cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Carbon Contracts for Difference as an Instrument for Strengthening Climate Cooperation between Industrialized and Emerging Economies
Creators: name: Lüpke, Heiner Von
name: Marchewitz, Catherine
name: Neuhoff, Karsten
name: Aebischer, Charlotte
name: Kröger, Mats
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Q40 Energy: General
subject: Q41 Energy: Demand and Supply
subject: Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
subject: Q48 Energy: Government Policy
subject: climate policy
subject: international climate finance
subject: cooperation
subject: decarbonisation

description: Industrialized countries and emerging economies must cooperate in order to decarbonize the emissions-intensive industrial sector and to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While Germany and the other G7 countries have committed to supporting emerging economies in their efforts to combat climate change via international climate finance, it remains to be seen how this support can be implemented successfully. A wide variety of cooperation initiatives that could form a foundation for climate financing - such as climate clubs, partnerships, and alliances - are currently being discussed. However, the incentives to cooperate are not the same for industrialized and emerging countries. As of 2022, the climate club discourse centers on carbon prices, a carbon border adjustment mechanism, incentives for club membership, and sanctions for non-compliance. Financial-technical support for emerging countries has not been discussed sufficiently. Building on interviews with steel sector representatives, international organizations, the financial sector, and think tanks from both the European Union and emerging and developing countries, this paper analyzes existing gaps in cooperation. Moreover, it discusses how international carbon contracts for difference (CCfDs) can support the decarbonization of the steel industry.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 38, S. 229-235
South Korea's developmentalism and contemporary telecommunications industry (1990s to the present) : what changed, what remains the same and why?
Creators: name: KIM, Marie Kangyeon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This paper seeks to explicate the diminishing significance of South Korea’s “industrial policy practices” in the context of that country’s economic development, using the telecommunications industry during the period 1990 – the present as a case study. Drawing upon the work of scholars like Peter Evans and Meredith Woo-Cummings of the Institutional School and Martin Hart-Landberg, who is associated with Historical Structuralism, I shall examine the idealistic and pragmatic/political components underpinning South Korea’s developmental culture, embodied in the so-called Korean Developmental state. This paper acknowledges the “nationalistic” vision informing “Korean Developmentalism” and its influence on contemporary policymaking in IT-related industries throughout the 1990s and continuing up to the present. It also examines the decline in state autonomy in the area of policymaking due to political realignment (among state, private and foreign capital in the context of local policymaking) and loss of bureaucratic efficacy (due to the lack of organizational coherence) and the diminishing relevance of the state’s “strategic” vision in the eyes of local private capital throughout the 1990s and continuing through to the present. Two sets of empirical cases are examined here with a view to illustrating the challenges facing “strategic policymaking” during different periods. The first two pertain to the liberalization process in telecommunications markets (early 1990s-mid 1990s) and the 1994 policy of standardizing network technology in the domestic 2G market. Next, I shift my focus to examining the strategic policymaking process during the post-financial crisis (1997-1998) and post-WTO (1997) periods. First, I examine Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC)’s failure to groom “national champions” in the service sector in the context of the 2001-2003 M&A bidding war over Hanaro between AIG- Newbridge Capital and LG. Finally, this paper draws attention to another MIC policy setback during the period extending from the early 2000s through to the mid 2000s: the failure to coordinate network technology in the 3G mobile market owing to inability on the part of MIC to persuade local service providers to adopt its choice of technology.
title: Consumer Debt: Many Borrowers Unaware of Their Interest Rates; Cost Display Influences Likelihood of Accepting Credit Scenario
Creators: name: Gipp, Antonia
name: Hamdan, Jana
name: Menkhoff, Lukas
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: D18 Consumer Protection
subject: Household finance
subject: consumer debt
subject: financial literacy

