cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On creating a student model to assess effective exploratory behaviour in an open learning environment
Creators: name: Bunt, Andrea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Open learning environments give users a high degree of freedom and control to explore. This freedom and control is beneficial for some students, resulting in a deeper understanding of the material than they would gain through traditional means of instruction. For others, this type of environment is problematic, since for various reasons, these students are not able to explore effectively. One way to address this problem is to augment the environments with tailored support. To provide feedback tailored to the student's difficulties, the environment must have some way of monitoring and assessing her exploration. This thesis investigates the creation of a student model that assesses the effectiveness of the student's exploratory behaviour. Monitoring user behaviour in an open learning environment is difficult since there is typically little information available to the model to make its assessment. The model can view with which items the student experiments, but does not have direct access to the effects of those experiments on her understanding of the domain. As a result, how to model effective exploratory behaviour has not been extensively researched. The Student Model in this thesis has been implemented and evaluated in the context of the Adaptive Coach for Exploration (ACE). The model monitors the student's exploration of ACE's activities to generate an assessment of how effectively the learner is exploring. Using this assessment, ACE's Coach provides tailored feedback to guide the student's exploration process. To handle the large amount of uncertainty present in the modelling task, the Student Model is based on Bayesian Networks. The features of ACE's Student Model have been developed and refined using two evaluations of ACE with human subjects. The first evaluation was used to evaluate the effects of including tailored support in an open learning environment, and also provided insight into ways to improve the Student Model's preliminary design. The second evaluation tested those improvements. Results of the evaluations found that both the frequency with which students accessed the tailored feedback and the number of activities that they explored effectively (as determined by the Student Model) were positively correlated with learning.
VALUE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL TO MID-SIZED NORTHERN PLAINS FARMS
Creators: name: Gustafson, Cole R.
name: Gustafson, Cole R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Capital
subject: financial risk
subject: simulation
subject: social
subject: stochastic

description: As farms increase in size, operators face the decision of remaining loyal to local merchants or obtaining volume discounts from distant input suppliers. When farmers bypass local merchants and buy inputs in volume, they often realize price discounts but forego many services including credit forebearance. When farmers buy locally, they pay higher prices, which decreases profits and increases financial risk, but generates social capital which can be drawn upon during periods of economic adversity. A theoretical model of farm financial risk evaluates borrower behavior in light of cash flow constraints, volume discounts, and social capital. Results delineate financial risks involved and value of social capital.
Центры совершенства: международная перспектива
Creators: name: МУРАВЬЕВА Анна Александровна
name: ОЛЕЙНИКОВА Ольга Николаевн
Publisher: name: Профессиональное образование и рынок труда
Year: 2020
Subjects: центр совершенства
международный опыт
профессиональное образование и обучение
сравнительные исследования
тренды развития

description: В статье рассмотрены основные тренды развития центров совершенства как важнейшего инструмента повышения качества подготовки кадров для быстро изменяющегося рынка труда. Проведен анализ международного и российского опыта деятельности центров совершенства, их форматов и влияния на модернизацию системы профессионального образования. Представлены рекомендации по дальнейшему развитию сети подобных центров в нашей стране
Competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic states in Al8.5-xFe23Ge12.5+x (0<=x<=3)
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Jiro
name: Yakabe, Genta
name: Nakayama, Akinori
name: Nishizaki, Terukazu
name: Tsubota, Masami
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polycrystalline Al7+xFe23Ge14-x-type orthorhombic Al8.5-xFe23Ge12.5+x (0<=x<=3) compounds were studied by X-ray diffraction measurement, metallographic examination, and magnetization and electrical resistivity measurements. The lattice parameters show anisotropic x dependences, reflecting a lower symmetry of rather complex crystal structure. In the x=0 sample, a ferromagnetic (FM) transition occurs at the Curie temperature TC of 255 K, which is systematically reduced with increasing x and disappears at x=2.5 where an antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state is realized. The Neel temperature TN seems to appear at x>=1, and grows to 143 K at x=3 with the increment of x. In the intermediate range of x (1<=x<=2), a FM to AFM phase transition occurs below TC. In the AFM phase, the electrical resistivity rho shows a Fermi surface instability characterized by the upturn of rho below approximately TN. The competition between the FM and AFM states would be ascribed to the anisotropic x dependences of Fe-Fe bond lengths.
