cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array
Creators: name: Blake, Chris
name: Abdalla, Filipe
name: Bridle, Sarah
name: Rawlings, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the Square Kilometre Array has the potential to make both redshift (HI) surveys and radio continuum surveys that will revolutionize cosmological studies, provided that it has sufficient instantaneous field-of-view that these surveys can cover a hemisphere in a timescale ~1 yr. Adopting this assumption, we focus on two key experiments which will yield fundamental new measurements in cosmology, characterizing the properties of the mysterious dark energy which dominates the dynamics of today's Universe. Experiment I will map out ~10^9 HI galaxies to redshift z~1.5, providing the premier measurement of the clustering power spectrum of galaxies: accurately delineating the acoustic oscillations and the `turnover'. Experiment II will quantify the cosmic shear distortion of ~10^10 radio continuum sources, determining a precise power spectrum of the dark matter, and its growth as a function of cosmic epoch. We contrast the performance of the SKA in precision cosmology with that of other facilities which will, probably or possibly, be available on a similar timescale. We conclude that data from the SKA will yield transformational science as the direct result of four key features: (i) the immense cosmic volumes probed, exceeding future optical redshift surveys by more than an order of magnitude; (ii) well-controlled systematic effects such as the narrow `k-space window function' for Experiment I and the accurately-known `point-spread function' for Experiment II; (iii) the ability to measure with high precision large-scale modes in the clustering power spectra, for which nuisance effects such as non-linear structure growth, peculiar velocities and `galaxy bias' are minimised; and (iv) different degeneracies between key parameters to those which are inherent in the CMB.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures. To appear in "Science with the Square Kilometer Array", eds. C.Carilli and S.Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews (Elsevier: Amsterdam)
B cell modulation by toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 induced CD4⁺ regulatory T cells generated in BALB/c mice
Creators: name: Lam, Grace
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Among the most exciting recent advances in the field of immunology is research on the regulatory T cells. Tregs, comprising only 5-10% of the peripheral CD4+ T cell population, are known to suppress T cell function. One type of Tregs is the antigen induced Tregs, which can be generated in mice following repeated subcutaneous injections of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin- 1, a superantigen secreted by the bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus. These Tregs have been shown to have the ability to down regulate T cell activity and proliferation via the secretion of cytokines (IL-10 and TGF-β). Recent findings suggest that Tregs cells not only control T cell activity but B cell activity as well. In this study, the ability of these TSST-1 induced Tregs to modulate B cell proliferation, viability and antibody production is explored. It was found that the adoptive transfer of TSST-1 primed CD4+ T cells into mice hyperimmunized with TNP-KLH suppressed TNP-specific antibody production while PBS primed CD4+ T cells did not. The effect of CD4+CD25+ versus CD4+CD25- T cells was further investigated in vitro. Co-culturing B cells with PBS primed CD4+CD25+ or CD4+CD25- T cells in the presence of 1 nM TSST-1 caused B cells to undergo multiple cycles of proliferation. The PBS primed CD25+ T cell population induced a Th1-like response (IgG2a production) while the PBS primed CD25- T cells induced a Th2-like response (IgG1 production). In contrast, co-culturing B cells with either TSST-1 primed CD4+CD25+ or CD4+CD25- T cells suppressed B cell proliferation and function but through entirely different mechanisms. TSST-1 primed CD4+CD25+ Tregs prevented B cell proliferation by inducing B cell apoptosis, while TSST-1 primed CD4+CD25- Tregs temporally suppressed the onset of a Th2-like response. B cell suppression appeared to be mediated by both the secretion of IL-10 and TGF-β and by cell-to-cell mediated mechanisms. These data provide evidence that in addition to modulating T cell activity, TSST-1 induced Tregs also regulate B cell activity both in vitro and in vivo, thus raising the possibility of using TSST-1 primed Tregs for controlling both T and B cell-mediated autoimmune diseases.
Optimizing Streaming Parallelism on Heterogeneous Many-Core Architectures: A Machine Learning Based Approach
Creators: name: Zhang, Peng
name: Fang, Jianbin
name: Yang, Canqun
name: Huang, Chun
name: Tang, Tao
name: Wang, Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article presents an automatic approach to quickly derive a good solution for hardware resource partition and task granularity for task-based parallel applications on heterogeneous many-core architectures. Our approach employs a performance model to estimate the resulting performance of the target application under a given resource partition and task granularity configuration. The model is used as a utility to quickly search for a good configuration at runtime. Instead of hand-crafting an analytical model that requires expert insights into low-level hardware details, we employ machine learning techniques to automatically learn it. We achieve this by first learning a predictive model offline using training programs. The learnt model can then be used to predict the performance of any unseen program at runtime. We apply our approach to 39 representative parallel applications and evaluate it on two representative heterogeneous many-core platforms: a CPU-XeonPhi platform and a CPU-GPU platform. Compared to the single-stream version, our approach achieves, on average, a 1.6x and 1.1x speedup on the XeonPhi and the GPU platform, respectively. These results translate to over 93% of the performance delivered by a theoretically perfect predictor.
