cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Science-Fiction oder doch schon Realität?
Creators: name: Zuliani, Barbara
Publisher: name: Medienimpulse
Year: 2023

description: Der Text „Science Fiction oder doch schon Realität? Fragmentarische Gedanken zur Gegenwart“ beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung von Science-Fiction-Geschichten für die Entwicklung von Zukunftsvisionen und das Verständnis von Technologie. Es soll dabei diskutiert werden, wie Technologien, Automatisierung und künstliche Intelligenz unser Leben beeinflussen und welche Auswirkungen dies auf unsere Gesellschaft haben kann. Die Verwendung von „Camille Stories“ als kreativer Diskurs ermöglicht die Entwicklung von möglichen Zukunftsszenarien, die das humanistische Welt-, Bildungs- und Sozialverständnis in einen neuen Blickwinkel rücken. Dabei wird betont, dass es wichtig ist, junge Menschen zur Mündigkeit zu führen und sie zu befähigen, alternative Zukunftsentwürfe zu denken, um Transformationsprozesse in der Gesellschaft mitzugestalten. Der Text zeigt, wie eine alte Science-Fiction-Geschichte, die vor über 100 Jahren geschrieben wurde, die aktuelle Realität widerspiegelt.
description: Medienimpulse, Bd. 61 Nr. 1 (2023): Medienpädagogische Entwürfe der Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit, Zukunftsvisionen und Science-Fiction
KOALA - Establishing Consortial Open Access Solutions
Creators: name: Tullney, Marco
name: Oberländer, Anja
name: Benz, Martina
name: Dreher, Lena
name: Schulz, Katharina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open access
collective funding
consortia
diamond open access
non-apc
scholar-led

description: In the KOALA (Konsortiale Open-Access-Lösungen aufbauen) project, consortial solutions for financing open access publications are being established. Collaborative funding of open access journals and book series by academic libraries is an alternative to the dominant model, in which articles are paid for individually by authors or their institutions through APC (article processing charges). During the project period from April 2021 to March 2023, the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology will work with the Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) of the University of Konstanz to establish at least one such consortium as a funding partner for open access periodicals. The project is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.
 Within the project framework, further analyses will be carried out and conversions of periodicals to open access will be accompanied. In addition, a central helpdesk for editors who need help with the transition to open access or with finding sustainable funding will be created. The infrastructure created by KOALA enables fair and sustainable financing of quality-assured open access publications. It contributes to removing financial hurdles for authors and thus facilitates participation in open access publications.
 The conference poster will outline the purpose and central objectives of KOALA, as well as describing the key points for the perspective of libraries, editors and publishers. For our initial exploration of their perspectives, we are seeking active involvement from these stakeholders and will be entering into a dialogue with them.
 For the poster’s visualisation, we will draw on the image of a koala’s natural habitat: the key points and objectives of the project will be illustrated against the backdrop of a eucalyptus tree.
Transit operations, city transportation plans and overall transportation network safety
Creators: name: Karim, Md. Ahsanul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Modern transportation planning considers issues such as road congestion, pollution and mobility proactively. However, road safety is usually evaluated in a reactive manner only after the implementation of transportation plans, and when safety problems arise. Although this reactive road safety approach has been very effective, it is associated with significant costs on communities. Therefore, several researchers advocate a more proactive approach to road safety analysis. Several studies developed macro-level Collision Prediction Models (CPMs) that could assess the road safety in a proactive manner, and provide a safety planning decision support tool to community planners and engineers. However, these models have limitations as they do not target the safety evaluation of different goals of a typical city transportation plan. Therefore, the motivation for this research arises from the necessity of developing tools that could predict the safety effect of a typical city transportation plan such as changes in the transportation and transit network configurations, and ultimately could evaluate the safety estimates among alternatives of different transportation plans and policies. The main goal of this thesis is to develop a set of macro-level collision prediction models to investigate the relationships between various transportation and sociodemographic characteristics, and the overall roadway safety. The developed models consider the Poisson variations and the heterogeneity (extra-variation) on the occurrence of collisions and the spatial effects on the distribution of collisions caused by the similarity in environment and geography of the neighbouring sites. It has been shown that the goodness of fit improved with the incorporation of spatial effect. In this study, a set of zonal-level transit reliant and application-based collision prediction models were developed. Data from Metro Vancouver, British Columbia were used to develop models using a generalized linear modelling approach with a negative binomial error structure. Different transit-related variables were found to be statistically significant, namely bus stop density, percentage of transit-km traveled with regard to total vehicle-km traveled, percentage of commuters walking, percentage of commuters biking, and percentage of commuters using transit. The CPMs related total, severe, and property damage only collisions to the implemental aspects related to the goals of long-term transportation plans.
