cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Eye Tracking Based Virtual Tape Measure in Construction
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Han, Wei
name: Du, Eric
name: Dai, Fei
name: Zhu, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: The metal tape measure is one of the most important tools used by construction workers on a daily basis. The measure allows the workers to make sure that their piece of work is completed correctly following designs and/or specifications. Therefore, it is a must-have item in the worker’s toolkit. However, existing metal tape measures can be subject to manipulation difficulties, despite that they are durable, retractable, and affordable. A stake, marking flag, or second person is commonly required when measuring large areas. In addition, the metal hook or blade of the measure could injure the worker such as skin cuts. This research proposes a novel framework of virtual tape measures with an eye tracker and a stereo camera. The framework consists of three components: data collection for point-of-interest, sensor calibration and distance calculation. Specifically, the point-of-interest is generated when the worker stares at one location and closes his/her eyes for at least 1 second. Different kinds of data related to the point-of-interest are collected for further analysis. Then, the eye tracking device and stereo camera are calibrated from their captured images to obtain the transformed gaze point on the stereo camera image. Based on the transformed gaze point, the corresponding point cloud is extracted and unified for the distance measurement. The framework was tested by measuring dimensions of several elements. The measurements by the framework were compared with the tape measures to benchmark its accuracy. Results showed that the proposed method could perform the measures efficiently in a hands-free manner with an average absolute error of 2.8 cm.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Physical Internet inspired Atomic Modeling for Supply Chain Risk Management
Creators: name: Cerabona, Thibaut
name: Benaben, Frederick
name: Gitto, Jean-Philippe
name: Lauras, Matthieu
name: Montreuil, Benoit
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Supply chain management
Risk management
Performance measurement
SCOR
System modeling
Physical internet

description: Presented at the 8th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2021) 14-16 June 2021, Virtual
description: At a time when instability is the norm, as the global health situation confirms, managers have to deal with increasingly complex situations. Managers expect to have decision support tools that allow them to manage this instability in order to suffer as little as possible. Simulation is one of the main tools to meet this demand. This paper presents the work in progress for the development of a modular supply chain simulation model inspired by the Physical Internet (PI). Its modules are developed from the processes defined in the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) tool. This simulation model will generate the inputs to apply Physics Of Decision (POD) approach, an innovative approach to risk management approach that draws on analogies with physical forces. This approach is dedicated to steering the performance trajectory of systems evolving in an unstable environment.
Human-Robot Collaborative Workflow for Remote Decommissioning and Demolition
Creators: name: Zhao, Yinghui
name: Earle, Gabriel
name: Ferhatoglu, E.
name: Jung, A.
name: Morales, Daniel
name: Haas, Carl
name: Narasimhan, Sriram
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: The demand for new deconstruction and demolition approaches is escalating as structures built in 20th century development booms approach their end of life. Rehabilitation and careful deconstruction approaches are increasingly economically and environmentally motivating. For example, in Ontario, Canada multi-decade efforts to decommission nuclear power plants are challenging teams of engineers, researchers, venders, and laborers. In these hazardous scenarios, classical heavy demolition approaches are not an option, and the asset owners find that the costly development of novel workflows and technologies to plan and undergo these deconstruction operations is the only option. These trends present construction researchers with an opportunity to develop technologies and processes to achieve deconstruction project goals with improved efficiency, certainty, and safety. This paper presents a modular framework for remote human-robot collaboration for waste management in decommissioning and demolition. The proposed framework includes robotic platform reality data capture, scan processing (e.g., segmentation, surface estimation, and recognition), gamified waste packing in virtual reality (VR), and packing plan execution. A comprehensive review of state-of-the-art technologies of each module is explored from the standpoint of applicability to deconstruction and demolition. Then, an autonomous robotic platform for reality data capture is presented. A reconfigurable semi-automated VR platform for waste packing optimization is presented as an example of this process workflow in the context of remote deconstruction and demolition. Finally, the ideas of robotic packing plan execution are discussed as future work.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 03/94
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Änderungen der Wahlordnung für die Wahlen zum Studentenparlament der Studentenschaft der Universität Dortmund und Änderung der Satzung der Studentenschaft der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 3, 1994
Corazón, Enrique del, El Capitulo De Beata Maria Virgine en la Constitución Lumen Gentiiun, separata de «Salmanticensis», fase. 3, 50 ps. 170x240 (1965); id. Doctrina Mariana del Vaticano II, separata de «Estúdios Marianos»
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1967

description: Theologica, v. 2 n. 2 (1967)
The Effect of Ostracism on Positive and Negative Memories about Mother
Creators: name: Kısa, Gazi
name: Kuzlak, Abdulkadir
name: Bükün, Mehmet Fatih
name: Uysal, Ahmet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: ostracism
memory
cyberball game

description: In this study, the effect of ostracism on memories of an attachment figure was tested. 144 participants played the cyberball game and then answered questions regarding memories of their mothers. It was found that those who were ostracized remembered negative memories in more detail than those in the control condition.