description: Accepted to be published at IEEE TPDS. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1802.02760
Additional file 4 of Individual placement and support and employment in personality disorders: a registry based cohort study
Creators: name: Juurlink, T. T.
name: Lamers, F.
name: van Marle, H. J. F.
name: Zwinkels, W.
name: Spijkerman, M. A.
name: Beekman, A. T. F.
name: Anema, J. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Employment outcomes of IPS participants and associations of employment with primary or secondary PD diagnosis group (n = 335).
CD44 signaling in T cells leading to cell spreading and its regulation by CD45
Creators: name: Wong, Nelson Kwan Yin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: CD44 is a widely expressed adhesion molecule that has been implicated in mediating cellular signaling. In this dissertation, the signaling pathway initiated by CD44 that leads to actin rearrangement and cell spreading in T cells was studied. The results indicate that engagement of CD44 leads to actin-dependent clustering of this adhesion molecule. CD44 clustering then initiates the recruitment of signaling proteins, including the Src-family kinases (SFK) Lck and Fyn, phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K), and non-receptor related focal adhesion kinase Pyk2. The outcome of actin rearrangement and cell spreading resultant of CD44 signaling was determined by CD45, a transmembrane tyrosine phosphatase. In the absence of CD45, elongated cell spreading and F-actin polymerization along the longitudinal axis of the cells were observed. This was accompanied by the accumulation of tyrosine phosphorylation at CD44 microclusters. Moreover, Pyk2 phosphorylation was also associated with the CD44- induced elongated cell spreading. The CD44-induced signaling pathway that leads to Pyk2 phosphorylation and elongated cell spreading involves the activities of SFK, phospholipase C (PLC), and phosphatidylinositode-3-kinase (PI3K), as well as actin polymerization and calcium mobilization. These signaling components identified are also involved in T-cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 signaling, which is initiated during T cell activation; however, the CD44 pathway was distinct. This was supported by the observations that LAT (linker for activation of T cells) phosphorylation and ERK activation were not involved in CD44 signaling, while these events are observed in TCR/CD3 signaling. In the presence of CD45, BW5147 T cells formed F-actin rings and spread round on immobilized CD44 antibody. The formation of F-actin structures in CD45+ BW5147 T cells also required Src family kinase activity. Results from confocal microscopy studies suggest that CD45 was recruited to CD44 microclusters and this was associated with the prevention of sustained Lck activation. Overall, this work shows that CD44 mediates signals that result in actin reorganization and cell spreading in T cells; however, the outcome of these events is regulated by CD45. This is likely due to the negative regulatory effect of CD45 on SFK during CD44 signaling.
Generalised Parton Distributions of the Pion on the Transverse Lattice
Creators: name: Dalley, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quark generalised parton distributions of the pion are calculated from lightcone wavefunctions in transverse lattice gauge theory at large N_c. The pion effective size is found to decrease with increasing momentum transfer. An analytic ansatz, consistent with finite boundstate lightcone energy conditions, is given for the lightcone momentum dependence of the wavefunctions. This leads to simple, universal predictions for the behaviour of the distributions near the endpoints, complementing numerical DLCQ data.
description: 9 pages, invited talk at Light-Cone 2004, Amsterdam, 16-20 August, 2004, to appear in proceedings; v2 resolves T-violation issue
Additional file 2 of Is natural (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid as effective as synthetic folic acid in increasing serum and red blood cell folate concentrations during pregnancy? A proof-of-concept pilot study
Creators: name: Cochrane, Kelsey M.
name: Mayer, Chantal
name: Devlin, Angela M.
name: Rajavel Elango
name: Hutcheon, Jennifer A.
name: Karakochuk, Crystal D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. The World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set
Feature Guided Search for Creative Problem Solving Through Tool Construction
Creators: name: Nair, Lakshmi
name: Chernova, Sonia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots in the real world should be able to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. Particularly in the context of tool use, robots may not have access to the tools they need for completing a task. In this paper, we focus on the problem of tool construction in the context of task planning. We seek to enable robots to construct replacements for missing tools using available objects, in order to complete the given task. We introduce the Feature Guided Search (FGS) algorithm that enables the application of existing heuristic search approaches in the context of task planning, to perform tool construction efficiently. FGS accounts for physical attributes of objects (e.g., shape, material) during the search for a valid task plan. Our results demonstrate that FGS significantly reduces the search effort over standard heuristic search approaches by approximately 93% for tool construction.
description: NOTE: This paper has been published with Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Please see the following link for the most updated version: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2020.592382/full
Additional file 3 of Individual placement and support and employment in personality disorders: a registry based cohort study
Creators: name: Juurlink, T. T.
name: Lamers, F.
name: van Marle, H. J. F.
name: Zwinkels, W.
name: Spijkerman, M. A.
name: Beekman, A. T. F.
name: Anema, J. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Employment outcomes of IPS participants and associations of employment with group and double IPS trajectories (n = 1433).
