cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Automated Breast Cancer Detection using Computer Aided Diagnosis
Creators: name: Bruhtesfa, Mouhabaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Breast cancer is the most prevalent invasive cancer in women and stands second for chief cause of cancer deaths in women, next to lung cancer. The occurrence rate is exceeding in the developing countries though the rate of mortality has decreased which can be credited to the advances in diagnosis and treatment. Initial diagnosis involves histological observation (microscopic observation of cells/tissues) of affected breast tissues for structural changes, irregularities in cell shapes, distribution of cells in the tissue and determining the grade of the cancer. As manual interpretation of the tissues is often labor intensive, expensive and prone to errors and inconsistency, computer-based analysis of microscopic histopathology images is used as an alternative to provide a more accurate, automatic, fast and reproducible procedure to assess breast cancers. One important aspect in this regard is the automatic segmentation of breast cancers and several approaches are available in the literature for use in executing such tasks. However, the segmentation of major pathological structures and their subsequent follow– ups are not easy because of various artifacts such as presence of anatomical structures with highly correlated pixels with that of lesion, illumination variability, noise and magnification of the microscope. This thesis attempts to present a new mathematical scheme for analysis of color breast histopathology images acquired through digital microscopy or whole slide imaging. The proposed scheme uses a holistic representation of the color images in the three (trinion) space and applies trinion based Fourier transforms to extract useful imaging features for the purpose of classification and segmentation of histopathology images. A suitable color space transformation and a way of extracting robust higher order features are included in the method. The scheme has been applied in analyzing images acquired from standard histopathology image databases and results have shown that the algorithm achieved commendable results with 91% sensitivity, 92.7% specificity, and 92% overall accuracy.
Literature and the cosmopolitical imagination: reading with others for ecological justice
Creators: name: Tomàs White, Mònica
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: My dissertation, “Literature and the Cosmopolitical Imagination: Reading with Others for Ecological Justice,” starts from the premise that the first step in instilling an ecological ethics of care to counter environmental injustice is to recognize all relevant parties, diverse humans and nonhumans alike, as stakeholders in the world that we share. I call this a “cosmopolitical imagination”: one in which both human and nonhuman entities are conceived of as actors and political stakeholders to whom care is due. The dissertation focuses on how literature can spur this imagination by representing—portraying and advocating for—diverse human interests alongside nonhuman ones, catalyzing values and choices about how we relate to others. This project is both interdisciplinary and multilingual: I read fictional narratives from a breadth of cultural and geographic origins—in accordance with the global yet unequal reach of climate change—in order to counter the culturally specific beliefs about animals and the nonhuman environment that drive environmental destruction and block change. In particular, I show how the literary strategies of nonhuman narrators, fictional genres such as speculative fiction and horror, figurative language, and especially the political action of reading with others elicit engaged readers’ care for entangled human and nonhuman interests. Conversations with my students guide my choice of texts, and I draw from their readings in order to foreground the transformative effects on beliefs and behaviors of sharing imaginative literature with others. In this way, just as my project destabilizes cultural and environmental hierarchies in order to imagine different ways humans can relate to the more-than-human world, it also recognizes new, diverse and vital sources of knowledge—both fiction and collective reading—to spur action on environmental injustice. This opens up possibilities for both caring and con/fabulation: building new stories and new worlds, together.
Aesthetics: Beyond Bourriaud
Creators: name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: History
subject: Art
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Literature

description: Submitted as a final paper for my Arts Honours Visual Culture 492 unit in October 2002. This paper provides an insight into contemporary viewpoints and attitudes as well as historical context regarding the concept of aesthetics in the Arts. Through discussions, interviews and personal correspondences with Western Australian art critic David Bromfield and art reviewer Judith McGrath I sought their perspective as to how the terms ‘relational embodiment’, ‘relational aesthetics’ and ‘networked interconnectivity’ further inform art practice in a contemporary data rich and internet enabled context. Speculation as to how these insights inform my creative professional practice and future direction in postgraduate research serves as a conclusion for this paper.
title: ‘The ICJ then and now’: interview with Professor Bruno Simma and Professor Georg Nolte
Creators: name: Simma, Bruno
name: Nolte, Georg
name: Nacimiento, Patricia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: This year’s German National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition hosted a high-profile interview featuring Professor Bruno Simma, former judge at the International Court of Justice, and Professor Georg Nolte, who recently took his seat on the bench of the very same Court. The discussion was moderated by Patricia Nacimiento of Herbert Smith Freehills.

The interview offers a unique and very intimate conversation between two judges of the World Court, sharing both their professional and personal views of the Court from different perspectives. The discussion covers topics ranging from the process of becoming a judge on the International Court of Justice, the everyday work of the Court and the changes to the personal and academic lives of someone elected to serve as a judge at The Hague. Both scholars also reflect on the benefits of moot court competitions both for themselves and for students today.

