cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Response of Cladoceran Communities to the Climatic Changes of the Late Holocene Southwestern Québec
Creators: name: Cooper, Emily
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Paleolimnology
Cladocera
Climate change
ecology

description: This thesis focuses on a chronological analysis of the cladoceran communities from a sediment core of a small oligotrophic lake in southwestern Québec, Canada over the past 1250 years. The sediments of the lake were varved, which allowed for accurate dating. A previously published pollen study of the lake provided a record of the paleoclimatic and landscape changes in the region. The core was then used to infer how changes in temperature and landscape changes impacted the taxonomic composition of the cladoceran community through time. Cladoceran diversity was high throughout most of the Medieval Warm Period and into the Little Ice Age and decreased during the modern period in response to increased temperatures and anthropogenic impacts. Daphnia and plant-associated species greatly decreased in the past 100 years. This shift, combined with increased temperatures and changes in the landscape opened up a niche for the colonization by the smaller Bosmina longirostris. The modern communities are unlike most of what was observed throughout the past millennium.
Efficient Numerical Simulation of Soil-Tool Interaction
Creators: name: Jahnke, Jonathan
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Realtime computation
Soil simulation
Machine learning
Recurrent Neural Networks
Lookup Tables
Data-based modelling

description: The simulation of soil-tool interaction forces using the Discrete Element Method (DEM) is widely established. In addition to an acceptable prediction quality, the efficient simulation of granular material on high performance clusters with modern parallelization strategies for the industrial applications is indispensable. Although, for relevant problem sizes such simulations are so far not real-time capable. Further on, the inclusion of the human-machine interaction at a driving simulator combined with soil-tool simulation poses many interesting research questions. We therefore strive for sufficient performance and consider alternative models and algorithms to achieve real-time capability. First, we discuss different types of particle models regarding force accuracy and efficiency. The pros and cons are pointed out and the suitability for real-time applications is discussed. Second, we present two machine learning algorithms which are real-time capable and allow force predictions in real-time. The application at the in-house excavator simulator is discussed and the capability is shown using relevant numerical examples.
Keimungsverhalten der Kapuzinerkresse Tropaeolum majus L.
Creators: name: Franz, Sophia
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022

description: This bachelor thesis focuses on different priming techniques for Tropaeolum majus (T. majus) seeds reaching from mechanical scarification to cold stratification. Furthermore, chemical stratification by using different concentrations of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) (0 %, 47.5 %, 95 %) for three different soak times (5 min, 10 min, 30 min) were also conducted, in the context of an indoor farming project at Fraunhofer UMSICHT. In total two preliminary experiments were done consecutively in a plant growth chamber, sowing on cultivation and potting soil. After that two main experiments were conducted identically to the preliminary experiments, but seeds were additionally sowed in the greenhouse “ALTMARKTgarten” on greenhouse soil. The preliminary test revealed that seed lot harvested in 10/2021 was too old, compared to the main experiments, where seed lot harvested in 06/2023 was used. The boxplot depiction of all main experiments, showed trends toward mechanical scarification, reaching levels between 80 % to 100 % (main no. 3). Except for the main experiment no. 4 sowed on cultivation soil, in which the highest germination percentage (GP) was seen when the seeds were primed with 47.5 % H2SO4 for 10 min (n = 6, on replicate = average of 5 seeds). Additionally, for the chemical stratification trials response surface methodology (RSM) was conducted, using central composite design (CCD) and an analysis of variance (ANOVA) to de-termine whether the results happened by coincidence or by effect. For all experiments the null hypotheses, saying that chemical stratification has no effect, was rejected, except for the ex-periment sown on cultivated soil (main no. 3), where the chosen model did not fit. It was also investigated whether concentration, soak time or the interaction of both factors contributed to the effect on GP. The results of the ANOVA showed varying results between the soil materi-als and the repetition of the main experiments. Therefore, no statement can be made as to which factor is decisive, as the sample size (n = 6, one repetition average of 5 seeds) was too low and high fluctuations of seed germination were observed in every conducted experiment. Summarizing, not all priming treatment enhance the GP. H2O (= 0 % H2SO4) priming with soak times of 5, 10 and 30 min, showing rates between 0%-60% (except outliers) are not recom-mended. Seeds primed by cold stratification showed varying tendencies in the GP. Neverthe-less, seeds germinated on all tested soil materials (pH = 5-6).
Bridging the Gap Between Product and Simulation Data Management
Creators: name: Spelten, Philipp Christoph
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital Twin
Simulation Data Management
Product Data Management
Industry Survey

