cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Initial Experience with Single-Session Resin-Based Transarterial Radioembolization Mapping and Treatment of Small Hepatocellular Carcinomas
Creators: name: Kokabi, Nima
name: Mauro, David M.
name: Sanoff, Hanna K.
name: Jia, Jingquan
name: Gad, Sandra
name: Du Pisanie, Johannes L.
name: Yu, Hyeon
name: Villalobos, Alex
name: Fanous, Marco
name: Moon, Andrew M.
name: Ivanovic, Marija
name: Mohnasky, Michael
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2025

description:
Background/Objectives: Studies have indicated that forgoing lung shunt fraction measurement in select patients undergoing Yttrium 90 (Y90) transarterial radioembolization (TARE) may be safe without sacrificing efficacy. This study evaluated the safety and efficacy of a streamlined treatment in patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) receiving resin-based TARE. Methods: Patients who received single-session Y90 TARE between September 2023 and May 2024 were retrospectively evaluated. Treatment response was evaluated at the 3-month follow-up using the modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) criteria. Adverse events (AEs) ≥ Grade 3 were recorded post-procedurally at 3 months. The time from the interventional radiology clinic visit to the procedure date was compared to patients receiving the conventional TARE treatment. Results: Ten consecutive patients were treated with 12 treatments. Each treatment targeted an isolated lesion with median size of 2.5 cm (IQR: 2.1, 2.9). Two patients received two treatments (one for treatment of a separate lesion and the other for the initial incomplete targeting of the tumor). The median delivered tumor dose was 377.7 Gy (IQR: 246.5, 570.1). No patients developed ≥ Grade 3 AEs post-TARE. Complete response was achieved in 11/12 patients (92%). The conventional cohort consisted of 60 patients, all OPTN T2 treated with radiation segmentectomy with glass microspheres. Patients undergoing SSMT had a median time from clinic visit to treatment of 26.5 days (IQR: 15.3, 39) vs. 61 days (IQR: 48, 88.8) in the conventional TARE group (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Streamlined single-session resin-based Y90-TARE in patients with OPTN T2 stage HCC is feasible, efficacious, safe, and associated with reduced time to treatment.
LARGE PLASTIC FLOW AND SHEAR BANDING: MECHANISM, MECHANICS, AND CONTROL
Creators: name: Somani, Abhishek
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 401607
subject: Metals and alloy materials
classificationCode: 401699
subject: Materials engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401707
subject: Solid mechanics

description: Large plastic flow in metals, rocks, and polymers can appear as shear bands, folds, or superplastic flow under specialized conditions. Among these, shear bands localize extreme deformation and are ubiquitous yet remain difficult to study due to inconclusive formation mechanisms and challenges in isolating local parameters. Using a metal cutting apparatus and a marker-based technique with both microstructural and inscribed markers, shear bands are studied fundamentally in Naval brass, 4140 steel, and Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy. Results show that shear bands can form at low temperatures (approximately 35 °C in cold-worked Naval brass), indicating that thermal softening is not mandatory. Detailed microstructural evidence such as localized displacement steps in the band, voids on the sheared surface extending outward, and infrequent voids inside the band points to a void-formation-and-closure mechanism for shear banding. Marker profiles reveal a common macroscopic shape that is well modeled as a classical boundary layer from fluid mechanics, showing excellent agreement. Boundary layers are also observed on external surfaces such as tool–workpiece interfaces and indentation subsurface. Characteristic features of the proposed mechanism are also seen in two pure metals, a metallic glass, a polymer, and rocks, suggesting a universal mechanism of large plastic flow. Based on this understanding, two control strategies for large plastic flow are proposed, focusing on (i) process design and (ii) material design. The study’s implications span materials science, solid mechanics, and geology.
Discourse-Stylistic Features in Oduduwa Secessionists' Social Media Campaign
Creators: name: Aminu, PraiseGod
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social movements
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Discourse analysis
subject: Critical discourse analysis
subject: Social media
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: The Oduduwa secessionist group is an ethnic separatist movement that seeks an independent nation for the Yoruba of southwest Nigeria. The group adopts a radical approach to secessionism and has conducted extensive online campaigns and activism on social media. Unfortunately, there appears to be insufficient linguistic research on discourses produced by this emerging group of activists. Hence, social media campaigns published by the Oduduwa secessionists have been selected to uncover various discourse-stylistic strategies at work from the standpoint of the socio-cognitive model of critical discourse analysis (CDA). While employing a mixed-method approach, this research analyses 500 samples purposively retrieved from Facebook and Twitter. The study reveals the ideological structures concealed in the rhetoric produced by members of the group. The secessionists construct a cognitive binary of positive self-presentation and negative other-representation, categorizing Nigerians as well as the President Muhammadu Buhari administration as the Other. The underlying motive is to reinvent an identity that is different from a typical Nigerian. Since the Oduduwa agitators are a group of individuals determined to secede from Nigeria, the structures of their campaign discourse reflect discourses that reinvent the group's identity and elucidate their ideological stances. Expectedly, grammatical and discursive structures common to activist discourse, such as hate speech, name-calling, coinages, indexicality, and threatening language that portray prejudice and cultural divisiveness, are evident in discourses produced by the Oduduwa group. Oduduwa separatist movement, as the marginalized group, strongly enunciates their cultural ideology through these strategies, and in pursuit of their self-determination, they accentuate their belief and resistance ideology in ethnic difference and cultural distinctiveness.
Supplementary Material from Tomographic docking suggests the mechanism of auxin receptor TIR1 selectivity
Creators: name: Uzunova, Veselina V.
name: Mussa Quareshy
name: Charo I. Del Genio
name: Napier, Richard M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Molecular structures of the compounds used, Table of atom search space content
Influence of particle size on the ice nucleating ability of mineral dusts
Creators: name: Welti, André
name: Lüönd, Felix
name: Stetzer, Olaf
name: Lohmann, Ulrike
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2009