A Semiclassical ANEC Constraint On Classical Traversable Lorentzian Wormholes
Creators: name: Nandi, Kamal K.
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhong
name: Migranov, Nail G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present article lies at the interface between gravity, a highly nonlinear phenomenon, and quantum field theory. The nonlinear field equations of Einstein permit the theoretical existence of classical wormholes. One of the fundamental questions relates to the practical viability of such wormholes. One way to answer this question is to assess if the total \emph{volume} of exotic matter needed to maintain the wormhole is finite. Using this value as the lower bound, we propose a modified semiclassical volume Averaged Null Energy Condition (ANEC) constraint as a method of discarding many solutions as being possible self-consistent wormhole solutions of semiclassical gravity. The proposed constraint is consistent with known results. It turns out that a class of Morris-Thorne wormholes can be ruled out on the basis of this constraint.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Additional file 2 of Individual placement and support and employment in personality disorders: a registry based cohort study
Creators: name: Juurlink, T. T.
name: Lamers, F.
name: van Marle, H. J. F.
name: Zwinkels, W.
name: Spijkerman, M. A.
name: Beekman, A. T. F.
name: Anema, J. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Employment outcomes of IPS participants and associations of employment with group, without participants of which the last registered diagnosis was not PD (n = 1312).
title: Standort- und Marktanalyse von Mixed-Use-Developments : harte und weiche Standortfaktoren versus Renditeerwartungen und Risikoabwägung im Rahmen der Mix-Determinierung
Creators: name: Baumkirchner, Nicolaus
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nutzwertanalyse
subject: Forum Donaustadt
subject: Nutzungsarten
subject: Nutzungsmix
subject: wirtschaftliche Parameter
subject: Marktbedingungen

description: Im Rahmen dieser Masterthese werden die Thematik der Markt- und Standortanalyse und ihre Bedeutung sowie möglicherweise die Komplexität ihrer Anwendung bei Mixed-Use Immobilien behandelt. Es soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, ob die Standortfaktoren entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Auswahl des Nutzungsmixes besitzen oder ob die endgültige Mix-Entscheidung primär doch anhand der Abwägung von wirtschaftlichen Faktoren wie Investmentrisiko und Rendite erfolgt. Zu Beginn dieser Arbeit werden die allgemeinen theoretischen Grundlagen der Markt- und Standortanalyse sowie die unterschiedlichen, in der Literatur beschriebenen, dazugehörigen Instrumente näher erläutert. Des Weiteren wird dem Leser der Begriff der "Mixed-Use Developments" nähergebracht sowie zum leichteren Verständnis mit einigen Beispielen aus der Praxis hinterlegt. Anschließend werden das für den praktischen und empirischen Teil der Masterthese herangezogene Referenzprojekt "Forum Donaustadt" sowie dessen Besonderheiten und geplante Nutzungsarten vorgestellt. Im Anschluss an diesen theoretischen Teil folgt der empirische bzw. praktische Abschnitt, in welchem der Autor zunächst die einzelnen Standortfaktoren für die im Referenzprojekt in Frage kommenden Nutzungsarten auswählt und je nach ihrer Bedeutung gewichtet, um diese anschließend einer Standortfaktoren-Nutzungs- Matrix zuzuführen. Anhand einer abschließenden standortbezogenen Bewertung der einzelnen Faktoren ergibt sich letztlich je Nutzungsart eine Gesamtpunktezahl, welche in Relation zur maximal erreichbaren Punktezahl einen prozentualen Erfüllungsgrad für den untersuchten Standort ergibt. Dieser Erfüllungsgrad wird schließlich mit den Erfüllungsgraden der übrigen geprüften Nutzungsarten verglichen, um so die geeignetste Nutzung für den untersuchten Standort determinieren zu können. Mit Hilfe einer Analyse der aktuellen und künftigen Marktlage anhand von Marktberichten renommierter Immobilienunternehmen legt der Autor in einem nächsten Schritt schließlich die Grundlage für die Beantwortung der zentralen Fragestellungen und die Bestätigung oder Widerlegung der Arbeitshypothese der gegenständlichen Arbeit.
