cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sustainable social business incubator in West Africa
Creators: name: DeGoede, Kurt M.
name: Dam, Duc T.
name: Qiao, Danni
name: Ascah, Matthew R.
name: Jain, Momodou
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Through a partnership between students and faculty in the US and in The Gambia, we seek to establish a vibrant sustainable social business incubator to address problems in West Africa. Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, PA) has partnered with The University of The Gambia (UTG). The goal is to establish an incubator framework, which will in turn launch small scale self-sustaining cottage-style social enterprises. These small enterprises (non-profit businesses) will provide fair wage employment at all skill levels. Projects originate through locally generated problem identification at UTG. We seek to instill an entrepreneurial problem solving spirit among participating students on both sides of the Atlantic. We have leveraged Elizabethtown undergraduate capstone projects as the vehicle for developing the technologies and business models for this effort. Since the start of the project in 2011, 20 Elizabethtown College students from 4 different majors, including 6 non-engineering students, have participated. A similar number of UTG physics students have worked alongside these students during site visits and on parallel community service projects. UTG student participation will increase dramatically with the first social enterprise roll out (a PV phone charger). The business plan for our social enterprise calls for Gambian management. All employees will be fairly paid Gambians. All costs must be recovered with each unit sold, while remaining affordable for the end user. Margins will be minimized and applied toward future projects. To achieve economic self-propagation we must meet real social needs with locally appropriate solutions. UTG enrollment in physics has increased sharply, with the major viewed as a pathway to practical careers. The UTG students have completed several community based service projects impacting their local communities since a service learning sustainable engineering course was introduced to that curriculum in 2011. The participating students have gone on to become Fulbright scholars, graduate students and practicing professionals with new perspectives on making a positive impact in their own and the global community.
title: Virginia Woolf and the dramatic imagination
Creators: name: Wright, Elizabeth Helena
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: This PhD thesis analyses the influence of drama, contemporary to Virginia Woolf, on Woolf’s fiction and life writing. Plays by a range of dramatists from Ibsen to Eliot affected Woolf as both an individual and writer, yet little research has been done to link the late nineteenth/ early twentieth-century theatre with her fictional works or her concept of everyday life as expressed in the diaries, letters and memoir papers. An enthusiastic reader, playwright, theatregoer, and friend of playwrights, critics, actors, set designers and theatre owners, Woolf was naturally stimulated by exposure to this creative force and this research analyses its significance. The thesis begins by examining the non-fiction as a dramatization of her lived reality (see Chapter 1) which reached its apotheosis in the private plays (including Woolf’s Freshwater) that were performed in Bloomsbury (see Chapter 4). The discussion, focused in Chapters 2 and 3, addresses Woolf’s fictional output and explores the effect of the most influential plays and playwrights on Woolf’s novels and the concept of theatre as a metaphor within the texts’ imagery, style and structure.
ResearchBox 4008, 'Startup Success - A Phenomenological Study', https://researchbox.org/4008
Creators: name: Omid Mahdieh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Box title: 'Startup Success - A Phenomenological Study'   Reference: Omid Mahdieh, 'Startup Success - A Phenomenological Study', Pre-Print DepositoryNote: this backup was created automatically by a ResearchBox bot
Assessing the reliability of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry analyses in burned bones
Creators: name: Monteiro, Cristiana
name: Ferreira, Maria Teresa
name: Curate, Francisco
name: Gonçalves, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Although being a standard technique for bone mineral density (BMD) measurements and its study and application to defleshed bones started in the past decade, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has not been applied to burned bones. However, DXA analyses on burned bones can foreseeably increase our knowledge regarding the changes that occur on bone microstructure. Femora, patellae and first metatarsals were selected from ten skeletons from the 21st century identified skeletal collection to access the impact of heat exposure on bone through DXA analyses. The potential of the crystallinity index (CI) as a proxy for DXA was also investigated. As expected, BMD augmented along with temperature increment, which can be explained by the recrystallization process leading to an increase in crystallinity and macroscopic shrinkage of bone. A similar behaviour was found for the CI. However, the latter does not seem to be a good proxy of DXA. Still, DXA shows good potential for the study of the inorganic part of bone when submitted to high temperatures and further studies with larger samples seems promising to add further data to this preliminary investigation.
