cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THE USE OF THERAPEUTIC METAPHOR TO PRODUCE BEHAVIOR CHANGE (PROCRASTINATION, ERICKSON)
Creators: name: Hurley, Linda K.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the usefulness of therapeutic metaphor, a technique for which Milton Erickson was known, in producing behavior change. Female undergraduates with chronic, severe procrastination problems served as the target population for this study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups (Therapeutic Metaphor, Irrelevant Metaphor, Measurement-only Control) and completed a series of questionnaires (Procrastination Log, Procrastination Inventory). The questionnaires were self-report, Likert-scale measures of subjects' procrastination behavior and satisfaction with that behavior during the previous week, and self-reported attitudes about their perceived controllability of, and expectations of changing, their procrastination. Subjects in the experimental groups listened to a tape-recorded therapeutic or irrelevant metaphor, and then completed a Story-recall Questionnaire. At two-week and four-week follow-up sessions, subjects completed the same questionnaires as before. It was hypothesized that subjects in the Therapeutic Metaphor group would report significantly less procrastination behavior and would report greater satisfaction with their behavior than would subjects in the Irrelevant Metaphor or Control groups. This hypothesis was not confirmed, as analyses of variance indicated that subjects in all groups improved equally over time. The hypothesis that Therapeutic Metaphor group subjects would indicate greater expectations of changing and greater controllability of their procrastination than the other subjects was not supported. The results of this study do not support the use of therapeutic metaphor as a method of producing behavior change. Suggestions for future research, particularly with single-subject designs, are included.
Inflammasome Activation Mediates Apoptotic and Pyroptotic Death in Astrocytes Under Ischemic Conditions
Creators: name: Wong, LJ
name: Lee, BWL
name: Sng, YJ
name: Poh, L
name: Rajeev, Vismitha
name: Selvaraji, S
name: Drummond, Grant
name: Sobey, Christopher
name: Arumugam, Thiruma
name: Fann, DY
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310102
subject: Cell development, proliferation and death
classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases

description: Inflammation is a hallmark mechanism of ischemic stroke-induced brain injury. Recent studies have shown that an intracellular multimeric protein complex known as an inflammasome is a key factor for inducing an inflammatory response, and apoptotic and pyroptotic cell death in ischemic stroke. Inflammasome assembly leads to the activation of pro-inflammatory caspases, and the maturation and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18. While the role of inflammasomes in ischemic stroke-induced neuronal death, and microglial activation and cell death have been established, little is known about the role of inflammasomes in astrocytes under ischemic conditions. In this study, we investigated the expression and activation of inflammasome components in protoplasmic and fibrous astrocytes under ischemic conditions. We found that both protoplasmic and fibrous astrocytes expressed a differential increase in inflammasome protein components, and that their activation promoted maturation of IL-1β and IL-18, and secretion of IL-1β, as well as initiating apoptotic and pyroptotic cell death. Pharmacological inhibition of caspase-1 decreased expression of cleaved caspase-1 and production of mature IL-1β, and protected against inflammasome-mediated apoptotic and pyroptotic cell death. Overall, this study provides novel insights into the role of inflammasome signaling in astrocytes under ischemic conditions.
Implications for teaching becoming a "Masters" led profession; a phenomenographic study of the attitude of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) towards the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL)
Creators: name: Wooff, David
name: Irving-Bell, Dawne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori)
subject: 130106 Secondary Education

description: This work presents the findings of a phenomenographic study into the attitudes of Newly Qualified Teacher’s (NQTs) relating to their experience of the Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL). The work is presented as a means to aid discourse around attitudes towards a funded, classroom-based Master’s degree.
Growth of genuine multipartite entanglement in random unitary circuits
Creators: name: Bera, Anindita
name: Roy, Sudipto Singha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the growth of genuine multipartite entanglement in random quantum circuit models, which include random unitary circuit models and the random Clifford circuit. We find that for the random Clifford circuit, the growth of multipartite entanglement remains slower in comparison to the random unitary case. However, the final saturation value of multipartite entanglement is almost the same in both cases. The behavior is then compared to the genuine multipartite entanglement obtained in random matrix product states with a moderately high bond dimension. We then relate the behavior of multipartite entanglement to other global properties of the system, viz. the delocalization of the many-body wavefunctions in Hilbert space. Along with this, we analyze the robustness of such highly entangled quantum states obtained through random unitary dynamics under weak measurements.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, close to the published version
The varying openness of Open Access publishing in the light of globally inclusive research equity
Creators: name: Havemann, Jo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In an open lecture titled “The varying openness of Open Access publishing in the light of globally inclusive research equity”, Dr. Jo Havemann, trainer and consultant in Open Science Communication with a background in Evolution and Developmental biology discusses the path towards equal opportunities in publishing, detailing both the opportunities and challenges of Open Access publishing with a special focus on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She will also touch upon UNESCO:s Open Science recommendations and discuss how research can inform activities toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

 Presented at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Spin-dependent transport in molecular tunnel junctions
Creators: name: Petta, J. R.
