cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
To B or not to B : the organizational and strategic impact of the B Corp certification
Creators: name: Good, Julian
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 658.1: Organisation und Finanzen

description: Since the 1980s, the concept of corporate purpose has been dominated by shareholder value maximisation. However, this model has several dysfunctionalities. Particularly following the financial crisis in 2008, society’s expectations for businesses seem to have changed, and citizens demand that companies act in more responsible and ethical ways. These dynamics have led to the emergence of hybrid businesses combining economic goals with ethical, social, and environmental concerns. One of these hybrid forms has been developed through the B Corp movement, which introduced a new legal form, namely the “Benefit Corporation”, and a certification system to certify “B Corps.” However, the origins and impact of these new hybrid forms remain under-investigated.

To address this gap, this thesis analysed the motivators which lead companies to become certified B Corps. Moreover, the impacts of this certification along the value chain were analysed and the perceived benefits and challenges evaluated. The structure of this thesis is based on a theoretical foundation which is contrasted and extended via an empirical investigation. The empirical method followed a case study analysis among five Swiss B Corps, with qualitative data in the form of interviews representing the sole data source.

Besides the intrinsic motivation to use business as a force for good, companies certify for instrumental and reputational reasons, to benchmark their performance in corporate social responsibility (CSR) but not to legally protect their purpose. From an organisational viewpoint, rather than changing internal structures, the B Corp certification gave an impetus to the improvement and formalisation of existing procedures. The main benefits of certification included market differentiation, attraction of talents and inclusion in the B Corp community, whereas challenges included the elaborate and time-consuming certification process, which is repeated every third year against an evolving standard, and the lack of customer awareness of the B Corp Label in the German-speaking market.

In conclusion, the certification can provide an effective framework for strategy-building and improving practices within CSR. Additionally, it provides third-party validation for B Corps to communicate their values transparently and credibly. However, the certification should not be overestimated as single factor that causes changes given that B Corps already embed their values in their business model before becoming certified. Future research should analyse impacts of the certification in a more extensive and long-term way. Other areas of further research could focus on the implementation of a legal Benefit Corporation structure in Switzerland or the response of investors to the B Corp movement.
Commelina diffusa Burm. f.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina diffusa

description: Commelina diffusa Burm.f.
Syn.: Commelina diffusa Burm.f. subsp. diffusa
Annual or perennial herb, in open forest, forest galleries, and river and lake margins.
C.N.: kindacala, kifika (kb).
Uses: medicinal, food.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
F.Monteiro 280 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Measurement of the total and differential Higgs boson production cross-sections at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS detector by combining the $H \rightarrow ZZ^* \rightarrow 4\ell$ and $H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ decay channels
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: colliding beams
Higgs particle: hadroproduction
p p: scattering
Higgs particle: decay modes
Higgs particle: radiative decay
photon: pair production
Z0: pair production
Z0: leptonic decay
transverse momentum: momentum spectrum
Higgs particle: transverse momentum
coupling: Yukawa
Higgs particle: coupling
ATLAS
CERN LHC Coll
bottom: coupling
charm: coupling
total cross section: measured
differential cross section: measured
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: The total and differential Higgs boson production cross-sections are measured through a joint analysis of the $H \rightarrow ZZ^* \rightarrow 4\ell$ and $H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ decays. The results are based on a dataset of 139 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The measured total Higgs boson production cross-section is 55.5$^{+4.0}_{-3.8}$ pb, consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 55.6$\pm 2.8$ pb. All results from the two decay channels are compatible with each other, and their combination agrees with the Standard Model predictions. A joint interpretation of the measured Higgs boson fiducial transverse momentum distributions is performed and combined with measurement results from $H \rightarrow b\bar{b}/c\bar{c}$ to probe the Yukawa couplings to the bottom and charm quarks.
Supply chain resilience and the customer value proposition
Creators: name: Akman, Robin Deniz
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 658.5: Produktionssteuerung

description: Recent occurrences such as the Covid-19 outbreak, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and others have disrupted global supply chains in an unprecedented manner. Consequently, a worldwide supply chain crisis originated, which affected businesses and consumers alike. While end-users were not able to acquire the desired products, companies incurred massive financial losses due to the supply disruptions.

Based on this complication, this bachelor’s thesis analyzes and assesses the driving academic theories about supply chain resilience together with first-hand results obtained from semi-structured interviews with supply chain specialists. In particular, this paper sheds light on the factors that necessitate supply chain resilience. Moreover, insights about the most recent resilience-enhancing antecedents are provided, and a possible connection between supply chain resilience and the customer value proposition is examined.