Spatio-Colour Asplünd 's Metric and Logarithmic Image Processing for Colour Images (LIPC)
Creators: name: Noyel, Guillaume
name: Jourlin, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Asplünd 's metric, which is useful for pattern matching, consists in a double-sided probing, i.e. the over-graph and the sub-graph of a function are probed jointly. This paper extends the Asplünd 's metric we previously defined for colour and multivariate images using a marginal approach (i.e. component by component) to the first spatio-colour Asplünd 's metric based on the vectorial colour LIP model (LIPC). LIPC is a non-linear model with operations between colour images which are consistent with the human visual system. The defined colour metric is insensitive to lighting variations and a variant which is robust to noise is used for colour pattern matching.
Hepatoprotective effects of citric acid and aspartame on carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatic damage in rats
Creators: name: Abdel Salam, Omar M. E.
name: Shaffie, Nermeen M.
name: Sleem, Amany A.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: acute hepatic injury
subject: aspartame
subject: carbon tetrachloride
subject: citric acid
subject: rat
subject: silymarin
subject: 610

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of citric acid or the sweetening agent aspartame on the CCl4-induced hepatic injury in rats. Citric acid (10 mg/kg, 100 mg/kg or 1000 mg/kg), aspartame (0.625 or 1.25 mg/kg) or silymarin (25 mg/kg) was given once daily orally simultaneously with CCl4 and for one week thereafter. The administration of citric acid at 100 mg/kg or 1000 mg/kg to CCl4-treated rats reduced elevated plasma ALT by 44.1-63.3 %, AST by 47.8-70.6 %, ALP by 41.7-67.2 %, respectively compared to controls. Aspartame at 0.625 or 1.25 mg/kg reduced plasma ALT by 39.8-52.0 %, AST by 43.2-52.4 % and ALP by 50.0-68.5 %, respectively. Meanwhile, silymarin at 25 mg/kg reduced ALT, AST and ALP levels by 52.7, 62.2 and 64.7 %, respectively. On histology, citric acid at 1000 mg/kg resulted in near normalization of liver tissue. Vacuolar degeneration and necrosis were markedly reduced by 1.25 mg/kg aspartame. These results indicate that treatment with citric acid or the sweetening agent aspartame protects against hepatocellular necrosis induced by CCl4.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 8, 2009
Vehicle Concepts for the Photogrammetric Inspection of Hydroelectric Tunnels
Creators: name: Keizer, Ryan
name: Bradley, Cody
name: Waugh, Lloyd
name: Dubay, Rickey
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Photogrammetric inspections of hydroelectric infrastructure can provide a significant improvement to the understanding and potential prediction of defect and deterioration trends over time. Hydroelectric tunnel environments pose a unique set of challenges and constraints for performing these inspections and particularly to the required collection of images. This introduces the demand for an assistive system to aid in positioning the cameras in the required positions, which is often inaccessible or impractical to do manually. We have explored a collection of camera positioning vehicle concepts that complete the image collection process within a tunnel while reducing the required time and manual effort. Details on the constraints and criteria for the conceptualization of these designs, as well as the parameters for evaluation of potential performance and applicability are documented. A thorough comparison of these concepts leads to the conclusion of a design concept best suited to complete the inspection in a safe and efficient manner. Expanded details of this design demonstrate the systems ability to adapt to varying diameter tunnels while maintaining a stable and transportable design.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Intraorganisationales Kompetenzmanagement für die Logistikplanung
Creators: name: Weidt, Stefan
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Wissensmanagement
subject: Logistikplanung
subject: Unternehmenslogistik
subject: Referenzmodell
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Immer kürzere Produktlebenszyklen machen die Logistikplanung von komplexen Systemen zu einem wesentlichen Faktor im Wettbewerb zwischen den Unternehmen, dem nicht alleine die Produktentwicklung genügen muss. Die gestiegene Dynamik der Veränderungen und die damit verbundene Komplexität des Unternehmensumfeldes stellen permanent neue Anforderungen an die Logistikplanung. Die Intensität der Veränderungen und die damit einhergehende Destabilisierung des Bestehenden zwingt Logistikplaner zunehmend zu einer höheren Anpassungsleistung, die durch Planungsaktivitäten sicherzustellen ist. Dies macht es erforderlich, auf neue Technologien und Methoden zu reagieren und etwaige Potenziale durch deren Integration in die Geschäftsprozesse des Tagesgeschäftes zu nutzen. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit ist ein Lösungsansatz entwickelt worden, der einerseits die Möglichkeiten nutzt, die durch die Technologie des Internets verfügbar sind und andererseits auf den Erkenntnissen aus der Methode des Wissensmanagements basiert. Aufgabe ist die Bereitstellung eines Assistenzsystems für die Planung und Realisierung von Logistiksystemen mit der Zielsetzung, eine hohe Effizienz der Logistikplanung und eine hohe Reaktions- und Anpassungsgeschwindigkeit zu erreichen.
