cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen - eine empirische Untersuchung
Creators: name: Sandner, Philipp G.
name: Block, Jörn H.
name: Lutz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Entrepreneurship, Self-employment, Necessity Entreptreneurship, Entrepreneurship Policy, Determinants of Success
subject: 300
subject: 330

description: Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als "Ich-AG" bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von Gründungen bislang jedoch wenig untersucht. Im Rahmen einer großzahligen Befragung von geförderten Existenzgründern untersucht dieser Beitrag die Erfolgsdeterminanten solcher geförderter Existenzgründungen.Die Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigen, dass der Gewinn aus der Existenzgründung bei älteren Gründern und bei Gründern mit einer langen Phase der Arbeitslosigkeit vor der Gründung seltener beziehungsweise erst später zur Bestreitung des Lebensunterhalts ausreicht. Dies gilt auch für Franchisegründungen und für Gründungen durch Frauen. In Bezug auf Bildungsvariablen, Gründungserfahrung und Teamgründungen im Vergleich zu Einzelgründungen wurde kein Effekt gefunden. Vorhandene Branchenerfahrung wirkt sich hingegen positiv auf den Erfolg der Gründung aus, Gründungs- und Führungserfahrung dagegen nicht.Die Implikationen unserer Ergebnisse für die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der Gründungspolitik werden aufgezeigt.
description: A large number of new ventures in Germany are undertaken due to government aid. With the introduction of the "Ich-AG" or "me-plc" in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little about the success and the determinants of success of these types of start-ups. With this study, we aim to close this gap. We analyze the success and the determinants of success of these new ventures in a large scale survey of founders that have received governmental aid for their start-up.Our results show that the income generated by the venture is less likely to cover the costs of living in particular for elderly founders and for those founders that have experienced a long period of unemployment before they started their venture. This finding is also true for new ventures founded by women as well as for franchise start-ups. As concerns formal education, founder experience, and the fact whether the venture is founded by a team or not no significant effects exist. Industry experience, however, has a significant positive effect on the success of the new venture whereas founding and management experience have no effect.We discuss the implications of our findings from a perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy.
The relationship between estimated risk age and perceived stress
Creators: name: Laedtke, Mary Edna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: The purpose of this study was to compare the estimated 'risk age' on the "Healthier People" health risk appraisal (HRA), an inventory comprised of medical measures and lifestyle behaviors, to the perceived level of stress with regards to the General Well Being Schedule (GWBS). Six hundred and eight participants from the United States Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C., completed both the HRA and the GWBS. 'Risk age', an estimated chronological age derived from calculations using an individual's current medical data and lifestyle characteristics, and the total GWBS score, from the 18-item assessment, were correlated. Significant relationships were found between perceived stress and 'risk age', the amount of exercise, level of education, and gender. However, no relationship was found between perceived stress and age. Additional research is needed regarding the best way to quantify and integrate perceived stress into the HRA risk equation and estimation.
Role of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor sites in modulation of the immune response
Creators: name: McRae, Bradford Lawrence
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The benzodiazepine/GABA receptor chloride ionophore complex ("supramolecular complex") is thought to mediate the anti-anxiety effects of benzodiazepines (BZs). Studies indicate that the supramolecular complex may be important in neural regulation of immunity. The objective of this study was to determine if receptors not associated with the supramolecular complex (in the central nervous system) have a role in regulation of immunity. Murine B cells were found to bind the peripheral ligand Ro 5-4864 47% more than T cells. Ro 5-4864 inhibited Con-A-stimulated T cell proliferation by 30%. Natural killer cell activity was also suppressed. These effects were partially blocked by the peripheral antagonist PK 11195 indicating that the suppression observed with Ro 5-4864 was specific and that the peripheral BZ receptor sites on immune cells may have a role in immune modulation.
Role of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor sites in modulation of the immune response
Creators: name: McRae, Bradford Lawrence
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The benzodiazepine/GABA receptor chloride ionophore complex ("supramolecular complex") is thought to mediate the anti-anxiety effects of benzodiazepines (BZs). Studies indicate that the supramolecular complex may be important in neural regulation of immunity. The objective of this study was to determine if receptors not associated with the supramolecular complex (in the central nervous system) have a role in regulation of immunity. Murine B cells were found to bind the peripheral ligand Ro 5-4864 47% more than T cells. Ro 5-4864 inhibited Con-A-stimulated T cell proliferation by 30%. Natural killer cell activity was also suppressed. These effects were partially blocked by the peripheral antagonist PK 11195 indicating that the suppression observed with Ro 5-4864 was specific and that the peripheral BZ receptor sites on immune cells may have a role in immune modulation.
title: Das Wasser als Passage in eine andere Welt
Creators: name: Lienbacher, Julia
Year: 2013