description: The Digital Twin idea in manufacturing engineering / Model Based Design (MBD) promises smooth interaction between the variety of domains involved in the product development process as well as clear traceability of decisions. To continue the Digital Twin throughout the exchange between the different software landscapes of manufacturers and [Zulieferer], data standards are used for exchange. While existing standards in Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) allow for smooth transfer of data within the two domains, simulation remains decoupled from the CAD-centred development process. The thesis researched the industrial situations in the parts of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) which are concerned with the two domains to form the basis for further development in industries. For this, exploratory, semi-structured expert interviews were conducted in an industry survey. The results were used to update the perspective on the industrial situations and workflows. Although some attempts for a connection exist, they are presently not well established in industry. The main obstacles for cross-domain standardisation are the differences on several layers: 1. Data discretisation, 2. Demands for processing and storage, 3. Metadata, 4. Management and workflow structures, 5. Software feasibility and usage. Additional issues faced by standardisation, engineering, and management vary across and within industry groups. The result is a unidirectional data transfer from CAD to CAE, with only non-machine-interpretable 3rd level results being sent back to CAD. Existing commercial solutions are customised, expensive, and not used to their full potential. Therefore, workaround solutions, self-written codes, and Excel-spreadsheets prevail in places, where appropriate standardisation might bring the two domains closer together, and slim down as well as speed up industrial workflows. These results imply, that a connection of the domains may be better approached by standardising and integrating the workflow structures, rather than the model representations.
title: Treibstoffschnellablass aus Luftfahrzeugen: Wirkungen auf Umwelt und Gesundheit
title: Treibstoffschnellablass aus Luftfahrzeugen: Wirkungen auf Umwelt und Gesundheit
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Wetzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Kerosin
subject: Luftverkehr
subject: Luftfahrt
subject: Treibstoffschnellablass
subject: Fuel Dumping
subject: Flugverkehr
subject: Kerosinablass
subject: Jettisoning
subject: Luft
subject: Gesundheit
subject: Wasser
subject: Boden | Fläche
subject: Verkehr

description: Aus Sicherheitsgründen müssen Flugzeuge manchmal Treibstoff ablassen, wenn sie kurz nach dem Start aufgrund eines unvorhergesehenen Vorfalls notlanden müssen. Im Positionspapier werden die Notwendigkeit und der Ablauf dieser sogenannten Treibstoffschnellablässe beschrieben und Statistiken zur Ablasshöhe und Menge vorgestellt. Weiterhin werden Ergebnisse von Modellrechnungen auf Basis von vier Worst-Case-Szenarien und eines regionalen, realen Szenarios beschrieben. Diese Berechnungen bilden die Grundlage einer Bewertung zu den Wirkungen auf Umwelt und Gesundheit. Ergänzt werden die Aussagen um rechtliche Aspekte eines Treibstoffschnellablasses. Quelle: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de
description: Aus Sicherheitsgründen müssen Flugzeuge manchmal Treibstoff ablassen, wenn sie kurz nach dem Start aufgrund eines unvorhergesehenen Vorfalls notlanden müssen. Im Positionspapier werden die Notwendigkeit und der Ablauf dieser sogenannten Treibstoffschnellablässe beschrieben und Statistiken zur Ablasshöhe und Menge vorgestellt. Weiterhin werden Ergebnisse von Modellrechnungen auf Basis von vier Worst-Case-Szenarien und eines regionalen, realen Szenarios beschrieben. Diese Berechnungen bilden die Grundlage einer Bewertung zu den Wirkungen auf Umwelt und Gesundheit. Ergänzt werden die Aussagen um rechtliche Aspekte eines Treibstoffschnellablasses.
An implementation of the discrete portion of the combined digital simulation language GEST.
Creators: name: Bleha, Ladislav J.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: An implementation of Discrete Portion of a combined digital simulation language, called the General System Theory Implementor, referred to by the acronym GEST, is presented. A GEST translator, accepting a GEST source program generates the corresponding FORTRAN IV program and executes it. This implementation handles a subset of GEST statements with a syntax defined for the Discrete Portion of the simulation language. A general review of simulations and simulation languages with a respect to simulation requirements of large systems is given. The implementation of this translator is presented with recommendations for the future implementation and enhancements based on the experience gained during this study.
Innovation and copyright: not friends any more?
Creators: name: Whitehead, Derek
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The traditional purpose of copyright in most countries is to provide an incentive for creation and innovation. But is copyright now just as much an obstacle or impediment to innovation and creativity? Several developments in Australia and overseas have highlighted the role of copyright in stifling innovation and constituting a barrier to creativity and education. This paper examines the question in the title in the light of these developments. In particular, the paper will consider a major new Australian report on innovation published in September 2008. The report, VenturousAustralia (the Cutler report) has a strong focus on open access, a skeptical approach to copyright, and a friendly view of the role of libraries in achieving openness. At the same time, the new Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution has led to the creation of an advisory group to look at the ways in which current copyright restrictions inhibit the application of the digital revolution to education. The paper will also consider other developments in thinking about the ways in which copyright may inhibit innovation and creativity. The paper has a strong focus on open access and the role of public institutions, and in particular libraries, in facilitating access to works by reducing the barriers created by old-fashioned approaches to copyright. In doing this, the paper will deal with some of the dilemmas posed for repositories by current publishing models, and practical ways in which repositories may deal with these issues. In doing so, the paper will draw particularly on the Australian copyright experience, in which the author's university (Swinburne University of Technology) is a key player. The author is an Australian university librarian, and is also involved in several national consultative groups on copyright in education, as well as being chair of the Australian Digital Alliance, a copyright lobby group.
Submillimeter-Wave Monolithic Integrated Circuits With Metastructure-Based On-Chip Antennas
Creators: name: Gashi, Bersant
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electronics
Communications Engineering
Radar
Circuits
Electronic Devices
Microwave Technology
Materials
Components