(200143) Robert Cooper Lee Bevan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(200148) Edith Agneta Bevan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Anomalous High Pressure Dependence of the Jahn-Teller Phonon in La0.75Ca0.25MnO3
Creators: name: Caramagno, E.
name: Congeduti, A.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Nardone, M.
name: Postorino, P.
name: Sarma, D. D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
title: Altered Signal Transduction in the Immune Response to Influenza Virus and S. pneumoniae or S. aureus Co-Infections
Creators: name: Wilden, Janine J.
name: Jacob, Jasmin C.
name: Ehrhardt, Christina
name: Ludwig, Stephan
name: Börgeling, Yvonne
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: Influenza virus is a well-known respiratory pathogen, which still leads to many severe pulmonary infections in the human population every year. Morbidity and mortality rates are further increased if virus infection coincides with co-infections or superinfections caused by bacteria such as 'Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae)' and 'Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)'. This enhanced pathogenicity is due to complex interactions between the different pathogens and the host and its immune system and is mainly governed by altered intracellular signaling processes. In this review, we summarize the recent findings regarding the innate and adaptive immune responses during co-infection with influenza virus and 'S. pneumoniae' or 'S. aureus', describing the signaling pathways involved and how these interactions influence disease outcomes.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Reality Data Capture for Reclaimed Construction Materials
Creators: name: Olumo1, Adama
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Haas, Carl
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: In recent years, opportunities are emerging to recover and reuse salvaged materials from building demolition and deep renovation projects to solve new design and procurement problems. However, the procurement process is often financially tasking due to the lack of well-detailed representations of reclaimed materials being readily available. Therefore, the exploitation of the advancement in 3D data capturing systems can aid the process and has already been applied widely for circular design strategies in building projects such as building adaptation, material refurbishment and regenerative design. Thus, this paper particularly explores the practicality of 3D scanning for reusable reclaimed elements at two secondary distribution sources in the Canadian environment. The paper outlines 3D material data capture processes at the two reclaimed material sources, using four different types of scanners to scan reclaimed elements like (1) structural steel, (2) windows & doors, (3) wood, (4) flooring, and (5) kitchenettes. Furthermore, the case study analyses the simplicity of the scanning process and the quality of the produced scans using commercialized scanners like; the faro laser, the freestyle, the dotproduct3D, and the iPad scanner. Based on the characteristics analyzed in this study, the two reclaim sources required different scanning systems due to the length and size of some of the building components and the layout of elements at each location. The findings in this study indicate the need to further assess scanning equipment for varying degrees of use across the industry to enhance equipment attunement, and advancements should support the movement towards a circular economy in the built environment.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Systematic review and meta-analysis of surgery for hilar cholangiocarcinoma with arterial resection
Creators: name: Gomes Dos Santos Ferreira Rebelo, Artur Luis
name: Friedrichs, Juliane
name: Grilli, Maurizio
name: Wahbeh, Nour
name: Partsakhashvili, Jumber
name: Ukkat, Jörg
name: Klose, Johannes
name: Ronellenfitsch, Ulrich
name: Kleeff, Jörg H.