name: Slater, S. K.
name: Ralph, D. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of magnetic tunnel junctions made using a self-assembled-monolayer molecular barrier. Ni/octanethiol/Ni samples were fabricated in a nanopore geometry. The devices exhibit significant changes in resistance as the angle between the magnetic moments in the two electrodes is varied, demonstrating that low-energy electrons can traverse the molecular barrier while maintaining spin coherence. An analysis of the voltage and temperature dependence of the data suggests that the spin-coherent transport signals can be degraded by localized states in the molecular barriers.
description: 4 pages, 5 color figures
One-loop effective potential from higher-dimensional AdS black holes
Creators: name: Cognola, Guido
name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Zerbini, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum effects in a brane-world model in which a positive constant curvature brane universe is embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk AdS black hole, instead of the usual portion of the AdS$_5$. By using zeta regularisation, in the large mass regime, we explicitly calculate the one-loop effective potential due to the bulk quantum fields and show that it leads to a non-vanishing cosmological constant, which can definitely acquire a positive value.
description: 7 pages
Linking number of vortices as baryon number
Creators: name: Gudnason, Sven Bjarke
name: Nitta, Muneto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the topological degree of a Skyrmion field is the same as the Hopf charge of the field under the Hopf map and thus equals the linking number of the preimages of two points on the 2-sphere under the Hopf map. We further interpret two particular points on the 2-sphere as vortex zeros and the linking of these zero lines follows from the latter theorem. Finally we conjecture that the topological degree of the Skyrmion can be interpreted as the product of winding numbers of vortices corresponding to the zero lines, summing over clusters of vortices.
description: LaTeX: 19 pages, 10 figures; V2: typos corrected
Weighted embeddings for function spaces associated with Hermite expansions
Creators: name: Bui, The Anh
name: Li, Ji
name: Ly, Fu Ken
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46E35, 42C15, 33C45

description: We study weighted Besov and Triebel--Lizorkin spaces associated with Hermite expansions and obtain (i) frame decompositions, and (ii) characterizations of continuous Sobolev-type embeddings. The weights we consider generalize the Muckhenhoupt weights.
THE USE OF THERAPEUTIC METAPHOR TO PRODUCE BEHAVIOR CHANGE (PROCRASTINATION, ERICKSON)
Creators: name: Hurley, Linda K.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: This study examined the usefulness of therapeutic metaphor, a technique for which Milton Erickson was known, in producing behavior change. Female undergraduates with chronic, severe procrastination problems served as the target population for this study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups (Therapeutic Metaphor, Irrelevant Metaphor, Measurement-only Control) and completed a series of questionnaires (Procrastination Log, Procrastination Inventory). The questionnaires were self-report, Likert-scale measures of subjects' procrastination behavior and satisfaction with that behavior during the previous week, and self-reported attitudes about their perceived controllability of, and expectations of changing, their procrastination. Subjects in the experimental groups listened to a tape-recorded therapeutic or irrelevant metaphor, and then completed a Story-recall Questionnaire. At two-week and four-week follow-up sessions, subjects completed the same questionnaires as before. It was hypothesized that subjects in the Therapeutic Metaphor group would report significantly less procrastination behavior and would report greater satisfaction with their behavior than would subjects in the Irrelevant Metaphor or Control groups. This hypothesis was not confirmed, as analyses of variance indicated that subjects in all groups improved equally over time. The hypothesis that Therapeutic Metaphor group subjects would indicate greater expectations of changing and greater controllability of their procrastination than the other subjects was not supported. The results of this study do not support the use of therapeutic metaphor as a method of producing behavior change. Suggestions for future research, particularly with single-subject designs, are included.