Expressiveness of SHACL Features and Extensions for Full Equality and Disjointness Tests
Creators: name: Bogaerts, Bart
name: Jakubowski, Maxime
name: Bussche, Jan Van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: SHACL is a W3C-proposed schema language for expressing structural constraints on RDF graphs. Recent work on formalizing this language has revealed a striking relationship to description logics. SHACL expressions can use three fundamental features that are not so common in description logics. These features are equality tests; disjointness tests; and closure constraints. Moreover, SHACL is peculiar in allowing only a restricted form of expressions (so-called targets) on the left-hand side of inclusion constraints.
 The goal of this paper is to obtain a clear picture of the impact and expressiveness of these features and restrictions. We show that each of the four features is primitive: using the feature, one can express boolean queries that are not expressible without using the feature. We also show that the restriction that SHACL imposes on allowed targets is inessential, as long as closure constraints are not used.
 In addition, we show that enriching SHACL with "full" versions of equality tests, or disjointness tests, results in a strictly more powerful language.
Wo München cool bleibt. Eine Analyse der lokalen Klimaregulation  mithilfe hochaufgelöster 3D-Baumhöhenmodelle zwischen 2012 und 2022
Creators: name: Dworczyk, Claudia
name: Münzinger, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: DFNS 2024
Klimaregulation
Climate Cooling
Kühlkapazität
Stadtbäume
Baumhöhenmodell
Ökosystemleistungen

description: Dieses Poster wurde auf dem 16. Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium, welches vom 11. bis 12. Juni 2024 in Dresden stattfand, vorgestellt. 

Hintergrund: Die Stadt München wächst kontinuierlich und ist von einer hohen Bebauungsdichte gekennzeichnet. Zwischen 2012 und 2022 ist die Bevölkerung um fast 150.000 Personen auf nahezu 1,6 Millionen angestiegen. Besonders an heißen Sommertagen heizen sich die dicht bebauten Stadtviertel stark auf, was zu Belastungen für Mensch und Umwelt durch den sogenannten Hitzeinsel-Effekt führen kann. Grünflächen und Stadtbäume spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Regulierung des lokalen Klimas. Mithilfe hochaufgelöster Baumhöhenmodelle und des Climate Cooling Assessments wurde die kühlende Wirkung dieser Flächen bestimmt. Dabei werden Baumkronen, Bodenbedeckung, Größe und Lage der Flächen berücksichtigt, um die sogenannte Kühlkapazität zu berechnen. Eine gute Kühlkapazität kann die Temperatur um mindestens 2,1 Grad Kelvin senken. Durch die Analyse mehrerer Zeitabschnitte lässt sich ermitteln, wie das Wachstum und der Verlust von Stadtbäumen sowie Landnutzungsveränderungen die Kühlkapazität der Stadt beeinflussen.
ResearchBox 4011, 'Embodied Counting', https://researchbox.org/4011
Creators: name: Sabine Schäfer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Box title: 'Embodied Counting'   Reference: Sabine Schaefer, 'Embodied counting: Touching objects reduces errors in counting under cognitive load', Journal of Cognitive EnhancementNote: this backup was created automatically by a ResearchBox bot
Integration of green design and manufacturing for sustainability in undergraduate engineering curriculum
Creators: name: Jha, Nand K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Green design and manufacturing promises reduction in materials, energy use, disposal fees, and reduced pollution. Products should be designed keeping in mind the aspects of disassembly and recycling. Engineering curriculum has to catch up with the needs of society in general for sustainability considerations. The end-of-life considerations including recycling and reuse should be integrated in engineering curriculum. The selection of suitable materials, processes, and geometry that satisfies specified and implied green functional requirements should be goal of mechanical design. A curriculum revision and development of two separate courses on Green Design and Sustainable Manufacturing are being proposed. Engineers need an understanding of whole systems, life cycle, and end of life utility of the product and they have been emphasized in the new courses being developed. This is in consistent with National Science Foundation (NSF) objective as well as the requirements of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). At Manhattan College, we plan to modify the undergraduate curriculum to include sustainability considerations in mechanical component design and manufacturing courses.