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 617

description: Background: With the advances in multimodality treatment, an analysis of the outcome of arterial resections (AR) in surgery of cholangiocarcinoma is lacking. The aim of this meta-analysis was to summarize the currently available evidence onof AR for the treatment of cholangiocarcinoma. Methods: A systematic literature search was carried out according to PRISMA guidelines. Results: 10 retrospective cohort studies published from 2007 to 2020 with 2530 patients (408 AR group and 2122 control group) were identified. Higher in-hospital mortality rates (6.8% vs 3.3%, OR 2.65, 95% CI [1.27; 5.32], p = 0.009), higher morbidity rates (Clavien-Dindo classification ≥3 ) (52% vs 47%, OR 1.44, 95% CI [1.02; 1.75], p = 0.04) and lower 1-year, 3-year and 5-year survival rates (54% vs 69%, OR 0.55, 95% CI [0.34; 0.91 p = 0.02), (34% vs 38%, OR 0.74, 95% CI [0.55; 0.98, p = 0.03), (18% vs 29%, OR 0.54, 95% CI [0.39; 0.75, p = 0.0002) were observed in the AR group when compared to the control group. Conclusion: Evidence from non-randomized studies shows a higher morbidity and mortality and shorter long-term survival in patients undergoing AR. However, the results are prone to selection bias, and only randomized trials comparing AR and palliative treatments AR might reveal a possible benefit of AR.
Technology-Related Challenges in Implementing Mixed Reality (MR) Technology in Precast Concrete Production
Creators: name: Rezvani, Mahsa
name: Waugh, Lloyd
name: Lei, Zhen
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Mixed Reality (MR) technology, combining digital information with the real world to provide a better display of information, is gaining a growing interest in the construction industry. Regardless of the benefits of MR systems in construction, the proper implementation of them in each phase of a construction project requires thorough investigation and experimentation. In prefabricated construction the construction phase is divided into two phases: prefabrication off-site and assembly on-site. The workflow of implementing an MR system in off-site manufacturing is quite different. This paper aims to identify some challenges in implementing MR technology in the prefabrication phase by considering precast concrete production as a case study. The paper primarily focuses on MR implementation during the quality control (QC) inspection tasks, as these tasks are concerned with proper visualization and interpretation of the design information. A solid slab production process is first chosen for process analysis, and the main steps from the design to the shipping of a cast unit are described. Then, a brief overview of the MR system is presented, and more specifically, the features of the Trimble Connect application on Microsoft HoloLens 2 are introduced. Accordingly, some of the opportunities for improvement are identified and explained. The identified improvements will help industry practitioners, specifically in precast concrete production, to gain better insight into how and to what extent they can leverage these technologies.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Functorial Hierarchical Clustering with Overlaps
Creators: name: Culbertson, Jared
name: Guralnik, Dan P.
name: Stiller, Peter F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3
subject: 51K05, 68P01

description: This work draws inspiration from three important sources of research on dissimilarity-based clustering and intertwines those three threads into a consistent principled functorial theory of clustering. Those three are the overlapping clustering of Jardine and Sibson, the functorial approach of Carlsson and Mémoli to partition-based clustering, and the Isbell/Dress school's study of injective envelopes. Carlsson and Mémoli introduce the idea of viewing clustering methods as functors from a category of metric spaces to a category of clusters, with functoriality subsuming many desirable properties. Our first series of results extends their theory of functorial clustering schemes to methods that allow overlapping clusters in the spirit of Jardine and Sibson. This obviates some of the unpleasant effects of chaining that occur, for example with single-linkage clustering. We prove an equivalence between these general overlapping clustering functors and projections of weight spaces to what we term clustering domains, by focusing on the order structure determined by the morphisms. As a specific application of this machinery, we are able to prove that there are no functorial projections to cut metrics, or even to tree metrics. Finally, although we focus less on the construction of clustering methods (clustering domains) derived from injective envelopes, we lay out some preliminary results, that hopefully will give a feel for how the third leg of the stool comes into play.
description: Minor revisions. 24 pages, 1 figure
Ayurveda in Knee Osteoarthritis—Secondary Analyses of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Kessler, Christian S.
name: Jeitler, Michael
name: Dhiman, Kartar S.
name: Kumar, Abhimanyu
name: Ostermann, Thomas
name: Gupta, Shivenarain
name: Morandi, Antonio
name: Mittwede, Martin
name: Stapelfeldt, Elmar
name: Spoo, Michaela
name: Icke, Katja
name: Michalsen, Andreas
name: Witt, Claudia M.
