cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Eine digital unterstützte Methodik zur sensorischen Nutzung von Konstruktionselementen
Creators: name: Kraus, Benjamin
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Diese Arbeit dreht sich um die Entwicklung einer Methodik zur sensorischen Nutzung von Konstruktionselementen sowie um die Digitalisierung der Werkzeuge, welche in der Methodik zum Einsatz kommen. Die Arbeit bewegt sich somit in den Themenfeldern der Sensorik, der methodischen Produktentwicklung, der Digitalisierung von Methoden und der damit verbundenen Softwareentwicklung. Zur Umsetzung des Ziels, die sensorische Nutzung von Konstruktionselementen methodisch sowohl effektiv als auch effizient zu unterstützen, kommt nach der Vorstellung des Stands der Forschung die Forschungsmethode Action Research zum Einsatz. Deren iterativer Aufbau führt zu den drei großen Handlungsblöcken dieser Arbeit.

Im ersten Teil wird eine Methodik zur sensorischen Nutzung von Konstruktionselementen induktiv entwickelt. Hierzu wird die Konzeptphase des allgemeinen Entwicklungsmodells der Produktentwicklung gezielt auf die Nutzung für sensorisch nutzbare Komponenten angepasst, indem die Analyse und Konzeptentwicklung gezielt durch dafür geeignete Werkzeuge unterstützt wird. Die Beurteilung der Konzepte erfolgt durch eine Auswahl und Bewertung der Konzepte. Die Bewertung wird dabei gezielt durch ein allgemeines Zielsystem, welches Kriterien zur Berechnung der technischen Wertigkeit umfasst, unterstützt.

Die Analyse der Methodik führt zum zweiten und größten Handlungsblock, der Entwicklung einer graphenbasierten Datenbank physikalischer Effekte. Dieser Effektgraph wird durch eine zugehörige Software unterstützt, welche es ermöglicht, aus der Datenbank Effektketten zu bilden und mit Hilfe dieser die methodische Entwicklung sensorisch nutzbarer Konstruktionselemente zu unterstützen. Die Kombination aus Datenbank und Software ermöglicht es, die für die Methodik wichtigen Kriterien zügig auszugeben. Für das Kriterium des Störgrößeneinflusses wird eigens ein Algorithmus aufgebaut, welcher die bisherige methodische Bewertung des Störgrößeneinflusses komplett automatisiert.

Im dritten Handlungsblock wird dazu passend eine digitale Beschreibungsform für technische Systeme entwickelt, welche es ermöglicht, mit dieser Effektketten gezielt zu filtern. Hierzu erlaubt die Beschreibungsform die Darstellung sowohl von Komponenten als auch von Interaktionen in technischen Systemen.

Am Ende jedes Handlungsblocks erfolgt eine Reflexion des Vorgehens und die Evaluation der Ergebnisse. Aus dieser lässt sich der weitere Handlungsbedarf für den nächsten Block ableiten. Als finale Evaluation aller Arbeitsergebnisse wird eine Studie mit ProbandInnen aus dem industriellen Umfeld durchgeführt. In dieser zeigt sich, dass der Einsatz der Methodik signifikant stark zur Verbesserung der Konzeptentwicklung für sensorisch nutzbare Komponenten beiträgt.

Die Arbeit schließt mit einem Fazit zum Erfüllungsgrad der gesetzten Ziele und Forschungsfragen sowie einem Ausblick auf künftige Forschungspotentiale.
Performance optimization for a scintillating glass electromagnetic calorimeter at the EIC
Creators: name: Crafts, J.
name: Fatemi, R.
name: Horn, T.
name: Kalinkin, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The successful realization of the EIC scientific program requires the design and construction of high-performance particle detectors. Recent developments in the field of scientific computing and increased availability of high performance computing resources have made it possible to perform optimization of multi-parameter designs, even when the latter require longer computational times (for example simulations of particle interactions with matter). Procedures involving machine-assisted techniques used to inform the design decision have seen a considerable growth in popularity among the EIC detector community. Having already been realized for tracking and RICH PID detectors, it has a potential application in calorimetry designs. A SciGlass barrel calorimeter originally designed for EIC Detector-1 has a semi-projective geometry that allows for non-trivial performance gains, but also poses special challenges in the way of effective exploration of the design space while satisfying the available space and the cell dimension constraints together with the full detector acceptance requirement. This talk will cover specific approaches taken to perform this detector design optimization.
Assembly Tolerancing Digital Twin
Creators: name: IRT Jules Verne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The deliverable D4.3 presents all the methods, the strategies and numerical developments realized to build the Assembly Tolerancing Digital Twin, based on MECAmaster® software and Python® scripts. This Digital Twin is fully integrated in the WP4 numerical workflow, with AFP and RTM processes Digital Twins, with an automatic estimation of the tolerances of the parts from distortions simulations, with effects on processes defects. The main results of a tolerancing analysis of assemblies are illustrated on two assemblies, the Proof of Concept 1 and the OGV
Stakeholder driven climate services for South Africa (STADCLIM-SA): Views of stakeholders on climate services based on interviews
Creators: name: HR Wallingford
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this report is to summarise the results of qualitative, semi-structured interviews undertaken with representatives of the 10 priority sectors covered by the National Framework for Climate Services for South Africa (NFCS-SA). It complements a related report which presents findings of quantitative surveys focusing on agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, energy and human settlements. 

