth, Space, and Life Sciences: Your Journey Towards Open Science
Creators: name: Stall, Shelley
name: Erdmann, Chris
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Science
FAIR Data
FAIR Software
Data Citation
Software Citation

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.6531508
description: Presented during the Open Science Pathways in the Earth, Space, and Life Sciences sponsored by AGU and SciLifeLab on 9 May 2022.  Resources: AGU Position Statement on Data:  https://www.agu.org/Share-and-Advocate/Share/Policymakers/Position-Statements/Position_Data Nature's 2019 '150 Years of Nature' Interactive Graph:  https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-019-00121-0/index.html   International Collaborations: Monastersky, R., & Van Noorden, R. (2019). 150 years of Nature: a data graphic charts our evolution. Nature, 575(7781), 22–23. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03305-w  Wilkinson, M. D. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci. Data 3:160018 doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18 (2016). FAIR Guiding Principles:  https://www.ands.org.au/working-with-data/fairdata/training   Is FAIR Open?  Higman, Rosie, Daniel Bangert, and Sarah Jones. 2019. “Three Camps, One Destination: The Intersections of Research Data Management, FAIR and Open”. Insights 32 (1): 18. DOI:  http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.468   Researchers Love Data Management: Stall, Shelley. (2016). Researchers and scientists love data management. Huh?. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5504418   UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science; adopted November 2021:  https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science Digital Presence Checklist:      Checklist  http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4706118  (English)     Tutorial – 15 min  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4706146  (slides, link to recording) AGU Data & Software Sharing Guidance:  https://www.agu.org/Publish-with-AGU/Publish/Author-Resources/Data-and-Software-for-Authors AGU Data Leadership Resources (and blog):  https://data.agu.org/resources/
Endogenous IFITMs boost SARS-coronavirus 1 and 2 replication whereas overexpression inhibits infection by relocalizing ACE2
Creators: name: Xie, Quinya
name: Prelli Bozzo, Caterina
name: Eiben, Laura
name: Noettger, Sabrina
name: Kmieć, Dorota Janina
name: Nchioua, Rayhane
name: Niemeyer, Daniela
name: Volčič, Meta
name: Lee, Jung-Hyun
name: Zech, Fabian
name: Sparrer, Konstantin M. J.
name: Drosten, Christian
name: Kirchhoff, Frank
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Virology
subject: Virus diseases
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Interferon inducers
subject: Proteins
subject: Immunity
subject: Virusinfektion
subject: SARS-CoV-2
subject: Immunität
subject: Interferon-Induktor

description: Opposing effects of interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITMs 1, 2 and 3) on SARS-CoV-2 infection have been reported. The reasons for this are unclear and the role of IFITMs in infection of other human coronaviruses (hCoVs) remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that endogenous expression of IFITM2 and/or IFITM3 is critical for efficient replication of SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and hCoV-OC43 but has little effect on MERS-, NL63-and 229E-hCoVs. In contrast, overexpression of IFITMs inhibits all these hCoVs, and the corresponding spike-containing pseudo-particles, except OC43, which is enhanced by IFITM3. We further demonstrate that overexpression of IFITMs impairs cell surface expression of ACE2 representing the entry receptor of SARS-CoVs and hCoV-NL63 but not hCoV-OC43. Our results explain the inhibitory effects of artificial IFITM overexpression on ACE2-tropic SARS-CoVs and show that three hCoVs, including major causative agents of severe respiratory disease, hijack IFITMs for efficient infection of human cells.
Multi-objective approximation of IIR by FIR digital filters
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingxin
name: Chai, Li
name: Zhang, Cishen
name: Mosca, Edoardo
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper studies the mixed-norm approximation of IIR digital filters by FIR digital filters. Effective methods using LMIs are presented to solve the approximation problem. The effectiveness is demonstrated by examples.
Uni Ulm intern - das Ulmer Universitätsmagazin, Nr. 196 (25. Jg.), April 1995
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Uni Ulm intern
subject: Universities; Germany; Ulm
subject: Ulm / Universität

description: N/A
Citizen Science within Open Science in the Netherlands - the Dutch National Programme Open Science (NPOS)
Creators: name: Gold, Margaret
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Citizen Science, Open Science