Tracing colliding winds in the UV line orbital variability of gamma-ray binaries
Creators: name: Szostek, A.
name: Dubus, G.
name: McSwain, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray binaries emit most of their radiated power beyond ~10 MeV. The non-thermal emission is thought to arise from the interaction of the relativistic wind of a rotation-powered pulsar with the stellar wind of its massive (O or Be) companion star. A powerful pulsar creates an extended cavity, filled with relativistic electrons, in the radiatively-driven wind of the massive star. As a result, the observed P Cyg profiles of UV resonant lines from the stellar wind should be different from those of single massive stars. We propose to use UV emission lines to detect and constrain the colliding wind region in gamma-ray binaries. We compute the expected orbital variability of P Cyg profiles depending upon the interaction geometry (set by the ratio of momentum fluxes from the winds) and the line-of-sight to the system. We predict little or no variability for the case of LS 5039 and PSR B1259-63, in agreement with currently available HST observations of LS 5039. However, variability between superior and inferior conjunction is expected in the case of LS I+61 303.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Dumping on Free Trade: The U.S. Import Trade Laws
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: The passage of the Uruguay Round implementing legislation represents a natural opportunity to review the policy goals of the U. S. import trade laws, to assess how well current laws achieve those objectives, and to explore possible reforms. I argue that there is a variety of policy concerns justifying a circumscribed set of import trade statuses. The relevant U. S. laws, however, have largely become divorced from such national welfare considerations and are now too often a mechanism for furtive protectionism. The Uruguay Round effected some (marginal) improvements but left the fundamental structure of the laws unchanged. I discuss possible reforms in the final section of the paper.
Additional file 10 of The evolution of alternative splicing in glioblastoma under therapy
Creators: name: Wang, Lin
name: Shamardani, Karin
name: Babikir, Husam
name: Catalan, Francisca
name: Nejo, Takahide
name: Chang, Susan
name: Phillips, Joanna J.
name: Okada, Hideho
name: Diaz, Aaron A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10. Review history.
Geographic Origins, Status, and Identity at Paquimé, Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico
Creators: name: Offenbecker, Adrianne M.
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: bioarchaeology
subject: isotope analysis
subject: mortuary archaeology
subject: ritual violence
subject: human sacrifice
subject: northwest Mexico
subject: Education--Physical
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: This thesis examines migration at Paquimé, an important prehistoric site in northwest Mexico that is widely recognized for its mix of Mesoamerican and Southwestern traits. The presence of foreign objects and ideology has stimulated debate over whether Medio Period (A.D. 1200-1450) culture change was due to the arrival of foreign elites in the Casas Grandes region or to local developments. A crucial step in addressing this debate is to determine if high status immigrants were indeed present at Paquimé, which is the goal of this study. This is accomplished by using radiogenic strontium and stable oxygen isotope analyses to determine the geographic origins of a large sample of individuals from Paquimé and the Viejo Period Convento site. Comparative samples from sites within and outside the Casas Grandes region were analyzed to identify potential geographic origins of non-local individuals. Mortuary analyses were then conducted to assess social status and identity. Finally, two bioarchaeological case studies from mortuary contexts with suspected human sacrifices are presented to examine the relationship between geographic origins and ritual violence, and to explore the impacts of migration on Medio Period social dynamics. The results indicate that ~87% of Paquimé individuals were born locally or came from within the Casas Grandes region, while 13% migrated from neighbouring regions, including the American Southwest and other parts of northwest or west Mexico. At Convento, ~92% were local to the Casas Grandes region. Although the Medio Period was characterized by migration from more distant locations when compared to the preceding Viejo Period, none of the immigrants from neighbouring regions received high status mortuary treatment. Instead, the most elaborate burials at Paquimé belong to locally-born individuals, whose status was likely linked to ritual authority. Furthermore, most of the sacrificial victims were non-locals. These results suggest that Medio Period culture change was driven primarily by internal stimuli, including population aggregation from within the Casas Grandes region and sociopolitical maneuvering by local elites. The results also indicate that social tensions and competition for status, power, and/or resources led to asymmetrical power dynamics between locals and immigrants, which sometimes played out in ritually-charged contexts.