Optical properties of a waveguide-mediated chain of randomly positioned atoms
Creators: name: Song, Guo-Zhu
name: Guo, Jin-Liang
name: Nie, Wei
name: Kwek, Leong-Chuan
name: Long, Gui-Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the optical properties of an ensemble of two-level atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. In our model, the atoms are randomly located in the lattice sites along the one-dimensional waveguide. The results reveal that the optical transport properties of the atomic ensemble are influenced by the lattice constant and the filling factor of the lattice sites. We also focus on the atomic mirror configuration and quantify the effect of the inhomogeneous broadening in atomic resonant transition on the scattering spectrum. Furthermore, we find that initial bunching and persistent quantum beats appear in photon-photon correlation function of the transmitted field, which are significantly changed by filling factor of the lattice sites. With great progress to interface quantum emitters with nanophotonics, our results should be experimentally realizable in the near future.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Optics Express
The brown dwarf population in the Chamaeleon I cloud
Creators: name: Martí, B. López
name: Eislöffel, J.
name: Scholz, A.
name: Mundt, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a multiband survey for brown dwarfs in the Chamaeleon I dark cloud with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) camera at the ESO/MPG 2.2-m telescope on La Silla (Chile). The survey has revealed a substantial population of brown dwarfs in this southern star forming region. Candidates were selected from R, I and H-alpha imaging observations. We also observed in two medium-band filters, M855 and M915, for the purpose of spectral type determination. The former filter covers a wavelength range containing spectral features characteristic of M-dwarfs, while the latter lies in a relatively featureless wavelength region for these late-type objects. A correlation was found between spectral type and (M855-M915) colour index for mid- to late M-type objects and early L-type dwarfs. With this method, we identify most of our object candidates as being of spectral type M5 or later. Our results show that there is no strong drop in the number of objects for the latest spectral types, hence brown dwarfs may be as abundant as low-mass stars in this region. Also, both kind of objects have a similar spatial distribution. We derive an index $α= 0.6 \pm 0.1$ of the mass function in this region of dispersed star formation, in good agreement with the values obtained in other star forming regions and young clusters. Some of the brown dwarfs have strong H-alpha emission, suggesting mass accretion. For objects with published infrared photometry, we find that strong H-alpha emission is related to a mid-infrared excess, indicative of the existence of a circumstellar disk.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
Creators: name: Lindsay, Beverly
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the role of program evaluation employing case study analyses of an education program funded by an American organization for Tanzania and Liberia. The Practical Program for Professors (PPP) was designed to enhance the substantive academic and pedagogical skills of teachers, administrators, and students in the fields of English or language arts, science, and mathematics. Formative or preliminary evaluations and overall or final evaluations of programs' operations and/or modes of implementation--that is, program administration--were conducted by the American donor organization, the American universities implementing the projects, and African host education organizations. The evaluations attempted to discern those features of program evaluation which assisted program administration or implementation, development, and planning. This study employs qualitative or naturalistic methods to describe and examine the methodologies of the evaluations; to determine and report the evaluation findings; to examine how the findings and evaluation reports were disseminated; and to ascertain how the evaluations were utilized. A major finding is that the evaluations were used for decision making, particularly for program modifications or alterations, administrative and management procedures, and planning. The final aspect of this study concentrates on an "evaluation of the evaluations" in relation to the missions and goals of the American agency, the African organizations, and the American universities. This evaluation of the evaluations portrays several shortcomings of the evaluation methodologies and reports. The failure to address the administrative, planning, or educational needs of the several groups--in relation to their overall purposes or missions--was a major shortcoming of the several evaluations. The study concludes with a critical discussion of the several evaluations and presents and elucidates policy recommendations which should strengthen program administration and evaluation design, methodology, and utilization.
