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Planning in Brazil, India and Germany
No full textPlanning is a fundamental cognitive ability that helps in organizing and structuring events unfolding in a person\u27s daily life. Two studies are presented that analyze planning behavior in different cultures: Brazil, India, and Germany. The first is a cross-cultural psychological study in which students develop plans for uncertain problem scenarios. The second study follows a cultural psychological tradition. Workers from different domains are interviewed about their life problems and plans. The strengths and the weaknesses of both approaches become obvious in the description and discussion of these two studies. The cross-cultural study sheds light on cross-cultural similarities and differences in planning in Brazil, India, and Germany. The cultural psychological approach yields data regarding a theoretical model on the specific cultural influences on planning
Decision Making in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures
No full textHow do cultural values influence individuals\u27 decision making? One would expect answers to this question either from cognitive psychology or from cross-cultural psychology. Cognitive theories on decision making, however, rarely consider the factor of culture, and research in cross-cultural psychology deals only to a small extent with decision making. Therefore the study of culture and decision making is a relatively new and unexplored field. In this paper normative and descriptive approaches to decision making are discussed and three cross-cultural studies on decision making in individualistic and collectivist cultures using different methodologies are described. The results are integrated into a model that can be helpful to derive specific hypotheses for further studies in this field
Dominik Tatarka - wędrowiec
No full textDominik Tatarka is one of the Slovak travel books’s author; he wrotes reports Clovek na cestach. The travelling was important factor of his life: he find an inspiration for his writting and he formulated his life’s philosophy during his journeys. The travelling is one of the important key for reading all his compositions and for understanding his otlook on life: the author presents himself no as the postmodern nomad, but as the pilgrim, who wanders for aim „to unit splits world” and to find a man
Comprehensive analysis of polypropylene recyclates : characterization, representative sampling and quantification approaches of polyolefin cross contaminations of polypropylene recyclates
No full textAuthor DI Dominik Kaineder BSc.Dissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2025Arbeit nach Ablauf der Sperre auf den öffentlichen PCs in den Bibliotheken der JKU+Medizin abrufba
Comprehensive analysis of polypropylene recyclates : characterization, representative sampling and quantification approaches of polyolefin cross contaminations of polypropylene recyclates
No full textAuthor DI Dominik Kaineder BSc.Dissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2025Arbeit nach Ablauf der Sperre auf den öffentlichen PCs in den Bibliotheken der JKU+Medizin abrufba
Beato Iohannes Traguriensis and Dominik Andreis
No full textIn the 17th century, the hagiography and iconography of Bishop Iohannes Traguriensis were enriched by various members of Trogir’ s noble families. In this promotion of the cult of the local beato, Dominik Andreis stands out with his efforts: he was the author of an unpublished Litany in Croatian (1632), the instigator of publishing an Italian Vita by Giovanni Francesco Loredan (1648), and the sponsor of a three act drama by Girolamo Brusoni (1656), performed in Trogir with musical intermezzos and published two years later (1658)
Hybrid threats, cyber warfare and NATO's comprehensive approach for countering 21st century threats - mapping the new frontier of global risk and security management
No full textThe author examines NATO's comprehensive conceptual framework (the Capstone Concept) for identifying and discussing emerging threats to international peace and security including cyber war and possible multi-stakeholder responses. Article by Sascha-Dominik bachmann, Senior Lectuer in Law, School of Law, University of Portsmouth
Towards the identification of regulatory networks using statistical and information theoretical methods on the mammalian transcriptome
No full textOur comprehension of the genetic machinery regulating the expression of thousands of different genes controlling cell differentiation or responding to various external signals is still highly incomplete. Furthermore, recently discovered regulatory mechanisms like those mediated by microRNAs expand our knowledge but also add an additional layer of complexity. Since all genes are primarily transcribed into RNA, the genetic activity of gene differential expression can be estimated by measuring the RNA expression. Several techniques to measure large scale gene expression on the basis of RNA have been developed. In this work, data generated with the microarray technology, one of the most commonly used methods, were analyzed towards extracting novel biological regulatory structures.
In this work, several aspects on the analysis of these large gene expression data are discussed. Since this is nowadays a common task, a lot has been written about various methods in all its particulars, but often from a more technical or statistical point of view. However, the aim of a biologist planning and carrying out a microarray experiment lies on the acquisition of novel biological findings. In fact, there is still a gap between the experimentalists and the methods developing community. The experimentalists are often not too familiar with the latest fancy method based on modern statistics as it is used in e.g. information theory whereas the developing community normally does not deal extensively with current biological questions. Therefore, the author of this work tries to give an additional view on the field of microarray analysis and the applicability of diverse methods. Hence, the focus is to discuss commonly used methods towards their usage, the underlying biological assumptions and the possible interpretations, pros and cons. Furthermore, beyond ordinary differential gene expression analyses, this work also concentrates on an unbiased search for hidden information in gene expression patterns.
