cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Une pièce de résistance: Übersetzt, verdeckt, untergründig
Creators: name: Böttger, Claudia
name: Bührig, Kristin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Mit dem Stück Les amants du métro (1954) (dt. Übersetzung. Die Liebenden aus der Untergrundbahn) des Lyrikers, Dramatikers und französischen Übersetzers von Hölderlin und Goethe, Jean Tardieu (1903-1995) soll im folgenden ein französischer Text und seine deutsche Übersetzung als potentieller Gegenstand für den Unterricht von Deutsch als Fremdsprache betrachtet werden. In dem Stück erfahren verschiedene Aspekte der sprachlichen Kommunikation eine spezifische Verfremdung bzw. eine besondere Ausprägung, die als Ansatzpunkt für einen Einsatz im Unterricht dienen können. Nach einer Skizze einiger sprachlich-kommunikativer Charakteristika der Dialoge sei in aller Kürze die sprachvergleichende Untersuchung von Sprechakten sowie deren Nutzung in der Übersetzungsforschung dargestellt, um den Ansatzpunkt für unsere Überlegungen darzulegen. Ein exemplarischer Vergleich einer Szene des Stücks im französischen Original und ihrer deutschen Übersetzung dient dem Aufspüren sprachspezifischer Besonderheiten, die im Unterricht ebenfalls behandelt werden können.
Thermal emission from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the low/hard state
Creators: name: Reis, R. C.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the detection of a thermal-disk component from the stellar-mass black hole binary XTE J1118+480 in the canonical low/hard state. The presence of a thermal component with a temperature of approximately 0.21keV in the Chandra spectra of XTE J1118+480 is found at more than the 14 sigma confidence level. Based on this evidence we argue that the accretion disk in XTE J1118+480 is not truncated far from the central black hole in contrast with previous claims.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 5 pages, 5 figures
Disphosphopyridine nucleotide-nitrate reductase in Beta vulgaris L.
Creators: name: Yang, Kuan Jen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A soluble DPNH-nitrate reductase (NRase) of the sugar beet has been purified and characterized. The occurrence of NO₂⁻ as an end product and the insensitivity of the enzyme to oxygen indicate that the sugar beet NRase is of the nitrate assimilation type. The enzyme was not associated with any cell particle and all NRase activity present in the homogenate of sugar beet leaves was recovered in the 20,000 x g supernatant. A sixtyfold purification was accomplished by ammonium sulfate precipitation followed by adsorption on calcium phosphate gel. At room temperatures and higher the enzyme was heat labile, but was relatively stable at -15°C. Dialysis at 4° C. did not result in an appreciable loss of activity. The optimum pH was 7.0. The NRase was sensitive to heavy metal inhibitors but it was not possible to show that Mo was the specific prosthetic metal. It was demonstrated, however, that chemically reduced Mo could serve as an electron donor. Thus Mo may be a cofactor for the enzyme. The reversal of p-chloromercuribenzoate inhibition by the sulfhydryl reagents glutathione and cysteine, coupled with strong inhibition by iodoacetate and cupric sulfate indicated the sulfhydryl nature of the enzyme. The partially purified NRase was stimulated to a considerably greater degree by FAD than by FMN. Rf values and co-chromatography in different solvents showed that a substance liberated from the enzyme preparation by acid and heat was not riboflavin or FMN but very probably was FAD. It is suggested that, in common with other assimilatory NRases of higher plants, the flavin nucleotide prosthetic group of sugar beet NRase is FAD. The presence of two NRases in the sugar beet was indicated by the fact that the crude "enzyme" was stimulated to the same extent by the addition of DPNH or TPNH, that the ratio of activities resulting from the addition of the two pyridine nucleotides changed with the degree of purity of the enzyme, and that the enzyme finally obtained by calcium phosphate gel adsorption and elution was DPNH-specific. That purification was not complete was shown by the presence of DPNH-quinone reductase and DPNH-cytochrome c reductase activity in the NRase preparation. A low NRase activity and a high nitrate content were measured in sugar beet leaves during growth in darkness. The reverse occurred in light. It is suggested that the diurnal variation in NRase activity may be the result of the fall of leaf tissue pH during darkness and its rise to approximate the enzyme's optimum pH in light. The possible participation of the NRase in a flavin nucleotide-catalyzed enzymatic photoreduction of nitrate was indicated by the coupling of photoreduction of FAD with the reduction of nitrate by NRase.