Synthesizing nested relational queries from implicit specifications: via model theory and via proof theory
Creators: name: Benedikt, Michael
name: Pradic, Cécilia
name: Wernhard, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Derived datasets can be defined implicitly or explicitly. An implicit definition (of dataset O in terms of datasets I) is a logical specification involving two distinguished sets of relational symbols. One set of relations is for the "source data" I, and the other is for the "interface data" O. Such a specification is a valid definition of O in terms of I, if any two models of the specification agreeing on I agree on O. In contrast, an explicit definition is a transformation (or "query" below) that produces O from I. Variants of Beth's theorem state that one can convert implicit definitions to explicit ones. Further, this conversion can be done effectively given a proof witnessing implicit definability in a suitable proof system. We prove the analogous implicit-to-explicit result for nested relations: implicit definitions, given in the natural logic for nested relations, can be converted to explicit definitions in the nested relational calculus (NRC). We first provide a model-theoretic argument for this result, which makes some additional connections that may be of independent interest, between NRC queries, interpretations, a standard mechanism for defining structure-to-structure translation in logic, and between interpretations and implicit to definability "up to unique isomorphism". The latter connection uses a variation of a result of Gaifman concerning "relatively categorical" theories. We also provide a proof-theoretic result that provides an effective argument: from a proof witnessing implicit definability, we can efficiently produce an NRC definition. This will involve introducing the appropriate proof system for reasoning with nested sets, along with some auxiliary Beth-type results for this system. As a consequence, we can effectively extract rewritings of NRC queries in terms of NRC views, given a proof witnessing that the query is determined by the views.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2209.08299, arXiv:2005.06503
Supplementary document for Hybrid Time-Frequency Domain Dual-Probe Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering for Simultaneous Temperature and Pressure Measurements in Compressible Flows via Spectral Fitting - 6095967.pdf
Creators: name: Retter, Jonathan
name: Koll, Matthew
name: Dedic, Chloe
name: Danehy, Paul
name: Richardson, Daniel
name: Kearney, Sean
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Material
revTPL: The Reversible Temporal Process Language
Creators: name: Bocchi, Laura
name: Lanese, Ivan
name: Mezzina, Claudio Antares
name: Yuen, Shoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reversible debuggers help programmers to find the causes of misbehaviours in concurrent programs more quickly, by executing a program backwards from the point where a misbehaviour was observed, and looking for the bug(s) that caused it. Reversible debuggers can be founded on the well-studied theory of causal-consistent reversibility, which only allows one to undo an action provided that its consequences, if any, are undone beforehand. Causal-consistent reversibility yields more efficient debugging by reducing the number of states to be explored when looking backwards. Till now, causal-consistent reversibility has never considered time, which is a key aspect in real-world applications. Here, we study the interplay between reversibility and time in concurrent systems via a process algebra. The Temporal Process Language (TPL) by Hennessy and Regan is a well-understood extension of CCS with discrete-time and a timeout operator. We define revTPL, a reversible extension of TPL, and we show that it satisfies the properties expected from a causal-consistent reversible calculus. We show that, alternatively, revTPL can be interpreted as an extension of reversible CCS with time.
Tiered Reward: Designing Rewards for Specification and Fast Learning of Desired Behavior
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhiyuan
name: Raman, Shreyas Sundara
name: Sowerby, Henry
name: Littman, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Reinforcement-learning agents seek to maximize a reward signal through environmental interactions. As humans, our job in the learning process is to design reward functions to express desired behavior and enable the agent to learn such behavior swiftly. However, designing good reward functions to induce the desired behavior is generally hard, let alone the question of which rewards make learning fast. In this work, we introduce a family of a reward structures we call Tiered Reward that addresses both of these questions. We consider the reward-design problem in tasks formulated as reaching desirable states and avoiding undesirable states. To start, we propose a strict partial ordering of the policy space to resolve trade-offs in behavior preference. We prefer policies that reach the good states faster and with higher probability while avoiding the bad states longer. Next, we introduce Tiered Reward, a class of environment-independent reward functions and show it is guaranteed to induce policies that are Pareto-optimal according to our preference relation. Finally, we demonstrate that Tiered Reward leads to fast learning with multiple tabular and deep reinforcement-learning algorithms.
description: For code, see https://github.com/zhouzypaul/tiered-reward
Additional file 1 of Multiple biochemical indices and metabolomics of Clonorchis sinensis provide a novel interpretation of biomarkers
Creators: name: Qiu, Yang-Yuan
name: Chang, Qiao-Cheng
name: Gao, Jun-Feng
name: Bao, Ming-Jia
name: Luo, Hai-Tao
name: Song, Jin-Ho
name: Hong, Sung-Jong
name: Mao, Rui-Feng
name: Sun, Yun-Yi
name: Chen, Ying-Yu
name: Liu, Ming-Yuan
name: Wang, Chun-Ren
name: Liu, Xiao-Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Identification of infection and pathological analysis. Figure S2. Cluster diagram of biochemical indices at different periods of Clonorchis sinensis infection. Figure S3. Principal component analysis (PCA) score and unidimensional PCA-X distribution. Figure S4. Correlation analysis of the 14 dpi-associated metabolic pathways in central carbon metabolism in cancer.