Die Öffentlichkeit der Medienpädagogik
Creators: name: Swertz, Christian
Publisher: name: Medienimpulse
Year: 2023

description: Medienbildung und Medienkompetenzvermittlung erfordern die Gestaltung hetereogener Öffentlichkeiten durch ein vielfältiges Medienensemble. Im Beitrag wird vorgeschlagen, zu diesem Zweck Freie Medien, öffentlich-rechtliche Medien, kommerzielle Medien, Staatsmedien und wissenschaftliche Medien klar differenziert zu gestalten.
description: Medienimpulse, Bd. 61 Nr. 1 (2023): Medienpädagogische Entwürfe der Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit, Zukunftsvisionen und Science-Fiction
Quasi-topological Reissner-Nordström Black Holes
Creators: name: Brenna, W. G.
name: Mann, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Reissner-Nordstrom solutions in quasi-topological gravity, obtaining exact solutions to the field equations yielding charged quasi-topological black holes. We study their thermodynamic behaviour over a range of parameters that yield ghost-free and stable space times. We find that a sufficiently negative quasi-topological parameter can yield black holes with 2 horizons, even for zero charge. We discuss the thermodynamic stability for the class of solutions we obtain. We also describe the structure of exact charged solutions to $k^{th}$ order quasi-topological gravity.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, 9 figures; added references and corrected typos
Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed?
Creators: name: Zeidenberg, Matthew
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Calcagno, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community colleges
Community college students
College preparation programs
Study skills

description: Many first-time college students arrive on campus unprepared to succeed in college. This is especially the case at community colleges, which pursue an “open door” mission of serving all students, regardless of prior educational background. According to a survey of degree-granting institutions by the National Center for Education Statistics (2003), 42 percent of entering first-time students at public two-year colleges in fall 2000 took at least one remedial course (or one “developmental” course; we use these terms interchangeably), compared to 20 percent of entering students at public four-year institutions. Among recent high school graduates who entered higher education through community colleges in the mid-1990s, over 60 percent took at least one remedial course (authors’ calculations based on the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988 [NELS: 88]). Underpreparation is typically viewed in terms of deficiencies in students’ basic academic skills, specifically in those skills integral to the reading, writing, and mathematics subject areas. Community college educators maintain, however, that many entering students are also unprepared in other important ways. It is widely believed that many students have poor study habits and lack clear goals for college and careers. Some experts contend that helping students address these non-academic deficiencies is just as important as helping them acquire basic academic skills through remedial classes, which typically do not address issues such as study skills, goal setting, and the like (Boylan, 2002;Pascarella and Terenzini, 1991).
The effect of cusps in time-dependent quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Yang, Zeng-hui
name: Maitra, Neepa T.
name: Burke, Kieron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial cusps in initial wavefunctions can lead to non-analytic behavior in time. We suggest a method for calculating the short-time behavior in such situations. For these cases, the density does not match its Taylor-expansion in time, but the Runge-Gross proof of time-dependent density functional theory still holds, as it requires only the potential to be time-analytic.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Systematic conservation at the regional scale: the role of species distribution models in priority setting
Creators: name: Lieske, David J.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 169-187
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: Present day rates of species loss are of world-wide concern, with species distribution modelling (SDM) being an important means to identify areas of high conservation value and direct conservation efforts more efficiently. The key purpose of this thesis was to implement a full cycle of species distribution modelling to evaluate the advantages and limitations of different modelling approaches for identifying candidate areas for conservation. Key objectives included: (1) assessment of broad- scale spatial pattern and prevalence of spatial autocorrelation for a set of breeding birds, observed during the North American Breeding Bird Survey; (2) examination of the potential for improving predictive accuracy through the incorporation of autocorrelation and non-stationarity; (3) evaluation of model predictive accuracy, bias, and generalisability; (4) analysis of the sensitivity of automated reserve selection to modelling method, reserve selection algorithm, and information quality. Assessment of broad-scale pattern indicated that patchy abundance distributions were common, and nearly universally autocorrelated (24 of 27 species, or 89%). Modelling results demonstrated that predictive accuracy was generally related to model complexity. However, the response in goodness-of-fit was more complicated and depended upon the species in question. The impact of spatial autocorrelation depended on the species, with the American Crow benefiting the most from the application of a spatial autologistic approach. Accuracy assessment , based on random test points, confirmed that autologistic models provided substantially higher predictive power, as did the non-stationary models produced by geographically weighted regression (GWR). From the perspective of generalisability, the simplest models were the least vulnerable to predictive bias and were also the most consistently accurate across species. The GWR method was the most sensitive to the geographic locations used to train the model. The reserve selection analysis identified that the the combination of a greedy selection algorithm with high quality information was effective for maximising the habitat value of the reserve network. The value of SDMs for conservation planning will be maximised if they are as biologically plausible as possible. Autologistic regression and GWR, on a case-by-case basis, can lead to more accurate selection of high value habitat, thereby improving our ability to support long-term species persistence.