“The Future That Haunts Us Now”
Creators: name: Bladow, Kyle
Publisher: name: Transmotion
Year: 2021

description: This article assesses how recent literary depictions of Indigenous futurity coincide with grassroots activism that has been ongoing for generations and that is finding new iterations in current movements for climate justice and against settler colonial resource extraction. Such actions espouse interdependent, reciprocal relationships between humans and the more-than-human world. Stories illuminate and reinforce these relationships; one recent novel to exemplify this role of narrative is Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God. Despite what seems a harrowing dismantling of biological reproduction and species evolution in the novel, Ojibwe characters find renewed purpose as adapting to the situation revivifies traditional practices. Although rampant environmental devastation threatens lifeways and bonds of reciprocity, Erdrich demonstrates how those responsibilities were never predicated upon fixed, unchanging environments but instead dynamically respond to them as characters seek right relationships with other beings. Future Home can be read alongside other postapocalyptic Indigenous novels (e.g., Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves) as “oblique cli-fi”: novels whose catastrophes are not figured as climate change, but whose readers cannot help but consider them in its light, given the pervasive framing of climate change as catastrophe. However, in the drive to read Future Home as cli-fi, readers should not lose sight of its singular nature as a departure from Erdrich’s “standard” literary fiction, not to mention the novel’s political message as a response to the 2016 U.S. election and its calls for reproductive justice and land restoration. Future Home received mixed critical reviews, but as one of the most experimental and speculative works in Erdrich’s oeuvre, it should be celebrated as an example of transmotion that flouts American literary expectations while imagining Indigenous futurity.
description: Transmotion, Vol 7 No 2 (2021): Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
A Globally Flexible, Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System: An Application for Meat Demand in Taiwan
Creators: name: Liu, Kang Ernest
name: Sun, Chia-Hung
name: Liu, Kang Ernest
name: Sun, Chia-Hung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A new demand system, combining the quadratic almost ideal demand system and the Fourier expenditure system, is introduced. An application for meat consumption in Taiwan indicates that the new demand system fits the data well and that the restriction to the usual specifications, such as locally flexible functional form, linear Engel curve, and both, are rejected.
Level excitation and transition probabilities of some nuclei in the lower fp-shell
Creators: name: Majeed, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unrestricted shell model calculations in the lower $fp$-shell region for the nuclei $^{46}$Ti, $^{46}$Cr and $^{46}$V have been performed for the isovector T=1 positive parity states using the shell model code OXBASH for Windows by employing the effective interactions GXPF1, FPD6 and KB3G. The level schemes and transition strengths $B$($E$2;$\downarrow$) are compared with the recently available experimental data. A very good agreement were obtained for all nuclei.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, Latex
Estimating Food Demand in Rural China under the Perspectives of Agricultural Household Models
Creators: name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Yan, Wenye
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Yan, Wenye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: We present in this study an agricultural household model that describes the joint production-consumption decision making of Chinese rural households under imperfect market. We conclude that the marginal value of a food product consumed is the sale price if there is a net sale for this food item; it is the purchase price if there is a net purchase; and it is the shadow price if there is no purchase or sale. A preliminary empirical food estimation analysis confirms that it provides superior demand estimates to use these "effective prices" rather than traditionally used purchase prices or weighted average of sale and purchase prices in rural food demand analysis in less developed countries (LDCs).
What Fraction of Boron-8 Solar Neutrinos arrive at the Earth as a nu_2 mass eigenstate?
Creators: name: Nunokawa, Hiroshi
name: Parke, Stephen
name: Funchal, Renata Zukanovich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the fraction of B^8 solar neutrinos that arrive at the Earth as a nu_2 mass eigenstate as a function of the neutrino energy. Weighting this fraction with the B^8 neutrino energy spectrum and the energy dependence of the cross section for the charged current interaction on deuteron with a threshold on the kinetic energy of the recoil electrons of 5.5 MeV, we find that the integrated weighted fraction of nu_2's to be 91 \pm 2 % at the 95% CL. This energy weighting procedure corresponds to the charged current response of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). We have used SNO's current best fit values for the solar mass squared difference and the mixing angle, obtained by combining the data from all solar neutrino experiments and the reactor data from KamLAND. The uncertainty on the nu_2 fraction comes primarily from the uncertainty on the solar delta m^2 rather than from the uncertainty on the solar mixing angle or the Standard Solar Model. Similar results for the Super-Kamiokande experiment are also given. We extend this analysis to three neutrinos and discuss how to extract the modulus of the Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata mixing matrix element U_{e2} as well as place a lower bound on the electron number density in the solar B^8 neutrino production region.
description: 23 pages, 8 postscript figures, latex. Dedicated to the memory of John Bahcall who championed solar neutrinos for many lonely years
Linguistic evolution driven by network heterogeneity and the Turing mechanism
Creators: name: Mimar, Sayat
name: Juane, Mariamo Mussa
name: Mira, Jorge
name: Park, Juyong
name: Munuzuri, Alberto P.