The literature review reveals five essential supply chain resilience antecedents, namely, flexibility, redundancy, agility, collaboration, and culture. Furthermore, the secondary research demonstrates that there is a literature gap in identifying the circumstances that demand resilience and a possible incorporation of resilience in the customer value proposition. Thus, while companies had to adapt quickly to the new status quo, research is still lagging behind the current disruptive events.

Methods of analysis include comparing the results of extensive semi-structured interviews with the guiding theories of the respective concepts. The collected information demonstrates that theory and practice are mostly consistent, hence validating both.

The thesis illustrates that the awareness of vulnerable supply chains increased drastically in the aftermath of the pandemic. Thus, the pandemic prompted a widespread effort to develop a balanced supply chain resilience securing strategically essential items and efficiently sourcing minor products. The findings also reveal that, in accordance with the guiding literature, every business faces its unique set of capabilities and vulnerabilities. The five above-mentioned theoretical supply chain resilience-enhancing components are widely used in practice. However, the supply chain managers interviewed stressed the importance of technology, a component that has received scant attention in the literature. 

The study concludes that supply chain resilience cannot be used as a customer value proposition. This is due to the theoretical antecedents of a customer value proposition not being enhanced by supply chain resilience and the practice’s opinion that customers expect product availability. Instead, supply chain resilience may be leveraged as an added value to the customer.
Highly efficient removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater by microfiltration carbon membranes made from phenolic resin/coal
Creators: name: Li, Hongchao
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Wu, Yonghong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Oily wastewater treatment is a major problem for a large variety of industrial sectors. Membrane filtration is quite promising for oil-in-water emulsion treatment by virtue of numerous eminent advantages. Here, microfiltration carbon membranes (MCMs) were prepared by the blends of phenolic resin (PR)/coal as precursor materials for efficient removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater. The functional groups, porous structure, microstructure, morphology and hydrophilicity of the MCMs were analysed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, bubble-pressure method, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and water contact angle, respectively. The effect of coal amount in precursor materials on the structure and properties of MCMs was mainly investigated. Under operation at 0.02 MPa for trans-membrane pressure and 6 mL min−1 for feed flowrate, the optimal oil rejection and water permeation flux are correspondingly attained to 99.1% and 21,388.5 kg m−2 h−1 MPa−1 for MCMs made by the precursor containing 25% coal. Besides, the anti-fouling ability of the as-prepared MCMs is greatly improved in comparison with the one merely made by PR. In summary, the result indicates that the as-prepared MCMs are very promising for oily wastewater treatment.
Commelina subulata Roth
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina subulata

description: Commelina subulata Roth
Annual herb, on river and lake shores, grassy savannahs in moist places.
C.N.: kakunda (kb); comida-de-bambi (pt).
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
F.Monteiro 379 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Bodies and Natures
Creators: name: Filaci, Luca
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In the following paper, we will focus in particular on the research and reflections carried out by the French anthropologist Philippe Descola, who offers us a useful perspective to radically rethink the conceptualisation that, through a millenary movement, has led our Western culture, represented by what he calls the Moderns (borrowing an expression from Bruno Latour), to objectify the natural environment and to deploy it as a separate and unmanageable entity to be dominated.
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 8 No special (2024): Around Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenological Perspective: Margins, Abysses, and Enigmas of Experience
Fintech revolution and traditional banks - what factors influence members of generation Z to place their trust in Fintech companies, specifically neobanks, over traditional banks as banking and financial service providers? :  a case study on the banking application of the Swiss neobank Yuh
Creators: name: Nocera, Gloria
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 332.1: Banken

description: The digitalization of financial services in combination with declining trust in traditional financial institutions, mainly due to the 2008 financial crisis, has enabled the emergence of new players offering services that were initially the domain of banks. Traditional banks have long been major players in the financial industry, and the number of potential competitors has been rather limited, as it has been quite challenging new providers to enter the sector due to the severe regulatory framework. However, in the last decade, a new form of competitor has emerged that represents a serious threat to the traditional banking model and is revolutionizing the entire banking sector. The competitors are the so-called fintech companies.

While traditional banks have sought innovation exclusively in new financial instruments and thus have missed the expansion of modern IT infrastructure, fintech companies have taken advantage of consumer mistrust in banks and offered new, technology-based products to technology-savvy customers. In Switzerland, the number of users opting for the services of their competitors, namely fintechs, has increased from an average of 30% in 2017 to 64% in 2019. In addition, the younger generation, especially Generation Z, is the biggest demand driver, and this trend is likely to continue in the coming years. Furthermore, loss of trust has a negative impact on profitability and customer loyalty, thus posing a major threat to traditional banks (Fintech Futures, 2019, December 25). For this reason, it is important to understand how incumbents can recover trust and appeal to the younger generation.