Apollo: collaborative manual annotation for genomic sequencing projects
Creators: name: Dunn, Nathan
name: Munoz-Torres, Monica
name: Diesh, Colin
name: Unni, Deepak
name: Rasche, Eric
name: Yao, Eric
name: Holmes, Ian
name: Elsik, Christine
name: Lewis, Suzanna
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Manual annotation is a crucial step in the annotation portion of a genome sequencing project. It enables curators to improve automated gene predictions by visually comparing a variety of experimental evidence tracks from different sources to more accurately represent the underlying biology.

Apollo is a web-based genome annotation editor that allows curators to manually revise and edit genomic elements. It provides a reporting structure for annotated genomic elements and an ‘Annotator Panel’ that allows users to quickly browse the genome and its annotations. Users can manually edit the structure of a genomic element as well as add metadata, including references to other databases and functional assignments with specific lookup support for Gene Ontology (GO) terms.

Apollo is currently being used in over one hundred genome annotation projects around the world, ranging from annotation of a single species to lineage-specific efforts supporting annotation for dozens of organisms at a time. Collaborators are able to visualize each others changes in real time (similar to Google Docs), restrict access to annotations depending on the role of users and groups within the community, and share tracks of evidence data with the public. Finally, users are able to export their manual annotations via FASTA, GFF3, the Chado database schema, and web services. Lastly, Apollo is available for integration with Galaxy via Docker, allowing users to run genome analyses sequencing using the Galaxy platform.

Apollo is an Open-Source project. Further details and code are available at http://genomearchitect.org/.
Engaging alumni in EESD curriculum assessment
Creators: name: Roghanian, Negar
name: Sibley, Jim
name: Nesbit, Susan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: With the goal of continually improving the civil engineering undergraduate program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the current, 2-phased, study assesses the level of graduating student achievement of two critical Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduating student attributes, namely “ethics” and “the impact of engineering on society and the environment”. The first phase, which is reported here, involves deploying, at a small scale, a novel process of assessing the ethics attribute. The base-line data collected include both the self-evaluation by a small set of 4th year students respecting their development of the ethics attribute, and the assessment by a practicing engineers alumni panel of the level at which the students meet entry-level engineering ethics expectations. In addition to assessing student achievement of the ethics attribute, the alumni panel discussed possible refinements of the novel assessment process. The second phase of the study, to be reported in a subsequent paper, involves a larger-scale deployment of the revised protocol in order to assess the CEAB “impacts of engineering on society and the environment” attribute. The objective of this study is to gain insights into possible gaps between lived curriculum and industry expectations by employing an authentic, and administratively manageable, assessment protocol.
Topology of chalcogen chains
Creators: name: Kłosiński, Adam
name: Brzezicki, Wojciech
name: Lau, Alexander
name: Agrapidis, Cliò E.
name: Oleś, Andrzej M.
name: van Wezel, Jasper
name: Wohlfeld, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological properties of the helical atomic chains occurring in elemental selenium and tellurium. We postulate a realistic model that includes spin-orbit interaction and show this to be topologically non-trivial, with a topological invariant protected by a crystalline symmetry. We describe the end-states, which are orbitally polarized, with an orbital density modulation strongly peaked at the edge. Furthermore, we propose a simplified model that decomposes into three orbital chains, allowing us to define a topological invariant protected by a crystalline symmetry. We contrast this result with recent observations made for the orbital Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model containing a $p$-orbital zigzag chain.