Effects of reducing fat and salt on Cheddar cheese composition, biochemistry, texture and sensory properties, and approaches to improve the quality of reduced-fat, reduced-salt Cheddar cheese
Creators: name: Michelle McCarthy, Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Relatively little is known about the interactive effects of fat and salt reduction on the biochemistry, rheology and sensory properties of Cheddar cheese. The objectives of the current study were to (i) evaluate the composition, biochemical and textural properties of commercial Cheddar cheeses available in the Irish market (ii) determine the interactive effects of fat and salt reduction on Cheddar cheese composition, and age-related changes in lactose metabolism, microbiology, proteolysis, lipolysis, texture, functionality and sensory properties (iii) investigate the separate effects of reducing the calcium-to-casein ratio, and increasing casein hydrolysis (by a 2.5 fold increase in the level of added coagulant, bovine chymosin) in combination with an adjunct culture (Lactobacillus helveticus LH-32) as means of improving the quality of half-fat, half-salt Cheddar-style cheese.A survey comprising 8 retail brands of Cheddar cheese indicated that the mean salt content for both the mild and mature cheese groups (1.83 ± 0.34 % and 1.84 ±0.17 %, respectively) was statistically similar. Based on these findings, it was decided that the salt targets for full-salt, reduced-salt and half-salt Cheddar cheeses in subsequent studies would be set at 1.9, 1.2 and 0.9% respectively. The targets for the reduced- and half-salt cheeses comply with EU Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 for the definition for reduced-sodium foods.Reducing fat from 33 to 22 or 16 % and salt from 1.9 to 1.2 or 0.9 % in experimental Cheddar cheese, interactively affected lactose metabolism, pH, water-to-protein ratio, concentration of free amino acids, texture and cooking properties. Fat reduction lowered the sensory acceptability of the cheese. Salt reduction had no consistent effect on the sensory characteristics. Overall, the effect of salt reduction depended on the fat content of the cheese and the parameter studied.The texture and cooking properties of half-fat, half-salt Cheddar-style cheese were improved by reducing the calcium-to-casein ratio. Increasing the level of primary and secondary proteolysis by increasing the level of added bovine chymosin and using an adjunct-containing starter culture improved the texture, cooking properties and flavour, as determined by cheese grading, of half-fat, half-salt Cheddar-style cheese.
A scheme for automatic differentiation of complex loss functions
Creators: name: Guo, Chu
name: Poletti, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For a real function, automatic differentiation is such a standard algorithm used to efficiently compute its gradient, that it is integrated in various neural network frameworks. However, despite the recent advances in using complex functions in machine learning and the well-established usefulness of automatic differentiation, the support of automatic differentiation for complex functions is not as well-established and widespread as for real functions. In this work we propose an efficient and seamless scheme to implement automatic differentiation for complex functions, which is a compatible generalization of the current scheme for real functions. This scheme can significantly simplify the implementation of neural networks which use complex numbers.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
title: Nutrient balance in waste treatment and disposal in Nairobi, Kenya : case of the Dandora dumpsite
Creators: name: Muchuki, Paul
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nutrient cycles
subject: Nutrient Balance
subject: Sustainability
subject: Modeling
subject: MFA
subject: NPK
subject: Food security

description: Nutrient loss to MSW streams is a major concern for food security and environmental protection. As such, the need to avoid waste and recover the useful fractions for future purposes is quickly becoming a necessity. Since more than 50% of organic materials are found in the waste streams of commingled garbage, this study focuses on the organic fraction of MSW mostly generated by households, markets and restaurants terminating at the landfill. The research reveals that in Nairobi a two-pronged waste management system of collection and disposal is operated. This is unsustainable as 2,000 t/d of MSW are generated, 420 t/d are illegally dumped after collection while 750 t/d are not collected and a total 200 t/d are recycled informally. Only 830 t/d MSW are landfilled and the impact on waste management from the population and its consumption yields that the HHs, restaurants and markets are the major contributors to the voluminous organic waste. The theoretical NB model relies on N, P and K as indicators to seek a sustainable solution through closing the nutrient cycle. These indicators show positive results of a net stock of nutrients in the landfill and in the dumped portions scattered around the city. This shows a correlation to nitrification and possibly high levels of heavy metals in the Nairobi River. As 51% of all waste flows are organic matter, the individual contribution to MSW volumes at 1.57 kg per day reveals that 0.8 kg per capita per day is exclusively OFMSW and thus the impact on nutrient flows to waste streams in Nairobi is quantified as between 1 kg to 3 kg/capita/yr NPK or 119 kg/capita/yr of generated OFMSW containing essential nutrients for animal and plant development. Of this input into the WMS, between 0.3 to 0.7 kg/capita/yr NPK is lost to leaching at the landfill as observed in this study. The NB presents a method to achieve sustainable nutrient balance through MFA and closing of the nutrient cycle. The study explores urban mining, composting and biogas/ cogeneration as ideal solutions to managing OFMSW in Nairobi. There was however, a gross lack of sufficient data to build the models thus extrapolations and estimations were made to remediate the theoretical modeling. Through modeling, a positive indication of 30% N, 70% P and an increment of 52% K was revealed to be present in the landfill in just a year while 70% N and 25% P is lost through leaching. The potential to recover these nutrients is proposed through the intermediate and optimized models of MFAs in the study.
