cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Relativistic Drag and Emission Radiation Pressures in an Isotropic Photonic Gas
Creators: name: Lee, Jeff S.
name: Cleaver, Gerald B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By invoking the relativistic spectral radiance, as derived by Lee and Cleaver [1], the drag radiation pressure of a relativistic planar surface moving through an isotropic radiation field, with which it is in thermal equilibrium, is determined in inertial and non-inertial frames. The forward- and rearward-directed emission radiation pressures are also derived and compared. A fleeting (inertial frames) or ongoing (some non-inertial frames) Carnot cycle is shown to exist as a result of an intra-surfaces temperature gradient. The drag radiation pressure on an object with an arbitrary frontal geometry is also described.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
The Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model on Maternal & Child Health Outcomes in a Community Health Center Setting in North Carolina
Creators: name: Wharton, Mary Kristina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Objectives: Currently, the Patient-Centered Medical Home model is an important tool for primary care providers to improve quality of care and health outcomes. Its adoption at practices across the US is incentivized by enhanced reimbursement and ability to participate in Accountable Care Organizations. However, because the model is relatively new in its implementation, there is not much information available regarding its effectiveness. As more and more community health centers adopt the model to improve the health of vulnerable populations, this study addresses the question of whether PCMH is effective at achieving the goals in the context of federally qualified health centers. Specifically, we will look at performance of FQHCs in North Carolina with respect to five Maternal and Child Health indicators to assess the impact of PCMH on safety-net providers. Methods: Secondary data from the HRSA Bureau of Primary Healthcare Uniform Data System report data from UDS Table 6B: Quality of Care Indicators/Health Outcomes from 2011-2013 were used to compare five MCH quality of care indicators. Including all 33 North Carolina FQHCs that reported UDS data since 2011, we reviewed 18 of primary care medical homes and 15 non-medical homes. No significant differences on the quality of care indicators between the medical homes and non-medical homes for the 5 MCH indicators analyzed for this study were found. However, due to small sample sizes and other factors influencing medical home transformation impact, more research is necessary to establish a confident conclusion on the model's effect on quality of care for MCH population in NC FQHCs. Results: We did not find significant differences between NC FQHCs with and without PCMH recognition with regard to the five MCH indicators when comparing recognized medical homes to non-medical homes. Conclusions: PCMH recognition does not seem to have an impact on MCH outcomes. Given the investment of resources being allocated to medical home transformation by practices and third-party payors, our results emphasize the need for additional research on the efficacy of the PCMH model to improve quality of care in FQHCs.
Hypouricaemic and nephroprotective effects of Poria cocos in hyperuricemic mice by up-regulating ATP-binding cassette super-family G member 2
Creators: name: Liang, Danling
name: Yong, Tianqiao
name: Diao, Xue
name: Chen, Shaodan
name: Chen, Diling
name: Xiao, Chun
name: Zuo, Dan
name: Xie, Yizhen
name: Zhou, Xinxin
name: Hu, Huiping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Poria coco F.A.Wolf (Polyporaceae) dispels dampness and promotes diuresis implying hypouricaemic action. To examine hypouricaemic action of Poria coco. Ethanol extract (PCE) was prepared by extracting the sclerotium of P. cocos with ethanol, and the water extract (PCW) was produced by bathing the remains with water. PCE and PCW (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg, respectively) were orally administered to hyperuricemic Kunming mice (n = 8) to examine its hypouricaemic effect. Also, molecular docking was performed. P. cocos showed excellent hypouricaemic action, decreasing the serum uric acid of hyperuricaemia (HUA) control (526 ± 112 μmol/L) to 178 ± 53, 153 ± 57 and 151 ± 62 μmol/L (p < 0.01) by PCE and 69 ± 23, 63 ± 15 and 62 ± 20 μmol/L (p < 0.01) by PCW, respectively. According to SCrs, BUNs and H&E staining, PCE and PCW partially attenuated renal dysfunction caused by HUA. They presented no negative effects on ALT, AST and ALP activities. They elevated ABCG2 (ATP-binding cassette super-family G member 2) mRNA and protein expression in comparison to HUA control. In molecular docking, compound 267, 277, 13824, 15730 and 5759 were predicted as the top bioactives of P. cocos against HUA, which even presented better scores than the positive compound, oestrone 3-sulfate. This paper demonstrated the hypouricaemic and nephroprotective effects of P. cocos in hyperuricemic mice by up-regulating ABCG2. These results may be useful for the development of a hypouricaemic agent.
Evaluating software-based fingerprint liveness detection using Convolutional Networks and Local Binary Patterns
Creators: name: Nogueira, Rodrigo Frassetto
name: Lotufo, Roberto de Alencar
name: Machado, Rubens Campos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the growing use of biometric authentication systems in the past years, spoof fingerprint detection has become increasingly important. In this work, we implement and evaluate two different feature extraction techniques for software-based fingerprint liveness detection: Convolutional Networks with random weights and Local Binary Patterns. Both techniques were used in conjunction with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Dataset Augmentation was used to increase classifier's performance and a variety of preprocessing operations were tested, such as frequency filtering, contrast equalization, and region of interest filtering. The experiments were made on the datasets used in The Liveness Detection Competition of years 2009, 2011 and 2013, which comprise almost 50,000 real and fake fingerprints' images. Our best method achieves an overall rate of 95.2% of correctly classified samples - an improvement of 35% in test error when compared with the best previously published results.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1301.3557 by other authors
AIMO
Creators: name: Brandin, Christoph
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: movement-related self-efficacy