This work was carried out under the Work Package 4 of Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership Programme (WCSSP) for South Africa which focuses on the development of prototype climate services. The objective of the WCSSP for South Africa is to promote and strengthen scientific partnerships and collaboration between the UK and South Africa in the area of weather and climate science and services.
The degradation of curcuminoids in a human faecal fermentation model
Creators: name: Calani, Luca
name: Gras, Sally L.
name: Rio, Daniele Del
name: Suryani Tan
name: Bresciani, Letizia
name: Dall’asta, Margherita
name: Faccini, Andrea
name: Augustin, Mary Ann
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: In the present study, the colonic metabolism of three curcuminoids (80.1% curcumin, 15.6%, demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and 2.6% bis-demethoxycurcumin (Bis-DMC)) was evaluated using an in vitro model containing human faecal starters. The breakdown products formed were identified and characterized using different analytical platforms. Following in vitro incubation, the relative amounts of degraded curcuminoids and the produced metabolites were analyzed using a UHPLC coupled with a linear ion trap mass spectrometer, with the addition of hybrid ion trap-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer when required. Up to ∼24% of curcumin, ∼61% of demethoxycurcumin (DMC) and ∼87% of bis-demethoxycurcumin (Bis-DMC) were degraded by the human faecal microbiota after 24 h of fermentation in vitro. Three main metabolites, namely tetrahydrocurcumin (THC), dihydroferulic acid (DFA) and a metabolite with an accurate mass of 181.08734, which was tentatively identified as 1-(4-Hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-2-propanol were detected in the fermentation cultures containing the curcuminoids. The data presented here provide insights into curcuminoid colonic metabolism, showing that bacterial breakdown products should be considered in further studies on both bioavailability bioactivity of curcumin.
Glaciokarst geomorphology of the Northern Dinaric Alps: Snežnik (Slovenia) and Gorski Kotar (Croatia)
Creators: name: Žebre, Manja
name: Uroš Stepišnik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Snežnik and Gorski Kotar are mountainous areas in the Northern Dinaric Alps. We investigated this remote and densely forested area on the border between Slovenia and Croatia between 2011 and 2014. The result of the fieldwork campaign is a 1:30,000 geomorphological map covering almost 600 km2. The study area mainly consists of Mesozoic age limestone and dolostone. Karstified carbonate lithology results in almost the complete absence of surface run-off and a dominance of typical karst morphology. The extensive karstified area was modified by Quaternary glaciations; therefore, the recent landscape is characterized as a glaciokarst. The focus of the presented map is to provide a basis for further research of Quaternary glaciations in the areas of Snežnik and Gorski Kotar. Along with the map, we propose a legend for glaciokarst landscape mapping.
Post-harvest handling and quality loss of Indian major carps in the distribution channel of Noakhali district, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70406 Post-Harvest Fisheries Technologies (incl. Transportation)
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Post-harvest loss of mrigal (Cirrhinus cirrhosus), catla (Catla catla), rohu (Labeo rohita) and kalibaush (Labeo calbasu) in different distribution channel of Noakhali district, Bangladesh were observed during the month of January 2015 to April 2015. Sensory evaluation method was adopted in order to gather information about quality loss of fish and existing handling condition at different stakeholder level. The observed fish were fresh at fisherman level but as the day progress along with temperature variation fish started losing quality and most of their quality found lost at retailer level. Fisherman supplied fish to beparies at 5% quality loss, further 10%, 20% and 22% loss was observed through aratder, retailer and consumer respectively. DPs varied with the month basis, compared to January-February the DPs were higher in March-April which indicates that temperature rise cause more quality loss of fish. Most of the fishes crossed DP 3.0 at retailer level because of long term exposure to open air coupled with unhygienic condition of markets. Different sizes baskets were used for transportation of fish with or without icing. Live fishes were transported with water in gallon or drum and they could retain their shelf lifelong time than that of dead fish or fish with no icing condition. The unsold fishes were preserved in refrigerator and re-icing was adopted by 70% retailer. The ice ratio of fish: ice was 1:1 in March-April and 2:1 in January February. The more quality loss of fish the more ice was used. Bad handling practices due to transportation and in markets also caused quality deterioration of some fishes. Usually post-harvest loss of fish is not taken under the consideration which eventually because economic loss coupled with food insecurity but proper steps to reduce loss can compensate the post-harvest fish loss.
Policy Space Response Oracles: A Survey
Creators: name: Bighashdel, Ariyan
name: Wang, Yongzhao
name: McAleer, Stephen
name: Savani, Rahul
name: Oliehoek, Frans A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Game theory provides a mathematical way to study the interaction between multiple decision makers. However, classical game-theoretic analysis is limited in scalability due to the large number of strategies, precluding direct application to more complex scenarios. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of a framework for large games, known as Policy Space Response Oracles (PSRO), which holds promise to improve scalability by focusing attention on sufficient subsets of strategies. We first motivate PSRO and provide historical context. We then focus on the strategy exploration problem for PSRO: the challenge of assembling effective subsets of strategies that still represent the original game well with minimum computational cost. We survey current research directions for enhancing the efficiency of PSRO, and explore the applications of PSRO across various domains. We conclude by discussing open questions and future research.
description: Ariyan Bighashdel and Yongzhao Wang contributed equally
Higher-derivative corrections to flavoured BPS black hole thermodynamics and holography
Creators: name: Cassani, Davide
name: Ruipérez, Alejandro
name: Turetta, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Cardy-like regime of the four-dimensional superconformal index has been shown to be governed by 't Hooft anomalies and to single out a large-$N$ saddle carrying the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of dual supersymmetric black holes in AdS$_5$. For the universal index where no flavour fugacities are turned on, this correspondence has been improved by matching the first subleading corrections to the saddle-point action with the four-derivative corrections to the black hole action in minimal gauged supergravity, as well as the respective corrected entropies. Here, we extend this match by including flavour symmetries. We consider five-dimensional gauged supergravity with vector multiplet and four-derivative couplings, and provide an effective theory reproducing the 't Hooft anomalies of the R- and flavour symmetries of generic holographic superconformal field theories at next-to-leading order in the large-$N$ expansion. Then we focus on a specific model dual to $\mathbb{C}^3/\mathbb{Z}_ν$ quiver gauge theories, where the 't Hooft anomaly coefficients receive simple but sufficiently generic corrections. In this model, we evaluate the four-derivative corrections to the on-shell action of the supersymmetric multi-charge black hole, showing agreement with the flavoured Cardy-like formula from the index. We give a prediction for the corrected entropy of the supersymmetric black hole and discuss the general validity of our results. Taking the limit of infinite AdS$_5$ radius, we also obtain four-derivative corrections to the action and entropy of supersymmetric asymptotically flat black holes.
description: 64 pages, 1 figure; v2: minor changes, references added, matched published version
Diversity and habitat characteristics of local freshwater Gastropoda (Caenogastropoda) from Sarawak, Malaysia
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 70405 Fish Physiology and Genetics
subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60203 Ecological Physiology
subject: 50199 Ecological Applications not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50104 Landscape Ecology
subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
subject: Ecology
subject: 60205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: 50103 Invasive Species Ecology