Quasinormal modes, shadow and greybody factors of 5D electrically charged Bardeen black holes
Creators: name: Jusufi, Kimet
name: Amir, Muhammed
name: Ali, Md Sabir
name: Maharaj, Sunil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quasinormal modes (QNMs) in 5D electrically charged Bardeen black holes spacetime by considering the scalar and electromagnetic field perturbations. The black holes spacetime is an exact solution of Einstein gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics in five dimensions, which has nonsingular behavior. To calculate QNMs, we use the WKB approximation method up to sixth order. Due to the presence of electric charge $q_e > 0$, both the scalar and electromagnetic field perturbations decay more slowly when compared to the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes. We discover that the scalar field perturbations oscillate more rapidly when compared to the electromagnetic field perturbations. In terms of damping, the scalar field perturbations damp more quickly. Graphically we show that the transmission (reflection) coefficients decrease (increase) with an increase in the magnitude of the electric charge $q_e$. The emission of gravitational waves allows spacetime to undergo damped oscillations due to the nonzero value of the imaginary part, which is always negative. The imaginary part of the QNMs frequencies is continuously decreasing with an increase in the magnitude of the electric charge $q_e$ for a given mode ($l,n$). A connection between the QNMs frequencies and the black hole shadow, as well as the geometric cross-section in the eikonal limit, is also described.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures, 4 tables, revised version accepted for publication in PRD
title: Eine Gegenüberstellung der Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten eines Bauträgerprojektes anhand einer Fallstudie
Creators: name: Schmidt, Carina
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Immobilienfinanzierung
subject: Fünf-Säulen-Modell 7 Verwertungsvarianten
subject: Finanzierungsparameter
subject: Convenants
subject: Basel III

description: Im Rahmen dieser Masterthese werden die verschiedenen Verwertungsvarianten und die daraus resultierenden Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten eines Bauträgerprojektes dargestellt. Abhängig von der Eigenkapitalausstattung des Bauträgers ist zu entscheiden, ob das zu finanzierende Immobilienprojekt mittel- bis langfristig im Bestand des Investors verbleibt oder durch einen Einzelabverkauf nach Entwicklung der Liegenschaft verwertet wird. Die Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten reichen daher von einer kurzfristigen Projektfinanzierung bis hin zu einer langfristigen Bestandsfinanzierung. Beginnend mit einer allgemeinen Beschreibung des Berufsbilds des Bauträgers wird danach auf die Spezifika der Immobilienfinanzierung eingegangen. Im dritten Kapital werden die Finanzierungsparameter und ihre Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten im Kreditvertag beschrieben. Auch die wichtigsten Kennzahlen der Immobilienfinanzierung LTV, LTC, DSCR und ISCR werden im Detail vorgestellt. Der zweite Abschnitt dieser Masterthesis beschreibt eine Fallstudie. Es handelt sich um ein klassisches Wiener Zinshaus im 7. Bezirk, dass von einem Bauträger gekauft wurde. Anhand der Fallstudie wird in weiterer Folge in Abhängigkeit des Verwertungskonzeptes (Abverkauf bzw. Vermietung der gesamten Liegenschaft) die optimale Finanzierungsmöglichkeit vorgestellt, die den maximalen Projektgewinn bzw. die maximale laufende Rendite inklusive vorhandenem Wertsteigerungspotential erwirtschaftet. Je nach Verwertungsvariante werden die Gesamtinvestitionskosten für den Aus- und Umbau der Liegenschaft ermittelt und diese den marktkonformen Verkaufserlösen bzw. nachhaltig erzielbaren Mieterträgen gegenübergestellt. Im Abschluss wird das jeweilige Finanzierungsmodell in Abhängigkeit der Verwertungsstrategie dargestellt. Die gegenständliche Masterthesis soll für Bauträger eine Entscheidungsgrundlage für die optimale Verwertung einer Liegenschaft darstellen. Die Eigenkapitalausstattung des Bauträgers bzw. die Einschätzung der zukünftigen Wertentwicklung der zu entwickelnden Liegenschaft stellen hier die wesentlichen Parameter für die Wahl der Verwertungsvariante und schließlich der, sich dadurch ergebenden, Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten dar.