description: Scientific study design for the proof of effectiveness of the health benefits of the App "AIMO gesund bewegt" as a digital prevention or health promotion offer according to § 20 SGB V with action field or prevention principle related endpoints.
Novel Three-Dimensional Resolution of a pH and Ultraviolet-Visible Absorption Spectral Dataset for the Determination of Desloratadine in a Pharmaceutical Product and Its Acid Dissociation Constant
Creators: name: Dinç, Erdal
name: Nazangül Ünal
name: Ertekin, Zehra Ceren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Three-way data analysis (or multi-way data analysis) of higher-order records is required to develop new and potential resolution methods to reveal multiple latent information or hidden features from multicomponent systems in presence of unknown interferences. This article presents a new application of parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC), which is one of the multiway analysis techniques, to quantify desloratadine in sirup and to simultaneously determine its acid dissociation constant (pKa) in the presence of spectral interferences without using complex and expensive instrumental methods. The three-dimensional pH-absorbance dataset, which was obtained as a function of wavelength, pH and concentration, was decomposed using the PARAFAC algorithm to obtain the estimated spectral, pH and relative concentration profiles of acid-base pair of desloratadine and sirup excipients. The quantity of the drug in sirup formulation was calculated from the estimated relative concentration profile, which was one of the three modes. At the same time, the acid dissociation constant of desloratadine was determined using the estimated pH profile of the acid and base species in their equilibrium. The applicability of the PARAFAC method was confirmed by the analysis of validation samples. In the practical application of the PARAFAC method to real samples, successful results were reported for the quality control of a sirup formulation containing desloratadine and for the estimation of desloratadine’s pKa value. The PARAFAC assay results were compared to results obtained by ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC).
Hylaeus brevicornis Nylander 1852
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus brevicornis

description: Hylaeus brevicornis Nylander, 1852
 1.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Daucus carota, 2♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
How mathematics education became a ritual
Creators: name: Lundin, Sverker
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510

description: The following essay, which is based on the first half of my talk at the GDM conference in Potsdam 2017, should be read as a conjecture concerning mathematics education, intending to spur discussion and open up new pathways for research. I start by trying to show that present day mathematics education can be interpreted as a ritual, after which I indicate five distinct origins of this ritual. The reason why the second half of my talk is not included in this essay, is that an account of the explanatory framework presented there can be found in texts published elsewhere (Lundin, 2013; Christensen & Lundin, 2017).
Hylaeus dilatatus
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus dilatatus