How to prepare for Plan S at the individual, institutional, and national levels – an example of actions taken at Gdańsk University of Technology
Creators: name: Mroziński, Aleksander
name: Krajewski, Piotr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Plan S
Open Science Competence Centre
Database
Open Data
Open Access

description: Plan S, the initiative launched in 2018, is a great opportunity to accelerate the transition to an open scholarly publishing system. It is also an ambitious challenge for all stakeholders related to financing science, organising and conducting research, and publishing processes. This presentation aims to describe the activities undertaken by the Gdańsk University of Technology to ensure the smooth implementation of Plan S. These activities can be divided into three levels depending on the scope of activities.
 1. National level. As part of the Bridge of Data project, an Open Access policy database of Polish scientific journals was created. Most Polish journals are not indexed in the Sherpa Romeo database, and many of them do not have a clearly defined self-archiving policy. The database is generally available and was created in consultation with publishers, which also means that they have to refine their approach.
 2. Institutional level. The Bridge of Knowledge portal created by the Gdańsk University of Technology provides the appropriate infrastructure for scientists who choose the green Open Access path. The Open Access repository is available for all users, but in the case of researchers of the Gdańsk University of Technology, the Library also verifies the publisher’s policy regarding green Open Access, and in the future, the compliance with Plan S will be also checked. Additionally, institutional Open Access financing programs for publications with the highest impact were launched.
 3. Individual level. As part of the Bridge of Data project, an Open Science Competence Centre was established, which conducts training and consultations in the field of Open Science, prepares instructional materials for the website, and guidelines for researchers on how to promote their scientific output using Open Science tools.
First Science Observations with SOFIA/FORCAST: 6 to 37 micron Imaging of the Central Orion Nebula
Creators: name: Shuping, R. Y.
name: Morris, Mark R.
name: Herter, Terry L.
name: Adams, Joseph D.
name: Gull, G. E.
name: Schoenwald, J.
name: Henderson, C. P.
name: Becklin, E. E.
name: De Buizer, James M.
name: Vacca, William D.
name: Zinnecker, Hans
name: Megeath, S. Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new mid-infrared images of the central region of the Orion Nebula using the newly commissioned SOFIA airborne telescope and its 5 -- 40 micron camera FORCAST. The 37.1 micron images represent the highest resolution observations (<4") ever obtained of this region at these wavelengths. After BN/KL (which is described in a separate letter in this issue), the dominant source at all wavelengths except 37.1 micron is the Ney-Allen Nebula, a crescent-shaped extended source associated with theta 1D. The morphology of the Ney-Allen nebula in our images is consistent with the interpretation that it is ambient dust swept up by the stellar wind from theta 1D, as suggested by Smith et al. (2005). Our observations also reveal emission from two "proplyds" (proto-planetary disks), and a few embedded young stellar objects (YSOs; IRc9, and OMC1S IRS1, 2, and 10). The spectral energy distribution for IRc9 is presented and fitted with standard YSO models from Robitaille et al. (2007) to constrain the total luminosity, disk size, and envelope size. The diffuse, nebular emission we observe at all FORCAST wavelengths is most likely from the background photodissociation region (PDR) and shows structure that coincides roughly with H_alpha and [N II] emission. We conclude that the spatial variations in the diffuse emission are likely due to undulations in the surface of the background PDR.
description: Accepted for publication in the ApJ Letters special SOFIA issue. 15 pages; 5 figures (color)
Deux: Autonomic Testing System for Operating System Upgrades
Creators: name: Wu, Leon L.
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: Nieh, Jason
name: Murphy, Christian
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer science

description: Operating system upgrades and patches sometimes break applications that worked fine on the older version. We present an autonomic approach to testing of OS updates while minimizing downtime, usable without local regression suites or IT expertise. Deux utilizes a dual-layer virtual machine architecture, with lightweight application process checkpoint and resume across OS versions, enabling simultaneous execution of the same applications on both OS versions in different VMs. Inputs provided by ordinary users to the production old version are also fed to the new version. The old OS acts as a pseudo-oracle for the update, and application state is automatically re-cloned to continue testing after any output discrepancies (intercepted at system call level) - all transparently to users. If all differences are deemed inconsequential, then the VM roles are switched with the application state already in place. Our empirical evaluation with both LAMP and standalone applications demonstrates Deux's efficiency and effectiveness.