Age similarity and humility: reducing resistance to persuasion
Creators: name: Wright, Felicia F.J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: The present study examined the persuasiveness of tone of voice and age similarity on belief-consistent and belief-inconsistent information. People accept information that is consistent with their beliefs but are resistant to information that contradicts their beliefs. Research has demonstrated that language can influence opinions of others and age similarity has been found to increase likeability. Participants who identified as either pro-choice or pro-life were presented with a blog that: supported or opposed their views, was presented in a humble or arrogant tone and the source was either age similar or age dissimilar. Tone of voice influenced source credibility and argument quality but not overall persuasiveness. Age similarity did not produce any main effects but did produce an interaction with belief-consistency in regards to persuadability. Findings suggest that tone of voice can serve as a buffer to belief-inconsistent information and future research of voice tone and age similarity is discussed.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2012.
Irrigation on Western Farms
Creators: name: Swarner, L. R.
name: Et Al. [+6]
name: Swarner, L. R.
name: Et Al. [+6]
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpt from the report Foreword: Conservation of irrigation water through proper handling is becoming more and more important as demands on our water supplies increase. Water management is equally important whether it is in the project system, in farm ditches or on the land. During the past 15 years, better and easier methods of water application have been developed. They are based on research and have been tested by irrigation farmers in the West. The purpose of "Irrigation on Western Farms" is to introduce these new or improved methods and to help you apply them.
Teaching the sex industry: content analysis of sex work and pornography in U.S. introductory women?s studies textbooks
Creators: name: Vann, Mary Catherine
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: Sex work and pornography are important topics of study within U.S. feminism and Women?s Studies. This study uses ten Introduction to Women?s Studies textbooks that are currently being used in U.S. classrooms to analyze the coverage of sex work and pornography within them. Textbooks were coded based on the presentation of multiple feminist debates on these issues and the integration of these issues into the text. The way these topics are being discussed is critiqued and analyzed for their implications on teaching the sex industry within the feminist classroom. This study highlights the lack of coverage among the textbooks in the sample, the marginalization of pornography and sex work from other contexts of media and labor, and provides recommendations for future textbooks and educators.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2012.
Mutual information via thermodynamics: Three different approaches
Creators: name: Peleg, Yitzhak
name: Efraim, Hadar
name: Shental, Ori
name: Kanter, Ido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three different approaches to derive mutual information via thermodynamics are presented where the temperature-dependent energy is given by: (a) $β\mathcal{E} = -\ln[P(X,Y)]$, (b) $β\mathcal{E} =-\ln[P(Y|X)]$ or (c) $β\mathcal{E} =-\ln[P(X|Y)]$. All approaches require the extension of the traditional physical framework and the modification of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. A realization of a physical system with an effective temperature-dependent Hamiltonian is discussed followed by a suggestion of a physical information-heat engine.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Electronic Supplementary Material_2 from A purely visual adaptation to motion can differentiate between perceptual timing and interval timing
Creators: name: Bruno, Aurelio
name: Segala, Federico G.
name: Baker, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Figure S1
Optimality Properties of a Proposed Precursor to the Genetic Code
Creators: name: Butler, Thomas
name: Goldenfeld, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We calculate the optimality of a doublet precursor to the canonical genetic code with respect to mitigating the effects of point mutations and compare our results to corresponding ones for the canonical genetic code. We find that the proposed precursor has much less optimality than that of the canonical code. Our results render unlikely the notion that the doublet precursor was an intermediate state in the evolution of the canonical genetic code. These findings support the notion that code optimality reflects evolutionary dynamics, and that if such a doublet code originally had a biochemical significance, it arose before the emergence of translation.
title: Shaken and Stirred: Language in Film in a Cross-cultural Perspective
Creators: name: Baumgarten, Nicole
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In this paper I want to shed a little light on the role of language in film - or film dialogue - from the perspective of applied linguistics. I believe this is potentially relevant for such areas as foreign language teaching, intercultural pragmatic competence and contrastive pragmatics. The paper is structured as follows: firstly, I will briefly describe what I perceive to be the function of the feature film in educational settings, particularly in schools and universities. Secondly, I will outline the nature of language in film and the relevance of multi-modal linguistic analyses of film dialogue and their translations for the areas of applied linguistics mentioned above. To demonstrate this potential, I will then present and discuss some examples of a contrastive analysis of an English film text and its German dubbed version with respect to cross-cultural communicative preferences, and notions of cultural specificity regarding English and German.