Additional file 1 of Influence of cellular models and individual factor in the biological response to chest CT scan exams
Creators: name: Devic, Clément
name: Bodgi, Larry
name: Sonzogni, Laurène
name: Pilleul, Frank
name: Ribot, Hervé
name: Charry, Charlotte De
name: Le Moigne, François
name: Paul, Didier
name: Carbillet, Fanny
name: Munier, Mélodie
name: Foray, Nicolas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Electronic Supplementary Material.
Dendritic side-branching with anisotropic viscous fingering
Creators: name: Honda, T.
name: Honjo, H.
name: Katsuragi, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied dendritic side-branching mechanism in the experiment of anisotropic viscous fingering. We measured the time dependence of growth speed of side-branch and the envelop of side-branches. We found that the speed of side-branch gets to be faster than one of the stem and the growth exponent of the speed changes at a certain time. The envelope of side-branches is represented as Y ~ X^1.47.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, to submited in J. Crystal Growth
Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition by Augmenting Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Zadeh, Mohammad Zaki
name: Babu, Ashwin Ramesh
name: Jaiswal, Ashish
name: Makedon, Fillia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article proposes a novel approach for augmenting generative adversarial network (GAN) with a self-supervised task in order to improve its ability for encoding video representations that are useful in downstream tasks such as human activity recognition. In the proposed method, input video frames are randomly transformed by different spatial transformations, such as rotation, translation and shearing or temporal transformations such as shuffling temporal order of frames. Then discriminator is encouraged to predict the applied transformation by introducing an auxiliary loss. Subsequently, results prove superiority of the proposed method over baseline methods for providing a useful representation of videos used in human activity recognition performed on datasets such as KTH, UCF101 and Ball-Drop. Ball-Drop dataset is a specifically designed dataset for measuring executive functions in children through physically and cognitively demanding tasks. Using features from proposed method instead of baseline methods caused the top-1 classification accuracy to increase by more then 4%. Moreover, ablation study was performed to investigate the contribution of different transformations on downstream task.
Additional file 1 of Individual placement and support and employment in personality disorders: a registry based cohort study
Creators: name: Juurlink, T. T.
name: Lamers, F.
name: van Marle, H. J. F.
name: Zwinkels, W.
name: Spijkerman, M. A.
name: Beekman, A. T. F.
name: Anema, J. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Employment outcomes of IPS participants and associations of employment with group without ongoing IPS trajectories (n = 1148).
Additional file 1 of Is natural (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid as effective as synthetic folic acid in increasing serum and red blood cell folate concentrations during pregnancy? A proof-of-concept pilot study
Creators: name: Cochrane, Kelsey M.
name: Mayer, Chantal
name: Devlin, Angela M.
name: Rajavel Elango
name: Hutcheon, Jennifer A.
name: Karakochuk, Crystal D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Supplementary information for "A catalogue of chromosome counts for Phylum Nematoda"
Creators: name: Blaxter, Mark
name: Lunt, David
name: Leech, Chloe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary information for the article "A catalogue of chromosome counts for Phylum Nematoda" published by Wellcome Open Research: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20550.1.
Propagating Asymptotic-Estimated Gradients for Low Bitwidth Quantized Neural Networks
Creators: name: Chen, Jun
name: Liu, Yong
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Hou, Shengnan
name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The quantized neural networks (QNNs) can be useful for neural network acceleration and compression, but during the training process they pose a challenge: how to propagate the gradient of loss function through the graph flow with a derivative of 0 almost everywhere. In response to this non-differentiable situation, we propose a novel Asymptotic-Quantized Estimator (AQE) to estimate the gradient. In particular, during back-propagation, the graph that relates inputs to output remains smoothness and differentiability. At the end of training, the weights and activations have been quantized to low-precision because of the asymptotic behaviour of AQE. Meanwhile, we propose a M-bit Inputs and N-bit Weights Network (MINW-Net) trained by AQE, a quantized neural network with 1-3 bits weights and activations. In the inference phase, we can use XNOR or SHIFT operations instead of convolution operations to accelerate the MINW-Net. Our experiments on CIFAR datasets demonstrate that our AQE is well defined, and the QNNs with AQE perform better than that with Straight-Through Estimator (STE). For example, in the case of the same ConvNet that has 1-bit weights and activations, our MINW-Net with AQE can achieve a prediction accuracy 1.5\% higher than the Binarized Neural Network (BNN) with STE. The MINW-Net, which is trained from scratch by AQE, can achieve comparable classification accuracy as 32-bit counterparts on CIFAR test sets. Extensive experimental results on ImageNet dataset show great superiority of the proposed AQE and our MINW-Net achieves comparable results with other state-of-the-art QNNs.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