Quantum particle on a Mobius strip, coherent states and projection operators
Creators: name: Cirilo-Lombardo, Diego Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent states for a quantum particle on a Möbius strip are constructed and their relation with the natural phase space for fermionic fields is shown. The explicit comparison of the obtained states with previous works where the cylinder quantization was used and the spin 1/2 was introduced by hand is given, and the relation between the geometrical phase space, constraints and projection operators is analyzed and discussed.
description: 14 pgs., no figures
Designing Host and Network Sensors to Mitigate the Insider Threat
Creators: name: Bowen, Brian M.
name: Ben Salem, Malek
name: Hershkop, Shlomo
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Insider attacks--that is, attacks by users with privileged knowledge about a system--are a growing problem for many organizations. To address this threat, the authors have designed an architecture for insider threat detection that combines an array of complementary monitoring and auditing techniques.
Carbon Supported Metal Carbide Catalysts for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
Creators: name: Virla Alvarado, Luis Daniel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: petroleum coke
subject: activated carbon
subject: carbothermal reduction
subject: molybdenum carbide
subject: CO2 conversion
subject: reverse water-gas shift reaction
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: Development of active and selective catalysts for the conversion of CO2 into valuable products is a promising strategy for reducing the environmental impact of CO2 released from the use of fossil fuels. The manufacture of these catalysts should also consider the use of waste materials and reduction of chemicals needed to decrease energy and resource consumption while being economically feasible. The aim of this research was to prepare a molybdenum-carbide catalyst from petroleum coke (petcoke), an abundant waste material from oil refining, with comparable activity and selectivity to other catalysts studied for the reduction of CO2 by H2. The process of converting petcoke into a catalyst involved increasing its porosity and carburizing added Mo using microwaves or electrical heating, focused on eliminating the need for methane and/or hydrogen for its preparation. Due to pyrophoricity risks, a multiple-test rig was built to study the catalysts preventing their exposure to air or passivation gases. The petcoke-based carbon prepared had higher surface areas and pore volumes (~2000 m2/g and > 1 cm3/g) than other commercial carbons (1000-700 m2/g and ~0.5 cm3/g) which enhanced the catalytic performance towards CO2 reduction. Microwave-assisted synthesis reduced the carbide preparation time from 15 h to 8 min. However, the resulting samples showed low CO2 conversion between 1.6-1.2 %. The catalysts prepared using a furnace showed a maximum CO2 conversion of 5.2 % and selectivity towards CO above 95.8 % after 24 h of reaction comparable to that previously reported for Pt based catalysts. Further investigations evaluated the improvement of the catalyst by re-using the petcoke activation chemical as a promoter. Alkali from petcoke activation with KOH moderately improved CO selectivity (97.4 % to 99.5 %) and stability (deactivation from 34 % to 26%) but decreased CO2 conversion by 2 %. Probable site blockage at high loadings of potassium (~5 wt%) indicate that further washing is needed to decrease the potassium concentration and maximize the promotion effect. The findings from this thesis provided insights on the preparation methods of Mo2C catalysts and alternative technologies for CO2 capture and re-utilization that is becoming a major cost in the energy sector.
Phase I control chart for individual autocorrelated data: application to prescription opioid monitoring
Creators: name: Yao, Yuhui
name: Chakraborti, Subha
name: Yang, Xin
name: Parton, Jason
name: Lewis, Dwight
name: Hudnall, Matthew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Phase I or retrospective process monitoring plays a key part in an overall statistical process monitoring (SPM) regime and is increasingly emphasized in the recent literature. At present, a lot of the data in a variety of settings (public and private sector organizations) are collected individually and sequentially and thus are serially correlated (or autocorrelated). Though a reasonable amount of work is available in the control charting literature for prospective (Phase II) autocorrelated data monitoring, very little work exists for the retrospective phase (Phase I). In this article, we present a Shewhart-type control chart for Phase I monitoring of individual autocorrelated data, assuming normality, with estimated parameters. The methodology, while developed and presented for the first-order autoregressive (AR(1)) model for simplicity, may be adapted to more general time series models. The correct charting constants, adjusted for autocorrelation and parameter estimation, are derived, and tabulated for a nominal in-control (IC) false alarm probability (FAP). Simulation results show that the proposed chart is favorably IC FAP robust and effective for reasonably small sample sizes, moderate autocorrelation, and some model miss-specifications, compared to other approaches. An illustration using some public health data involving prescription fentanyl transactions is provided to show the potential for broader areas of applications of the proposed methodology. Along with a summary and recommendations, some future research areas are indicated. An R package is developed and made available for implementing the proposed methodology on demand.