description: 10 figures
THE RISE OF NEO BANKS AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE TRADITIONAL BANKING SYSTEM
Creators: name: ALEENA KP
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Neobanks,
Traditional Banks,
Fintech,
Digital Banking,
Embedded Finance,
Regulatory Compliance,
Cybersecurity,
Financial Innovation,
Banking Transformation

description: Neobanks operate exclusively online, providing a fully digital banking experience. Traditional banks often require customers to spend significant time and effort on routine transactions. Neobanks enhance traditional banking by offering a user-friendly, digital interface. Neobanks goal is to provide a very smooth online experience. Think of neobanks as your full-service digital wallet. They pack a ton of financial tools right into your phone or computer. You can manage your checking and savings accounts, apply for loans, make payments, invest, and even track your budget, all within their apps or websites. And because they handle sensitive financial information, neobanks put a huge emphasis on keeping your data private and secure. Even though neobanks are shaking up the financial world, they still have hurdles to overcome, especially when it comes to following all the banking rules. But, there's a lot of potential for them to grow. They can really stand out by creating even better, easier-to-use apps and offering unique financial products tailored to individual customers. While neobanks are definitely gaining traction, don't expect traditional banks to vanish. Both types of banks can coexist, each serving different customer preferences in today's evolving banking landscape.
Supplementary document for Threshold performance of pulse-operating quantum-cascade vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers - 6096434.pdf
Creators: name: Janczak, Mikolaj
name: Sarzała, Robert
name: Dems, Maciej
name: KOLEK, ANDRZEJ
name: Bugajski, Maciej
name: Nakwaski, Włodzimierz
name: Czyszanowski, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Ecosystem Evolution and Drivers across the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions
Creators: name: Xie, Yiran
name: Wang, Xu
name: Qian, Yatong
name: Liu, Teng
name: Fan, Hao
name: Chen, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Tibetan Plateau (TP) and surrounding regions, vital to global energy and water cycles, are profoundly influenced by climate change and anthropogenic activities. Despite widespread attention to vegetation greening across the region since the 1980s, its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study employs the eigen microstates method to quantify vegetation greening dynamics using long-term remote sensing and reanalysis data. We identify two dominant modes that collectively explain more than 61% of the vegetation dynamics. The strong seasonal heterogeneity in the southern TP, primarily driven by radiation and agricultural activities, is reflected in the first mode, which accounts for 46.34% of the variance. The second mode, which explains 15% of the variance, is closely linked to deep soil moisture (SM3, 28 cm to 1 m). Compared to precipitation and surface soil moisture (SM1 and SM2, 0 to 28 cm), our results show that deep soil moisture exerts a stronger and more immediate influence on vegetation growth, with a one-month response time. This study provides a complexity theory-based framework to quantify vegetation dynamics and underscores the critical influence of deep soil moisture on greening patterns in the TP.
description: 54 pages,16 figures, Published in Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 380, Year 2025, Pages 124885
A course in sustainable manufacturing
Creators: name: Moon, Young B.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Sustainable manufacturing is a vision that the manufacturing community has for contributing to the global society's ability to address sustainability issues. While there is no standard definition of sustainable manufacturing, one universally accepted notion is that sustainable manufacturing must optimally address a comprehensive set of highly interdependent objectives from environmental, economic and social perspectives. This is impossible without systems' thinking that guides the sustainable manufacturing activities every step of the way from product idea generation, to adoption of sustainable design and manufacturing processes, to selection of sustainable materials, and ultimately to product disposal, reuse or recycling. New course on sustainable manufacturing has been developed and offered several years now at Syracuse University, USA. An underlying principle in developing and offering the course is the premise that sustainability manufacturing requires a holistic view to a complete product lifecycle from the moment of conceiving new product ideas till the end of the product life, while simultaneously considering the impact of decisions made in each phase of the manufacturing activity on sustainability. The principle has been realized by: (i) adoption of a broadened definition of manufacturing and (ii) a semester-long project of developing sustainable products. In the course, manufacturing means not only material transformation processes but also manufacturing systems including supply chain considerations for sustainability. The sustainable product development project provides students with a context where they can apply methods, techniques and tools being acquired from the course. Also the developed products can lead to further entrepreneurial opportunities.
title: Feminist Foreign Policy as a nation state strategy: Just another label or the way towards gender equality?
title: A qualitative content analysis of Sweden and Canada as Feminist Foreign Policy countries and Norway and Finland as countries with a high gender equality index
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pohl, Antonia
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 327
subject: 327 Internationale Beziehungen

description: This thesis explores the grounds of Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) and its linkages to gender equality. The work aims to contribute to a better understanding of the concept of Feminist Foreign Policy and explores the potential disparities between its theoretical foundations and its translation into nation-state concepts. For this purpose, official government documents of two FFP-countries and two non-FFP-countries are compared in their substantive foreign policy preferences. Employing a qualitative content analysis, the documents will be coded and analysed. Subsequently, the findings will be contextualised within the existing literature. The finding of this work is that Feminist Foreign Policy has the potential to promote greater gender equality, however it may also serve just as a mere label. The extent of its positive impact depends on how states interpret the concept, the coherence of their policy choices, and the objectives they pursue.
