cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Participation in Smart Cities
Creators: name: Auer, Alexandra
name: Stenzel, Maurice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: How can we create smart cities that place the needs of their citizens first? The automated processing of large data sets offers numerous opportunities for the design and development of urban infrastructure. However, for a common good-oriented processing of data, the interests of various stakeholders in urban societies must be taken into account. This blog article examines the contribution that citizen participation can make in data-driven processes and the challenges that must be overcome for successful participation.
ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERN AND PESTICIDES IN TUNISIAN GROUNDWATER: OCCURRENCE, RISKS, AND SOLUTIONS
Creators: name: Ennouri, Hajer
name: Arous, Fatma
name: kraiem, Khadija
name: Mekni, Maroua
name: El Toumi, Safa
name: Jaouani, Atef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Groundwater is a crucial source of freshwater for drinking, agricultural, and industrial purposes. The presence of contaminants such as pesticides and their transformation products (TPs) and contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in groundwater has gained attention due to the growing need for groundwater use. The sources of contamination include point emissions and diffuse sources such as agricultural runoff, industrial discharges, septic systems, and crop irrigation with reclaimed wastewater. Herbicides and their TPs are the most frequently detected compounds in aquifers. While global research concerning the presence of CECs and pesticides has increased, studies in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, including Tunisia, remain scarce. In Tunisia, there is limited knowledge regarding the presence of CECs and pesticides in groundwater, and the few studies published have mainly focused on wastewater treatment plants. The challenging analysis of CECs and pesticides at trace levels mostly relies on international scientific collaborations, resulting in few data, and scientific research on CECs is still lagging in Tunisia. Consequently, evidence on many anthropogenic organic substances in groundwater is missing to adequately inform national policy on this topic. Although Tunisian regulations do not consider this aspect, collaborative efforts within the framework of various Research and Innovation projects have been undertaken to address the gaps in knowledge and enhance water quality management in Tunisia. Assessing the potential risks associated with these chemicals through environmental risk assessments can guide regulatory decisions and inform water management strategies. To enhance groundwater quality in Tunisia, it is imperative to conduct further research aimed at developing innovative water treatment solutions specifically tailored to address the identified contaminants. This involves exploring advanced filtration systems and integrating machine learning approaches for precise quality assessment. Additionally, a concerted effort is required to seamlessly integrate these research findings into regulatory decisions and national water management strategies. Special attention should be given to promoting the secure utilization of reclaimed water for irrigation, coupled with active advocacy for stringent wastewater treatment standards. Furthermore, fostering collaborative initiatives among local authorities, research institutions, and the public is essential to raise awareness about the critical importance of groundwater quality. This comprehensive approach seeks to cultivate a deeper understanding of groundwater issues and advocate for sustainable water management practices throughout Tunisia.
The United States and Iraq: Limited Influence in an Asymmetrical Relationship, 2005-2014
Creators: name: Norling, Jon
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and its corresponding nation building project are commonly perceived as colossal failures for the United States. Between 2003 and 2014, the United States attempted to establish a democratic and stable Iraq that would be aligned to the United States and support its interests in the Middle East. Although there are multiple explanations for the failure of these goals, this thesis addresses one component that is widely absent in scholarly literature: the relationship between the United States and Iraq's former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. Throughout his tenure, Maliki weakened Iraq's democratic institutions and fuelled sectarianism, which destabilised Iraq, frustrated U.S. objectives, and laid the foundations for the successful invasion of the so-called Islamic State in 2014. This thesis seeks to answer two questions. First, why did Prime Minister Maliki undermine U.S. goals in Iraq? Second, why were the Bush and Obama administrations unable to influence Maliki to change his behaviour to suit their preferences? The latter question is important to explore given the preponderance of American power in the relationship and Iraq's dependence on U.S. economic and military aid. However, the United States struggled to transform this power and dependency into influence over Maliki to achieve its desired objectives. The thesis examines the first question by employing the domestic level of analysis to demonstrate how Iraq's political groups, especially a coalition of Shia entities, conditioned Maliki's preferences such that they contradicted U.S. objectives. To answer the second question , the thesis employs Richard Emerson's theory of Power-Dependence Relations to explain why U.S. power did not translate into influence. The thesis draws extensively on recently available primary material. Although the existing literature is substantive, this primary material generates new insight into the Bush and Obama administrations' perceptions on Maliki, his political landscape, and their mitigating strategies. The thesis is structured, in addition to the opening Introduction and closing Conclusion, into seven substantive chapters: Chapter I elaborates the conceptual framework, and Chapters II-VII chronologically follow, and analytically interrogate, the American Iraqi intervention from pre-war planning to the end of the Maliki premiership.
title: Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61
title: Leveraging Human Knowledge in Imitation Learning
Creators: name: Alwishah, Ibrahim
name: Das, Srijita
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine learning
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Deep learning
subject: Imitation learning