description: Hylaeus dilatatus (Kirby, 1802)
 29.VI.2004, remblais, Melilotus albus, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Detailed photospheric abundances of 28 Peg and HD 202240
Creators: name: Elmasli, Asli
name: Caliskan, Seyma
name: Kilicoglu, Tolgahan
name: Unal, Kubraozge
name: Nasolo, Yahya
name: Albayrak, Berahitdin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances of two neglected A-type stars, 28 Peg and HD 202240, were derived using high resolution spectra obtained at the TUBITAK National Observatory. We determined the photospheric abundances of eleven elements for 28 Peg and twenty for HD 202240, using equivalent-width measurement and spectral synthesis methods. Their abundance patterns are in good agreement with those of chemically normal A-type stars having similar atmospheric parameters. We pinpoint the position of these stars on the H-R diagram and estimate their masses and ages as; $2.60\pm0.10\ M_\odot$ and $650\pm50\ Myr$ for 28 Peg and $4.50\pm0.09\ M_\odot$ and $150\pm10\ Myr$ for HD 202240. To compare our abundance determinations with those of stars having similar ages and atmospheric parameters, we select members of open clusters. We notice that our target stars exhibit similar abundance patterns with these members.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables, Accepted for publication in New Astronomy (17/06/2015)
Near-Wall Dynamics of Concentrated Hard-Sphere Suspensions: Comparison of Evanescent Wave DLS Experiments, Virial Approximation and Simulations
Creators: name: Liu, Yi
name: Blawzdziewicz, Jerzy
name: Cichocki, Bogdan
name: Dhont, Jan K. G.
name: Lisicki, Maciej
name: Wajnryb, Eligiusz
name: Young, Yuan-N.
name: Lang, Peter R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we report on a study of the near-wall dynamics of suspended colloidal hard spheres over a broad range of volume fractions. We present a thorough comparison of experimental data with predictions based on a virial approximation and simulation results. We find that the virial approach describes the experimental data reasonably well up to a volume fraction of $ϕ=0.25$ which provides us with a fast and non-costly tool for the analysis and prediction of Evanescent Wave DLS data. Based on this we propose a new method to assess the near-wall self-diffusion at elevated density. Here, we qualitatively confirm earlier results [Michailidou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 2009, 102, 068302], which indicate that many-particle hydrodynamic interactions are diminished by the presence of the wall at increasing volume fractions as compared to bulk dynamics. Beyond this finding we show that this diminishment is different for the particle motion normal and parallel to the wall.
description: Submitted to Soft Matter; 12 pages, 9 figures
Hylaeus communis Nylander 1852
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus communis

description: Hylaeus communis Nylander, 1852
 29.VI.2004, remblais, Cirsium sp., 3J, 5♀, Melilotus albus, 2J, 2♀; 1.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Daucus carota, 2♀ (1 ♀ var collar noir et 1 ♀ var collar jaune), Heracleum sphondylium, 1♀ (var collar jaune).
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Understanding Early Factors Contributing to Poor Reproductive and Sexual Health Among Female Sex Workers in Tijuana, Mexico
Creators: name: Oza, Karishma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: OBJECTIVES: To understand early (i.e., childhood/adolescent) factors contributing to poor reproductive and sexual health outcomes among female sex workers (FSWs) in Tijuana, Mexico. METHODS: Participants were drawn from a larger study of FSWs and their non-commercial male partners in Tijuana and Cd. Juarez. Eligible participants for this analysis lived in Tijuana and reported entering sex work prior to age 18. In-depth interviews with 25 FSWs were analyzed using qualitative techniques to determine early contributors to poor reproductive and sexual health. RESULTS: Four themes collectively compromised reproductive and sexual health across the life course: early sexual abuse, early drug use, ongoing violence, and limited access to reproductive and sexual health care. Early and ongoing sexual and drug use, violence, and limited access to care often directly resulted in unintended teenage pregnancy, miscarriage/stillbirth, and untreated sexually transmitted infection during pregnancy. These factors also indirectly influenced sexual and reproductive health by creating vulnerabilities for future negative health outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Detrimental early life factors directly and indirectly impacted long-term negative reproductive and sexual health among women and girls entering sex work as adolescents.
Screening For Sexually Transmitted Infections At College Campus Health Centers: Recommendations To Increase Screening Rates
Creators: name: Pollard, Alice Kelton
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are a significant public health issue among college students. Routine screening for STIs among adolescents and young adults is considered critical for preventing long term negative health effects and reducing transmission. Despite the importance of screening, many college students are not being tested at recommended rates. This paper identifies promising and effective interventions to increase STI screening among college students, focusing on structural interventions at college campus health centers to promote testing. Several promising policies, including express visits for STI testing, opt-out testing, and alternative testing strategies are reviewed. The paper concludes with recommendations about increasing screening at campus health centers. Recommendations include: offering express visits for STI testing for asymptomatic students, considering opt-out testing, and implementing population level promotion campaigns.
Tunable temporal gap based on simultaneous fast and slow light in electro-optic photonic crystals
Creators: name: Li, Guangzhen
name: Chen, Yuping
name: Jiang, Haowei
name: Liu, Yi'an
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Chen, Xianfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrated a tunable temporal gap based on simultaneous fast and slow light in electro-optic photonic crystals. The light experiences an anomalous dispersion near the transmission center and a normal dispersion away from the center, where it can be accelerated and slowed down, respectively. We also obtained the switch between fast and slow light by adjusting the external electric filed. The observed largest temporal gap is 541 ps, which is crucial in practical event operation inside the gap. The results offer a new solution for temporal cloak.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith 1842
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus hyalinatus

