cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fixing the Business of Food: The Food Industry and the SDG Challenge
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Food industry and trade
Sustainable development

description: In collaboration with the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and the Santa Chiara Lab of the University of Siena, CCSI presented its first report on Fixing the Business of Food. The document, part of a two-year effort, highlights the sustainable development challenge faced by the food industry. By proposing a Four Dimension framework, the report asks four overarching questions for companies in the food sector to address alignment with the SDGs: 1) Does the company contribute to healthy and sustainable dietary patterns through its products and strategy? 2) Are the company’s production processes economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable? 3) Are the company’s global supply chains sustainable? 4) Is the company a good corporate citizen? After an initial analysis of ten major companies in the food industry, the report makes a series of recommendations that will be addressed through this collaboration. Under this project, the partners expect to engage with industry leaders, and to consult with representatives of key reporting standards, monitoring agencies, and academic disciplines to help build a consensus on best practices, reporting standards, and supply-chain monitoring to address the areas identified and highlighted in the report. A summarized version is available here: http://ccsi.columbia.edu/files/2019/08/Alignment-with-SDGs.pdf.
How to Regulate (and Not Regulate) Social Media
Creators: Balkin, Jack
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Social media
Social media--Law and legislation
Social media--Economic aspects
Common good

description: "To understand how to regulate social media, you have to understand why you want to regulate it. I will say something about specific regulatory proposals in the last part of this essay. But I want to spend most of my time discussing the why as much as the how. Here is the central idea: Social media companies are key institutions in the 21st century digital public sphere. A public sphere doesn’t work properly without trusted and trustworthy institutions guided by professional and public-regarding norms. The goal of regulating social media is to create incentives for social media companies to be responsible and trustworthy institutions that will help foster a healthy and vibrant digital public sphere. What is the public sphere? For purposes of this essay, we can say that the public sphere is the space in which people express opinions and exchange views that judge what is going on in society. Put another way, the public sphere is a set of social practices and institutions in which ideas and opinions circulate. The public sphere is obviously crucial to democracy. But most people’s opinions aren’t about government policy. They are about sports, culture, fashion, gossip, commerce, and so on. A public sphere is more than just people sitting around talking. It is shaped and governed, and made functional or dysfunctional, rich or poor, by institutions. Most of the institutions that constitute the public sphere are private. They sit between the public and the government. There are lots of examples in the pre-digital world: print and broadcast media, book clubs, spaces for assembly and conversation, sports stadiums, theaters, schools, universities, churches, libraries, archives, museums, and so on. A digital public sphere is a public sphere that is dominated by digital media and digital technologies. Digital media become the key institutions that either maintain or undermine the health of the public sphere."
Keep an Eye on North Korean Cybercrime as COVID-19 Spreads
Creators: Wiesel, Todd
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Computer crimes
Computer security
National security
Epidemics

description: As a result of the Chinese border closure instituted by the DPRK to prevent COVID-19 from infecting the country, they will likely turn to cybercrime to make up for the economic damage.
Inhibition of BCL2 expression and activity increases H460 sensitivity to the growth inhibitory effects of polyphenon E
Creators: Borgovan, Theo
Bellistri, John-Paul
Slack, Kristen
Kopelovich, Levy
Desai, Manisha
Joe, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Oncology
Colon (Anatomy)--Cancer
Esophagus--Cancer
Bcl-2 protein family

description: The anti-cancer properties of the green tea-derived mixture Polyphenon E (Poly E) have been demonstrated in a variety of cell culture and animal models. We recently discovered that the H460 lung cancer cell line is markedly resistant to the growth inhibitory effects of Poly E compared with SW480 colon and Flo-1 esophageal cancer cells. We investigated the mechanism of H460 resistance by comparing gene expression profiles of Poly E-sensitive and -resistant cells. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering revealed that Poly E-sensitive cells clustered separately from Poly E-resistant cells, and 6,242 genes were differentially expressed between the two groups at the 0.01 level of significance. We discovered that BCL2 gene and protein expression were significantly higher in H460 cells compared with SW480 and Flo-1 cells (10.60-fold higher gene expression; P < 0.0001). Inhibition of BCL2 expression and activity, using siRNA and the small molecule inhibitor HA14-1 respectively, restored sensitivity to Poly E and induced BCL2-related apoptosis by decreasing mitochondrial membrane potential and inducing PARP cleavage. Our results suggest that increased BCL2 expression may contribute to H460 resistance to the growth inhibitory effects of Poly E. If validated in additional laboratory and clinical models, BCL2 could ultimately be used as a marker of Poly E resistance.
Mining and the SDGs: a 2020 status update
Creators: Kennedy, Solina Rose Levine
Toledano, Perrine
Rietbergen, Jennifer
De Villiers-Piaget, Hélène
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mineral industries
Mining corporations
Sustainable development