description: The research mainly focused on improving decision-making in AI through the use of DAgger and HG DAgger algorithms. The study explores how these algorithms, which incorporate pseudo-human expert feedback, can in a way enhance the performance of a reinforcement learning agent. This is focusing particularly on scenarios where traditional imitation learning would fall short. By using an interactive learning framework in the OpenAI Gtm environment, the team demonstrated how DAgger iteratively refines the agent's policy. Future work will aim to explore uncertainty estimates, explainability, and testing different model architectures.
Molecular detection of Human Papillomavirus from abnormal cervical cytology of women attending a tertiary health facility in Ido-ekiti, Southwest Nigeria
Creators: name: Kolawole, Olatunji Mathew
name: Olatunji, Kazeem Toyosi
name: Durowade, Kabir Adekunle
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cervical, cytology, DNA, molecular, women

description: ABSTRACT

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as one of the principal causes of cervical cancer, which is the second highest cause of cancer deaths among Nigerian women. Objective: This study was aimed at determining the presence of HPV DNA in abnormal cervical cytology of a group of women who were screened using Papanicolaou staining technique.

Methodology: A total of 200 women attending the Obstetrics and Gyneacology clinic of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti were screened using the convectional Pap smear screening, while positive samples were subjected to molecular analyses using DNA isolation techniques and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

Result: Results revealed that 14 (7%) of the subjects were positive for abnormal cytology. Abnormalities found among the subjects included; low grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) which constituted 50 % of the total abnormal smears, high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) which were 28.6% and 21.4% respectively. Results of molecular analyses showed that all the samples from abnormal cervical cytology subjected to HPV DNA extraction and gene amplification all contained the HPV DNA.

Conclusion: The high prevalence of HPV DNA in abnormal cytology, gives credence to the fact that HPV presence is a critical indicator in the development of cervical cancer, thus more efforts should be put into vaccine production and distribution to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in NigeriaÂ

Keywords: Cervical, cytology, DNA, molecular, women
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
A school-based intervention against tobacco consumption for students of physiotherapy: a three-years not randomized trial
Creators: name: Mipatrini, Daniele
name: Mannocci, Alice
name: Pizzi, Cecilia
name: La Torre, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Introduction

The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of a school-based intervention for reducing tobacco consumption among physiotherapy students.

Materials And Methods

The controlled trial involved two groups of physiotherapy students. The treatment consisted of a seminar on smoking related diseases (2 hours) andÂ  of a training in a service of respiratory diseases or thoracic surgery (at least 10 months). The control group (B) didnât undertake any treatment. The main outcome was the prevalence of smokers. The follow up lasted 3 years.

Results

78 students were involved in the treated group (A) and 72 in the control group (B). The two groups didnât differ in term of gender distribution, mean age, smokers prevalence and nicotine dependence. Comparing the smokersâ prevalence in group A between T0 and T1 (3 years), the RR at T1 was 0.93 (CI 95%: 0.6-1.44) and the prevalence decreased from 36% to 33%. Among group B the prevalence between T0 and T1 increased passing from 28% to 35% with a RR at T1 of 1.26 (0.76-2.11). The reduction of smokersâ prevalence âattributableâ to the intervention in the treated group wasÂ  7.7 %, while an increase of 27.8 % of smokersâ prevalence âattributableâ to the lack of the intervention was found in the control group. No statistical differences have been found.