description: Submillimeter-wave frequency bands allow for broadband transmit and receive windows, serviceable to both communications- and radar-based applications, increasing data rates and imaging resolutions, respectively. Due to the small wavelength, singular-chip solutions that combine active chains with corresponding on-chip antennas are highly promoted. Whilst a majority of such solutions are based on silicon-on-insulator complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology nodes, the limited maximum oscillation frequency restricts the realizable bandwidth. Thus, a fully-integrated transceiver chip processed on a 35-nm InGaAs metamorphic high-electron-mobility transistor technology, with a maximum oscillation frequency of above 850 GHz, is of high interest. To that degree, this work addresses the realization of broadband 400-GHz transmit and receive monolithic-integrated active chains as well as corresponding on-chip antennas. The latter present a novel combination of metastructures with a quartz dielectric resonator and a diamond director plate to realize broadband and broadside radiating on-chip antennas for all back-end-of-line substrate-thickness limited integrated-circuit technologies.
Supplementary document for Structured Illumination Microscopy for Simultaneous Imaging of Achiral and Chiral Domains - 5384944.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiwei
name: Huang, Shiang-Yu
name: Singh, Ankit
name: Huang, Jer-Shing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Microtechnology

description: Supplemental document
Development and Characterization of Bifacial p-type Silicon Shingle Solar Cells with Edge Passivation
Creators: name: Baliozian, Puzant
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Passivated edge technology
Thermal laser separation
Alumium oxide passivation
Shingle solar cells
Surface passivation
Bifacial PERC solar cells

description: This dissertation presents the development and characterization of the bifacial p-type silicon shingle solar cells with edge passivation. As a derivative of the bifacial passivated emitter and rear cell (biPERC), the developed device adopts the biPERC fabrication process flow with an additional laser-assisted separation. The work introduces the passivated edge technology (PET) to regain losses caused by charge carrier recombination at the newly-formed edges after separation. PET encompasses a low temperature (T = 130°C) aluminum oxide (Al2O3) deposition by atomic layer deposition and an additional annealing step. The impact of the thermal laser separation on the solar cell’s electrical performance is studied. Moreover, very low effective surface recombination velocity values Seff of around 5 cm/s are attained with Al2O3 layers on floatzone silicon substrates at studied low process temperatures. PET leads to around 80%rel pseudo-fill factor regain of losses from the as-separated shingle cell state. The new device is called the p-type shingled, passivated, edge, emitter, and rear (pSPEERPET) solar cell and attains a peak output power density of pout = 23.7 mW/cm2.
Économie politique de la coopération entre l’Afrique et la Chine - Analyse institutionnelle de la stratégie des acteurs : les cas du Sénégal et du Gabon
Creators: name: Banyongen, Élie S.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Afrique
Chine
économie politique
ressources minières
régimes politiques
pétrole
jeu et stratégie des acteurs
société civile

description: L’intérêt des chercheurs pour les relations entre la Chine et les États africains s’est fortement développé ces dernières années. De nombreuses études ont analysé les grands changements macroéconomiques entre la Chine et l’Afrique, en mettant l’accent par exemple sur le volume des échanges, le rôle des ressources naturelles, la géostratégie, etc. Toutefois, les chercheurs ont négligé deux aspects déterminants, que cette thèse met au centre de son analyse : 1) la dimension politique des relations entre la Chine et l’Afrique, plus précisément l’examen des mécanismes d’extraversion des régimes africains visant à instrumentaliser les opportunités économiques de cette coopération afin de pérenniser leur pouvoir. Aspect qui démontre l’impact des relations croissantes avec la Chine sur la destinée des régimes politiques autoritaires et des régimes en voie de démocratisation en Afrique. 2) la dimension nationale, voire subnationale des relations entre la Chine et les États africains. Au lieu de prendre l’État comme objet d’analyse, ce qui empêche d’avoir une compréhension étendue de ces relations, cette thèse analyse en profondeur des rapports entre, d’une part, le gouvernement et les entreprises chinois, et d’autre part, la société civile et le milieu des affaires avec le gouvernement chinois dans deux pays : le Sénégal et le Gabon. Conséquemment, plutôt que de se limiter à la collecte de données `macro’, cette recherche a procédé à étude de terrain approfondie afin d’établir un rapport entre la présence chinoise (fait structurant) et la réorganisation rapports au sein des régimes politiques étudiés (variable dépendante). Cette thèse procède à une décomposition à la fois des transformations politiques provoquées par les activités économiques chinoises dans ces deux pays d’Afrique, et de l’utilisation politique que les acteurs institutionnels des régimes du Gabon et du Sénégal font de ces apports extérieurs. Notre thèse démontre que la réappropriation de la coopération chinoise par les élites politiques gabonaises et sénégalaises vise le même objectif, qui est la pérennisation du pouvoir. Toutefois, les stratégies des acteurs politiques en vue d’accroître leur pouvoir divergent d’un régime à l’autre. La configuration institutionnelle de chaque pays impose aux acteurs des opportunités et des contraintes différentes selon la nature du régime politique.
Genomic Analysis of Encephalitozoon Species
Creators: name: Selman, Mohammed
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: Microsporidia
Genomics
Horizontal gene transfer
Fungi
HGT
Encephalitozoon romaleae
Encephalitozoon cuniculi