description: The recently developed Zurich Ice Nucleation Chamber (ZINC) was used to explore icenucleation of size-selected mineral dust particles at temperatures between−20◦C and−55◦C. Four different mineral dust species have been tested: montmorillonite, kaolinite,illite and Arizona test dust (ATD). The selected particle diameters are 100nm, 200nm,400 nm and 800nm. Relative humidities with respect to ice (RHi) required to activate1% of the dust particles as ice nuclei (IN) are reported as a function of temperature.An explicit size dependence of the ice formation efficiency has been observed for alldust types. Deposition nucleation was found only below−30◦C or−35◦C dependenton particle size. 800 nm particles required the lowest RHito activate. Minimum RHi for 1% activation were 105% for illite, kaolinite and montmorillonite at−40◦C, respectively110% for ATD at−45◦C. In addition, a possible parameterisation for the measuredactivation spectra is proposed, which could be used in modeling studies.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 9 (2)
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title: couvercle Cv3a (Barrier  Luginbühl 2021)
Creators: name: Barrier, Sylvie
name: Luginbühl, Thierry
Publisher: name: Conservatoire National des Données 3D (CND3D)
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: couvercle
subject: Artefact
subject: ACQUISITION

description: Modèle 3D
An ecosystem-scale perspective of the net land methanol flux: Synthesis of micrometeorological flux measurements
Creators: name: Wohlfahrt, Georg
name: Amelynck, Crist
name: Ammann, Christof
name: Arneth, Almut
name: Bamberger, Ines
name: Goldstein, Allen H.
name: Gu, L.
name: Guenther, A.
name: Hansel, Amie
name: Heinesch, Bernard
name: Holst, Thomas
name: Hörtnagl, Lukas
name: Karl, T.
name: Laffineur, Q.
name: Neftel, A.
name: McKinney, Karena
name: Munger, J. William
name: Pallardy, Stephen G.
name: Schade, Gunnar W.
name: Seco, Roger
name: Schoon, Niels
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015

description: Methanol is the second most abundant volatile organic compound in the troposphereand plays a significant role in atmospheric chemistry. While there is consensus aboutthe dominant role of living plants as the major source and the reaction with OH asthe  major  sink  of methanol,  global  methanol  budgets  diverge considerably  in  terms of  source/sink  estimates  reflecting  uncertainties  in  the  approaches  used  to  model,and the empirical data used to separately constrain these terms. Here we compiledmicrometeorological methanol flux data from eight different study sites and reviewedthe corresponding literature in order to provide a first cross-site synthesis of the ter-restrial ecosystem-scale methanol exchange and present an independent data-driven view of the land–atmosphere methanol exchange. Our study shows that the controls ofplant growth on the production, and thus the methanol emission magnitude, and stom-atal conductance on the hourly methanol emission variability, established at the leaflevel, hold across sites at the ecosystem-level. Unequivocal evidence for bi-directionalmethanol exchange at the ecosystem scale is presented. Deposition, which at some sites even exceeds methanol emissions, represents an emerging feature of ecosystem-scale measurements and is likely related to environmental factors favouring the forma-tion of surface wetness. Methanol may adsorb to or dissolve in this surface water andeventually be chemically or biologically removed from it. Management activities in agri-culture and forestry are shown to increase local methanol emission by orders of magnitude; they are however neglected at present in global budgets. While contemporarynet land methanol budgets are overall consistent with the grand mean of the microm-eteorological methanol flux measurements, we caution that the present approach ofsimulating methanol emission and deposition separately is prone to opposing system-atic errors and does not allow taking full advantage of the rich information content of micrometeorological flux measurements.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 15
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Effects of record length and resolution on the derived distribution of annual precipitation
Creators: name: Meier, Claudio I.
name: Moraga, Jorge Sebastián
name: Pranzini, Geri
name: Molnar, Peter
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015