20201117 ASSESSORIA EMPRESARIAL IFRS CONTRIBUI CMC JTMCR
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, J.T.M.C.
name: FONTOURA, D. S.
name: PALMA, L.C.
name: PEREIRA, M.L.
name: ESTEVES, P.S
name: WACHS, P.
name: MIGOWSKI, S.A.
name: DALDON, A.
name: LEAL, D.R.
name: ALEXANDRE, D.
name: ROSA, K.E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Assessoria empresarial, IFRS Contribui, IFRS, COVID-19

description: Relatório de assessoria de gestão realizada através do Projeto IFRS Contribui, uma iniciativa multicampi do IFRS que presta assessoria gratuita para micro e pequenas empresas que enfrentaram dificuldades devido a Covid-19.
Nonlinear gyrofluid computation of edge localised ideal ballooning modes
Creators: name: Kendl, A.
name: Scott, B. D.
name: Ribeiro, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three dimensional electromagnetic gyrofluid simulations of the ideal ballooning mode blowout scenario for tokamak edge localized modes (ELMs) are presented. Special emphasis is placed on energetic diagnosis, examining changes in the growth rate in the linear, overshoot, and decay phases. The saturation process is energy transfer to self generated edge turbulence which exhibits an ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode structure. Convergence in the decay phase is found only if the spectrum reaches the ion gyroradius. The equilibrium is a self consistent background whose evolution is taken into account. Approximately two thirds of the total energy in the edge layer is liberated in the blowout. Parameter dependence with respect to plasma pressure and the ion gyroradius is studied. Despite the violent nature of the short-lived process, the transition to nonlinearity is very similar to that found in generic tokamak edge turbulence.
description: The following article has been submitted to Physics of Plasmas. After it is published, it will be found at http://pop.aip.org/
The new peer-to-peer reputation-based trust model: the Resource Chain Model
Creators: name: Lee, Sinjae
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks)

description: Trust-reputation controlling mechanism, as an active self-controlling method is especially useful to automatically record, analyze and even adjust peers? reputation trust credibility among the different peers so that the system can adjust itself according to the credibility changes. This kind of self-adjusting system is suitable for the anonymous, dynamic and variable P2P environment. Using the Resource Chain Model, the new P2P reputation-based trust model, we can find the best resource location both effectively and efficiently while maintaining the system security. The goal of this dissertation is to find whether the model can increase the successful download rate when the number of transactions and the number of malicious nodes are increasing. The study?s results show that RCM improved the performance. Thus, this approach enables one to find a better solution to find the best resource chain in a P2P community.
description: (D.Sc.) -- Towson University, 2008. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
Synthetic alkaloid enzymology: next-generation production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and nutrichemicals
Creators: name: Wong, Wei Jie Garrett
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: One of the grand themes in the field of synthetic biology is the promise of the development of the tools that will help facilitate the global transition towards a renewable and sustainable bio-based economy. One such step towards that sustainable future is the use of microbial cell factories for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and nutraceuticals. In this line, the commercial production of the ergot alkaloids and their semi-synthetic derivatives is one such avenue that is appropriately poised to be improved on by being produced by microbial cell factories. Ergot alkaloids have throughout history been known for their potent biological effects. These properties have been extensively exploited in the development of the semi-synthetic derivatives that are used in the treatments for Parkinsonism and dementia, amongst many others. Their production, however, is limited by the difficulty in the cultivation of the parasitic ergot fungi. This thesis thus describes the progressive effort made to heterologously reconstitute the ergot alkaloid pathway to the main ergoline therapeutic precursor, D-lysergic acid, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Fundamental to this work is the adaptation of a Golden Gate-based cloning methodology, which would enable the easy and rapid assembly of customizable expression cassettes, and that is compatible with automation. Finally, this work presents for the first time, the development of a prototype yeast strain that before any extensive strain or bioprocess optimization, is capable of producing up to 71.5 μg/L of D-lysergic acid. This demonstration lays the groundwork for a more efficient commercial production method, as well as a platform for the discovery of novel ergot alkaloid therapeutics.
Combating socio-spatial polarization in a globalizing environment: a textual analysis of the tension between pro-growth and pro-poor policies in the housing plan of Cape Town, South Africa
Creators: name: Strong, Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Cities across the developing world are caught between the demands of growth-oriented  globalization and pro-poor policies aimed to improve the livelihoods of impoverished residents. For world cities, like Cape Town, the dynamics of world city formation, especially the impact of socio-spatial polarization, complicates the relationship between growth and redistribution. Cape Town?s legacy as an apartheid city further exacerbates the situation. Cape Town?s government believes it can achieve both a growth agenda and a redistribution agenda to overcome the segregation inherited from the apartheid era while dealing with the socio-spatial polarization that occurs during world city formation. A textual analysis of the language used in the city?s Integrated Development Plan and Integrated Housing Plan, however, shows the city favors growth over redistribution.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2012.
title: Macro- and Micro-level Approaches to Translated Texts -Methodological Contradictions or Mutually Enriching Perspectives?