Conclusion

School-based interventions seem to be effective in reducing the smokers prevalence among healthcare students involved. Further researches, with a wider sample and standardized methodology are required to confirm these preliminary findings.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: The Vulnerabilities of Artificial Intelligence Models and Potential Defenses
Creators: name: Iov, Felix
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into various commercial products has raised concerns about the security risks posed by adversarial attacks. These attacks manipulate input data to disrupt the functioning of AI models, potentially leading to severe consequences such as self-driving car crashes, financial losses, or data breaches. We will explore neural networks, their weaknesses, and potential defenses. We will discuss adversarial attacks including data poisoning, backdoor attacks, evasion attacks, and prompt injection. Then, we will explore defense strategies such as data protection, input sanitization, and adversarial training. By understanding how adversarial attacks work and the defenses against them, we can improve the security and reliability of AI system to come.
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Loenhoff, Jens
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 6
Photon-pair generation via bound states in the continuum in nonlinear metasurfaces
Creators: name: Parry, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: In recent decades metamaterials and their two-dimensional form, metasurfaces, have generated a great deal of scientific and industrial interest due to the novel optical responses that they enable. Importantly, it has been shown that metasurfaces provide a low weight, small footprint device for nonlinear optical generation. At the same time there has been recent interest in Bound States in the Continuum (BICs) for their ability to create ultra-high quality factor resonances, or quasi-BICs, with recent work demonstrating that harmonic generation can be enhanced by orders of magnitude using such BIC derived resonances. The enhancement of higher order nonlinear processes, such as the classical process of Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) and the quantum process of photon-pair generation, however require enhancement at multiple frequencies. This thesis is an investigation of the uses of quasi-BICs in higher order nonlinear generation and especially in entangled photon-pair generation. I will first demonstrate the ability to tune quasi-BICs dynamically by using liquid crystals to tune the refractive index of the medium surrounding the meta-atoms of a metasurface. I will then present a novel design for metasurfaces that contain multiple reconfigurable BICs, which I have dubbedGhost Oligomer metasurfaces. The platform allows for a great degree of control over the eigenspace of the modes of the metasurface as well as over the frequency of the BICs that form within it. It thus allows us to generate nonlinear responses in a narrow bandwidth and at engineered frequencies that are determined by the design parameters of the metasurface. I will demonstrate that Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) and SFG can be enhanced by many orders of magnitude by placing quasi-BICs at both the signal and idler wavelengths, with a linewidth in the picometer range and wavelengths that are reconfigurable over a broadband range. I then show that this means that photon-pairs can be generated over a broadband with picometer linewidths. Further I show that the symmetry of the metasurface has a profound effect on the distribution of photon-pairs in k-space via a novel form of the transverse phase matching requirement of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) in metasurfaces. I will also show that the entanglement of the photon-pairs can be tuned to any value via the polarisation of the pump beam. Finally, I will analyse some of the properties of BICs in a one-dimensional grating on a LiNbO3 thin film.
PCR-Based Assay for Rapid and precise Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Other Pseudomonas Species recovered from burned Patients
Creators: name: Gholami, Abbas
name: Majidpour, Ali
name: Talebi-Taher, Mahshid
name: Boostanshenas, Mina
name: Adabi, Maryam
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Abstract:

Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important life threatening nosocomial pathogen which plays a prominent role in wound infections of burned patients. We designed this study to identify the isolates of P. aeruginosa recovered from burned patients at the genus and species level through primers targeting oprI and oprL genes; and analyzing their antimicrobial resistance pattern.

Methods: during a 5 months period, wound samples were taken from burned patients and plated on MacConkey agar. All suspected colonies were primarily screened for P. aeruginosa by a combination of phenotypic tests. Molecular identifications of colonies were done using specific primers for oprI and oprL genes.

Results: during a 5 months period bacterial isolates recovered from burn wound infections. Based on phonotypical identification tests, 171(34.8%) P. aeruginosa isolates, identified among burned patients; whereas by molecular techniques, just 133 p. aeruginosa yielded amplicon of oprL gene using species-specific primers, verifying the identity of P. aeruginosa; and the others yielded amplicon of oprI gene using genus-specific primers confirming the identity of fluorescent pseudomonads.

Conclusion: This study indicates that molecular detection of P. aeruginosa in burn patients employing the OprL gene target is a useful technique in the early and precise detection of P. aeruginosa. It’s considerable that for the best aggressive antibiotic recommendation of P. aeruginosa strains at earlier stage, beside phenotypic tests, PCR detection should be done. It also has significant benefits on clinical outcomes.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: „Travelling concept“ – oder nicht?: Menschenrechte in der Kontroverse
Creators: name: Martinsen, Franziska
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 300

description: In dem Beitrag zeigt Franziska Martinsen, dass es bei der Idee der Menschenrechte nicht so sehr um Reisen in temporaler oder territorialer Hinsicht geht. Vielmehr ist zur Zeit die originär politische Bedeutung der gegenwärtigen Menschenrechte aus ihrem historischen europäisch-eurozentrischen Entstehungskontext heraus als bestehendes Desiderat für die Politische Theorie zu erläutern.
description: 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. As an idea, human rights have existed far longer. Theoretical debates about an idea of a right to which all people are equally entitled, irrespective of their descent or social status, date back to the discourses on natural law in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, human rights are not a supra-temporal idea. Instead, they are a specifically modern achievement whose emancipatory potential is far from being realized: today, millions of people, especially stateless persons, refugees, women and LGBTQI* are still not protected by human rights to the same extent as other groups, even in the states that have recognized them. Human rights are to be grasped as a ‘traveling idea’ (Saïd 1983) which has not yet reached its goal – either theoretically or practically – and should therefore continue to be the subject of scholarly research and public debate across the globe. In my contribution, I show that the idea of human rights is not so much about travel in temporal or territorial terms. Rather, at present, the genuine political meaning of contemporary human rights needs to be explained from their historical European-Eurocentric context of origin as an existing desideratum for political theory, which is my field of research. Recent discussions suggest that the idea of human rights urgently needs new, revitalizing impulses for its practical future viability in order to be better understood and realized.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 8
Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination: a retrospective study of hospitalization discharge for pneumonia in North-East Italy
Creators: name: Baldo, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Introduction

Pneumonia remains a common reason for hospitalizing infants and the elderly worldwide, and streptococcal infection is the most common cause. The aim of this study was to assess the burden of pneumonia in a large general population.

