cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fracture of a Brittle-Particle Ductile Matrix Composite with Applications to a Coating System
Creators: name: Bianculli, Steven
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: In material systems consisting of hard second phase particles in a ductile matrix, failure initiating from cracking of the second phase particles is an important failure mechanism. This dissertation applies the principles of fracture mechanics to consider this problem, first from the standpoint of fracture of the particles, and then the onset of crack propagation from fractured particles. This research was inspired by the observation of the failure mechanism of a commercial zinc-based anti-corrosion coating and the analysis was initially approached as coatings problem. As the work progressed it became evident that failure mechanism was relevant to a broad range of composite material systems and research approach was generalized to consider failure of a system consisting of ellipsoidal second phase particles in a ductile matrix. The starting point for the analysis is the classical Eshelby Problem, which considered stress transfer from the matrix to an ellipsoidal inclusion. The particle fracture problem is approached by considering cracks within particles and how they are affected by the particle/matrix interface, the difference in properties between the particle and matrix, and by particle shape. These effects are mapped out for a wide range of material combinations. The trends developed show that, although the particle fracture problem is very complex, the potential for fracture among a range of particle shapes can, for certain ranges in particle shape, be considered easily on the basis of the Eshelby Stress alone. Additionally, the evaluation of cracks near the curved particle/matrix interface adds to the existing body of work of cracks approaching bi-material interfaces in layered material systems. The onset of crack propagation from fractured particles is then considered as a function of particle shape and mismatch in material properties between the particle and matrix. This behavior is mapped out for a wide range of material combinations. The final section of this dissertation qualitatively considers an approach to determine critical particle sizes, below which crack propagation will not occur for a coating system that exhibited stable cracks in an interfacial layer between the coating and substrate.
Impact de l’adhésion à une union monétaire sur le développement humain : cas des pays de la CEDEAO
Creators: name: DIALLO, Daouda
name: KANAZA, Hodabalo
Publisher: name: Repères et Perspectives Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: union monétaire ; bien-être ; CEDEAO ; développement humain ; modèle à effets de traitement

description: L’objet de cet article est d’analyser l’impact de l’adhésion à l’union monétaire sur le bien-être de la population en Afrique de l’Ouest. Le bien-être est capté par l’indice du développement humain (IDH). À partir d’un panel des quinze (15) pays de la Communauté Economique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO), le bien-être associé à l’appartenance à une union monétaire, a été étudié en utilisant un modèle à effets de traitement. Les principaux résultats montrent d’une part que l’adhésion à l’union monétaire dans cette sous-région est principalement liée au passé colonial des pays. D’autre part, il ressort que l’adhésion à l’union monétaire en Afrique de l’ouest n’impacte pas significativement le bien-être dans les pays adhérant comparer aux pays qui n’ont pas adhéré.
description: Repères et Perspectives Economiques, Vol. 6, No 1 (2022)
Predicting airport screening officers visual search competency with a rapid assessment
Creators: name: Mitroff, Stephen
name: Ericson, Justin
name: Sharpe, Benjamin
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2017

description: Visual search is a vital cognitive ability for a variety of professions, including airport security, radiology, and the military. Given the importance of such professions, it is necessary maximize performance, and one means to do so is to select individuals based upon their visual search competency. Recent work has suggested that it is possible to quickly classify individuals as strong or weak visual searchers (Ericson, Kravitz, & Mitroff, Psychonomic Society 2016); demonstrating that those who started out faster and more accurate were more likely to have superior performance later in the task. A critical question is whether it is possible to predict search competency within a professional search environment. The current study examined whether a relatively quick visual search task could predict professional searchers’ actual on-job performance. Over 600 professional searchers from the USA Transportation Security Administration (TSA) completed an approximately 10-minute assessment on a tablet-based XRAY simulator (derived from Airport Scanner; Kedlin Co.). The assessment contained 72 trials that were simulated XRAY images of bags. Targets (0 or 1 per trial) were drawn from a set of 20 prohibited items, and distractors (5 to 15 per trial) were taken from a set of 100 allowed items. Participants searched for prohibited items and tapped on them with their finger. Two tutorials had to be successfully complete prior to the assessment. Performance on the assessment significantly related to three on-job measures of performance for the TSA officers: (1) detecting simulated threat items projected into actual carry-on bags, (2) detecting real threat items covertly introduced into the checkpoint, and (3) an annual proficiency exam. These findings suggest that it may be possible to quickly identify potential hires based on their core visual search competency, which could provide organizations the ability to make new hires and assess their current workforce.
Differential effects of four types of TMS on signal processing
Creators: name: Vilidaite, Greta
name: Baker, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2017