Creators: name: Steiner, Erich
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: The journal Target recently hosted a methodological debate on “essentialist vs. nonessentialist approaches to translation” (cf. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. 12:1-13:2), in the course of which several basic methodological orientations in translation studies and related areas were discussed. I shall set out by reminding us that the debate between “essentialism” and “non-essentialism” can be understood as yet another instantiation of a wider debate between “macro-level/top down” and “micro-level/bottom up” methodologies in many disciplines concerned with socio-cultural and socio-semiotic phenomena. I wish to argue that the continuing existence of these different methodological orientations is partly due to the fact that the socio-cultural and socio-semiotic phenomena in question are themselves structured into layers of abstraction, instantiation and specification, related in complex ways by both top-down and bottom-up processes. There is thus nothing wrong or intrinsically worrying about the existence of different methodological orientations, provided that research communities working on these different layers still have enough of a shared concept of discourse, and are thus able to transmit their discourses across layers. I shall argue that a cornerstone of this shared concept of discourse has to be a general concern with how (translated and otherwise interlingual) texts work, this concern being logically and methodologically prior to a concern with the further questions why and with what effects texts function. The question of what translation is can be very differently answered from different perspectives, but here as well, the question of how should be at the centre of a shared concern in studies of translation. I shall then go on to identify what I believe to be helpful, and what I believe to be less helpful contributions to methodological debates between macro- and microlevel approaches to translated texts. I shall generally warn against the extremes of top-down abstract discourses which are not checked against any empirical data on the one hand, and against excessive bottom-up empiricism which disregards the fact that after all we are concerned with a meaningful object (text) on the other. I shall thus argue that at its very heart, the (translated and otherwise interlingual) text is a linguistic, or otherwise multimodallysemiotic, object, and that our methodologies have to maintain contact with their linguistic, and more broadly semiotic, base. Recent work by Juliane House will be discussed as an example of a positive integration of macro- and micro-level approaches.
Electroencephalographic markers of vestibular adaptation and heading perception
Creators: name: Cooke, Josephine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Background When given a series of sinusoidal oscillations in which the two hemicycles have equal amplitude but asymmetric velocity, healthy subjects lose perception of the slower hemicycle (SHC), reporting a drift towards the faster hemicycle (FHC). This adaptive “neglect” is not reflected in the vestibular-ocular reflex, suggesting that the adaptation is higher-order. Our study aimed to define EEG markers of this perceptual shift. It was hypothesised that the adaptation would be reflected in modulation of parieto-occipital alpha and beta rhythms and strength of frontoparietal networks. Methods Twenty-five subjects underwent a series of whole-body symmetric or asymmetric oscillations. Subjects reported their perceived final head orientation using landmarks in the testing room; this was converted into total position error (TPE). Thirty-two channel EEG was recorded before, during, and after the adaptation period. Spectral power was calculated for the alpha, beta, delta, and theta frequency bands in discrete epochs (cycles) corresponding to each oscillation. Linear mixed models were used to determine a region-by-condition effect of the adaptation. Coherence was analysed using a network-based statistic. Main Findings TPE was significantly greater in the asymmetric condition, always in the direction of the FHC. VOR did not adapt across cycles. An initial desynchronisation was noted in the alpha band, followed by a rebound toward baseline values within a few cycles; this persisted into the post-adaptation period. Rate of alpha resynchronisation was accelerated and attenuated in prefrontal and occipital regions, respectively, for the asymmetric condition only. Functional connectivity networks, primarily comprised of frontoparietal connections, were identified in the beta and delta frequency bands; these networks were stronger during asymmetric stimulation. Conclusions These findings show that the adaptive “neglect” induced by asymmetric vestibular stimulation is associated with modulation of alpha rhythms and frontoparietal networks. The novel results presented here further our understanding of vestibular adaptation during heading perception.
Aprende a gestionar tus referencias bibliográficas con Mendeley
Creators: name: Axcel Catalán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentación del taller "Aprende a gestionar tus referencias bibliográficas con Mendeley"

Objetivos:

Comprender la importancia de una gestión de referencias efectiva

Aprender a utilizar Mendeley para organizar y citar referencias.

Conocer consejos y trucos para optimizar la gestión de referencias.
