cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hitze in Deutschland: Gesundheitliche Risiken und Maßnahmen zur Prävention
Creators: name: Winklmayr, Claudia
name: Mücke, Hans-Guido
name: Matthies-Wiesler, Franziska
name: Muthers, Stefan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Morbidität
Sterblichkeit
Gesundheitsvorsorge

description: Hintergrund: Der Klimawandel hat in Deutschland bereits zu einer deutlichen Temperaturzunahme geführt. So lag die Mitteltemperatur im vergangenen Jahrzehnt rund 2˚C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau und acht der zehn heißesten Sommer seit Beginn der systematischen Wetteraufzeichnungen im Jahr 1881 wurden in den letzten 30 Jahren verzeichnet. Methode: Der Artikel fasst, basierend auf einer selektiven Literaturrecherche und eigenen Auswertungen, den aktuellen Wissensstand zu Hitze und ihren gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen für Deutschland zusammen, geht auf Anpassungsmaßnahmen ein und gibt einen Ausblick auf Umsetzungs- und Forschungsfragen. Ergebnisse: Hitze kann bestehende Beschwerden wie Erkrankungen des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems, der Atemwege oder der Nieren verschlimmern und bei zahlreichen Medikamenten teils schwerwiegende Nebenwirkungen auslösen. Während Hitzeperioden wird regelmäßig ein deutlicher Anstieg der Sterbefälle beobachtet. Bisherige Ansätze zur Abmilderung gesundheitlicher Auswirkungen hoher Temperaturen umfassen z.B. die Hitzewarnungen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes sowie Handlungsempfehlungen für die Erstellung von Hitzeaktionsplänen. Schlussfolgerungen: Die Evidenz zu Gesundheitsauswirkungen von Hitze und das Bewusstsein für die Notwendigkeit von gesundheitsbezogenem Hitzeschutz sind in den letzten Jahren gewachsen, dennoch besteht weiterer Handlungs-und Forschungsbedarf. Quelle: © Robert Koch Institut
description: Background: Climate change has already led to a significant temperature increase in Germany. The average temperature in the past decade was approximately 2˚C above the pre-industrial level and eight of the ten hottest summers since the beginning of systematic weather records in 1881 were recorded in the last 30 years. Methods: Based on a selective literature search and authors' evaluations, the article summarises the current state of knowledge on heat and its health impacts for Germany, addresses adaptation measures, and gives an outlook on implementation and research questions. Results: Heat can aggravate pre-existing conditions such as diseases of the cardiovascular system, the respiratory tract, or the kidneys and trigger potentially harmful side effects for numerous medications. A significant increase in mortality is regularly observed during heat events. Previous approaches to mitigate the health impact of high temperatures include, for example, the heat alerts of the German Meteorological Service and recommendations for the preparation of heat-health action plans. Conclusions: Evidence on health impacts of heat and awareness of the need for heat-related health protection have grown in recent years, but there is still a need for further action and research. Source: © Robert Koch Institute
The error propagation in robots.
Creators: name: Lu, Chun.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The accuracy of a robot manipulator has been receiving scrutinity since the widespread acceptance of robot manipulators. The relationship between two consecutive joint coordinate frames of a robot manipulator can be completely defined by five link parameters; one is the joint variable and the other four are the geometric parameters. The basis for the open-loop manipulator control is often the relationship between the Cartesian coordinates of the end-effector and the joint coordinates; therefore, the accuracy of the Cartesian position and orientation of the end-effector with regard to the real world depends on the errors of the five link parameters for each link. For design optimization and robot calibration, it is very important to develop a model for quantitative characterization and evaluation of the positioning and orientational errors of the end-effector. A static error propagation model is developed in order to describe the relationships between the six Cartesian errors and the five independent kinematic errors for each link. In this thesis, a general method for evaluating the end-effector errors produced by a mix of arbitrarily distributed errors is presented. Based on this method, any different combinations of biased and mixed error distributions can be dealt with directly to give a quantative error propagation analysis. Numerical results are presented for one, two and three degrees-of-freedom robot manipulators. Comparison of the results of the proposed model with other published model are presented and analyzed.
AN ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH AREAS IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: A.S.Gusev, G.A.Beznosov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Agriculture technology
Precision livestock farming (PLF)
Precision farming
Web of Science
Precision agriculture research.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 12, 10A12D: 1-10
AN INVESTIGATION ON STAKEHOLDERS' PERCEPTION REGARDING EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PAKISTAN'S HIGHER EDUCATION
Creators: name: Muhammad Junaid Siraji, Liaquat Hussain
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Social media effectiveness
Higher educational institutions
Parents' perception
Students' perception
Teachers' perception.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 12, 10A12E: 1-9
The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature
Creators: name: Kazin, E. A.
name: Koda, Jun
name: Blake, Chris
name: Padmanabhan, N.
name: Brough, S.
name: Colless, M.
name: Contreras, C.
name: Couch, Warrick
name: Croom, S.
name: Croton, Darren
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
name: Forster, K.
name: Gilbank, D.
name: Gladders, M.
name: Glazebrook, Karl
name: Jelliffe, B.
name: Jurek, R. J.
name: Li, I.-h.
name: Madore, B.
name: Martin, D. C.
name: Pimbblet, K.
name: Poole, G. B.
name: Pracy, M.
name: Sharp, R.
name: Wisnioski, E.
name: Woods, D.
name: Wyder, T. K.
name: Yee, H. K. C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We present significant improvements in cosmic distance measurements from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, achieved by applying the reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature technique. We show using both data and simulations that the reconstruction technique can often be effective despite patchiness of the survey, significant edge effects and shot-noise. We investigate three redshift bins in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1, and in all three find improvement after reconstruction in the detection of the baryonic acoustic feature and its usage as a standard ruler. We measure model-independent distance measures DV(rfid s/rs) of 1716 ± 83, 2221 ± 101, 2516 ± 86 Mpc (68 per cent CL) at effective redshifts z = 0.44, 0.6, 0.73, respectively, where DV is the volume-averaged distance, and rs is the sound horizon at the end of the baryon drag epoch. These significantly improved 4.8, 4.5 and 3.4 per cent accuracy measurements are equivalent to those expected from surveys with up to 2.5 times the volume of WiggleZ without reconstruction applied. These measurements are fully consistent with cosmologies allowed by the analyses of the Planck Collaboration and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We provide the DV(rfid s/rs) posterior probability distributions and their covariances. When combining these measurements with temperature fluctuations measurements of Planck, the polarization of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 9, and the 6dF Galaxy Survey baryonic acoustic feature, we do not detect deviations from a flat Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model. Assuming this model, we constrain the current expansion rate to H0 = 67.15 ± 0.98 km s-1Mpc-1. Allowing the equation of state of dark energy to vary, we obtain wDE =-1.080 ± 0.135. When assuming a curved ΛCDM model we obtain a curvature value of ΩK =-0.0043 ± 0.0047.
Simulating the impact of climate change on the growth of Chinese fir plantations in Fujian province, China
Creators: name: Kang, Haijun
name: Seely, Brad
name: Wang, Guangyu
name: Cai, Yangxin
name: Innes, John L.
name: Zheng, Dexiang
name: Chen, Pingliu
name: Wang, Tongli (Forest Geneticist)
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2017