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7148395
description: Presentation given by Margaret Gold at the Workshop held in Berlin on the 5th of October with the UNESCO Open Science signatory countries on HOW to progress citizen science into policy, to introduce the work within the Netherlands to establish an Open Science strategy towards 2030 that also addresses societal engagement and Citizen Science.
Material Flow Cost Accounting in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Tran, Thuy Thanh
name: Herzig, Christian
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: material flow cost accounting
subject: MFCA
subject: developing countries
subject: systematic review
subject: 630
subject: Materialfluss
subject: Kostenrechnung
subject: Entwicklungsländer

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
Commensal discovery of four fast radio bursts during Parkes Pulsar timing array observations
Creators: name: Oslowski, Stefan
name: Shannon, Ryan
name: Ravi, V.
name: Kaczmarek, J. F.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Hobbs, G.
name: Bailes, Matthew
name: Russell, C. J.
name: Van Straten, W.
name: James, C. W.
name: Jameson, A.
name: Mahony, E. K.
name: Kumar, P.
name: Andreoni, I.
name: Bhat, N. D.R.
name: Burke-Spolaor, S.
name: Dai, S.
name: Dempsey, J.
name: Kerr, M.
name: Manchester, R. N.
name: Parthasarathy, A.
name: Reardon, Daniel
name: Sarkissian, J. M.
name: Spiewak, R.
name: Toomey, L.
name: Wang, J. B.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhu, X. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences

description: The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project monitors two dozen millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in order to undertake a variety of fundamental physics experiments using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. Since 2017 June, we have been undertaking commensal searches for fast radio bursts (FRBs) during the MSP observations. Here, we report the discovery of four FRBs (171209, 180309, 180311, and 180714). The detected events include an FRB with the highest signal-to-noise ratio ever detected at the Parkes Observatory, which exhibits unusual spectral properties. All four FRBs are highly polarized. We discuss the future of commensal searches for FRBs at Parkes.
title: Entstehung und Minderung des Lärms von Windenergieanlagen
title: Entstehung und Minderung des Lärms von Windenergieanlagen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bauerdorff, Andrea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Die Nutzung der Windenergie an Land ist wegen des hohen Treibhausgasminderungspotenzials, niedriger Stromgestehungskosten und geringer Flächeninanspruchnahme eine der tragenden Säulen der Energiewende. Um die anvisierten Klimaschutzziele erreichen zu können, ist ein stetiger Ausbau der Windenergie notwendig. Die Zahl der Windenergieanlagen erhöht sich daher kontinuierlich und rückt näher an die Wohnbebauung heran. Damit einhergehend kommt es häufig zu Lärmbeschwerden. Besonders tieffrequente Geräusche und Infraschall, aber auch die Entstehung und Belästigung durch Amplitudenmodulation stehen im Fokus der öffentlichen Diskussion. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des Umweltbundesamtes besteht darin, die Bevölkerung vor Geräuschbelastungen zu schützen. Neben eigenen Analysen zu dieser Thematik hat das Umweltbundesamt verschiedene Forschungsvorhaben initiiert und beauftragt, um die wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Lärmauswirkungen von Windenergieanlagen zu vertiefen. Diese Vorhaben werden nachfolgend vorgestellt. Copyright: Andrea Bauerdorff
Open Science Community Saudi Arabia: Towards Generating New Economic Knowledge
Creators: name: Almarzouq, Batool
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: open science
saudi arabia
middle east
communities
vision 2030
data science