description: Microsporidia are obligate intracellular pathogens of medical and ecological importance whose genomes have been studied extensively over the last decade. Their parasitic lifestyle has lead them to lose a great number of genes and, thus, biochemical pathways capacities, but these reductive processes have been often offset by the acquisition of several genes by means of horizontal gene transfer (HGT). First, in this thesis, we will describe the complete genomes of Encephalitozoon hellem and Encephalitozoon romaleae. Both species also were found to harbor a number of protein-coding genes absent in other microsporidia, which products assembled complete metabolic pathways. All these genes are functionally related to DNA and folate metabolism, and all appear to have been acquired from HGT events from different eukaryotic and prokaryotic donors. Interestingly in E. romaleae genes involved in de novo synthesis of folate are all pseudogenes, highlighting the transient nature of transferred genes. Secondly, we took a closer look at the ploidy and sexual status of Encephalitozoon cuniculi, a vertebrate pathogen, by mapping Illumina sequence reads against the genomes of four strains of this species. We identified the presence of low level of heterozygosity in all strains investigated; a feature that revealed the diploid nuclear state of the species. This reductive intra-individual genetic diversity could result from the long-term propagation of these strains under laboratory conditions, but we propose that it could also reflect an intrinsic capacity of these vertebrate pathogens to self-reproduce. Overall, the work presented in this thesis resulted in a much greater understanding of the genome evolution of a medically and economically important group of parasites.
The need for antenna compact models
Creators: name: Murphy, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: integrated antennas
integrated circuits
SPICE

description: Antennas in integrated circuits "integrated antennas" have become commonplace in recent years; the trend indicates that they will be ubiquitous in the years to come, as a fundamental component of ICs. Their compact modeling, however, is not developing at the same pace as their use, which opens a very important research field in order to include antennas, and their effects, in SPICE like circuit simulators. I herein present a couple of basic ideas aimed at developing these antenna compact models.
MPEC 2024-V81 : COMET C/2024 U1 (PANSTARRS)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: COMET C/2024 U1 (PANSTARRS)

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Matrimonio e famiglia. Limiti di competenza e profili di rilevanza dell’ordinamento comunitario
Creators: name: Marano, Venerando
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Relazione tenuta al Convegno di studi sul tema“Diritto della Unione Europea e status delle confessioni religiose” (Roma, Istituto Sturzo, 8-9 ottobre 2010) organizzato dal Centro Studi sugli Enti Ecclesiastici – CESEN, destinata alla pubblicazione negli Atti, pubblicata per la cortese disponibilità del CESEN.SOMMARIO: 1. Unione europea e famiglia, ovvero la suggestione di un paradosso – 2. Gli interventi dell’Unione: a) strumenti a carattere normativo – 3. … b) interventi giuridicamente non vincolanti – 4. … c) indici giurisprudenziali – 5. Limiti di  competenza e profili di rilevanza dell’ordinamento comunitario. Il contributo delle Chiese.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 7 marzo
Liberté de religion (art. 9 CEDH): droit de ne pas être contraint de révéler ses convictions religieuses et prélèvement à la source de l’impôt cultuel. L’affaire Wasmuth c. Allemagne
Creators: name: Hervieu, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il contributo, apparso su Actualités Droits-Libertés del 20 février 2011 (CREDOF, http://credof.u-paris10.fr/) e destinato anche alla rivista telematica “Combats pour les droits de l’homme”, è pubblicato per la cortese disponibilità del Centre de Recherches et d’Études sur les Droits Fondamentaux - Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 7 marzo
Staatliche Einnahmen und Ausgaben im Verkehrssektor: Analyse der Datensituation und konzeptionelle Erfordernisse für eine Finanzierungsrechnung
Creators: name: Link, Heike
name: Kunert, Uwe
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Verkehrsträger
subject: Öffentlicher Haushalt
subject: Kostenrechnung
subject: Verkehrsausgaben
subject: Steuern
subject: Gebühren
subject: Einnahmen
subject: Finanzierungsrechnung
subject: Wirtschaft | Konsum
subject: Verkehr