Additional file 1 of Psychiatric manifestations of rare variation in medically actionable genes: a PheWAS approach
Creators: name: Feng, Yen-Chen A.
name: Stanaway, Ian B.
name: Connolly, John J.
name: Denny, Joshua C.
name: Luo, Yuan
name: Weng, Chunhua
name: Wei, Wei-Qi
name: Weiss, Scott T.
name: Karlson, Elizabeth W.
name: Smoller, Jordan W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Ancestry assignment of study individuals using principal component analyses (PCA). Figure S2. Phenotypic correlation heatmap among the 37 curated PheCodes of common psychiatric phenotypes. Figure S3. No inflation in λGC from single variant association analysis for two selected complex traits. Figure S4. Phenome-wide burden of rare variation in LDLR recapitulated known association with hypercholesterolemia. Figure S5. PheWAS of rare variation in the ACMG-56 genes with psychiatric disorders
Towards Model-independent Predictions for R-parity Violating Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Nangia, Saurabh
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ddc:530

description: Extensive searches for supersymmetry (SUSY), over the last four decades, have returned no evidence for it yet. Particularly, with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) results, this begs the question: “Is it time to give up on the idea of SUSY at energy scales accessible to us, or are there still potential gaps in our coverage that need to be explored?” In this thesis, we advocate the latter view. In particular, we consider the R-parity violating Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (RPV-MSSM). We argue that this setup is as well-motivated as the MSSM. On the other hand, the phenomenological space is vastly more complex; this creates potential for gaps in our SUSY coverage. In this thesis, we identify and focus on four such gaps in our current studies:
 (i) There is no systematic classification of the RPV-MSSM signatures at colliders. In particular, there could be signatures we may have missed in our coverage.
 (ii) Lepton parton distribution functions (PDFs) can initiate resonant squark production in the RPV-MSSM at the LHC, resulting in a clean final state consisting of a single charged lepton, no/low missing energy, and either one or a few jets. This can be a sensitive probe to SUSY that has not been covered at the LHC yet.
 (iii) The RPV-MSSM can accommodate massive neutrinos. However, the implications of the precisely measured neutrino oscillation data have not been analyzed for the most general RPV-MSSM setup.
 (iv) The mass of the lightest neutralino – if bino-like – is still completely unconstrained in the RPV-MSSM.
 On the flip side, we argue that, with recent and upcoming developments in the field, each of the above offers an exciting new opportunity to find SUSY. We explicitly demonstrate this by implementing studies that take steps towards covering the above gaps. Our results show that, in this way, there is still significant potential to discover SUSY in the near future. Our approach, throughout, will emphasize model-independence.
Additional file 2 of Multiple biochemical indices and metabolomics of Clonorchis sinensis provide a novel interpretation of biomarkers
Creators: name: Qiu, Yang-Yuan
name: Chang, Qiao-Cheng
name: Gao, Jun-Feng
name: Bao, Ming-Jia
name: Luo, Hai-Tao
name: Song, Jin-Ho
name: Hong, Sung-Jong
name: Mao, Rui-Feng
name: Sun, Yun-Yi
name: Chen, Ying-Yu
name: Liu, Ming-Yuan
name: Wang, Chun-Ren
name: Liu, Xiao-Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Level of biochemical indices in the Clonorchis sinensis-infected group and the control group. Table S2. Differential metabolites in Clonorchis sinensis-infected rabbits at 7 days post-infection. Table S3. Differential metabolites in Clonorchis sinensis-infected rabbits at 14 days post-infection. Table S4. Differential metabolites in Clonorchis sinensis-infected rabbits at 28 days post-infection. Table S5. Differential metabolites in Clonorchis sinensis-infected rabbits at 63 days post-infection. Table S6. Metabolic pathways in different Clonorchis sinensis infection phases.
