bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Adapting Habermas’ construct of communicative rationality into a framework for analyzing students’ statistical literacy
Authors: Büscher Christian 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis study argues that the works of philosopher Jürgen Habermas can provide useful directions for mathematics education research on statistical literacy. Recent studies on the critical demands posed by statistical information in media highlight the importance of the communicative component of statistical literacy, which involves students’ ability to react to statistical information. By adapting Habermas’ construct of communicative rationality into a framework for statistical literacy, a novel analytical tool is presented that can provide theoretical insights as well as in-depth empirical insights into students’ communication about statistical information. Central to the framework are the four validity claims of comprehensibility, truth, truthfulness, and rightness which interlocutors need to address to engage in statistical communication. The empirical usefulness of the framework is shown by presenting the results of a study that examined Grade 5 students’ responses to fictional arguments about the decline of Arctic sea ice. The Habermas-based framework not only reveals that complex evaluations of statistical arguments can take place even in Grade 5 but also shows that students’ evaluations vary greatly. Empirical results include a content-specific differentiation of validity claims through inductively identified sub-categories as well as a description of differences in the students’ uses of validity claims.
Anxiety, Hope and Meaning in Times of Ecological Crisis: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective on Environmental Emotions
Authors: Vaškovic Petr , Vičanová Gabriela 
Published: May 2024

AbstractEnvironmental anxiety is often thought of as a psychopathological condition. Our paper aims to challenge this narrow understanding by offering an existential-phenomenological interpretation of environmental anxiety that posits it as an existential attunement with a transformative potential, capable of opening the anxious individual to a hopeful and meaningful outlook on the future. In the first part of the paper, we provide a conceptual analysis of environmental anxiety, drawing on current interdisciplinary taxonomies of environmental emotions as well as on existential-phenomenological definitions of anxiety. We then proceed to define the two key existential characteristics of environmental anxiety, firstly (i) its ability to reframe the aesthetic perception of nature, and secondly (ii) its impact on the subjective constitution of meaning. In the second part of the paper, drawing on the work of Kierkegaard and contemporary ecopsychological and ecotheological thinkers, a distinction is made between a naïve and a radical form of environmental hope. It is argued that while the former type of hope leads to inactivity, the latter is capable of motivating individuals to pro-environmental action.
The Dynamics of the Hubbard Model Through Stochastic Calculus and Girsanov Transformation
Authors: Lehmann Detlef 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAs a typical quantum many body problem, we consider the time evolution of density matrix elements in the Bose-Hubbard model. For an arbitrary initial state, these quantities can be obtained from an SDE or stochastic differential equation system. To this SDE system, a Girsanov transformation can be applied. This has the effect that all the information from the initial state moves into the drift part, into the mean field part, of the transformed system. In the large N limit with $$g=UN$$

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N

fixed, the diffusive part of the transformed system vanishes and as a result, the exact quantum dynamics is given by an ODE system which turns out to be the time dependent discrete Gross Pitaevskii equation. For the two site Bose-Hubbard model, the GP equation reduces to the mathematical pendulum and the difference of expected number of particles at the two lattice sites is equal to the velocity of that pendulum which is either oscillatory or it can have rollovers which then corresponds to the self trapping or insulating phase. As a by-product, we also find an equivalence of the mathematical pendulum with a quartic double well potential. Collapse and revivals are a more subtle phenomenom, in order to see these the diffusive part of the SDE system or quantum corrections have to be taken into account. This can be done with an approximation and collapse and revivals can be reproduced, numerically and also through an analytic calculation. Since expectation values of Fresnel or Wiener diffusion processes, we write the density matrix elements exactly in this way, can be obtained from parabolic second order PDEs, we also obtain various exact PDE representations. The paper has been written with the goal to come up with an efficient calculation scheme for quantum many body systems and as such the formalism is generic and applies to arbitrary dimension, arbitrary hopping matrices and, with suitable adjustments, to fermionic models.
The Beauty of the Unusual: An Architectural Inquiry into the Reggio Emilia Approach
Authors: Martín Domínguez Guiomar 
Published: May 2024