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit geht den Fragen einer Narration von Wasserräumen sowie deren spezifische Funktion in folgenden drei Werken nach: Hermann Hesse „Unterm Rad“, Heimito von Doderer „Die Wasserfälle von Slunj“ und Paulus Hochgatterer „Wildwasser“. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen die jeweiligen Protagonisten. Ausgehend von diesen werden die unterschiedlichen Wasserentitäten untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu klären, ob das Wasser Identität-stiftend oder Identität-auflösend wirkt. Dazu werden zunächst einige grundsätzliche theoretische Fragen wie „Was ist ein Motiv?“ und „Was wird als Identität verstanden?“ geklärt. Anschließend wird der Frage nach der Narration von Räumen, vor allem von Wasserräumen nachgegangen – Was macht den Wasserraum so besonders? Bei der Untersuchung der Wasserentitäten kann der kulturelle und historische Kontext nicht unbeachtet bleiben. Aus diesem Grund wird ebenso auf die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von „Wasser“ eingegangen. Darüber hinaus scheint das amorphe Element als Metapher für das Unbewusste, Verstecke und Mystische besonders prädestiniert zu sein. Die Protagonisten werden regelrecht in den Bann des Wassers gezogen. Daher ist auch Lacans Begriff des begehrenswerten „Anderen“ wesentlich. Ausgehend von dieser theoretischen Fundierung, welche versucht das Wasser diachron zu untersuchen, kann zu einer synchronen Betrachtungsweise gelangt werden. Die drei Romane zeigen inwieweit das Wasser als Passage in eine andere Welt aufgefasst werden kann. Dabei wird sowohl auf die Narration der Wasserentitäten als auch die Funktionsweisen eingegangen. Zuletzt werden diese unterschiedlichen synchronen Betrachtungen in Vergleich gesetzt, um die ausgehende Frage nach der Bedeutung von Wasser bei der Identitäts-stiftung und Identitäts-auflösung zu klären.
Ukrainian biomedical tissue-engineered product for treatment of bone critical sized defects and avn: manufacturing and first-in-human clinical outcomes
Creators: name: Zubov, Dmytro
name: Vasyliev, Roman
name: Oksymets, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2017

description: Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering are now expanding to practically all healthcare fields, including cardiac, corneal, nerve, vascular and liver tissue engineering and regeneration [Bracaglia LG, 2017]. Favorable government regulatory framework, continuous technology advancements and increasing research funding drive the market for alternative regenerative medicine therapies. Global tissue engineering market is expected to reach USD 11.53 billion by 2022, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc (2016).

Tissue engineering combines cells, biomaterials and growth factors to support and regenerate the biological tissues.

Three key components are needed for tissue engineering – cells, growth factors and scaffolds. Whereas cells produce tissue matrix, scaffold provides the appropriate environment for cells to effectively accomplish their missions. The function of growth factors is to facilitate and promote cells to regenerate new tissue [Spurlin JW 3rd, 2017].

Medical company ilaya® uses tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches in the clinical applications, such as treatment of critical sized bone defects and avascular necrosis (AVN).

METHODS. To fabricate 3D-TEBE (three-dimensional tissue-engineered bone equivalent) we used devitalized allogeneic/xenogeneic bone (blocks and chips) seeded with autologous cultured cells: bone marrow-derived MSCs alone or in mix with periosteum progenitor cells (PPCs, 3:1), or with PPCs and peripheral blood endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs, 3:1:1) depending on bone defect size. Quality assurance of cell seeded 3D-TEBE was done via combined staining with FDA/PI and histological analysis (H&E). New bone formation was assessed by the radiographic examination.

RESULTS.  Eighteen patients had the AVN III/IV by Steinberg, 11 of them had cystic bone reconstruction sites. In 8 patients, AVN corresponded to stage IV/V with subchondral fracture and deformation of the femoral head (26 patients in total). In AVN patients bone structure restoration was observed in 94.4% and endoprosthesis surgery was no more actual for 90.9%.

Bone integrity was successfully restored in 39 combat related casualties (42 critical sized bone defects). FDA/PI staining, and histological analysis of 3D-TEBE samples showed their regular seeding with viable cells. Histological analysis of 3D-TEBE biopsies 3 months after transplantation showed their intensive remodeling and immature bone tissue formation.

Thereof, the 3D-TEBE transplantation is able to restore bone integrity and greatly reduce, as compared with conventional cure methods, patient’s rehabilitation period.