We are hosting the video with the kind permission of Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, who organized both this year’s German Jessup Competition and the interview.
description: Völkerrechtsblog
Macrolister striatisternus Lewis 1905
Creators: name: Mazur, Sławomir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Macrolister
Macrolister striatisternus

description: Macrolister striatisternus Lewis, 1905
 Type: a male, Angola, Bihe, [note]: “mesosternal stria different to robusticollis”, Macrolister striatisternus Lewis, Type, G. Lewis Coll. B.M. 1926-369.
 Other materials: S. Angola, Bimbe, 2350 m, Sį da Bandeira Distr., IX.1956, 1 ex., leg. C. Koch; [R.S.A.] ZW/ Eastern Highlands, Chinanimani Eland Sanct, 10/1995, 1 ex., leg. M. Kaiser; Südafrika, Kwazulu-Natal, Weenen NR, 4.XII.2001, leg. P. Schüle; S. Afr., Transvaal, Wateberg, 1 ex., leg. N. Persson; RSA: Mpumalanga, Roossenkal, 23.XI.2002, 1 ex., leg. P. Schüle; RSA: Cape Prov., Dievlung nr. Avontuur, 16-19.XII.[19]81, fynbos car. tp., 800 m, 1 ex., leg. S&J. Peck; Afrique du Sud, Transvaal, 24.XI.1981, Waterfall Bo, 1 B&, leg. J. Klapperich [CHSM].
description: Published as part of Mazur, Sławomir, 2007, Notes on some species described in the genus Hister L. (Coleoptera: Histeridae). III, pp. 149-156 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 7 (2) on page 154, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204768
Public Opinion Survey 158 (Jewish Residents of Amsterdam)
Creators: name: Nederlands Instituut Voor De Publieke Opinie En Het Marktonderzoek (Gallup)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Antisemitism in the Netherlands (3); makeup of social circle (1); N.I.W. (New Israelite Weekly (the Jewish weekly)) (4); member of religious community/spiritual group (1); volunteer/paid work for Jewish organization/society (1); future of the Jewish community in the Netherlands (2); Dutch people living abroad (2); separate dishes/utensils used for milk/meat (3); kosher meat consumption (3); pork consumption (3); Seder (6); Hanukkah lights (3); chuppah at wedding (3); matzos at Pesach (Passover) (3); Friday evening meal (3); Yom Kippur (5); going to shul (synagogue) (3); mezuzah on doorpost (3); St. Nicholas' Eve (3); Christmas tree (3); Christmas dinner (3); defining Jewish people (2); converting to Judaism (2); leaving the Jewish community (1); mixed marriages (1); feelings about compatibility of missionary work with Judaism (1); how to build relationships with other groups without doing missionary work (2); Jewish self-identification (1); watching Jewish radio/TV programs (2); reading Jewish books (3); giving to Jewish institutions (2); Jewish education (4); Jewish youth organizations (1); desirable Jewish activities for Jewish children (3); in hiding during World War II (WWII) (2); in a concentration/death camp during WWII (1); do Jewish people provoke antisemitism (1); do Jewish people deserve antisemitism (1); do some groups of Jewish people provoke antisemitism more than others (1); visiting Israel (1); connected to the fate of Israel (1); making Aliyah (settling in Israel) (2); are Israelis all good/all bad (1); 1956 Sinai campaign (1); 1956 Hungarian uprising/repression (1); task for Jewry in world (1); preference for buying from Jewish shops (1); is it desirable to fight antisemitism (1); belief in HaShem (God) (1); belief in Moses receiving the Torah (1); belief in Jews as the chosen people (1); belief that the Messiah will come (1); circumcision (2); Jewish burial (1); ease of interacting with non-Jews (1); would you wish to be born Jewish if given a choice (1); "typically Jewish" behaviors (3).
title: Corona Constitutional #57: Reisen mit dem Digitalen Grünen Pass
Creators: name: Quaritsch, Luise
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 342

description: Am 17. März hat die EU-Kommission einen Gesetzes-Vorschlag für ein europäisches Impfzertifikat, den sogenannten Digitalen Grünen Pass, vorgestellt. Damit sollen EU-Bürger, die eine Immunisierung, einen negativen PCR-Test oder Anti-Körper gegen das Corona-Virus nachweisen können, bald wieder innerhalb Europas reisen können. Vor allem Urlaubsländer wie Österreich und Griechenland hatten sich für den Digitalen Grünen Pass eingesetzt.
Seit Wochen gibt es bereits Diskussion darüber, wie ein europäisches Impfzertifikat aussehen könnte und ob eine solche Maßnahme mit den EU-Grundrechten vereinbar wäre. Diese Fragen diskutiert Luise Quaritsch mit WALTHER MICHL. Er ist Habilitand am Institut für Politik und Öffentliches Recht der LMU München und er Associate Editor des Verfassungsblogs, zuständig für Europarechtsthemen.
description: Verfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
title: #11: Grundlagen des Asylrechts II: Podcast des Rechtswissenschaftlichen Zentrums für Europaforschung an der Universität des Saarlandes
Creators: name: Jungfleisch, Julia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 340