name: Ghoshal, Gourab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given the rapidly evolving landscape of linguistic prevalence, whereby a majority of the world's existing languages are dying out in favor of the adoption of a comparatively fewer set of languages, the factors behind this phenomenon has been the subject of vigorous research. The majority of approaches investigate the temporal evolution of two competing languages in the form of differential equations describing their behavior at large scale. In contrast, relatively few consider the spatial dimension of the problem. Furthermore while much attention has focused on the phenomena of language shift---the adoption of majority languages in lieu of minority ones---relatively less light has been shed on linguistic coexistence, where two or more languages persist in a geographically contiguous region. Here, we study the geographical component of language spread on a discrete medium to monitor the dispersal of language species at a microscopic level. Language dynamics is modeled through a reaction-diffusion system that occurs on a heterogeneous network of contacts based on population flows between urban centers. We show that our framework accurately reproduces empirical linguistic trends driven by a combination of the Turing instability, a mechanism for spontaneous pattern-formation applicable to many natural systems, the heterogeneity of the contact network, and the asymmetries in how people perceive the status of a language. We demonstrate the robustness of our formulation on two datasets corresponding to linguistic coexistence in northern Spain and southern Austria.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Indigenous Anthropocenes in Poetry
Creators: name: Jones-Matrona, Kasey
Publisher: name: Transmotion
Year: 2021

description: Muscogee (Creek) poet Jennifer Elise Foerster’s poetry begins to answer a call for a cultural climate change. Foerster released her second collection of poetry Bright Raft in the Afterweather in 2018. She blends time, weaving past, present, and future (in no particular order) to convey a catastrophic future mirrored by difficult, but resilient Creek pasts and presents. In this collection, Foerster also amplifies an Indigenous-specific notion of the Anthropocene. I argue that by recognizing Indigenous scientific literacies that include both human and nonhuman agency, Foerster utilizes this moment of the Anthropocene to re-map Creek lands, histories, and futures. Further, I recognize Foerster’s Anthropocene poetics as a symbiocene, a balance between human and nonhuman, and a poetics that seeks to heal, not just express and promote survival. This also brings healing to Creek peoples since colonial Anthropocene narratives largely ignore the devastating impacts that the settler-created Anthropocene brought for Indigenous peoples since first contact.
description: Transmotion, Vol 7 No 2 (2021): Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
Photoionising feedback in star cluster formation
Creators: name: Dale, J. E.
name: Bonnell, I. A.
name: Clarke, C. J.
name: Bate, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first ever hydrodynamic calculations of star cluster formation that incorporate the effect of feedback from ionising radiation. In our simulations, the ionising source forms in the cluster core at the intersection of several dense filaments of inflowing gas. We show that these filaments collimate ionised outflows and suggest such an environmental origin for at least some observed outflows in regions of massive star formation. Our simulations show both positive feedback (i.e. promotion of star formation in neutral gas compressed by expanding HII regions) and negative feedback (i.e. suppression of the accretion flow in to the central regions). We show that the volume filling factor of ionised gas is very different in our simulations than would result from the case where the central source interacted with an azimuthally smoothed gas density distribution. As expected, gas density is the key parameter in determining whether clusters are unbound by photoionising radiation. Nevertheless, we find - on account of the acceleration of a small fraction of the gas to high velocities in the outflows - that the deposition in the gas of an energy that exceeds the binding energy of the cluster is not a sufficient criterion for unbinding the bulk of the cluster mass.
description: 16 pages, 21 figures, LaTeX. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Подходы к организации демонстрационного экзамена: европейский опыт и российская практика
Creators: name: ПАВЛОВА Оксана Анатольевна
Publisher: name: Профессиональное образование и рынок труда
Year: 2020
Subjects: демонстрационный экзамен
итоговая аттестация
среднее профессиональное образование в Европе
стандарты Вордлскиллс
практико-ориентированное образование
профессиональные квалификации
компетентностный подход

description: В статье представлен краткий анализ европейского опыта применения демонстрационного экзамена для оценки освоения профессиональных компетенций студентами учреждений СПО. Выделены основные значимые факторы и подходы, применяемые в разных странах для качественной организации процедур. Определены возможные направления развития и совершенствования демонстрационного экзамена в российском профессиональном образовании.