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7442423
description: Open Science hold immense promise to address grand economic and societal challenges and accelerate innovations. Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) was established in line with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 , which focuses on installing values, enhancing knowledge and improving equal access to education. It is open for individuals regardless of nationality, age, disability, expertise, race and religion. OSCSA aims to provide a place where newcomers and experienced peers interact, inspire each other to embed open science practices and values in their workflows and provide feedback on policies, infrastructures, and support services. In this talk, we will present how Open Science can play a part in a knowledge-based economy and showcase the capacity-building programmes within Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) .
Conditional pseudonymity in vehicular ad hoc networks
Creators: name: Schaub, Florian
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Car2car
subject: Conditional pseudonymity
subject: DDC 620 / Engineering & allied operations
subject: Anonyms and pseudonyms
subject: Privacy
subject: Vehicular ad hoc networks: Computer networks
subject: VANET

description: Privacy is an important issue in future vehicle networks, because vehicles broadcast detailed information. Also of importance is accountability due to safety critical applications. Conditional pseudonymity, i.e., the usage of resolvable pseudonyms, is a common approach to address both. However, such conditional resolvability of pseudonyms is often realized by authorities maintaining pseudonym-identity mappings. These mappings are privacy sensitive and require drivers to trust authorities that the information is properly protected to prevent involuntary leakage and is not misused. This thesis outlines a new approach for conditional pseudonymity that does not rely on pseudonym-identity mappings to be stored by any party. Resolution information is directly embedded in pseudonyms and can only be accessed when multiple authorities cooperate for identity resolution. Our privacy-preserving pseudonym issuance protocol ensures that pseudonyms contain valid resolution information but prevents issuing authorities from creating pseudonym-identity mappings.
Experiencing information: the importance of affect in new media information design
Creators: name: De Kruiff, Alison
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The thesis examined the importance of feelings and emotions in information design for new media. The research drew on cross-disciplinary knowledge from experience design, information design, and psychology, demonstrating this combined knowledge in a case study, the design of a 3D virtual Indian temple. The thesis explored new territory in adapting phenomenological method from the field of psychology, creating a new design method that incorporated emotional and cognitive information in the design process and provided a way to test an audience's emotional and cognitive responses to the design.
Carbon Nanotube versus Graphene Nanoribbon: Impact of Nanofiller Geometry on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Nanocomposites
Creators: name: Arjmand, Mohammad
name: Sadeghi, Soheil
name: Otero Navas, Ivonne
name: Zamani Keteklahijani, Yalda
name: Dordanihaghighi, Sara
name: Sundararaj, Uttandaraman
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: The similar molecular structure but different geometries of the carbon nanotube (CNT) and graphene nanoribbon (GNR) create a genuine opportunity to assess the impact of nanofiller geometry (tube vs. ribbon) on the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding of polymer nanocomposites. In this regard, GNR and its parent CNT were melt mixed with a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) matrix using a miniature melt mixer at various nanofiller loadings, i.e., 0.3, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 wt%, and then compression molded. Molecular simulations showed that CNT would have a better interaction with the PVDF matrix in any configuration. Rheological results validated that CNTs feature a far stronger network (mechanical interlocking) than GNRs. Despite lower powder conductivity and a comparable dispersion state, it was interestingly observed that CNT nanocomposites indicated a highly superior electrical conductivity and EMI shielding at higher nanofiller loadings. For instance, at 2.0 wt%, CNT/PVDF nanocomposites showed an electrical conductivity of 0.77 S·m-¹ and an EMI shielding effectiveness of 11.60 dB, which are eight orders of magnitude and twofold higher than their GNR counterparts, respectively. This observation was attributed to their superior conductive network formation and the interlocking ability of the tubular nanostructure to the ribbon-like nanostructure, verified by molecular simulations and rheological assays.
Case studies of emergent literacy in a special population.
Creators: name: Berry, Dean B.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Education, Reading.