description: Hylaeus hyalinatus Smith, 1842
 29.VI.2004, entrée remblais, Cirsium sp., 2J, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Estimating the Impact of Academic Upper Secondary Education using Centrally Determined Variation in Local Supply
Creators: name: Edmark, Karin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education Economics
subject: Education

description: This draft provides a snapshot of the analysis plan for the project “Estimating the Impact of Academic Upper Secondary Education using Centrally Determined Variation in Local Supply” as January 20, 2022. The analysis conducted in this draft is based on the “right-hand side variables”, or the “first-stage regression” and is conducted prior to analyzing the impact on the long-term outcome variables. The purpose is to provide a time stamped draft on the state of the analysis plan as of this date. This is not a pure pre-analysis plan, because at the writing of this draft, I have access to all the data material that will be used in the project, including the data that will be used for the outcome variables (although they have not yet been added to the analysis). Nevertheless, it provides a snapshot of the intended plan for the project as of this date, and as such serves to mimics a pre-analysis plan to some extent.
Kinematics of Haro11 - the miniature Antennae
Creators: name: Östlin, Göran
name: Marquart, Thomas
name: Cumming, Robert
name: Fathi, Kambiz
name: Bergvall, Nils
name: Adamo, Angela
name: Amram, Philippe
name: Hayes, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85

description: (abridged) Luminous blue compact galaxies are among the most active galaxies in the local universe in terms of their star formation rate per unit mass. They may be seen as the local analogs of higher redshift Lyman Break Galaxies. Studies of their kinematics is key to understanding what triggers their unusually active star formation In this work we investigate the kinematics of stars and ionised gas in Haro11, one of the most luminous blue compact galaxies in the local universe. Previous works have indicated that many such galaxies may be triggered by galaxy mergers. We have employed Fabry-Perot interferometry, long-slit spectroscopy and Integral Field Unit (IFU) spectroscopy to explore the kinematics of Haro11. We target the near infrared Calcium triplet to derive the stellar velocity field and velocity dispersion. Ionised gas is analysed through emission lines from hydrogen, [OIII] , and [SIII]. When spectral resolution and signal to noise allows we investigate the the line profile in detail and identify multiple velocity components when present. We find that to first order, the velocity field and velocity dispersions derived from stars and ionised gas agree. Hence the complexities reveal real dynamical disturbances providing further evidence for a merger in Haro11. Through decomposition of emission lines we find evidence for kinematically distinct components, for instance a tidal arm behind the galaxy. The ionised gas velocity field can be traced to large galactocentric radii, and shows significant velocity dispersion even far out in the halo. We discuss the origin of the line width, and interpreted as virial motions it indicates a mass of ~1E11 M_sun. Morphologically and kinematically Haro11 shows many resemblances with the famous Antennae galaxies, but is much denser which is the likely explanation for the higher star formation efficiency in Haro11.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
Creators: name: Ran, Guangpei
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018

description: This thesis examines the cultural past of the nɑχɑ people living in Zheba, a rural mountainous area in southwest China. They perceive and live their cultural past through unreconciled fragments that are deeply embedded in their everyday lives. It is a deep past that continuously gives meanings to local people’s existences, even through times when wellbeing in life is most at stake. I trace the nɑχɑ people’s struggles to reclaim the deep past across time through their multi-layered practices of place making, in the experience of the physical body, the domestic environment, the local landscape and beyond. These practices are crucial means to inhabit a world at the margins of the Chinese nation-state. It is a world in which decades of state sponsored violence followed by market changes in the late twentieth century have caused massive social suffering and cultural dislocation. These struggles thus take place against a decades-long background of huge shifts and ruptures in almost every aspect of everyday life. Whilst reshaping local ways of living, these radical transformations have at the same time generated nuanced ways for local people to live with unprecedented uncertainties and contingencies in their life courses. The struggle to balance the tenstion between change and continuity therefore involves unremitting efforts to transmit the fragmented deep past as imperative dimensions of people’s present and future.
Hylaeus punctatus
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus punctatus