A literature review served as the basis for this work, establishing a theoretical foundation and framing the topic under study. The literature review was followed by the description of a case study on the Swiss neobank Yuh’s banking application using a mixed methods approach in an explanatory sequential design. Yuh is a neobank, that is, a fintech company that operates with a banking license in Switzerland. Through a quantitative analysis of Generation Z in Switzerland using the Swiss neobank Yuh as an example and a qualitative analysis with the CEO of Yuh, many of the findings from the literature review were confirmed and new insights were presented. Finally, recommendations to traditional Swiss banks were provided.
Murdannia nudiflora Brenan
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Murdannia
Murdannia nudiflora

description: Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan
Bas.: Commelina nudiflora L.
Annual, prostrate herb, on river and lake shores.
L.Catarino 2239 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Fate of sulfamerazine by synchronous adsorption and photocatalysis dependent on natural organic matter properties
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhiwei
name: Zhang, Ruixin
name: Yang, Yanling
name: Li, Xing
name: Ren, Jiawei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Natural organic matter (NOM) can impede the removal of organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) through several mechanisms, including inner filter effect, competition with the target OMP, and radical scavenging, during synchronous adsorption/photocatalysis of multi-functional composites. In this study, the fate and inhibitory mechanisms of sulfamerazine (SMZ, a model OMP) that occurred in presence of seven different NOM samples (i.e. three standard NOM surrogates, a river water sample, a carbon filter effluent and two different sand filter effluents) during the adsorption/photocatalysis by a composite of Bi2O3-TiO2 supported on powdered activated carbon (Bi2O3-TiO2/PAC, abbreviated as BTP) when exposed to visible light irradiation were revealed. The results indicated that adsorption played a greater attribution than photocatalysis on SMZ removal. The primary impediment to the adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of SMZ was attributed to the presence of terrestrial-derived, humic-like NOM fractions with high aromaticity. The adsorption efficacy of SMZ was weakened by the absorption of NOM and its degradation products onto the BTP surface. The inner filter effect, competition between NOM and SMZ, and radical scavenging were responsible for the reduced photocatalysis of SMZ. In the cases of real water matrices, the presence of inorganic anion and co-existed NOM reduced the removal of SMZ. In summary, the findings of this work offer a comprehensive comprehension of the impact of NOM fractions on photocatalysis, emphasizing the necessity to examine the interplay between NOM and background inorganic constituents in the degradation of OMP via adsorption/photocatalysis.
Using citizen science to expand the global map of landslides: Introducing the Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR)
Creators: name: Juang, Caroline S.
name: Stanley, Thomas
name: Kirschbaum, Dalia B.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Catalogs
Citizen science
Geological surveys
Internet
Roads
Scientists
Social media
Web-based applications

description: Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at the global scale due to inconsistencies in or the absence of landslide reporting. Citizen science is a valuable opportunity for addressing some of these challenges. The new Cooperative Open Online Landslide Repository (COOLR) supplements data in a NASA-developed Global Landslide Catalog (GLC) with citizen science reports to build a more robust, publicly available global inventory. This manuscript introduces the COOLR project and its methods, evaluates the initial citizen science results from the first 13 months, and discusses future improvements to increase the global engagement with the project. The COOLR project (https://landslides.nasa.gov) contains Landslide Reporter, the first global citizen science project for landslides, and Landslide Viewer, a portal to visualize data from COOLR and other satellite and model products. From March 2018 to April 2019, 49 citizen scientists contributed 162 new landslide events to COOLR. These events spanned 37 countries in five continents. The initial results demonstrated that both expert and novice participants are contributing via Landslide Reporter. Citizen scientists are filling in data gaps through news sources in 11 different languages, in-person observations, and new landslide events occurring hundreds and thousands of kilometers away from any existing GLC data. The data is of sufficient accuracy to use in NASA susceptibility and hazard models. COOLR continues to expand as an open platform of landslide inventories with new data from citizen scientists, NASA scientists, and other landslide groups. Future work on the COOLR project will seek to increase participation and functionality of the platform as well as move towards collective post-disaster mapping.
F.I.T.AL. (Function – Information – Training) therapy for everyday life to improve instrumental activities of daily living in people with mild cognitive impairment : protocol for a randomised feasibility study
Creators: name: Bruderer-Hofstetter, Marina
name: Münzer, Thomas
name: Felbecker, Ansgar
name: Niedermann Schneider, Karin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mild cognitive impairment
Multi-component intervention
Physical exercise
Cognitive training
Instrumental activities of daily living
615.82: Physiotherapie
616.8: Neurologie und Krankheiten des Nervensystems

description: Background: Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) are key to independently participate in social life for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). There is currently no recommended pharmacological treatment available to reduce the impact of cognitive loss on functioning in people with MCI. The primary aim of this protocol is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the F.I.T.AL. individually-tailored, multi-component intervention, aimed at stabilizing or even improve IADL functioning. The secondary aim is to explore the preliminary efficacy of F.I.T.AL.