SN 2008ha: An Extremely Low Luminosity and Extremely Low Energy Supernova
Creators: name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Chornock, Ryan
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Ganeshalingam, Mohan
name: Kirshner, Robert P.
name: Li, Weidong
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Challis, Pete
name: Friedman, Andrew S.
name: Modjaz, Maryam
name: Silverman, Jeffrey M.
name: Wood-Vasey, W. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared photometry as well as optical spectra of the peculiar supernova (SN) 2008ha. SN 2008ha had a very low peak luminosity, reaching only M_V = -14.2 mag, and low line velocities of only ~2000 km/s near maximum brightness, indicating a very small kinetic energy per unit mass of ejecta. Spectroscopically, SN 2008ha is a member of the SN 2002cx-like class of SNe, a peculiar subclass of SNe Ia; however, SN 2008ha is the most extreme member, being significantly fainter and having lower line velocities than the typical member, which is already ~2 mag fainter and has line velocities ~5000 km/s smaller (near maximum brightness) than a normal SN Ia. SN 2008ha had a remarkably short rise time of only ~10 days, significantly shorter than either SN 2002cx-like objects (~15 days) or normal SNe Ia (~19.5 days). The bolometric light curve of SN 2008ha indicates that SN 2008ha peaked at L_peak = (9.5 +/- 1.4) x 10^40 ergs/s, making SN 2008ha perhaps the least luminous SN ever observed. From its peak luminosity and rise time, we infer that SN 2008ha generated (3.0 +/- 0.9) x 10^-3 M_sun of 56Ni, had a kinetic energy of ~2 x 10^48 ergs, and ejected 0.15 M_sun of material. We classify three new (and one potential) members of the SN 2002cx-like class, expanding the sample to 14 (and one potential) members. The host-galaxy morphology distribution of the class is consistent with that of SNe Ia, Ib, Ic, and II. Several models for generating low-luminosity SNe can explain the observations of SN 2008ha; however, if a single model is to describe all SN 2002cx-like objects, either electron capture in Ne-Mg white dwarfs causing a core collapse, or deflagration of C-O white dwarfs with SN 2008ha being a partial deflagration and not unbinding the progenitor star, are preferred. Abridged.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures, submitted to AJ
Catalog of Radio Galaxies with z>0.3. III: Angular Sizes and Flux Density According to the NVSS Data
Creators: name: Khabibullina, M. L.
name: Verkhodanov, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the procedure of the construction of a sample of distant ($z>0.3$) radio galaxies using the NED, CATS and SDSS databases for further use in various statistical tests. We believe the sample to be free of objects with quasar properties. This paper is the third part of the description of the radio galaxies catalog that we plan to use for cosmological tests. We report the results of the sample of angular sizes for the NVSS survey list objects, and its preliminary statistical analysis. Three-parameter diagrams "angular size-redshift-flux density" and "angular size-redshift-spectral index", and their two-parameter projections are constructed. Three subsamples of radio galaxies are separated in the "source size--flux density" diagram.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
title: Replik auf die in der Ausgabe 7/2 der Zeitschrift für interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht erschienene Rezension seines Buches Kulturverstehen. Grundprobleme einer epistemologischen Theorie der Kulturalität und kulturellen Erkenntnis von Claus Altmayr
Creators: name: Göller, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In der letzten Ausgabe dieser Zeitschrift von September 2002 ist eine Rezension meines Buches Kulturverstehen. Grundprobleme einer epistemologischen Theorie der Kulturalität und kulturellen Erkenntnis erschienen, die Claus Altmayer verfasst hat. Er kommt dabei nicht nur zu einem durch und durch positiven Gesamturteil über mein Buch, sondern betont abschließend auch, dass es „jedem, der sich mit den auch für die Fremdsprachenwissen- schaften so bedeutsamen Fragen des Kulturverstehens und des (inter)kulturellen Lernens beschäftigt, nachdrücklich empfohlen“ (S. 6) sei. Mag ein solches Urteil für sich genommen – nicht zuletzt auch für den Autor – hocherfreulich sein, so stimmt die Rezension dennoch in ihren kritischen Punkten bedenklich. Das liegt vor allem daran, dass der Rezensent meint, Einwände gegen mich vorbringen zu müssen, die nachweislich nichts mit meiner Position zu tun haben. Aus diesem Grunde, und auch damit bei potentiellen LeserInnen kein verzerrter oder gar falscher Eindruck meines Buches entsteht, habe ich mich zu dieser Replik entschlossen, die sich lediglich auf die wichtigsten Punkte beschränkt:
title: Die Auswahl grammatischer Lernziele: Linguistische, psycholinguistische und didaktische Perspektiven
Creators: name: Schlak, Torsten
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Bestimmung grammatischer Lernziele gehört sicher nicht zu den Modethemen der fremdsprachendidaktischen Diskussion. Dennoch bleibt diese Thematik insofern aktuell, als Lehrende wie Lehrmaterialentwickler in ihrer alltäglichen Praxis fortwährend damit konfrontiert werden, (grammatische) Lernprogressionen erarbeiten und die (grammatischen) Inhalte für ihren Unterricht planen zu müssen. Hinzu kommt, daß die Auswahl derjenigen grammatischen Phänomene, auf die in Unterricht und Unterrichtsplanung explizit eingegangen werden soll, ein weitaus komplexeres Problem darstellt, als man annehmen könnte. Verschiedene Faktoren sind hier relevant und sollen im folgenden diskutiert werden:
Phase-controlled integrated photonic quantum circuits
Creators: name: Smith, Brian J.