In the first section of chapter 1, a general overview about the main biological principles is given. The term transcriptome and its composition of several RNA types will be introduced. Furthermore the mechanism controlling gene expression will be presented. The chapter further explains the basic principles of microarray technology and also discusses the advantages and limitations of this method. Finally, by means of two different biological models, commonly used and a few more specialized and less popular analysis methods will be presented. In doing so, less emphasis is given on a complete and detailed mathematical description, but more on a general applicability and the biological outcome of these tools.
Chapter 2 extensively discusses the usage of a blind source separation technique, independent component analysis (ICA), on a two class microarray dataset. Monocytes extracted from human donors were differentiated into macrophages using M-CSF (Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor). By applying ICA to the data, so called \textit{expression modes} or \textit{sub-modes} could be extracted. According to referring biological annotations, these sub-modes were then combined to \textit{meta modes} and elaborately discussed. In this way, several known biological signalling pathways as well as regulatory mechanism involved in monocyte differentiation could be reconstructed. Furthermore, a novel biological finding, the remaining proliferative potential of macrophages could also be identified [Lutter et al., 2008].
In chapter 3, again ICA was used, but in this case applied to time-dependent microarray data, and results were compared to a very common analysis method, hierarchical clustering. Time-dependent data was derived from human monocytes infected with the intracellular pathogen F. tularensis. Using the clustering approach, groups of genes referring to distinct timepoints were identified, and a temporal behaviour of genetic immune response could be reconstructed. In parallel, ICA was used to decompose the data into expression modes (analogously to chapter 2). These modes were then mapped on the experimental time course. Compared to the clustering results, the ICA-based reconstructed immune response was more detailed and temporal activity of distinct genes could be resolved more precisely [Lutter et al., 2009].
In the following chapter 4, three different microarray datasets were used to confirm a suggested regulatory mechanism. The observation that about 50% of all microRNAs in humans and mice are intronic and therefore coupled with the expression of protein coding genes, so-called host genes, allowed for the use of established large-scale gene expression measurement techniques to approximate microRNA expression. Since a single microRNA can regulate up to dozens of other protein-coding genes, the hypothesis that this expressional linkage includes an additional functional component was investigated. Using the ordinary clustering algorithm `hierarchical clustering' and an approach based on gene annotations, this hypothesis could be basically confirmed
Hybrid threats, cyber warfare and NATO's comprehensive approach for countering 21st century threats - mapping the new frontier of global risk and security management
No full textThe author examines NATO's comprehensive conceptual framework (the Capstone Concept) for identifying and discussing emerging threats to international peace and security including cyber war and possible multi-stakeholder responses. Article by Sascha-Dominik bachmann, Senior Lectuer in Law, School of Law, University of Portsmouth
Russian Philosophy as interpreted by Dominik Barač
No full textU članku autor prikazuje lik Dominika Barača, dominikanca, filozofa i teologa koji se bavio socijalnom filozofijom boljševizma, odnosno komunizma u Rusiji. Proučava povijesne korijene i uzrok njezina nastajanja, kao i njezin odraz i utjecaj na kršćanstvo. U ruskoj socijalnoj filozofiji boljševizma, koja počiva na ideologiji, totalitarizmu i diktaturi, autor otkriva ideološko-materijalističko ateističko usmjerenje. Kritičkim pristupom ruskoj filozofiji, koja upotrebljava dijalektičko-materijalističko-marksističku metodu, s tomističkog i kršćanskog stajališta uočava teške zablude boljševizma, odnosno komunizma glede poimanja društva u kojemu pojedinac, ljudska osoba, gubi svoju osobnost i dostojanstvo, što je u potpunoj suprotnosti sa socijalno-etičkim principima naučavanja sv. Tome Akvinskoga, skolastičkom filozofijom i kršćanskim naukom.In this article the author gives a portrayal of Dominik Barač - Dominican priest, philosopher and theologian - who was engaged in the study of the social philosophy of Bolshevism, or rather Communism in Russia: its historical roots, the reasons for its emergence and the effect it wrought upon Christianity. The Russian social philosophy of Bolshevism is based on ideological principles, totalitarianism and dictatorship, hence the author unveils its ideological-materialistic-atheistic bent. With a critical approach to Russian philosophy, in which the dialectic-materialistic-marxist method is applied, the author points out from a Thomist and Christian point of view the grave errors of Bolshevism: misconceptions regarding its understanding of a society in which the individual human person in effect loses his individuality and his dignity, this being contrary to the social-ethical principles taught by St. Thomas Aquinas, by the Scholastics and by Christian doctrine
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