description: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is often used to link behaviour to anatomy by targeting a brain area during an associated task. Decreases in performance on that task are often explained as a suppression of stimulus-driven signals, but could also be explained by increases in neural noise. This study used a 2IFC double-pass contrast discrimination paradigm (Burgess & Colborne, 1988, J Opt Soc Am A, 5:617-627) to distinguish between these two possibilities in four types of TMS: online single-pulse (spTMS), online three-pulse repetitive (rTMS), offline continuous (cTBS) and intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS). Using standard stimulation protocols with a Magstim Super Rapid2, online TMS was applied to early visual cortex 50ms after onset of each stimulus in each interval, and offline TBS was applied before the start of the task. On each trial (200 total) two grating stimuli of random contrast were presented peripherally (position determined by phosphene localization). Half of the trials contained a 4% contrast increment in one of the intervals. The exact same trial sequence was then repeated with randomized interval order (second pass). A decrease in accuracy in the 4% target condition would indicate signal suppression whereas a reduction in consistency of responses between the two passes would indicate an increase in neural noise. Mean accuracy and consistency scores were bootstrapped within participants. It was found that spTMS reduced accuracy whereas rTMS decreased consistency. This implies that spTMS decreases signal strength whilst rTMS increases neural noise without affecting the stimulus-driven signal. Offline stimulation (cTBS, iTBS) did not affect accuracy or consistency. This is the first study to compare several types of TMS using a single paradigm that can dissociate noise from suppression. These findings can explain inconsistencies in results between previous studies using different TMS protocols and so comparisons across protocols should be made with caution.
Additional file 2 of TonEBP inhibits ciliogenesis by controlling aurora kinase A and regulating centriolar satellite integrity
Creators: name: Chinbold, Batchingis
name: Kwon, Hyug Moo
name: Park, Raekil
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 2
Concentration bancaire et rentabilité des banques dans les pays de la zone Franc CFA
Creators: name: MELA, Christel
name: DONGHO WAMBA TEJIO, Willi Verlaine
name: MOUDJARE HELGATH, Bybert
Publisher: name: Repères et Perspectives Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: concentration bancaire ; rentabilité bancaire ; zone franc ; effets fixes ; 2SLS

description: L’objectif de cette étude a été d’évaluer l’effet de la concentration bancaire sur la rentabilité dans la zone franc CFA. L’échantillon a porté sur 9 pays couvrant la période 2006- 2019. Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, nous avons utilisé la technique d’estimation à effet fixe inspiré du modèle Demirgüç-Kunt et Huizinga (1999). Les résultats de l’étude montrent que : i) la rentabilité bancaire (mesurée par ROA) affecte positivement et de façon significative sur la rentabilité bancaire. ii) Dans la même veine, les crédits bancaires accordés et la taille du secteur bancaire agissent positivement mais de façon non significative sur la rentabilité bancaire (ROA). Cependant, le coût d’exploitation, le taux d’inflation et les capitaux propres agissent négativement, mais de façon non significative sur la rentabilité bancaire (ROA). En utilisant les autres mesures de la rentabilité bancaire (MNI et ROE) et la méthode des doubles moindres carrés (2SLS), nous trouvons les mêmes résultats.
description: Repères et Perspectives Economiques, Vol. 6, No 1 (2022)
The interaction of target-distractor similarity and visual search efficiency for basic features
Creators: name: Calden Wloka
name: Yoo, Sang-Ah
name: Sengupta, Rakesh
name: Tsotsos, John K.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2017

description: Visual search efficiency is commonly measured by the relationship between subject response time (RT) and display set size. Basic features are visual features for which a singleton target can be found efficiently (RT independent of set size), a situation commonly referred to as pop-out. However, the seminal work of Duncan and Humphreys (1989) demonstrated that visual search RT is also correlated with the degree of target-distractor similarity. As similarity of the target with its surrounding distractors increases (and thus the target becomes more difficult to distinguish) RT can dramatically increase. Wolfe (1998a) identified this category as hard feature search, but left both an in-depth analysis of the transition from standard feature search to a hard search as well as the efficiency of hard search largely unexplored beyond a small number of orientation trials. As far as we are aware, the interaction of these two independent factors remains relatively unstudied. For colour and size, two basic features identified by Wolfe (1998b), we systematically vary target-distractor difference and set size, finding that we can induce a transition from efficient to inefficient search for singleton targets in both colour and size, and the magnitude of the inefficiency increases with search difficulty.
Convergence of the Economies of Nigeria and Cameroon: An Empirical Verification with the Ben-David Model
Creators: name: TCHIEUZING, Romuald Fernand Awoutcha
name: FOTSING WAFFO, Florent Ulrich
name: MBONDO, Georges Dieudonné
Publisher: name: Repères et Perspectives Economiques
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economic convergence; economic growth; trade openness; Ben David model.