description: Vor einigen Wochen hat Julia Jungfleisch in unserer Podcast-Folge die Grundlagen des Asylrechts und die Unterscheidung zwischen Flüchtlingsstatus und subsidiärem Schutz erklärt. Daran anknüpfend nimmt sie in unserer neuen Folge die Rechtsprechung des Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte und des Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union im Bereich des Asylrechts genauer in den Blick.
Robert Owen: a different kind of modern
Creators: name: Barnes, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: When Robert Owen returned to Australia in 1975 after living in Europe for twelve years he found there was no real context for his work, though this may not have seemed to be the case on the surface. His work was accepted well, being selected to represent Australia at the 1978 Venice Biennale. It was more that Owen felt no connection between dominant accounts of the nature and purpose of art circulating in Australia and how he saw his work communicating with viewers and contributing to the world.
title: #ManuelaJusticiay Esperanza?
Creators: name: Bliecke, Vanessa
name: la Cruz Morales, Jeremy De
name: Schönleben, Ella
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
German Medical Knowledge Guide – Prozessorientierte automatisierte Analyse großer Textkorpora
Creators: name: Diwersy, Mario
name: Herzog, Christian
name: T Kamphusmann
name: O Koch
name: G Vollmer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sowohl für Patienten als auch für Ärzte und Entscheidungsträger der Verbände und in der Politik ist die Identifikation von medizinischen Experten mit vertretbarem Aufwand und auf der Basis vergleichbarer und transparenter Kriterien nicht möglich. Für Patienten stellen dabei Mund-zu-Mund- Propaganda, intransparente und tlw. zweifelhafte »Ratings« in Publikumszeitschriften den üblichen Lösungsweg dar. Ärzte, Funktionäre und Politiker verlassen sich in dieser Situation im Wesentlichen auf gewachsene Kollegennetzwerke. So unterschiedlich die Motivation für die Suche nach ausgewiesenen Experten im Einzelfall ist, lassen alle drei Lösungsstrategien ein operatives Kriterium für »Expertise« und damit ein transparentes Verfahren der Suche vermissen. In dieser Situation stellt die Entwicklung handhabbarer Kriterien für Expertise und deren operative Umsetzung in Recherchesysteme einen notwendigen Schritt dar. Auf der anderen Seite steht mit den wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen in den Bereichen Medizin und Life-Sciences, wie sie z.B. in PubMed verfügbar sind, ein umfassender Datenpool vor. Dieser kann, mit nur unerheblichen Einschränkungen, als vollständige Dokumentation der abgeschlossenen und eingeschränkt auch der aktuell laufenden wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten angesehen werden. Dieser Datenpool kann somit als Grundlage für den Nachweis von medizinischen Experten dienen, wenn es gelingt, ihn mit vertretbarem Aufwand und in hoher Qualität zu analysieren. Die Nutzung von Analysen großer Korpora ist dabei nicht trivial, da sie zwar bei präzisen Fragestellungen belastbare Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Dokumentenlage liefern, nicht aber den Nutzungskontext, also die Verwendung der Ergebnisse in Kommunikations- und Entscheidungsprozessen berücksichtigen. Damit fehlt jedoch die dynamische Komponente der Nutzungsprozesse, die wesentlich den Wert der Textanalysen bestimmt.
Semi-automatic construction of domain-specific thesauri
Creators: name: Kohlhof, Inga
name: Schijvenaars, Bob
name: Diwersy, Mario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper describes a hybrid technique for the semi-automatic construction of a domain-specific thesaurus for automatic indexing.
Improving The Current Technology of Beer Production By Substitution of Imported Barley
Creators: name: G, Mulugeta
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Barley has been the basic raw material for brewing for both barley and non-barley producing countries. Its malt is known to be rich in protein, high diastatic power and high level of maltose producing �� −amylase, a key enzyme in breaking down malt starch into fermentable sugars ensuring efficient Saccharification than other cereals making it brewers' choice however, the skyrocketing price of barley calls for an alternative brewing technique forcing to propose an increment of unmalted to malt ratio with some modification in mashing method but this method alone have lots of challenge due to dilution of malt enzyme there for addition of external enzyme with an extension temperature program conversion is used. The extension of time was used to obtain with suitable high wort true ferment ability and sufficient protein break down. Unmalted and malted