description: Die Finanzierung von Verkehrsinfrastruktur und -angeboten ist sehr komplex. Der Bericht des DIW soll zur Verbesserung der konzeptionellen, methodischen und datenseitigen Grundlagen beitragen. Das Ziel bestand darin, eine umfassende Analyse der Einnahmen und Ausgaben für die verschiedenen Verkehrsträger mit nachvollziehbarer und sachgerechter Methodik zu erstellen. Betrachtet werden die Verkehrsträger Straße, Schiene (DB und NE-Bahnen), Öffentlicher Straßenpersonenverkehr, Wasserstraße und Luftverkehr. Der Bericht unterbreitet auch Vorschläge zur Verbesserung der verkehrsträgerübergreifenden Darstellung von Ausgaben, Kosten, und Einnahmen des Verkehrs in Deutschland. Die Vorschläge orientieren sich am Beispiel der Schweiz.
Déclenchement d'activité ectopique et infidélité de la transmission dans un axone endommagé : une modélisation fondée sur le décalage cinétique des canaux sodiques
Creators: name: Lachance, Mathieu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2014
Subjects: douleurs neuropathiques
coupled left-shift (CLS)
acquired channelopathies
comportement ectopique
Nav1.6
sick excitable cell
mild axonal injury
neuropathic pain
ectopic behaviour

description: Les neurones endommagés développent de l'activité ectopique, c'est-à-dire qu'ils déchargent en l'absence de stimulus, ce qui engendre ensuite des douleurs neuropathiques. Des mesures expérimentales ont lié cette activité ectopique à un décalage cinétique (coupled left-shift, CLS) des canaux sodiques tensiodépendants. Nous avons donc construit un modèle numérique d'axone où une portion endommagée subit un tel décalage. Deux résultats fondamentaux et nouveaux sont obtenus : 1) En présence d'activité ectopique, une stimulation à haute fréquence peut entraîner la zone ectopique de l'axone à décharger à la même fréquence que le stimulus. La propagation est alors presque normale. 2) Dans un axone faiblement endommagé, sans activité ectopique au départ, un stimulus temporaire peut déclencher une activité ectopique qui perdure. Ceci amplifie le stimulus et peut donc être lié aux symptômes de douleurs neuropathiques. En plus de ces travaux de recherche, cette thèse propose une imposante section pédagogique, adressé au physicien qui débute en neurosciences. Injured neurons exhibit ectopic activity (ie. they fire without being stimulated), leading to neuropathic pain. Experiments have linked this ectopic activity to a kinetic shift (coupled left-shift, CLS) of the voltage-gated sodium channels. Therefore, we have designed a computational model axon where a damaged zone is affected by such a left-shift. Two important novel results were obtained : 1) In an ectopic axon, high-frequency stimulation can force the ectopic zone to phase-lock to the stimulation frequency. Propagation is then almost normal. 2) In a weakly damaged axon, without initial ectopic activity, a short stimulus can trigger a long lasting ectopic activity. This amplifies the stimulus and can thus be linked to neuropathic pain-like symptoms. In addition to this research work, this thesis encompasses a large educational section, addressed to physicists just starting in neuroscience.
Usage of Wastewater Data as an Early Indicator for Hospitalization Forecasting in Pandemic Situations
Creators: name: Thiel, Steffen
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2024
Subjects: Wastewater
Hospitalization
Forecasting
COVID-19

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has not only had a major impact on the everyday lives of individuals, but also posed major challenges for politics, the economy and the education system. To be better prepared for such situations and to be able to take appropriate measures, it is crucial to assess and predict the course of a pandemic as accurately as possible when deciding on measures. In this study, we investigate to what extent the addition of wastewater surveillance data can improve an otherwise autoregressive COVID-19 forecasting model for Germany and its federal states. We examine possible correlations between the viral load measured in wastewater and the COVID-19 hospitalization incidence as well as case numbers of GP diagnoses of various respiratory diseases. We compare the performances of autoregressive implementations of Random Forest regressors, XGBoost regressors, ARIMA models and linear regression models with their respective performances when including both time series as predictors. For the tree-based models we also investigate the performance of fully cross-modal models which solely rely on the viral load measurements to predict the COVID-19 hospitalization incidence. We found that the wastewater data can be used as an early indicator for the detection of upcoming trends in hospitalization incidence on a national scale due to its high correlation to the hospitalization incidence. The wastewater data seems to precede the hospitalization figures by about six days. The inclusion of wastewater data into the prediction models does not significantly improve the forecast of COVID-19 hospitalization. The best-performing model was the ARIMA model without the inclusion of wastewater data with a Mean Average Percentage Error of 4.61%.
Frode alla legge o frode della legge?
Creators: name: Berlingò, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: Il saggio riproduce con qualche variante il contenuto della voce “Fraude de ley” - che apparirà, in traduzione spagnola, nel Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico, dell’Instituto Martìn Azpilcueta - ed è destinato agli Studi in onore di Rinaldo Bertolino.SOMMARIO: 1 - “Fraus legis” e “fictio iuris” – 2. La frode della legge e la simulazione – 3. Il mendacio e la compromissione delle regole fondamentali dell’ordinamento – 4. La repressione o prevenzione di collusioni o altre frodi processuali – 5. Le  illegittimità amministrative causate da “malae fraudes” e la “bona fraus” coonestata dalla suppletio Ecclesiae.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2011: 7 marzo
Towards a TTOP-Model of Permafrost Distribution for Three Areas in Yukon and Northern British Columbia
Creators: name: Bevington, Alexandre R.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2015
Subjects: Permafrost
Yukon
British Columbia
Climate
Modelling
Cryosphere
TTOP