description: The purpose of this paper is the study of the convergence of the economies of Nigeria and Cameroon. Are these neighboring countries with an increasingly high level of trade converging? It thus seeks, on the one hand, to verify whether the standards of living (income per capita) of the two economies tend to approach each other over time and, on the other hand, to determine the time necessary for the two countries to fill by half the gap that separates them. Ben David's (1996) empirical model is estimated using WDI time series. The results show that Cameroon reduces the per capita income gap that separates it from Nigeria. The half-life of the convergence process indicates that Cameroon will manage to close half of the gap that separates it from Nigeria in 37 years, all things remaining equal. Thus, if Cameroon wants to accelerate its catch-up, the improvement of its savings rate, its labor productivity and its economic growth rate must be at the heart of economic policies.
description: Repères et Perspectives Economiques, Vol. 6, No 1 (2022)
Rirha : chronique des fouilles, années 2018-2019
Creators: name: Kbiri Alaoui, Mohamed
name: Ichkhakh, Abdelfattah
name: Rocca, Elsa
name: Carrato, Charlotte
name: Alilou, M’hamed
name: Broisch, Manuela
name: Dupinay, Kathleen
name: Hassini, Hicham
name: Mathieu, Véronique
name: Munos, Sébastien
name: Roux, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
بصمات برغواطية: دراسة حول حضارة برغواطة المنقرضة بتامسنا لخديجة الخديري وأحمد سراج، دار أبي رقراق، الرباط، 2019، 152 ص
Creators: name: الفاتحي, حميد
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
المتاحف وأفكار النهضة: الاكتشاف والانتكاس، رضوان خديد (رحالون مشارقة ومغاربة في المتاحف الأوربية من القرن 17 إلى بداية القرن 20م) منشورات باب الحكمة، 2019، 233 ص
Creators: name: المكاوي, احمد
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
صناعة الزيت بالمغرب القديم لعلي واحدي، منشورات مختبر البيبليوغرافيا التحليلية والتوثيق للتراث المغاربي، كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية - ظهر المهراز- فاس، 2017، 441 ص
Creators: name: البوزيدي, سعيد
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
« Les paysages gravés du Haut Atlas marocain », Laurent Auclair, Abdelhadi Ewague et Benoît Hoarau, Ed. Érrance, Paris, 2018, 222 p.
Creators: name: Oumouss, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
« Le patrimoine bâti au Maroc : Vulnérabilité, sauvegarde et requalification », El Harrouni Khalid, Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2019, 113 p.
Creators: name: Kharmich, Hassane
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
« Lhajra Lmaktouba » : un nouveau site d’art rupestre de l’Oriental marocain (province de Figuig)
Creators: name: Aouraghe, Hassan
name: Ewague, Abdelhadi
name: Bengamra, Said
name: Fagrouch, Abdeslem
name: Haddoumi, Hamid
name: Lemjidi, Abdelkhalek
name: Souhir, Mohamed
name: Mhamdi, Hicham
name: El Atmani, Abderrahman
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
« Mémoires de l’absence : Les Juifs vus par les Musulmans au Maroc », Aomar Boum, traduction de Khalid Ben-Srhir, Université Internationale de Rabat, 2018, 285 p.
Creators: name: Lamghibchi, Omar
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Aircraft Recycling and Circular Economy
Creators: name: Reichert, Thomas
name: Brantsch, Peter
name: Hanich-Spahn, Ronny
name: Höhne, Carl-Christoph
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Clean Sky
Clean Aviation
Eco-Design TA
Aviation
ecoDESIGN
Sustainability
Productivity
End-of-Life
Recycling
Circular Economy
Circular additive

description: Research for Recycling and Circular Economy has a long tradition in Fraunhofer; e.g. are the Circular Economy Symposia in the early 90-ies and the new Aircraft Recycling Symposia starting 2013. What are the main tasks at the aircraft end of life? 1. decommissioning, 2. careful disassembly and 3. dismantling. For economic and ecological reasons, the aim is to achieve the highest possible percentage of reuse and recycling rate. In the case of recycling, a distinction is “differentiate between the use of secondary components and secondary raw materials”. Accordingly, a distinction can also be made between a component recycling quota and a material recycling quota. Current aircraft achieve a recycling rate, based on mass, of between 60 % and 85 %, and the aim is to achieve more. In the presentation several Clean Sky projects were introduced to develop and improve the recycling routes of the various materials used in aircraft components. The presentation will show how the projects are linked to a central cooperation recycling.
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND PHOTOCTALYTIC ACTIVITY OF ALUMINIUM-IRON MIXED OXIDE NANOPARTICLES FOR PHOTODEGRADATION OF CONGO RED
Creators: name: YONAS WELDEMARIAM MENGESHA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011

description: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND PHOTOCTALYTIC ACTIVITY OF 

ALUMINIUM-IRON MIXED OXIDE NANOPARTICLES FOR 

PHOTODEGRADATION OF CONGO RED
Oral bacteria, stem cells and neutrophils in vitro
Creators: name: Hieke, Cathleen
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 570 Life science