description: Traditional frequency analysis of annual precipitation requires the fitting of a proba-bility model to yearly precipitation totals. There are three potential problems with thisapproach: a long record (at least 25∼30 years) is required in order to fit the model,years with missing data cannot be used, and the data need to be homogeneous. To overcome these limitations, we test an alternative methodology proposed by Eagleson(1978), based on the derived distribution approach (DDA). This allows for better estimation of the probability density function (pdf) of annual rainfall without requiring longrecords, provided that high-resolution precipitation data are available to derive external storm properties. The DDA combines marginal pdfs for storm depth and inter-arrival time to arrive at an analytical formulation of the distribution of annual precipitation underthe assumption of independence between events. We tested the DDA at two temperate locations in different climates (Concepción, Chile, and Lugano, Switzerland), quantify-ing the effects of record length. Our results show that, as compared to the fitting of anormal or log-normal distribution, the DDA significantly reduces the uncertainty in annual precipitation estimates (especially interannual variability) when only short recordsare  available. The  DDA also  reduces the  bias in  annual precipitation  quantiles withhigh return periods. We also show that using precipitation data aggregated every 24 h,as commonly available at most weather stations, introduces a noticeable bias in the DDA. Our results point to the tangible benefits of installing high-resolution (hourly or less) precipitation gauges at previously ungauged locations. We show that the DDA,in combination with high resolution gauging, provides more accurate and less uncertain estimates of long-term precipitation statistics such as interannual variability andquantiles of annual precipitation with high return periods even for records as short as 5 years.
description: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 12
description: ISSN:1812-2116
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Temporal variability of subsurface stormflow formation
Creators: name: Kienzler, Peter
name: Naef, Felix
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2007

description: Subsurface storm flow (SSF) can play a key role for the runoffgeneration at hillslopes.Quantifications of SSF suffer from the limited understanding of how SSF is formedand how it varies in time and space. This study concentrates on the temporal variabil-ity of SSF formation. Controlled sprinkling experiments at three experimental slopes were replicated with varying precipitation intensity and varying antecedent precipita-tion. SSF characteristics were observed with hydrometric measurements and tracerexperiments. SSF response was affected in different ways and to varying degree bychanges of precipitation intensity and antecedent precipitation. The study showed thatthe influence of antecedent soil moisture on SSF response depends on the type of SSF formation. Formation of subsurface stormflow was hardly influenced by the increaseof precipitation intensity. As a consequence, subsurface flow rates were not increasedby higher precipitation intensity. Different soil structures determined runoffformation atdifferent precipitation intensities. Saturation and flow formation occurred at the base ofthe soil, but also within the topsoil during high precipitation intensity. This implies that timing and magnitude of flow response can change substantially at different precipita-tion intensities
description: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 4
description: ISSN:1812-2116
description: ISSN:1812-2108
Oxygen isotopic signature of CO2 from combustion processes
Creators: name: Schumacher, Marcus
name: Neubert, Rolf E.M.
name: Meijer, Harro A.J.
name: Jansen, Henk G.
name: Brand, Willi A.
name: Geilmann, Heike
name: Werner, Roland Anton
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2008

description: For a comprehensive understanding of the global carbon cycle precise knowledge ofall processes is necessary. Stable isotope (13C and18O) abundances provide infor-mation for the qualification and the quantification of the diverse source and sink pro-cesses. This study focuses on theδ18O signature of CO2from combustion processes, which are widely present both naturally (wild fires), and human induced (fossil fuelcombustion, biomass burning) in the carbon cycle. All these combustion processesuse atmospheric oxygen, of which the isotopic signature is assumed to be constantwith time throughout the whole atmosphere. The combustion is generally presumedto take place at high temperatures, thus minimizing isotopic fractionation. Therefore it is generally supposed that the18O signature of the produced CO2is equal to that ofthe atmospheric oxygen. This study, however, reveals that the situation is much morecomplicated and that important fractionation effects do occur. From laboratory studiesfractionation effects in the order of about 26‰ became obvious, a clear differentiation ofabout 7‰ was also found in car exhausts which were sampled directly under ambient atmospheric conditions.We investigated a wide range of materials (both different raw materials and similarmaterials with different inherent18O signature), sample geometries (e.g. texture andsurface-volume ratios) and combustion circumstances. We found that the main factorinfluencing the specific isotopic signatures of the combustion-derived CO2and of the concomitantly released oxygen-containing side products, is the case-specific rate ofcombustion. This points firmly into the direction of (diffusive) transport of oxygen to thereaction zone as the cause of the isotope fractionation. The original18O signature ofthe material appeared to have little or no influence.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 8 (6)
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title: Business Opportunity of Platform-based Automotive Consultancy Bridging the European and the Chinese Markets
Creators: name: Dong, Lin
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: automotive consultancy
subject: new entry generation and exploitation
subject: resource bundle
subject: open innovation platform
subject: European and Chinese markets
subject: market entry strategy
subject: risk reduction strategy
subject: portfolio management