Conclusions. The 3D-TEBE transplantation is able to restore bone integrity and greatly reduce, as compared with conventional cure methods, patient’s rehabilitation period.
A Case Study: Task Scheduling Methodologies for High Speed Computing Systems
Creators: name: Vucha, Mahendra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: High Speed computing meets ever increasing real-time computational demands through the leveraging of flexibility and parallelism. The flexibility is achieved when computing platform designed with heterogeneous resources to support multifarious tasks of an application where as task scheduling brings parallel processing. The efficient task scheduling is critical to obtain optimized performance in heterogeneous computing Systems (HCS). In this paper, we brought a review of various application scheduling models which provide parallelism for homogeneous and heterogeneous computing systems. In this paper, we made a review of various scheduling methodologies targeted to high speed computing systems and also prepared summary chart. The comparative study of scheduling methodologies for high speed computing systems has been carried out based on the attributes of platform & application as well. The attributes are execution time, nature of task, task handling capability, type of host & computing platform. Finally a summary chart has been prepared and it demonstrates that the need of developing scheduling methodologies for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Computing Systems (HRCS) which is an emerging high speed computing platform for real time applications.
Dilemmas of cultural policy formulation in a transitional society: The case of Taiwan, Republic of China*
Creators: name: Kuo, Su-Hua
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Political and economic developments have a strong impact on cultural policy. These influences are even strong in a country with a long history and is now undergoing a transition from a conservative and agricultural society to an open and industrialized one. This is the case with Taiwan, Republic of China. This thesis tries to define the rules of general cultural policy formulation and indicate Taiwan's position under these rules. The emphasis will be on Taiwan's policy environment, its cultural operation and developmental process, as well as the changes of policy strategies. The findings of this thesis suggest that Taiwan is a success in eventually reaching compromise between political and cultural goals, and in redistributing the power of different interest groups. Its ways of public participation in the policy formulation process is also unique. ftn*Originally published in MAI vol. 28, no. 2. Reprinted here under correct subject category.
Dilemmas of cultural policy formulation in a transitional society: The case of Taiwan, Republic of China*
Creators: name: Kuo, Su-Hua
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies

description: Political and economic developments have a strong impact on cultural policy. These influences are even strong in a country with a long history and is now undergoing a transition from a conservative and agricultural society to an open and industrialized one. This is the case with Taiwan, Republic of China. This thesis tries to define the rules of general cultural policy formulation and indicate Taiwan's position under these rules. The emphasis will be on Taiwan's policy environment, its cultural operation and developmental process, as well as the changes of policy strategies. The findings of this thesis suggest that Taiwan is a success in eventually reaching compromise between political and cultural goals, and in redistributing the power of different interest groups. Its ways of public participation in the policy formulation process is also unique. ftn*Originally published in MAI vol. 28, no. 2. Reprinted here under correct subject category.
From coalitions to social movements
Creators: name: Freeman, Camille
name: Smith, Kiah
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2024

description: Despite the abundant literature on the need for grassroots food system reform, the process for achieving such reform is less understood from the perspective of multi-scalar coalition building. Using semi-structured interviews with civic food coalition leaders in Australia, our paper examines the strengths and struggles associated with collectivising, collaborating, and planning that civic food coalitions experience as they aim to drive wider transformations in food systems. Findings indicate a need to pay heightened attention during the early stages of coalition formation, as this is when coalitions form a sustainable structure as they begin to scale up. In addition to gaining a better understanding of these internal dynamics, we argue that civic food coalitions can be one pathway to transform the food system, as they serve as an important catalyst to bring food-related issues (such as social and environmental justice) to the forefront in building alliances and collective action across communities.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 30 No. 1 (2024):
title: The Permo-Carbonigferous Facies Development in Thailand: A plate tectonic discussion
Creators: name: Altermann, Wladyslaw
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: 550

description: The Permo-Carboniferous sedimentary facies development in Thailand reflects the lateVariscan orogeny in S E Asia.During the Carboniferous and Permian, a N -S trending trough separated the " S h a n ThaiCraton" and the "Indosinia Craton". In this pelagic basin, deposition of ribbon cherts continuedfrom pre-Asselian to Kubergandian. I n Lower Permian, carbonatic and tuffitic turbiditeswere transported from the neighbouring platforms into the basin.The Middle Permian flysch sedimentation resulted from a strong orogenic activity. T h ebasin was E-vergent, isoclinally folded and pverthrusted. Parts of the basin are metamorphosedinto the greenschist facies.I n the eastern marginal parts Kubergandina to Midian; molasse was deposited from thenew rising fold belt.The intensity of folding of the molasse decreases towards the east or the younger strata.The total width of the basin was probably not greater than 200 km. T h e pelagic sediments,flysch and molasse represent a thick pile of a coarsening-upwards sequence, typical ofsubduction related sutures. Folding affected a marginal marine basin and was caused by awestward directed subduction (A-subduction) under the volcanic arc.West of the arc, pebbly mudstones were laid down on the trench slope or the continentalmargin of Paleoeurasia. T h e deposition of these mixtites continued through the Carboniferousto Lower Permian and came to an end contemporary with the relative uplift of the " S h anThai Craton" and the onset of the A-subduction under the Petchabun marginal basin. T h e Benioff-subduction must have been located west of the depositional area of the pebbly mudstonesand directed towards the east.
That her soul may remain pure: Women in American silent film
Creators: name: Steidel, Debra Eve
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The grappling for a definition of women's roles during the era of American silent film, 1895 through 1930, reflected changes occurring in mass morality. The earliest silents portraying women as second-class citizens were soon joined by valiant heroines and social problem films offering a more balanced picture of the capabilities and concerns of womanhood. As the blossoming "new morality" generated apprehension, a Victorian dichotomy emerged between the "pure" women of D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford who were rewarded with marriage and family, and the sexually perverse vampire like Theda Bara who caused destruction and death. But by the 1920s the films of Cecil B. DeMille, Clara Bow and Greta Garbo displayed the emancipated new wives, flappers and sophisticates in full-force. Yet underlying these impeccably modern women was an affirmation of traditional morality. By insisting that a woman's soul did indeed remain pure, films reflected a widespread desire to cling to rapidly decaying values.
That her soul may remain pure: Women in American silent film
Creators: name: Steidel, Debra Eve
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3605
subject: Screen and digital media
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: The grappling for a definition of women's roles during the era of American silent film, 1895 through 1930, reflected changes occurring in mass morality. The earliest silents portraying women as second-class citizens were soon joined by valiant heroines and social problem films offering a more balanced picture of the capabilities and concerns of womanhood. As the blossoming "new morality" generated apprehension, a Victorian dichotomy emerged between the "pure" women of D. W. Griffith and Mary Pickford who were rewarded with marriage and family, and the sexually perverse vampire like Theda Bara who caused destruction and death. But by the 1920s the films of Cecil B. DeMille, Clara Bow and Greta Garbo displayed the emancipated new wives, flappers and sophisticates in full-force. Yet underlying these impeccably modern women was an affirmation of traditional morality. By insisting that a woman's soul did indeed remain pure, films reflected a widespread desire to cling to rapidly decaying values.
Prenatal Diagnosis of a Congenitally Corrected Transposition of The Great Arteries.
Creators: name: Al Haddad, Jad
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital
subject: Fetus