description: In September 2020, in partnership with the Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF), CCSI published a new report Mining and the SDGs: a 2020 status update as a follow-up to the 2016 Mapping Mining to the SDGs Atlas. This report provides an update on what large-scale mining companies are doing to integrate and report on SDGs in their business strategies and highlights nine practical steps that companies can take to demonstrate their commitment to achieving the Goals by the 2030 deadline. The report (in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Portuguese (BR) and Russian) is available here: https://www.responsibleminingfoundation.org/mining-and-the-sdgs/.
Table S4. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S4. Coleopteran analysis for a bulk sample from 10 to 63 cm from base of unit 4a of channel C in Bradley Fen, Whittlesey.
Table S7. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S7. Thermophile species in channel C and at other Ipswichian sites according to pollen biozonation.
Restrained shrinkage and cracking tendency of Self-Compacting Concrete incorporating supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs)
Creators: name: Niknezhad, Davood
name: Kamali-Bernard, Siham
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Les études expérimentales menées sur les constructions en béton autoplaçant (BAP) ont montré que le retrait de séchage est l'un des principaux paramètres responsables de leur fissuration. Le présent travail s’intéresse à l’étude de l'impact des additions minérales tel que le laitier de haut fourneau; les cendres volantes et le métakaolin sur le retrait empêché de béton autoplaçant (BAP). Quatre formulations de BAP avec un rapport constant eau sur liant (E/L=0,368) ont été réalisées. Trois formulations de BAP ont été fabriquées par l’usage de trois ciments industriels de norme européenne EN 197-1: CEM I 52.5N (ciment Portland), CEM III/A 52.5L (ciment au laitier) et CEM V 42.5N (ciment composé au laitier et les cendres volantes), une quatrième a été effectuée en remplaçant 15% de ciment Portland par du métakaolin. Sur la base des résultats obtenus, nous avons constaté qu’à long terme, le retrait empêché du BAP-CEM III est supérieur à celui du BAP à base de ciment portland et de CEM V. La substitution de 15% du ciment Portland par du métakaolin, a diminué le retrait, l'utilisation des additions minérales a de son coté, réduit les ouvertures de fissures d’au moins un facteur de 2.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill: A Missed Opportunity to Prepare for the Zero-Carbon Future
Creators: Kennedy, Solina Rose Levine
Toledano, Perrine
Brauch, Martin Dietrich
Mebratu-Tsegaye, Tehtena
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy
Energy policy
Energy development--Government policy
Sustainable development

description: With Nigeria’s National Assembly debating the proposed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the first quarter of 2021—after nearly two decades of attempted reform of the country’s petroleum sector—Nigeria has a unique opportunity to rethink the role of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria’s economy and build out the country’s energy sector and economic capacity for the long term. This piece provides a brief analysis of Nigeria’s PIB, highlighting the PIB’s laudable steps while identifying gaps and outlining recommendations for Nigeria to prepare for and seize the opportunity of the energy transition.
Optimisation du processus d’activation thermique par calcination flash – Cas de matériaux argileux
Creators: name: Rojo, Amandine
name: Phelipot-Mardelé, Annabelle
name: Lanos, Christophe
name: Molez, Laurent
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: Le métakaolin, produit de cuisson du kaolin, est de plus en plus utilisé en substitution du ciment Portland pour développer des produits constructifs de performance acceptable tout en réduisant l’impact environnemental. Cette étude porte sur le kaolin activé par calcination flash. L’optimisation du procédé d’activation est envisagée en raffinant les produits crus et calcinés, et en adaptant les paramètres de cuisson. Quatre prélèvements argileux, provenant d’un même site mais de composition chimique et de distribution granulométrique différentes, sont soumis à différentes conditions de calcination. La qualité des produits de cuisson est évaluée via une caractérisation physico-chimique et des essais mécaniques réalisés sur des mortiers. L’interaction entre les conditions de cuisson, la composition et la granulométrie des produits crus, et son effet sur les propriétés mécaniques des mortiers obtenus sont identifiés. Dans le cadre de cette étude, il apparaît qu’un traitement post-calcination via un tri granulaire permet d’améliorer sensiblement les performances du produit.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
Table S3. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S3. Molluscan analysis of samples from channel C in sections A and E of Bradley Fen, Whittlesey.
title: 01_0073
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
MOESM1 of Antler stem cell-conditioned medium stimulates regenerative wound healing in rats
Creators: name: Rong, Xiaoli
name: Chu, Wenhui
name: Zhang, Haiying
name: Wang, Yusu
name: Qi, Xiaoyan
name: Zhang, Guokun
name: Wang, Yimin
name: Li, Chunyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Morphological observation and colony formation of ASCs. Figure S2. Expression of surface stem cell markers in ASCs. Figure S3. Multipotency of ASCs. Figure S4. The area of each wound was calculated out using Adobe Photoshop CS6. Table S1. Primers used for qRT-PCR.
Table S1. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S1. Amino acid data on opercula of Bithynia tentaculata from unit 4a of channel C at Bradley Fen, Whittlesey determined following standard procedures.
Migrants Can Make International Law
Creators: Francis, Ama R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Emigration and immigration
International law
Climatic changes
Non-state actors (International relations)