description: The complementarity between the European and the Chinese automotive markets brings about considerable amount of business exchange with each other. However, the market participants suffer from low communication efficiency and high transaction cost, which indicates new entry opportunities for consulting firms to create customer value for the clients by making the inter-market deals easy and inexpensive.The present thesis work aims at putting the particular scenario of such opportunities into the theoretical framework of resource-based competitive advantage and tries to determine the optimal resource bundle for supporting the generation and exploitation of the new entry opportunities. Based on that, it further addresses a number of practical issues for the new entry exploitation, such as market entry strategy, marketing strategy, organizational scheme, operational issues, risk reduction strategy, firm performance evaluation and feedback, etc. The investigation reveals that the resource bundle shall contain not only knowledge resources but also several other specific resources like personal network and cultural adaptability, among others. It suggests a narrow-scope market entry strategy with which a service portfolio consisting of three different categories of consulting service shall be implemented in two developing phases of the firm. The marketing- and operation strategies of the firm are designed accordingly in order to be adapted to the two phases. An open innovation platform connecting consulting firms with technical specialists is discussed and recommended to solve the organizational dilemma between revenue and fixed cost for consulting business. Bootstrapping and resource planning are determined as the effective approaches for risk reduction. Iterative firm performance evaluation and feedback create further loops of new entry generation and exploitation for the firm.The present work contributes to the automotive consultancy community to the extent that it analyzed the specific situation between the European and the Chinese markets and suggested the possibility of adopting open innovation platform in human resource management in automotive industry.
Soot microphysical effects on liquid clouds, a multi-model investigation
Creators: name: Koch, Dorothy
name: Balkanski, Yves
name: Bauer, Susanne E.
name: Easter, R.C.
name: Ferrachat, Sylvaine
name: Ghan, Steven J.
name: Hoose, C.
name: Iversen, Trond
name: Kirkevåg, Alf
name: Kristjansson, Jon E.
name: Liu, X.
name: Lohmann, Ulrike
name: Menon, S.
name: Quaas, Johannes
name: Schulz, Michael
name: Seland, Øyvind
name: Takemura, Toshihiko
name: Yan, N.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2010

description: We use global models to explore the microphysical effects of carbonaceous aerosolson clouds. Although absorption of solar radiation by soot warms the atmosphere, sootmay cause climate cooling due to its contribution to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)and therefore cloud brightness. Six global models conducted three soot experiments; four of the models had detailed aerosol microphysical schemes. The average cloudradiative response to biofuel soot (black and organic carbon), including both indirectand semi-direct effects, is−0.11 Wm−2, comparable in size but opposite in sign tothe respective direct effect. In a more idealized fossil fuel black carbon experiment,some models calculated a positive cloud response because soot provides a deposition sink for sulfuric and nitric acids and secondary organics, decreasing nucleation andevolution of viable CCN. Biofuel soot particles were also typically assumed to be largerand more hygroscopic than for fossil fuel soot and therefore caused more negativeforcing, as also found in previous studies.  Diesel soot (black and organic carbon)experiments had relatively smaller cloud impacts with five of the models<±0.06 Wm−2 from clouds. The results are subject to the caveats that variability among models,and regional and interrannual variability for each model, are large. This comparisontogether with previously published results stresses the need to further constrain aerosolmicrophysical schemes. The non-linearities resulting from the competition of opposingeffects on the CCN population make it difficult to extrapolate from idealized experiments to likely impacts of realistic potential emission changes.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 10 (10)
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The transport history of two Saharan dust events archived in an Alpine ice core
Creators: name: Sodemann, Harald
name: Palmer, A.S.
name: Schwierz, Conny
name: Schwikowski, Margit
name: Wernli, Heini
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2005