description: Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease induced by bacteria from oral biofilms. Bacteria interact with host cells and can subsequently provoke activation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). In this study, an in vitro model was applied to investigate interactions between periodontal pathogens, i.e., P. intermedia, T. forsythia and P. gingivalis, human dental stem cells (hDFSCs) and PMNs. HDFSCs modulate immune activity of PMNs after infection with oral bacteria implying general suitability of hDFSCs in tissue regeneration strategies after tissue damage in periodontal infections.
Untersuchung des antifibrotischen Potenzials von Foxf1-siRNA im Modell der akuten und chronischen CCl4-Leberschädigung
Creators: name: Rotberg, Tobias
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird ein gentherapeutischer Ansatz unter der Nutzung des Prinzips der RNA-Interferenz verwendet, um die Progression der Leberzirrhose im akuten und chronischen CCl4-Schädigungsmodell in vivo zu untersuchen. Foxf1, als aktivierender Transkriptionsfaktor der Hepatischen Sternzelle, war Target des antifibrotischen Ansatzes. Die entsprechende therapeutische siRNA wurde mittels Lipoplex-basiertem Vektor in die Zielzelle eingebracht. Trotz eines Foxf1-Silencings im akuten Modell, zeigten sich weder im akuten noch im chronischen Versuchsmodell antifibrotische Effekte.
La montagne d’Igīlīz et le pays des Arghan : enquête archéologique sur les débuts de l’empire almohade au Maroc (chronique de la campagne de fouilles 2019)
Creators: name: Ettahiri, Ahmed S.
name: Fili, Abdallah
name: Van Staëvel, Jean-Pierre
name: Belatik, Mohamed
name: Capel, Chloé
name: Clavel, Benoit
name: De Keukelaere, Pauline
name: Doukali, Hasna
name: Elbourkadi, Ikhlass
name: Minvielle-Larousse, Nicolas
name: Schwerdtner, Ronald
name: Serrat, Ihssane
name: Wech, Pierre
name: Zizouni, Abdeslam
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Method support for enterprise architecture management capabilities
Creators: name: Wißotzki, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 000 Generalities, Science
subject: 650 Management & auxialiary services

description: "What can our EA organization do and/or what should it be capable of?". In order to answer this questions, a capability-based method is developed, which assists in the identification, structuring and management of capabilities. The approach is embedded in a process comprising four building blocks providing appropriated procedures, concepts and supporting tools evolved from theory and practical use cases. The guide represents a flexible method for capability newcomers and experienced audiences to optimize enterprises’ economic impacts of EAM supporting the alignment of business and IT.
Volubilis II : « Walili des Awrabas aux Mérinides » campagne de fouille 2018-2019
Creators: name: Fenteress, Lisa
name: Fenwick, Corisande
name: Limane, Hassan
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Implementation of inertia and damping terms into the idealized structural unit method
Implementierung von Trägheits- und Dämpfungstermen in der ISUM
Creators: name: Oksina, Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Within the present thesis applicability of the ISUM is extended to dynamic collapse analyses of steel plate panels. Inertia effects are included by formulating the consistent mass matrix for ISUM plate element. Damping properties are represented by the Rayleigh damping model. The explicit central difference method and the implicit Newmark’s method are implemented to perform the numerical integration of the system of nonlinear differential equations of second order. Dynamic collapse behavior of different rectangular plate panels under longitudinal, transverse and biaxial thrust is investigated.
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM IN KONSO WOREDA: ITS STRUCTURE, PARTICIPATION, IMPACT AND CHALLENGES
Creators: name: TAMIRU BURAYNA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL ADULT 

LITERACY PROGRAM IN KONSO WOREDA: ITS STRUCTURE,

PARTICIPATION, IMPACT AND CHALLENGES
Projet intégré de partenariat franco-marocain : recherches archéologiques et documentation du patrimoine culturel et naturel dans la province de Smara, Sahara atlantique marocain
Creators: name: Alaoui, Abdellah
name: Ewague, Abdelhadi
name: Baibba, Mohammed
name: El Hamri, Mustapha
name: Zdaidat, Noreddine
name: El Boukâa, Jamal
name: Bouliha, Mattouha
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Über nichtnegative Matrixfaktorisierungen und geometrische Algorithmen zur Approximation ihrer Lösungsmengen
Creators: name: Moog, geb. Jürß, Annekathrin
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematics

description: Diese Arbeit ist der Analyse der Lösungsmengen nichtnegativer Matrixfaktorisierungen gewidmet. Ein  Anwendungsproblem ist durch die sogenannte Reinkomponentenzerlegung in der Spektroskopie gegeben. Es wird die Menge aller möglichen nichtnegativen Voll-Rang-Faktorisierungen untersucht und niedrigdimensional dargestellt. Weiter werden geometrische Eigenschaften der  Lösungsmenge betrachtet. Es erfolgt eine Verallgemeinerung der Ansätze für approximative nichtnegative Faktorisierungen. Für Matrizen vom Rang 3 und 4 werden  Algorithmen zur Approximation der Lösungsmenge entwickelt.
Prognostische Bedeutung von Fetuin-A, FGF-23 und Sclerostin für die langfristige Rehabilitation nach operativer Versorgung einer osteoporotischen Fraktur des proximalen Femur
Creators: name: Steffen, Claas Jasper
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Osteoporotische Frakturen des proximalen Femur sind mit hoher postoperativer Mortalität, Morbidität und langfristig mit eingeschränkter körperlicher Funktion assoziiert. 
In dieser Studie konnten wir zeigen, dass postoperativ bestimmtes Fetuin-A, jedoch nicht die perioperativ gemessenen FGF-23- und Sclerostinkonzentrationen positiv mit dem funktionellen Outcome zwei Jahre nach einer osteoporotischen Fraktur assoziiert sind.
Asserci : première station d’art rupestre de l’oued Massa
Creators: name: Ewague, Abdelhadi
name: Oukhali, Keltoum
name: Lemjidi, Abdelkhalek
name: Oumouss, Ahmed
name: Oumlil, Abdelouahed
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
A Meta Reinforcement Learning Approach for Predictive Autoscaling in the Cloud
Creators: name: Xue, Siqiao
name: Qu, Chao
name: Shi, Xiaoming
name: Liao, Cong
name: Zhu, Shiyi
name: Tan, Xiaoyu
name: Ma, Lintao
name: Wang, Shiyu
name: Wang, Shijun
name: Hu, Yun
name: Lei, Lei
name: Zheng, Yangfei
name: Li, Jianguo
name: Zhang, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predictive autoscaling (autoscaling with workload forecasting) is an important mechanism that supports autonomous adjustment of computing resources in accordance with fluctuating workload demands in the Cloud. In recent works, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been introduced as a promising approach to learn the resource management policies to guide the scaling actions under the dynamic and uncertain cloud environment. However, RL methods face the following challenges in steering predictive autoscaling, such as lack of accuracy in decision-making, inefficient sampling and significant variability in workload patterns that may cause policies to fail at test time. To this end, we propose an end-to-end predictive meta model-based RL algorithm, aiming to optimally allocate resource to maintain a stable CPU utilization level, which incorporates a specially-designed deep periodic workload prediction model as the input and embeds the Neural Process to guide the learning of the optimal scaling actions over numerous application services in the Cloud. Our algorithm not only ensures the predictability and accuracy of the scaling strategy, but also enables the scaling decisions to adapt to the changing workloads with high sample efficiency. Our method has achieved significant performance improvement compared to the existing algorithms and has been deployed online at Alipay, supporting the autoscaling of applications for the world-leading payment platform.
description: Accepted by KDD'22 Applied Research Track
La communauté Imraguen sous le prisme du genre
Creators: name: Diouri, Zainab
name: Chikhaoui, Naima
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Les Imraguen est une communauté du sud marocain, qui se prolonge jusqu’au littoral mauritanien. Une population qui s’identifie culturellement à un environnement marin, s’y ressource et en exploite les richesses. Cet espace maritime est construit par des pratiques techniques et socioculturelles, des valeurs et des représentations qui structurent le rapport des humains à la mer et définissent les modes de gouvernance associés. Tous ces aspects se dessinent sur un fond culturel régi par des différenciations et des enjeux de pouvoir complexes, à multiples facteurs discriminants intersectionnels, qui animent les vécus des hommes et des femmes. Il est question d’une division de travail impliquant des représentations, des rôles et des statuts sexués, selon une différenciation sociale ancrée. Les hommes s’occupent de la pêche, les femmes sont chargées du traitement du poisson, et au-delà de cette répartition des tâches, se forge tout un système social à portée anthropologique. Un système imbriqué dans un contexte saharien hiérarchisé, et qui semble dévaloriser l’activité maritime et marginaliser ceux qui choisissent d’en faire un mode d’être.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Effect of organic compounds on the acid-base system of the Baltic Sea
Einfluss organischer Substanzen auf das Säure-Base-System in der Ostsee
Creators: name: Hammer, Karoline
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 550 Earth sciences
subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: The Baltic Sea is characterized by low inorganic alkalinities and high concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM). The contribution of DOM to the marine acid-base system has mostly been ignored in previous studies based on the assumption that coastal waters exhibit the same conditions as oceanic waters. The present thesis investigated concentrations and acid-base properties of total DOM, humic/fulvic acids and carboxylic acids. Conducted field, laboratory and theoretical studies revealed a not negligible contribution of organic compounds to the alkalinity in the Baltic Sea.
Le qsar des Ouled Jaber à Figuig (région de l’Oriental) : bilan et perspective des fouilles réalisées autour de la « mosquée » (2010-2016)
Creators: name: Gillot, Laurence
name: Saghir, Mabrouk
name: Del, André
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Le qsar des Ouled Jaber, situé dans l’oasis de Figuig, au nord-est du Maroc, constitue un site exceptionnel susceptible de nous informer sur les dynamiques de peuplement de la région de l’Oriental, l’évolution des formes architecturales et urbaines ainsi que les modes de vie et savoir-faire de ses populations. Cet article rend ainsi compte des prospections et fouilles menées depuis 2009, en particulier autour du seul édifice encore partiellement en place, la mosquée de Jaber, emblématique de l’histoire de Figuig, en particulier depuis le 18è siècle après J.-C. Les recherches menées par l’équipe interdisciplinaire franco-marocaine ont ainsi permis de souligner les conditions d’un développement intimement associé à l’histoire de la maîtrise de la ressource en eau qui vit s’opposer trois des communautés de l’oasis : les Jabiri, les Loudaghir et les Zenaga.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Une approche ethnoarchéologique aux études de haute montagne : entre le Jbel Sirwa et les Îles Canaries
Creators: name: Carballo-Pérez, Jared
name: Marrero-Salas, Efraín
name: Moreno-Narganes, José María
name: Ruiz-González, Hacomar
name: Sánchez-Cañadillas, Elías
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Les modèles d’occupation et de production dans les régions de haute montagne ont toujours suscité un grand intérêt pour l’archéologie par la variabilité des expressions matérielles des populations agro-pastorales passées. Certaines convergences mais surtout les divergences avec les sites aborigènes d’origine berbère des sommets de Tenerife nous permettront ici de présenter quelques réflexions pré­liminaires sur la région montagneuse du Jbel Sirwa. À partir de l’archéologie du territoire, de l’analyse archéologique du bâti et de l’ethnoarchéologie, nous approchons cette région en tant que référent actuel pour tenter d’appréhender la complexité de la matérialité agro-pastorale dans des contextes de haute montagne.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Recherches archéologiques dans les Jbala-Ghomara et le Rif (Maroc du Nord) : contacts, échanges et collaborations internationales de la Préhistoire à l’Islam médiéval et moderne
Creators: name: Akerraz, Aomar
name: Cressier, Patrice
name: El-Hajraoui, Mohamed Abdeljalil
name: Pintado, Jorge Onrubia
name: Touri, Abdelaziz
name: Vismara, Cinzia
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Entre 1982 et 2005, trois programmes de coopération-archéologique entre le Maroc et ses voisins européens (France, Espagne et Italie) ont été menés à bien sur le littoral méditerranéen du pays (Rif et Jbala-Ghomara). Avec des moyens matériels divers et sur des zones d’extensions différentes, ils ont généré une quarantaine de publications, selon des problématiques voisines, renouvelant en grande partie les connaissance jusqu’alors admises sur cette vaste région. Au-delà des difficultés semblables auxquelles ils se sont heurtés, et alors que les techniques aujourd’hui accessibles à tout archéologue n’étaient pas encore inventées ou disponibles, ils ont montré toute l’efficacité d’une recherche planifiée basée sur la prospection, l’archéologie extensive et l’esprit de collaboration. Au moment où l’usage indiscriminé d’Internet laisse volontiers le champ libre à une réappropriation des données acquises par d’autres, il a semblé aux auteurs de cet article qu’un travail de mémoire serait utile aux archéologues et historiens s’intéressant tant au peuplement passé du Rif (au sens large) qu’à l’historiographie de la recherche archéologique au Maroc.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Découverte d’un quartier de potiers d’époque médiévale à Dār al Barūd à Salé
Creators: name: Belatik, Mohamed
name: Limane, Hassan
name: Ettahiri, Ahmed S.
name: Ammar, Hakim
name: El Kacimi, Asmae
name: Imrani, Chaimae
name: Askaoui, Zineb
name: Benjaafar, Fadwa
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: La fouille de sauvetage menée durant la période du 16 mars au 16 avril 2017 au lieu-dit « Dār al Barūd » à Salé a permis d’étudier les vestiges archéologiques mis au jour partiellement et de façon fortuite par les travaux d’aménagement d’un complexe culturel et artistique. Cette fouille fit révéler l’intérêt historique exceptionnel du site grâce à la découverte d’un quartier de potiers d’époque médié­vale qui se singularise, à l’échelle du Maroc et du Maghreb, par sa longue durée de fonctionnement, sa foisonnante production céramique et l’importante variété typologique de ses fours. Les vestiges de la poudrière de Dār al Barūd remontant au 19e siècle attestent de la dernière phase historique et archéologique de ce site.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
sj-docx-2-aan-10.1177_02184923231187055 - Supplemental material for Sutureless valves versus aortic root enlargement for aortic valve replacement in small aortic annulus: A systematic review and pooled analysis
Creators: name: Agarwal, Rajat
name: Arnav, Amiy
name: Ranjan, Ashis
name: Mudgal, Shiv
name: Singh, Dharmendra
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology

description: Supplemental material, sj-docx-2-aan-10.1177_02184923231187055 for Sutureless valves versus aortic root enlargement for aortic valve replacement in small aortic annulus: A systematic review and pooled analysis by Rajat Agarwal, Amiy Arnav, Ashis Ranjan, Shiv Mudgal and Dharmendra Singh in Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
La production céramique médiévale de Sijilmassa (d’après les collections du Moroccan-American Project at Sijilmasa) : 2 – réflexions exploratoires et ébauche typologique
Creators: name: Capel, Chloé
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: A l’occasion d’une thèse de doctorat en archéologie consacrée à Sijilmassa (2016), le mobi­lier céramique de ce site, grand absent des publications à ce jour livrées sur la plus célèbre des cités caravanières du Maroc, a fait l’objet d’une reprise d’étude. Le présent article, tiré de cette recherche doctorale, loin d’être une analyse céramologique exhaustive du mobilier médiéval de Sijilmassa, se développe en deux parties : la première est une réflexion critique sur les travaux, publiés ou non, déjà menés sur ce sujet et tout particulièrement ceux entrepris, entre 1988 et 1998 par le Moroccan-Ame­rican Project at Sijilmasa (MAPS) ; la seconde partie propose ensuite des pistes exploratoires d’analyse et une première ébauche de typologie de ce mobilier, jusqu’alors sous-estimé, afin de démontrer la pertinence des informations, tant historiques, chronologiques que technologiques, que son étude complète, menée par un céramologue spécialiste, pourrait apporter.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Additional file 1 of Predictive modeling of perioperative patient deterioration: combining unanticipated ICU admissions and mortality for improved risk prediction
Creators: name: Bakkes, Tom H.G.F.
name: Mestrom, Eveline H.J.
name: Ourahou, Nassim
name: Kaymak, Uzay
name: de Andrade Serra, Paulo J.
name: Mischi, Massimo
name: Bouwman, Arthur R.
name: Turco, Simona
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Material 1.
Self-organizing Ti-Si-B-C-N nanocomposite coatings for wear reduction
Creators: name: Brückner, Tristan
name: Paschke, Hanno
name: Thewes, Alexander
name: Sternemann, Christian
name: Paulus, Michael
name: :Unav
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023
Subjects: coating
PECVD