barley milled separately and mixed based design ratio( 20 to 100%) then mashed using EBC method 4.5.1 with the addition of 0 to 1% (Neuterase, Term-amyl SC, and Ultra-flow max). Design software response surface methodology central composite design was used to see the relationship dependent and independent variables. The result found was 17.3% viscosity decreased, 11.9 % increment extract recovery level, 53.5% increment for free amino nitrogen content of wort produced in mashing of 100% raw barley with 1% vol/grist wt. of Term amyl sc, Neuterase, ultra-flow max enzyme ,the result found was improve filtration rate ,brewing yield ,speed of fermentation and fermentation cycle. The optimum result that we found based on sensory analysis was 60/40 unmalted to malted ratio with 0.5% ultra-flow max 0.5% Term amyl sc and 0.5% Neuterase Vol/grist wt. Therefor addition of Term-amyl sc, Neuterase, ultra-flow max plus modification mashing method could be one solution for increasing unmalted to malted ratio. Key words: Exogenous and endogenous enzyme, degree of attenuation, viscosity, response surface methodology
title: Towards development of a pavement management framework for low volume road networks in Canada
Creators: name: Guha, Shajib Kumar
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: The concept of the Pavement Management System (PMS) is to assist transportation agencies in making well-informed decisions utilizing pavement-related data and technical expertise. Canada has over 1.13 million kilometers of roads (two-lane equivalent km), which is the seventh-largest road network in the world. Approximately 80% of public roads in Canada are governed by the regional authorities, which refer to cities, towns, and municipalities, making them the most important contributors to the Canadian road management system. Based on the objective and scope of the agencies, the process of implementing the PMS varies. Regional authorities manage low-traffic roads exclusively, and they often lack resources, technical people, and budget. Therefore, it is extremely important to utilize these limited resources and budgets to make efficient decisions. This study represents a PMS framework for the agencies that own low-traffic roads, have resource shortage, and budget constraints. As part of this research, three different surveys were conducted with a view to understanding: PMS practices throughout the country, PMS practices in the municipalities within Newfoundland and Labrador, and road user's feedback on roadway asset conditions. A new PMS framework is proposed using the data from the surveys and following an exclusive literature review on PMS. Finally, municipalities of Newfoundland and Labrador are considered as a case study to apply the proposed framework after an extensive study on these municipalities.
Competition and cooperation: coordinating services to establish a lifelong learning hub
Creators: name: Hopkins, Liza
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Earlier this year, in advance of the 2005-2006 budget, the Victorian State Government released its $788 million social policy statement: A Fairer Victoria. This document details a five to ten year plan, addressing disadvantage in Victoria through five targeted elements. The fifth of these elements is a commitment to: “making it easier to work with government”. Within this commitment are two strategies for implementing change: “Changing the way we work with communities”; and “Developing better ways of working together at a regional and local level” (State Government, Victoria, 2005)...[Introduction]
A simple strategy to maintain diversity and reduce crowding in particle swarm optimization
Creators: name: Chen, Stephen
name: Montgomery, James
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Each particle of a swarm maintains its current location and its personal best location. It is useful to think of these personal best locations as a population of attractors. When this population of attractors converges, the explorative capacity of the swarm is reduced. The convergence of attractors can occur quickly since the personal best of a particle is broadcast to its neighbours. If a neighbouring particle comes close to this broadcasting attractor, it may update its own personal best to be near the broadcasting attractor. This convergence of attractors can be reduced by having particles update the broadcasting attractor rather than their own attractor/personal best. Through this simple change which incurs minimal computational costs, large performance improvements can be achieved in multi-modal search spaces.
Lathrobium concolor Motschulsky. During 1860
Creators: name: Shavrin, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium concolor