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 30 years
description: Clinical History: We describe the case of a 30 year old female G1P0A0 who presented to our department for a routine second trimester ultrasound at 22 weeks of gestation. No history of consanguinity. No medical or surgical history. Uneventful pregnancy so far, w... Final Diagnosis: Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries or Double Discordance.
title: Crowdsourcing im Innovationsprozess
Creators: name: Suchac, Vladimir
Year: 2013

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht das Thema Crowdsourcing, das sich als eine zielgerichtete Integration externer Wissensträger in eine determinierte Aufgabenstellung definieren lässt. Crowdsourcing basiert auf einem offenen Aufruf im Internet, wodurch die Aufgabenstellung prinzipiell allen Personen zugänglich ist, und auf freiwilligen Aktivitäten der externen Personen, die als virtuelle Arbeitskräfte ausgelagerte Aufgabenstellung ausführen. Im Unterschied zu anderen virtuellen kollektiven Wertschöpfungsprozessen ist Crowdsourcing durch eine zentrale Rolle des Initiators gekennzeichnet, der durch die Definition der Aufgabenstellung und der Rahmenbedingungen des Prozesses die Aktivitäten der externen Personen festlegt. Die Anwendung von Crowdsourcing kann für eine Vielzahl von unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen erfolgen, in der vorliegenden Masterarbeit liegt der Fokus auf der Nutzung von externen Wissensträger für betriebliche Problemstellungen, die einem innovationsorientiertem Zweck folgen. Externe Wissensträger können im Rahmen der innovationsorientierten Aufgabenstellungen für Aktivitäten der Ideengenerierung, Lösungsfindung und der Evaluation von wirtschaftlichen Produkten genutzt werden. Durch die aktive Teilnahme des externen Wissensträgers an dem Prozess impliziert eine co-creation Rolle im Hinblick der betrieblichen Wertschöpfung, wodurch die teilnehmende Personen einen produktiven Faktor in dem Entwicklungsprozess darstellt. Die wirtschaftliche Anwendung von Crowdsourcing wird im ersten Schritt anhand einer systematischen Darstellung des Crowdsourcing-Prozesses untersucht, auf deren Grundlage zwei Fallstudien aus dem deutschsprachigem Raum analysiert werden.
description: The present Master’s thesis investigates the topic of crowdsourcing, which can be defined as a purposeful integration of external knowledge sources in a determined task. Crowdsourcing is based on an open call, making the task accessible to all persons, and on voluntary activities of the external persons, who perform as a virtual workforce. Unlike other virtual collective processes is crowdsourcing characterized by a central role of the initiator, who starts the process and determines the task and the conditions of the process. The application of crowdsourcing can be done for a variety of different objectives, the focus of the Master’s thesis is the innovation-oriented purpose of crowdsourcing. In the context of innovation-oriented tasks external knowledge holders can be used for activities of idea generation, solution identification and evaluation of products. The active participation of external persons leads to a cocreation role, The innovation-oriented application of crowdsourcing is investigated through a systematic presentation of the crowdsourcing process and a two case studies from German speaking countries.
Surviving as a small professional theater company: An analysis of small theater in D.C
Creators: name: Tristan, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts

description: This thesis will explore the requirements for the creation and survival of a small, professional theater company. The contention of this thesis is that the survival of a small theater requires: (1) energetic leadership, (2) strong management skills, (3) a dedicated core group, (4) adequate funds to cover potential shortfalls, (5) a clear mission or purpose and (6) a performance/rehearsal space. Special focus is placed on the history of small theatres in D.C. with particular attention to Horizons Theatre, Moving Target Theatre, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
Surviving as a small professional theater company: An analysis of small theater in D.C
Creators: name: Tristan, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis will explore the requirements for the creation and survival of a small, professional theater company. The contention of this thesis is that the survival of a small theater requires: (1) energetic leadership, (2) strong management skills, (3) a dedicated core group, (4) adequate funds to cover potential shortfalls, (5) a clear mission or purpose and (6) a performance/rehearsal space. Special focus is placed on the history of small theatres in D.C. with particular attention to Horizons Theatre, Moving Target Theatre, Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
Ageing@Work report on Data Aggregation Supporting Clinical Decisions
Creators: name: Chatzikonstantinou Ioannis
name: Mastoras Rafail
name: Nalbantis Fotios
name: Segkouli Sofia
name: Koritsoglou Kyriakos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This report presents the aggregation strategies , as well as the visual analytics technologies of Ageing@Work platform that enable visualizing key aspects of the user organization, thus offering informed decision making to support domain experts and clinicians.
HQET form factors for $B_s\to K\ell\nu$ decays beyond leading order
Creators: name: Banerjee, Debasish
name: Koren, Mateusz
name: Simma, Hubert
name: Sommer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: decay: form factor
higher-order: 0
Heavy Quark Effective Theory
quantum chromodynamics
nonperturbative
lattice
kinetic
spin

description: We compute semi-leptonic $B_s$ decay form factors using Heavy Quark Effective Theory on the lattice. To obtain good control of the $1/m_b$ expansion, one has to take into account not only the leading static order but also the terms arising at $O(1/m_b)$: kinetic, spin and current insertions. We show results for these terms calculated through the ratio method, using our prior results for the static order. After combining them with non-perturbative HQET parameters they can be continuum-extrapolated to give the QCD form factor correct up to $O(1/m_b^2)$ corrections and without $O(\alpha_s(m_b)^n)$ corrections.
Local multiboson factorization of the quark determinant
Creators: name: Cè, Marco
name: Giusti, Leonardo
name: Schaefer, Stefan
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2017

description: We discuss the recently proposed multiboson domain-decomposed factorization of the gauge-field dependence of the fermion determinant in lattice QCD. In particular, we focus on the case of a lattice divided in an arbitrary number of thick time slices. As a consequence, multiple space-time regions can be updated independently. This allows to address the exponential degradation of the signal-to-noise ration of correlation functions with multilevel Monte Carlo sampling. We show numerical evidence of the effectiveness of a two-level integration for pseudoscalar propagators with momentum and for vector propagators, in a two active regions setup. These results are relevant to lattice computation of the hadronic contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and to heavy meson decay form factors.
title: Microwear Analyse am pleistozänen Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758) und pleistozänen Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 aus Österreich und Tschechien
Creators: name: Pychner, Sarina Felicitas
Year: 2013