description: To meet the demand for tool surfaces with enhanced wear resistance, multiphase nanostructured thin films were investigated in recent years. The formation of a nanocomposite structure, consisting of nanocrystalline (nc-) grains embedded in an amorphous (a-) matrix, results in high hardness values due to the Hall-Petch effect. Though high hardness values in these coatings are primarily achieved by nanocomposite structure, surface properties like oxidation and corrosion resistance display a stronger dependence on the a-matrix. Coating deposition was carried out by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) on quenched and tempered hot-work tool steel AISI H11 to form a homogeneous tribological protective layer with 2 to 5 micrometer thickness. The self organization in these so-called nanocomposite coatings, hindering the grains’ growth, is realized by spinodal phase segregation due to a miscibility gap between phases. In contrast to other methods that form nanostructured thin films, deposition rate is extraordinarily high (500 µm/h) due to self-organization. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) showed a nanocomposite structure by the fact that grain orientation changes multiple times within a dozen nanometers, as can be identified in Fig. 1. The Ti-Si-B-C-N coating’s hardness is 24.9 ± 1.2 GPa. The starting point for oxidation is 800 °C, with sufficient oxidation resistance up to 850 °C. These results show, that high hardness and oxidation resistance can be combined, and potentially be used as protective coatings for tools in several hot forming applications, e.g. extrusion dies.
Additional file 2 of Willingness to vaccinate their daughters against human papillomavirus among parents of Ethiopian adolescent girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zewdie, Amare
name: Kasahun, Abebaw Wasie
name: Adane, Haimanot Abebe
name: Mose, Ayenew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for cross-sectional studies used in the systematic review and meta-analysis 2022.
Première approche typologique de la céramique protoalmohade d’Igīlīz (Maroc)
Creators: name: Fili, Abdallah
name: Ettahiri, Ahmed Saleh
name: Van Staëvel, Jean-Pierre
name: Serrat, Ihssane
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Cette étude présente, pour la première fois, une vision d’ensemble du matériel céramique d’Igīlīz Hargha l’épicentre du mouvement almohade. C’est en effet de ce site que le projet révolution­naire des Unitaristes a été amorcé durant le début des années 1120 pour aboutir, près d’un quart de siècle après, à la constitution du plus grand empire que l’Occident musulman ait connu. La fouille de ce site a livré un matériel archéologique exceptionnel dont un corpus de céramiques dont nous présentons ici une infime partie. Les productions locales et celles importées des régions immédiates ou des contrées lointaines permettent d’inscrire ce site fondateur dans les dynamiques de l’époque qui dépassent le cadre rural et montagnard marginal dans lequel il est implanté.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Supplemental Material - How Workplace Gossip Shapes Interpersonal Relationships: A Qualitative Study from the Gossip Recipient’s Perspective
Creators: name: Greenslade-Yeats, James
name: Cooper-Thomas, Helena
name: Morrison, Rachel
name: Corner, Patricia D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 150310
subject: Organisation and Management Theory

description: Supplemental Material for How Workplace Gossip Shapes Interpersonal Relationships: A Qualitative Study from the Gossip Recipient’s Perspective by James Greenslade-Yeats, Helena Cooper-Thomas, Rachel Morrison, Patricia D. Corner, in Group & Organization Management
(I) Expressionsstudien von differenzierungsassoziierten Transkripten in sortierten Rindertrophoblastzellen und (II) vergleichende Analysen zur gewebe- und speziesspezifischen Nutzung des CYP19A1 Promotors P1.5/2 von Rind und Schaf
(I) Expression studies of differenciation-associated transcripts in sorted bovine trophoblast cells and (II) comparative analyses of tissue- and species-specific usage of the CYP19A1 promoter P1.5/2 of cattle and sheep
Creators: name: Polei, Marina
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 570 Life science