Phantom Cosmology without Big Rip Singularity
Creators: name: Astashenok, Artyom V.
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
name: Yurov, Artyom V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct phantom energy models with the equation-of-state parameter $w$ such that $w
description: LaTeX 13 pages, to appear in PLB
Datenschutz an Österreichs Schulen: Freie Open Source Software
Creators: name: Schwarzinger, Rene
name: Gatterer, Thomas
name: Kruppa, Thomas
Publisher: name: Medienimpulse
Year: 2023

description: Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie Österreich aktuell mit Datenschutz im Schulbereich umgeht, bringt Beispiele anderer Zugänge ein und formuliert Fragen, welche zur konstruktiven Problemlösung angegangen werden müssen.
description: Medienimpulse, Bd. 61 Nr. 1 (2023): Medienpädagogische Entwürfe der Zukunft: Nachhaltigkeit, Zukunftsvisionen und Science-Fiction
Anomalous Size Dependence of the Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Ribbons
Creators: name: Nika, Denis L.
name: Askerov, Artur S.
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the thermal conductivity K of graphene ribbons and graphite slabs as the function of their lateral dimensions. Our theoretical model considered the anharmonic three-phonon processes to the second-order and included the angle-dependent phonon scattering from the ribbon edges. It was found that the long mean free path of the long-wavelength acoustic phonons in graphene can lead to an unusual non-monotonic dependence of the thermal conductivity on the length L of a ribbon. The effect is pronounced for the ribbons with the smooth edges (specularity parameter p>0.5). Our results also suggest that - contrary to what was previously thought - the bulk-like 3D phonons in graphite can make a rather substantial contribution to its in-plane thermal conductivity. The Umklapp-limited thermal conductivity of graphite slabs scales, for L below ~ 10 micrometers, as log(L) while for larger L, the thermal conductivity approaches a finite value following the dependence K_0 - A\timesL^-1/2, where K_0 and A are parameters independent of the length. Our theoretical results clarify the scaling of the phonon thermal conductivity with the lateral sizes in graphene and graphite. The revealed anomalous dependence K(L) for the micrometer-size graphene ribbons can account for some of the discrepancy in reported experimental data for graphene.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
The Open Science Office of the University of Mannheim: Supporting Researchers Beyond Open Access and Research Data Management
Creators: name: Maschmann, Ira Theresa
name: Zumstein, Philipp
name: Erdfelder, Edgar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
organisational development
research support

description: Open Science practices can be challenging for researchers: They may need to overthink their scientific workflow and some previously practiced research methods as well as to learn new practices such as preregistration or replication. Moreover, opening up their research may require additional steps in the scientific process and possibly also additional resources. In February 2021, the University of Mannheim has established an Open Science Office supporting researchers at all career stages and from all disciplines.

 The Open Science Office of the University of Mannheim offers individual consultations, trainings in various formats as well as Open Science grants and Open Science checks. It is tightly intertwined with the already existing Open Access support and interacts with the research data center, research support unit and other players within and outside the university.
The convex hull for a random acceleration process in two dimensions
Creators: name: Reymbaut, Alexis
name: Majumdar, Satya N.