description: The purpose of this research study is to examine the emergent literacy of seven special needs youngsters who are included in a regular classroom. The special needs of these children, according to school authorities, ranges from autism, Down's syndrome and fragile x syndrome to severe language and intellectual impairment. There are few studies which address the emergent literacy of these special needs children. If special educators and regular teachers are to provide appropriate literacy instruction for these children, it is essential to investigate the ways these youngsters experience, participate in, use, and understand literacy. This dissertation responds to that need through a field-based qualitative study. The research design is that of an in-depth case study, with the researcher acting as the prime instrument of data collection and analysis. The case study has an ethnographic orientation and is interpretive in nature. The qualitative approach to data collection and analysis ensured thick, comprehensive descriptions and explanations using a systematic series of phases to investigate the seven youngsters' experiences with literacy in multiple contexts (school and home). Gathered over 44 weeks, the types of data collected, include audio recordings of focused interviews with the parents, teachers, teaching assistants, principals, and any others relevant to the child's instruction, as well as videotaped classroom observations, observational notes, focused literacy tasks developed from An Observation Survey (Marie Clay, 1993) and Literacy Tasks (J. Harste, V. Woodward & C. Burke, 1984), notes from school records and documents, artifacts of the children's written products from home and school. The data was analysed across the seven youngsters and described from the perspective of four themes: Beliefs/Values: about literacy, about inclusion; Experiences with and Participation in literacy; Characteristic uses of literacy at home and at school; Uses of literacy and language. The findings from this special needs population indicated that the home literacy settings of all these youngsters were highly convergent while the classroom settings were divergent. The parents' and educators' beliefs/values about inclusion and literacy played an important role in each child's literacy achievements. Despite the differences in their special needs, as evident in their written products, the children were similar in their use of literacy and their understanding of literacy concepts. The results of the study of this special needs population bear a remarkable similarity to the emergent literacy findings of researchers who have examined non special needs populations. Verbal proficiency among this special needs population did not appear to be a necessary prerequisite for them to demonstrate differing uses of literacy.
Evolution of a text summarization system in an automatic evaluation framework
Creators: name: Rigouste, Lois
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computer Science.

description: CALLISTO is a text summarizer that searches through a space of possible configurations for the best one. This is different from other systems since it allows CALLISTO (1) to choose adequate components based on results obtained on the training data (and thus, to choose a configuration better adapted to the problem) and (2) to allow different texts to be summarized in different ways. The purpose of this thesis is to find out how the initial space CALLISTO explores can be modified to improve the overall quality of the summaries produced. The thesis reviews and evaluates the first arbitrary design choices made in the system, through a fully automated framework based on a content measure proposed by Lin and Hovy. We tried different modifications to CALLISTO such as replacing the internal evaluation measure, testing other discretization processes, changing the learning algorithm or adding new features to characterize the input text. We found that Naive Bayes outperformed the current learner C5.0, by identifying one configuration working satisfactorily for all texts.
La production textile latino-américaine dans une perspective de longue durée : deux cas d'étude : l'Équateur et le Guatemala de la période coloniale jusqu'au début du XXe siècle.
Creators: name: Bélisle, Jean-François.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: History, Latin American.

description: Cette etude retrace l'histoire de la production textile equatorienne et guatemalteque de ses origines coloniales jusqu'a la creation d'un premier noyau d'entreprises manufacturieres qui se consolide au debut du XXe siecle. Quoique les caracteristiques de ce secteur different d'un pays a l'autre, un aussi vaste survol nous permet de saisir leur principale similitude, soit d'evoluer sous le signe d'une formidable continuite historique. Cette tendance se consolide des la premiere moitie du XIXe siecle quand s'ebauchent des modeles qui eurent, par la suite, une incidence determinante. Plus qu'une simple phase de transition entre le monde colonial et l'essor du secteur agro-exportateur, il s'agit d'une periode charniere qui assure, non seulement, la survie des formes traditionnelles mais definit, de facon precoce, les caracteristiques des premiers etablissements mecanises. Repondant a une logique singuliere, ces entreprises incorporent une technologie de plus en plus sophistiquee qui sert toutefois a viabiliser les elements herites du passe plutot que d'amorcer une transformation significative des modalites de production. De son cote, la petite production qui continue a jouer un role-cle dans l'approvisionnement textile, represente, dans chacun des pays, une des rares alternatives face aux efforts de destructuration du monde rural mis de l'avant par pratiquement tous les regimes. Ce schema general correspond a des societes ayant conserve intacts plusieurs de leurs caracteristiques coloniales.
A DNA Vaccine against Escherichia coli O157:H7
Creators: name: Kowsar Shariati Mehr
name: Mousavi, Seyed Latif
name: Rasooli, Iraj
name: Amani, Jafar
name: Rajabi, Masoumeh
Publisher: name: the Pasteur Institute of Iran
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Basic Sciences