description: In der Arbeit wurde ein Methodenprotokoll zur Sortierung von einkernigen Trophoblastzellen (UTC) und Trophoblastriesenzellen (TGC) aus der Rinderplazenta etabliert. Aus den Genexpressionsprofilen von UTC und TGC konnten different exprimierte Gene und assoziierte biologische Funktionen identifiziert werden. Zudem wurde die bisher kontrovers diskutierte Lokalisation der östrogenspezifischen Sulfotransferase 1E1 aufgeklärt. Die spezifische Nutzung des CYP19A1 Promotors P1.5/2 von Rind und Schaf war nicht auf cis-Elemente oder eine differente Nucleosomenbesetzung zurückzuführen.
Additional file 2 of Tumor cell-induced platelet aggregation accelerates hematogenous metastasis of malignant melanoma by triggering macrophage recruitment
Creators: name: Chen, Yuyi
name: Zhou, Jie
name: Liu, Zishen
name: Wu, Tongtong
name: Li, Shumeng
name: Zhang, Yutong
name: Yin, Xiaohui
name: Yang, Guowang
name: Zhang, Ganlin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2.
Technology assessment in a globalized world
Creators: name: Hennen, Leonhard (Ed.)
name: Hahn, Julia (Ed.)
name: Ladikas, Miltos (Ed.)
name: Lindner, Ralf (Ed.)
name: Peissl, Walter (Ed.)
name: Est, Rinie Van (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2022
Subjects: Technology assessment
Global technology governance
S&T and globalization
International technology governance
Science policy advice
Open Access
Innovation governance
Globalization
Artificial Intelligence
Health technology
Biotechnology
Reflexive modernization

description: This open access book explores the relevance of the concept of technology assessment (TA) on an international and global level. Technologies play a key role in addressing global challenges such as climate change, population aging, digitization, and health. At the same time, their use increases the need for coordinated action and governance at the global level in the field of science, technology and innovation (STI). Featuring case studies on STI fields such as energy, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and health technology, as well as TA activities at the national and international levels, this book reflects on the challenges and opportunities of global technology governance. It also provides an in-depth discussion of current governmental STI cultures and systems, societal expectations, and the policy priorities needed to achieve coordinated and effective STI intervention in policymaking and public debate at the global level. Lastly, the book promotes the establishment of a forum for a truly global dialogue of TA practitioners, fostering the articulation of their needs, knowledge and perspectives.
Identification d’un nouveau jalon relatif aux nécropoles de l’Epipaléolithique du Maghreb : la grotte de Ghar Kahal à Tarhemt, province de Tétouan
Creators: name: Daugas, Jean-Pierre
name: Lafarge, Audrey
name: Bindon, Peter
name: Ballouche, Aziz
name: Raynal, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine
Year: 2020

description: Les travaux conduits dans le cadre de la coopération franco-marocaine sur le site de Ghar Kahal, de 1985 à 1988, puis sur les collections entre 1991 et 2009, ont permis de réévaluer les conceptions anciennes qui considéraient ce site comme un point mineur participant du peuplement épipaléolithique, mais, en revanche, comme une illustration privilégiée de la séquence régionale couvrant le Néolithique ancien et le Campaniforme. Des perturbations anthropiques importantes en affectent le remplissage et invalident la séquence chronostratigraphique du Néolithique théorisée en 1958 par Tarradell. En réappréciant l’importance de l’occupation épipaléolithique et en établissant un lien objectif entre celle-ci et la présence d’une nécropole organisée datée par AMS à la charnière des onzième et douzième millénaire avant notre ère, nos observations permettent de replacer le site au sein d’un ensemble culturel cohérent témoignant d’une occupation humaine du Maroc septentrional plus dense qu’elle n’avait été initialement perçue.
description: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine, Vol. 25 (2020)
Petroselinum crispum und Zingiber officinale in einer Trophoblastfunktion in-vitro-Studie
Creators: name: Haumann, Jens
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Trophoblastzellkulturen wurden in einer In-vitro-Studie mit Extrakte von Petersilien- und Ingwerwurzel beimpft und getestet. TESTVERFAHREN: LDH, MTT, Glucosekonzentration, pH-Wert, H2O2-Konzentration, lichtmikroskopische Dokumentation, Hormonkonzentrationsbestimmung hCG + Estradiol, massenspektroskopische Untersuchung der Wurzeln, sowie Elektrolytbestimmung im Extrakt.
ZUSAMENFASSUNG: Es hat sich keine signifikante Einflussnahme durch die Extrakte an den Zellkulturen gezeigt.
Beyond Conventional Approaches to Mental Health: Examining Perceptions and the Contribution of Animals in Animal-Assisted Therapy
Creators: name: Dixon, Dovile
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024

description: There has been growing interest in Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) within academia and clinical practice. Despite its perceived benefits, there persists a gap in the evidence base and comprehensive understanding of the subjective experiences of AAT and the mechanisms underlying its therapeutic effects. This thesis aims to address the gap in research and delves into examining AAT’s subjective experiences.The first section reviews existing literature on the professionals’ and clients’1 perceptions of AAT. Positive attitudes towards therapeutic interventions are crucial for their sustainability. Therefore, exploring subjective experiences of AAT was both timely and relevant. Fifteen qualitative studies were thematically analysed, which resulted in three main themes: understanding of self in relation to the animal, grounded in the present, and different from other therapies. The perceived difference in AAT was a strong theme, and the animal's presence appeared to be the main underlying factor. However, it became evident that there was a lot of uncertainty about how AAT works and what the animal does. The second section of the thesis is a research report on the qualitative study conducted with 15 professionals delivering AAT. The study examined the role of the animal. A reflexive thematic analysis of 15 interviews generated four major themes that captured animals' varied roles in AAT: providing experiential learning, developing an alternative relationship, offering a different way of processing, and collaborating in therapeutic activities. The clinical relevance of the findings is discussed, cultivating openness and curiosity towards this relatively new therapy.