description: Background: Climate change represents a considerable source of uncertainty with respect to the long-term health and productivity of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.) plantations in southeastern China. Methods: We employed the process-based, stand-level model FORECAST Climate to investigate the potential impact of four alternative climate-change scenarios on the long-term growth and development of Chinese fir plantations in Fujian province, China. The capability of the model to project seasonal patterns of productivity related to variation in temperature and moisture availability was evaluated using 11 years of 8-day composite MODIS remote sensing data. Results: Simulation results suggest climate change will lead to a modest increase in long-term stemwood biomass production (6.1 to 12.1% after 30 to 60 years). The positive impact of climate change was largely attributable to both a lengthening of the growing season and an increase in nutrient-cycling rates. The increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations associated with the different emission scenarios led to an increase in water-use efficiency and a small increase in productivity. While the model predicted an overall increase in dry-season moisture stress, it did not predict increased levels of drought-related mortality. Conclusions: Climate change is expected have positive impact on the growth of Chinese fir in the Fujian region of China. However, the projected increase in plantation productivity associated with climate change may not be realised if the latter also results in enhanced activity of biotic and abiotic disturbance agents.
Klimaanpassung im Raumordnungs-, Städtebau- und Umweltfachplanungsrecht sowie im Recht der kommunalen Daseinsvorsorge
Creators: name: Albrecht, Juliane
name: Schanze, Jochen
name: Klimmer, Linda
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Klimaänderung
subject: Anpassung an den Klimawandel
subject: Raumordnungsrecht
subject: Städtebaurecht
subject: Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung
subject: Klimaanpassung
subject: Umweltfachplanungsrecht
subject: Daseinsvorsorge
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Nachhaltigkeit | Strategien | Internationales

description: Die Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit die ⁠Anpassung an den Klimawandel⁠ in den derzeitigen rechtlichen Regelungen auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene berücksichtigt wird. Der erste Teil behandelt ⁠Raumordnung⁠, Städtebau sowie Umweltfachplanungen. Der zweite Teil bezieht sich auf die kommunalen Daseinsvorsorge, insbesondere die Aufgabenfelder öffentliche Trinkwasserversorgung, Abwasserentsorgung, vorbeugender Hochwasserschutz, öffentliche Abfallbeseitigung, Energieversorgung sowie kommunale Verkehrsinfrastruktur. Jeweils werden die rechtlichen Regelungen detailliert analysiert, beispielhaft Pläne analysiert und konkrete Empfehlungen zur Weiterentwicklung des Rechts abgeleitet.
Reactivity ratio estimation: Two case studies.
Creators: name: Rivard, Tony.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Chemical.