description: Lathrobium (s. str.) concolor Motschulsky, 1860
 Distribution: Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Transbaikalia, Russian Far East
description: Published as part of Shavrin, Alexey V., 2007, Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Lathrobium Grav. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) of the Baikal region. I. Catalogue of species and a new synonymy, pp. 173-178 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 7 (2) on page 174, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13204778
title: Der Kampf um die Werbung im Internet: Online-Werbung, ihre Blockade und Schutzmaßnahmen vor Werbeblockade auf dem Prüfstand des Lauterkeits- und Urheberrechts mit Bezügen zum Datenschutz- und Kartellrecht
Creators: name: Barth, Günter
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Internet
subject: Werbung
subject: Schutz
subject: Unlauterer Wettbewerb
subject: Urheberrecht
subject: Datenschutzrecht
subject: Kartellrecht
subject: 346

description: Online-Werbeblocker haben über Jahre hinweg die deutschen Gerichte und die juristische Literatur beschäftigt. Die Diskussion erreichte ihren Höhepunkt durch das „Werbeblocker II“-Urteil des BGH im Jahr 2018. Während dieses Urteil einen Großteil der lauterkeitsrechtlichen Rechtsfragen klärte, bleiben vor allem die urheber- und kartellrechtlichen ungeklärt. Deren Bewertung bedarf eines umfassenden technischen und wirtschaftlichen Verständnisses, wofür dieses Werk grundlegende Erklärungen enthält. Es dient auf dieser Grundlage der Ordnung der Vielzahl der Einzelprobleme und Rechtsansichten in ein logisches System und deren Bewertung im größeren rechtlichen Kontext.
description: Recht der Informationsgesellschaft, vol. 46
Comparing the Financial Impacts of Single-Use versus Reprocessed Medical Devices
Creators: name: Proc. ISSST
name: Unger, Scott R.
name: Landis, Amy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The US healthcare system and its impact on the environment has gained increasing notoriety. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that healthcare accounts for 15.2% of the United States’ Gross Domestic Product; and to note, the US healthcare system conceptual model identifies an increasing public concern for environmental quality involving an inherent need for the healthcare sector to limit its potential for negative human health impacts. Therefore, assessing the environmental sustainability of the healthcare sector offers a means to indentify and optimize conditions/features in the healthcare conceptual model that most impact human health and the environment. Many healthcare providers claim that overuse of single-use medical devices may be the most significant inefficiency attributed to the healthcare supply chain model. To better understand and optimize this inefficiency, this study explores the financial impacts of reprocessing medical devices (e.g., recycle/reuse) by formulating a user-friendly Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that clearly lists the costs differential in a single-use-device hospital supply chain vs. any level of reprocessing in the same hospital’s supply chain. Variables considered for economic impact analysis include: number of devices, shipping costs, and waste disposal costs. Evaluation of these variables is through embedded Microsoft Excel functions and exhibit user-variability. Methodology is structured, such that, number of single-use devices equals the instances used from reprocessing. Based on their weight, volume, and source (e.g., operating room, emergency room, and laboratory) shipping and disposal costs are also incorporated into the analysis. Devices included: operating room devices, catheters, compression sleeves, open but unused devices, and pulse oximeters. Results indicate a reverse exponential decrease in cost vs. instances reprocessed. For each device, one reprocessing instance is associated with over 26% in savings, and five reprocessing instances (FDA regulatory maximum) is associated with over 56% in savings. On a temporal basis, a savings of approximately $1.5 million over a time period of 12 months is associated with a typical hospital’s reprocessing supply chain. These decreases in originally purchased devices are also correlated with over 45,000 pounds of medical waste diverted from landfills and incinerators annually. Other environmental impacts of utilizing reprocessed medical devices include: decreases in raw materials, energy, and water associated with the assembly and manufacturing of the materials into a functional device.
Refleksje na temat pracy Otoczenie społeczne i jego wpływ na wyniki ekonomiczne przedsiębiorstwa na przykładzie instytucji non-profit świadczącej usługi opieki paliatywnej
Creators: name: Zarzycka, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics
Education

description: Review about working paper on: Social environment and its impact on the economic performance of the company as an example of non-profit organizations. The author of the work presents an analysis of the financial condition of the non-profit institution, based on indicators J. Zietlowa.
Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa z branży przemysłu spożywczego.
Creators: name: Jankowska, Paulina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji przedsiębiorstwa z branży przemysłu spożywczego w latach 2006 - 2007, za pomocą wskaźnika FHI.
Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa działającego na rynku zaopatrzenia medycznego
Creators: name: Główka, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Niniejsza publikacja dotyczy analizy ekonomicznej kondycji, dotyczącej przedsiębiorstwa działającego na rynku zaopatrzenia w wyroby medyczne. Jak podaje Roman Niestrój poziom efektywności gospodarowania odzwierciedla bowiem kondycję finansową przedsiębiorstwa. Celem analizy finansowej według Nalepki jest rzetelnie rozpoznanie prawdziwej kondycji finansowej wraz z oceną zdolności do generowania zysków. Wynik syntezy tych pojęć został osiągnięty poprzez analizę, interpretację oraz sformułowanie wniosków odnośnie badanego przedsiębiorstwa. Wykorzystując model Zietlowa metodą indukcji (od ogółu do szczegółu) obliczane zostają wskaźniki ogólne, które w odpowiednich proporcjach tworzą wskaźnik ogólnej kondycji finansowej.
title: Das technische Phänomen „Künstliche Intelligenz“ im allgemeinen Zivilrecht: Eine kritische Betrachtung im Lichte von Autonomie, Determinismus und Vorhersehbarkeit
Creators: name: Konertz, Roman
name: Schönhof, Raoul
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Künstliche Intelligenz
subject: Rechtsfähigkeit
subject: Vertragsrecht
subject: Unerlaubte Handlung
subject: 346