description: Migrants have the power to make international law as norm creators. The nation-state enjoys a monopoly on violence in domestic jurisgenesis, but international law’s constraint on the use of force provides non-state actors the opportunity to participate in the formation of international legal doctrine without the threat of violence. Scholars have overlooked this nonstate jurisgenerative potential, bound by a state-centric conception of law. This Article applies the claim that non-state actors have the power to influence international law to the transnational issue of climate-induced migration. Climate change intensifies slow- and sudden-onset events, and sudden-onset disasters already displace millions annually. Yet international law grants nation-states the right to largely exclude foreigners such that climate migrants have no right to enter another country, resettle, or be protected against forcible return when they are displaced across borders. While liberal scholars defend this right to exclude as necessary for the preservation of sovereignty, the majority of nation-states participate in free movement agreements—regional trade agreements that promote migration—demonstrating that sovereignty and exclusion are not mutually constitutive. Ultimately, I leverage the challenge of climate-induced migration to ask who has the power to change international law. My response proceeds in two parts. First, the Article challenges the state-centric focus of international law to call attention to non-state actors’ ability to create legal norms. Second, I draw on diasporic theory to argue that the Global South diaspora—Global Southerners living in the Global North—should leverage their hybrid positionality to create legal norms that reconstitute sovereignty through admission. International migration theorists reproduce the paradigmatic image of a Global North and Global South border contest, and foreclose the possibility of migrant’s jurisgenerative capacity. This Article intentionally shifts the frame to highlight the power that a territorially-unbounded Global South people have to shape international legal norms.
Table S6. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S6. Vertebrate analysis for samples from 10 to 63 cm from base of unit 4a of channel C in Bradley Fen, Whittlesey, showing numbers of identified specimens (NISP) and minimum numbers of individuals (MNI) for herpetofauna, birds and mammals.
The Activation of Effect Codes in Response Preparation: New Evidence from an Indirect Priming Paradigm
Creators: name: Ziessler, Michael
name: Nattkemper, Dieter
name: Vogt, Stefan
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: action planning
subject: effect anticipation
subject: ideomotor theory
subject: motor control
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Evidence for the anticipation of environmental effects as an integral part of response planning comes mainly from experiments in which the effects were physically presented. Thus, in these studies it cannot be excluded that effect codes were activated during response preparation only because the effects were displayed as external stimuli before response execution. In order to provide more clear-cut evidence for the anticipation of response effects in action planning, we performed a series of three experiments using a new paradigm, where displaying effect codes before the response was avoided. Participants first learned arbitrary effects of key-pressing responses. In the following test phase they were instructed to execute a response only if a Go stimulus was presented after a variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). The Go stimulus was either compatible or incompatible with the effect, but independent of the response. In Experiment 1 we tested the paradigm with two responses and two effects. We found a significant compatibility effect: If the Go stimulus was compatible with the response effect, responses were initiated faster than in incompatible trials. In Experiment 2 response effects were only present in the acquisition phase, but not in the test phase. The compatibility effect disappeared, indicating that the results of Experiment 1 were indeed related to the anticipation of the forthcoming response effects. In Experiment 3 we extended this paradigm by using a larger number of stimuli and response alternatives. Again we found a robust compatibility effect, which can only be explained if the effect representations are active before response execution. The compatibility effects in Experiments 1 and 3 did not depend on the SOA. The fact that the Go stimulus affected response preparation at any time indicates that the role of effect anticipation is not limited to response selection.
Review of the 2013 MoMA exhibition: "Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light"
Creators: Riedel, Dagmar A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: History