description: Air, ground surface and top of permafrost temperatures (TTOP) were measured at 58 sites in three areas of Yukon and northern British Columbia in order to: (1) explore relationships between climate-permafrost transfer functions and environmental variables, (2) assess and validate the TTOP-model, and (3) attempt the first implementation of the TTOP-model (Smith and Riseborough, 1996, 2002) for these regions with complex terrain. The strongest factors controlling climate-permafrost transfer functions are elevation and land cover, though slope, aspect, topographic position and surficial geology were also investigated. In 1000 iterations of the model using random equally possible scenarios, 64% of the TTOP-model predictions were within ±1°C of measured values, a result that is 6% better than applying a simple 3°C “total offset” to the mean annual air temperature. A sensitivity analysis confirmed that the TTOP-model is most sensitive to changes in snow, thermal conductivity of the ground and summer air temperatures. A land cover driven TTOP-model was then developed and implemented. The model correctly predicts high likelihoods of permafrost (> 0.8) for sites with permafrost present and low likelihoods (< 0.4) for non-permafrost sites.
Carnivora INDET.
Creators: name: Maguire, Kaitlin Clare
name: Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Carnivora

description: CARNIVORA INDET.
Referred specimens —From UCMP V 4830: lower canine, UCMP 39107. From V 4834: axis, JODA 15606. From -903: distal section of a metatarsal or metacarpal, UCMP 2076. From JDNM-262: vertebra, JODA 15340.
Occurrence — UCMP V 4830, V 4834, UCMP -903, JDNM-262.
Description and Remarks —UCMP 39107 and UCMP 2076 are described in Downs (1956). The length of JODA 15340 is 27.36 mm. This specimen was recovered from the Mascall Tuff, in situ.
description: Published as part of Maguire, Kaitlin Clare & Schmitz, Joshua X. Samuels and Mark D., 2018, The fauna and chronostratigraphy of the middle Miocene Mascall type area, John Day Basin, Oregon, USA, pp. 1-51 in PaleoBios 35 on page 16, DOI: 10.5070/P9351037578, http://zenodo.org/record/13749829
Market entry strategy into China by entrepreneurial new venture firms
Creators: name: Wan, Stephen
name: Lowe, Julian
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the entry strategy and start-up of a technology based small firm entering the China market through the vehicle of a joint venture company. The research deals with two main issues: - The intersection of the entrepreneurship and internationalization literatures - The specific considerations pertinent to foreign companies operating in China The internationalization of entrepreneurship theory has been the subject of 'special issues' in the journals Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice (1996); and Academy of Management Journal (2000). It has its roots in the seminal work of McDougal and Oviatt (1996, 2005). Much of this literature identifies internationalization as an important determinant of performance in SMEs, and emphasizes the specific factors that link entrepreneurial perspectives and the processes of internationalization. Mode of entry choice is dominated by a number of complementary paradigms in the international business literature. These include the 'stage' or sequential approach proposed by the Uppsala group (Johanson and Widersheim-Paul, 1975); network theory (Chen and Chen, 2002); transaction cost economics (Buckley and Casson 1976); and the resource based view (Peng, 2001). China as an international market, supplier and collaborator has changed radically since 1982, following the Deng reforms. It is now the third largest economy in the world but despite its promise has also proved a problematic partner for Western firms. Since its entry into the WTO there have been significant changes but the culture and practice of doing business in China has proved a problem. This research examines how an SME can participate in this market without incurring very high costs and risks.
“A CHIARE LETTERE” Libertà religiosa e “uomini liberali”: a cinquant’anni da “I problemi pratici della libertà” di Arturo Carlo Jemolo. Editoriale marzo 2011
Creators: name: Casuscelli, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il composito panorama della libertà religiosa in Italia - 2. I segnali delle criticità – 3. Tra confronto e scontro – 4. Il bisogno degli “uomini liberali”.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, Editoriali
“The Best Possible Time for War?” The USS Panay and American Far Eastern Policy During the Roosevelt Presidency
Creators: name: Schnurr, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2012
Subjects: Panay
Roosevelt
FDR
Ladybird
Far East
Inter-War
Anglo-American
1937
Ludlow
American Asia
East Asia Policy
Disarmament
Washington Conference
Brussels Conference
London Conference
isolationism
internationalism
Far Eastern Crisis
Cordell Hull
Sumner Welles
Franklin Roosevelt
Collective Security
Norman Alley
Open Door
Nine-Power
Nine Power
1930s
Manny Koginos
Hamilton Perry
Galen Perras
Norman Davis
pre-war
Yangtze
U.S. Navy
Ingersoll
Neutrality
Foreign Policy