description: Hylaeus punctatus (Brullé, 1832)
 1.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Bilder von Kollaboration und Widerstand in europäischer Gegenwartsliteratur über die deutsche Besatzung im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Eine komparative Analyse
Creators: name: Wunder, Jessica
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 830

description: Diese Masterarbeit erforscht das literarische Erinnern an die deutsche Besatzungszeit in Europa im Kontext des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Mithilfe einer komparativen, kategoriengeleiteten Analyse wird ein national heterogenes Textkorpus mit fünf zeitgenössischen Kriegserinnerungsromanen aus vier europäischen Besatzungsländern - Belgien, Frankreich, Italien und Slowenien - miteinander verglichen und die Ergebnisse anschließend für eine narratologisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Betrachtung fruchtbar gemacht. Zugrunde liegt die Annahme der Besatzungszeit als eine gemeinsame europäische Leidenserfahrung. Dabei wird den übergeordneten Forschungsfragen nachgegangen, welche Bilder von Kollaboration und Widerstand in gegenwärtiger Literatur über die deutsche Besatzung Europas im Zweiten Weltkrieg gezeichnet werden und welche Bedeutung diese Bilder trotz unterschiedlicher nationaler Erinnerungsdiskurse für ein mögliches transnationales, europäisches Erinnern der Besatzungszeit haben können. Das Erkenntnisinteresse liegt auf Analogien in der literarischen Darstellung (Handlungsmotive, Figurenpositionierungen, Erzählmuster, narratologische Merkmale) in Verbindung mit der kulturellen Funktion von Narrativen.
Structural evolution of a granular pack under manual tapping
Creators: name: Iikawa, Naoki
name: Band, Mahesh M.
name: Katsuragi, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally study a two-dimensional (2D) granular pack of photoelastic disks subject to vertical manual tapping. Using bright and dark field images, we employ gradient-based image analysis methods to analyse various structural quantities. These include the packing fraction ($ϕ$), force per disk ($F_d$) and force chain segment length ($l$) as a function of the tapping number ($τ$). The increase in packing fraction with tapping number is found to exponentially approach an asymptotic value. An exponential distribution is observed for both the cumulative numbers of force per disk $F_d$ : $N_{cum}(F_d) = A_F \exp (-\frac{F_d}{F_0})$, and force chain segment length $l$ : $N_{cum}(l) = A_l \exp (-\frac{l}{l_0})$. Whereas the coefficient ${A_F}$ varies with $τ$ for force per disk, the force chain segment length shows no dependence on $τ$. The $τ$ dependence of $F_d$ and $ϕ$ allows us to posit a linear relation between the total force of the granular pack ($F_{tot}^*(τ)$) and $ϕ(τ)$.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures
Hylaeus punctulatissimus Smith 1842
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Hylaeus
Hylaeus punctulatissimus

description: Hylaeus punctulatissimus Smith, 1842
 29.VI.2004, remblais, Melilotus albus, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
An Analysis of a Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Primary Cesarean Section Rate Among North Carolina Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex Presentation Patients
Creators: name: Phipps, Jessica
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Objectives: The Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina (PQCNC) worked with 24 North Carolina Hospitals in 2011 to attempt to reduce the cesarean rate among participating hospital by 25%. Methods: The first 40 patients of every month at each hospital were included in the analysis. Logistic regression was performed on the aggregated data to assess trend over time by month for cesarean rate. Results: The cesarean rate did not change significantly in the aggregate data set over the course of the initiative. However, the cesarean rate decreased significantly over the course of the initiative for patients with an existing risk factor for cesarean. Conclusions: The PQCNC initiative was successful in reducing the cesarean rate, but only among patients with risk factors.
A Systematic Review of the Mechanisms Underlying Visual Cues and Primes Nudging Consumption Behaviours
Creators: name: Kay, Enola
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: A systematic review examining mechanisms proposed to underlie the effectiveness of visual cues and primes for nudging food and beverage choices and consumption.
Zur Relevanz der mündlichen Sprachhandlungen des Beschreibens und Erklärens von (mehrsprachigen) Grundschulkindern beim Lernen von Mathematik
Creators: name: Maisano, Mona-Lisa
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Wenn Lernende in der Interaktion Phänomene beobachten und hiervon ausgehend Zusammenhänge entdecken (sollen), sind die mündlichen Sprachhandlungen des Beschreibens und Erklärens relevant. Die sprachlichen und inhaltlichen Anforderungen und Realisierungen von Beschreibungen und Erklärungen im Bereich der Arithmetik und der Kombinatorik sowie der Zusammenhang zwischen Beschreibungen und Erklärungen werden in meinem Dissertationsprojekt betrachtet. Die Interviews fanden mit mehrsprachigen Lernenden statt, um auch die Rolle der Mehrsprachigkeit hierbei analysieren zu können. In diesem Beitrag wird die Nutzung linguistischer Analysen zur Gewinnung mathematikdidaktischer Erkenntnisse am Beispiel der Sprachhandlung Beschreiben in Ansätzen vorgestellt.
Andrena flavipes Panzer 1799
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena flavipes