Methods

All pneumonia-related hospitalizations from 2004 to 2013 in north-east Italy were identified from hospital discharge records with a diagnosis of pneumonia or pneumonia-associated meningitis, septicemia or empyema. We identified major comorbidities, calculated age-specific case-fatality rates (CFR), and estimated the related cost to the health care system.

Results

Of the 149,313 hospitalizations analyzed, 97.5% were cases of pneumonia, 1.9% of septicemia, 0.4% of meningitis, and 0.2% of empyema; 71.2% of hospitalizations involved ≥65-year-olds. The overall CFR was 13.3%, and it increased with age, peaking in people over 80 (22.3%).

The mean annual pneumonia-associated hospitalization rate was 243.0 per 100,000 population, and peaked in 0- to 4-year-old children (484.3 per 100,000 in males, 436.3 in females), and adults over 65 (955.1 per 100,000 in males, 675.2 in females).

Hospitalization rates dropped over the years for the 0-4 year-olds, and rose for people over 80. The estimated overall annual cost of these pneumonia-related hospitalizations was approximately â¬51 million.

Discussion

This study shows that the burden on resources for pneumonia-related hospitalization is an important public health issue. Prevention remains the most valuable tool to contain pneumonia, and vaccination strategies can help in the primary prevention of infection, possibly reducing the number of cases in all age groups.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: Vom kolonialen zum dekolonialen Kosmopolitismus?: Ablehnung, Kritik und Wiederaneignung eines Schlüsselbegriffs der politischen Philosophie
Creators: name: Effert, Sarah-Lea
name: Niederberger, Andreas
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 100

description: Dieser Artikel zeichnet das Konzept des Kosmopolitismus von seinem Aufkommen in den 1990er Jahren bis zu seiner kritischen Rezeption und dekolonialen Dekonstruktion nach und betrachtet, wie beide kanonische Denker der frühen Neuzeit deuten. Die Autorin und der Autor verstehen den modernen Kosmopolitismus als ein kritisches Unterfangen, das sich gegen ein etatistisches Modell globaler Beziehungen und die neoliberale Globalisierung positioniert.
description: We trace the concept of cosmopolitanism from its rise in the 1990s to its critical reception and decolonial deconstruction and how both have reflected upon canonical thinkers from the early modern period. We take modern cosmopolitanism to be a critical undertaking, positioning itself against a statist model of global relations and neoliberal globalisation. This critical project has, however, become the subject of criticisms itself, especially from those parts of the world whose claims it was supposed to assert. According to postcolonial and decolonial critique, modern cosmopolitanism continues a problematic line of thought, based on a Eurocentric universalism, which has promulgated equal claims for all, only to deny some the prerequisites to assert them. The success of postcolonial and decolonial critique has, however, not led to other forms of cooperation and respect. Hence, multiple theorists have started to move beyond the criticism and have developed forms of decolonial cosmopolitanism centred on epistemic questions, restitution, localism and pluriversality, and the idea of a shared world. Having presented these versions of decolonial cosmopolitanism, we pose some questions where and how decolonial cosmopolitanism could travel moving forward.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 16
Investigating the Role of Extracellular Vesicles and its Cargo in Cancer-Associated Cachexia
Creators: name: Marzan, Akbar Lulu
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321105
subject: Chemotherapy
classificationCode: 321101
subject: Cancer cell biology
classificationCode: 310109
subject: Proteomics and intermolecular interactions (excl. medical proteomics)
classificationCode: 310105
subject: Cellular interactions (incl. adhesion, matrix, cell wall)
classificationCode: 310110
subject: Receptors and membrane biology

description: Submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
title: „Wertschätzung“ im Getümmel von „Kulturwandel“: Schlüsselworte unserer Selbstbeschreibung
Creators: name: Griem, Julika
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 300