description: Two separate case studies on polymerization kinetics were performed. These studies focused on the determination of reactivity ratios: important copolymerization kinetic parameters. They are used to predict multicomponent polymer composition directly and have an indirect influence on the prediction of polymerization rate and final properties. In some cases, these parameters can be very difficult to obtain using standard techniques. These standard methods involve low conversion experiments and measurement of the final polymer composition. The goal of the first study was to determine the reactivity ratios of a copolymer system that presents significant experimental challenges. The study involved a small polymer chain, called a macromonomer copolymerized with acrylic or methacrylic acid monomers. The second case study involved the styrene/butyl acrylate copolymer system. Firstly, the reactivity ratios were estimated in bulk and in toluene solution. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) was used to determine the weight-average molecular weight of selected styrene/butyl acrylate copolymer samples. An additional investigation focused on the use of attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectrometry was completed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
INFLUENCES OF THE IODINE-POLYMER PREPARATION "MONCLAVIT-1" ON THE HORMONAL, MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL STATUS OF THE BLOOD OF LAMBS OF WEST SIBERIAN MEAT BREED
Creators: name: Afanasyeva Antonina Ivanovna, Sarychev Vladislav Andreevich
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Protein
carbohydrate
lipid metabolism of lambs
blood morphological parameters
Iodine deficiency
thyroid hormones.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 12, 10A12F: 1-9
Metabolites of the alkyl pyrrolidone solvents NMP and NEP in 24-h urine samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank from 1991 to 2014
Creators: name: Ulrich, Nadin
name: Bury, Daniel
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Koch, Holger Martin
name: Rüther, Maria
name: Weber, Till
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Expositionsabschätzung

description: Purpose The aim of this study was to get a first overview of the exposure to the solvents and reproductive toxicants N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (NEP) in Germany. NMP and NEP metabolite concentrations were determined in 540 24-h urine samples of the German Environmental Specimen Bank collected from 1991 to 2014. With these data we were able to investigate NMP/NEP exposures over time and to evaluate associated risks. Methods NMP metabolites 5-hydroxy-N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (5-HNMP) and 2-hydroxy-N-methylsuccinimide (2-HMSI) and NEP metabolites 5-hydroxy-N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (5-HNEP) and 2-hydroxy-N-ethylsuccinimide (2-HESI) were determined by stable isotope dilution analysis using solid phase extraction followed by derivatization (silylation) and GCâ€ÌEIâ€ÌMS/MS. Results We were able to quantify 5-HNMP and 2-HMSI in 98.0 and 99.6% and 5-HNEP and 2-HESI in 34.8 and 75.7% of the samples. Metabolite concentrations were rather steady over the timeframe investigated, even for NEP which has been introduced as an NMP substitute only in the last decade. Calculated median daily intakes in 2014 were 2.7 Ìg/kg bw/day for NMP and 1.1 Ìg/kg bw/day for NEP. For the combined risk assessment of NMP and NEP exposure, the hazard index based on the human biomonitoring assessment I values (HBM I values) was less than 0.1. Conclusions Based on the investigated subpopulation of the German population, individual and combined NMP and NEP exposures were within acceptable ranges in the investigated timeframe. Sources of NEP exposure in the 90s and 00s remain elusive. © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Immigration, Capital Flows, and Housing Prices
Creators: name: Pavlov, Andrey
name: Somerville, Tsur
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Research on immigration and house prices has found that immigrants raise metropolitan area house price levels, but lower them in immigrant destination neighbourhoods. In this paper we find that this latter result is not globally true. Rather neighbourhood house prices can respond positively to immigrant volumes, at least for the subset of immigrants studied here, which are those who come with wealth. The contrast with existing work highlights the importance of capital flows, in addition to people, in the effect of immigration on local asset markets. Unlike previous work that relies on panel data, we exploit a surprise suspension and subsequent closure of a popular investor immigration program in Canada to assess the impact of wealthy immigrants on local real estate markets using a difference-in-differences methodology. Using transaction data from the Greater Vancouver area, we find that the unexpected suspension of the program had a negative impact on house prices of three percent in the neighbourhoods and market segments most likely to be favoured by the investor immigrants. The negative impact of the suspension occurred quickly, within the first three months following the policy change. This speed suggests it resulted from declines in seller expectations and demand by builders to redevelop existing properties into newer more luxurious housing homes. The price declines are larger for more expensive houses in the target neighbourhoods and for neighbourhoods where the share of recent Chinese immigrants among the population is highest. None of our findings hold for property types not likely to be favoured by investor immigrants, nor for immigrant neighbourhoods favoured by those unlikely to be investor immigrants. Adding our findings to the existing literature on immigration and housing markets makes it clear that immigrants can have positive effects on local housing prices, but the effects depend on who the immigrants actually are and highlights the role of capital in augmenting immigrant demand.
title: How does feeling blue make the heart grow sicker?
title: examining the role of the metabolic syndrome in the relationship between depression and coronary heart disease
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Stevenson, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Depression, Mental -- Health aspects