description: Das Phänomen der künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) gewinnt im Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht zunehmend an Bedeutung. Für die Behandlung der Thematik sind Grundkenntnisse der KI notwendig. Die Autoren beschreiben im notwendigen Maße die technischen Aspekte der KI. Sie zeigen auf, dass implementierte KI nichts anderes ist als Computersoftware. KI kann sich zwar unterschiedlich verhalten, dies ist aber immer deterministisch begründet. Es bestehen Herausforderungen bei der Vorhersehbarkeit und Erklärbarkeit der Folgen von KI (xAI). Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Auswirkungen auf das Vertrags- und Deliktsrecht untersucht. Eine (Teil-)Rechtsfähigkeit von KI bietet dabei keinen Mehrwert. Die wahren Herausforderungen der KI liegen anderswo.
description: Recht der Informationsgesellschaft, vol. 47
title: Suchmaschinenoptimierung und Wettbewerbsrecht
Creators: name: Wehrmann, Michael
Publisher: name: Nomos
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Suchmaschine
subject: Optimierung
subject: Unlauterer Wettbewerb
subject: 346

description: Die vorliegende Betrachtung aus Sicht des UWG zeigt auf, welche Maßnahmen der Suchmaschinenoptimierung (SEO) wettbewerbsrechtlich zulässig oder unzulässig sind. Die Untersuchung widmet sich zunächst einer Darstellung der SEO, sowie der Einordnung derselben im Hinblick auf das UWG und zeigt grundsätzliche Probleme einer lauterkeitsrechtlichen Betrachtung von SEO auf. Anschließend subsumiert der Verfasser vielfältige Fallkonstellationen der SEO unter Tatbestände des UWG. Es folgt eine Auseinandersetzung mit der bisherigen Rechtsprechung zum UWG und SEO. Die Arbeit liefert konkrete Anweisungen für die lauterkeitsrechtliche Rechtsanwendung, die sich mit Fällen der SEO konfrontiert sieht.
description: Schriften zum Medien- und Informationsrecht, vol. 49
Holistic Multi-Parametric Magnetic Resonance Image Processing for Identification of Neoplasm and normal Brain Tissues
Creators: name: Chernet, Teferi
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Abreakthrough advance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) into standard clinical practices has enabled greater accuracy in delineating tumor volumes. The technique allows autonomous detection through noninvasive imaging of malignant brain tumors like gliomas and similar other body tumors for the requirement of efficient and effective procedures like biopsy and radiation therapy as well as for quantification of patients' responses to treatment. The role of MR imaging in regard of characterization schemes of neoplasms has been tremendous. There are many approaches suggested in the literature for this purpose, one of which is color processing concept. Most color images have three components and each pixel/voxel on such color images can be represented as a three-component vector. Analogously, an MRI voxel, for example, can be seen as a vector with as many channels as available MR image parameters: T1, T2, PD, ADC, rcbv, Ktrans, T2*, etc. And there can be various methods of representing such images as colors. Hence using these methodologies and by combining multiple MRI parameters as we need, we can maximize the information we want to display. The research study exploits advanced mathematical and image analysis assets for use in analysis of MP-MR medical images making use of algorithmic procedures. Accuracy and potentials of the method is compared against gold standards (available ground truth). The data used is composed of standard co-registered multiple MR image parameters taken from patients treated for the highest grade and most aggressive of the gliomas. This approach comes with a great potential to assist accurate and effective detection, visualization, and analysis of useful medical image information for physicians and/or researchers as well. Even though MR images are the subjects of interest in this study, in principle the method developed could be applied to other medical images with multiple components acquired through different modalities. Keywords: Quaternion Fourier Transform, Trinion Fourier Transform, Image Processing, Principal Component Analysis.
Analiza finansowa ekonomicznej kondycji na przykładzie przedsiębiorstwa usługowego działającego w sektorze budowlanym.
Creators: name: Kozub, Klaudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: Economics

description: Omawiana praca odnosi się do indeksu kondycji finansowej PHI Zietlova, którego analiza pozwala na lepsze zarządzanie finansami oraz zachowanie ciągłości finansowej podmiotu. Indeks PHI Zietlova to nowe podejście do pomiaru organizacyjnej kondycji finansowej. Oparty jest o wypłacalność, płynność oraz elastyczność finansową. Indeks można podzielić na piętnaście wskaźników, które dzielą się w następujący sposób: trzy ogólne, cztery natychmiastowe, trzy krótkoterminowe oraz pięć średnioterminowych. Gdy je połączymy powstanie jedno równanie, które ukazuje wartość indeksu kondycji finansowej. W pracy został przeanalizowany jeden podmiot – przedsiębiorstwo nie będące organizacją non profit i nie będący instytucją finansową.
Capitalism and Perpetual Growth in a Finite Environment
Creators: name: Thomas, Dennis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Economics