description: The 2013 exhibition in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was part of a Franco-American project that accompanied the recent renovation of Henri Labrouste’s Bibliothèque national de France in Paris. Henri Labrouste (1801–1875) was one of the most important French Romantic architects, and among his most important public buidings are the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève and the Bibliothèque nationale at the site Richelieu in Paris.
Table S2. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S2. Plant macrofossil analysis for residue from vertebrate sample (10–63 cm from base) of unit 4a (section A) and residue of mollusc samples from unit 4b (section E) of channel C in Bradley Fen, Whittlesey.
Table S5. Evidence for the early onset of the Ipswichian thermal optimum: palaeoecology of Last Interglacial deposits at Whittlesey, eastern England
Creators: name: H.E. Langford
name: S. Boreham
name: R.M. Briant
name: G.R. Coope
name: D.J. Horne
name: K.E.H. Penkman
name: D.C. Schreve
name: N.J. Whitehouse
name: J.E. Whittaker
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Table S5. Ostracod analysis for samples from 10 to 63 cm above base of unit 4a of channel C in Bradley Fen, Whittlesey.
Influences of key stakeholders’ involvement in maintenance management
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Purpose – Proper maintenance management ensures a long-term investment and provides a support function in business continuity to achieve organisational goal. However, inadequate involvement and participation of key stakeholders in maintenance management limit the continuous improvement of maintenance performance. Currently, there is a lack of studies about the influence of key stakeholders’ involvement in maintenance. Thus, this paper deals with enhancement of maintenance management through the involvement of key stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – This research adopted mixed method approach to determine the relationship between involvement of key stakeholders in maintenance management and maintenance effectiveness. The approach comprised of literature review, questionnaire survey, and semi-structured interviews.Findings – This research suggests a positive correlation between involvement of maintenance manager, maintenance staff, organisation, user and maintenance service provider in improving the effectiveness of maintenance management. The logistic regression analysis indicated that the involvement of maintenance manager and service provider are significant predictors of maintenance effectiveness. The research further identified that there was a lack of involvement of the user and service provider in maintenance management. Originality/value – The research demonstrated that all key stakeholders should value the important roles of their participation in maintenance management to ensure an optimum return on a long-term investment. To create the awareness for the involvement of key stakeholders in building maintenance, studies on the advantages of participating in building maintenance and the impacts of ignorant towards building maintenance can be beneficial to the industry.
Simulation thermodynamique comme outil de conception
Creators: name: Forest, F.
name: Aggoun, S.
name: Kadri, E.
name: De Schutter, G.
Publisher: name: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering
Year: 2020

description: La simulation thermodynamique commence à s’utiliser dans le domaine des matériaux cimentaires. Cet outil thermodynamique est actuellement employé principalement comme moyen de vérification où d’interpolation de résultats pour des mélanges dont la composition chimique est connue de façon précise. Cependant, les avancées de cette technologie nous laissent penser qu’il est possible de l’utiliser comme outils de conception ou de préformulation permettant d’affiner et d’optimiser les matériaux cimentaires. Nous avons donc tenté à l’aide de la seule composition chimique et du taux d’hydratation de nos matériaux de simuler quatre mélanges cimentaires à base de ciment Portland, de laitier de haut fourneau et de filler calcaire. Nous avons, ensuite comparé les résultats ainsi obtenus à ceux obtenus par l’analyse DRX. Ainsi nous avons constaté que la plupart des mécanismes d’hydratation qui ont lieu dans ces mélanges ont été prédits par le calcul thermodynamique. Néanmoins, les proportions calculées par la simulation ne sont pas toutes en concordance avec ceux obtenus par les résultats DRX.
description: Academic Journal of Civil Engineering, Vol 34 No 1 (2016): Special Issue - RUGC 2016 Liège
The Psychology of Climate Change Communication: A Guide for Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides, and the Interested Public
Creators: Shome, Debika
Marx, Sabine M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Climatic changes
Climatic changes--Social aspects
Communication in science
Climate change mitigation