description: Background and Objective: Gastropoda communities are the most diverse class of mollusc and considered as foremost constituent in the freshwater ecosystems and fisheries economy. However, there is knowledge gap and documentation of freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda) in Malaysia particularly in Sarawak. Therefore, this study was performed to identify the species composition and to determine the diversity and abundance of freshwater gastropods communities from selected Bintulu, Sarawak freshwater ecosystems. Materials and Methods: Number of individual and gastropod species were count randomly at triplicate quadrat (1×1 m) from 5 sampling location in Bintulu, Sarawak Malaysia. Data of identified species was analyzed for diversity index and correlation with water parameters. Results: Present study revealed a total of 5 species from Pachychilidae and Thiaridae families at the 5 sampling locations. Melanoides tuberculata was the most abundant species. Shannon indices and Simpson’s indices revealed the species diversity and richness were highest at station 3 compared to the other four study locations. Abiotic parameters (dissolved oxygen, pH, water temperature, turbidity and conductivity) indicated significantly difference (p<0.05) among the stations. Dissolved oxygen indicates highly positive relation with the diversity of gastropods. Conclusion: New distribution of local freshwater gastropod from Sarawak has been documented and dissolved oxygen level in the water as one measure to assess diversity of freshwater gastropods in the environment.
Productivity of phytoplankton using different organic fertilizers in the glass aquarium
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60203 Ecological Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
subject: Ecology
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: 60207 Population Ecology
subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment

description: The experiment intended to estimate the productivity using different organic fertilizer and to identify the species of phytoplankton in the aquarium tanks. The study was conducted in the laboratory Phytoplankton samples for culture were collected from fisheries experimental pond by using conical-shaped monofilament nylon net (phytoplankton net). Three treatment such as cow dung (T₁), chicken manure (T₂) and control (T₃) were designed. Each treatment had two replications. In case of T₁ and T₂, 10 g of fertilizer was used in each aquarium tank. Sampling of phytoplankton for counting and identification was done every week and 1 litre of water sample was taken from each tank. Phytoplankton sample for identification were preserved by Lugol's solution. Three physicochemical parameters namely water temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH were measured in every sampling week during the study period. Water quality parameters of the aquarium tank varied with the variation of sampling week. There was no significant difference between water temperature, pH and DO in case of three treatment. The mean water temperature, pH and DO were 21.85±1.95 °C, 8.38±0.23 and 5.55±0.58 mg/l, respectively. The abundance of phytoplankton in T₁, T₂ and T₃ were 25-65, 25-105 and 6-20 individual/l, respectively. The phytoplankton abundance were influenced by different organic fertilizer and noticed higher in number by using chicken manure. Irregular relationship between phytoplankton abundance and water temperature was found. Phytoplankton showed positive relationship with DO. In this study 15 species of phytoplankton were identified under four groups namely Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta, Bacillariophyta and Euglenophyta. Chlorophyta (52%) was the dominant group in the aquarium. The findings of the present study will help to improve the management strategies of water quality, for estimating the productivity of phytoplankton and for the best use of organic fertilizer especially chicken manure.
Effect of formalin on fertilization, hatching rate of eggs of Thai Pangas (Pangasius hypophthalmus) and survival and growth performance of fry
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70404 Fish Pests and Diseases
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: 70402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment
subject: 70299 Animal Production not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science
subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 70206 Animal Reproduction
subject: 70201 Animal Breeding

description: Eggs of matured Thai Pangas (Pangasius hypophthalmus) were ranging from 2500 to 4200g comparative to total body weight (TBW) which were treated with 0.5 ml and 1 ml formalin concentrations for 60 seconds to determine its efficacy and effect on fertilization, hatching of egg, survival and growth performance of fry in this present study. Each treatment was replicated three times in the experiment. The present research work was conducted at Mafatema fish hatchery, Chanchra, Jashore and laboratory Bangladesh. In case of fecundity, mean fecundity did not differed significantly (P>0.05); 120580±9560, 134292±16035 and 117238±7986 per kg body weight for 0.5 ml (T2), 1 ml (T3) and control (T1) group respectively. The highest fertilization rate (93.68±5.78) and hatching rate (88.12±9.34) were found in T3 which were significantly different (P<0.05) with T1 and T2. This study revealed, T3 showed the highest survival rate (92.50%) that is significantly different from T1 and T2. The present study showed that, the growth performance of P. hypophthalmus was found higher such as percentage of weight gain 95.26 ± 12.01 and specific growth rate 0.65 ± 0.06 in T3 which were significantly higher than T1 and T2. Eggs of P. hypophthalmus treated with 1 ml diluted formalin concentration for 60 seconds showed better results in terms of fertilization and hatching rate of eggs, survival and growth performance of fry.
Incidence Rates and Trend of Serious Farm-Related Injury in Minnesota, 2000–2011
Creators: name: Alexander, Bruce H.
name: Landsteiner, Adrienne M. K.
name: McGovern, Patricia M.
name: Lindgren, Paula G.
name: Williams, Allan N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Medicine

description: ABSTRACTOnly about 2% of Minnesota’s workers were employed in agriculture for the years 2005–2012, this small portion of the workforce accounted for 31% of the 563 work-related deaths that occurred in Minnesota during that same time period. Agricultural fatalities in Minnesota and elsewhere are well documented; however, nonfatal injuries are not. To explore the burden of injury, Minnesota hospital discharge data were used to examine rates and trends of farm injury for the years 2000–2011. Cases were identified through the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), injury codes and external cause of injury codes (E codes). Probable cases were defined as E code E849.1 (occurred on a farm) or E919.0 (involving agricultural machinery). Possible cases were based on five less specific E codes primarily involving animals or pesticides. Multiple data sources were used to estimate the agricultural population. An annual average of over 500 cases was identified as probable, whereas 2,000 cases were identified as possible. Trend analysis of all identified cases indicated a small but significant average annual increase of 1.5% for the time period 2000–2011. Probable cases were predominantly male (81.5%), whereas possible cases were predominantly female (63.9%). The average age of an injury case was 38.5 years, with the majority of injuries occurring in late summer and fall months. Despite the undercount of less serious injuries, hospital discharge data provide a meaningful data source for the identification and surveillance of nonfatal agricultural injuries. These methods could be utilized by other states for ongoing surveillance for nonfatal agricultural injuries.
The dual roles of dissimilatory iron reduction in the carbon cycle: The “Iron mesh” effect can increase inorganic carbon sequestration
Creators: name: Zhao, Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370302
subject: Inorganic geochemistry
classificationCode: 370304
subject: Organic geochemistry