name: Wischnewsky, Manfred B.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ayurveda
subject: traditional Indian medicine
subject: knee osteoarthritis
subject: complementary medicine
subject: integrative medicine
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: Ayurveda is widely practiced in South Asia in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of these secondary data analyses were to identify the most relevant variables for treatment response and group differences between Ayurvedic therapy compared to conventional therapy in knee OA patients. Methods: A total of 151 patients (Ayurveda n = 77, conventional care n = 74) were analyzed according to the intention-to-treat principle in a randomized controlled trial. Different statistical approaches including generalized linear models, a radial basis function (RBF) network, exhausted CHAID, classification and regression trees (CART), and C5.0 with adaptive boosting were applied. Results: The RBF network implicated that the therapy arm and the baseline values of the WOMAC Index subscales might be the most important variables for the significant between-group differences of the WOMAC Index from baseline to 12 weeks in favor of Ayurveda. The intake of nutritional supplements in the Ayurveda group did not seem to be a significant factor in changes in the WOMAC Index. Ayurveda patients with functional limitations > 60 points and pain > 25 points at baseline showed the greatest improvements in the WOMAC Index from baseline to 12 weeks (mean value 107.8 +/- 27.4). A C5.0 model with nine predictors had a predictive accuracy of 89.4% for a change in the WOMAC Index after 12 weeks > 10. With adaptive boosting, the accuracy rose to 98%. Conclusions: These secondary analyses suggested that therapeutic effects cannot be explained by the therapies themselves alone, although they were the most important factors in the applied models.
Urs von Balthasar, Hans, Ensayos Teologicos. Vol. I. Verbum Caro. Ed. Cristiandad. Vol. de 356 ps. 150x220. Madrid 1964; id. Ensayos Teologicos. Vol. II: Sponsa Verbi. Ed. Cristiandad. Vol. de 612 ps. 150x220. Madrid 1964
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1967

description: Theologica, v. 2 n. 2 (1967)
Minimal Inputs/Outputs for Subsystems in a Networked System
Creators: name: Zhou, Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Minimal input/output selection is investigated in this paper for each subsystem of a networked system. Some novel sufficient conditions are derived respectively for the controllability and observability of a networked system, as well as some necessary conditions. These conditions only depend separately on parameters of each subsystem and its in/out-degrees. It is proven that in order to be able to construct a controllable/observable networked system, it is necessary and sufficient that each subsystem is controllable/observable. In addition, both sparse and dense subsystem connections are helpful in making the whole system controllable/observable. An explicit formula is given for the smallest number of inputs/outputs for each subsystem required to guarantee controllability/observability of the whole system.
description: 10 pages, scheduled to publish in Automatica, August, 2018
Key Result Indicators (KRIS) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIS)For Maintenance Management
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Fereshteh
name: Molewijk, Emile
name: Helmus, Jurjen
name: RazaviAlavi, SeyedReza
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Maintenance management is an important process in the operation phase of any asset because it can impact the serviceability and useful life of the assets. In addition, maintenance management constitutes a substantial proportion of operational asset costs. Establishing a suitable set of (i) key result indicators to evaluate maintenance management and (ii) key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve decision maintenance making is essential for monitoring primary aspects of maintenance functions. While many KPIs are defined for evaluating maintenance management and subsequently used for identifying root causes of deficiencies, there are potential areas for improvement in defining their relation with KRIs and maintenance decision-making. This paper aims to identify the KRIs and KPIs related to maintenance management by conducting a literature review and exploring the use of performance measures in maintenance management. It also gains an algorithmic perspective on performance besides the existing organisational perspectives. The identified KRIs and KPIs are then analysed and categorised based on their purpose and content. In addition, primary data from interviews of industry practitioners is collected to identify the challenges of measuring maintenance performance in practice. The findings of this study show the lack of quality and reliable data, and automated data collection are the main issues in measuring maintenance KPIs. In addition, it was found that communication with the clients to understand their needs and update the KPIs based on their requirements and objectives over time could improve the effectiveness of the maintenance monitoring systems.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
(200150) Sydney Bevan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Quantitative Study of Beam Splitter Generated Entanglement from Input States with Multiple Nonclassicality Inducing Operations
Creators: name: Bose, Soumyakanti
name: Kumar, M. Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous variable Beam Splitter (BS) generated entanglement from single mode optical states generated by single nonclassicality (NC) inducing operation have been found of immense importance in several information processing tasks. There exists a broader class of optical states, generated from successive action of multiple different NC-inducing operations, which show many intriguing nonclassical properties; however the BS conversion of the NC for such states remains unexplored. In this work we have critically analyzed the BS generated entanglement from such nonclassical optical states at input. Here we present a scenario where BS output entanglement becomes non-monotonic with the input NC parameters, amenable experimentally (e.g. number of photon excitation and squeezing strength), in contrast with the previous results with states comprising of single NC- inducing operation. We explain this counter intuitive feature in terms of the competition between the NCs induced by specific type of NC-inducing operations.