Sustainability science in practice : discourse and action in a university-wide transition initiative
Creators: name: Hugé, Jean
name: Waas, Tom
name: Block, Thomas
name: Koedam, Nico
name: Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: ‘Sustainability science’ (Kemp & Martens, 2007; Hugé, 2012) is an increasingly popular concept, drawing scholars and students towards inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches that are commonly believed to embody the best solutions to solve the challenges of rapidly a changing world. While the enthusiasm generated by the concept is to be welcomed, its implementation and operationalization are challenging. If it fails to deliver, it risks to trigger disillusion and discouragement and it may come to embody nothing more than semantics and ‘loose words’. Engineers are –at least perceived as- the quintessential problem solvers in academia, but global change as well as the realization that any scientific endeavour cannot be performed in a societal vacuum forces engineers to reconceptualize their role in society as well as their research philosophy. Tangible processes are needed to turn this analysis of the current situation into actions for a more sustainable future. Sustainability assessment (SA) is such a process that may turn the initial enthusiasm for the broad concept of sustainability science into actions that lead to more sustainable engineering research & teaching. The objective of this paper is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of SA in a university-wide transition exercise, focusing on the views of the academic community in engineering faculties at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Drawing on the application of sustainability assessment processes on various systems (energy systems, development cooperation projects), and on the real-life experience of the bottom-up ‘Transition at the University of Ghent, Belgium’-initiative (www.facebook.com/transitieugent), we use a discourse-analytical approach to sustainability assessment (Hugé et al., 2013). Acknowledging the variety of discourses, frames and worldviews embodied in sustainability science is a key step in creating actor coalitions that may trigger positive change in academic institutions. We will propose a qualitative evaluation of existing and planned concrete transition activities, building on recent insights in the field of ‘sustainable higher education’ (Beynaghi et al., 2014) in order to provide recommendations on how to implement sustainability science in engineering faculties.
Treatment of burn induced stress hyperglycaemia – a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Naughton, Jack
name: Rio, Marcus Del
name: Olaussen, Alexander
name: Bernard, Stephen
name: Biswadev Mitra
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Annually, approximately 11 million people globally suffer burns injuries which require medical treatment and of these 265,000 do not survive. Severe, non-fatal burns are a leading cause of morbidity, loss of quality-adjusted life years, and often result in disfigurement. Across Australia and New Zealand, 2,656 cases of burn injury were treated in major burn units over during a 12-month period 2013-14.

The early consequences of a burn injury include stress hyperglycaemia (SH). This was traditionally considered to be part of the hypermetabolic response, and as such was not treated. Evidence from non-burns critical care patients is conflicting, with results from the NICE-SUGAR study indicating intensive insulin therapy increases mortality rates of patients. However, in the subgroup of patients with burns injury, management and implications of SH is unclear. Currently there are no recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) or the Australian & New Zealand Burn Association (ANZBA) for the management of burn induced SH.

Among all patients with burn induced SH, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of intensive versus conventional glycaemic control strategies.

This systematic review searched English and non-English literature. A combination of the subject headings (/) and keywords (“ ”) was used: (Burns/ or Burn Unit/ or Burn Units/ or “Thermal Injury” or “burn*”) AND (Hypoglycemic Agents/ or Blood Glucose/ or Insulin/ or Hyperglycemia/ or “Intensive Insulin” or “Glycemic Control”). We searched for articles from five databases (Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, Cinahl and The Cochrane Library), extending from the databases’ commencement to the 30th of September 2015. Google and Google Scholar were used for grey literature searching.
Auf den Bühnen der Welt: Open Access für mein Werk
Creators: name: Martin, Linda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Open Access
subject: Open Access Publishing
subject: Arts
subject: Performing Arts
subject: Open Research

description: Die Präsentation wurde im Rahmen des 16. Kongress der gtw (Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaften) am 13.06.2024 im Rahmen eines Workshop-Angebots von open-access.network gezeigt. Adressiert waren Wissenschaftler*innen und wissenschaftlich Tätige der Darstellenden Künste.
BOLALAR ADABIYOTIDA XALQ OG'ZAKI IJODINING O'RNI
Creators: name: Umarova, F.B.
name: Baratova, O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada bolalar adabiyotida xalq og‘zaki ijodining o‘rni yoritilgan. Xususan, ertaklar, topishmoqlar, maqollar va afsonalarning bolalar tarbiyasidagi, ularning tafakkurini, nutqini va axloqiy qarashlarini shakllantirishdagi o‘rni tahlil qilingan. Shuningdek, xalq og‘zaki ijodining milliy qadriyatlarni yosh avlodga yetkazishdagi ahamiyati ham ko‘rsatib berilgan.