description: (1) The physical constraints of the sediment matrix determine the dissimilatory iron reduction rate by affecting the accessibility of microbes to electron donors/acceptors.(2) Dissimilatory iron reduction not only drives mineralization reactions but also traps inorganic carbon via iron abiotic–phase transformation, and the abiotic and biotic processes at the OC−microbe−mineral interface facilitated inorganic carbon sequestration.(3) The iron-rich environment with high calcium and organic carbon can support rapid dissimilatory iron reduction to generate sufficient Fe2+ and CO2, which is conducive to increase inorganic carbon sequestration.
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food and feed on the Belgian market
Creators: name: Huybrechts, Bart
name: Callebaut, Alfons
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology

description: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are widely distributed plant toxins with species dependent hepatotoxic, carcinogenic, genotoxic and pneumotoxic risks. In a recent European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) opinion, only two data sets from one European country were received for honey, while one feed data set was included. No data are available for food or feed samples from the Belgian market. We developed an LC-MS/MS method, which allowed the detection and quantification of 16 PAs in a broad range of matrices in the sub ng g−1 range. The method was validated in milk, honey and hay and applied to honey, tea (Camellia sinensis), scented tea, herbal tea, milk and feed samples bought on the Belgian market. The results confirmed that tea, scented tea, herbal tea and honey are important food sources of pyrrolizidine alkaloid contamination in Belgium. Furthermore, we detected PAs in 4 of 63 commercial milk samples. A high incidence rate of PAs in lucerne (alfalfa)-based horse feed and in rabbit feed was detected, while bird feed samples were less contaminated. We report for the first time the presence of monocrotaline, intermedine, lycopsamine, heliotrine and echimidine in cat food.
Follow-up of the fate of imazalil from post-harvest lemon surface treatment to a baking experiment
Creators: name: Vass, Andrea
name: Korpics, Evelin
name: Dernovics, Mihály
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biological Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biophysics

description: Imazalil is one of the most widespread fungicides used for the post-harvest treatment of citrus species. The separate use of peel during food preparation and processing may hitherto concentrate most of the imazalil into food products, where specific maximum residue limits hardly exist for this fungicide. In order to monitor comprehensively the path of imazalil, our study covered the monitoring of the efficiency of several washing treatments, the comparison of operative and related sample preparation methods for the lemon samples, the validation of a sample preparation technique for a fatty cake matrix, the preparation of a model cake sample made separately either with imazalil containing lemon peel or with imazalil spiking, the monitoring of imazalil degradation into α-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol because of the baking process, and finally the mass balance of imazalil throughout the washing experiments and the baking process. Quantification of imazalil was carried out with an LC-ESI-MS/MS set-up, while LC-QTOF was used for the monitoring of imazalil degradation. Concerning the washing, none of the addressed five washing protocols could remove more than 30% of imazalil from the surface of the lemon samples. The study revealed a significant difference between the extraction efficiency of imazalil by the EN 15662:2008 and AOAC 2007.1 methods, with the advantage of the former. The use of the model cake sample helped to validate a modified version of the EN 15662:2008 method that included a freeze-out step to efficiently recover imazalil (>90%) from the fatty cake matrix. The degradation of imazalil during the baking process was significantly higher when this analyte was spiked into the cake matrix than in the case of preparing the cake with imazalil-containing lemon peel (52% vs. 22%). This observation calls the attention to the careful evaluation of pesticide stability data that are based on solution spiking experiments.
Investigation on dietary adaptation of Pakistani students in Beijing
Creators: name: Samad, Sheryar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200311 Chinese Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified

description: With the development of China's economy and the rapid improvement of it's international status, more and more foreigners come to China to study Chinese, and the number of Pakistani students studying in China is also increasing. Pakistani students studying in China, whether long-term or short-term, are inevitably exposed to Chinese diet. Due to cultural and religious differences, Pakistani students face many obstacles in diet. This paper investigated the dietary adaptation of Pakistani students from Beijing Language and Culture University. Through investigation and analysis, the author summarizes the main obstacles in daily life, especially in diet, and puts forward some solutions and suggestions.
Impact of stocking common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) on production in some selected beels in Gazipur district, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70406 Post-Harvest Fisheries Technologies (incl. Transportation)
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 70404 Fish Pests and Diseases
subject: 70405 Fish Physiology and Genetics
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: 70402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment

description: The present study was conducted in three seasonal beels in Gacha union under Gazipur sadar upazila in Gazipur district during the period from June 2015 to January 2016. The objectives of the study were to evaluate the impact of stocking common carp on the abundance and biodiversity of native fish species in seasonal beels. Three seasonal beels such as Baroholai, Makhna and Buridha which were connected with Turag River through different canals were selected to implement the study. Baroholai and Makhna beel were stocked with common carp fingerlings at 2500 per hectare. Buridha beel served as control. Necessary data were collected from the fishermen and lease holders of the concern beel through using structured questionnaire by survey method. A total of 42-43 species of fishes were recorded from stocked beel as against of 43 species in control beel. Shanon-Weiner diversity index averaged 2.58 in stocked beel as opposed to 2.68 for control beel. The studied beel had medium richness in terms of biodiversity and faunal abundances. Per hectare fish production was 522-577kg in stocked beels as compared to 365kg in control beel. Cyprinidae was the most abundant group contributing to the bulk of fishery yield. Surface feeder took a lead over other groups of fishes in stocked beel as opposed to bottom feeder in case of control beel. Bottom dwelling small catfishes seems to be affected in presence of common carp in the stocked beels. Control beel harboured increased number and quantity of catfishes. Fish productions in the seasonal beels were profitable. Per hectare total cost of fish production averaged tk 34976.67 as against of total gross return of tk 92683.67. Benefit cost ratio (BCR) was found to be 2.57-3.42 in stocked beel and 2.01 in control beel. Further researches are needed to precisely determine the possible consequences of stocking common carp in seasonal beels.
A study on growth performance of Spirulina platensis in different concentrations of rotten apple as a carbon source
Creators: name: Habib, Md. Ahsan Bin
name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment
subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 60701 Phycology (incl. Marine Grasses)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60705 Plant Physiology

description: An experiment was conducted on culture and growth performance of Spirulina platensis in various concentrations of rotten apple medium (RAM) and Kosaric Medium (KM). The observation was conducted for three months from March to May at the Live Food Culture Laboratory, Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agricultural University. Culture of S. platensis was performed in 1.0L glass flasks in three different media such as 2.5, 5.0 and 10% and KM with three replications under fluorescent light in light : dark (12 hr : 12 hr) condition of a period of 14 days. Growth performances of S. platensis varied from one medium to another. The initial cell weight of S. platensis was 0.0023 mg/L and a maximum cell weight of 12.44 mg/L was found in KM and 10.468 mg/L in RAM on 10 th day of culture. It was also observed that, the initial chlorophyll a content of S. platensis was 0.0015 mg/L which was attained at a highest content of 10.54 mg/L in KM and 12.35 mg/L in RAM on 10 th day of culture. A decreasing trend of cell weight was observed from 10 th day of culture. The growth of S. platensis was significantly (p<0.05) better in 5.0% Digested Rotten Apple Medium (DRAM) than other concentrations 2.5% DRAM and 10% DRAM. From the results obtained in the present study, it was summarized that the growth of S. platensis was better in the concentrations of 5.0% DRAM than other concentrations of RAM. Thus, the concentration of 5.0% DRAM is most suitable for S. platensis culture compare with standard KM. These media are easily available and most inexpensive in contrast of Bangladesh. So digested rotten apple can be used for commercially and economically viable mass culture of S. platensis.
"FROM THE EXAMPLE OF CORNELIUS": EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SERMONS FOR SOLDIERS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Creators: name: Kenworthy, Clay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: eighteenth-century
sermons
chaplains
Church of England
Great Britain
military

description: The rich history of military chaplains spans centuries and continents. Focusing on eighteenth-century Great Britain and the Anglican Church, this thesis contributes historical interpretation to a small segment of this history and asks how the military profession and the Christian faith were reconciled in chaplains’ sermons addressed to soldiers. From a close reading of these sermons—and by applying a comparative method, intertextual analysis, and discourse theory—three overarching themes emerge that pertain to this reconciliation of the military profession and the Christian faith, namely, service, conduct, and admonishment against sin.
Spatially-controlled complex molecules and their applications
Creators: name: Yuan-Pin Chang
name: Horke, Daniel A.
name: Trippel, Sebastian
name: Küpper, Jochen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cancer
Developmental Biology
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Physics
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: The understanding of molecular structure and function is at the very heart of the chemical and molecular sciences. Experiments that allow for the creation of structurally pure samples and the investigation of their molecular dynamics and chemical function have developed tremendeously over the last few decades, although ‘there’s plenty of room at the bottom’ for better control as well as further applications. Here, we describe the use of inhomogeneous electric fields for the manipulation of neutral molecules in the gas-phase, i.e. for the separation of complex molecules according to size, structural isomer, and quantum state. For these complex molecules, all quantum states are strong-field seeking, requiring dynamic fields for their confinement. Current applications of these controlled samples are summarised and interesting future applications discussed.
BaianaSystem: Nas veias abertas da América Latina
Creators: name: De Almeida Camargo, Laura Belisário
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: BaianaSystem
Antropofagia
Diáspora
Exu
Mistura
Antropophagy
Diaspora
Mixture