THE ROLE OF EVALUATION IN PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
Creators: name: Lindsay, Beverly
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study examines the role of program evaluation employing case study analyses of an education program funded by an American organization for Tanzania and Liberia. The Practical Program for Professors (PPP) was designed to enhance the substantive academic and pedagogical skills of teachers, administrators, and students in the fields of English or language arts, science, and mathematics. Formative or preliminary evaluations and overall or final evaluations of programs' operations and/or modes of implementation--that is, program administration--were conducted by the American donor organization, the American universities implementing the projects, and African host education organizations. The evaluations attempted to discern those features of program evaluation which assisted program administration or implementation, development, and planning. This study employs qualitative or naturalistic methods to describe and examine the methodologies of the evaluations; to determine and report the evaluation findings; to examine how the findings and evaluation reports were disseminated; and to ascertain how the evaluations were utilized. A major finding is that the evaluations were used for decision making, particularly for program modifications or alterations, administrative and management procedures, and planning. The final aspect of this study concentrates on an "evaluation of the evaluations" in relation to the missions and goals of the American agency, the African organizations, and the American universities. This evaluation of the evaluations portrays several shortcomings of the evaluation methodologies and reports. The failure to address the administrative, planning, or educational needs of the several groups--in relation to their overall purposes or missions--was a major shortcoming of the several evaluations. The study concludes with a critical discussion of the several evaluations and presents and elucidates policy recommendations which should strengthen program administration and evaluation design, methodology, and utilization.
The vertical profile of embedded trees
Creators: name: Bousquet-Mélou, Mireille
name: Chapuy, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Consider a rooted binary tree with n nodes. Assign with the root the abscissa 0, and with the left (resp. right) child of a node of abscissa i the abscissa i-1 (resp. i+1). We prove that the number of binary trees of size n having exactly n_i nodes at abscissa i, for l =< i =< r (with n = sum_i n_i), is $$ \frac{n_0}{n_l n_r} {{n_{-1}+n_1} \choose {n_0-1}} \prod_{l\le i\le r \atop i\not = 0}{{n_{i-1}+n_{i+1}-1} \choose {n_i-1}}, $$ with n_{l-1}=n_{r+1}=0. The sequence (n_l, ..., n_{-1};n_0, ..., n_r) is called the vertical profile of the tree. The vertical profile of a uniform random tree of size n is known to converge, in a certain sense and after normalization, to a random mesure called the integrated superbrownian excursion, which motivates our interest in the profile. We prove similar looking formulas for other families of trees whose nodes are embedded in Z. We also refine these formulas by taking into account the number of nodes at abscissa j whose parent lies at abscissa i, and/or the number of vertices at abscissa i having a prescribed number of children at abscissa j, for all i and j. Our proofs are bijective.
description: 47 pages
Economic Effects and Responses to Changes in Honey Bee Health
Creators: name: Ferrier, Peyton M
name: Rucker, Randal R.
name: Thurman, Walter N.
name: Burgett, Michael
name: Ferrier, Peyton M
name: Rucker, Randal R.
name: Thurman, Walter N.
name: Burgett, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: pollination services fees
subject: honey bees
subject: cost of production
subject: Colony Collapse
subject: Disorder

description: Since 2006, winter losses of managed honey bee colonies in the United States have averaged 28.7 percent, approximately double the 15.0-percent historical rate. These elevated losses have raised concerns that agricultural and food supply chains will suffer disruptions as pollination services become more costly and less available. Despite higher winter loss rates, U.S. honey bee colony numbers have remained stable or risen since 1996, with loss rates showing no correlation with yearly changes in the number of U.S. colonies but being positively correlated with the rate of colony additions. Among pollinated crops, almonds and plums have had the largest increases in pollination service fees, rising about 2.5 and 2.4 times, respectively, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms since the early 1990s, with the largest portion of the increase occurring between 2004 and 2006. For other pollinated crops, real fees have risen at an average rate of 2-3 percent annually and do not show a marked increase since Colony Collapse Disorder appeared in 2006. For most crops other than almonds, the share of farmgate costs attributable to pollination service fees is less than 5 percent at the farm level and less than 1 percent at the retail level.
Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
Creators: name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Newton, Doris
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Newton, Doris
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm consolidation
subject: large farms
subject: family farms
subject: Industrial agriculture
subject: agribusiness
subject: concentration in agriculture
subject: Agricultural Resource Management Survey
subject: ARMS
subject: Census of Agriculture

description: Agricultural production has shifted to much larger farming operations over the last three decades, even as the number of very small farms grows. Consolidation of acreage and production has been persistent, widespread, and pronounced in crop production. Structural change has been quite dramatic in some livestock commodities—such as dairy, egg laying, and hogs—but consolidation has been modest or nonexistent in pasture/grazing land and in the associated cow-calf sector. This report, based on detailed farm-level data, measures trends in consolidation and tracks developments in farm-level specialization as well as the organization of farming businesses.