Methods: A two-arm randomized feasibility trial will be conducted at two memory clinics in Switzerland. Thirty-two people with MCI, aged 60 and over, together with their caregivers, will be recruited and randomly assigned to either the multi-component intervention or to the control intervention. The multi-component intervention F.I.T.AL., developed in a multi-step approach including patient and public involvement, will be conducted for six months. The intervention includes components of cognitive training strategy, physical exercise, and information and support. The control intervention will be comprised of only the information and support portion. Primarily feasibility and acceptability outcomes will be investigated. Feasibility outcomes will include: (1) Recruitment, using the number of eligible individuals; (2) Enrollment, by calculating the proportion of eligible individuals randomised; (3) Retention, assessed by the drop-out rate; and (4) Completeness of outcome measures. Acceptability and adherence outcomes will include: (1) Attendance rates; (2) Adherence to the intervention protocol, in terms of number and duration of completed intervention sessions; and, (3) Intervention intensity. The secondary outcomes will comprise: (1) The German version of the Amsterdam IADL questionnaire; (2) Physical function (i.e. endurance, lower extremity strength, balance, mobility, gait speed, functional mobility, physical activtity); (3) Cognitive function (i.e. global cognition, memory, executive function, attention); and, (4) Perceived social support.

Discussion: F.I.T.AL. was designed to target IADL functioning in people with MCI, using a multi-step and multi-professional approach that includes patient and public involvement. It is anticipated that F.I.T.AL. will be feasible, acceptable and also have the potential to stabilize or even improve IADL performance.
Highly efficient removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater by microfiltration carbon membranes made from phenolic resin/coal
Creators: name: Li, Hongchao
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Wu, Yonghong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Oily wastewater treatment is a major problem for a large variety of industrial sectors. Membrane filtration is quite promising for oil-in-water emulsion treatment by virtue of numerous eminent advantages. Here, microfiltration carbon membranes (MCMs) were prepared by the blends of phenolic resin/coal as precursor materials for efficient removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater. The functional groups, porous structure, microstructure, morphology and hydrophilicity of the MCMs were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, bubble-pressure method, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and water contact angle, respectively. The effect of coal amount in precursor materials on the structure and properties of MCMs was mainly investigated. Under operation at 0.02 MPa for trans-membrane pressure and 6mL·min-1 for feed flowrate, the optimal oil rejection and water permeation flux is correspondingly attained to 99.1% and 21388.5kg·m-2h-1MPa-1 for MCMs made by the precursor containing 25% coal. Besides, the antifouling ability of the as-prepared MCMs is greatly improved in comparison with the one merely made by phenolic resin. In summary, the result indicates that the as-prepared MCMs are very promising for oily wastewater treatment.
Kantonale Governance der Agglomerationen : Übersicht, Vergleich und Analyse der kantonalen Governance der Agglomerationen – Tendenzen und Trends
Creators: name: Blanchard, Michael
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 350: Öffentliche Verwaltung

description: Agglomerationen sind funktionale Räume mit grossen Herausforderungen besonders im Bereich der Mobilität und der Raumplanung. Nur im Verbund sind die besten Lösungen möglich und dies bedingt einer Zusammenarbeit über die territorialen Grenzen hinweg. Die Agglomerationspolitik des Bundes und insbesondere deren wichtigsten Instrument, das Programm Agglomerationsverkehr (PAV), hat sich etabliert und die Agglomerationsprogramme (AP) gehen bereits in die vierte Runde. Haben sich viele technischen Vorgaben und Prozesse eingespielt, bleibt die Governance der Agglomerationen ein Dauerthema. Die Kantone steuern die Agglomerationen sehr unterschiedlich und der Bund lässt ihnen dabei gemäss dem Subsidiaritätsprinzip bewusst grosse Freiheiten. Die Tripartite Konferenz (TK) hat bereits mehrfach Empfehlungen abgegeben und 2016 auch erstmals eine Erfassung der Funktionsweisen der Agglomerationen veranlasst. Dabei traten grosse Unterschiede bei den Funktionsweisen der Agglomerationen zutage. Rund sechs Jahre später geht es darum zu erfassen, ob sich seither eine gewisse Konsolidierung dieser Funktionsweisen der Agglomerationen ergeben haben. Dabei soll insbesondere untersucht werden, wie die Kantone ihre Agglomerationen steuern und ob sich gewisse Grundmodelle von Governance-Formen in den Kantonen ausgebildet haben. Ziel dabei ist auch herauszufinden, als wie effektiv diese Modelle beurteilt werden. Daraus sollen mögliche Tendenzen, Trends und allenfalls auch Thesen für die Zukunft abgeleitet werden.
Bulbostylis hispidula subsp. hispidula
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Bulbostylis
Bulbostylis hispidula
Bulbostylis hispidula (vahl) r.w.haines subsp. hispidula