description: Este trabalho consiste em uma análise do grupo BaianaSystem e sua performance, levando em conta seus modos de fazer e apresentação, em um elo específico com o público. Sua fonte criativa parte da mistura entre referências culturais indígenas e afrodiaspóricas, convocando dois conceitos que conduzem a pesquisa: a antropofagia e Exu. No primeiro momento do trabalho, é feita uma revisão do que a antropofagia significou como alegoria do pensamento cultural brasileiro, sendo retomada pelo movimento tropicalista, já com outras questões em jogo e, posteriormente, pelo grupo. Em um segundo momento, a aposta em compreender algumas das bases da cultura brasileira vindas de influências africanas e afrodiaspóricas leva a outros modos de compreensão sobre o corpo, assim como a dança e a música, elegendo Exu como uma das principais figuras que media tais influências na construção da identidade do grupo ao decorrer de sua produção até os dias atuais. This work consists of an analysis of the group BaianaSystem and their performance, showcasing the know-how from making into presenting and considering especially its connection with the public. The group's creative source comes from cultural references that derive from the mixture of indigenous and afrodiasporic elements, bringing together two concepts that drive the research: antropophagy and Exu. In the first part of the work, a review is made of anthropology as an allegory of the Brazilian cultural thought, which was taken up by the tropicalist movement bearing a different set of goals, and was also absorbed later by the group. In a second moment, the choice of understanding some of the bases of Brazilian culture highlighting its African and afrodiasphoric roots leads to other ways of understanding the body, as well as dance and music, as Exu becomes one of the main figures that mediate such influences in the construction of the group's identity throughout its production until nowadays
PeV-Scale SUSY and Cosmic Strings from F-term Hybrid Inflation
Creators: name: Pallis, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider F-term hybrid inflation (FHI) and SUSY breaking in the context of a B-L extension of MSSM which largely respects a global U(1) R symmetry. The hidden sector Kaehler manifold enjoys an enhanced SU(1,1)/U(1) symmetry with the scalar curvature determined by the achievement of a SUSY-breaking de Sitter vacuum without ugly tuning. FHI turns out to be consistent with data, provided that the magnitude of the emergent soft tadpole term is confined in the range (1.2-100) TeV, and it is accompanied with the production of B-L cosmic strings. If these are metastable they interpret the present observations from PTA experiments on the stochastic background of gravitational waves with dimensionless tension Gmu~(1-9.2)x10^-8. The mu parameter of MSSM arises by appropriately adapting the Giudice-Masiero mechanism and facilitates the out-of-equilibrium decay of the R saxion at a reheat temperature lower than about 71 GeV. Due to the prolonged matter dominated era the gravitational wave signal is suppressed at high frequencies. The SUSY mass scale turns out to lie in the PeV region.
description: Appendix added; published version
CLASSLA-web: Comparable Web Corpora of South Slavic Languages Enriched with Linguistic and Genre Annotation
Creators: name: Ljubešić, Nikola
name: Kuzman, Taja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a collection of highly comparable web corpora of Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian, covering thereby the whole spectrum of official languages in the South Slavic language space. The collection of these corpora comprises a total of 13 billion tokens of texts from 26 million documents. The comparability of the corpora is ensured by a comparable crawling setup and the usage of identical crawling and post-processing technology. All the corpora were linguistically annotated with the state-of-the-art CLASSLA-Stanza linguistic processing pipeline, and enriched with document-level genre information via the Transformer-based multilingual X-GENRE classifier, which further enhances comparability at the level of linguistic annotation and metadata enrichment. The genre-focused analysis of the resulting corpora shows a rather consistent distribution of genres throughout the seven corpora, with variations in the most prominent genre categories being well-explained by the economic strength of each language community. A comparison of the distribution of genre categories across the corpora indicates that web corpora from less developed countries primarily consist of news articles. Conversely, web corpora from economically more developed countries exhibit a smaller proportion of news content, with a greater presence of promotional and opinionated texts.
description: Accepted to the LREC-COLING 2024 conference
Aquatic weeds diversity of Fatki River in Magura district, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60701 Phycology (incl. Marine Grasses)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60203 Ecological Physiology
subject: 50199 Ecological Applications not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
subject: 60202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
subject: 60204 Freshwater Ecology
subject: Ecology
subject: 50103 Invasive Species Ecology
subject: 60302 Biogeography and Phylogeography