description: Iranian Biomedical Journal (IBJ); ISSN 1028-852X
Challenges and Opportunities Shaping Smallholders’ Engagement with Formal and Informal Markets for Food and Livelihood Security: A Rift Valley, Kenya Case Study Analysis
Creators: name: Longfield, Lynsey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Food security
Informal
Formal
Markets
Livelihood diversification

description: This case study analysis looks at four communities in Rift Valley, Kenya including Matisi, Moi’s Bridge, Sirende and Waitaluk. The research focuses on the role of markets in achieving food and livelihood security for the smallholders in these communities and smallholders’ perceptions of the roles of the Government of Kenya and other institutions in facilitating market access. The largest challenges to market participation, as reported by the smallholders in the studied communities, include low yields, weather inconsistencies, and lack of land. In terms of the Government of Kenya, many smallholders noted the benefits of participating in groups as they are subsequently offered training or field days and subsidies. A significant group of respondents did comment on their lack of interest in joining similar groups as they were seen as unstable or corrupt. The potential roles of formal and informal markets to increase food security were also analyzed. All smallholders wished to be participating in informal markets, but twenty-five percent were constrained by the lack of surplus produce. Similarly, although many reported their desire to be participants in formal markets lack of surplus produce, price fluctuations, inconsistent weather patterns, transportation costs and post- harvest losses or food waster were recognized as significant barriers. In order to mitigate these constraints, most smallholders recommended subsidies on inputs and the overall restructuring of markets. It is recommended that organizations and governments implement a livelihood diversification policy program or initiative to diversify and intensify agricultural activities and other non-agricultural activities. This case study analysis demonstrates the need to recognize the importance of local contexts, specifically Rift Valley as much of the research done in Kenya is found in Nairobi and surrounding areas and cautions labeling communities as food secure based on favorable conditions.
Advanced Tongue Root harmony in Setswana.
Creators: name: Dichabe, Seipati Bernice.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Language, Linguistics.

description: This thesis addresses certain issues in the analysis of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowel harmony in Setswana, a language spoken in South Africa and Botswana. Setswana presents a particularly interesting problem as regards the analysis of harmonic patterns since there exists in the language evidence on the one hand that: (a) all vowels in a stem are preferentially either (+ATR) or $\rm\lbrack{-}ATR\rbrack,$ but (b) in some cases the requirements of harmony seem to require the cooccurrence of vowels with conflicting ATR values. The pattern of ATR harmony observed in the language presents a number of difficult problems for the adequate description of the harmonic process. These problems are outlined in the thesis. The hypothesis made in this thesis is that there exists a feature $\rm\lbrack{\pm}RTR\rbrack$ which is distinct from $\rm\lbrack{\pm}ATR\rbrack;$ specifically, (+RTR) is different from $\rm\lbrack{-}ATR\rbrack.$ The inclusion of this feature solves the problem of making a distinction between the phonologically "advanced" vowels (scI, $\upsilon\rbrack$ and (i, u). The analysis of ATR vowel harmony presented here will assume the general framework of Autosegmental Phonology, incorporating Underspecification and Grounding Condition theory. It will be argued that grounded conditions hold of varying domains, with some conditions holding of all representations, while other conditions govern only the output of specific rules. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Open Science: Epistemologies, science policy implementation and digitalisation
Creators: name: Stewart, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2021
Subjects: digitalisation
open science
open access
science
policy implementation
development
UNESCO
Mexico