description: The consumer debt of households in Germany totals in the triple-digit billions and is characterized by a wide range of interest rates. Despite the high volume of debt, many people do not know the terms of their consumer credit contracts. This report analyzes new survey data on general knowledge about typical forms of consumer credit, such as the overdraft facility and consumer loans. Women tend to know less about the interests they pay and are less financially literate. Financial literacy correlates with being informed about interest rates, but is independent of the incidence of consumer debt in general. An experiment reveals respondents are fundamentally price sensitive and that cost display influences the decision to take out consumer credit. For example, there is a significantly higher willingness to take out a consumer loan when the costs are presented per month in euros compared to per year. Consumer protection in financial services should examine these effects, consider them in an evidence-based manner where appropriate, and adjust information disclosure requirements, especially for the overdraft facility. The research findings also support implementing more financial literacy initiatives, especially for women.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 37, S. 218-226
Supplementary document for 10μJ noise-like pulse generated from all fiberized Tm-doped fiber oscillator and amplifier - 5134419.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Meng
name: Yewang, Chen
name: Zhao, Junqing
name: Liu, Minqiu
name: OUYANG, DEQIN
name: Pei, Jihong
name: Ruan, Shuangchen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supplemented Figures
title: Contracts for Difference Support the Expansion of Renewable Energy Sources while Reducing Electricity Price Risks
Creators: name: Kröger, Mats
name: Neuhoff, Karsten
name: Richstein, Jörn
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Q40 Energy: General
subject: Q41 Energy: Demand and Supply
subject: Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
subject: Q48 Energy: Government Policy
subject: D44 Auctions
subject: G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms
subject: Contracts for Differences
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Support Mechanisms

description: The German Federal Government passed the “Easter Package” in July 2022, which envisages a number of measures for the expansion of renewable energy sources. The package retains sliding market premiums as a remuneration mechanism, which protect electricity producers unilaterally, while contracts for difference (CfDs), which also protect electricity customers, are only used in the offshore wind sector. However, CfDs could lead to a reduction in financing costs and reduce electricity price risks for producers as well as households and companies. The decline in financing costs would strengthen the expansion of renewable energy sources. In this context, a simplified market value model and further developing the reference yield model could ensure a system-friendly expansion of renewable energy sources.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 35/36, S. 205-213
Protapion angusticolle
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Protapion
Protapion angusticolle

description: Protapion angusticolle (Gyllenhal, 1833)
Distribution in Iran. Iran (no exact locality cited) (Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2017).
General distribution. Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Morocco, Syria, Ukraine.
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365
title: Conversion and Reversion from amnestic MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment)
Creators: name: Kodama, Naoki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dementia
subject: Education
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is thought to be a transition stage between normal cognitive aging and dementia. Although subjects with MCI may progress to dementia, a significant number may remain stable over time and some even return to a...
title: Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten
Creators: name: Lohwaßer, Roswitha
name: Braun, Claudia
name: Musil, Andreas
name: Kludt, Steffen
name: Schroeder, Christoph
name: Jostes, Brigitte
name: Kortenkamp, Ulrich
name: Goetz, Ilka
name: Rüdiger, Marie
name: Hackel, Manuela
name: Brzezinski, Jan
name: Polziehn, Tabea
name: Faulian, Ariane
name: Goral, Johanna
name: Wendland, Mirko
name: Zurek, Peter-Paul
name: Nyagolova, Maya
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung; 32
Fremuthiella iranica
Creators: name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Colonnelli, Enzo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae
Fremuthiella
Fremuthiella iranica

description: Fremuthiella iranica (Bajtenov & Fremuth, 1981)
Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Nikdel 2015), Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Bajtenov & Fremuth 1981 as Apion (Pseudoprotapion) iranicum; Legalov et al. 2010).
General distribution. Endemic to Iran.
Plant associations in Iran. Astragalus chrysostachys Boiss., Astragalus persicus (DC.) Fisch. & C.A. Mey (Fabaceae) (Nikdel 2015).
description: Published as part of Ghahari, Hassan & Colonnelli, Enzo, 2020, An annotated checklist of the Iranian Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4759 (2) on page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4759.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3737365
title: Pancreatic head carcinoma in a romanian study group – correlations between tumor size, common bile duct and Wirsung duct
Creators: name: Florescu, Lucian Mihai
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Cancer
subject: Surgery
subject: Removal
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Pancreas
subject: Oncology
subject: Abdomen