description: Andrena flavipes Panzer, 1799
 29.VI.2004, remblais, Cirsium sp., 2J, 1♀, Melilotus albus, 7♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Beurteilung von Argumenten durch Lehrkräfte – Individuelle Bewertungskriterien und strukturelle Überlegungen
Creators: name: Meyer, Michael
name: Schnell, Susanne
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Das Argumentieren steht im Zentrum mathematischen Lehr- und Lernprozesse und stellt eine anspruchsvolle kognitive Aktivität dar. Um mathematische Argumentationen angemessen beurteilen zu können, sollten verschiedene Aspekte wie sachliche Korrektheit oder logische Stringenz, aber auch - gerade im schulischen Kontext - die intersubjektive Nachvollziehbarkeit und Überzeugungskraft berücksichtigt werden. Lehrkräfte müssen nicht erst seit Einführung der neuen Mindeststandards Argumente von Lernenden beurteilen, die häufig noch unvollständig sind oder von Erwartungen abweichen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, welche Kriterien zur Bewertung von Argumenten Lehrkräfte in ihrer Praxis entwickelt haben. Erste Ergebnisse einer Interviewstudie sowie weiterführende strukturelle Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Argumenten werden in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt.
Transforming the Insurance Industry with Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Enhancing Efficiency, Transparency, and Trust
Creators: name: Bodemer, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 380106
subject: Experimental economics
classificationCode: 380108
subject: Health economics
classificationCode: 380199
subject: Applied economics not elsewhere classified