description: The aim of the present study was to utilize a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to simultaneously examine the relationship among depressive symptoms measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), and coronary artery calcification (CAC). The proposed models were tested using MplusRTM Version 5.0 statistical software. Whether these variables are associated and, if so, the direction of the causal pathways, as well as underlying pathophysiological mechanisms that may drive the associations, remain obscure. It was hypothesized that the MetS would provide the necessary mechanism to partially explain the association between depressive symptoms and CAC. Analyses were conducted on a sub-sample of participants derived from the Spokane Heart Study (N=424). First, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on the MetS latent construct before testing the fit of the proposed structural equation models. Two initial models were tested, a saturated and a direct effects model. The global fit indices revealed a less-than-optimal overall fit of the proposed models. These models did not reveal a significant association between total CES-D scores and either the MetS or CAC. However, the MetS was predictive of total CAC scores. Based on the results of these models, a follow-up model was tested to examine the relationship between the MetS and CAC only. The fit indices for this model revealed good overall global fit, as well as a statistically significant association between the MetS and CAC. Next, both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were constructed to identify the underlying structure of the CES-D measure. A statistically significant association was identified between the Positive Affect factor (PA) and CAC. Based on the results of the correlation matrix, SEM models were constructed to examine the relationship between the CES-D factors and CAC. These models revealed good overall global fit although none of the individual path coefficients was found to be statistically significant. These results extend prior correlational data that has suggested an association between the MetS and CAC. Further, these results replicate previous factor analyses that have identified a one-factor structure for the MetS and a three-factor structure for the CES-D measure.
Structure and reactivity of silica-supported titanium and molybdenum(IV) amido complexes.
Creators: name: Beaudoin, Marcel Camille.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Inorganic.

description: This thesis is divided into 5 major sections. The first section covers the reactions of Ti(NR2)4 (R is methyl or ethyl) with the surface of partially dehydroxylated silica. This leads to the formation of well-defined grafted titanium complexes. The stoichiometry of the grafting reactions depends upon the degree of dehydroxylation of the silica. When the silica is pretreated at 500°C, ≡SiOTi(NR2)3 is formed, while on silica which has been dehydroxylated at 200°C, (≡SiO) 2Ti(NR2)2 is the product. The second section examines the spontaneous transformations experienced by the bis(dialkylamido)titanium fragments upon standing or exposure to vacuum. beta-H abstraction results in elimination of one equivalent of amine, leaving an eta 2-imine ligand coordinated to titanium. While the N-methylmethanimine complex is stable, the N-ethylethanimine complex undergoes a further loss of ethylene to yield a stable ethylimidotitanium(IV) surface complex. These transformations are catalyzed by the residual surface hydroxyls. The third section describes the reactivity of the bis(dialkylamido)titanium fragments towards amines. Exposure to ammonia induces beta-H abstraction, producing 1 equivalent of dialkylamine and resulting in the formation of eta 2-imine complexes instead of the expected transamination products. The N-ethylethanimine complex, under prolonged vacuum, loses ethylene to produce ethylimidotitanium(IV). Other amines, including dialkylamines and aprotic amines such as pyridine and NEt3, induce the same imine complex formation. The fourth section deals with the reactions of the imine and imido complexes with Ti(NR2)4. Both reactions result in grafting of an additional 2 wt. % Ti onto the silica, in the absence of surface hydroxyls and the formation of one equivalent of the corresponding amine. Dinuclear surface complexes containing bridging imine, imido, or siloxo ligands are proposed as products. The final section involves the characterization of the surface complexes produced upon exposure of partially dehydroxylated silica to Mo(NR2) 4 (R is methyl or ethyl). When R is methyl, grafting on silica pre-treated at 200 or 500°C results in reactions analogous to Ti(NMe2) 4. However, Mo(NEt2)4 displays a reactivity that is significantly different from its Ti analogue. The maximum Mo loading is double that expected for the number of surface hydroxyl groups available. Furthermore, the amount of diethylamine released is 1.5 times higher than expected (treatment of silica at 500°C) or twice as high (silica pre-treatment at 200°C). Spontaneous beta-H abstraction and elimination of diethylamine is proposed to form an N-ethylethanimine complex of molybdenum(IV), which then reacts further with Mo(NEt2)4 to form a dimolybdenum complex with bridging imine ligands.
Transforming Metadata Workflows with AI: A Case Study at UCF Libraries
Creators: name: Zhu, Lihong
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Deng, Sai
name: Piascik, Jeanne
name: Chow, Ho Chi Eric
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Linked data
Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST)
Subject headings;
OpenAI API
Digital collections
Academic theses and dissertations
Artificial Intelligence or Cybernetics