Advancing Drug Resistance Research Through Quantitative Modeling and Synthetic Biology
Creators: name: Farquhar, K.
name: Flohr, H.
name: Charlebois, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global health crisis that is undermining advances in modern medicine and, if unmitigated, threatens to kill 10 million people per year worldwide by 2050. Research over the last decade has demonstrated that the differences between genetically identical cells in the same environment can lead to drug resistance. Fluctuations in gene expression, modulated by gene regulatory networks, can lead to non-genetic heterogeneity that results in the fractional killing of microbial populations causing drug therapies to fail; this non-genetic drug resistance can enhance the probability of acquiring genetic drug resistance mutations. Mathematical models of gene networks can elucidate general principles underlying drug resistance, predict the evolution of resistance, and guide drug resistance experiments in the laboratory. Cells genetically engineered to carry synthetic gene networks regulating drug resistance genes allow for controlled, quantitative experiments on the role of non-genetic heterogeneity in the development of drug resistance. In this perspective article, we emphasize the contributions that mathematical, computational, and synthetic gene network models play in advancing our understanding of antimicrobial resistance to discover effective therapies against drug-resistant infections.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Decomposable sparse polynomial systems
Creators: name: Brysiewicz, Taylor
name: Rodriguez, Jose Israel
name: Sottile, Frank
name: Yahl, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 14M25, 65H10, 65H20

description: The Macaulay2 package DecomposableSparseSystems implements methods for studying and numerically solving decomposable sparse polynomial systems. We describe the structure of decomposable sparse systems and explain how the methods in this package may be used to exploit this structure, with examples.
description: 7 pages, software available at https://www.math.tamu.edu/~thomasjyahl/research/DSS/DSSsite.html
D2.5: Open Science policies and resource provisioning in the Nordic and Baltic countries (second report)
Creators: name: Hammargren, Per-Olov
name: Arvola, Maijastiina
name: Rauste, Päivi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC-Nordic

description: For this deliverable, the authors have surveyed and described any policy and similar documentation such as written guidelines, policies et.al. relating to specific focus areas. The focus areas chosen are policy implemented incentives for FAIR, policies for Open Science (OS) training/training for making data FAIR, policies for making other research objects FAIR and policies facilitating cross border research. The countries in the scope of the deliverable are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden.
 Regarding policy implemented incentives for FAIR, the countries have taken different approaches. Policy implemented incentives are either in the form of national policies or law. Policies may be authored by different organisations, both organisations with national mandates, such as funders, and organisations with a subnational mandate, such as Higher Education Institutions (HEI:s). This also illuminates that different stakeholders are involved, ranging from ministries, and funders to HEI:s and libraries. Policies for (OS) training/training for making data FAIR, or policies that involve OS training, are available in some countries. In countries where neither policies nor training is available, there is awareness of the importance of policies for OS training/training for making data FAIR, which is reflected in some draft policies. OS training is provided by HEI:s in a majority of countries inventoried. A difference between the countries inventoried is that in some countries policy is set at a national level, in others, policies are set in addition to, or only at the subnational level. Most countries inventoried do not have policies in place for making other research objects FAIR. A conclusion, as has also been highlighted by other reports1, is that making other research objects FAIR is an area in need of focus in order to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and reusability of research. One country inventoried has a policy that mentions facilitation of cross-border research in the sense that national e-infrastructure is promoted to international users. The remainder of the inventoried countries have national policies, regarding access to resources, which focuses on researchers with national affiliation access to services. A conclusion is that in the Nordic and Baltic region, the facilitation of cross-border research is not a focus in policies, but policies rather have a national scope.

description: DRAFT NOT YET APPROVED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
A Study on the Synchronization Aspect of Star Connected Identical Chua Circuits
Creators: name: Muni, S. S.
name: Padhee, S.
name: Pati, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper provides a study on the synchronization aspect of star connected $N$ identical chua's circuits. Different coupling such as conjugate coupling, diffusive coupling and mean-field coupling have been investigated in star topology. Mathematical interpretation of different coupling aspects have been explained. Simulation results of different coupling mechanism have been studied.