description: This thesis examines American Far Eastern policy from the beginning of the Franklin Roosevelt presidency through the early months of 1938. This study is chiefly concerned with the attack by Japanese aircraft on the USS Panay and its effect on the course of U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is paid to the Anglo-American dialogue which occurred throughout the Far Eastern Crisis. Prior to the end of 1938, the U.S. administration’s position in Asia was dictated both by policies inherited from preceding administrations and by the extreme isolationism of the American people. This foundation effectively inhibited any cooperation with foreign powers. Relying on a reactive policy in the Far East, Washington remained aloof from entanglement as the President sought a plan which would permit U.S. involvement without inviting isolationist wrath. This paper traces an evolution in American Far Eastern policy, highlighting the Panay incident as a distinctly identifiable turning point whereby isolationism gave way to internationalism.
Sui requisiti «morali» per l’approvazione della nomina dei ministri dei «culti ammessi» (osservazioni a TAR Sicilia – Catania, Sez. II, 28 settembre 2007, n. 1505)
Creators: name: Licastro, Angelo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2011

description: La sentenza è riportata per esteso in calce al commento.SOMMARIO: 1. Il caso, il dato normativo e i profili giuridici controversi – 2. Le condanne riportate e la dubbia  sopravvivenza dei loro effetti penali – 3. Le contrapposte argomentazioni sulla discrezionalità del provvedimento – 4. La
(corretta) interpretazione dei precedenti – 5. L’originaria  valenza politica e i limiti della compatibilità costituzionale dell’atto – 6. I postulati fondamentali del dibattito dottrinale – 7. L’analogia con i requisiti di capacità per l’esercizio delle pubbliche funzioni – 8. La natura di atto discrezionale o vincolato – 9. I margini per una interpretazione costituzionalmente orientata della legge n. 1159 – 10. Una «speciale moralità» per il ministro di culto?
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2008: 7 gennaio
Emissionsbilanz erneuerbarer Energieträger
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Emissionsbericht
subject: Emissionsbewertung
subject: Energieträger
subject: Erneuerbare Energieträger
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: Die Berechnungen für das Jahr 2013 zeigen, dass der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien wesentlich zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele in Deutschland beiträgt. Insgesamt werden in allen Verbrauchssektoren fossile Energieträger zunehmend durch erneuerbare Energien ersetzt und damit dauerhaft Treibhausgas- und Luftschadstoffemissionen vermieden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen darüber hinaus, dass eine differenzierte Betrachtung verschiedener Technologien und Sektoren sinnvoll und notwendig ist, da sich die spezifischen Vermeidungsfaktoren für die untersuchten Treibhausgase und Luftschadstoffe teilweise erheblich unterscheiden. Für effiziente Maßnahmen des Klimaschutzes und der Luftreinhaltung sind diese Informationen essentiell. Generell lässt sich feststellen, dass bei Strom und Wärme das Ergebnis maßgeblich dadurch beeinflusst wird, welche fossilen Brennstoffe durch erneuerbare Energieträger ersetzt werden. Bei den Biokraftstoffen sind besonders die Art und Herkunft der verwendeten Rohstoffe ausschlaggebend. Sofern es sich dabei nicht um biogene Reststoffe oder biogene Abfälle handelt, sind Landnutzungsänderungen durch den landwirtschaftlichen Anbau der Energiepflanzen zu beachten. Diese können die Bilanzergebnisse entscheidend beeinflussen, werden aber im vorliegenden Bericht noch nicht berücksichtigt, da es derzeit noch keine einheitlich anerkannte Methodik zur Berechnung gibt.
Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/
description: Die Berechnungen für das Jahr 2013 zeigen, dass der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien wesentlich zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele in Deutschland beiträgt. Insgesamt werden in allen Verbrauchssektoren fossile Energieträger zunehmend durch erneuerbare Energien ersetzt und damit dauerhaft ⁠Treibhausgas⁠- und Luftschadstoffemissionen vermieden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen darüber hinaus, dass eine differenzierte Betrachtung verschiedener Technologien und Sektoren sinnvoll und notwendig ist, da sich die spezifischen Vermeidungsfaktoren für die untersuchten Treibhausgase und Luftschadstoffe teilweise erheblich unterscheiden. Für effiziente Maßnahmen des Klimaschutzes und der Luftreinhaltung sind diese Informationen essentiell. Generell lässt sich feststellen, dass bei Strom und Wärme das Ergebnis maßgeblich dadurch beeinflusst wird, welche fossilen Brennstoffe durch erneuerbare Energieträger ersetzt werden. Bei den Biokraftstoffen sind besonders die Art und Herkunft der verwendeten Rohstoffe ausschlaggebend. Sofern es sich dabei nicht um biogene Reststoffe oder biogene Abfälle handelt, sind Landnutzungsänderungen durch den landwirtschaftlichen Anbau der Energiepflanzen zu beachten. Diese können die Bilanzergebnisse entscheidend beeinflussen, werden aber im vorliegenden Bericht noch nicht berücksichtigt, da es derzeit noch keine einheitlich anerkannte Methodik zur Berechnung gibt.
Ethnic Conflict and Contemporary Social Mobilization: Exploring Motivation and Political Action in the Sri Lankan Diaspora
Creators: name: England, Martha Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2016
Subjects: Diaspora
social mobilization
new institutionalism
Sri Lanka