description: Im Zuge dieser Arbeit wurden die Zähne der Brechschere von Carnivoren mithilfe der Microwear-Methode untersucht. Diese beinhalten heutige Vertreter der Familien der Mustelidae, Mephitidae und Canidae, sowie fossile aus Österreich (Jungpleistozän) und Tschechien (Jungpleistozän). Weiters wurden Daten von rezenten Vertretern der Familien der Hyaenidae, Canidae und Felidae hinzugefügt. Die Microwear-Analyse vom pleistozänen Gulo gulo und vom pleistozänen Canis lupus wurde mit dem rezenten Datensatz verglichen und das mögliche Ernährungsmuster dieser pleistozänen Vertreter rekonstruiert. Der pleistozäne Canis lupus nahm, dieser Analyse zufolge, hauptsächlich Fleisch zu sich und vermied Knochen. Vorwiegend omnivor ernährte sich der pleistozäne Gulo gulo, wobei er ein sehr ähnliches Ernährungsmuster wie der rezente Gulo gulo aufweist.
The role of the AFL-CIO in the withdrawal from and return to the International Labor Organization
Creators: name: Frauman, IV, Walter William
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: It has been postulated that the AFL-CIO was the critical factor leading to the U.S. withdrawal from the International Labor Organization. This thesis finds this to be the case. The strong hatred of communism by the leadership of the AFL-CIO together with their views that communist representatives had taken over the organization led the AFL-CIO to push for withdrawal in 1977. The views of the AFL-CIO moderated by 1979, due to changes in the ILO and the AFL-CIO leadership, and led the organization to mute its criticisms of the ILO. This change of position led the U.S. to rejoin the ILO. The nature of the AFL-CIO and the ILO contributed to the AFL-CIO's influence, given the ILO's tripartite nature and the AFL-CIO's domestic political clout. The AFL-CIO can be expected to remain the principal domestic influence in the ILO.
The role of the AFL-CIO in the withdrawal from and return to the International Labor Organization
Creators: name: Frauman, IV, Walter William
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It has been postulated that the AFL-CIO was the critical factor leading to the U.S. withdrawal from the International Labor Organization. This thesis finds this to be the case. The strong hatred of communism by the leadership of the AFL-CIO together with their views that communist representatives had taken over the organization led the AFL-CIO to push for withdrawal in 1977. The views of the AFL-CIO moderated by 1979, due to changes in the ILO and the AFL-CIO leadership, and led the organization to mute its criticisms of the ILO. This change of position led the U.S. to rejoin the ILO. The nature of the AFL-CIO and the ILO contributed to the AFL-CIO's influence, given the ILO's tripartite nature and the AFL-CIO's domestic political clout. The AFL-CIO can be expected to remain the principal domestic influence in the ILO.
Analysis of monoclonal antibodies directed against sporozoites of Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Ghafoor, Rossana Bechara
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mouse monoclonal antibodies (one lgG2 and three IgG1) were prepared against the circumsporozoite antigen of Plasmodium falciparum. Comparisons of epitope recognition and binding site affinity of the monoclonal antibodies were then made against different portions of the circumsporozoite antigen. The binding site of two of these monoclonal antibodies, obtained from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, were different from the binding sites of the two monoclonal antibodies prepared at the Naval Medical Research Institute, based on competitive binding assays. The latter two, NFS1 and NFS2, were similar in that both reacted with (NANP-NVDP-NANP), although the NFS2 failed to react with this peptide at the higher dilutions. Furthermore, NFS1 strongly inhibited the binding of NFS2 to R32tet32, a large peptide containing the (NANP-NVDP-NANP) epitope, whereas the reverse inhibition did not take place suggesting that NFS1 has a greater affinity for this peptide.
Analysis of monoclonal antibodies directed against sporozoites of Plasmodium falciparum
Creators: name: Ghafoor, Rossana Bechara
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mouse monoclonal antibodies (one lgG2 and three IgG1) were prepared against the circumsporozoite antigen of Plasmodium falciparum. Comparisons of epitope recognition and binding site affinity of the monoclonal antibodies were then made against different portions of the circumsporozoite antigen. The binding site of two of these monoclonal antibodies, obtained from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, were different from the binding sites of the two monoclonal antibodies prepared at the Naval Medical Research Institute, based on competitive binding assays. The latter two, NFS1 and NFS2, were similar in that both reacted with (NANP-NVDP-NANP), although the NFS2 failed to react with this peptide at the higher dilutions. Furthermore, NFS1 strongly inhibited the binding of NFS2 to R32tet32, a large peptide containing the (NANP-NVDP-NANP) epitope, whereas the reverse inhibition did not take place suggesting that NFS1 has a greater affinity for this peptide.
The law and business of art: Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Business Volunteers for the Arts(RTM)
Creators: name: Johnson McFadden, Renee Beth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services
classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 48
subject: Law and legal studies

description: This thesis explores the Business Volunteers for the Arts$\sp\circler$ and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts via their Washington, D.C. affiliates and offers suggestions for their continued growth and success, which are based on the author's interpretation of data gathered through interviews with persons involved with the networks and organizational materials, pamphlets and books. Comparative analysis of these data concludes that both networks are tailored to the needs of their volunteers and constituency, however, the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts would benefit from the creation of a central clearinghouse for information and from a similar, if truncated, version of the Business Volunteers for the Arts$\sp\circler$ training program for volunteers. Likewise, a partnership between the networks would increase the visibility and services of underserved areas. In general, both networks succeed on the independence of flexibility to adapt the basic premise of the network to the situation at hand.
title: Oral corrective feedback
Creators: name: Renner, Julia
Year: 2013