name: Kundys, Dmytro
name: Thomas-Peter, Nicholas
name: Smith, P. G. R.
name: Walmsley, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalable photonic quantum technologies are based on multiple nested interferometers. To realize this architecture, integrated optical structures are needed to ensure stable, controllable, and repeatable operation. Here we show a key proof-of-principle demonstration of an externally-controlled photonic quantum circuit based upon UV-written waveguide technology. In particular, we present non-classical interference of photon pairs in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed with X couplers in an integrated optical circuit with a thermo-optic phase shifter in one of the interferometer arms.
description: Published version with minor changes
The effects of acoustically modified speech tests on the speech perception abilities of individuals with sensorineural hearing loss
Creators: name: Butler, Cortney A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Audiologists determine the maximum speech perception abilities of individuals with hearing loss in order to accurately evaluate speech understanding and estimate communication impairment, assess the need for amplification, authenticate hearing aid benefit, and provide audiologic rehabilitation and counseling. In the current study, word and sentence tests were acoustically-modified to see if individuals with flat or sloping mild to moderately-severe SNHL performed better in the modified conditions versus the unmodified condition. Mid- and high-frequency energy was added into NU-6 word lists and HINT sentence lists using three different filter conditions (2 dB/octave, 5 dB/octave, and 8 dB/octave) and a cutoff frequency of 1000 Hz to account for the USOM by low frequency speech sounds. Results from 28 participants revealed statistically-significant improvements in WRS and RTS scores between the unmodified NU-6 and HINT lists to the acoustically-modified lists. It was determined that the acoustically-modified speech stimuli provided additional mid- to high-frequency energy and therefore reduced the USOM, which allows for the most accurate measurement of speech perception abilities and prediction of aided benefit for individuals with SNHL.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Low value care in surgery
Creators: name: Malik, Humza Tariq
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Background Value has been defined as the ratio of quality outcomes to cost. Perfect value would represent infinitely beneficial outcomes associated with minimal costs. Of interest to the present study are interventions where outcomes are minimal, and costs may be high as they may provide an opportunity for disinvestment, improving the overall value of care whilst providing efficiency gains. Methods A Scoping Narrative Review was performed in order to understand incumbent approaches towards dealing with low value care. International lessons from different processes were identified and encompassed into a conceptual logic orientated framework for de-adoption. To identify low value care in surgery a Systematic review of peer reviewed high-level literature was performed to identify candidate interventions for de-adoption. Subsequently a granular assessment of the behaviour of passive de-adoption was performed through a retrospective longitudinal observational study based upon administrative hospital data. Results A comprehensive conceptual model that takes an integrated approach to de-adoption was assembled from lessons learnt when dealing with low value care previously. It identified three stages in the de-adoption cycle which are necessary for success: identification, implementation and re-evaluation. Each process should be performed at multiple planes: national (macro), local (meso) and provider / patient (micro) levels in order to have a holistic effect. The identification of low value interventions may be from exploring peer reviewed literature, as demonstrated from the systematic review or exploring geographical variation of care. Said review identified 71 low value procedures, of which 5 interventions which carried the highest economic burden were postulated to cost the health system £135 million per annum. Subsequent granular review identified that passive levers have not resulted in de-adoption of a surgical low value interventions – e.g. delayed cholecystectomy. This is due to the presence of exnovator providers whom are concurrently de-adopting innovative interventions as other providers are adopting them. Conclusions Low value care represents a significant burden in the current health service. This thesis has evaluated its incidence and economic burden in general surgery. Service transformation is necessary and may be achieved through the holistic integrated approach recommended here. Policy makers have already sought this novel information and encompassed it into national policy, with the objective of achieving higher value care through effective de-adoption.