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5723444
description: This presentation on Open Science is part of the research secondment of Benjamin Stewart during his exchange to Instituto Mora in Mexico City.  The workshop explored Open Science and the promises and challenges for science and society.  After briefly covering the definition, history and application of Open Science policies, Stewart illustrated why they are relevant and what barriers and concerns there are for implementation.  The workshop engaged with the challenges of universalising access to knowledge in a world with a plurality of epistemic communities and developmental agendas.  The workshop highlighted the role that digitalisation plays in implementing Open Science policies and what that means for sustainable development.
Rationale, objectives and design of PURE, a prospective registry of patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis in Canada and Latin America
Creators: name: Papp, Kim A
name: Gooderham, Melinda
name: Beecker, Jennifer
name: Lynde, Charles W
name: Delorme, Isabelle
name: Dei-Cas, Ignacio
name: Albrecht, Lorne
name: Rampakakis, Emmanouil
name: Sampalis, John S
name: Vieira, Antonio
name: Hussein, Shamiza
name: Chambenoit, Olivier
name: Rihakova, Lenka
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Treatment options for the management of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis include phototherapy, oral systemic agents, and biologic therapy. Secukinumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody that selectively targets IL-17A, is the first IL-17 antagonist approved for this patient population. Long-term observational data are required for establishing the true population-based benefit-risk ratio of approved treatments. PURE is a multinational registry that will assess the real-world safety and effectiveness of secukinumab and other approved therapies in the management of patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. Methods: This is a multinational (Canadian and Latin American), prospective, observational study of adult patients with moderate to severe psoriasis that initiate treatment with secukinumab or other approved therapies as per local standard of care. A total of 2500 patients (1250 per cohort) will be recruited in the practices of hospital and community dermatologists. Decision regarding treatment must have been reached prior to and independent of patient enrollment in the study. The study includes a 5-year follow-up with recommended assessments at Baseline, 3 and 6 months post-Baseline, and every 6 months thereafter. The primary objective of the study is safety. Secondary outcome measures relate to effectiveness (Investigator’s Global Assessment -IGA mod 2011-, Psoriasis Areas and Severity Index, Body Surface Area), patient reported outcomes (Dermatology Life Quality Index, Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Psoriasis Epidemiology Screening Tool, Psoriasis Symptom Diary, and Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire), and healthcare resource utilization. Discussion: This is the first observational study in Canada and Latin America assessing the real-world safety and effectiveness of secukinumab in the management of moderate to severe psoriasis. The extensive clinical, patient-reported and health economic outcomes collected will allow the comprehensive evaluation of this new treatment in comparison to other approved therapies. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02786186 ; date of registration: May 30, 2016.
Opaque melodies that would bug most people: a short history of dislocation in six tracks
Creators: name: Tofts, Darren
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: I'm sure that everyone can think of something in the name of culture that continues to trouble them, infuriates them in its refusal to resolve into meaning, coherence and closure. I'm talking about those moments of aesthetic engagement with opaque melodies that would bug most people. I'm talking about a poetics of dislocation. In referring to a poetics of dislocation, rather than pointing to a historical epoch characterised by dislocation, I am citing an ongoing continuum, a trans-historical, para-cultural sensibility, or, as Aristotle would have it, a way of doing things.
Floral traits are associated with the quality but not quantity of heterospecific stigmatic pollen loads
Creators: name: Peuker, Manon A.
name: Burger, Hannah
name: Krausch, Sabrina
name: Neumüller, Ulrich
name: Ayasse, Manfred
name: Kuppler, Jonas
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Community
subject: Pollen transfer
subject: Functional trait
subject: NETWORK ANALYSIS
subject: PLANT
subject: DIVERSITY
subject: SPECIALIZATION
subject: PATTERNS
subject: DEPOSITION
subject: VISITORS
subject: RECEIPT
subject: DDC 570 / Life sciences
subject: Pollination
subject: Communities
subject: System analysis
subject: Bestäubung
subject: Netzwerkanalyse
subject: Vielfalt
subject: Spezialisierung