AbstractFor many years, the Reggio Emilia approach has been in the spotlight of the international debate on early childhood education, attracting countless devoted followers in preschool centres all over the world and inspiring an ever-increasing amount of pedagogical research. At the heart of this educational philosophy, space is considered a ‘third teacher’ and so is carefully thought and arranged, functioning as a key source of educational stimulation and insight. However, although a great number of studies from the field of pedagogy have been carried out to gain a better understanding of Reggio Emilia’s physical learning environments, not so much has been said from the designer’s perspective. This paper tries precisely to fill that gap, not purporting to isolate these fields of knowledge from one another but rather with the intention of setting an original inquiry that brings them closer together. This is made possible thanks to the definition of an innovative critical lens that diverges from previous discussions on the topic. More specifically, the work is triggered by Alfredo Hoyuelo’s statement (La estética en el pensamiento y obra pedagógica de Loris Malaguzzi, Octaedro, 2006, p. 120) in reference to Loris Malaguzzi’s theories: “building pedagogy means dreaming the beauty of the unusual”. Simply by replacing the term ‘pedagogy’ with ‘physical environments’ in that sentence, a novel insight for both architects and educators can emerge, with major implications in terms of conception, design, use and signification of space.
Effective schematic design phase in design process
Authors: Abdullah Samira Mohamed Ahmed , Toulan Naila Mohamed Farid , Amen Ayman Abdel-Hamid 
Published: May 2024

AbstractDesign thinking is a way to create solid designs that responds to design problems and solve it in a creative and suitable way. However, it is not widely recognized in architectural education pedagogy in Egypt for undergraduate. Despite being very efficient in several business avenues but not in architectural pedagogy. So, this paper aims to spot the light on design thinking and the possibility of its usage in design process to help students have a successful architectural project that solves the design problems and face the site challenges through the use of visualization design thinking tool. Where students face a challenge in translating the verbal language of their collected data in the research phase to the architectural language in the schematic phase. There is a recognized gap between the research students perform in the beginning of design project and the schematic designs that students deliver. The study proposes the possibility of using visualization as a tool for design thinking to have a sufficient and successful schematic design phase. The study will explain how students could apply design thinking in architectural design to benefit from their research phase in their schematic design. Moreover, come up with solutions and variable ideas using the tools of deign thinking as a way for helping in delivering design problem solution and have a more effective schematic design. At the end of the research paper the study concludes how the students can use visualization tool to translate the verbal language to architectural language and the possibility for using design thinking. That to help students realize the importance of analysis phase in synthesis. The research follows descriptive method and quantitative analysis where first the descriptive method is used in illustrating design process and design thinking. Then the quantitative analysis in the experiment is done followed by a survey to prove research problem and help in proposing the solution.
Should Parents Only Use One Language with Their Autistic Children? The Relations Between Multilingualism, Children‘s Social Skills, and Parent-Child Communication
Authors: Franco Maïte , Costa Andreia P. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Purpose
Parents of autistic children are often advised to use only one language to simplify their child’s language acquisition. Often this recommendation orients towards the geographically predominant language, which may cause difficulties especially for minority-language families. On the other hand, scientific evidence suggests that multilingualism does not hinder language acquisition and that communicating in exclusively foreign languages may even impede social interaction. Therefore, we investigated how parent language use is linked to the social skills of 68 autistic children and to their parents’ ability to feel comfortable, authentic, and free to express themselves.

Methods
Data was collected online, using parent-report questionnaires from parents of 25 different nationalities in the European context, assessing children’s language, autistic traits (AQ-C), social skills (SRS-2), and parent-child communication.

Results
Language use was not found to significantly relate to social skills in children. However, parents using their mother tongue, either only their mother tongue or in combination with other languages, reported feeling significantly more comfortable and more authentic than parents using exclusively foreign languages, either one or many. There were no significant differences between monolingual and multilingual families regarding parents’ feelings in regard to their language use.

Conclusions
Our findings may encourage specialists to consider multilingualism more often and consult with parents whether monolingualism is worth risking the negative outcomes we have found. Especially, since advising parents to raise their child multilingually may facilitate access to therapeutic treatment, childcare, and social interaction in multilingual societies and families and subsequently improve support and orientation for stakeholders.
Workplace performance measurement: digitalization of work observation and analysis
Authors: Nesterak Janusz , Szelągowski Marek , Radziszewski Przemysław 
Published: May 2024

AbstractProcess improvement initiatives require access to frequently updated and good quality data. This is an extremely difficult task in the area of production processes, where the lack of a process digital footprint is a very big challenge. To solve this problem, the authors of this article designed, implemented, and verified the results of a new work measurement method. The Workplace Performance Measurement (WPM) method is focused not only on the measurement of task duration and frequency, but also on searching for potential anomalies and their reasons. The WPM method collects a wide range of workspace parameters, including workers' activities, workers' physiological parameters, and tool usage. An application of Process Mining and Machine Learning solutions has allowed us to not only significantly increase the quality of analysis (compared to analog work sampling methods), but also to implement an automated controlling solution. The genuine value of the WPM is attested to by the achieved results, like increased efficiency of production processes, better visibility of process flow, or delivery of input data to MES solutions. MES systems require good quality, frequently updated information, and this is the role played by the WPM, which can provide this type of data for Master Data as well as for Production Orders. The presented authorial WPM method reduces the gap in available scholarship and practical solutions, enabling the collection of reliable data on the actual flow of business processes without their disruption, relevant for i.a. advanced systems using AI.
Very Low Level Flight Rules for Manned and Unmanned Aircraft Operations
Authors: Konert Anna , Kasprzyk Piotr 
Published: May 2024