description: This scientific overview explores the application of blockchain technology and smart contracts in the insurance industry. It discusses their impact on various aspects such as claims management, underwriting, policy management, fraud prevention, and emerging trends. The benefits of automation, transparency, and efficiency in claims management are highlighted, along with examples of successful implementation. The potential of blockchain in enhancing underwriting processes and risk assessment through access to trusted data is explained. The advantages of transparent and auditable policy records, policy issuance, and enforcement through smart contracts are discussed. The role of blockchain in combating insurance fraud and its potential to improve trust and transparency are examined. The challenges of scalability, regulation, interoperability, and privacy are addressed, along with strategies for successful adoption. Lastly, the emerging trends of tokenization, parametric insurance, and peer-to-peer insurance are explored, envisioning a transformed insurance landscape driven by blockchain and smart contracts.
Farm to Early Care and Education: A Comprehensive Literature Review
Creators: name: Phillips, Jessie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Low fruit and vegetable (FV) intake and high obesity rates contribute to the non-communicable disease burden in the United States. Over half of young children receive out of home care, making early care and education (ECE) centers a promising setting for nutrition interventions. Farm to ECE programs connect preschool-aged (birth - age 2 years) children and their caregivers to local food systems, nutrition education and gardens. The purpose of this review is to discover what Farm to ECE components are commonly used and what their impacts are on FV intake. A search using PubMed, Scopus and The Global Health Database was conducted to find studies about ECE-based programs involving children under the age of two. Preliminary studies suggest that Farm to ECE programs increase access to local produce and improve FV intake for families with young children. Due to the lack of available literature, more rigorous investigation is needed to inform effective implementation of Farm to ECE programs.
Structural basis for ubiquitylation by HOIL-1
Creators: name: Wu, Qilong
name: Koliopoulos, Marios G
name: Rittinger, Katrin
name: Stieglitz, Benjamin
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry & Proteomics
subject: Signalling & Oncogenes
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Chemical Biology & High Throughput
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex synthesises linear Ub chains which constitute a binding and activation platform for components of the TNF signalling pathway. One of the components of LUBAC is the ubiquitin ligase HOIL-1 which has been shown to generate oxyester linkages on several proteins and on linear polysaccharides. We show that HOIL-1 activity requires linear tetra-Ub binding which enables HOIL-1 to mono-ubiquitylate linear Ub chains and polysaccharides. Furthermore, we describe the crystal structure of a C-terminal tandem domain construct of HOIL-1 comprising the IBR and RING2 domains. Interestingly, the structure reveals a unique bi-nuclear Zn-cluster which substitutes the second zinc finger of the canonical RING2 fold. We identify the C-terminal histidine of this bi-nuclear Zn-cluster as the catalytic base required for the ubiquitylation activity of HOIL-1. Our study suggests that the unique zinc-coordinating architecture of RING2 provides a binding platform for ubiquitylation targets.
Learning Analytics meets Mathematics Teacher Education – Digital geschärfte Einblicke in das Lernverhalten zu Beginn des Lehramtsstudiums
Creators: name: Mundt, Fabian
name: Hartmann, Mutfried
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Im Zuge einer fortschreitenden Digitalisierung der Hochschullehre gewinnt die Debatte um die Analyse der in diesem Zusammenhang produzierten Daten in jüngerer Zeit stetig an Relevanz. Durch die Analyse des digital dokumentierten Lernverhaltens, bekannt unter dem Begriffspaar "Learning Analytics" (Mattox, Martin, & Van Buren, 2016), erscheint die Angabe zuverlässiger Information bzgl. des Lernerfolgs der Studierenden just in time möglich. Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags loten wir diese vielversprechenden Perspektiven anhand von Daten aus, die wir im Zusammenhang mit der Einführungsveranstaltung in die Mathematikdidaktik an der PH Karlsruhe erheben konnten.
Application of HDM-4 Model in the structural Functional & Economic Variation using Road Maintenance Alternatives
Creators: name: Million  Demie Joriye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2020
Subjects: Appropriate maintenance strategy, Economic variation, Maintenance alternatives

description: Roadway is one of the most crucial transportation modes to cater to inland movement
 within a country. The agency mandate is to design, construct, and maintain the road to
 sustain the traffic up to the end of its design life without further strengthening. However,
 some factors are affecting the performance of the pavement. Most pavements start to
 show some traces of deterioration after construction and opening to traffic, but once
 neglected, the distress portions would be aggravated with corresponding increasing
 maintenance cost. Thus, the road maintenance has to be carried out at the place, right
 schedule, right quality, and at the least cost. Since there are different maintenance
 alternatives, the best strategy has to be chosen following the road's condition and the
 severity of the damage. To select the best maintenance alternative, calculations on the
 pavement layer's property are performed. The Highway Development and Management
 (HDM-4) tool can do such measures to help decide which option is the best by evaluating
 the economic and structural conditions. This paper contains two significant areas that
 are studied. First, it assessed the procedures followed by Addis Ababa city road authority
 to develop the appropriate road maintenance strategies. Questionnaire surveys and
 interviews were used to collect information from the city's road maintenance departments.
 Second, the project analysis was performed for structural and economic comparison of
 different maintenance alternatives using HDM-4. In the analyses, three selected road
 segments were considered and collected important input data like road condition data,
 road network data, vehicle fleet data, estimated AADT, and International Roughness
 Index (IRI). There were five maintenance alternatives that have been defined, and
 proposed maintenance alternatives are compared. The selection was based on the
 deteriorated pavement, which showed the average roughness for every section of the road
 network, considering an analysis period of 20 years and cost stream ranking for their Net
 Present Value and IRR. Results indicated that using a mill and replace, and routine
 maintenance schedule for the selected road networks is economically viable and
 structurally significant. Hence, Addis Ababa city road authority recommended to apply
 the different maintenance strategies, providing an economical and better performance for
 the city’s road network
Therapeutic Management of Pre-Eclampsia and Eclampsia in Nigeria
Creators: name: Salisbury, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia is the fourth most common cause of maternal mortality worldwide, affecting a disproportionate number of women in developing countries. Nigeria has a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 840/100,000 live births and an estimated 10,000 women die from pre-eclampsia/eclampsia annually. Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4) is proven to reduce the likelihood that pre-eclampsia will progress to eclampsia by 58%, halt ecliptic seizures, and it is likely to reduce risk for maternal mortality related to this disease. A review of the research of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia conducted in Nigeria reflects the gross underuse of MgSO4 as a life-saving therapeutic. Changes in current health policy are needed to improve antenatal care (ANC) services, provider education, and provision of essential medicines to improve maternal-fetal outcomes in Nigeria.
Lasioglossum fulvicorne
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum fulvicorne