description: Published in Physical Review A
Environmental contamination of a biodiversity hotspot : action needed for nature conservation in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Creators: name: Ansah, Christabel Edena
name: Abu, Itohan-Osa
name: Kleemann, Janina
name: Mahmoud, Mahmoud Ibrahim
name: Thiel, Michael
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 556

description: The Niger Delta belongs to the largest swamp and mangrove forests in the world hosting many endemic and endangered species. Therefore, its conservation should be of highest priority. However, the Niger Delta is confronted with overexploitation, deforestation and pollution to a large extent. In particular, oil spills threaten the biodiversity, ecosystem services, and local people. Remote sensing can support the detection of spills and their potential impact when accessibility on site is difficult. We tested different vegetation indices to assess the impact of oil spills on the land cover as well as to detect accumulations (hotspots) of oil spills. We further identified which species, land cover types, and protected areas could be threatened in the Niger Delta due to oil spills. The results showed that the Enhanced Vegetation Index, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and the Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index were more sensitive to the effects of oil spills on different vegetation cover than other tested vegetation indices. Forest cover was the most affected land-cover type and oil spills also occurred in protected areas. Threatened species are inhabiting the Niger Delta Swamp Forest and the Central African Mangroves that were mainly affected by oil spills and, therefore, strong conservation measures are needed even though security issues hamper the monitoring and control.
How balanced is multilingualism in scholarly journals? A global analysis using the DOAJ database
Creators: name: Gimena, del Rio Riande
name: Ivonne, Lujano Vilchis
name: Tom, Olijhoek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: open access, multilingualism, journals, DOAJ

description: The concept of balanced multilingualism (Sivertsen, 2018) aims at establishing “instruments for documenting and measuring the use of language for all the different purposes in research, thereby providing the basis for the monitoring of further globalization of research in a more responsible direction” (p. 2). One of the goals of the global scientific publishing industry should be to find solutions based on balanced multilingualism and supported by digital infrastructures in which “the need for communicating in a lingua franca does not necessarily imply the adoption of a lingua unica” (Balula and Leão, 2019:8). However, an analysis of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the largest database of fully open access journals produced in 130 countries, does not show any balanced multilingualism in the global landscape. DOAJ promotes linguistic diversity by indexing journals in 80 languages, including dialectal variations, indigenous languages, and languages spoken by less than 50,000 speakers (e.g., Aragonese). This paper will present the main trends in the languages in which journals publish their full-text contributions to respond to this unbalanced landscape. We conducted a descriptive analysis of the 17,564 journals listed in DOAJ in April 2022. Our findings show that 65% (11,331) of the journals listed publish only in one language, and 35% publish in two, three, and up to 16 languages. Our research shows that 50% of the multilingual journals are based in Asia and Latin America. In the presentation, we discuss some of the editorial policies implemented by multilingual journals.
Investigating Mixed Reality Applications in Building Inspection and Maintenance
Creators: name: Azhar, Salman
name: Haroon, Abuzar
name: Rabayah, Hesham
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Facilities Management (FM) industry is frequently exploring new technologies with the potential to increase efficiency of inspection and maintenance processes of buildings. Mixed Reality (MR), which allows for the blending of real environment with virtual objects and/or information, is one technology that has such potential. The aim of this study is to develop an MR assisted system that can be used to enhance the process of inspection and maintenance of buildings. Three case scenarios were developed as a “proof of concept” to demonstrate the effectiveness of MR technology for inspection and predictive maintenance as compared to the systems already in place. A 3-story academic building was used for deployment and testing. A mixed-methods research design consisting of a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews was adopted to collect the user experience data from a selected group of facility technicians, inspectors, and managers. The preliminary results showed that the MR technology has a potential to overcome limitations of the legacy FM systems. Nearly, two-third of the surveyed participants found MR system to be very effective in educating and training facility inspectors and technicians about routine inspection and maintenance tasks. However, several technical limitations were also identified such as MR model drifting during viewing, information access lags, and abrupt crashing of the system. Though limited in scope, this research study built foundations for carrying out a more detailed investigation on the effectiveness of MR technology for the FM industry. It is hoped that the results reported in this paper would be helpful for FM researchers and practitioners who are interested to explore advanced visualization technologies for improving efficacy and efficiency of inspection and maintenance processes.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Autonomous and interconnected technologies for the container supply chain: The MOSES Concept
Creators: name: Ventikos, Nikolaos P.