X-raying Abell 2125 -- a Large-scale Hierarchical Complex of Galaxies and Hot Gas
Creators: name: Wang, Q. Daniel
name: Owen, Frazer
name: Ledlow, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an 82 ksec Chandra ACIS-I observation of a large-scale hierarchical complex, which consists of various clusters/groups of galaxies and low-surface brightness X-ray emission at z = 0.247. This high-resolution {\sl Chandra} observation allows us for the first time to separate unambiguously the X-ray contributions from discrete sources and large-scale diffuse hot gas. We detect 99 X-ray sources in a $17^\prime \times 17^\prime$ field. Ten of these sources are identified as members of the complex and are mostly radio-bright. Whereas unresolved X-ray sources tend to be associated with galaxies in intermediate density environments, extended X-ray emission peak at bright radio galaxies in the central cluster. In particular, a distinct X-ray trail appears on one side of the fast-moving galaxy C153, clearly due to ram-pressure stripping. The diffuse X-ray emission from the central cluster can be characterized by a thermal plasma with a characteristic temperature of $3.2_{-0.4}^{+0.5}$ keV and a heavy element abundance of $0.24_{-0.12}^{+0.15}$ solar (90% confidence uncertainties). In comparison, a patch of low-surface brightness X-ray emission apparently originates in relatively low density intergalactic gas with a characteristic temperature of $0.98_{-0.27}^{+0.22}$ keV and an abundance of $\lesssim 0.09$ solar. The Chandra observation, together with extensive multi-wavelength data, indicates that the complex represents a projection of several galaxy sub-structures, which may be undergoing major mergers. We discuss the dynamic states of the complex and its sub-structures as well as properties of X-ray-emitting galaxies and the relationship to their environments.
description: 18 pages plus figures, to be published in ApJ. A complete high resolution version can be found at http://www.astro.umass.edu/~wqd/papers/a2125/
Evolution of porous dust grains in protoplanetary discs -- I. Growing grains
Creators: name: Garcia, Anthony J. L.
name: Gonzalez, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main problems in planet formation, hampering the growth of small dust to planetesimals, is the so-called radial-drift barrier. Pebbles of cm to dm sizes are thought to drift radially across protoplanetary discs faster than they can grow to larger sizes, and thus to be lost to the star. To overcome this barrier, drift has to be slowed down or stopped, or growth needs to be sped up. In this paper, we investigate the role of porosity on both drift and growth. We have developed a model for porosity evolution during grain growth and applied it to numerical simulations of protoplanetary discs. We find that growth is faster for porous grains, enabling them to transition to the Stokes drag regime, decouple from the gas, and survive the radial-drift barrier. Direct formation of small planetesimals from porous dust is possible over large areas of the disc.
description: MNRAS 493, 1788 (2020). 13 pages, 13 figures. Correction of a typo in the algorithm of Appendix A4
Making the Commitment to Open Access (6th Lively Lunch on Issues in Health Sciences Collection Development): Developments 2005-2006
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune K.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Charleston Conference
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Scholarly publishing

description: Handout prepared for and presented in synopsis during a brief (traditional) annual update of interesting and noteworthy trends in the health publishing and health information sectors that occurred or were noticed since the 2005 Health Sciences Lively Lunch at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. (17th Lively Lunch took place on Thursday, November 9, 2006 in Charleston, SC).
description: presentation_location: Charleston (S.C.)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF COACHING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A LABORATORY-BASED ELEMENTARY SCIENCE PROGRAM (CURRICULUM)
Creators: name: Lockard, Brian Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: This exploratory field experiment was designed to determine whether the intervention of coaching had an effect on the implementation of a laboratory-based elementary science program. Four areas were examined: teacher attitudes about teaching the science program; teacher concerns related to implementing the program; student attitudes about learning science; and the degree to which teachers actually implemented and used the program. Coached teachers and students were compared to non-coached teachers and students. The study utilized the Survey of Teaching Science (SoTS) and the Student Science Survey (SSS) to assess teacher and student attitudes about teaching and learning science. Two instruments from the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) were also utilized: the Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ) and the Levels of Use (LoU) structured interview. Teacher attitudes and concerns were measured before initial training in the use of the program and again at the end of the first five months of use. Student attitudes were measured only at the end of the first five months. The level of use of the program was determined through interviews conducted at the end of five months of use. The level of use of the program was found to be higher for coached teachers. They were more frequently at a Routine level of use. Most non-coached teachers remained at a Mechanical level. Teacher concerns changed in a developmental fashion from those related to the "self" to those more related to the "impact" of the program on students. Coaching tended to accelerate that normal developmental process. The study found that student attitudes about learning science were significantly more positive in the classrooms of coached teachers. Coaching had no effect on the attitudes of implementing teachers. Coaching, during the first five months of the implementation of a laboratory-based science program, enhances the degree to which teachers actually use or implement the program in the classroom. It has a positive effect on teacher concerns about teaching the program and on the attitudes of students about learning science. While the behavior of coached teachers changed, there was no difference in the attitudes of coached and non-coached teachers.