description: Mineral dust from the Saharan desert can be transported across the Mediterraneantowards the Alpine region several times a year. Occasionally, the dust is depositedwith snowfall on Alpine glaciers and appears then as yellow or red layers in ice cores.Two such significant dust events were identified in an ice core drilled at the high-accumulation site Piz Zup ́o in the Swiss Alps (46◦22′N, 9◦55′E, 3850m a.s.l.). Fromstable oxygen isotopes and major ion concentrations, the events were approximatelydated as October and March 2000. In order to link the dust record in the ice core tothe meteorological situation that led to the dust events, a novel methodology basedon back-trajectory analysis was developed. It allowed for the identification of source regions, the atmospheric transport pathways, and wet deposition periods for both dustevents. Furthermore, differences in the chemical signature of the two dust events couldbe interpreted with respect to contributions from the dust sources and aerosol scaveng-ing during the transport.The dust deposition during the October event took place during 13–16 October 2000. Mobilisation areas of dust were mainly identified in the Algerian and Libyan deserts. Acombination of an upper-level potential vorticity streamer and a midlevel jet across Al-geria first brought moist Atlantic air and later mixed air from the tropics and Saharandesert across the Mediterranean towards the Alps. The March event consisted of twodifferent deposition phases which took place during 18–20 and 23–26 March 2000. The first phase was associated with an exceptional transport pattern past Iceland andtowards the Alps from northerly directions. The second phase was similar to the Oc-tober event. A significant peak of methanesulphonic acid associated with the Marchdust event was most likely caused by incorporation of biogenic aerosol while passingthrough the marine boundary layer of the western Mediterranean during a local phyto-plankton bloom. From this study, we conclude that the whole sequence of mobilisation,transport, and deposition of mineral aerosol should be considered for a detailed under-standing of the chemical signal recorded in the ice core at Piz Zup ́o.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 5 (4)
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Critical assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge, terminology, and research needs concerning the role of organic aerosols in the atmosphere, climate, and global          change
Creators: name: Fuzzi, Sandro
name: Andreae, Meinrat O.
name: Huebert, Barry J.
name: Kulmala, Markku
name: Bond, Tami C.
name: Boy, Michael
name: Doherty, Sarah J.
name: Guenther, Alex
name: Kanakidou, Maria
name: Kawamura, Kimitaka
name: Kerminen, Veli-Matti
name: Lohmann, Ulrike
name: Russell, Lynn M.
name: Pöschl, Ulrich
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2005

description: In spite of impressive advances in recent years, our present understanding of or-ganic aerosol (OA) composition, physical and chemical properties, sources and trans-formation characteristics is still rather limited, and their environmental effects remainhighly uncertain. Therefore, the three atmosphere-related projects of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) – IGAC (International Global AtmosphericChemistry Project), iLEAPS (Integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Process Study)and SOLAS (Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study) – organised a workshop withthe specific goal of discussing and prioritizing issues related to organic aerosol andtheir effects on atmospheric processes and climate, providing a basis for future collaborative activities at the international level. Four main topical areas were addressed:(a) sources of OA; (b) formation and transformation of OA; (c) physical and chemicalstate of OA; (d) atmospheric modelling of OA. Key questions and research priorities re-garding these four areas have been synthesized in this paper, and outstanding issuesfor future research are presented for each topical area. In addition, an effort is made to formulate a basic set of consistent and universally applicable terms and definitionsfor coherent description of atmospheric OA across different scientific scales and disci-plines. In fact, the terminologies used in the past and present scientific literature arenot always consistent, and this may lead to misunderstandings and confusion in thecommunication between specialists from different disciplines and potentially inhibit or retard scientific progress.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 5 (6)
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title: A comparative study of innovation-related knowledge acquisition strategies by boundary spanners in small and medium-sized companies within the DACH region
Creators: name: Niedermair, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: boundary spanning
subject: information flow
subject: open innovation
subject: SME

description: Small and medium-sized enterprises are the bedrocks of many economies. In order to innovate, research has found that these companies rely heavily on knowledge exchange with entities outside the company boundaries. These exchanges are enabled and orchestrated by individuals inside the company known as boundary spanners. This study aims to get a better understanding of how these individuals fulfill this role and what flows of information they make available to the company.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven experts from different SMEs in the DACH region. The interviews were then analyzed using a 5-step framework developed to visualize the flow of different external streams of information through the company’s boundary to internal channels of dissemination. These flow graphs then offered the basis for the investigation into the different knowledge sourcing strategies pursued by the companies.The analysis shows that boundary spanning individuals enable almost all knowledge inflows in the observed companies, and many require direct personal interaction. The actual sourcing strategies they employ are, however, customized to the individual circumstances and needs of the company and industry and can range from extensive general searches to highly focused searches for specific types of information. The use of new technologies by boundary spanners is only meaningful under particular conditions, where the information needed by the company is available on the internet. Companies that need access to more sensitive information depend on the direct exchange with a boundary spanner. The boundary spanners’ ability to provide meaningful knowledge to a company does not only depend on his skills but also the means available for internal knowledge dissemination. Boundary spanning is a key enabler for innovation in SMEs that can not be adequately replaced by technology or other mechanisms. The creativity needed to make connections between a piece of information and the business context is a key ability of boundary spanners in this context.
Partial paradigm of the Siwi verb šwi "roast"
Creators: name: Souag, Lameen
Publisher: name: Pangloss
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Linguistique
subject: Siwi