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently significantly transformed metadata workflows in libraries. While chatbots and related services have made AI more accessible, fully integrating AI into workflows remains challenging. This presentation highlights the use of AI at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries to assist in assigning subject headings, including Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) terms and keywords, to both digital and traditional collections.UCF Libraries adopted the OpenAI API to generate subject headings, conducted evaluations and comparative studies of AI-generated terms and contributor-supplied terms, revealing the potential benefits of AI in metadata creation. This approach is particularly valuable for libraries with limited staff resources, enabling efficient metadata creation for diverse collections, including unique local materials. Furthermore, AI-generated subjects provide meaningful references for cataloging specialized collections.While the project’s outcomes are promising, the extent to which AI can be integrated into workflows varies depending on local circumstances. Incorporating AI into workflows introduces new challenges and opportunities for librarians, and collaborating with external
title: Human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU) - Strategy to derive human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for health risk assessment
title: Human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU) - Strategy to derive human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for health risk assessment
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Apel, Petra
name: Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
name: Rouselle, Christophe
name: Lange, Rosa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human-Biomonitoring
Biomarker
Risikoanalyse

description: The European Joint Program "HBM4EU" is a joint effort of 30 countries and the European Environment Agency, co-funded under the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program, for advancing and implementing human biomonitoring (HBM) on a European scale and for providing scientific evidence for chemical policy making. One important outcome will be a Europe-wide improvement and harmonization of health risk assessment following the coordinated derivation or update of health-related guidance values referring to the internal body burden. These guidance values - named HBM guidance values or HBM-GVs - can directly be compared with HBM data. They are derived within HBM4EU for priority substances identified by the HBM4EU chemicals prioritization strategy based on existing needs to answer policy relevant questions as raised by national and EU policy makers. HBM-GVs refer to both the general population and occupationally exposed adults. Reports including the detailed reasoning for the values' proposals are subjected to a consultation process within all partner countries of the consortium to reach a broad scientific consensus on the derivation approach and on the derived values. The final HBM-GVs should be applied first within the HBM4EU project, but may also be useful for regulators and risk assessors outside this project. The subsequent adoption of derived HBM-GVs at EU-level needs to be discussed and decided within the responsible EU bodies. Nevertheless, the establishment of HBM-GVs as part of HBM4EU is already a step forward in strengthening HBM-based policy efforts for public and occupational health. The strategy for deriving HBM-GVs which is based on already existing approaches from the German HBM Commission, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) as well as from the US-based scientific consultant Summit Toxicology, the allocation of a level of confidence to the derived values, and the consultation process within the project are comprehensively described to enlighten the work accomplished under the HBM4EU initiative. © 2020 The Author(s).
The UVES Large Program for testing fundamental physics - III. Constraints on the fine-structure constant from three telescopes
Creators: name: Evans, T. M.
name: Murphy, Michael
name: Whitmore, Jonathan
name: Misawa, T.
name: Centurion, M.
name: D'Odorico, S.
name: Lopez, S.
name: Martins, C. J. A. P.
name: Molaro, P.
name: Petitjean, P.
name: Rahmani, H.
name: Srianand, R.
name: Wendt, M.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 5101
subject: Astronomical sciences
classificationCode: 5109
subject: Space sciences

description: Large statistical samples of quasar spectra have previously indicated possible cosmological variations in the fine-structure constant, a. A smaller sample of higher signal-to-noise ratio spectra, with dedicated calibration, would allow a detailed test of this evidence. Towards that end, we observed equatorial quasar HS 1549+1919 with three telescopes: the Very Large Telescope, Keck and, for the first time in such analyses, Subaru. By directly comparing these spectra to each other, and by 'supercalibrating' them using asteroid and iodine-cell tests, we detected and removed long-range distortions of the quasar spectra's wavelength scales which would have caused significant systematic errors in our α measurements. For each telescope we measure the relative deviation in α from the current laboratory value, Δα/α, in three absorption systems at redshifts zabs = 1.143, 1.342 and 1.802. The nine measurements of Δα/α are all consistent with zero at the 2σ level, with 1σ statistical (systematic) uncertainties 5.6-24 (1.8-7.0) parts per million (ppm). They are also consistent with each other at the 1s level, allowing us to form a combined value for each telescope and, finally, a single value for this line of sight: Δα/α = -5.4 ± 3.3stat ± 1.5sys ppm, consistent with both zero and previous, large samples. We also average all Large Programme results measuring Δα/α = -0.6 ± 1.9stat ± 0.9sys ppm. Our results demonstrate the robustness and reliability at the 3 ppm level afforded by supercalibration techniques and direct comparison of spectra from different telescopes.
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Creators: name: Ellis, Jennifer
name: Dorney, Kevin
name: Hickstein, Dan
name: Brooks, Nathan
name: Gentry, Christian
name: Hernandez-Garcia, Carlos
name: Zusin, Dmitriy
name: Shaw, Justin
name: Nguyen, Quynh
name: Mancuso, Christopher
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting information document with additional details
LAND-USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS USING PIXEL BASED METHODS: CASE OF TAROM CITY, IRAN
Creators: name: Seyyed Behrouz Hosseini, Ali Saremi
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2019
Subjects: Atmospheric Correction
Tarom basin
Maximum Likelihood Classification
Supervised Classification Methods
Land-use map
Landsat-8.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 10, 12, 10A12G: 1-13
Wild state secrets: ultra-sensitive measurement of micro-movement can reveal internal processes in animals
Creators: name: Wilson, Rory P
name: Grundy, Ed
name: Massy, Richard
name: Soltis, Joseph
name: Tysse, Brenda
name: Holton, Mark
name: Cai, Yuzhi
name: Parrott, Andy
name: Downey, Luke
name: Qasem, Lama
name: Butt, Tariq
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410299
subject: Ecological applications not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 520201
subject: Behavioural genetics
classificationCode: 520202
subject: Behavioural neuroscience
classificationCode: 520203
subject: Cognitive neuroscience
classificationCode: 520205
subject: Psychopharmacology
classificationCode: 520206
subject: Psychophysiology
classificationCode: 520207
subject: Social and affective neuroscience
classificationCode: 520301
subject: Clinical neuropsychology
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition
classificationCode: 520403
subject: Learning, motivation and emotion