description: 6 pages, 18 figures, 2018 IEEE International Students Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS)
Physical Properties of H II Regions in M51 from Spectroscopic Observations
Creators: name: Wei, Peng
name: Zou, Hu
name: Kong, Xu
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Hu, Ning
name: Lin, Zesen
name: Mao, Yewei
name: Lin, Lin
name: Zhou, Zhimin
name: Liu, Xiang
name: Ma, Shuguo
name: Ma, Lu
name: Zhong, Tuhong
name: Dang, Fei
name: Sun, Jiantao
name: Lin, Xinkui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M51 and NGC 5195 is an interacting system that can be explored in great details with ground-based telescopes. The H II regions in M51 were observed using the 2.16 m telescope of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 6.5 m Multiple Mirror Telescope with spatial resolution of less than $\sim100$ pc. We obtain a total of 113 spectra across the galaxy and combine the literature data of Croxall et al. to derive a series of physical properties, including the gas-phase extinction, stellar population age, star formation rate (SFR) surface density, and oxygen abundance. The spatial distributions and radial profiles of these properties are investigated in order to study the characteristics of M51 and the clues to the formation and evolution of this galaxy. M51 presents a mild radial extinction gradient. The lower gas-phase extinction in the north spiral arms compared to the south arms are possibly caused by the past encounters with the companion galaxy of NGC 5195. A number of H II regions have the stellar age between 50 and 500 Myr, consistent with the recent interaction history by simulations in the literatures. The SFR surface density presents a mild radial gradient, which is ubiquitous in spiral galaxies. There is a negative metallicity gradient of $-0.08$ dex $R_{e}^{-1}$ in the disk region, which is also commonly found in many spiral galaxies. It is supported by the "inside-out" scenario of galaxy formation. We find a positive abundance gradient of 0.26 dex $R_{e}^{-1}$ in the inner region. There are possible reasons causing the positive gradient, including the freezing of the chemical enrichment due to the star-forming quenching in the bulge and the gas infall and dilution due to the pseudobulge growth and/or galactic interaction.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, 1 appendix, Accepted for publication in PASP. Comments and suggestions are welcome
This Planet Knows my Name
Creators: name: Perez-Garcia, Fernando
Publisher: name: Transmotion
Year: 2021

description: In the times of Reconciliation, more and more voices are challenging the myth of Canada as a benevolent nation towards racialised and Indigenous communities despite its celebrations of cultural diversity. Controversies like those surrounding the TransMountain pipeline expansion or the Taseko Mines trial reveal the contradictions of the settler nation-state in its relations with Indigenous peoples. Indigenous writers are exploring the possibilities of science fiction to envision possible Native futures, hopes, and to make sense of the present moment, expanding the expectations of indigenous writing beyond “reservation realisms” and surpassing the tropes of sf. From this Indigenousfuturism part Celu Amberstone’s “Refugees”. At a time of the global ecological collapse, aliens called "Benefactors" have abducted earthlings to repopulate a new planet to save the human race from extinction. What appears to be a pious act gives rise to a complicated dynamic between the narrator, her biased trust of the colonizers and the last comers from Earth, urban natives disconnected from indigenous modes of knowledge and relationality with the land. Stemming from the indigenous modes of knowledge by Zainab Amadahi and Leanne Simpson, and contributions from the sociology of space by Doreen Massey, this article aims to address Celu Amberstone's “Refugees” to explore the possibility of articulating decolonial politics, exploring new forms of sovereignty in decolonization, and the interconnection with the land versus the impending ecological collapse and fiduciary gridlock exercised by the Canadian neoliberal, settler colonial state. Amberstone allows not only to imagine the existence of Indigenous communities in a future of ecological collapse but also to comment on the current situation and clash of cosmologies in the Canadian colonial context.
description: Transmotion, Vol 7 No 2 (2021): Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
Critical elements of synthesis questions are incompletely reported: survey of systematic reviews of intervention effects
Creators: name: Cumpston, Miranda S
name: McKenzie, Joanne E
name: Ryan, Rebecca
name: Thomas, James
name: Brennan, Sue E
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490501
subject: Applied statistics
classificationCode: 4202
subject: Epidemiology

description: Objectives: To examine the characteristics of population, intervention and outcome groups and the extent to which they were completely reported for each synthesis in a sample of systematic reviews (SRs) of interventions. Study design and setting: We coded groups that were intended (or used) for comparisons in 100 randomly sampled SRs of public health and health systems interventions published in 2018 from the Health Evidence and Health Systems Evidence databases. Results: Authors commonly used population, intervention and outcome groups to structure comparisons, but these groups were often incompletely reported. For example, of 41 SRs that identified and/or used intervention groups for comparisons, 29 (71%) identified the groups in their methods description before reporting of the results (e.g., in the Background or Methods), 12 (29%) defined the groups in enough detail to replicate decisions about which included studies were eligible for each synthesis, 6 (15%) provided a rationale, and 24 (59%) stated that the groups would be used for comparisons. Sixteen (39%) SRs used intervention groups in their synthesis without any mention in the methods. Reporting for population, outcome and methodological groups was similarly incomplete. Conclusion: Complete reporting of the groups used for synthesis would improve transparency and replicability of reviews, and help ensure that the synthesis is not driven by what is reported in the included studies. Although concerted effort is needed to improve reporting, this should lead to more focused and useful reviews for decision-makers.