description: Partial paradigm of the verb šwi "roast", conjugated in all persons in the perfective ("preterite"), in three in the irrealis ("aorist"), and in 1sg in the imperfective ("intensive"), by Sherif Bougdoura, Elicited by Lameen Souag through Arabic and Siwi. Recorded in Siwa on 20 May 2012, to a file named STE-050.wav. Some background noise, mainly from roasting fish.
Real-case simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions in ship tracks over the Bay of Biscay
Creators: name: Possner, Anna
name: Zubler, Elias
name: Lohmann, Ulrike
name: Schär, Christoph
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2014

description: Ship tracks provide an ideal test bed for studying aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) andfor evaluating their representation in parameterisations. Regional modelling can be ofparticular use for this task, as this approach provides sufficient resolution to resolve thestructure of the produced track including their meteorological environment whilst relying on the same formulations of parameterisations as many general circulation models. Inthis work we simulate a particular case of ship tracks embedded in an optically thinstratus cloud sheet which was observed by a polar orbiting satellite at 12:00 UTC on 26 January 2003 around the Bay of Biscay.The simulations which include moving ship emissions show that the model is indeed able to capture the structure of the track at a horizontal grid spacing of 2km and toqualitatively capture the observed cloud response in all simulations performed. At leasta doubling of the cloud optical thickness was simulated in all simulations together withan increase in cloud droplet number concentration (by about 50cm−3) and decrease ineffective radius (by about 5 μm). Furthermore the ship emissions lead to an increase in liquid water path in at least 25 % of the track regions.We are confident in the model’s ability to capture key processes of ship trackformation. However, it was found that realistic ship emissions lead to unrealistic aerosolperturbations near the source regions within the simulated tracks due to grid-scaledilution and homogeneity. Combining the regional-modelling approach with comprehensive field studiescould likely improve our understanding of the sensitivities and biases in ACIparameterisations, and could therefore help to constrain global ACI estimates, whichstrongly rely on these parameterisations
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 14 (19)
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Supplementary data from Synchronization and collective swimming patterns in fish Hemigrammus bleheri
Creators: name: I. Ashraf
name: R. Godoy-Diana
name: J. Halloy
name: B. Collignon
name: B. THIRIA
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biophysics

description: Supplementary data reporting the details of body length, swimming velocity, characteristic distances and synchronization histograms for each individual pair
title: 10 – Entretien avec Zäwalä Bogalä : à propos des anciens types de chants (kébrité, togeday-geday, sänga)
Creators: name: Wion, Anaïs
name: Bolay, Anne
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: chant

description: Quelques éléments d’information à propos des anciens types de chants (kébrité, togeday-geday, sänga) avec des exemples chantés et joués.
Hydrologic predictions in a changing environment: behavioral modeling
Creators: name: Schaefli, Bettina
name: Harman, Ciaran J.
name: Sivapalan, Murugesu
name: Schymanski, Stan
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2010

description: Most hydrological models are valid at most only in a few places and cannot be rea-sonably transferred to other places or to far distant time periods. Transfer in space isdifficult because the models are conditioned on past observations at particular placesto define parameter values and unobservable processes that are needed to fully characterize the structure and functioning of the landscape. Transfer in time has to deal withthe likely temporal changes to both parameters and processes under future changedconditions. This remains an important obstacle to addressing some of the most urgentprediction questions in hydrology, such as prediction in ungauged basins and predictionunder global change. In this paper, we propose a new approach to catchment hydrological modeling, based on universal principles that do not change in time and that remainvalid across many places. The key to this framework, which we call behavioral mod-eling, is to assume that these universal and time-invariant organizing principles canbe used to identify the most appropriate model structure (including parameter values)and responses for a given ecosystem at a given moment in time. The organizing principles may be derived from fundamental physical or biological laws, or from empiricallaws that have been demonstrated to be time-invariant and to hold at many places andscales. Much fundamental research remains to be undertaken to help discover theseorganizing principles on the basis of exploration of observed patterns of landscapestructure and hydrological behavior and their interpretation as legacy effects of past co-evolution of climate, soils, topography, vegetation and humans. Our hope is thatthe new behavioral modeling framework will be a step forward towards a new visionfor hydrology where models are capable of more confidently predicting the behavior ofcatchments beyond what has been observed or experienced before
description: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 7
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Validation of the Swiss methane emission inventory by atmospheric observations and inverse modelling
Creators: name: Henne, Stephan
name: Brunner, Dominik
name: Oney, Brian
name: Leuenberger, Markus
name: Eugster, Werner
name: Bamberger, Ines
name: Meinhardt, Frank
name: Steinbacher, Martin
name: Emmenegger, Lukas
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015