description: Assessment of animal internal 'state' - which includes hormonal, disease, nutritional, and emotional states - is normally considered the province of laboratory work, since its determination in animals in the wild is considered more difficult. However, we show that accelerometers attached externally to animals as diverse as elephants, cockroaches, and humans display consistent signal differences in micro-movement that are indicative of internal state. Originally used to elucidate the behavior of wild animals, accelerometers also have great potential for highlighting animal actions, which are considered as responses stemming from the interplay between internal state and external environment. Advances in accelerometry may help wildlife managers understand how internal state is linked to behavior and movement, and thus clarify issues ranging from how animals cope with the presence of newly constructed roads to how diseased animals might change movement patterns and therefore modulate disease spread.
High-fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance are characterized by differential beta oscillatory signaling of the limbic cortico-basal ganglia loop
Creators: name: Maurer, Lukas
name: Tang, Hui
name: Haumesser, Jens K.
name: Altschüler, Jennifer
name: Kühn, Andrea A.
name: Spranger, Joachim
name: Riesen, Christoph Van
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Membrane potential
subject: Neural circuits
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::616 Krankheiten

description: The concept of brain circuit disorders has been proposed for a variety of neuropsychiatric diseases, characterized by pathological disturbances of neuronal networks including changes in oscillatory signaling of re-entrant cortico-subcortical loops in the basal ganglia system. Parts of this circuitry play a pivotal role in energy homeostasis. We therefore investigated whether high-fat diet (HFD) induced obesity is associated with changes in oscillatory signaling in the limbic cortico-basal ganglia loop. We performed multi-site in-vivo electrophysiological recordings of local field potentials within this network under urethane anesthesia in adult rats after 4 weeks of HFD feeding compared to age-matched controls. Recordings were performed at baseline and during systemic glucose challenge. Our analysis demonstrates increased oscillatory beta power in the nucleus accumbens (NAC) associated with decreased beta coherence between cortex and NAC in animals fed a HFD. Spontaneous beta oscillatory power strongly correlated with endocrine markers of obesity. The glucose challenge increased beta oscillations in control animals but not in animals receiving the HFD. Furthermore direct intracerebroventricular insulin injection increased beta oscillations in the NAC. The present study provides evidence for aberrant oscillatory signaling in the limbic cortico-basal ganglia loop that might contribute to the dysfunctional information processing in obesity.
Applicability of ISO standard 3744 to UA
Creators: name: Treichel, Julia
name: Foerster, Jan
name: Volkert, Andreas
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lärm
Regulierung

description: Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are used for a variety of purposes. Especially the industrial or professional use of unmanned aircraft (UA) will lead to an increasing number of possible applications. The steadily rising number of UA raises the question of noise impact on the society from these vehicles. For the first time, an EU regulation provides a uniform noise rating for UA. It involves the introduction of a label for the guaranteed sound power level. This level is to be determined via EN ISO 3744:2010 by means of an enveloping surface method. Manufacturers are required to document the guaranteed sound power level as part of their CE marking. In addition, the EU regulation specifies a maximum permissible sound power level. The permitted level depends on the weight of the UA. Therefore, the German Environment Agency has started with acoustic investigations of UA. Various small multicopter) were used for the measurements in accordance with the EU regulation. This paper presents the results of the measurements and shows whether the requirements of the EU regulation are complied with. The challenges for users of the applicable measurement standard are also highlighted.
Hoko Archaeological Project News, 1981-1983
Creators: name: Croes, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 1981
Subjects: Archaeology