description: Eine wertschätzende Wissenschaftskommunikation nimmt ihr Material, ihre Mittel und ihre Möglichkeiten so ernst wie möglich und verlässt sich nicht auf Vielsagendes und viel Gesagtes. Sie operiert sorgfältig und behutsam ökonomisch und scheut dabei keine neuen Worte oder neue Einsätze alter Wendungen. Gut dosierte Irritation regt den Appetit zur Reflexion an. Nachdenken auf offener Bühne stimuliert den Widerspruch, von dem Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftskommunikation leben.
description: Julika Griem explores the contemporary use of key terms like “appreciation,” “transparency,” and “culture” in German academic discourse, noting how these “travelling concepts” shift meaning across contexts and disciplines. Rather than dismiss them as worn out, Griem urges a critical analysis of such terms in institutional and political settings. She highlights the complexity of “culture” in diversity discussions, addressing the intricacies of linguistic change and debates over inclusive language. Griem advocates for precise science communication that encourages reflection and fosters meaningful debate about the words we use to describe ourselves.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 26
title: Grenzüberschreitende Erzählungen: Anti-liberale Politik mit Emotionen
Creators: name: Freistein, Katja
name: Unrau, Christine
name: Gadinger, Frank
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 100

description: Dieser Artikel analysiert die wachsende Anziehungskraft des Rechtspopulismus. Er zeigt, wie Emotionen in rechtspopulistischen Narrativen strategisch kommuniziert werden. Die Ansprüche der Rechtspopulisten laufen auf die Etablierung alternativer Emotionsnormen hinaus, die antiliberale Gefühle und deren Ausdruck kollektivieren.
description: This article contributes to debates on the growing appeal of right-wing populism by showing how emotions are strategically communicated in right-wing populist narratives. It argues that right-wing populists’ claims extend to establishing alternative emotion norms that collectivize anti-liberal feelings and their expression. The emotional range covered by these norms transcends emotions usually associated with right-wing populism such as fear or humiliation. By employing seemingly inoffensive modes of presentation, emotion norms, such as exclusive forms of sympathy and humor, can be established. The findings of empirical work that we draw on in this article raises concern about the transnationalization of strategies by right-wing populists in Europe that not only include attempts to influence the thinking of potential voters but also their emotions. These affective strategies are not simply geared toward short-term effects but may also attempt to alter the emotional landscape by establising anti-liberal emotion norms.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 34
title: Eine amerikanische Vorstadt im Herzen Frankreichs: Suburbanität und Thematisierung von „travelling concepts“
Creators: name: Freitag, Florian
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 300

description: Die im Jahr 2000 gegründete Gemeinde Val d’Europe in der Nähe des Disneyland Resort Paris ist das Ergebnis der französischen Bemühungen um eine multipolare Stadtentwicklung und des langjährigen Engagements der Walt Disney Company in der Stadtplanung.
description: Founded in 2000 and located next to Disneyland Resort Paris, France, the community of Val d’Europe simultaneously constitutes the result of French efforts at stimulating multipolar urban development and the Walt Disney Company’s long-standing involvement in urban planning. Drawing on the design strategy of theming and the model of American suburbs, Val d’Europe is very much distinct from the previously realized sectors of the “ville nouvelle” of Marne-la-Vallée, which accentuates the role of the Walt Disney Company in its development – namely, that of a catalyst in the “import” of theming and suburbanization into French urban planning and design.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 44
title: Transfers and Transformations of American Theory: The Chinese example
Creators: name: Jones-Katz, Gregory
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320
subject: 300

description: In diesem Essay erörtert Gregory Jones-Katz die intellektuellen und materiellen Grundlagen, die die Verbreitung und Veränderung der American Theory in China im Laufe der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte des 20. Jahrhunderts mit sich brachten. Die Amerikanische Theorie, wie er sie definiert, war eine postmoderne kulturpolitische Bewegung, die ihren Ursprung in den Hochschulen der Vereinigten Staaten hatte und sich häufig auf „Differenz“ und „Andersartigkeit“ in Sprache, Geschlecht etc. konzentrierte. In China wurde die American Theory mit den Veränderungen in der intellektuellen Kultur des Landes nach der „Öffnung“ nach 1978 verwoben; ihr einflussreichster intellektueller Botschafter war Fredric Jameson, dessen Besuche Mitte der 1980er Jahre mit der Leidenschaft chinesischer Intellektueller für postmoderne theoretische Güter aus den Vereinigten Staaten zusammenfielen und diese ermutigten. Gregory Jones-Katz’ Aufsatz ist Teil eines größeren Projekts, das darauf abzielt, sowohl bereits veröffentlichtes als auch archiviertes Material aus Amerika, Deutschland, Frankreich und China zu verwen
description: In this essay, the author discusses the intellectual and material foundations that led to the spread and transformation of American Theory in China over the last two decades of the 20th century.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 54
title: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 57, No 2 (2016): 2016572
title: 2016572
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Department Of Health Science-University Of Genoa
Publisher: name: Department of Health Science - University of Genoa
Year: 2016