title: Effectively achieve the goal of the 2030 climate framework : a case of cooperation between Poland and Germany
Creators: name: Zaluska, Tomasz
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Polish Energy Policy
subject: 2030 Framework
subject: Cooperation Poland Germany
subject: BEMIP
subject: Transnational electricity exchange
subject: Power plants in Poland
subject: Electricity sector in Poland

description: The European Union has set ambitious goals in the field of energy. With the 2030 framework member states have to implement further more stringent policies. Although united by a common goal, member states pursue various strategies which may be contradictory. Germany decided to phase out nuclear energy, whereas Poland is expected to run a nuclear power plant by 2024. Therefore the question arises whether cooperation between these states could solve the current problems in the energy sector taking into account the goals set for the year 2030. Today, Poland and Germany face various challenges in the electricity sector. Germany struggles with higher fluctuations in the electricity grid, inflexibility of the incumbent system, increasing prices for end consumers and difficulties of the big utility companies to adapt to the new market environment. Poland on the other hand is relying on outdated power plants which require extensive investment and face increasing electricity demand from end consumer and industry. Therefore, this thesis aims at analyzing in depth these challenges faced by Germany and Poland. Based on these findings it will seek to find ways of cooperation which would allow both countries to reach more effectively the 2030 framework considering the economic and political perspective within the limits of technical constraints.
Landau damping in thin films irradiated by a strong laser field
Creators: name: Zaretsky, D. F.
name: Korneev, Ph. A.
name: Popruzhenko, S. V.
name: Becker, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rate of linear collisionless damping (Landau damping) in a classical electron gas confined to a heated ionized thin film is calculated. The general expression for the imaginary part of the dielectric tensor in terms of the parameters of the single-particle self-consistent electron potential is obtained. For the case of a deep rectangular well, it is explicitly calculated as a function of the electron temperature in the two limiting cases of specular and diffuse reflection of the electrons from the boundary of the self-consistent potential. For realistic experimental parameters, the contribution of Landau damping to the heating of the electron subsystem is estimated. It is shown that for films with a thickness below about 100 nm and for moderate laser intensities it may be comparable with or even dominate over electron-ion collisions and inner ionization.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Essays on information and collective choice
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Sukanta
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis consists of three essays that attempt to contribute towards a better understanding of the collective choice problems in presence of incomplete information. The first essay of this dissertation investigates a voting model with conflict of interest between the designer of the voting rule and the voters who share a common preference. We show that, given sophisticated voting by the voters, designer’s optimal voting rule either nearly coincides with the voters’ optimal rule or is a near unanimity rule for one of the alternatives. When the designer has a very strong bias in favour of one of the alternatives, her best option may lie in increasing the threshold of votes for that alternative. The second essay discusses an indirect voting mechanism that can achieve better informational efficiency. It is well known that under usual (simultaneous) voting rules, private information held by voters are [sic] imperfectly aggregated. We consider a multi-round sequential voting procedure which allows voters to choose when to cast their votes. Without any conflict of interest among voters, there is always an equilibrium under this rule which perfectly aggregates all the available information. Moreover, in an environment with conflicting interest among voters, we show that this indirect, mechanism achieves as an equilibrium outcome what pre-play communication can achieve. The third essay examines committee design under endogenous information and shows that two opposing effects--the free-rider effect and the information complementarity effect--could get intensified in different parameter regions as the committee size increases. This induces a trade-off between quality and quantity of information for the committee designer. The model identifies parametric situations where it may be optimal to create a smaller committee to ensure better quality of information.
Chapter template for authors - Climate Conscious Lawyers OER project
Creators: name: Chang, Steven
name: Dehm, Julia
name: Nay, Zoe
name: Graham, Nicole
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461007
subject: Open access
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 480202
subject: Climate change law
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Chapter template for co-authors of the La Trobe eBureau open textbook: Becoming a climate conscious lawyer. This template is used by editors to ensure consistency, structure, and tone across OER chapters.