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pancreatic cancers are often an aggressive type of malignancy considered to be one of the leading causes of death among patients diagnosed with various types of cancer [1, 2] . Unfortunately, patients with pancreatic head cancers are usually...
Supplemental Material for Adak et al., 2021
Creators: name: Adak, Alper
name: Conrad, Clarissa
name: Chen, Yuanyuan
name: Wilde, Scott C.
name: Murray, Seth C.
name: Anderson, Steven
name: Subramanian, Nithya K.
Publisher: name: GSA Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 300406
subject: Crop and pasture improvement (incl. selection and breeding)

description: Primer development and designs
used in KASP genotyping are given in Table S1 and S2. Table S3 contains the
number of row plots of HIFs with their population background and SNPs
information. Tables S4 and S5 contain the results of explained percent
variations estimated by Equations 2 and 3 respectively for ruler measurements.
Figures S3 and S4 contain the BLUEs for SNPs and the interaction of SNPs with
populations obtained by Equation 2 for ruler measurements. Figure S5 contains the BLUEs for flowering
times estimated by Equation 3. Figures S6 and S7 contain the BLUEs for the interactions
between both SNPs and combined interactions between SNPs and populations
respectively for ruler measurements estimated by Equation 3. Figure S8 contains
Pearson correlations between UAS-PHT with ruler measured means and median.
Figure S9 contains the linkage disequilibrium decay plots for each chromosome.
Investigating the role of sucrose synthase in Arabidopsis thaliana and hybrid poplar
Creators: name: Chen, Tsung Jeng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Sucrose synthase (SuSy) cleaves sucrose to produce fructose and UDP-glucose, the latter serving as the precursor for cellulose biosynthesis. Sucrose synthase often exists as many isoforms in plants; for example, Arabidopsis has six isoforms. Along with it role in routine metabolism, sucrose synthase is also important during stress conditions. For example, during hypoxia plants can accumulate reduced substances, often to phytotoxic levels, as well as displaying energy deprivation stemming from the reduced levels of oxygen. Given that SuSy is more energetically efficient than invertase it therefore plays important roles in combatting hypoxic stress. This thesis describes transgenic studies involving functional complementation of sus1/sus4 Arabidopsis mutants, as well as overexpression of exogenous SuSy in wild-type Arabidopsis plants under hypoxia to determine if the Populus trichocarpa (Pt) SuSy1 and 2 genes are functionally conserved orthologs of the Arabidopsis SuSy1 and SuSy4 isoforms. Real-time PCR and microscopy were employed quantify and observe the YFP reporter, respectively. Changes in Arabidopsis plant stem height under hypoxia documented abnormalities in plant growth. Under hypoxia, sus1/sus4 Arabidopsis plants displayed slowed stem growth, while all transgenic lines (complemented sus1/sus4 and over-expressed wild-type plants) grew normally. Histochemical staining of stem cross sections, demonstrated that the sus1/sus4 mutants subject to hypoxia displayed thickened xylem cell walls, and possessed increased in cell wall glucose content and hemicellulose-derived carbohydrates. Together, the findings suggest the conserved functionality of the PtSuSy1 and PtSuSy2 orthologs. Real-time PCR was employed to determine the transcript abundance of PtSuSy1 and PtSuSy2 in poplar in several tissues (phloem, cambium, and leaf) collected over 24 hours and a complete growing season. Examination of SuSy in the three tissues revealed a minor role for SuSy1 and SuSy2 in source tissues as levels of SuSy expression were consistently lower in both diurnal and annual samples. In all samples, PtSuSy1 was consistently more highly expressed than PtSuSy2 suggesting a more essential role in sucrolysis during active growth. The role of SuSy in sucrolysis was further reinforced as the expression of SuSy in both diurnal and annual tissues was constantly associated with plant growth during which UDP-glucose would be in high demand.
title: From Hartz IV to Bürgergeld: Reform Preferences of the Long-Term Unemployed
Creators: name: Beckmann, Fabian
name: Heinze, Rolf G.
name: Schad, Dominik
name: Schupp, Jürgen
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: D01 Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
subject: J28 Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
subject: J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
subject: transfer reform
subject: long-term unemployment
subject: preferences