description: Bulbostylis hispidula (Vahl) R.W.Haines subsp. hispidula
Bas.: Scirpus hispidulus Vahl
Syn.: Fimbristylis exilis (Kunth) Roem. & Schult.
Perennial, caespitose herb, in wooded savannah and open forest.
C.N.: nbanze (kb).
F.Monteiro 1209 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Fate of sulfamerazine by synchronous adsorption and photocatalysis dependent on natural organic matter properties
Creators: name: Zhou, Zhiwei
name: Zhang, Ruixin
name: Yang, Yanling
name: Li, Xing
name: Ren, Jiawei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Natural organic matter (NOM) can impede the removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs) through several mechanisms, including inner filter effect, competition with the target OMP, and radical scavenging, during synchronous adsorption/photocatalysis of multi-functional composites. In this study, the fate and inhibitory mechanisms of sulfamerazine (SMZ, a model OMP) that occurred in presence of seven different NOM samples (i.e., three standard NOM surrogates, a river water sample, a carbon filter effluent and two different sand filter effluents) during the adsorption/photocatalysis by a composite of Bi2O3-TiO2 supported on powdered activated carbon (Bi2O3-TiO2/PAC, abbreviated as BTP) when exposed to visible light irradiation were revealed. The results indicated that adsorption played a greater attribution than photocatalysis on SMZ removal. The primary impediment to the adsorption and photocatalytic degradation of SMZ was attributed to the presence of terrestrial-derived, humic-like NOM fractions with a high aromaticity. The adsorption efficacy of SMZ was weakened by the absorption of NOM and its degradation products onto the BTP surface. The inner filter effect, competition between NOM and SMZ, and radical scavenging were responsible for the reduced photocatalysis of SMZ. In the cases of real water matrices, the presence of inorganic anion and co-existed NOM reduced the removal of SMZ. In summary, the findings of this work offer a comprehensive comprehension of the impact of NOM fractions on photocatalysis, emphasizing the necessity to examine the interplay between NOM and background inorganic constituents in the degradation of OMP via adsorption/photocatalysis.
Interkommunale Zusammenarbeit im Bereich Finanzen : Akzeptanz der Zusammenarbeitsformen
Creators: name: Walser, Martin
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: 350: Öffentliche Verwaltung

description: Die Aufgaben in den öffentlichen Verwaltungen werden immer vielfältiger und komplexer, gleichzeitig nimmt aber auch der Spardruck stetig zu. Zudem können in kleineren Gemeinden die Stellvertretungen aufgrund von finanziellen und personellen Ressourcen nicht mehr ausreichend gewährleistet werden. Ausserdem stellt auch der Fachkräftemangel, welcher sich durch die bevorstehenden Pensionierungen der Mitarbeitenden der Babyboomer-Generation verstärken wird, bei der öffentlichen Verwaltung eine grosse Herausforderung dar. Der Bedarf an Fachkräften und finanziellen Mitteln wird durch die voranschreitende Digitalisierung verstärkt. Um diesen Herausforderungen meistern zu können, bietet sich eine engere Zusammenarbeit der Gemeinden an. Das Gemeindemonitoring von 2017 zeigte jedoch auf, dass beispielsweise die Eigenerbringung im Bereich der Gemeindeverwaltung (Einwohnerdienste, Finanzverwaltung) schweizweit bei über 90% liegt. 
Da auch die Ausserrhoder Gemeinden vor den erwähnten Herausforderungen stehen, jede Gemeinde aber noch eine eigene Finanzverwaltung führt, wird in dieser Arbeit am Beispiel der Ausserrhoder Gemeinden untersucht, ob eine grössere interkommunale Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Finanzverwaltung vorstellbar ist. Ebenfalls wird aufgezeigt, welche Modelle der Zusammenarbeit bestehen und welche Form von den Appenzell Ausserrhoder Gemeinden für eine mögliche Zusammenarbeit präferiert wird.
Search for resonant $WZ \rightarrow \ell\nu \ell^{\prime}\ell^{\prime}$ production in proton$-$proton collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s} = 13}$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: p p: scattering
p p: colliding beams
resonance: production
resonance: decay modes
resonance: mass
W: associated production
Z0: associated production
Higgs particle: charged particle
W: leptonic decay
Z0: leptonic decay
fusion
ATLAS
final state: (3lepton)
muon
triplet
channel cross section: branching ratio: upper limit
mass dependence
electron
CERN LHC Coll
experimental results
13000 GeV-cms