TAAT: Leading the way with agricultural innovations across Africa
Creators: name: TAAT Communications And Knowledge Management
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2024

description: The 2024 TAAT Technology Flyer provides an overview of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program, funded by the African Development Bank. It highlights TAAT's mission to increase agricultural productivity across Africa by deploying over 100 proven, high-performance agricultural technologies. These innovations span multiple value chains, including cereals, roots and tubers, livestock, and vegetables. The flyer also covers enabling interventions such as pest management, water and soil fertility management, policy support, and youth engagement in agribusiness​
Revisiting the phase diagram of T*-type La$_{1-x/2}$Eu$_{1-x/2}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ using Oxygen $K$-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Asano, Shun
name: Ishii, Kenji
name: Yamagami, Kohei
name: Miyawaki, Jun
name: Harada, Yoshihisa
name: Fujita, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Oxygen $K$-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements were conducted on T*-type La$_{1-x/2}$Eu$_{1-x/2}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ (LESCO) to estimate the hole density ($n_{\rm h}$) and investigate the oxidation annealing effect on $n_{\rm h}$. A drastic increase in $n_{\rm h}$ due to annealing was found. The increase in $n_{\rm h}$ cannot be explained solely by the oxygen gain due to annealing, suggesting that delocalized holes are introduced into the CuO$_2$ plane. A phase diagram of LESCO was redrawn against $n_{\rm h}$.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Effect of Cyberlindnera jadinii yeast as a protein source on intestinal microbiota and butyrate levels in post-weaning piglets
Creators: name: Iakhno, Stanislav
name: Umu, Özgün C. O.
name: Håkenåsen, Ingrid M.
name: Åkesson, Caroline P.
name: Mydland, Liv T.
name: Press, Charles McL.
name: Sørum, Henning
name: Øverland, Margareth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Comparison of bacterial CFUs on the selective agar plates. The values are the group medians (IQR) of logCFUs per gram of lumen contents. The bold font indicates statistically significant level (p
TAAT: En première ligne des efforts relatifs aux innovations agricoles en Afrique
Creators: name: TAAT Communications And Knowledge Management
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2024

description: Le dépliant sur la technologie TAAT 2024 donne un aperçu du programme Technologies pour la Transformation Agricole en Afrique (TAAT), financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement. Il met en avant la mission de TAAT visant à accroître la productivité agricole à travers l'Afrique en déployant plus de 100 technologies agricoles éprouvées et performantes. Ces innovations couvrent plusieurs filières, notamment les céréales, les racines et tubercules, l'élevage et les légumes. Le dépliant aborde également les interventions facilitatrices telles que la gestion des ravageurs, la gestion de l'eau et de la fertilité des sols, le soutien politique et l'engagement des jeunes dans l'agro-industrie.
Antinorms and Radon curves
Creators: name: Martini, Horst
name: Swanepoel, Konrad J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20 (Primary) 52A21 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we consider two notions that have been discovered and rediscovered by geometers and analysts since 1917 up to the present day: Radon curves and antinorms. A Radon curve is a special kind of centrally symmetric closed convex curve in the plane. A Radon plane is a normed plane obtained by using a Radon curve as (the boundary of) the unit ball. Many known results in Euclidean geometry also hold for Radon planes, for example the triangle and parallelogram area formulas, certain theorems on angular bisectors, the area formula of a polygon circumscribed about a circle, certain isoperimetric inequalities, and the non-expansive property of certain non-linear projections. These results may be further generalized to arbitrary normed planes if we formally change the statement of the result by referring in some places to the antinorm instead of the norm. The antinorm is a norm dual to the norm of an arbitrarily given normed plane, although it lives in the same plane as the original norm. It is the purpose of this mainly expository paper to give a list of results on antinorms that generalize results true for Radon norms, and in many cases characterize Radon norms among all norms in the plane. Many of the results are old, well-known, and have often been rediscovered. However, for most of the results we give streamlined proofs. Also, some of the characterizations of Radon curves given here seem not to have appeared previously in print.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Chaetasteridae Sladen 1889
Creators: name: Gale, Andrew S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Valvatida
Chaetasteridae

description: Family Chaetasteridae Sladen, 1889  Amended diagnosis. Arms long, narrow, subcylindrical, disc small, interradii acutely angled. Arms constructed of 7 to 13 well defined rows of extraxial ossicles; abactinal, marginal and actinal ossicles of the arm of similar size, all carry raised central ridge. Abactinal ossicles of disc small, round to oval. (modified from Clark & Downey, 1992).
 Included genera. Chaetaster Müller & Troschel, 1842, Arthraster Forbes, 1848.
 Remarks. The diagnosis of this small family, previously unknown in the fossil record, is amended here to include the Cretaceous genus Arthraster.
description: Published as part of Gale, Andrew S., 2020, The fossil record of the asteroid (Echinodermata) family Chaetasteridae Sladen 1889 and subfamily Hyalothricinae Fisher, 1911, pp. 144-150 in Zootaxa 4858 (1) on pages 144-145, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/4411478
Topics in asynchronous systems
Creators: name: Vlad, Serban E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: B.0

description: In the paper we define and characterize the asynchronous systems from the point of view of their autonomy, determinism, order, non-anticipation, time invariance, symmetry, stability and other important properties. The study is inspired by the models of the asynchronous circuits.
description: 40 pages