Eyewitness memory: effects of social pressure and gender on memory conformity
Creators: name: Schwartz, Elana
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Literature demonstrates that a group discussion influences memory conformity and that misleading information is usually adopted into subsequent individual reports. The current study hypothesizes that social pressure to respond in a certain way among opposite gender group members will result in the adoption of more incorrect information about an event. A 2 (participant gender) x 2 (confederate gender) x 2 (information type) design was used. Sessions were conducted in groups of three (2 confederates and 1 participant). The group watched a video, completed filler tasks, had a discussion about the video, answered questions about the video and wrote an individual account. Statistically significant results were found for confederate gender and information condition. No statistically significant results were found for participant gender or the interactions hypothesized. These results demonstrate that memory conformity may occur when misleading information is introduced by other co-witnesses, which has important implications for eyewitness testimony.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2012.
title: Lernbeschleunigung - Bedingungen und Schritte zur Realisierung
Creators: name: Kurtz, Gunde
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Lernbeschleunigung ist kein unseriöses Versprechen auf „Turbolearning" mit Hokuspokus, sondern ein durch entsprechende Vorgehensweise realisierbares Ziel. Die Vorgehensweise betrifft zunächst allgemeine Bedingungen (1), dann die Konkretisierung in sprachlernbezogene Einheiten und Ziele (2) und darin (2.1, 2.2) deren Realisierung in Schritten der Themen-, Material- und Methodenauswahl und Zusammenstellung. Zum Schluss stehen einige für die Möglichkeiten der Lernbeschleunigung ermutigende Forschungsergebnisse (3).
Comment on ``Exact three-dimensional wave function and the on-shell t matrix for the sharply cut-off Coulomb potential: Failure of the standard renormalization factor''
Creators: name: Popov, Yuri V.
name: Kouzakov, Konstantin A.
name: Shablov, Vladimir L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solutions analytically derived by Gloeckle et al. [Phys. Rev. C79, 044003 (2009)] for the three-dimensional wave function and on-shell t matrix in the case of scattering on a sharply cut-off Coulomb potential appear to be fallacious. And their renormalization factor lacks mathematical grounds.
description: 5 pages
title: Rezension: KURTZ, JÜRGEN (2001) Improvisierendes Sprechen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Eine Untersuchung zur Entwicklung spontansprachlicher Handlungskompetenz in der Zielsprache
Creators: name: Kurtz, Gunde
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Diese Untersuchung (und Habilitationsschrift) des Englischlehrers und Sprachlehrforschers Jürgen Kurtz fordert und belegt: - Im Zentrum des (Sprachlehr-)Forscherinteresses soll die Verzahnung von Theorie und Praxis stehen, denn ohne ernsthafte Einbeziehung der Praxis bleibt die Theorie auf diesem Gebiet völlig wirkungslos. - Im Zentrum des (Sprach)-Lehrerinteresses soll nicht der Lerner sondern die Lerngruppe stehen, denn Spracherwerb, besonders der gesprochenen Sprache, entsteht nur durch Kommunikation und die findet in Gruppen statt, nicht im ‚Lerner‘. - Improvisation ist ein geeignetes Mittel auf dem Weg zu fremdsprachlicher Sprachhandlungskompetenz, da Improvisieren, spontanes Reagieren, für die tatsächliche alltägliche Wirklichkeitsbewältigung unverzichtbare Grundlage ist.
Renormalization of Coulomb interaction in graphene: computing observable quantities
Creators: name: de Juan, Fernando
name: Grushin, Adolfo G.
name: Vozmediano, Maria A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the computation of physical observables in graphene in the presence of Coulomb interactions of density-density type modeled with a static Coulomb potential within a quantum field theory perturbative renormalization scheme. We show that all the divergences encountered in the physical quantities are associated to the one loop electron self-energy and can be determined without ambiguities by a proper renormalization of the Fermi velocity. The renormalization of the photon polarization to second order in perturbation theory - a quantity directly related to the optical conductivity - is given as an example.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
title: Rezension: HERDINA, PHILIP & JESSNER, ULRIKE (2002) A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism. Perspectives of Change in Psycholinguistics
Creators: name: Bensoussan, Marsha
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: This is a book whose time has come. A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism (DMM henceforth) by Herdina and Jessner sets for itself several ambitious purposes: to provide a new model and a new set of concepts for the interpretation of psycholinguistic phenomena observed in speakers of more than one language; to provide a convincing and useful model or metaphor which should enable us to think about a multitude of seemingly contradictory and confusing phenomena related to multilingualism in a more coherent and cogent way; to determine the relations among various factors within the language systems, and to make predictions concerning the typical development of these variables; to provide an innovative theoretical framework in which it is possible to ask meaningful questions concerning multilingual development and obtain more satisfactory answers to the plethora of questions surrounding multilingualism as a psycholinguistic phenomenon with sociolinguistic consequences.