description: This paper looks at the overall sustainability of Capitalism in terms of Financialization,
ecological breakdown, and social inequality of humanity. Past macroeconomic successes of
Keynesian economics and Monetarism are used to gain an understanding of how policymakers
have turned Capitalism from production of goods and services into Financialization. Because of
this large move into Financialization, Capitalism has become a grow-or-die economic system
through deficit spending and debt, risk concentration, and over-leverage within the financial
industry. Ecological Economics is then used to detail the economy into 3 layers consisting of:
finance, the real economy, and Earth’s natural resources and their exhaustion rates. A research
model is brought forth that posits that the 3rd
layer of the economy, Earth’s natural resources, is
finite by nature and has a limited capacity to support our rapacious appetite for growth and
consumption. This constraint creates a paradox as Capitalism’s pursuit of unlimited growth
cannot ultimately be achieved. The paper then argues that due to this physical constraint and our
economic pursuit of unlimited growth, unintended outputs are being observed through social
inequalities and environmental degradation. A theme is presented throughout the paper that
underlines the importance for humanity to see nature and the environment as essential for life
versus commodities to be used for short-term economic interests. Until this existing paradigm of
the environment being a subsystem of the economy is broken and actually reversed, our species
will face catastrophic consequences sometime in the future. Recommendations for our current
situation are given and presented as a movement towards sustainability and de-growth.
However, such recommendations will not work under the current form of Capitalism. The
research states that the only way change towards sustainability will occur is through a crisis,
which creates the necessities for change.
title: Experimental study on kinetic to thermal energy conversion with fluid agitation
Creators: name: Javed, Muhammad Haseeb
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Modern wind turbines are generally used for electricity generation; however, the final form of energy required by many users is thermal energy. Although electrical energy conversion to thermal energy is a high-efficiency process, the efficiency of electricity generation from wind turbines is usually low. In this thesis, a heat generator with fluid agitation is developed and studied. This heat generator converts kinetic energy (e.g. that from a wind turbine) directly to thermal energy through the process of viscous dissipation; this process is achieved through the agitation of the working fluid inside a container. This heat generator uses an optimized flat blade turbine (FBT) impeller and a fully baffled configuration. An electric motor is used to provide the kinetic energy input to the heat generator. A torque sensor, a tachometer, and thermocouples are used to measure the torque, rotational speed (RPM,) and temperature rise in the fluid, respectively. Using the measured quantities, the efficiency of kinetic energy to sensible heat conversion is calculated. Experiments are conducted at different rotational speeds and for different working fluids: distilled water, ethylene glycol, and their respective nanofluids with Al₂O₃ nanoparticles at different concentrations. The experimental results indicate that the heat generator is up to 90% efficient in converting kinetic energy to thermal energy. The temperature rise rate increases with the rotational speed and larger diameter of the impeller. Furthermore, the addition of nanoparticles improves the thermal properties of the fluid, but it does not significantly affect the energy conversion efficiency or the rate of temperature rise in the fluid. A wind turbine can power this heat generator to provide heat to a house or a commercial building. This innovative renewable energy technology would benefit wind rich remote areas with cold weather.
Mapping Indigenous Siberia: spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900-2010
Creators: name: Sablin, Ivan
name: Savelyeva, Maria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia's ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples' territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.
Capitalism and Infinite Growth in an Finite Environment
Creators: name: Thomas, Dennis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Economics