description: While running the Hoko River Archaeological Project Site Complex, we compiled a public outreach news bulletin that covered many of the research and crew news happening at the site. This series of publications provides much inside and well illustrated information about our work at the river bank wet site work and rockshelter excavations.
Marinobacter salarius sp. nov. and marinobacter similis sp. nov., isolated from sea water
Creators: name: Ng, Hooi Jun
name: Ló Pez-Pé Rez, Mario
name: Webb, Hayden
name: Gomez, Daniela
name: Sawabe, Tomoo
name: Ryan, Jason
name: Vyssotski, Mikhail
name: Bizet, Chantal
name: Malherbe, Francois
name: Mikhailov, Valery V.
name: Crawford, Russell
name: Ivanova, Elena
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Two non-pigmented, motile, Gram-negative marine bacteria designated R9SW1T and A3d10T were isolated from sea water samples collected from Chazhma Bay, Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan, Pacific Ocean, Russia and St. Kilda Beach, Port Phillip Bay, the Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean, respectively. Both organisms were found to grow between 4°C and 40°C, between pH 6 to 9, and are moderately halophilic, tolerating up to 20% (w/v) NaCl. Both strains were found to be able to degrade Tween 40 and 80, but only strain R9SW1T was found to be able to degrade starch. The major fatty acids were characteristic for the genus Marinobacter including C16:0, C16:1ω7c, C18:1ω9c and C18:1ω7c. The G+C content of the DNA for strains R9SW1T and A3d10T were determined to be 57.1 mol% and 57.6 mol%, respectively. The two new strains share 97.6% of their 16S rRNA gene sequences, with 82.3% similarity in the average nucleotide identity (ANI), 19.8% similarity in the in silico genome-to-genome distance (GGD), 68.1% similarity in the average amino acid identity (AAI) of all conserved protein-coding genes, and 31 of the Karlin's genomic signature dissimilarity. A phylogenetic analysis showed that R9SW1T clusters with M. algicola DG893T sharing 99.40%, and A3d10T clusters with M. sediminum R65T sharing 99.53% of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities. The results of the genomic and polyphasic taxonomic study, including genomic, genetic, phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA, gyrB and rpoD gene sequence similarities, the analysis of the protein profiles generated using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, and DNA-DNA relatedness data, indicated that strains R9SW1T and A3d10T represent two novel species of the genus Marinobacter. The names Marinobacter salarius sp. nov., with the type strain R9SW1T ( = LMG 27497T = JCM 19399T = CIP 110588T = KMM 7502T) and Marinobacter similis sp. nov., with the type strain A3d10T ( = JCM 19398T = CIP 110589T = KMM 7501T), are proposed.
Prüfung und Begleitung der nationalen und europäischen Normierungsprozesse für eine einheitliche Emissionsberechnung bei Transportdienstleistungen
Creators: name: Schmied, Martin
name: Knörr, Wolfram
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: CO2-Fußabdruck
Logistik

description: Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens war, den weiteren Normierungsprozess bei der Erstellung der CEN-Norm EN 16258 (Methode zur Berechnung und Deklaration von Energieverbrauch und Treibhausgasemissionen von Transportdienstleistungen) sowohl in dem europäischen Gremium als auch in der deutschen Spiegelgruppe des Deutschen Institut für Normung (DIN) aktiv zu begleiten und laufend zu prüfen. Außerdem wurde der im Vorgängervorhaben 'Carbon Footprint - Monitoring für den CO2-Ausstoß in der Logistikkette und Abbau von Hemmnissen zur Emissionsminderung (FKZ: 3709 45 139)' erstellte Leitfaden aktualisiert.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
description: The aim of the project was to accompany and review the standardization process in the creation of the CEN standard EN 16258 (method of calculation and declaration of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from transport services) in both the European body as well as in the German mirror group of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN). Further the guidelines CalcuIation of greenhouse gas emissions in transport and logistics were updated and translated in English.
Quelle: Forschungsbericht
THE SAGES LEGACY UNIFYING GLOBULARS AND GALAXIES SURVEY (SLUGGS): SAMPLE DEFINITION, METHODS, AND INITIAL RESULTS
Creators: name: Brodie, Jean
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Foster, Caroline
name: Jennings, Zachary G.
name: Pastorello, Nicola
name: Pota, Vincenzo
name: Usher, Christopher
name: Blom, Christina
name: Kader, Justin
name: Roediger, Joel C.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Villaume, Alexa
name: Arnold, Jacob A.
name: Kartha, Sreeja S.
name: Woodley, Kristin A.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 510103
subject: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy

description: We introduce and provide the scientific motivation for a wide-field photometric and spectroscopic chemodynamical survey of nearby early-type galaxies (ETGs) and their globular cluster (GC) systems. The SAGES Legacy Unifying Globulars and GalaxieS (SLUGGS) survey is being carried out primarily with Subaru/Suprime-Cam and Keck/DEIMOS. The former provides deep gri imaging over a 900 arcmin2 field-of-view to characterize GC and host galaxy colors and spatial distributions, and to identify spectroscopic targets. The NIR Ca II triplet provides GC line-of-sight velocities and metallicities out to typically ~8 R e, and to ~15 R e in some cases. New techniques to extract integrated stellar kinematics and metallicities to large radii (~2-3 R e) are used in concert with GC data to create two-dimensional (2D) velocity and metallicity maps for comparison with simulations of galaxy formation. The advantages of SLUGGS compared with other, complementary, 2D-chemodynamical surveys are its superior velocity resolution, radial extent, and multiple halo tracers. We describe the sample of 25 nearby ETGs, the selection criteria for galaxies and GCs, the observing strategies, the data reduction techniques, and modeling methods. The survey observations are nearly complete and more than 30 papers have so far been published using SLUGGS data. Here we summarize some initial results, including signatures of two-phase galaxy assembly, evidence for GC metallicity bimodality, and a novel framework for the formation of extended star clusters and ultracompact dwarfs. An integrated overview of current chemodynamical constraints on GC systems points to separate, in situ formation modes at high redshifts for metal-poor and metal-rich GCs.
Correction to: ReMixT: clone-specific genomic structure estimation in cancer
Creators: name: McPherson, Andrew W.
name: Roth, Andrew J. L.
name: Ha, Gavin
name: Chauve, Cedric
name: Steif, Adi
name: De Souza, Camila P. E.
name: Eirew, Peter
name: Bouchard-Côté, Alexandre
name: Aparicio, Samuel, 1963-
name: Sahinalp, S. C.
name: Shah, Sohrab P.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