description: “The ultimate solutions to climate change are workable, cost-effective technologies which permit society to improve living standards while limiting and adapting to changes in the climate. Yet scientific, engineering, and organizational solutions are not enough. Societies must be motivated and empowered to adopt the needed changes. For that, the public must be able to interpret and respond to often bewildering scientific, technological, and economic information. Social psychologists are aware, through their painstaking scientific research, of the difficulties that individuals and groups have in processing and responding effectively to the information surrounding long-term and complex societal challenges. This guide powerfully details many of the biases and barriers to scientific communication and information processing. It offers a tool—in combination with rigorous science, innovative engineering, and effective policy design—to help our societies take the pivotal actions needed to respond with urgency and accuracy to one of the greatest challenges ever faced by humanity: global-scale, human-induced environmental threats, of which the most complex and far-reaching is climate change.”
Variable-Binders as Functors
Creators: Varzi, Achille C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Logic

description: The second part of Ajdukiewicz’s classic paper on Syntactic Connexion is devoted to a discussion of languages involving variable-binding operators such as quantifiers, integrals, and the like. Ajdukiewicz argues that such operators are not genuine functors, and consequently that those languages run afoul of the basic functor/argument schema. At most he suggests that all variable-binders might be restricted to one kind only, or to the combination of ordinary functors with a “circumflex” operator (the terminology is from Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica). And that suggestion has ever since become quite popular, particularly under the impact of Church’s Lambda Calculus.
Zipora Fried: Between Light and Dark
Creators: Scherling, Laura S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Art
Drawing
Solo exhibitions (Art)

description: On November 21st, 2019, Zipora Fried’s solo exhibition As the Ground Turns Solid opened at the contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co., with a series of eight large-scale drawings. As the Ground Turns Solid was on view until January 11th, 2020. In Fried’s series of pencil drawings, she examined the flora and fauna of Lamu Island, where she recently completed an art residency through the organization Tilleard Projects. Fried’s visually arresting drawings consist of painstakingly-composed lines that capture the unique features of the isolated Lamu Archipelago (located near the northern coast of Kenya) with its “explosive” sunsets, lizards, cicada bugs, birds, and fruit trees intertwining with its “infinite characteristics of the sand,” white walls, Arabic arches,” and traditional dhow boats that come and go as if “by divine providence.”
New European Bauhaus Academy - NEBAP Hub, NEBA Alliance, North Hub, and Outreach Hub
Creators: name: Kutnar, Andreja
name: Burnard, Michael
name: Kuittinen, Matti
name: Kies, Uwe
name: Jancke, Oliver
Publisher: name: University of Primorska, NEBAP Hub, Aalto University, InnovaWood
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: New European Bauhaus
subject: cocreation
subject: Sustainable architecture
subject: wood construction
subject: Climate change

description: The growing interest in timber construction, new technologies and potential applications for wood products pose new challenges for the workforce and skills in the timber construction sector. Interdisciplinary training, continuous education and lifelong learning programmes are becoming increasingly important. Platforms such as the New European Bauhaus Academy (NEBA) offer innovative approaches for new forms of knowledge transfer. 

The NEBA Alliance consortium has initiated a network of regional hubs, which bring together multiple education and training actors across European countries. In this presentation, the NEBAP Hub, the North Hub and the European Outreach Hub are introduced.

The European Wood Policy Platform "WoodPoP" organised the session “Prologue V - Perspectives of the New European Bauhaus Academy on education and training in the timber construction sector” at the Internationales Holzbau Forum (IHF) in Innsbruck, Austria, on 4 Dec 2024. The session was co-hosted by the "NEBA Alliance" project supported by CBE JU and its members under Horizon Europe grant no. 101160532.

More info: woodpop.eu | neb.academy
Relationship between Predetermined Maintenance Interval and Maintenance Performance
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Currently, lack of preventive measure is the problem that implicates poor maintenance outcome. Scheduled maintenance is claimed as a maintenance strategy to tackle the problem. However, the effectiveness of scheduled maintenance can be greatly influenced by the length of predetermined maintenance interval. Thus, this paper aims to study the relationship between length of predetermined maintenance interval and maintenance performance. The literature review identifies the length of predetermined maintenance interval as an importance characteristic of scheduled maintenance strategy. A quantitative approach is adopted and carried out through questionnaire survey. Subsequently, descriptive analysis and correlation analysis are used to analyse the collected data. Then, research result demonstrates that the length of predetermined maintenance interval is significantly correlated to the maintenance performance. The length of predetermined maintenance interval must be considered in maintenance planning and execution. The research recommends continuous monitoring or regular inspection of building systems and components to identify their condition and update the length of predetermined maintenance interval regularly. Consequently, the effective maintenance execution helps to avoid systems failure occurs and optimises maintenance performance.
[The] Breakup Speech: Can Antitrust Fix the Relationship Between Platforms and Free Speech Values?
Creators: Chilson, Neil
Mattox, Casey
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Technology
Antitrust law
Freedom of speech
Competition