description: The German government is planning to reform Hartz IV by replacing it with a simpler and more accessible system known as Bürgergeld. Using a random-based survey of eight job centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, this Weekly Report considers the perspectives of the long-term unemployed: What do they think about the reforms? How do they perceive their situation? What are their daily lives like? The findings reveal the long-term unemployed have mostly positive, yet differentiated assessments of individual reform aspects. For example, a large majority of the long-term unemployed are in favor of improving opportunities for supplemental income and many are skeptical about a general ban on sanctions. Over 40 percent of the long-term unemployed report feeling “very” or “somewhat” ashamed of receiving means-tested basic security benefits, while nearly two thirds completely or somewhat agree with the statement that other benefit recipients are exploiting the system. According to their own statements, many benefit recipients are active in volunteer work and work around the neighborhood. Improving support for such informal work in the future can help strengthen the long-term unemployed’s social participation beyond gainful employment. Moreover, due to inflation, a noticeable increase in the standard rate will be needed to mitigate poverty risks in the short and medium term. In addition, prolonging the sanctions moratorium could serve as a model project of sorts and provide insight into the effects of sanctions as well as an evidence-based assessment of the controversial topic. This opportunity should not go unused.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 29/30/31, S. 183-192
title: Current state of medical diagnostic reference levels and possibilities for improvements in The Netherlands
Creators: name: de Vries, Geert
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radiation safety
subject: Nuclear medicine conventional
subject: Digital radiography
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Radiographers
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: A meta-analysis was conducted of Diagnostic Reference Level (DRL) data collected from 2014 to 2017 in the Netherlands for common radiological procedures (X-rays and CT-scans). In addition, investigations into DRLs for nuclear medicine, and...
Probing the charged Higgs boson at the LHC in the CP-violating type-II 2HDM
Creators: name: Basso, L.
name: Lipniacka, A.
name: Mahmoudi, F.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Osland, P.
name: Pruna, G. M.
name: Purmohammadi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a phenomenological study of a CP-violating two-Higgs-doublet Model with type-II Yukawa couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the light of recent LHC data, we focus on the parameter space that survives the current and past experimental constraints as well as theoretical bounds on the model. Once the phenomenological scenario is set, we analyse the scope of the LHC in exploring this model through the discovery of a charged Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson, with the former decaying into the lightest neutral Higgs and a second W state, altogether yielding a b\bar b W^+W^- signature, of which we exploit the W^+W^- semileptonic decays.
description: 37 pages, 16 figures; v2 updated treatment of LHC constraints
title: Ampel-Monitor Energiewende Shows the Pace of the Energy Transition Must Be Accelerated Significantly
Creators: name: Schill, Wolf-Peter
name: Roth, Alexander
name: Guéret, Adeline
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
subject: Q48 Energy: Government Policy
subject: energy policy
subject: monitoring
subject: open data
subject: Germany