description: Molecular detection of Human Papillomavirus from abnormal cervical cytology of women attending a tertiary health facility in Ido-ekiti, Southwest Nigeria...E86-E90
Occurrence of mycotic and aflatoxin contamination in Myristica fragrans seeds (nutmeg) and Capsicum annum (chili) packed in Italy and commercialized worldwide...E102-E109
Efficacy of safety catheter devices in the prevention of occupational needlestick injuries: applied research in Liguria Region (Italy)...E110-E114
Smoking during pregnancy: a difficult problem to face...E95-E101
A school-based intervention against tobacco consumption for students of physiotherapy: a three-years not randomized trial...E91-E94
PCR-Based Assay for Rapid and precise Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Other Pseudomonas Species recovered from burned Patients...E81-E85
Current preventive policies and practices against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and tuberculosis targeted for workers from hospitals of the Sardinia Region, Italy...E69-E74
Impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination: a retrospective study of hospitalization discharge for pneumonia in North-East Italy...E61-E68
Measuring and benchmarking the quality of two different organizational ways in delivering infant vaccination...E75-E80
The role of the general practitioner in the screening and clinical management of chronic viral hepatitis in six EU countries...E51-E60
title: Globalisierung chinesischer Ordnungskonzeptionen?: Policy Diffusion und Policy Promotion im Schatten weltpolitischer Umbrüche
Creators: name: Noesselt, Nele
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320

description: Die Volksrepublik China hat in den zurückliegenden Dekaden Abstand von der Formulierung alternativer Governance-Konzepte genommen, die als rein „chinesische“ Steuerungsideen identifiziert werden können. Auf Gipfeltreffen mit den Staaten des Globalen Südens positioniert sie sich vielmehr als Advokatin einer Reform der bestehenden Ordnung, mit dem offiziellen Ziel, dieser Staatengruppe mehr Mitsprache- und Mitgestaltungsrechte zu verleihen. Doch auch innerhalb dieser Gruppe zeichnen sich Vorbehalte gegenüber einer globalen Vormachtstellung Pekings ab. Auch entlang der Neuen Seidenstraßen- Korridore verdeutlichen die zunehmenden lokalen Proteste die Grenzen einer globalen Diffusion des chinesischen Entwicklungsmodells.
description: Following the proclamation of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by the Chinese State President in 2013, speculations ran high that this might be an attempt to actively export elements of the infamous (autocratic) Chinese model of development to other world regions. A retrospective on the past ten years, however, evidences that Beijing’s BRI has been far less powerful than expected. Moreover, the deterioration of China’s global image and the spreading meme of Chinese “debt trap”-diplomacy have made many states look for alternatives to Chinese investment. Additionally, to counter potential policy diffusion via the PRC’s Digital Silk Road, complementing the original BRI since 2015, the US and the EU are engaged in formulating regional (and global) standards for cyberspace governance and the fields of AI.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 62
title: Wenn Konzepte sich schwertun zu reisen: Der Fall Duisburgs als verhinderter Knotenpunkt zwischen China und Europa
Creators: name: Romano, Giulia
name: Taube, Markus
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 320

description: Am Beispiel der Bemühungen Duisburgs, (ökonomisch-technische) Impulse aus China für die Stärkung der lokalen Wirtschaft zu nutzen, verdeutlicht dieser Beitrag, dass ein erfolgreicher Transfer von Wissen und Konzepten nur gelingen kann, wenn mehrere Bedingungen gleichzeitig erfüllt sind: Diese reichen von engagierten Unternehmer*innenpersönlichkeiten über ein Mindestmaß an Passung zu den lokalen Rahmenbedingungen bis hin zu einer gesellschaftlich-politischen positiven Bewertung des Austauschs. Sie schwankten in der Vergangenheit im Austausch zwischen Duisburg und China stark. Gegenwärtig scheinen die Möglichkeiten für grenzübergreifende Wissenstransfers wieder auf ein Minimum zusammengeschrumpft zu sein.
description: Mankind has been exchanging knowledge, experiences and world views since time immemorial. This also takes place across national and cultural borders and can have a significant impact on socio-economic development processes. This article sheds light on the driving forces behind such transfers and the scope in which such activities can unfold. It does so using the example of Duisburg’s efforts to utilize (economic and technical) impulses from China to strengthen the local economy. It becomes clear that a successful transfer of knowledge and concepts can only succeed if several conditions are met simultaneously: – entrepreneurial personalities must be willing to commit themselves accordingly; – concepts for transfer must have a minimum degree of fit with the local framework conditions; – there must be a socio-political consensus that views the exchange with the foreign system positively. In the relationship between Duisburg and China, these factors have fluctuated greatly over the past decades and thus determined the intensity of the exchange. A few years ago, Duisburg wanted to position itself as Germany’s “China city”, but at present the scope for cross-border knowledge transfer seems to have shrunk to a minimum again.
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 68
title: „Travelling concepts“ der Vergangenheit: Gobineaus „Rassenlehre“ in den Amerikas - Fragen an Nina Schneider
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 970
subject: 300