description: A search for a $WZ$ resonance, in the fully leptonic final state (electrons and muons), is performed using 139 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted in terms of a singly charged Higgs boson of the Georgi$-$Machacek model, produced by $WZ$ fusion, and of a Heavy Vector Triplet, with the resonance produced by $WZ$ fusion or the Drell$-$Yan process. No significant excess over the Standard Model predictions is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio as a function of the resonance mass for these processes.
A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500
subject: p p: scattering
subject: p p: colliding beams
subject: Higgs particle: interaction
subject: Higgs particle: hadroproduction
subject: Higgs particle: decay modes
subject: family: 3
subject: ATLAS
subject: muon
subject: gravitation
subject: CMS
subject: excited state
subject: electromagnetic
subject: photon
subject: quark
subject: CERN LHC Coll
subject: gluon
subject: CERN Lab
subject: spin: 0
subject: experimental results

description: The standard model of particle physics$^{1–4}$ describes the known fundamental particles and forces that make up our Universe, with the exception of gravity. One of the central features of the standard model is a field that permeates all of space and interacts with fundamental particles$^{5–9}$. The quantum excitation of this field, known as the Higgs field, manifests itself as the Higgs boson, the only fundamental particle with no spin. In 2012, a particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson of the standard model was observed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN$^{10,11}$. Since then, more than 30 times as many Higgs bosons have been recorded by the ATLAS experiment, enabling much more precise measurements and new tests of the theory. Here, on the basis of this larger dataset, we combine an unprecedented number of production and decay processes of the Higgs boson to scrutinize its interactions with elementary particles. Interactions with gluons, photons, and W and Z bosons—the carriers of the strong, electromagnetic and weak forces—are studied in detail. Interactions with three third-generation matter particles (bottom (b) and top (t) quarks, and tau leptons (τ)) are well measured and indications of interactions with a second-generation particle (muons, μ) are emerging. These tests reveal that the Higgs boson discovered ten years ago is remarkably consistent with the predictions of the theory and provide stringent constraints on many models of new phenomena beyond the standard model.
Expression of Human RPS17 and RPS23 in E. Coli Bacterial Cells
Creators: name: Bloom, Kaylee
name: Perera, Senanga
name: Outmezguine, Daniel
name: Patel, Tulsi
name: Hunter, Kennedi
name: Kothari, Yashi
name: Guevara, Ivan
name: Pham, Thong
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2024
Subjects: First-Year Innovation and Research Experience

description: Ribosome biogenesis is vital for a cell to make proteins and proceed through the central dogma of molecular biology. Human ribosomal proteins (RPs) RPS17 and RPS23 are protein-encoding genes associated with the formation of ribosomes in cells. Serious diseases are linked to dysfunction of RPS17 and RPS23. Mutations in RPS17 have been linked to Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a rare inherited bone marrow disease that affects red blood cells, leading to anemia. RPS23 protein dysfunction is linked to Hepatocellular carcinoma, a severe form of liver cancer. In this study, RPS17 and RPS23 were cloned and expressed with two different bacterial expression plasmids, pNIC28-Bsa4 and pNH-TrxT, with 100% sequence confirmation. Plasmids were then transformed into BL21 E. coli cells, and IPTG induction was used to express RPS17 and RPS23. SDS-PAGE, followed by Coomassie staining, was conducted to confirm the successful expression of the proteins. Future research will determine how overexpression and posttranslational modifications of RPS17 and RPS23 link to cellular growth and homeostasis.
Cyperus alternifolius subsp. flabelliformis Kük.
Creators: name: Monteiro, Francisca
name: Costa, Esperança Da
name: Kissanga, Raquel
name: Costa, José Carlos
name: Catarino, Luís
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus alternifolius
Cyperus alternifolius subsp. flabelliformis kük.