description: "The ability of a concentrated few to shape the speech environment has waxed and waned throughout history. The printing press exploded elite control over ideas, leading to revolution, conflict, and an unprecedented sustained increase in living standards (sometimes called “the Great Enrichment”). More recently, powerful publishers and broadcasters lost their gatekeeper role in the eruption of communications facilitated by internet platforms. As a result, the average person today possesses an ability and freedom to speak to a broad audience that is unparalleled in human history. This freedom can and has been abused, and thus platforms face political and market pressure to control the speech on their services. People across the political spectrum accuse platforms of fostering hate, censoring speech, and harming journalism. Based on largely instinctual assessments that platforms face little competitive pressure on how they govern speech, some have sought to expand antitrust enforcers’ mandate beyond competition values. Many question whether and to what degree large platforms are guilty of the accused harms. We touch on this debate. But our primary method is to assume such harms are serious and examine the proposed solutions. Our conclusion: If private platform power over the speech environment is a problem, antitrust is the wrong solution. Competition can promote consumers’ free speech preferences. However, increasing the number of competitors will not help because current free speech concerns are not caused by a lack of competition. In fact, unleashing antitrust regulators to pursue non-competition-related goals would threaten free speech values. Removing key constraints on antitrust’s powerful tools—tools with a history of abusive and arbitrary use—would weaken antitrust’s ability to protect the competitive process and increase the risk that governments and others will abuse such tools to interfere with speech."
Enhancing Building Maintenance Cost Performance with Proper Management of Spare Parts
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Purpose: Scheduled building maintenance requires appropriate and adequate spare parts to replace existing parts on a regular basis. Management of spare parts is seen as an important criterion to ensure the efficiency of scheduled maintenance. Thus, this paper aims to identify the contributors of spare parts management and investigate the relationship between these contributors and maintenance cost performance. Design/Methodology/Approach: This research adopted a quantitative approach, which utilised questionnaire surveys to study the relationship between the contributors of spare parts management and maintenance cost performance. The data was analysed through descriptive analysis, correlation, and regression analysis. Additionally, a case study was examined to validate the results obtained from the survey. Findings: The results of this research demonstrated that the quality of spare parts, budget allocation for acquisition of spare parts, and level of stocks were significantly correlated to the maintenance cost variance. Moreover, the results of the regression analysis indicated that the quality of spare parts was the significant predictor of maintenance cost variance.  Originality/Value: This research highlights the importance of spare parts management in building maintenance. It recommends that maintenance management set up a spare parts management department for updating stocks frequently. Meanwhile, the management should avoid ad-hoc acquisition of spare parts, as this is always more expensive. The management should also select spare parts based on quality instead of lowest cost. In addition, building managers should also apply the developed regression model in practice to predict and improve maintenance performance. 
Interval of Routine Maintenance and Maintenance Performance: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: In high-rise residential buildings, the quality of facilities management services is significant to the normal operation of the facilities. Unfortunately, lack of concern towards building maintenance, especially preventive maintenance, happens in domestic housing industry in Malaysia. Majority of the maintenance operations of condominiums suffer from lack of planning, lack of proactive maintenance plan, and lack of proper implementation. Thus, this paper reviews the implementation of preventive maintenance strategy, routine maintenance in specific. An extensive review of literature published in 1987 to 2014 is performed for the purpose of this research. The publications are sourced from journal articles, conference proceedings and books. The literature analysis confirms that the routine maintenance of facilities and building services is vital and it can be influential towards the maintenance performance. Subsequently, a theoretical framework is developed, which shows the relationship between routine maintenance of building facilities & services and maintenance performance. The building facilities & services are divided into two categories. They are essential facilities & services that ensure the safety, health, habitability, and operability of buildings; while value-added facilities & services deal with property value, return on investment, and quality living of buildings. Based on the findings, a future research is proposed, which aims to identify the appropriate routine of maintenance for the facilities and services in high-rise residential buildings to improve the maintenance performance.
Preventive Maintenance Characteristics towards Optimal Maintenance Performance A Case Study of Office Buildings
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Lack of preventive measure is currently the problem that implicates poor building maintenance performance and issue on sustainability of buildings in Malaysia. Whereby, preventive maintenance is an effective approach to enhance the reliability and quality of a system and its components. This study seeks to investigate the characteristics of preventive maintenance towards the overall performance in building maintenance. Case study approach is adopted to identify the maintenance characteristics and aspects that lead to good performance. The research findings demonstrate that the most significant maintenance characteristics towards overall performance are skill and knowledge of maintenance labour, quality of spare parts and materials, length of predetermined maintenance interval, skill and knowledge of maintenance manager, capability to adopt maintenance equipment and technique, budget allocation for acquisition of maintenance data, reliability of maintenance data, as well as frequency of monitoring and inspection. As a conclusion, the significant maintenance characteristics must be taken into consideration to achieve optimal maintenance performance. In order to improve the effectiveness of maintenance strategy and the maintenance performance, the study recommends practice and provision of communication platform such as meeting and customer satisfaction survey that involves all the key participants from clients to customers.
Participative Mechanisms to Improve Office Maintenance Performance and Customers' Satisfaction
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Buildings can be poorly maintained due to lack of understanding towards the role of building maintenance in achieving organisation's objective and long-term profitability. The maintenance management is the agent that provides maintenance services to fulfil the needs of the organisation. However, involvement of all the key participants is the key to enhance maintenance planning, execution, and outcome. Whereby, participative mechanism involves the key participants to deal with the maintenance issues. Thus, this paper seeks to identify the participative mechanisms through literature review; then, establish relationship between the mechanisms and maintenance performance through questionnaire survey and interview; and finally produce a regression model for prediction purpose. The findings reveal that effective communication among the key participants is vital to enhance the maintenance performance. Therefore, this paper recommends that the management should develop an effective communication platform involving all key participants with contribution and commitment toward the maintenance activities.
Optimising Maintenance Cost Performance with Skilled Technicians
Creators: name: Au-Yong, Cheong Peng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 120503 Housing Markets, Development, Management
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management