description: Lasioglossum fulvicorne (Kirby, 1802)
 29.VI.2004, entrée remblais, Cirsium sp., 2J, Melilotus albus, 4J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Role of Knowledge Share, Satisfaction, Social Commerce Usage Experience on Smart Mobile Device User’s Purchase Intentions: Evidence from South Korean Consumers
Creators: name: Kwon, Kyung
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2018
Subjects: mobile commerce, social commerce, satisfaction, knowledge sharing

description: This thesis analyses the factors that contribute to consumers’ intention to make online purchases via smart mobile devices. To examine consumers’ purchase intentions, frameworks described in the marketing and information system literatures were integrated, and a theoretical framework was then proposed. In total, 498 Korean consumers were recruited to participate in the study, and structural equation modelling was used to examine the proposed model. The results confirm that (1) consumers’ mobile commerce usage experience positively influences their usage experience with social commerce sites, their satisfaction toward social commerce sites, and their intentions to share knowledge; (2) usage experience with social commerce sites has a significant impact on consumers’ intention to purchase; (3) satisfaction toward social commerce sites has a positive influence on consumers’ intention to purchase; and (4) consumers’ intention to share knowledge positively influences their intention to purchase. Implications are drawn for both academics and practitioners, providing directions for future research.
Distribution of the position of a driven tracer in a hardcore lattice gas
Creators: name: Illien, Pierre
name: Bénichou, Olivier
name: Oshanin, Gleb
name: Voituriez, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the position of a biased tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hardcore particles moving on a lattice of arbitrary dimension and in contact with a reservoir. Starting from the master equation satisfied by the joint probability of the TP position and the bath configuration and resorting to a mean-field-type approximation, we presented a computation of the fluctuations of the TP position in a previous publication [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{87}, 032164 (2013)]. Counterintuitively, on a one-dimensional lattice, the diffusion coefficient of the TP was shown to be a non-monotonic function of the density of bath particles, and reaches a maximum for a nonzero value of the density. Here, we: (i) give the details of this computation and offer a physical insight into the understanding of the non-monotonicity of the diffusion coefficient; (ii) extend the mean-field-type approximation to decouple higher-order correlation functions, and obtain the evolution equation satisfied by the cumulant generating function of the position of the TP, valid in any space dimension. In the particular case of a one-dimensional lattice, we solve this equation and obtain the probability distribution of the TP position. We show that the position rescaled by its fluctuations is asymptotically distributed accordingly to a Gaussian distribution in the long-time limit.
description: 53 pages, 12 figures
Positive Externalities of the Care Group Model for Child Survival: A qualitative analysis of how the use of Care Groups may have affected male attitudes in communities in the Napak District of Karamoja, Uganda
Creators: name: Godwin, Christine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In April 2012, SP launched the Karamoja Integrated Maternal Child Health Project in the Napak district of Karamoja, Uganda. The project utilizes the Care Group Model to teach mothers about nutrition, prevention and treatment of common childhood diseases, and use of antenatal and birthing care. This study examines the project's impact on the roles and attitudes of men who live in the project communities, as perceived by the project beneficiaries and communities themselves. This study consisted of a secondary analysis of qualitative data that had been collected as part of a previous impact assessment of the project. The study employed Atlas.ti 7 and the method of free coding to organize focus group discussion and key informant interview transcripts into themes that could then be analyzed. Women who were involved directly in the project and other key community members perceived a change in men's attitudes and behaviors with regards to their roles as a fathers and husbands. Specifically, it was perceived that men's involvement in young child feeding and in caring for sick children and accompaniment of pregnant partners to health facilities all increased. Respondents also perceived that the project has resulted in a decrease in domestic violence. The findings of this study are novel and suggest that further research into the impact of Care Group projects and gender-based violence is needed.
Lasioglossum laticeps
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum laticeps

description: Lasioglossum laticeps (Schenck, 1868)
 29.VI.2004, près mare, Rubus sp., 2♀; 1.VIII.2018, bord chemin, Heracleum sphondylium, 1J, Daucus carota, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631