description: Cyperus alternifolius subsp. flabelliformis Kük.
Syn.: Cyperus flabelliformis Rottb.; Cyperus involucratus Rottb.
Perennial herb, on river and lake shores; also in disturbed sites and as weeds.
C.N.: njinje (kb).
Uses: artefacts, fibre.
Conservation: LC (IUCN 2017)
F.Monteiro 540 (LUAI, LISC)
description: Published as part of Monteiro, Francisca, Costa, Esperança Da, Kissanga, Raquel, Costa, José Carlos & Catarino, Luís, 2022, An annotated checklist of the vascular flora of Quiçama National Park, Angola, pp. 1-67 in Phytotaxa 557 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.557.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6985699
Catalytic degradation of carbamazepine by surface-modified zerovalent copper via the activation of peroxymonosulphate: mechanism, degradation pathways and ecotoxicity
Creators: name: Gohar, Faryal
name: Sayed, Murtaza
name: Shah, Noor S.
name: Rehman, Faiza
name: Gul, Ikhtiar
name: Hussain, Sajjad
name: Iqbal, Jibran
name: Gul, Saman
name: Khan, Qaiser
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In this research work, surface-modified nano zerovalent copper (nZVC) was prepared using a simple borohydride reduction method. The spectroscopic and crystallographic results revealed the successful synthesis of surface-modified nano zerovalent copper (nZVC) using solvents such as ethanol (ETOH), ethylene glycol (EG) and tween80 (T80). The as-synthesized material was fully characterized for morphological surface and crystal structural properties. The results indicated that EG provides an excellent synthesis environment to nZVC compared to ETOH and T80 in terms of good dispersion, high surface area and excellent catalytic properties. The catalytic efficiency of nZVC/EG was investigated alone and with peroxymonosulphate (PMS) in the absence of light. The degradation results demonstrated that the involvement of PMS synergistically boosted the catalytic efficiency of synthesized nZVC/EG material. Furthermore, the degradation products (DPs) of CBZ were determined by GC−MS and subsequently, the degradation pathways were proposed. The ecotoxicity analysis of the DPs was also explored. The proposed (nZVC/EG/PMS) system is economical and efficient and thus could be applied for the degradation of CBZ from an aquatic system after altering the degradation pathways in such a way that results in harmless products.
Catalytic degradation of carbamazepine by surface modified zerovalent copper via activation of peroxymonosulfate: Mechanism, degradation pathways and ecotoxicity
Creators: name: Gohar, Faryal
name: Sayed, Murtaza
name: Shah, Noor S.
name: Rehman, Faiza
name: Gul, Ikhtiar
name: Hussain, Sajjad
name: Iqbal, Jibran
name: Gul, Saman
name: Khan, Qaiser
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In this research work, surface modified nano zerovalent copper (nZVC) was prepared using simple borohydride reduction method. The spectroscopic and crystallographic results revealed the successful synthesis of surface modified nano zerovalent copper (nZVC) using solvents i.e., ethanol (ETOH), ethylene glycol (EG) and tween80 (T80). The as-synthesized material was fully characterized for morphological surface and crystal structural properties. The results indicated that EG provides excellent synthesis environment to nZVC compared to ETOH and T80 in terms of good dispersion, high surface area and excellent catalytic properties. The catalytic efficiency of nZVC/EG was investigated alone as well as with the addition of peroxymonosulfate (PMS) in the absence of light. The degradation results demonstrated that the involvement of PMS synergistically boosted the catalytic efficiency of synthesized nZVC/EG material. Furthermore, the degradation products (DPs) of CBZ were determined by GC−MS and subsequently the degradation pathways were proposed. The ecotoxicity analysis of the DPs was also explored. The proposed (nZVC/EG/PMS) system is economical and efficient and thus could be applied for the degradation of CBZ from aquatic system after altering the degradation pathways in such a way that results in harmless products formation.
Women Correspondents in Vietnam: Historical Analysis and Oral Histories
Creators: name: Martin, Christine
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1988