description: Background: In flowering communities, plant species commonly share pollinators and therefore plant individuals receive heterospecific pollen (HP). However, the patterns of HP transfers can deviate from patterns of plant-pollinator visitations. Although flower-visitor interactions are known to be mediated by floral traits, e.g. floral size or nectar tube depth, the explanatory power of these traits for HP transfer patterns remains elusive. Here, we have explored pollen transfer patterns at three sites in Southern Germany on three dates (early, mid and late summer). At the plant level, we tested whether flower abundance and floral traits are correlated with HP reception and donation. At the community level, we determined whether flower and bee diversity are correlated with network modularity and whether floral traits explain the module affiliation of plant species. We collected the stigmas of flowering plant species, analysed HP and conspecific pollen (CP) loads and measured floral traits, flower and bee diversity. Results: Our results show that the degree and intensity of HP reception or donation at the plant level do not correlate with floral traits, whereas at the community level, the module affiliation of who is sharing pollen with whom is well-explained by floral traits. Additionally, variation in network modularity between communities is better explained by plant diversity and abundance than by bee diversity and abundance. Conclusions: Overall, our results indicate that floral traits that are known to mediate flower-visitor interactions can improve our understanding of qualitative HP transfer but only provide limited information about the quantity of HP transfer, which more probably depends on other floral traits, flower-visitor identity or community properties.
Alternatives to journal-based metrics in research assessment
Creators: name: Jensenius, Alexander Refsum
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open research, open science, evaluation, assessment

description: doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7311965
description: Slides for a presentation at the Conference on Open Science 2022 organized by Science Europe. About the conference: Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts from the field to join its 18 and 19 October 2022 conference on Open Science to discuss two key questions: (1) Is Open Science ready to become the norm in research? (2) How do we ensure this becomes an equitable transition? To find answers to these questions, the conference will provide a comprehensive overview of practical and policy initiatives, research assessment reforms, and financial measures that support the transition to Open Science. We will also look forward to new and emerging trends.
Drohende Frühberentung wegen Minderung der Erwerbsfähigkeit nach stationärer Rehabilitation bei Patienten mit Affektionen des Bewegungsapparates: Prognosemodellierung auf der Basis von Routinedaten der LVA Baden-Württemberg.
Creators: name: Wolf, Ursula
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Bootstrap-Validierung
subject: Frühberentung
subject: Routinedaten
subject: SAS®-Makro
subject: DDC 610 / Medicine & health
subject: Musculoskeletal diseases. Rehabilitation
subject: Rehabilitation
subject: Bewegungsapparat
subject: Prognosemodell
subject: Regression