description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 82
An R package for discovering subtypes within complex heterogeneous datasets
Creators: name: Gao, Song
name: Mutter, Stefan
name: Ville-Petteri  MÄKINEN
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Many human diseases share risk factors and involve overlapping biological processes. Moreover, multiple diseases often co-occur in vulnerable individuals, and we need a knowledge discovery framework that can simultaneously handle combinations of morbidities, molecular and physiological features and environmental factors across diverse study designs to obtain more accurate disease subtypes. We have developed an R package, Numero, specifically designed for defining subtypes of samples with partially overlapping features or continuum of phenotypic characteristics. In our framework, the self-organizing map (SOM), an unsupervised pattern recognition technique, is adopted to organize high-dimensional data on a 2D canvas according to rank-based similarity criteria. The obtained map is coloured according to locally averaged values for a particular variable, thus revealing the differences in the phenotypic profiles between specific subpopulations in an easily observable visual format. Here, we demonstrate its use in two case studies (Phosphorylation dataset and the Framingham Cohort).
title: Welche Bedeutung haben „travelling concepts“ in der Migrationsforschung?: Jens Loenhoff im Gespräch mit Volker Heins
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 000

description: Migration ist unbestritten ein globales Phänomen, und ihre Geschichte begleitet und dynamisiert die gesamte kulturelle Evolution. In der Gegenwart gibt es kaum eine Gesellschaft, die nicht Menschen aus anderen Teilen der Welt aufnimmt und die damit verbundenen Erfahrungen in ganz unterschiedlicher Weise verarbeitet. Wenn sich eine grenzüberschreitende Migrationsforschung mit Zuwanderung, Flucht und Fluchtursachen befasst, muss man zunächst fragen, ob man unter Migration überhaupt in allen Regionen der Welt das Gleiche versteht und man in der Problemwahrnehmung und -beschreibung zu einer ähnlichen Interpretation des Phänomens kommt. Schließlich ist der Begriff ja mitunter stark aufgeladen im semantischen Feld zwischen Risiken und Chancen für zeitgenössische Gesellschaften …
description: UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre, vol. 2024, no. 61Travelling Concepts: Grenzüberschreitendes Wissen und soziale Transformation, p. 88
Improve homology search sensitivity of PacBio data by correcting frameshifts
Creators: name: Du, Nan
name: Yanni Sun
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Single-molecule, real-time sequencing developed by Pacific BioSciences produces longer reads than secondary generation sequencing technologies such as Illumina. However, PacBio data has high sequencing error rate and most of the errors are insertion or deletion errors, causing frameshifts and leading to marginal alignment scores and short alignments in homology search. As SMRT has been adopted widely for various sequencing projects, there is an urgent need for dedicated homology search tools for PacBio data.

In this work, we introduce Frame-Pro, a profile homology search tool for PacBio reads. Our tool corrects sequencing errors and also output the profile alignments of the corrected sequences against characterized protein families. We applied our tool to both simulated and real PacBio data. The results showed that our method enables more sensitive homology search and corrects more errors compared to a popular error correction tool that does not rely on hybrid sequencing.
Supplementary document for Monitoring sulfur loss in polycrystalline solid solutions of CaS-La2S3 by Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction - 6179744.pdf
Creators: name: Gaume, Romain
name: Havel, Matthew
name: Kostogiannes, Alexandros
name: Shoulders, William Taylor
name: Blair, Victoria
name: McGill, daniel
name: riveiro-baleine, clara
name: Bunijevac, Rade
name: eichler, Jeffery
name: Kincer, Ryan Matthew
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Material Section
RCSB Protein Data Bank: Views of structural biology for basic and applied research
Creators: name: Rose, Peter
name: Prlic, Andreas
name: Chunxiao Bi
name: Christie, Cole
name: Duarte, Jose
name: Zukang Fang
name: Green, Rachel Kramer
name: Kalro, Tara
name: Randle, Chris
name: Westbrook, John
name: Woo, Jesse
name: Huangwang Yang
name: Young, Jasmine
name: Zardecki, Christine
name: Berman, Helen
name: Burley, Stephen
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, rcsb.org) provides rich structural views of biological systems to enable breakthroughs in scientific inquiry, medicine, drug discovery, technology, and education. The website offers multiple tools for structure query, analysis, and visualization.