description: The so-called traffic light coalition is facing a challenge: it has set ambitious energy policy targets, but can only achieve them if the pace of the energy transition is increased significantly. To contribute to the current energy policy debate, the Ampel-Monitor Energiewende (Monitor of the Traffic Light Coalition’s Energy Transition Targets) was developed at DIW Berlin. Based on open data, the Ampel-Monitor Energiewende currently uses 15 indicators to compare the government targets for 2030 and beyond with developments and progress to date. For almost all indicators, there is a large gap between current trends and government targets, especially for renewable heat, electromobility, and green hydrogen. Moreover, the expansion pace of onshore and offshore wind power has recently lagged significantly behind what is necessary to achieve the 2030 targets. Concrete and far-reaching policy measures must be implemented in a timely manner for the targets to be achieved. The Ampel-Monitor Energiewende will continually monitor the success of the traffic light coalition’s policies.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 26/27/28, S. 171-179
Valley-Polarized Metals and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Silicene
Creators: name: Ezawa, Motohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silicene is a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, which shares almost every remarkable property with graphene. The low energy structure of silicene is described by Dirac electrons with relatively large spin-orbit interactions due to its buckled structure. The key observation is that the band structure is controllable by applying the electric field to a silicene sheet. We explore the phase diagram of silicene together with exchange field $M$ and by applying electric field $E_{z}$. There appear quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator, valley polarized metal (VPM), marginal valley polarized metal (M-VPM), quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator and band insulator (BI). They are characterized by the Chern numbers and/or by the edge modes of a nanoribbon. It is intriguing that electrons have been moved from a conduction band at the K point to a valence band at the K' point for $E_{z}>0$ in the VPM. We find in the QAH phase that flat gapless edge modes emerge and that spins form a momentum-space skyrmion to yield the Chern number. It is remarkable that a topological quantum phase transition can be induced simply by changing electric field in a single silicene sheet.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: Brain imaging findings of gadolinium accumulation do not correlate with clinical worsening in MS patients
Creators: name: Cocozza, Sirio
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Contrast agents
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The presence of spontaneous high signal intensity on unenhanced T1-weighted images of the dentate nucleus (DN) in patients who had undergone multiple Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents (GBCAs)administration has been firstly described by Kanda and...
title: Right sided versus left sided percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage in the management of malignant biliary obstruction: a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Behera, Rajendra
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Cholangiography
subject: Drainage
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: · Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) is indicated as a preoperative or palliative procedure for patients with malignant biliary obstruction where endoscopic procedures are difficult or failed. · Drainage of bile ducts of 30% of the...
title: Effect of advanced image preprocessing for multi-label chest X-ray classification
Creators: name: Grass, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: CAD
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Lung
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Chest radiography is the most common clinical examination type. To improve the quality of patient care and to reduce workload, researchers started developing methods for automatic pathology classification. In this contribution we investigate the...
title: Brüning’s Austerity Policies of the Early 1930s Intensified the Economic Slump and Increased Unemployment
Creators: name: Ettmeier, Stephanie
name: Kriwoluzky, Alexander
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: C32 Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models
subject: E62 Fiscal Policy
subject: E65 Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
subject: N14 Economic History: Macroeconomics; Growth and Fluctuations: Europe: 1913-
subject: Austerity
subject: Fiscal policy
subject: Germany
subject: Great Depression
subject: Structural vector autoregression

description: May 2022 marked the 90th anniversary of the end of Heinrich Brüning’s term as Reich Chancellor. To this day, the economic effects of Brüning’s extreme austerity measures remain unclear. However, new data and calculations have made an initial quantification of the economic consequences of Brüning’s policies possible. An analysis based on a time series model illustrates how the Weimar Republic’s economy could have developed without Brüning’s austerity measures. According to this model, real GDP fell by around 4.5 percent overall in the reference year 1932 and unemployment rose sharply as a result of Brüning’s emergency decrees. Considering this analysis, current calls for fiscal austerity to reduce debt should be questioned.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 24/25, S. 163-168
A Critical Review on the Effect of Gamma Irradiation on Microbiological Activity, Quality, and Safety of Food
Creators: name: Almoselhy, Rania I.M.
name: Usmani, Afreen
name: Afshar, Peymaneh Ghasemi
name: Milani, Morteza Adeli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300607
subject: Food technology
classificationCode: 300606
subject: Food sustainability
classificationCode: 400405
subject: Food engineering
classificationCode: 300602
subject: Food chemistry and food sensory science
classificationCode: 300604
subject: Food packaging, preservation and processing
classificationCode: 300605
subject: Food safety, traceability, certification and authenticity