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A near-infrared census of the multicomponent stellar structure of early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster
Creators: name: Janz, Joachim
name: Laurikainen, E.
name: Lisker, T.
name: Salo, H.
name: Peletier, R. F.
name: Niemi, S. M.
name: Toloba, E.
name: Hensler, G.
name: Falcón-Barroso, J.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Den Brok, M.
name: Hansson, K. S.A.
name: Meyer, H. T.
name: Rys̈, A.
name: Paudel, S.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The fraction of star-forming to quiescent dwarf galaxies varies from almost infinity in the field to zero in the centers of rich galaxy clusters. What is causing this pronounced morphology-density relation? What do quiescent dwarf galaxies look like when studied in detail, and what conclusions can be drawn about their formation mechanism? Here we study a nearly magnitude-complete sample (-19 < Mr < -16 mag) of 121 Virgo cluster early types with deep near-infrared images from the SMAKCED project. We fit two-dimensional models with optional inner and outer components, as well as bar and lens components (in ~15% of the galaxies), to the galaxy images. While a single Sérsic function may approximate the overall galaxy structure, it does not entirely capture the light distribution of two-thirds of our galaxies, for which multicomponent models provide a better fit. This fraction of complex galaxies shows a strong dependence on luminosity, being larger for brighter objects. We analyze the global and component-specific photometric scaling relations of early-type dwarf galaxies and discuss similarities with bright early and late types. The dwarfs' global galaxy parameters show scaling relations that are similar to those of bright disk galaxies. The inner components are mostly fitted with Sérsic n values close to 1. At a given magnitude, they are systematically larger than the bulges of spirals, suggesting that they are not ordinary bulges. We argue that the multicomponent structures in early-type dwarfs are mostly a phenomenon inherent to the disks and may indeed stem from environmental processing.
The clinical significance of the host immunologic competence and related angiogenesis and necrosis in the tumor microenvironment of hepatobiliary cancer
Creators: name: Atanasov, Georgi
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cancer inflammation
subject: prognosis
subject: TAMs
subject: tumor necrosis
subject: monocytes/macrophages
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The incidence of hepatobiliary cancer has increased worldwide in recent years. These tumor entities translate into high recurrence and mortality rates, poor prognosis and clinical outcome. The management of hepatobiliary cancer is challenging and demands in most cases referral to a specialized high volume center where meticulous therapeutic interventions and advanced surgery can be performed. Unfortunately, only limited therapeutic modalities are available and curative surgery or LTX are often precluded due to the advanced disease at time of diagnosis. In this palliative setting, chemotherapy, radiation or best supportive care remain the only pillars of medical care. There is an urgent unmet need for adjunct therapeutic modalities for hepatobiliary cancer. Hereby, the role of the host immune system, after falling into desuetude in the past, has been nowadays increasingly recognized as a powerful tool in the armamentarium of available options. Overwhelming data demonstrates the formidable ability of various entities of the innate and adaptive immune system not only to be efficiently applied as vectors of anticancer treatment, but also help refine the diagnostic strategies. The latter translates into improved risk stratification and enhanced ability to identify subgroups of patients with negative tumor profiles and poor prognosis. Taken together, these insights can help enhance the efficacy of cancer management and deliver more individualized approaches in an era of personalized medicine. In the current studies, we were able to demonstrate the prognostic significance of various aspects of the host immune system and establish links that presume functional networks. This enabled us to outline them as an autonomous immunologic construct in the setting of human cancer. The main conclusions were that tumor-infiltrating monocytes/macrophages subtypes, related angiogenesis vectors and the formation of histologic necrosis in the tumor microenvironment are strongly associated. This coherent immunologic construct exerted a significant influence on patients’ overall and recurrence-free survival and qualified as an independent marker of predictiveness. The presented studies generated data that could help efficiently categorize patients in subgroups of increased risk for unfavorable clinical outcome. Furthermore, these results may represent a novel molecular pathway for immunologic checkpoint inhibition in human hepatobiliary cancer. Future studies are needed to better explore and define the implied mechanistic links, which will not only facilitate a better understanding of the tumor biology, but also optimize the management of cancer.