description: Although women correspondents have covered wars since the Spanish-American conflict, it was not until the Vietnam War that they achieved full access to the battlefield and equal opportunities to cover all aspects of the conflict. Easily attained army accreditation, the burgeoning women's movement and the unique nature of the Vietnam War - a Third World, essentially, political conflict - combined to offer women reporters unprecedented opportunities to cover the war and to prove themselves as worthy members of journalism's elite crew - war correspondents. More women covered Vietnam than any other war. They focused their coverage primarily on the "human interest" angle and the effects of war on its civilian and military victims. This traditional women's focus took on a new prominence in Vietnam, where an understanding of the social and political underpinnings of Vietnamese culture was essential to the success of the American war effort. As a result, the traditional news definition of war as battlefield was widened and the "women's angle" became central to war correspondence. This study presents an historical analysis of the evolution of the role of the woman war correspondent, from the Spanish- American conflict to Vietnam, and presents the oral histories of 10 women who worked as war correspondents in Vietnam.
Einfluss von sozialen Medien auf junge Erwachsene und ihr Konsumverhalten : eine Mixed-Methods Studie
Creators: name: Bölen, Helin
Publisher: name: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
Year: 2022
Subjects: Soziale Medien
Junge Erwachsene
Alkoholkonsum
Peergroup
Einflussfaktor
Nachtleben
Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention
302.23: Medien
303: Soziale Prozesse

description: Darstellung des Themas: Soziale Medien spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Erfüllung menschlicher Bedürfnisse, wie zum Beispiel der Zugehörigkeit, was vor allem bei jungen Erwachsenen von entscheidender Bedeutung ist, digital aber auch analog. Durch dieses Phänomen kann es zu unbewussten Beeinflussungen kommen, die die Peers untereinander auslösen.

Zielsetzung: Es soll erforscht werden, ob soziale Medien einen Einfluss auf junge Erwachsene in Peergroups und ihr Alkohol Konsum haben und wie dies geschieht. Davon abgeleitet werden Handlungsempfehlungen für die Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention gegeben.

Methode: Ausgehend von einer qualitativen Onlineumfrage wurden zwei Fokusgruppen mit je fünf Teilnehmenden zwischen 18 und 25 Jahren durchgeführt.

Ergebnisse: Jungen Erwachsene nutzen am häufigsten die Plattform Instagram. Peergroups können untereinander negative Einflüsse auf ihren Alkoholkonsum haben, anhand gegenseitigen Animierungen exzessiv zu trinken. Junge Erwachsene gehen oft über ihre Bedürfnisse hinaus, beteiligen sich an Partys mit befreundeten Personen und konsumieren Alkohol, auch wenn sie dies nicht möchten.

Fazit: Peergroups haben grosse Einflüsse auf das einzelne Peer, auch in Bezug auf exzessiven Alkoholkonsum. In diesem Problemfeld kann man mit Peer-Educations handeln. Peers können sich gegenseitig unterstützen, sich Orientierung geben, und können als Vergleichspunkt für die Selbsteinschätzung dienen.
title: Medically Relevant Physics Problems
Creators: name: Tompkins, Nathan
Publisher: name: Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, Inc. (PALNI)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05dch6316
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 1
subject: FOS: Natural sciences
subject: open pedagogy
classificationCode: 1.1
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Current homework assignment problems are often straight from the textbook or modified slightly by the instructor, rarely medically relevant, and often very uninteresting to a pre-medical student. For this assignment, students will create new medically relevant physics problems to replace previous physics problems. Students will be tasked with writing a new homework problem, providing a solution for the problem, and providing a brief written explanation of the medical relevance of the problem.
An exploratory in N-doped carbon dots as green fluorescence probes for Hg(II) ions detection
Creators: name: Roozbahani, Ali
name: Salahinejad, Maryam
name: Gholipour, Vanik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biophysics
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Marine Biology

description: Carbon dots (CDs), as a fascinating carbon nanomaterial, have important applications in various fields due to their unique properties. The physical and chemical properties of CDs can be fine-tuned using heteroatom doping and surface functionalisation. Here, we synthesised N-doped carbon dots (N-CDs) by reacting Citric acid, which serve as the carbon core, with twenty amino acids under microwave irradiation. The fluorescence quenching of each amino acid doped CDs by Hg(II) ions was experimentally measured. Then the effect of the molecular features and chemical properties of amino acids on the fluorescence quenching of N-CDs by Hg(II) ions was investigated by using the quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) method. Applying different machine learning techniques including correlation-based and ReliefF algorithm feature selection approaches to choose relevant descriptors, multi-linear regression, and support vector machine to construct QSPR model, some reliable and predictive models were developed. Based on the variables used throughout the final QSPR models, hydrophobic interactions, in addition to hydrogen bonding interactions, can be considered a major factor governing the photoluminescence behaviour of different N-CDs quenched by Hg(II) ions. N-CDs derived from amino acids bearing larger hydrophobic surfaces show greater fluorescence quenching, indicating that a greater capacity to interact with Hg(II) metal ions resulting in further fluorescence quenching.