description: There is an increasing demand to guarantee the safety of the food supply due to the public's growing concerns about food safety and foodborne illnesses. It has been demonstrated that gamma irradiation is a potential technique for safely eliminating a variety of common pathogens. The extra advantage of gamma irradiation technology is that it prolongs the shelf life of irradiated food items. The irradiation process has been demonstrated to be reliable; it is widely applied to medical supplies, spices, and other products in numerous nations across the world. Convincing the public that this technology is helpful and even essential for ensuring their safety is the major task at hand. Studies on the market have revealed that while a large number of consumers are eager to buy irradiated food, a large number are not. The aim of the current paper was to highlight the significant effect of gamma irradiation on food quality and safety, in order to correct the wrong believes about gamma irradiation by large number of consumers to comply with the right scientific evidence supported by regulations and control of the Food and Drug Authority (FDA). Well-structured research papers and official documents were reviewed thoroughly to extract official updated information about the characterization and safety with versatile applications of gamma irradiation in food sector.
From non-Kählerian surfaces to Cremona group of P^2(C)
Creators: name: Dloussky, Georges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For any minimal compact complex surface S with n=b_2(S)>0 containing global spherical shells (GSS) we study the effectiveness of the 2n parameters given by the n blown up points. There exists a family of surfaces with GSS which contains as fibers S, some Inoue-Hirzebruch surface and non minimal surfaces, such that blown up points are generically effective parameters. These families are versal outside a non empty hypersurface T. We deduce that, for any configuration of rational curves, there is a non empty open set in the Oeljeklaus-Toma moduli space such that the corresponding surfaces are defined by a contracting germ in Cremona group, in particular admit a birational structure.
description: 37 pages, version 1 is splitted into 2 articles, minor corrections. Prop. 2.8 added
title: Expanding Solar Energy Capacity to Power the Transition to Heat Pumps
Creators: name: Roth, Alexander
name: Gaete Morales, Carlos David
name: Guéret, Adeline
name: Kirchem, Dana
name: Kittel, Martin
name: Schill, Wolf-Peter
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
subject: Q48 Energy: Government Policy
subject: heat pumps
subject: natural gas
subject: sector coupling
subject: energy modeling

description: Increasing the use of heat pumps is an important measure for reducing carbon emissions in the heating sector as well as natural gas imports. This report uses an electricity sector model to investigate the effects of an accelerated expansion of the heat pump stock on the German electricity sector in 2030. Adding around six million heat pumps would increase electricity demand by nine percent in 2030; to meet this demand with solar energy, photovoltaic capacity would have to be expanded by 23 percent. Natural gas imports could be reduced by 15 percent. From a macroeconomic perspective, the higher the price of natural gas, the more advantageous it becomes to increase the use of heat pumps. Accelerating the transition to heat pumps, however, requires an ambitious and coordinated policy program that also focuses on the production capacity of heat pumps and on providing advanced training to workers - a kind of “Apollo program” for heat pumps.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 22/23, S. 151-159
Prospettive di ricerca sulla Parte terza de L’intelligibilità della storia di J.-P. Sartre
Creators: name: Cambria, Florinda
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sartre; Critique; Materialismo; Prassi; Dialettica; Organico; Inorganico; Totalizzazione; Alienazione; Storia

description: Una riflessione sulle pagine conclusive dell'incompiuto secondo tomo della Critica della ragione dialettica di Sartre (L'intelligibilità della storia): verso un nuovo materialismo, una nuova concezione della prassi e una nuova comprensione dell’intreccio pratico tra organico e inorganico.
description: Nóema, No 2 (2011): Objectivity and realism: the last challenge of the truth
title: The use of pelvic radiographs as a predictor for gluteal tendinopathy and bursitis in patients with lateral hip pain
Creators: name: James, Steven
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Athletic injuries
subject: Inflammation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: We aim to investigate the relationship between radiographic measurements of femoral offset, global offset, abductor lever arm and trochanteric impingement distance with sonographic evidence of gluteal tendinopathy and trochanteric bursitis in...
Perturbations for transient acceleration
Creators: name: Vargas, Cristofher Zuñiga
name: Hipólito-Ricaldi, Wiliam S.
name: Zimdahl, Winfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the standard $Λ$CDM model, the accelerated expansion of the Universe will go on forever. Motivated by recent observational results, we explore the possibility of a finite phase of acceleration which asymptotically approaches another period of decelerated expansion. Extending an earlier study on a corresponding homogeneous and isotropic dynamics, in which interactions between dark matter and dark energy are crucial, the present paper also investigates the dynamics of the matter perturbations both on the Newtonian and GR levels and quantifies the potential relevance of perturbations of the dark-energy component. In the background, the model is tested against the Supernova type Ia (SNIa) data of the Constitution set and on the perturbative level against growth rate data and the data of the 2dFGRS project. Our results indicate, that a transient phase of accelerated expansion is not excluded by current observations.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, material and references added
title: Sanctions against Russian Oligarchs also Affect Their Companies
Creators: name: Bremus, Franziska
name: Hüttl, Pia
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: G14 Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
subject: G34 Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance
subject: P16 Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
subject: Sanctions
subject: stock market reaction
subject: event study
subject: Ukraine
subject: Russia
subject: war