description: Members of the diaspora are conflict actors with an agency that is important to include in conflict theories and analysis of international relationships. Scholarship suggests its origins, and thereafter changes in the conflict cycle effect decision-making and mobilization in the diaspora, but the conditions and mechanisms that inform these processes are undertherorized. The Sri Lankan conflict and its Toronto based diasporas are used to explore processes of diasporization and mobilization in the context a changed political landscape. A series of semi-structured interviews and a short survey asks respondents to assess their motivations for mobilization. The comparative work is within and between ethnic groups. New Institutionalism underscores this project. Butler’s (2001) epistemology, Brinkerhoff’s (2005) identity-mobilization framework, the political process model and insights from the New Social Movement literature are used to situate politicized identities and political activism directed toward the homeland. Attention is paid to factor processes.
Effects of media richness on user acceptance of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education
Creators: name: Saeed, Nauman
name: Sukunesan, Suku
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Educators are increasingly developing numerous ways to use Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate teaching, learning and to keep up to date with trend. These technologies provide enhanced interactivity and allow greater amounts of information delivered via richer communication, hence gaining wide spread acceptance among educational community. However, less empirical research has been done examining their information carrying capacity or media richness and its impact on user acceptance, specifically within the educational realms. This chapter is focused on examining the impact of media richness on user acceptance of various Web 2.0 technologies. Here we present findings of an empirical study to examine the effects of media richness on user acceptance of three popular Web 2.0 technologies namely blog, podcast and Second Life (a 3-D multi-user virtual environment), within higher education. A theoretical model has been presented based on technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis 1989) and media richness theory (Daft et al. 1984). Data were gathered using online surveys and structural model was validated using the PLS (partial least squares) approach. Findings suggest that media richness has significant impact on user acceptance of all three technologies under consideration. However, media richness of Second Life has the greatest impact on user acceptance as compared to that of blog and podcast. These results are consistent with previous studies of media richness which state that synchronous communication media are richer than asynchronous media. These results also highlight Second Life's media richness capabilities of allowing multiple cues, timely feedback, language variety and personal focus in order to support teaching and learning activities. In this chapter, we also highlight some implications of our research for educators and developers of Web 2.0 applications followed by some ideas for future research.
A new statistical channel model for emerging wireless communication systems
Creators: name: Olutayo, Adebola
name: Cheng, Julian
name: Holzman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

description: A new composite fading model is introduced. This shadowed Beaulieu-Xie model is developed to characterize wireless communication in an environment with an arbitrary number of line-ofsight and non-line-of-sight signals, in contrast to the existing Rayleigh, Ricean, generalized Ricean (i.e., κ − μ), and Nakagami-m models. The proposed model benefits from four parameters that characterize a wide range of fading conditions, unlike existing composite models such as the shadowed Ricean model, the two-wave with diffuse power model, and the fluctuating two-ray model. The proposed shadowed Beaulieu-Xie model is used here to characterize experimental data obtained from fading measurements in 28 GHz outdoor millimeter-wave channels, and it is found to describe the communication environment accurately. We conclude that the proposed composite fading model is particularly useful for characterizing emerging (millimeter-wave and terahertz) wireless communication systems
title: Towards Innovations in Higher Education: Educational Reforms in Azerbaijan
Creators: name: Nabiyeva, Saida
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Higher Education

description: The purpose of the paper is to explore the emergence of the reform process in the higher education sector in Azerbaijan to make it more meaningful and to integrate it more closely with the real life of society. The author highlights the significance and the specific role of higher education in the transitional times in the process of democratization and in the development of a market economy in Azerbaijan. The paper examines the major changes in academic governance, University structure and management, in curriculum and instruction as a whole. It depicts the what, the why and the how of changes and innovations in tertiary education. The author reviews the past conditions of higher education inherited from the soviet era as well current state to clarify the causes for the changes, to make evident the urgency to undertake necessary steps towards implementing basic changes in higher education in order to achieve positive outcomes. The paper focuses on the domestic initiatives of restructuring higher education in Azerbaijan as well as the international efforts through various forms of worldwide cooperation and educational exchange in the path of the overall reform. The paper gives a thorough picture of the particular projects and programs of various international donors currently functioning in Azerbaijan designated in encouraging innovations and supporting the reform process in higher education. Finally, the author gives policy implications, proposes relevant strategies and recommendations to make reform more relevant to the kind of society we are already beginning to live in, to improve the quality of tertiary education. The data on educational reforms of Azerbaijan includes published literature and online sources.