Coeval Worlds, Alter/Native Words
Creators: name: Bouich, Abdenour
Publisher: name: Transmotion
Year: 2021

description: Split Tooth (2018) is the debut novel of the Indigenous Inuk throat singer and artist Tanya Tagaq. Being an Indigenous Inuit literary work, the novel stands out notably for its plasticity in terms of form, style, narrative registers and aesthetic techniques. Indeed, it brings together prose, poetry, illustrations, Indigenous Inuit ontologies and epistemologies, Tagaq’s own memoir, and what she calls “non-fiction, embellished non-fiction and pure fiction” (Qtd in Mike Doherty 2018). Nevertheless, the author gives no indication of when the fiction ends and the non-fiction and memoir begin. In fact, the novel shows a nonconformity neither to those western literary genres of realism, fantasy or science fiction, nor to experimental literary categories of magical realism, speculative fiction, and imaginative literature; instead, it presents itself as what the Cherokee scholar Daniel Heath Justice terms Indigenous “wonderworks.” In his landmark study Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (2018), Justice writes: “Indigenous wonderworks are neither strictly ‘fantasy’ nor ‘realism,’ or maybe both at once or something else entirely, though they generally push against expectations of rational materialism” (155). Indigenous wonderworks, Justice explains, are grounded in Indigenous peoples’ cultural specificities and experiences, allowing for the resurgence and the recovery of Indigenous, ontologies, epistemologies, and politics that have long been dismissed by colonial discourses and narratives (154). In this paper, I approach Tagaq’s novel as an Indigenous wonderwork that provides a vigorous critique of the colonial capitalist modernity and its destructive “development” from which Indigenous Inuit peoples of Canada suffer and the ecological disasters provoked by resource extraction and global warming brought about by global capitalism and, in particular, Canadian capitalist expansionism in the Arctic region. I endeavour to examine the way in which Split Tooth mobilises, inter alia, a panoply of phantasmagoria and anthropomorphism as well as non-human agencies that pertain to Indigenous Inuit worldviews to capture the violence and the ecological impact of oil extraction in Nunavut where the novel is set.
description: Transmotion, Vol 7 No 2 (2021): Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
Extinction in Embrace of the Serpent
Creators: name: Treadwell, Holly May
Publisher: name: Transmotion
Year: 2021

description: This paper examines Ciro Guerra’s film, Embrace of the Serpent, in relation to the concept of the Capitalocene, using literary theory alongside sociological, anthropological, and historical writings in order to examine its interactions with the concept. The film tells the story of Karamakate, the last surviving member of the Cohiuano people who were eradicated in the Rubber Holocaust, and criticises capitalism as an extension of colonialism and the cause of multiple extinctions. Indeed, the film rejects the notion of the Anthropocene and its homogenous view of “human” activity, explicitly demonstrating that it is specifically capitalism as an extension of colonialism that is having such detrimental and violent effects on the climate through its presentation of Indigenous ecological practises in contrast to the colonists’ destructive relationship to the world. The paper is split into three sections: the extinction of people via forced labour, decimation of land, murder, and dispossession; the extinction of Indigenous cultures, comparing the personification, conservation, and kinship with nature, to capitalism’s commodification, exploitation, and demonisation of nature; and the extinction of nature itself via its domination and cultivation. This project aims to demonstrate how Embrace of the Serpent presents extinction as a result of capitalism, shows the dangerous reality of the capitalocene, and the ongoing effects of colonial environmental practises. It also demonstrates the ways in which Guerra criticises the omittance of Indigenous knowledges and practises, particularly through the presentation of the narrative from the perspective of one of the Indigenous communities the capitalocene affects the most, telling their side of the story and drawing attention to the brutal history of the rubber trade in Columbia.