description: The study was conducted at Fatki River under Magura district to learn the aquatic weeds diversity and abundance. This paper focused on species variation, number of species, water quality parameter and identification of aquatic weeds. It was assessed by collecting samples from Chukinogor Ghat, Kechuadubi and Arpara bazar during May to August, 2016. Aquatic weeds were abundant in rainy season and the semi-aquatic weeds were available almost all the year round. According to this study, total 22 species belonging to 12 orders, 16 families and 21 genuses were found. Again, 46%, 28%, 26% of total aquatic weeds percentages identified from the Chukinogor Ghat, Kechuadubi and Arpara bazar respectively. During this study period, nine species of family Pontederiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Menyanthaceae, Asteraceae, Poaceae, Araceae, Amaranthaceae, Polygonaceae were common in Chukinogor Ghat, Kechuadubi and Arpara bazar. Noticeable species-Lemna minor, Marsilea quadrifolia, Ludwigia palustris, Aeschynomene aspera, Najas graminea, Hydrilla verticillata, Najas guadalupensis, Utricularia inflate were only found in Chukinogor Ghat. This species are easily adapted in large areas. On the other hands, two species were common in Chukinogor Ghat, Kechuadubi-Pistia stratiotes and Equisetum hyemale. Prominent species of Arpara bazar were Cyperus rotundus and Xanthium indicum. Total 11 species of aquatic weeds were mainly recognized from these Kechuadubi, while greatest number was recorded of 20 species from Chukinogor Ghat and 12 species were have its place to Arpara bazar. Management technique and water quality parameters were also studied during study period and the temperature was recorded 29.0-30.00 ºC in Chukinogor Ghat, same as 28.0-320 ºC in Kechuadubi. Furthermore, 29.0-31.00 ºC temperature was found in Arpara bazar. DO levels were stable at ranged from7.0-7.5 ppm in Chukinogor Ghat and 4.7-5.3 ppm was recorded in two experimental Kechuadubi 4.5-5.0 in Arpara bazar respectively. This difference may arise due to the using of aerator in the Chukinogor Ghat same as decomposition, intensity of light in Kechuadubi and Arpara bazar. Transparency was 28-32cm in Chukinogor Ghat, 36-44cm in Kechuadubi, and 38-42 cm in Arpara bazar.
Culture strategies, diseases and their mitigations in mono-sex Nile tilapia farming in Jessore sadar region, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Hossain, Md. Mer Mosharraf
name: Al-Asif, Abdulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70403 Fisheries Management
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries
subject: 70499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 70404 Fish Pests and Diseases
subject: 70401 Aquaculture
subject: 70402 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment

description: A survey was carried out to investigate culture strategies, disease patterns and mitigations in mono-sex Nile tilapia in Jessore sadar region. Data obtained by questionnaire interview, individual interview, telephonic interview, PRA method, mono-sex Nile tilapia farm survey from four villages. It was observed that 30.769% farmers and farm owner had no training about culture of mono-sex Nile tilapia while 69.230% farmers and farm owner received short term training from different Department of Fisheries, different NGOs. Mono-sex Nile tilapia culture in ponds was basically a three-tier culture system. Pre-stocking management of ponds in the study area comprised dike repairing, aquatic weed control, waste soil removal and undesirable species (predator and trash fish) control. Majority (85%) of the farm owners and farmers depends on ground water and only (15%) depends on surface water. About 95% of farm of farm owners controlled aquatic weeds manually. Removal of predatory and undesired fish from pond used different types of chemicals but most used rotenone (80%). Fertilizer of pond preparation (Organic and inorganic) in the study area but mostly used cases inorganic fertilizers had applied at the rate of urea 114 kg/ha and triple superphosphate 60 kg/ha in 4-5 installments. Stocking density of mono-sex Nile tilapia was 200-380 fry per decimal. It was recorded that 85% of mono-sex Nile tilapia farmers and farm owner applied supplementary such as commercially manufactured feed and 12% are applied of farm made feed. It was observed,they provided heavy fertilizer, high stocking density, over feed provided, provided over dose drugs so ultimated result of disease occured. Parasitic related disease, bacterial diseases, fungal diseases, viral diseases were attacked in mono-sex Nile tilapia. Argulosis and Streptococcus were mostly common disease in this mono-sex Nile tilapia farm.