description: In February 2022, the EU Commission announced economic sanctions against Russian oligarchs. The goal was to exert pressure on the Kremlin: initially to stop deploying troops to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and ultimately to end its attack on Ukraine. The present report investigates how these sanctions affect companies headed by Russian oligarchs. The empirical findings show that after sanctions are announced, the stock returns of companies with sanctioned oligarchs on their executive board were significantly lower than the stock returns of firms without sanctioned board members. This is due to, for example, signaling effects and legal and economic uncertainties. Investors may expect negative consequences for the companies with sanctioned oligarchs and therefore withdraw. Thus, personal sanctions can exert some economic pressure via the negative economic effects on firm value.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 21, S. 142-147
title: fMRI Study of Normal Controls (NC) and Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease under Stimulation with Pleasant and Unpleasant Odors
Creators: name: HAN , TONG
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Dementia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: There are differences in the activation of the olfactory-related cerebral region under pleasant odor and unpleasant odor. To date, there are few studies evaluating patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using...
Probability-based comparison of quantum states
Creators: name: Filippov, Sergey N.
name: Ziman, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the following state comparison problem: is it possible to design an experiment enabling us to unambiguously decide (based on the observed outcome statistics) on the sameness or difference of two unknown state preparations without revealing complete information about the states? We find that the claim "the same" can never be concluded without any doubts unless the information is complete. Moreover, we prove that a universal comparison (that perfectly distinguishes all states) also requires complete information about the states. Nevertheless, for some measurements, the probability distribution of outcomes still allows one to make an unambiguous conclusion regarding the difference between the states even in the case of incomplete information. We analyze an efficiency of such a comparison of qudit states when it is based on the SWAP-measurement. For qubit states, we consider in detail the performance of special families of two-valued measurements enabling us to successfully compare at most half of the pairs of states. Finally, we introduce almost universal comparison measurements which can distinguish almost all non-identical states (up to a set of measure zero). The explicit form of such measurements with two and more outcomes is found in any dimension.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, some results are extended
title: Diagnostic value of hepatic T1 mapping (using MOLLI sequences), T2 mapping and MR elastography in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Creators: name: Kul, Melahat
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: MR-Elastography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease with a prevalance worldwide of 6-35% (1). The histologic spectrum includes simple steatosis, steatosis with inflammation and...
title: Refugees in Germany Perceived Higher Discrimination in the Wake of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Creators: name: Cardozo Silva, Adriana
name: Prömel, Christopher
name: Zinn, Sabine
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: A14 Sociology of Economics
subject: J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J71 Labor Discrimination
subject: Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Social and Economic Stratification
subject: Perceived Discrimination
subject: Refugees
subject: Integration

description: Refugees in Germany perceive discrimination due to their country of origin in various life dimensions, which can negatively affect their integration into society. Using IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey data, this report analyzes to what extent refugees perceive discrimination on the labor market, at educational institutions, on the housing market, with public authorities, and in daily life. The results show that perceived discrimination increased in all observed dimensions between 2019 and 2020, especially on the labor market and at educational institutions. In 2019, refugees living in eastern Germany, refugees below 40 years old, refugees with poorer German language skills, and employed refugee women felt more discriminated against than other groups of refugees. This increase is most likely related to the abrupt changes to the labor market and to the discontinuation of important integration measures due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, it is essential to resume these integration measures, such as language and integration courses, as soon as possible to mitigate refugees’ exclusion and marginalization.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 17/18, S. 119-127
title: Flow Diverter Stent Implantation İn The Cervical İCA Aneurysms
Creators: name: MAHARRAMOVA, ELTAN
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Haemangioma
subject: Arteriovenous malformations
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Stents
subject: Embolisation
subject: Angioplasty
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review imaging findings of cervical ICA aneurysms. Present casesof cervical ICA aneurysms treated with flow diverter stent implantation. Evaluate safety and efficacy of flow diverter stent implantation in the treatment of cervical ICA...
Dramma e materia. Sul «materialismo assoluto» di Antonin Artaud
Creators: name: Cambria, Florinda
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012
Subjects: Artaud; teatro della crudeltà; materialismo; Tarahumara; surrealismo; corpo senza organi