name: Louzis, Konstantinos
name: Kanellopoulos, Ioannis
name: Krikigianni, Eleni
name: Latsa, Evangelia
name: Hagesteijn, Gerco
name: Cozjin, Hans
name: Broek, Hans
Publisher: name: Georgia Institute of Technology
Year: 2021
Subjects: The moses concept

description: Presented at the 8th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2021) 14-16 June 2021, Virtual
description: The maritime branch of the EU container supply chain is configured as hub-and spoke networks where large containerships transport cargo to Deep-Sea Shipping (DSS) ports and a limited number of Short Sea Shipping (SSS) feeder lines and container trucks on RoPax vessels distribute cargo to smaller ports for further transhipment. However, economically, environmentally, and socially unsustainable land-based transportation still covers most of the cargo transhipment from Hub ports. MOSES aims to significantly improve the modal shift to SSS by creating sustainable feeder services to small ports that have limited or no infrastructure (Figure 1). This will be achieved by developing the following highly automated/autonomous technologies and integrating them in existing operational processes: i) a digital collaboration and matchmaking platform (MOSES platform), ii) an innovative, green feeder vessel with a robotic container handling system, iii) a manoeuvring and docking scheme where autonomous tugboats collaborate with an automated mooring system. MOSES Matchmaking platform proposes a solution where data feeds from various sources allow logistics stakeholders to optimise and adjust routing plans, bringing the PI one step closer to the targets set for 2030 and 2040.
Surfaces expanding by non-concave curvature functions
Creators: name: Li, Haizhong
name: Wang, Xianfeng
name: Wei, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 53C21, 58J35

description: In this paper, we first investigate the flow of convex surfaces in the space form $\mathbb{R}^3(κ)~(κ=0,1,-1)$ expanding by $F^{-α}$, where $F$ is a smooth, symmetric, increasing and homogeneous of degree one function of the principal curvatures of the surfaces and the power $α\in(0,1]$ for $κ=0,-1$ and $α=1$ for $κ=1$. By deriving that the pinching ratio of the flow surface $M_t$ is no greater than that of the initial surface $M_0$, we prove the long time existence and the convergence of the flow. No concavity assumption of $F$ is required. We also show that for the flow in $\mathbb{H}^3$ with $α\in (0,1)$, the limit shape may not be necessarily round after rescaling.
description: 36 pages, accepted version for Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry
Martini, Cario M., II problema della recensionalità del códice B alla luce del papiro Bodmer XIV (Col. Analecta Biblica, n.° 26), ed. Pontifício Istituto Biblico. Vol. de XXIV+192 ps. 170x240. Roma 1966
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1967

description: Theologica, v. 2 n. 2 (1967)
Interplay between electron pairing and Dicke effect in triple quantum dots structures
Creators: name: Glodzik, S.
name: Wójcik, K. P.
name: Weymann, I.
name: Domanski, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of the proximity-induced pairing on electronic version of the Dicke effect in a heterostructure, comprising three quantum dots vertically coupled between the metallic and superconducting leads. We discuss a feasible experimental procedure for detecting the narrow/broad (subradiant/superradiant) contributions by means of the subgap Andreev spectroscopy. In the Kondo regime and for small energy level detuning the Dicke effect is manifested in the differential conductance.