AbstractAn analysis of the development of legal regulations regarding unmanned civil aviation leads to the conclusion that the current air traffic rules are among the key issues that require amending. Are drones allowed to fly at any height? Can drones fly freely over a person’s house or garden, several meters above the ground? What is the minimum allowable height for drone flights? The method of study consisted of content analysis of the existing legislation. Current doctrines were confronted with the existing regulations, documents, materials, safety reports, and statistics. The results of the study show that the existing air traffic rules, precisely in the case of aircraft operations performed by manned and unmanned aviation at very low heights, are definitely practical in nature. First, in most countries violations of air traffic rules are prohibited acts subject to criminal penalty. Second, determining the principles of air traffic for air operations is of crucial importance for determining legally permissible interference in property ownership. The urban air mobility is outside the scope of this research.
Characterization of In situ electrosynthesis of polyaniline on pencil graphite electrodes through electrochemical, spectroscopical and computational methods
Authors: Goldoni Riccardo , Thomaz Douglas Vieira , Ottolini Michela , Di Giulio Simona , Di Giulio Tiziano 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis study investigates potentiodynamic synthesis of polyaniline (PANI) using pencil graphite electrodes (PGEs), aiming to elucidate deposition mechanisms under simple experimental conditions. By exploring PANI electrosynthesis through electrochemical, spectroscopic, and computational approaches, valuable insights into the physicochemical aspects of aniline polymerization are gained. The proposed synthetic method was challenged for the development of a new molecularly imprinted polymer for chloramphenicol on the surface of PGEs to obtain an innovative impedimetric sensor. The sensing platform shows a linear response in the target concentration range between 0.1 and 17.5 nM, in aqueous solutions, with a limit of detection of 0.03 nM and a limit of quantification of 0.09 nM. The results obtained suggest that the synthesis method proposed provide a way to obtain stable and electroactive polyaniline film with huge potential application.
Caring for/with Modernist Playthings: Fidgeting with Objects in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie
Authors: Krishna Ishita 
Published: May 2024

AbstractModernist literature of the early to mid-twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic is replete with examples of a particular kind of relationship with objects, namely, the touching, collecting, and grasping of small, often highly personal, and ostensibly quotidian objects. From John’s glass collection in Woolf’s “Solid Objects,” Peter Walsh’s stroking of his pocket-knife in Mrs. Dalloway, Miriam’s frenzied absorption with flowers in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, to Laura’s fiddling of her glass menagerie in Tennessee Williams’s eponymous play, fidgeting in modernist literature and drama reveals a particular tendency of not just characters’ possession of things but also their possession by things. This phenomenon, I argue, allows characters to practice care as they withdraw from oppressive narratives of normalcy and (economic and biological) productivity, challenging their exclusionary and othering configurations. My paper looks at fidgeting in The Glass Menagerie as a part of this larger ideological and haptic orientation in modernist literature. The care invested by Laura in her intimate relationship with these “playthings” allows her to intercept not only male narrativizing forces and articulation of herself but also the rhetoric of productivity that circulates both within the play and in the larger economic backdrop of post-depression America. My paper attempts to foreground these objects of care in our readings of the play and modernist texts in general and, in so doing, highlight their importance as lenses of analysis that render visible alternate forms of agency and resistance. Lastly, it attempts to reframe fidgeting as an act of embodied refusal, evoking the radical potential of refusal within feminist and disability studies.
Modified Memoryless Spectral-Scaling Broyden Family on Riemannian Manifolds
Authors: Sakai Hiroyuki , Iiduka Hideaki 
Published: May 2024

AbstractThis paper presents modified memoryless quasi-Newton methods based on the spectral-scaling Broyden family on Riemannian manifolds. The method involves adding one parameter to the search direction of the memoryless self-scaling Broyden family on the manifold. Moreover, it uses a general map instead of vector transport. This idea has already been proposed within a general framework of Riemannian conjugate gradient methods where one can use vector transport, scaled vector transport, or an inverse retraction. We show that the search direction satisfies the sufficient descent condition under some assumptions on the parameters. In addition, we show global convergence of the proposed method under the Wolfe conditions. We numerically compare it with existing methods, including Riemannian conjugate gradient methods and the memoryless spectral-scaling Broyden family. The numerical results indicate that the proposed method with the BFGS formula is suitable for solving an off-diagonal cost function minimization problem on an oblique manifold.
The Role of SES in Preadolescence: Understandings and Group Evaluations based on Income, Education, and Occupation
Authors: Boer Iris , Fleischmann Fenella , Thijs Jochem 
Published: May 2024