Additional file 1 of ‘It was the deepest level of companionship’: peer-to-peer experience of supporting community-dwelling older people with depression - a qualitative study
Creators: name: Tang, Jessica P. S.
name: Liu, Tianyin
name: Lu, Shiyu
name: Sing, C. Y.
name: Sze, Lesley C. Y.
name: Lum, Terry Y. S.
name: Tse, Samson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Even Order Explicit Symplectic Geometric Algorithms for Solving Quaternions in Guidance Navigation and Control via Diagonal Padé Approximation and Cayley Transform
Creators: name: Zhang, Hong-Yan
name: Liu, Fei
name: Zhou, Yu
name: Liang, Man
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Quaternion kinematical differential equation (QKDE) plays a key role in navigation, control and guidance systems. Although explicit symplectic geometric algorithms (ESGA) for this problem are available, there is a lack of a unified way for constructing high order symplectic difference schemes with configurable order parameter and the fractional interval sampling problem should be treated carefully. We present even order explicit symplectic geometric algorithms to solve the QKDE with diagonal Padé approximation via a four-step strategy. Firstly, the Padé-Cayley lemma is proved and used to simplify the symplectic Padé approximation for the linear Hamiltonian system with infinitesimal symplectic structure. Secondly, both parallel and alternative iterative methods are proposed to construct the symplectic difference schemes with even order accuracy. Thirdly, the symplecity, orthogonality and invertibility of the single-step transition matrices are proved rigorously. Finally, the explicit symplectic geometric algorithms are designed for both the linear time-invariant and linear time-varying QKDE. The maximum absolute error for solving the QKDE is $\mathcal{O}((t_f-t_0)τ^{2\ell})$ where $τ$ is the time step, $\ell$ is the order parameter and $[t_0,t_f]$ is the time span. The linear time complexity and constant space complexity of computation as well as the simple algorithmic structure show that our algorithms are appropriate for real-time applications in aeronautics, astronautics, robotics and so on. The performance of the proposed algorithms are verified and validated by mathematical analysis and numerical simulation.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
Playing Safe, Ten Years Later
Creators: name: Colcombet, Thomas
name: Fijalkow, Nathanaël
name: Horn, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider two-player games over graphs and give tight bounds on the memory size of strategies ensuring safety objectives. More specifically, we show that the minimal number of memory states of a strategy ensuring a safety objective is given by the size of the maximal antichain of left quotients with respect to language inclusion. This result holds for all safety objectives without any regularity assumptions. We give several applications of this general principle. In particular, we characterize the exact memory requirements for the opponent in generalized reachability games, and we prove the existence of positional strategies in games with counters.
Got Compute, but No Data: Lessons From Post-training a Finnish LLM
Creators: name: Zosa, Elaine
name: Komulainen, Ville
name: Pyysalo, Sampo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As LLMs gain more popularity as chatbots and general assistants, methods have been developed to enable LLMs to follow instructions and align with human preferences. These methods have found success in the field, but their effectiveness has not been demonstrated outside of high-resource languages. In this work, we discuss our experiences in post-training an LLM for instruction-following for English and Finnish. We use a multilingual LLM to translate instruction and preference datasets from English to Finnish. We perform instruction tuning and preference optimization in English and Finnish and evaluate the instruction-following capabilities of the model in both languages. Our results show that with a few hundred Finnish instruction samples we can obtain competitive performance in Finnish instruction-following. We also found that although preference optimization in English offers some cross-lingual benefits, we obtain our best results by using preference data from both languages. We release our model, datasets, and recipes under open licenses at https://huggingface.co/LumiOpen/Poro-34B-chat-OpenAssistant
description: 7 pages
Developing global preparedness efficacy
Creators: name: Hariharan, Bhavna
name: Ayyagari, Sneha
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Increasing globalization and technological innovations have redefined the role of engineers in working towards sustainable development. The question of how to measure and evaluate preparedness of engineering students to meet these requirements remains an open question. This paper develops a performance indicator called Global Preparedness Efficacy (GPE) to measure the effectiveness of curricula that bring student engineers together with underserved communities in satisfying ABET criteria 3h, which is “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context”. This indicator measures ability to navigate the complexity and novelty of the problem space and enabling the creation solutions to the problem at hand consistent with the global socio-economic, political and cultural realities.
Additional file 1 of Coverage and factors associated with completion of continuum of care for maternal health in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicountry analysis
Creators: name: Alem, Adugnaw Zeleke
name: Shitu, Kegnie
name: Alamneh, Tesfa Sewunet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.