description: Diese Arbeit fokussiert das Thema Frühberentung wegen Erwerbsminderung. Ein hoher Anteil solcher Renten führt zu einer übermäßigen finanziellen Beanspruchung der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung und hat negative Auswirkungen auf andere Teile der Sozialversicherung sowie auf die Lohnnebenkosten. Das Ziel der Masterarbeit war die Erstellung und Validierung eines logistischen Regressionsmodells zur Prognose von Erwerbsminderung bei Rehabilitanden mit Krankheiten des Muskel-Skelett-Systems und des Bindegewebes (Gruppe M des ICD-10). Sie sind in der deutschen Rentenstatistik der zweithäufigste Grund für eine frühzeitige Berentung. Zur Modellierung der Frühberentungswahrscheinlichkeit wurden routinemäßig erhobene Daten der LVA Baden-Württemberg (jetzt Deutsche Rentenversicherung Baden Würrtemberg) und computerlinguistisch generierte Variablen aus den Fließtexten des ärztlichen Entlassberichtes verwendet. Zwei Fragen waren wegweisend: 1) Welche Variablen aus dem Daten-Pool sind aussagekräftige Prädiktoren? 2) Wie valide ist die erstellte logistische Prognoseregel? Der Aufbau, die Analyse und die Validierung des Prognosemodells wurden durch ein validiertes SAS-Makro-Paket zur logistischen Regression unterstützt, das in der Abteilung Biometrie und Medizinische Dokumentation der Universität Ulm zur Verfügung steht. Beim vorliegenden Modell kam die enhanced Bootstrap-Methode bei der Validierung zur Anwendung. Die Güte-Schätzer sind Überoptimismus korrigiert. Das vorgelegte validierte Modell enthält 15 Faktoren, die den Gesundheitszustand und die berufliche Leistungsfähigkeit am Ende der Rehabilitation beschreiben. Es zeichnet sich durch eine sehr hohe Güte aus, Rehabilitanden zu bestimmen, die wahrscheinlich mittelfristig nicht berentet werden. Eine kleinere Gruppe gefährdeter Rehabilitanden könnte intensiver und spezifischer behandelt werden; sie wäre gezielter zugänglich für Forschungsarbeiten. Die aufgewendeten Ressourcen könnten effizienter und optimierter eingesetzt werden.
No evidence for intermediate-mass black holes in the globular clusters ω Cen and NGC 6624
Creators: name: Baumgardt, H.
name: He, C.
name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Drinkwater, M.
name: Sollima, A.
name: Hurley, Jarrod
name: Usher, C.
name: Kamann, S.
name: Dalgleish, H.
name: Dreizler, S.
name: Husser, T. O.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We compare the results of a large grid of N-body simulations with the surface brightness and velocity dispersion profiles of the globular clusters omega Cen and NGC 6624. Our models include clusters with varying stellar-mass black hole retention fractions and varying masses of a central intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). We find that an M-circle dot IMBH, whose presence has been suggested based on the measured velocity dispersion profile of omega Cen, predicts the existence of about 20 fast-moving, m > 0.5M(circle dot), main-sequence stars with a (1D) velocity v > 60kms(-1) in the central 20 arcsec of omega Cen. However, no such star is present in the HST/ACS proper motion catalogue of Bellini etal. (2017), strongly ruling out the presence of a massive IMBH in the core of omega Cen. Instead, we find that all available data can be fitted by a model that contains 4.6percent of the mass of omega Cen in a centrally concentrated cluster of stellar-mass black holes. We show that this mass fraction in stellar-mass BHs is compatible with the predictions of stellar evolution models of massive stars. We also compare our grid of N-body simulations with NGC 6624, a cluster recently claimed to harbour a 20000M(circle dot) black hole based on timing observations of millisecond pulsars. However, we find that models with M-IMBH > 1000M(circle dot) IMBHs are incompatible with the observed velocity dispersion and surface brightness profile of NGC 6624, ruling out the presence of a massive IMBH in this cluster. Models without an IMBH provide again an excellent fit to NGC 6624.
Twisted thienylene–phenylene structures: through‐space orbital coupling in toroidal and catenated topologies
Creators: name: Leitner, Tanja D.
name: Gmeinder, Yannick
name: Röhricht, Fynn
name: Herges, Rainer
name: Mena‐Osteritz, Elena
name: Bäuerle, Peter
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: ACID calculations
subject: Phenylenes
subject: Through‐space conjugation
subject: Toroidal pz‐orbital coupling
subject: X‐ray structure analysis
subject: DDC 540 / Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: X-rays
subject: Through-Space-Wechselwirkung
subject: Röntgenfeinstrukturanalyse

description: Twisted thienylene-phenylenes give evidence of through-space delocalization of π-electrons of peripheral (hetero)aromatic rings in a catenated toroidal topology.Sterically crowded and twisted thienylene-phenylenes were synthesized and characterized in comparison to corresponding polyphenylene nanostructures. Spectroscopic, diffraction, and theoretical studies gave evidence of through-space delocalization of π-electrons of peripheral (hetero)aromatic rings in toroidal and catenated topologies.
CHAT study patient participant information sheet
Creators: name: Nolan, Claire
name: Taylor, Stephanie JC
name: Man, William DC
name: Steed, Elizabeth
name: Victor, Christina
name: Pokhrel, Subhash
name: McEwen, Andy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation
classificationCode: 420319
subject: Primary health care
classificationCode: 420307
subject: Health counselling

description: CHAT study patient participant information sheet