description: Atmospheric  inverse  modelling  has  the  potential  to  provide  observation-based  esti-mates of greenhouse gas emissions at the country scale, thereby allowing for an inde-pendent validation of national emission inventories. Here, we present a regional scaleinverse modelling study to quantify the emissions of methane (CH4) from Switzerland, making use of the newly established CarboCount-CH measurement network and a highresolution Lagrangian transport model. Overall we estimate national CH4emissions tobe 196±18 Gg yr−1for the year 2013 (1σuncertainty). This result is in close agree-ment with the recently revised “bottom-up” estimate of 206±33 Gg yr−1published bythe Swiss Federal Office for the Environment as part of the Swiss Greenhouse Gas Inventory (SGHGI). Results from sensitivity inversions using alternative prior emissions,covariance  settings,  baseline  treatments,  two  different  inverse  algorithms  (Bayesianand extended Kalman Filter), and two different transport models confirms the robust-ness and independent character of our estimate. According to the latest “bottom-up”inventory the main CH4source categories in Switzerland are agriculture (78 %), waste handling (15 %) and natural gas distribution and combustion (6 %). The spatial distri-bution and seasonal variability of our posterior emissions suggest an overestimation ofagricultural CH4emissions by 10 to 20 % in the most recent national inventory, whichis likely due to an overestimation of emissions from manure handling. Urban areas donot appear as emission hotspots in our posterior results suggesting that leakages from natural gas disribution are only a minor source of CH4in Switzerland. This is consis-tent with rather low emissions of 8.4 Gg yr−1reported by the SGHGI but inconsistentwith the much higher value of 32 Gg yr−1implied by the EDGARv4.2 inventory for thissector. Increased CH4emissions (up to 30 % compared to the prior) were deduced forthe north-eastern parts of Switzerland. This feature was common to most sensitivity inversions, which rules out an artefact of the transport model and the inversion system.However, it was not possible to assign an unambiguous source process to the region.The observations of the CarboCount-CH network provided invaluable and independent information for the validation of the national bottom-up inventory. Similar systems needto be sustained to provide independent monitoring of future climate agreements.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 15
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Supplemental analyses: model sensitivity, frequency-dependent transmission, and KL divergence partitioning from Waiting time to infectious disease emergence
Creators: name: Dibble, Christopher J.
name: O'Dea, Eamon B.
name: Park, Andrew W.
name: Drake, John M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: Computational Biology

description: Emerging diseases must make a transition from stuttering chains of transmission to sustained chains of transmission, but this critical transition need not coincide with the system becoming supercritical. That is, the introduction of infection to a supercritical system results in a significant fraction of the population becoming infected only with a certain probability. Understanding the waiting time to the first major outbreak of an emerging disease is then more complicated than determining when the system becomes supercritical. We treat emergence as a dynamic bifurcation, and use the concept of bifurcation delay to understand the time to emergence after a system becomes supercritical. Specifically, we consider an SIR model with a time-varying transmission term and random infections originating from outside the population. We derive an analytic density function for the delay times and find it to be in general agreement with stochastic simulations. We find the key parameters to be the rate of introduction of infection and the rate of change of the basic reproductive ratio. These findings aid our understanding of real emergence events, and can be incorporated into early warning systems aimed at forecasting disease risk.
Distance in spatial interpolation of daily rain gauge data
Creators: name: Ahrens, Bodo
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2005

description: Spatial interpolation of rain gauge data is important in forcing of hydrological simula-tions or evaluation of weather predictions, for example. The spatial density of availabledata sites is often changing with time. This paper investigates the application of sta-tistical distance, like one minus common variance of time series, between data sites5instead of geographical distance in interpolation. Here, as a typical representative of in-terpolation methods the inverse distance weighting interpolation is applied and the testdata is daily precipitation observed in Austria. Choosing statistical distance instead ofgeographical distance in interpolation of an actually available coarse observation net-work yields more robust interpolation results at sites of a denser network with actually10lacking observations. The performance enhancement is in or close to mountainousterrain. This has the potential to parsimoniously densify the currently available obser-vation network. Additionally, the success further motivates search for conceptual rain-orography interaction models as components of spatial rain interpolation algorithms inmountainous terrain.
description: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 2
description: ISSN:1812-2116
description: ISSN:1812-2108
Probabilistic classification of gene-by-treatment interactions on molecular count phenotypes.
Creators: name: Stein, Jason L
name: Valone, Jordan M
name: Love, Michael I
name: Harigaya, Yuriko
name: Valdar, William
name: Le, Brandon D
name: Matoba, Nana
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Year: 2025