name: Rosso, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute exactly the mean perimeter and the mean area of the convex hull of a random acceleration process of duration T in two dimensions. We use an exact mapping that relates, via Cauchy's formulae, the computation of the perimeter and the area of the convex hull of an arbitrary two dimensional stochastic process [x(t); y(t)] to the computation of the extreme value statistics of the associated one dimensional component process x(t). The latter can be computed exactly for the one dimensional random acceleration process even though the process in non-Markovian. Physically, our results are relevant in describing theaverage shape of a semi-flexible ideal polymer chain in two dimensions.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepeted in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
Nonlinear response of high-rise buildings: effect of directionality of ground motions
Creators: name: Archila, Manuel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The response of high-rise buildings to strong ground shaking depends on ground motion parameters namely: intensity, frequency content, duration and horizontal ground motion directionality. The latter has been a concern to engineers for several decades in seismic design. The prediction of the direction where ground motion will hit the building is rendered difficult because in many regions faults are not mapped to a great extent, and for regions were fault locations are known accurate prediction of ground motion directionality is impeded because ground motions have unique wave propagation characteristics along its path. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of ground motion directionality on the nonlinear dynamic response of a high-rise building. The influence of ground motion directionality was evaluated for a building case study. The building was 44 storey, and resembled general features of structural configuration commonly provided to reinforced concrete high-rise in Vancouver city. The nonlinear time history analysis (NLTHA) method was used to estimate seismic response of the building model to bi-directional ground shaking. This method was systematically applied for 40 ground motion component angles of incidence, which accounted for different ground motion directionalities ranging from 0 to 360 degrees. A suite of 3 pairs of horizontal ground motion representative of seismic hazard 2% in 50 years in Vancouver was considered for analysis. The ground motion directionality had significant effect over the calculated building seismic response. In some scenarios at critical angle of incidence the calculated floor displacements and interstorey drifts were 4 times as large as the displacements and drifts calculated for ground motion at 0 degrees angle of incidence. The largest building response envelope was obtained for several critical angles of incidence of the ground motion components. Critical angles of incidence were distributed over the entire building’s height. The relevance of ground motion directionality for seismic design of high-rise buildings was clearly demonstrated. The NLTHA used in conventional design practice still ignores ground motion directionality. It is concluded there is a need to develop the tools engineers can readily use to consider ground motion directionality in seismic design of modern high-rise buildings.
Additional file 5: of BKCa participates in E2 inducing endometrial adenocarcinoma by activating MEK/ERK pathway
Creators: name: Wang, Fenfen
name: Chen, Qin
name: Huang, Genping
name: Guo, Xuedong
name: Li, Na
name: Li, Yang
name: Li, Baohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S3. The information about the tissue samples of the patients with type I endometrial cancer and the related clinic-pathological parameters. (DOCX 16 kb)
The social organization of placement in geriatric mental health
Creators: name: Lane, Annette M.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 267-288
description: This institutional ethnographic research study investigates the health care process of placing older adults from hospital mental health units into nursing homes or assisted living arrangements. Placing older, mentally ill adults from hospital into alternate living facilities is fraught with challenges for older adults, family members and health care professionals. The complex work process of coming to a decision that older adults with mental illness require placement, and carrying out that process, confuses and frustrates many health care professionals, and absolutely befuddles older adults and family members. This research begins with the experiences of older adults in hospital mental health units who cannot return home and are going to be placed in nursing homes or DAL arrangements. I examine the hospital-based work of assessment ( of older adults) and placement as coordinated across different health care professions at varying levels (frontline and managerial). In particular, I focus upon specific tools that coordinate assessment, that validate decision-making about placement and that are used to facilitate placement across sites ( e.g. hospital units to nursing homes). This institutional ethnography reveals the extensive, time consuming work of health care professionals on mental health units in assessing and treating the illnesses of older adults, assessing abilities to live independently, and in some cases, deciding upon placement in nursing homes or DAL arrangements. The tools that are used to assess older adults and facilitate placement often rely upon numbers or categories that are not relevant to the mentally ill and do not accurately represent the complexities of these individuals, do not reveal the extensive and intricate work of health care professionals and can actual hinder the placement process. I propose changes to the tools used to assess older, mentally ill adults, increasing the verbal work between professionals across sites (hospital and nursing home) to facilitate placement and specific adaptations to nursing home/DAL arrangements that may assist mentally ill older adults.
Design and Implementation of Virtual Private Services
Creators: name: Ioannidis, Sotiris
name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
name: Ioannidis, John
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
name: Smith, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Computer science

description: Large scale distributed applications such as electronic commerce and online marketplaces combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed responsibility for resource control creates new security and privacy issues, which are exacerbated by the complexity of the operating environment. In order to handle policies at multiple locations, the usual tools available (firewalls and compartmented file storage) get to be used in ways that are clumsy and prone to failure. We propose a new approach, virtual private services. Our approach relies on two functional divisions. First, we split policy specification and policy enforcement, providing local autonomy within the constraints of the global security policy. Second, we create virtual security domains, each with its own security policy. Every domain has an associated set of privileges and permissions restricting it to the resources it needs to use and the services it must perform. Virtual private services ensure security and privacy policies are adhered to through coordinated policy enforcement points. We describe our architecture and a prototype implementation, and present a preliminary performance evaluation confirming that our overhead of policy enforcement using is small.