The kinetics of carbon monoxide absorption in basic solutions at elevated temperature
Creators: name: McDonald, Robert Douglas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: . The kinetics of the absorption of carbon monoxide by basic solutions was studied at 80°C and carbon monoxide pressures up to 30 atmospheres. The reaction was followed by the rate of decrease of carbon monoxide pressure in a closed system. The observed kinetics in potassium hydroxide solutions yield a rate law of the form (formula omitted) No influence from Li⁺, Na⁺, K⁺ ions was detected and no catalytic effect from Ag(I),- Cu(II), T1(I), N0₃⁻, Mn0₄⁻ was observed. The kinetics are consistent with a mechanism which includes the insertion of a carbon monoxide molecule into the hydroxyl bond,viz. (formula omitted) The rate-controlling step above 90°C was found to be the mass transfer of carbon monoxide from the gas phase into the liquid phase under the conditions involved in this study.
Fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Gu, Shi-Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review briefly the quantum fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions in a pedagogical manner. We try to relate all established but scattered results on the leading term of the fidelity into a systematic theoretical framework, which might provide an alternative paradigm for understanding quantum critical phenomena. The definition of the fidelity and the scaling behavior of its leading term, as well as their explicit applications to the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model and the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, are introduced at the graduate-student level. In addition, we survey also other types of fidelity approach, such as the fidelity per site, reduced fidelity, thermal-state fidelity, operator fidelity, etc; as well as relevant works on the fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions occurring in various many-body systems.
description: 41 pages, 31 figures. We apologize if we omit acknowledging your relevant works. Do tell. An updated version with clearer figures can be found at: http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/~sjgu/fidelitynote.pdf
Self-amplifying RNA vaccine development: transcriptomic profiling of a Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus self-amplifying RNA vector in human muscle
Creators: name: Barton, Rachel Dawn
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Next-generation RNA constructs are emerging as exciting new platforms for both vaccination and therapeutic applications. The last few years have seen the first mRNA vaccines licensed for use in humans and the first-in-human clinical trial of a self-amplifying RNA vaccine. With their short time-to-market, rapid manufacture, low cost, and ultra-low dosage, saRNA vaccines are potentially a game-changer when it comes to dealing with novel disease outbreaks. Whilst the pre-clinical testing of a VEEV-derived saRNA vaccine yielded robust neutralisation and 100% seroconversion, the results from the first-in-human trial were notably more muted, with poor neutralisation and failure to induce 100% seroconversion. Our aim, therefore, was to investigate why humans and mice respond so differently to the VEEV saRNA construct; we hypothesised that there is a difference in the innate immune responses to saRNA in the cells that are responsible for taking up saRNA and synthesising antigen at the site of injection, i.e. muscle tissue. To investigate this, we used a transcriptomics approach to characterise the response of human muscle cells to VEEV saRNA and compared it with the transcriptomic changes seen in murine muscle cells. We observed that both human and mouse muscle cells produce a robust innate immune response to VEEV saRNA; however, there were several notable differences. Murine cells elevated the expression of cytokines and chemokines to a far greater extent than human muscle cells, while the expression of IRF7, a key transcription factor for orchestrating the antiviral response, was markedly higher in humans. Overall, these results indicate that there are distinct differences in the way that human cells react to saRNA compared to murine cells and that this should be taken into account when designing and testing saRNA vaccines in the future.
Behind bars: using perspective-taking to improve behavior of motorists towards cyclists
Creators: name: Arayata, Charles J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: This study's purpose was to test two possible interventions framed within the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1991) that may improve motorists' attitudes towards cyclists, as well as motorists' intentions to improve their on-road behavior around cyclists. A 2x2 factorial design was used, with participants randomly assigned to either read commercial vehicle laws or bicycle laws, and either watch a traffic camera video, or a first-person bicyclist crash video. Participants then completed a measure of their attitudes and intentions during the lab session and again approximately two weeks later. It was expected that participants who read the bicycle legislation information and also watched the crash video would show the most improved attitudes and intentions to behave after the lab session relative to control; however, no significant effect of either manipulation was found. Further refinements would include a more multi-faceted approach to the Theory of Planned Behavior.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.