description: Una incursione nei Messaggi rivoluzionari, composti da Artaud durante il suo soggiorno in Messico nel 1936, permette di delineare la prospettiva di un materialismo inedito, libero da astratte contrapposizioni a spiritualismi di sorta, e radicato nella natura eminentemente "drammatica" dell'agire umano.
description: Nóema, No 3 (2012): Ricerche
title: Companies Contribute Significantly to the Integration of Refugees in Germany
Creators: name: Kritikos, Alexander S.
name: Priem, Maximilian
name: Winkler, Anne-Christin
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: F22 International Migration
subject: J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
subject: migration
subject: labor market integration
subject: integration programs
subject: survey

description: Following the 2015 refugee influx, recent studies have found that around one in four companies have hired refugees. A survey of 100 companies that hired refugees shows that hiring refugees can increase employee satisfaction, improve reputations, and positively affect corporate developments. At the same time, hiring refugees also poses challenges for employers. These include barriers in the hiring process, poor language skills, and their foreign qualifications not being recognized. To solve these problems, firms use both public and private support instruments alongside internal measures. While integrating refugees into the workplace using these instruments has been successful, the potential of self-employment remains untapped: refugees launch new businesses much less often in Germany than in their countries of origin. Accordingly, there should be an increased focus on measures supporting refugees interested in self-employment.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 12 (2022), 19/20, S. 131-137
Rationally-extended radial oscillators and Laguerre exceptional orthogonal polynomials in kth-order SUSYQM
Creators: name: Quesne, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A previous study of exactly solvable rationally-extended radial oscillator potentials and corresponding Laguerre exceptional orthogonal polynomials carried out in second-order supersymmetric quantum mechanics is extended to $k$th-order one. The polynomial appearing in the potential denominator and its degree are determined. The first-order differential relations allowing one to obtain the associated exceptional orthogonal polynomials from those arising in a ($k-1$)th-order analysis are established. Some nontrivial identities connecting products of Laguerre polynomials are derived from shape invariance.
description: 15 pages, no figure; published version
title: Respiratory motion-corrected 3D DCE-MRI for high-resolution assessment of hepatic pathologies
Creators: name: Ippoliti, Matteo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Oncology
subject: MR physics
subject: MR
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Physics
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Neoplasia

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To improve detection of small hepatic metastases through free-breathing motion-corrected 3D DCE-MRI [1], yielding isotropic abdominal images with a spatial resolution of 1.5 mmand temporal resolution of 6 sec...
Characterising Vainshtein Solutions in Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Sbisà, Fulvio
name: Niz, Gustavo
name: Koyama, Kazuya
name: Tasinato, Gianmassimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study static, spherically symmetric solutions in a recently proposed ghost-free model of non-linear massive gravity. We focus on a branch of solutions where the helicity-0 mode can be strongly coupled within certain radial regions, giving rise to the Vainshtein effect. We truncate the analysis to scales below the gravitational Compton wavelength, and consider the weak field limit for the gravitational potentials, while keeping all non-linearities of the helicity-0 mode. We determine analytically the number and properties of local solutions which exist asymptotically on large scales, and of local (inner) solutions which exist on small scales. We find two kinds of asymptotic solutions, one of which is asymptotically flat, while the other one is not, and also two types of inner solutions, one of which displays the Vainshtein mechanism, while the other exhibits a self-shielding behaviour of the gravitational field. We analyse in detail in which cases the solutions match in an intermediate region. The asymptotically flat solutions connect only to inner configurations displaying the Vainshtein mechanism, while the non asymptotically flat solutions can connect with both kinds of inner solutions. We show furthermore that there are some regions in the parameter space where global solutions do not exist, and characterise precisely in which regions of the phase space the Vainshtein mechanism takes place.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, published version