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit setzt sich Strategien und Methoden der mündlichen Fehlerkorrektur im Bezug auf Aussprachefehler im Chinesisch-Fremdsprachenunterricht auseinander. Diesbezüglich wurden traditionelle Oral Corrective Feedback Typologien (Lyster / Ranta 1997, Ellis / Sheen 2006 bzw. Sheen 2011) herangezogen, mit Methoden der chinesischen Aussprachedidaktik verbunden und im Rahmen einer empirischen Studie deskriptiv untersucht. Für die empirische Studie wurde Sprachlaborunterricht der sinologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien beobachtet, dokumentiert und analysiert. Die Analyse des Datenmaterials erfolgte in mehreren Schritten: (1.) Strukturierende inhaltsanalytische Untersuchung und Abgleich mit traditionellen Corrective Feedback Typologien (2.) Erarbeitung einer eigenen Corrective Feedback Typologie durch induktive Kategorienbildung. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse zeigten, dass Aussprachefehler äußerst explizit korrigiert werden, dabei Methoden der Explikation, Kontrastierung und Reduktion zur Anwendung kommen und durch zusätzliche Verbalisierungen, Visualisierungen, sowie paralinguistische Mittel verdeutlicht werden.
description: This master thesis examines oral corrective feedback strategies in regard of pronunciation errors in Chinese foreign language teaching. Therefore traditional oral corrective feedback typlogies (Lyster / Ranta 1997, Ellis / Sheen 2006 bzw. Sheen 2011) have been combined with chinese pronunciation teaching methods and investigated in a study conducted in two Chinese language-laboratory classes at the Chinese Department of the University of Vienna. The results revealed, that pronunciation errors in Chinese foreign language classroom are very explicitly corrected through methods of explication, comparison and reduction. The explicitness of these methods is further enhanced with verbalizations, visualizations and paralinguistic cues.
The law and business of art: Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Business Volunteers for the Arts(RTM)
Creators: name: Johnson McFadden, Renee Beth
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the Business Volunteers for the Arts$\sp\circler$ and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts via their Washington, D.C. affiliates and offers suggestions for their continued growth and success, which are based on the author's interpretation of data gathered through interviews with persons involved with the networks and organizational materials, pamphlets and books. Comparative analysis of these data concludes that both networks are tailored to the needs of their volunteers and constituency, however, the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts would benefit from the creation of a central clearinghouse for information and from a similar, if truncated, version of the Business Volunteers for the Arts$\sp\circler$ training program for volunteers. Likewise, a partnership between the networks would increase the visibility and services of underserved areas. In general, both networks succeed on the independence of flexibility to adapt the basic premise of the network to the situation at hand.
Reviving the workshop of Asia: U.S. containment strategy and Japan, 1947-1952
Creators: name: Miyashita, Akitoshi
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) was marked by a significant change in 1948 from reform to recovery. This was brought by the emerging U.S.-Soviet rivalries and the subsequent American Cold War diplomacy. As a result, Japan went from a defeated enemy to be punished to a potential ally to be protected. There was a sharp conflict, however, in Washington as to the type of policy that should be employed in order to fulfill U.S. interests in Japan. This reflected not only power struggles and bureaucratic politics among governmental agencies and individual actors, but also a lack of general agreement in the Truman administration regarding how communism should be contained in Asia. After the outbreak of the Korean War, a consensus was made in Washington to take a less moderate approach in dealing with the communist expansionism in Asia and particularly the defense of Japan.
title: Gated Residential Developments in Thailand – AltersmigrantInnen zwischen sozialer Interaktion und Exklusion
Creators: name: Reis, Alexander Michael
Year: 2013

description: Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen der Entwicklung und Verbreitung abgeschlossener Wohnkomplexe, so genannter Gated Residential Developments, und der Internationalen Altersmigration anhand des Fallbeispiels der thailändischen Tourismusdestinationen Hua Hin und Cha-am. Basierend auf qualitativen Interviews mit westlichen MigrantInnen, sowie mit ExpertInnen aus dem wissenschaftlichen Bereich und der Immobilienbranche, wurde das soziodemographische und sozioökonomische Profil der MigrantInnen, ihre Aufenthaltssituation, die Rolle der Altenpflege und ihr soziales Umfeld evaluiert. Die spezifischen Merkmale der einzelnen Wohnformen, deren räumliche Verteilung sowie deren Bedeutung für den Immobilienmarkt des Untersuchungsgebietes wurden ebenfalls auf Grundlage einer vorgenommenen Kartierung dargestellt und untersucht. Anhand der dadurch gewonnenen Informationen konnten letztendlich die Wohnsitzpräferenzen der MigrantInnen, der Einfluss der gewählten Wohnform auf die mögliche Integrierbarkeit der BewohnerInnen in die regionale Gesellschaft sowie die infrastrukturelle Entwicklung des Untersuchungsgebietes ermittelt werden. So handelt es sich bei den westlichen MigrantInnen im Untersuchungsgebiet um eine relativ homogene Gruppierung, welche vor allem Gated Residential Developments als Wohnform präferiert. Die Quantität und Qualität der Interaktionen mit der einheimischen Bevölkerung und die Integrierbarkeit der BewohnerInnen hängen stark mit der Art der gewählten Unterkunft zusammen. Die BewohnerInnen von Gated Residential Developments bilden die isolierteste Gruppierung, welche vor allem Kontakt zu ihresgleichen sucht und nur wenig Kontakt zu einheimischen Bevölkerung hat. Die verschiedenen Wohnformen nehmen direkten Einfluss auf die Lebenswelt ihrer BewohnerInnen und unterscheiden sich hinsichtlich ihrer Lage, ihres Klientels, ihrer Form, Größe und Ausstattung stark voneinander. Zwar wird der Altenpflege, den damit womöglich verbundenen Pflegeangeboten und der medizinischen Versorgung im Untersuchungsgebiet seitens der MigrantInnen eine große Bedeutung zugesprochen, eine auf alte Menschen ausgerichtete Infrastruktur sowie ein entsprechendes Angebot ist allerdings bestenfalls in Ansätzen zu erkennen. Insgesamt konnten im Rahmen der Studie für das Untersuchungsgebiet vielfältige Zusammenhänge der Entwicklung von Gated Residential Developments und der zunehmenden Internationalen Altersmigration westlicher MigrantInnen evaluiert, dargestellt und erklärt werden und so leistet diese einen Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis des Migrationssystems der Internationalen Altersmigration nach Thailand.
Reviving the workshop of Asia: U.S. containment strategy and Japan, 1947-1952
Creators: name: Miyashita, Akitoshi
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations

description: The American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) was marked by a significant change in 1948 from reform to recovery. This was brought by the emerging U.S.-Soviet rivalries and the subsequent American Cold War diplomacy. As a result, Japan went from a defeated enemy to be punished to a potential ally to be protected. There was a sharp conflict, however, in Washington as to the type of policy that should be employed in order to fulfill U.S. interests in Japan. This reflected not only power struggles and bureaucratic politics among governmental agencies and individual actors, but also a lack of general agreement in the Truman administration regarding how communism should be contained in Asia. After the outbreak of the Korean War, a consensus was made in Washington to take a less moderate approach in dealing with the communist expansionism in Asia and particularly the defense of Japan.
title: Bone sarcoma cumulative tumor rates in patients injected with 224Ra
Creators: name: Mays, C. W.
name: Spiess, H.
name: Chmelevsky, D.
name: Kellerer, Albrecht M.
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Auf Grund eines Druckfehlers sind die Seiten 28-29 in der Druckvorlage nicht vorhanden.
title: Der Staat als Dealer?
Creators: name: Buchmann, Annemarie
Year: 2013

description: In Österreich gibt es ca. 34.000 opiatabhängige Menschen, davon befindet sich etwa die Hälfte in Substitutionsbehandlung, welche durch das Suchtmittelgesetz geregelt ist. Diese Masterarbeit geht der Frage nach, wie die staatliche Abgabe von Substitutionsmittel argumentiert wird und welche Bedeutungen diesen Argumenten zu Grunde liegen. Mithilfe der Untersuchung von Metaphern, welche in Sprache, Symbolen und Objekten im Politikfeld produziert werden, können zwei Kernargumente erarbeitet werden: Drogensubstitution wird entweder gesundheitspolitisch oder innenpolitisch argumentiert. Wobei der jeweiligen Sprache, den Objekte und Taten unterschiedliche Bedeutungen zu Grunde liegen und diese teilweise gegeneinander arbeiten. Dadurch wird das Feld fragil und Konflikte können entstehen.
description: 34.000 people in Austria are opiate addicted, half of those take part in drug substitution therapy. Drug substitution is legally organized in the austrian law. This master thesis attempts to analyze how drug substitution is explained to the public and what meanings are implicated by these arguments. With a focus on metaphors that shape the policies language, symbols and objects, two core-arguments were located: arguments of health policy and arguments of internal policies. Each have their own language, object and acts. Therefore the policy of drug substitution in Austria appears to be weak and likely to be scrutinized in conflicts.
Determination of polymer concentration effects on aqueous solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone--sodium dodecyl sulfate micellization properties
Creators: name: Zakikhanfard, Shohreh
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The interaction between polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was studied in order to determine the effect of the molecular weight and concentration of PVP on the development of the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of the surfactant, SDS. Each of three different molecular weights of polymer was examined at two concentration levels. The results of the experiments showed that two types of micelles were formed, and the CMC was determined for both types. For the first micelle type, the CMC was at 3.1 mM of SDS. For the second micelle type, the CMC was in the region of 9.5 to 11.2 mM of SDS.
Poster for Adversarial Robustness through the Lens of Convolutional Filters
Creators: name: Gavrikov, Paul
name: Keuper, Janis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: deep learning
machine learning
computer vision
convolutional neural networks
robustness
adversarial attacks

description: Poster for Adversarial Robustness through the Lens of Convolutional Filters Abstract: Deep learning models are intrinsically sensitive to distribution shifts in the input data. In particular, small, barely perceivable perturbations to the input data can force models to make wrong predictions with high confidence. An common defense mechanism is regularization through adversarial training which injects worst-case perturbations back into training to strengthen the decision boundaries, and to reduce overfitting. In this context, we perform an investigation of 3x3 convolution filters that form in adversarially-trained models. Filters are extracted from 71 public models of the linf-RobustBench CIFAR-10/100 and ImageNet1k leaderboard and compared to filters extracted from models built on the same architectures but trained without robust regularization. We observe that adversarially-robust models appear to form more diverse, less sparse, and more orthogonal convolution filters than their normal counterparts. The largest differences between robust and normal models are found in the deepest layers, and the very first convolution layer, which consistently and predominantly forms filters that can partially eliminate perturbations, irrespective of the architecture.