description: This paper looks at the overall sustainability of Capitalism in terms of Financialization,
ecological breakdown, and social inequality of humanity. Past macroeconomic successes of
Keynesian economics and Monetarism are used to gain an understanding of how policymakers
have turned Capitalism from production of goods and services into Financialization. Because of
this large move into Financialization, Capitalism has become a grow-or-die economic system
through deficit spending and debt, risk concentration, and over-leverage within the financial
industry. Ecological Economics is then used to detail the economy into 3 layers consisting of:
finance, the real economy, and Earth’s natural resources and their exhaustion rates. A research
model is brought forth that posits that the 3rd
layer of the economy, Earth’s natural resources, is
finite by nature and has a limited capacity to support our rapacious appetite for growth and
consumption. This constraint creates a paradox as Capitalism’s pursuit of unlimited growth
cannot ultimately be achieved. The paper then argues that due to this physical constraint and our
economic pursuit of unlimited growth, unintended outputs are being observed through social
inequalities and environmental degradation. A theme is presented throughout the paper that
underlines the importance for humanity to see nature and the environment as essential for life
versus commodities to be used for short-term economic interests. Until this existing paradigm of
the environment being a subsystem of the economy is broken and actually reversed, our species
will face catastrophic consequences sometime in the future. Recommendations for our current
situation are given and presented as a movement towards sustainability and de-growth.
However, such recommendations will not work under the current form of Capitalism. The
research states that the only way change towards sustainability will occur is through a crisis,
which creates the necessities for change.
Quality Assessment of Rural Drinking Water Supply Schemes from Source to -Point of- Use. (A Case Study of Ada"A Woreda, in Oromia Regional State of Ethiopia).
Creators: name: Desissa, Daba
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The poor quality of drinking water leads to water related diseases. The study was carried out to determine drinking water quality supply schemes of rural Ada"a Woreda at the source and point of use by assessing current water service that provided to the household. Total 36 water samples were collected from different sources and household (point -of -use). The PH, Turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), Electrical Conductivity (EC), Fluoride, Nitrate, Total Hardness, Calcium and Magnesium Hardness, Phosphate and Microbiological (Total Coliform and C.coliform/CFU) of the samples were determined using laboratory analysis. The result was then compared with the WHO and Ethiopian water quality standards. Results:- show that improved water supply schemes of woreda did not contain total coliform or E.coli at source level except one sample (SW-7 which contained total coliform of 8 cfu/100ml) which might be due to poorly maintained and crack damaged of the apron. However, water at point -of-use (household) from both shallow well and deep wells-indicates a decline in bacteriological level (0-57cfu/100ml T.C and 0-50cfu/100ml E.C) as compared to water at the source level. High record of calcium in two sources (S7 & S9 in Katella Kebele) which were 81.8 mg/l and 96.5 mg/l respectively observed which is greater than the recommended value of WHO and National Standard (75mg/l). In addition, high fluoride content was relatively observed in Dirre shoki kebele. In conclusion, significant effect of technologies (shallow well and deep well) on water quality at the sources was not observed. In addition, high bacteriological level was investigated at the point of use as compared at the source; this might be attributed to water handling problems. Thus, chemical treatment at point-of-use is suggested as an appropriate solution to eliminate any postsource contaminations. In addition, it is also recommended that the future work has to be done to modify existing water development strategies by considering water quality at point-of-use. Moreover, awareness must be created about water; hygiene and sanitation (WASH) for rural communities to reduce water related disease. Key words:-Water Quality Assessment at source and Household, Physicochemical and Microbial parameters, WHO Standard, Water-Related Disease &Ada'a Woreda, Ethiopia.
title: COVID-19 and “New” Human Rights Symposium
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Nesa
name: Tigre, Maria Antonia
name: Saiger, Anna-Julia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341

description: Völkerrechtsblog
Growing too fast: the dangers of overtrading to entrepreneurs
Creators: name: Van der Spuy, Johan
name: Nieman, Gideon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Growth is considered the hallmark of success for any entrepreneurial business. Therefore, entrepreneurs are highly growth inclined individuals. Entrepreneurs regard especially rapid growth as important to create wealth for themselves and society, as well as to grow the economy as quickly as possible. Although growth can be an entrepreneurial business’ biggest ally, it can also become an entrepreneurial business’ worst enemy. Many entrepreneurial businesses have fallen because of rapid growth, especially if the growth was unforeseen and unprepared for. Business decline and business failure due to rapid growth is known as overtrading. This paper aims at exploring this phenomenon, so that a higher level of knowledge regarding its symptoms, potential dangers and impact on the entrepreneurial businesses can be obtained. This research is important to entrepreneurs to enable them to diagnose overtrading, and realise the impact and effect it might have on their businesses. This paper examines the following propositions: • Proposition One: Overtrading always results in entrepreneurial business failure; • Proposition Two: Overtrading only occurs in new (entrepreneurial) businesses; • Proposition Three: Overtrading can be understood as a core evaluation criterion for entrepreneurial business failure. These propositions are examined because there is very little research on this topic despite the fact that overtrading is widely recognised as at least a contributing factor to business decline and failure. The possible outcomes of the study are that sufficient support can be found that overtrading is a definite cause for entrepreneurial business failure and that especially new entrepreneurial businesses should guard against overtrading, since they are the ones that are in the start-up phase. Therefore, overtrading can be cited as a core evaluation criterion for entrepreneurial business failure. The study is a literature research regarding business growth, too rapid growth and overtrading, and business failure.
title: Préface
title: Le droit à l’avenir
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Malabou, Catherine
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Philosophie politique
subject: Philosophie du droit
subject: Science politique
subject: Théorie anarchiste
subject: Marxisme
subject: Political philosophy
subject: Jurisprudence
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Anarchist theory
subject: Marxism

description: La formule « juristes anarchistes » n’est pas un oxymore. Les idées de mutualité, d’entraide, de coopération, supposent des contrats, des institutions de règlement des différends, une jurisprudence, une justice. Il s’agit de penser et à la fois de mettre en œuvre la dimension organisatrice de la liberté, c’est-à-dire la puissance de l’avenir. L’anarchisme peut par conséquent se réinventer par le droit. Cette discipline permet de construire des utopies qui n’en sont pas moins réalisables.