AbstractSocioeconomic status (SES) predicts many facets of preadolescents’ life opportunities, yet little is known about how children perceive SES and whether it plays a role in their group evaluations. This study examined preadolescents’ socioeconomic understandings and biases (investigated presenting fictitious peers varying in SES), while separating the three SES-indicators income, education and occupation. Five classes (Grade 4–6) with 89 students (Mage = 10.44, SD = 0.93; 40% female) participated. Overall, preadolescents understood that the SES indicators income, education and occupation are related to each other. At the same time, they differentiated between the indicators in their group evaluations; they showed a positive bias for peers with high-educated parents, whereas for occupation and income there was no clear overall bias. This shows that differences between SES indicators are meaningful for children, which emphasizes the importance to distinguish between specific SES-indicators when studying the role of SES for preadolescents’ social life.
Can varying activation energy be determined reliably from thermogravimetric experiments?
Authors: Várhegyi Gábor 
Published: May 2024

AbstractSolutions of the general isoconversional kinetic equation were generated and compared assuming activation energies, E, which vary with the advance of the reaction, α. Series belonging to 4–5 heating rates were compared. TG curves simulated with highly varying activation energies could approximate well the curves simulated with first-order kinetics and constant E. This observation indicates that the information content of a series of TG curves at constant heating rates is not sufficient for the determination of activation energies that vary with the advance of the studied reactions. The problem proved to be smaller when differential curves were compared in the same way; the uncertainties decreased by factors 0.2–0.5. There is a standard procedure of ASTM International (ASTM E2958-19, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1520/E2958-21) that describes the estimation of E from experiments carried out at a specific modulated temperature program. The reliability of this procedure was also tested and found to be low, though not as low as that of the evaluation of TG curves at linear temperature programs with usual heating rates. The work continues and complements a recent study of the author (Várhegyi in J Therm Anal Calorim 148:12835–12843, 2023).
Gestational Diabetes Prevalence Estimates from Three Data Sources, 2018
Authors: Bolduc Michele L.F. , Mercado Carla I. , Zhang Yan , Lundeen Elizabeth A. , Ford Nicole D. , Bullard Kai McKeever , Carty Denise C. 
Published: May 2024

Abstract
Introduction
We investigated 2018 gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) prevalence estimates in three surveillance systems (National Vital Statistics System, State Inpatient Database, and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey).

Methods
We calculated GDM prevalence for jurisdictions represented in each system; a subset of data was analyzed for people 18–39 years old in 22 jurisdictions present in all three systems to observe dataset-specific demographics and GDM prevalence using comparable categories.

Results
GDM prevalence estimates varied widely by data system and within the data subset despite comparable demographics.

Discussion
Understanding the differences between GDM surveillance data systems can help researchers better identify people and places at higher risk of GDM.
Inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase activity attenuates neutrophilic airway inflammation and inhibits pyrin domain-containing 3 inflammasome activation in an ovalbumin-lipopolysaccharide-induced asthma murine model
Authors: Li Qun , Jiang Guiyun , Lv Yunxiang 
Published: May 2024

Abstract

Background
Existing investigations suggest that the blockade of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activity contributes to inflammatory solution in allergic asthma, but whether this inhibition directly attenuates neutrophilic airway inflammation in vivo is still unclear. We explored the pharmacological effects of LY294002, a specific inhibitor of PI3K on the progression of neutrophilic airway inflammation and investigated the underlying mechanism.

Methods and results
Female C57BL/6 mice were intranasally sensitized with ovalbumin (OVA) together with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on days 0 and 6, and challenged with OVA on days 14–17 to establish a neutrophilic airway disease model. In the challenge phase, a subset of mice was treated intratracheally with LY294002. We found that treatment of LY294002 attenuates clinic symptoms of inflammatory mice. Histological studies showed that LY294002 significantly inhibited inflammatory cell infiltration and mucus production. The treatment also significantly inhibited OVA-LPS induced increases in inflammatory cell counts, especially neutrophil counts, and IL-17 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF). LY294002 treated mice exhibited significantly increased IL-10 levels in BALF compared to the untreated mice. In addition, LY294002 reduced the plasma concentrations of IL-6 and IL-17. The anti-inflammatory effects of LY29402 were correlated with the downregulation of NLRP3 inflammasome.

Conclusions
Our findings suggested that LY294002 as a potential pharmacological target for neutrophilic airway inflammation.