description: Transmotion, Vol 7 No 2 (2021): Indigeneity and the Anthropocene
Tuning Conductivity Type in Monolayer WS2 and MoS2 by Sulfur Vacancies
Creators: name: Yang, Jing
name: Bussolotti, Fabio
name: Kawai, Hiroyo
name: Goh, Kuan Eng Johnson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While n-type semiconductor behavior appears to be more common in as-prepared two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), substitutional doping with acceptor atoms is typically required to tune the conductivity to p-type in order to facilitate their potential application in different devices. Here, we report a systematic study on the equivalent electrical "doping" effect of - single sulfur vacancies (V1S) in monolayer WS2 and MoS2 by studying the interface interaction of WS2-Au and MoS2-Au contacts. Based on our first principles calculations, we found that the V1S can significantly alter the semiconductor behavior of both monolayer WS2 and MoS2 so that they can exhibit the character of electron acceptor (p-type) as well as electron donor (n-type) when they are contacted with gold. For relatively low V1S densities (approximately < 7% for MoS2 and < 3% for WS2), the monolayer TMDC serves as electron acceptor. As the V1S density increases beyond the threshold densities, the MoS2 and WS2 play the role of electron donor. The significant impact V1S can have on monolayer WS2 and MoS2 may be useful for engineering its electrical behavior and offers an alternative way to tune the semiconductor TMDCs to exhibit either n-type or p-type behavior.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
RXJ0142.0+2131: I. The galaxy content of an X-ray-luminous galaxy cluster at z=0.28
Creators: name: Barr, Jordi
name: Davies, Roger
name: Jorgensen, Inger
name: Bergmann, Marcel
name: Crampton, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of stellar populations in the X-ray-luminous cluster of galaxies RXJ0142.0+2131 at z=0.280. This paper analyses the results of high signal-to-noise spectroscopy, as well as g'-, r'-, and i'-band imaging, using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on Gemini North. Of 43 spectroscopic targets, we find 30 cluster members over a range in color. Central velocity dispersions and absorption-line strengths for lines in the range 3700A < lambda_rest < 5800A are derived for cluster members, and are compared with a low-redshift sample of cluster galaxies, and single stellar population (SSP) models. We use a combination of these indicators to estimate luminosity-weighted mean ages, metallicities ([M/H]), and alpha-element abundance ratios ([alpha/Fe]). RXJ0142.0+2131 is a relatively poor cluster and lacks galaxies with high central velocity dispersions. Although the red sequence and the Faber-Jackson relation are consistent with pure passive evolution of the early-type population with a formation redshift of z_form = 2, the strengths of the 4000A break and scaling relations between metal line indices and velocity dispersion reject this model with high significance. By inverting SSP models for the Hbeta_G, Mgb, and line indices, we calculate that, at a given velocity dispersion and metallicity, galaxies in RXJ0142.0+2131 have luminosity-weighted mean ages 0.14 +- 0.07 dex older than the low-redshift sample. We also find that [alpha/Fe] in stellar populations in RXJ0142.0+2131 is 0.14 +- 0.03 greater than at low redshift. All scaling relations are consistent with these estimated offsets. (abridged)
description: AJ, accepted. 31 pages, 13 figures, uses emulateapj.cls. High-resolution figures available on request from first author
USO DA SEMENTE DE MORINGA OLEIFERA PARA O TRATAMENTO DE ÁGUA
Creators: name: NASCIMENTO, F. J. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: RECURSOS HÍDRICOS
SEMENTE DE MORINGA
TRATAMENTO DE ÁGUA

description: O resumo simples, intitulado "Uso da Semente de Moringa Oleifera para o Tratamento de Água", foi submetido ao III Congresso Brasileiro Online de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão em 2024, organizado pela Sociedade Brasileira de Eventos Científicos (SOBREC). O autor, Fernando Jeferson de Macedo Nascimento, cuja referência de citação é "Nascimento, F. J. M.", apresentou o trabalho com o objetivo de divulgar conhecimento e incentivar o pensamento científico sobre o monitoramento da qualidade da água em rios brasileiros. O evento busca conectar a divulgação científica, o ensino e a extensão acadêmica, visando atingir um amplo público interessado nessa temática.
Magnetic plateaus in the 1D antiferromagnetic spin-3/2 and spin-2 Ising chains with single-ion anisotropy
Creators: name: Aydiner, Ekrem
name: Akyuz, Cenk
name: Gonulol, Meltem
name: Polat, Hamza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we have employed the classical transfer matrix technique to investigate the magnetization plateaus, phase diagrams and other thermodynamical properties of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic spin-3/2 and spin-2 Ising chains with single-ion anisotropy in the presence of an external magnetic field at very low temperature. We have showed that single ion-anisotropy is one of the indispensable ingredients for an energy gap which leads to magnetic plateau mechanism in one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising spin chains. Other thermodynamical predictions seem to be provide this argument.
description: 14 pages, 15 Figures
Krust, Christian (Hrsg.), Was wir glauben, lehren und bekennen
Creators: name: Rott, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 13 Nr. 3 (1964): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 13, Heft 3
The VMC survey -- XXXVIII. Proper motion of the Magellanic Bridge
Creators: name: Schmidt, Thomas
name: Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.
name: Niederhofer, Florian
name: Bekki, Kenji
name: Bell, Cameron P. M.
name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Diaz, Jonathan
name: Youssoufi, Dalal El
name: Emerson, Jim
name: Groenewegen, Martin A. T.
name: Ivanov, Valentin D.
name: Matijevic, Gal
name: Oliveira, Joana M.
name: Petr-Gotzens, Monika G.
name: Queiroz, Anna B. A.