Microseismic Based Reservoir Characterization (SBRC): Stimulated Reservoir Volume, Diffusivity, Geomechanics and Probabilistic Modeling
Creators: name: LI, QI
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microseismic
subject: Petroleum Engineering
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: Microseismic monitoring is a technique that allows examining the 3D growth of a microseismic event cloud stemming from a hydraulic fracturing job. The prevalence of microseismic monitoring has given rise to a new research area referred to as Microseismic Based Reservoir Characterization (SBRC). The primary objective of this thesis is to develop new microseismic interpretation methods with a view to advance practical petroleum engineering aspects of SBRC particularly in tight and shale reservoirs. The major original contributions of this dissertation include: 1. Development of an analytical solution to calculate the relative seismicity rate occurring during a hydraulic fracturing job. Current methods require the use of numerical solutions. 2. Development of a diffusion-based method for calculating the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) in anisotropic, asymmetric, nonuniform shale petroleum reservoirs. The analytical solution satisfies the requirements of fast implementation, robust application and analytical tractability. Current methods to handle these complexities require the use of numerical solutions. 3. Development of a correlation for calculating Biot coefficient with an emphasis on shale petroleum reservoirs based on knowledge of porosity and permeability. The easy-to-use correlation provides good agreement with previously published direct experimental measurements. This is important as Biot coefficient plays a very important role on stress coupling in microseismicity modeling. 4. Development of a method for calculating large-scale permeability using Mogi’s (1967) empirical rock failure relationship. Large scale permeability plays a very important role on the success or failure of a hydraulic fracturing job. 5. Development of a probabilistic model that combines stochastic process, seismicity rate and statistical learning approach for predicting real time microseismicity occur- rences. This is important in evaluating the ongoing process of a hydraulic fracturing job. 6. Development of a geostatistical simulation algorithm, TopoSim, which integrates topological preserving algorithms and utilizes unsupervised machine learning pro- tocol. The algorithm can be used, for example, in the evaluation of paleochannels in reservoirs of continental origin, and to generate multiple natural fractures network realizations, which can be fed into reservoir and geomechanical simulators. It is concluded that the above original contributions will enhance the SBRC particularly in the case of shale petroleum reservoirs.
ESiWACE3 - Deliverable D7.1 - Project management guidelines
Creators: name: Rodríguez, Mar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Deliverable
ESiWACE3

description: This document provides an overview of the management and administrative procedures of the ESiWACE3 Project in order to facilitate efficient project execution as well as high-quality project results. The document will provide the ESiWACE3 consortium with a concise reference to the project management structure, tasks, and responsibilities at all levels of project execution. It establishes the management bodies and responsibilities in order to ensure timely and correct production of the results and deliverables as well as the quality and risk management plan.
Recreating Parks as Places for Restoration, Reconnection, and Reconciliation
Creators: name: Carruthers Den Hoed, Donald Gordon
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: parks
subject: protected areas
subject: transdisciplinary
subject: Indigenous
subject: Health
subject: connection to nature
subject: Anthropocene
subject: interdisciplinary
subject: Native American Studies
subject: Recreation
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry

description: This integrative research study builds on the emerging theme of valuing parks for providing health benefits through experiences in nature, and explores how transdisciplinary inquiry can inform the role parks play connecting people to nature in the face of current global environmental challenges. The iterative research process drew upon several academic disciplines including environmental studies, health, social work, and education, and co-created knowledge with park managers and through conversations with Indigenous (Stoney Nakoda) elders. The study centered on a quasi-experimental field experience where 34 members of the public spent one hour in urban and remote natural sites—the latter presented as either sacred, undesignated nature, or as a park. Participants completed surveys on place preference and perceived health effects, attention restorativeness, and completed the Connection to Nature Scale instrument. Salivary cortisol samples were collected to assess physiological impacts of nature experiences. Though sample size was small, results provided a rich picture of how people perceived and were affected by experiences in natural settings. The study reveals a preference for remote natural sites, especially when presented as a park, and a spiritual connection with those places. It also reveals potential health effects of elements such as wind and rain, expands the definition health effects of nature to include contributions to wellbeing, and reveals a gap between health benefits of nature and reciprocal care of nature as well as a gap between park managers and the agencies they represent. Though challenging, transdisciplinary inquiry is shown to be a fruitful approach to exploring the role of parks in the Anthropocene. Finally, Indigenous collaboration in transdisciplinary park research offers a possible roadmap for connecting people to nature and a potential role for parks to play in reconciliation.