description: Purpose – High-maintenance cost is the common issue in building industry due to low service quality of maintenance management in Malaysia. Lack of preventive measure is the problem that implicates poor maintenance performance. Scheduled maintenance is suggested to improve the maintenance performance. However, the effectiveness of scheduled maintenance can be greatly influenced by the availability of skilled technicians. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify the aspects of skilled technician to be concerned in maintenance management, as well as to establish the relationship between the aspects and maintenance cost performance.
Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative approach is adopted and carried out through questionnaire survey. Furthermore, descriptive analysis and correlation analysis are used to analyse the research data.
Findings – The literature review identifies three aspects of skilled technician to be concerned in maintenance management. Then, research result demonstrates that the skill and knowledge of technician is significantly correlated to the maintenance cost variance. The skill and knowledge of technician must be considered in maintenance planning and execution.
Originality/value – The research recommends the maintenance management to employ skilled technician through thorough hiring process and to encourage the existing maintenance staff for participating the relevant training, workshop, or seminar.
MOESM1 of MicroRNA-451 is downregulated in the follicular fluid of women with endometriosis and influences mouse and human embryonic potential
Creators: name: Li, Xiong
name: Zhang, Wenbi
name: Fu, Jing
name: Xu, Yan
name: Gu, Ruihuan
name: Qu, Ronggui
name: Li, Lu
name: Sun, Yijuan
name: Sun, Xiaoxi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. MicroRNAs with high expression levels (Raw Ct < 30), identified by miRNA array between follicular fluid samples from control and endometriosis patients.
title: Einführung
title: in: Christliche Sozialethik
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Heimbach-Steins, Marianne
name: Becka, Michelle
name: Frühbauer, Johannes J.
name: Kruip, Gerhard
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 241 Christian ethics
subject: 230 Christianity
subject: 300 Social sciences, Anthropology

description: Die Publikation des Lehrbuchs wird gefördert durch: die Ketteler-Studienstiftung im Bistum Mainz und den Verein der Freunde des Instituts für christliche Sozialwissenschaften der WWU.