Users can perform simple searches from the top search bar (e.g., ID, name, sequence, ligand) or build complex combinations of search parameters using Advanced Search. Information from DrugBank is integrated with PDB data to facilitate searches for drugs and drug targets. Other classification systems are used to organize PDB structures in hierarchical trees for browsing and searching (e.g., mpstruc, Gene Ontology, Enzyme Classification).

Visualization features include Protein Feature View, a graphic comparison of a PDB sequence with UniProt and other annotations; Gene View, a tool that illustrates the correspondences between the human genome and 3D structure; and 3D visualization of electron density maps for bound ligands.
INFLUENCE OF EXISTENTIAL ATTITUDES, COMPASSION FATIGUE AND WORK ENGAGEMENT ON PROFESSIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG NURSES IN IBADAN
Creators: name: Olusegun, Solomon Abioye
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Professional Quality of Life
Compassion Fatigue
Existential Attitude
Work Engagement
Nurses

description: ABSTRACT

Exploring the professional quality of life for nurses requires looking beyond their clinical skills to consider their existential attitudes, resilience against compassion fatigue, and levels of work engagement. While the significance of these factors is well acknowledged, research into their combined effects on nurses' professional quality of life remains scarce. This study aimed to fill this gap by examining how existential attitudes, compassion fatigue, and work engagement influence the professional quality of life among nurses in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Job Demands-Resources model, Conservation of Resources theory, and social cognitive theory guided the study. This research adopted a cross-sectional design. The study included 327 participants. The majority of the participants were female, representing 90.5% of the sample, while male participants comprised 9.5%. The average age of the participants was 34.5 years. All employed across various healthcare settings in Oyo State. Data collection employed standardized scales such as the Professional Quality of Life, Existential Attitudes, Compassion Fatigue, and Work Engagement. Four hypotheses were tested with T-tests, and multiple regression at a significance level of 0.05.

Results show that existential attitudes and work engagement are strongly positive predictors of professional quality of life (r = .460, p < .01). Nurses with robust existential attitudes reported significantly higher quality of life. Similarly, nurses with high work engagement also reported a significantly higher quality of life. On the other hand, nurses who faced high levels of compassion fatigue reported a significantly poorer quality of life. . The study revealed that gender and years of service influence professional quality of life. Female nurses and those with extensive experience generally report higher levels of quality of life compared to their male counterparts and those with less experience.

Conclusively, existential attitudes, compassion fatigue, and work engagement crucially shape nurses' professional quality of life. Healthcare facilities should thus prioritize strategies to strengthen existential attitudes, mitigate compassion fatigue, and enhance work engagement. Such measures are essential for nurturing nurses' quality of life and bolstering their capacity to provide effective patient care.
description: Full reference list is available within the thesis document
title: Effekte der digitalen Selbstwirksamkeit – eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung von Drittvariableneffekten
Creators: name: Fornfeist, Jan
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 330

description: Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Arbeit wurde im Rahmen des betriebswirtschaftlichen Studiums an der Mercator School of Management der Universität Duisburg Essen am Lehrstuhl für Personal und Unternehmensführung als Masterarbeit angefertigt. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Effekten der digitalen Selbstwirksamkeit. Herrn Fornfeist gelingt es, mithilfe eines eigens entwickelten Modells und einer kovarianzanalytischen Strukturgleichungsanalyse, die direkten und indirekten Einflüsse der digitalen Selbstwirksamkeit, der unterstützenden Führung und des Arbeitsengagements auf das innovative Arbeitsverhalten zu analysieren. Zusammenfassend kann bei einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung herausgearbeitet werden, dass die digitale Selbstwirksamkeit sowohl einen Einfluss auf das Arbeitsengagement als auch auf das innovative Arbeitsverhalten hat. Der Einfluss der unterstützenden Führung auf das Arbeitsengagement ist dabei noch stärker als der Einfluss der digitalen Selbstwirksamkeit. Zudem ist hervorzuheben, dass hinsichtlich der Rolle des Arbeitsengagements sowohl eine komplementäre Mediation in Bezug auf die Beziehung zwischen der digitalen Selbstwirksamkeit und dem innovativen Arbeitsverhalten als auch eine totale Mediation in Bezug auf die Beziehung zwischen der unterstützenden Führung und dem innovativen Arbeitsverhalten nachgewiesen werden konnten.
description: Diskussionspapiere des Lehrstuhls für Personal und Unternehmensführung, vol. 21