name: Ripepi, Vincenzo
name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Magellanic Clouds are a nearby pair of interacting dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. Studying their kinematic properties is essential to understanding their origin and dynamical evolution. They have prominent tidal features and the kinematics of these features can give hints about the formation of tidal dwarfs, galaxy merging and the stripping of gas. In addition they are an example of dwarf galaxies that are in the process of merging with a massive galaxy. The goal of this study is to investigate the kinematics of the Magellanic Bridge, a tidal feature connecting the Magellanic Clouds, using stellar proper motions to understand their most recent interaction. We calculated proper motions based on multi-epoch $K_{s}$-band aperture photometry, which were obtained with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), spanning a time of 1-3 yr, and we compared them with $Gaia$ Data Release 2 (DR2) proper motions. We tested two methods for removing Milky Way foreground stars using $Gaia$~DR2 parallaxes in combination with VISTA photometry or using distances based on Bayesian inference. We obtained proper motions for a total of 576,411 unique sources over an area of $23$ deg$^{2}$ covering the Magellanic Bridge including mainly Milky Way foreground stars, background galaxies, and a small population of possible Magellanic Bridge stars ($
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Grower Heterogeneity and Governance: Authority, Access, and Countervailing Power
Creators: name: Hendrikse, George W.J.
name: Hendrikse, George W.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: The increasing differentiation on the supply side of agricultural and horticultural markets has resulted in many governance structure changes between growers and wholesalers. For example, marketing cooperatives are restructured, heterogeneous associations split up in various one-product associations, growers integrate forward into wholesaling, and so on. These developments are analysed with an incomplete contracting model addressing horizontal as well as vertical relationships in a multilateral setting. The interactions between authority, access, and countervailing power in the choice of governance structure are highlighted.
Supporting user mobility with Web-based Mobile Computing
Creators: name: Li, Naizhi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Recent years have seen the proliferation of mobile computing researches that address the various problems when a device moves from place to place. However, this thesis deals with an additional degree of mobility called user mobility: the ability of users to access their own resources and run their favorite applications, from anywhere using any devices, still in the same way as his own personal computing environment. A novel computing model called Web-based Mobile Computing (WebMC) is proposed in this thesis to solve the challenges in supporting user mobility such as heterogeneous environment and running local applications using the user's personal settings. In this computing model, a user's personal computing environment is platformindependent and described by an XML document written in a standard vocabulary. Using this document, a web-browser-based, platform-dependent middleware sitting on a WebMC enabled client terminal would enable the user to access his own personal computing environment and run his own favorite applications with his own personal settings. WebMC defines this interface by giving the standard vocabulary. A prototype middleware has been developed on Linux and Mozilla to prove the feasibility and usability of WebMC. In this prototype, a distinct file system called XIFS is created to provide to web-top applications transparent access of user's personal environment files, using the XML document as its meta information.
Tapered-amplified AR-coated laser diodes for Potassium and Rubidium atomic-physics experiments
Creators: name: Nyman, Robert A.
name: Varoquaux, Gael
name: Villier, Brice
name: Sacchet, Delphine
name: Moron, Frédéric
name: Coq, Yann Le
name: Aspect, Alain
name: Bouyer, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a system of room-temperature extended-cavity grating-diode lasers (ECDL) for production of light in the range 760-790nm. The extension of the tuning range towards the blue is permitted by the weak feedback in the cavity: the diodes are anti-reflection coated, and the grating has just 10% reflectance. The light is then amplified using semiconductor tapered amplifiers to give more than 400mW of power. The outputs are shown to be suitable for atomic physics experiments with potassium (767nm), rubidium (780nm) or both, of particular relevance to doubly-degenerate boson-fermion mixtures.
REGIONAL PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES AND PROSPECT FOR CONVERGENCE IN BANGLADESH AGRICULTURE, 1964-1992
Creators: name: Rahman, Sanzidur
name: Rahman, Sanzidur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Agricultural productivity
subject: Regional variations
subject: Convergence
subject: Bangladesh

description: This paper applies the sequential Malmquist index to calculate multi lateral, multi-factor productivity (MFP) indices for agriculture in 16 regions of Bangladesh from 1964 to 1992 and examines convergence among regions. Productivity grew at an average rate of 2.2% per annum, led by regions with high level of Green Revolution technology diffusion. The growth mainly occurred due to technological progress estimated at 2.1% per year. Overall technical efficiency declined slightly at 0.1% per year due to falling technical efficiency in most of the regions in later years. Both cross-section and time series tests confirmed that divergence among regions disappeared and agricultural productivity reached convergence in the long run.
LABOR SUBSTITUTABILITY IN LABOR INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE PRESENCE OF FOREIGN LABOR
Creators: name: Napasintuwong, Orachos
name: Emerson, Robert D.
name: Napasintuwong, Orachos
name: Emerson, Robert D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: The Morishima elasticity of substitution (MES) is estimated to address factor substitutability in Florida agriculture during 1960-1999. By adopting a profit maximization model of induced innovation theory, the MES's between hired and self-employed labor and the MES's between labor and capital provide implications for future immigration policies.