description:
Genetic variation can modulate response to treatment (G×T) or environmental stimuli (G×E), both of which may be highly consequential in biomedicine. An effective approach to identifying G×T signals and gaining insight into molecular mechanisms is mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) of molecular count phenotypes, such as gene expression and chromatin accessibility, under multiple treatment conditions, which is termed response molecular QTL mapping. Although standard approaches evaluate the interaction between genetics and treatment conditions, they do not distinguish between meaningful interpretations such as whether a genetic effect is only observed in the treated condition or whether a genetic effect is observed but accentuated in the treated condition. To address this gap, we have developed a downstream method for classifying response molecular QTLs into subclasses with meaningful genetic interpretations. Our method uses Bayesian model selection and assigns posterior probabilities to different types of G×T interactions for a given feature-SNP pair. We compare linear and nonlinear regression of log ⁡ -scale counts, noting that the latter accounts for an expected biological relationship between the genotype and the molecular count phenotype. Through simulation and application to existing datasets of molecular response QTLs, we show that our method provides an intuitive and well-powered framework to report and interpret G×T interactions. We provide a software package, ClassifyGxT [1].
Supplementary Methods and Text from Adding fossil occupancy trajectories to the assessment of modern extinction risk
Creators: name: Kiessling, Wolfgang
name: Kocsis, Ádám T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Full description of methods, model outcomes and supllementary figures
Sensitivity of middle atmospheric temperature and circulation in the UIUC GCM to the treatment of subgrid-scale gravity-wave breaking
Creators: name: Yang, F.
name: Schlesinger, Michael E.
name: Rozanov, Eugene
name: Andronova, Natalia
name: Zubov, V.A.
name: Callis, L.B.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2006

description: The sensitivity of the middle atmospheric temperature and circulation to the treatment of mean-flow forcing due to breaking gravity waves at the sub-grid scale was investigated using the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 40-layer General Circulation Model (GCM). The gravity-wave forcing was represented either by Rayleigh friction or by a detailed parameterization scheme with different sets of parameters. The modeled middle atmospheric temperature and circulation exhibit large sensitivity to the parameterized sub-grid gravity-wave forcing. A large warm bias of up to 50°C was found in the model's summer upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere. This warm bias was caused by the inability of the GCM to simulate the reversal of the zonal winds from easterly to westerly crossing the mesopause in the summer hemisphere. Attempts were made to slow down the easterly winds near the mesopause and to reduce the warm bias. The GCM was able to realistically simulate the semi-annual oscillation in the upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere with observational constraints on certain parameter values, but failed to simulate the quasi-biennial oscillation in any of the experiments. Budget analysis indicates that in the middle atmosphere the forces that act to maintain a steady zonal-mean zonal wind are primarily those associated with the meridional transport circulation and breaking gravity waves. Contributions from the interaction of the model-resolved eddies with the mean flow are secondary.
description: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 6 (5)
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GRICEAN MAXIMS OF CONVERSATIONAL COOPERATION
Creators: name: Yuldasheva, Feruza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Conversation is, by nature, cooperative. According to Grice (1975, 1978), individuals observe a general cooperative principle, based on the four maxims of Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner. These maxims request the speaker to provide a contribution that contains the right amount of information, that is true, that is relevant to the conversation, and that is perspicuous. Actually, people communicate much more than they literally say, since part of the meaning of their utterances is implied and has to be inferred by the listener through conversational implicature requiring inference.
Prediction of dissolved reactive phosphorus losses from small agricultural catchments: calibration andvalidation of a parsimonious model
Creators: name: Hahn, Claudia
name: Prasuhn, Volker
name: Lazzarotto, Patrick
name: Evangelou, Michael W.H.
name: Stamm, Christian
name: Schulin, Rainer
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2013

description: Eutrophication of surface waters due to diffuse phosphorus (P) losses continues to bea severe water quality problem world-wide, causing the loss of ecosystem functions ofthe respective water bodies. Phosphorus in runoffoften originates from a small fractionof a catchment only. Targeting mitigation measures to these critical source areas (CSA) is expected to be most efficient and cost-effective, but requires suitable tools.Here we investigated the capability of the parsimonious Rainfall-Runoff-Phosphorus(RRP) model to identify CSA in grassland-dominated catchments based on readilyavailable soil and topographic data. After simultaneous calibration on runoffdata fromfour small hilly catchments on the Swiss Plateau, the model was validated on a different catchment in the same region without further calibration. The RRP model adequatelysimulated the discharge and dissolved reactive P (DRP) export from the validationcatchment. Sensitivity analysis showed that the model predictions were robust with re-spect to the classification of soils into “poorly drained” and “well drained”, based onthe available soil map. Comparing spatial hydrological model predictions with field data from the validation catchment provided further evidence that the assumptions under-lying the model are valid and that the model adequately accounts for the dominant Pexport processes in the target region. Thus, the parsimonious RRP model is a valu-able tool that can be used to determine CSA. Despite the considerable predictive un-certainty regarding the spatial extent of CSAs the RRP can provide guidance for the implementation of mitigation measures. The model helps to identify those parts of acatchment where high DRP losses are expected or can be excluded with high confi-dence. Legacy P was predicted to be the dominant source for DRP losses and thus, incombination with hydrologic active areas, a high risk for water quality.
description: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 10
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