description: 10 pages, 16 figures
Quantifying Occupants Energy Behaviour: A Novel Fuzzy Approach
Creators: name: Mahamedi, Elham
name: Wonders, Martin
name: Woo, Wai Lok
name: Gerami Seresht, Nima
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Buildings contribute to nearly 40% of the global carbon footprint with a significant proportion of their carbon footprint is generated due to their energy consumption during the operational phase. To reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, efforts have been made to optimize energy consumption during the operational phase; and the fundamental requirement for all such efforts is the accurate prediction of a building's energy consumption. Existing energy prediction models for buildings often map a set of building characteristics to their energy consumption and disregard the occupants’ energy behaviour (OEB). Consequently, significant discrepancies (up to 300%) have been resulted between the predictions of these models and the actual energy consumption values, which in turn reduce the applicability of these models in practice. This limitation can be addressed by incorporating OEB in buildings’ energy prediction models; however, OEB is an ill-known phenomenon under the impact of several factors, namely, the intra-personal (e.g., education, culture) and inter-personal (i.e., social interactions) characteristics of occupants, as well as environmental factors (e.g., precipitation). This paper introduces a novel insight into the energy behaviour of the occupants of buildings and provides a comprehensive and quantitative measure for modelling OEB based on granular computing and fuzzy logic. Our proposed fuzzy approach can improve the accuracy of existing energy prediction models by incorporating OEB into these models and so help with the energy consumption optimisation of buildings.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow
Serological profiling reveals hsa-miR-451a as a possible biomarker of anaphylaxis
Creators: name: Francuzik, Wojciech
name: Pažur, Kristijan
name: Dalke, Magdalena
name: Dölle-Bierke, Sabine
name: Babina, Magda
name: Worm, Margitta
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Allergy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Diagnostics
subject: Immunology
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: BACKGROUND. There is a need to support the diagnosis of anaphylaxis by objective markers. miRNAs are promising noncoding RNA species that may serve as serological biomarkers, but their use in diagnosing anaphylaxis has not been systematically studied to our knowledge. We aimed to comprehensively investigate serum biomarker profiles (proteins, lipids, and miRNAs) to support the diagnosis of anaphylaxis. METHODS. Adult patients admitted to the emergency room with a diagnosis of anaphylaxis (<3 hours) were included. Blood samples were taken upon emergency room arrival and 1 month later. RESULTS. Next-generation sequencing of 18 samples (6 patients with anaphylaxis in both acute and nonacute condition, for 12 total samples, and 6 healthy controls) identified hsa-miR-451a to be elevated during anaphylaxis, which was verified by quantitative real-time PCR in the remaining cohort. The random forest classifier enabled us to classify anaphylaxis with high accuracy using a composite model. We identified tryptase, 9 alpha,11 beta-PGF2, apolipoprotein A1, and hsa-miR-451a as serological biomarkers of anaphylaxis. These predictors qualified as serological biomarkers individually but performed better in combination. CONCLUSION. Unexpectedly, hsa-miR-451a was identified as the most relevant biomarker in our data set. We were also able to distinguish between patients with a history of anaphylaxis and healthy individuals with higher accuracy than any other available model. Future studies will need to verify miRNA biomarker utility in real-life clinical settings.
Lyonnet, Stanislao, La storia della salvezza nella lettera ai romani. Ed. M. d’Auria. Vol. de VIII+270 ps. 150x220. Napoli 1966
Creators: name: Correia, Francisco Carvalho
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 1967

description: Theologica, v. 2 n. 2 (1967)
(200154) Hubert Lee Bevan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Geometric Survey Through Laser Scanning of a Historical Building In Alberta
Creators: name: Burzic, Emina
name: Iskander, George
name: Duncan, Neil
name: Shrive, Nigel
Publisher: name: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies
Year: 2022

description: Advances in technology have provided engineers with the tools to conduct geometric surveys faster and more precisely. Laser scanning has bridged the gap between classical geometric data collection and modern technology. However, limitations exist within laser scanning. Users need to be aware of these limitations, like obstructions, cost, scanning distances and their effect on accuracy, before applying the methodology, especially when evaluating existing buildings. A case study was conducted on a historical site in Alberta to investigate the feasibility of using such technology to assess the safety of an existing structure. The assessed building is the absorption building, built in 1930 at the Turner Valley Gas Plant, a National Historic Site. This building is constructed from different steel sections connected via steel nails randomly chosen in size, number, and location by the contractor. High vaulted ceilings, obstructions, and missing members are common within the building which increase the complexity of surveying it. Two cloud models created from different data sets and products were compared. The same post processing register was used for comparison. Conclusions derived from the results are that the methodology is only useful when used appropriately, that scan quantities and overlap are required to obtain adequate data and that post-processing factors like decimation can result in a loss of required topographical data.
description: Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies, 2022: The Digital Reality of Tomorrow