Universality of the Linear Potential in Effective Models for the Low Energy QCD coupled with the Dilaton Field
Creators: name: Wereszczynski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD motivated effective models coupled with the cosmological dilaton field are analyzed. It is shown that all models possess confining solutions with the linear potential of confinement even thought such solutions are not observed in the original effective theory. In case of the Pagels-Tomboulis model analytical solutions are explicit found.
description: 10 pages
Nutritional Quality of Foods Acquired by Americans: Findings From USDA's National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey
Creators: name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Guthrie, Joanne
name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Guthrie, Joanne
name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: FoodAPS
subject: food purchasing
subject: SNAP
subject: food store access
subject: food away from home
subject: food at home
subject: Healthy Eating Index-2010
subject: nutrition quality

description: We use data from the USDA’s National Household and Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to describe the nutritional quality of foods purchased and acquired by a nationally representative sample of Americans. We compare the nutritional quality of foods purchased and acquired by households that participate in USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to the foods of other low-income, SNAP-nonparticipating households and those of higher income households. We also compare the nutritional quality of foods purchased and acquired by households with low access to healthy food retailers to households with better access, for the population as a whole, and for the SNAP-participating and -nonparticipating subgroups previously described. Similarly, we compare nutritional quality of foods obtained from supermarkets and other grocery retailers to foods prepared away from home at restaurants, fast-food establishments, schools, and other sources for the whole population and for defined subgroups. We find that lower nutritional quality of household food acquisitions was associated with SNAP participation status and limited household access to healthy food retailers. More reliance on food prepared away from home was also associated with lower nutritional quality, especially for higher income households.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF COACHING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A LABORATORY-BASED ELEMENTARY SCIENCE PROGRAM (CURRICULUM)
Creators: name: Lockard, Brian Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This exploratory field experiment was designed to determine whether the intervention of coaching had an effect on the implementation of a laboratory-based elementary science program. Four areas were examined: teacher attitudes about teaching the science program; teacher concerns related to implementing the program; student attitudes about learning science; and the degree to which teachers actually implemented and used the program. Coached teachers and students were compared to non-coached teachers and students. The study utilized the Survey of Teaching Science (SoTS) and the Student Science Survey (SSS) to assess teacher and student attitudes about teaching and learning science. Two instruments from the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) were also utilized: the Stages of Concerns Questionnaire (SoCQ) and the Levels of Use (LoU) structured interview. Teacher attitudes and concerns were measured before initial training in the use of the program and again at the end of the first five months of use. Student attitudes were measured only at the end of the first five months. The level of use of the program was determined through interviews conducted at the end of five months of use. The level of use of the program was found to be higher for coached teachers. They were more frequently at a Routine level of use. Most non-coached teachers remained at a Mechanical level. Teacher concerns changed in a developmental fashion from those related to the "self" to those more related to the "impact" of the program on students. Coaching tended to accelerate that normal developmental process. The study found that student attitudes about learning science were significantly more positive in the classrooms of coached teachers. Coaching had no effect on the attitudes of implementing teachers. Coaching, during the first five months of the implementation of a laboratory-based science program, enhances the degree to which teachers actually use or implement the program in the classroom. It has a positive effect on teacher concerns about teaching the program and on the attitudes of students about learning science. While the behavior of coached teachers changed, there was no difference in the attitudes of coached and non-coached teachers.
A Step Forward from High-Entropy Ceramics to Compositionally Complex Ceramics: A New Perspective
Creators: name: Wright, Andrew J.
name: Luo, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-entropy ceramics (HECs) have quickly gained attention since 2015. To date, nearly all work has focused on five-component, equimolar compositions. This perspective article briefly reviews different families of HECs and selected properties. Following a couple of our most recent studies, we propose a step forward to expand HECs to Compositionally Complex ceramics (CCCs) to include medium-entropy and non-equimolar compositions. Using defective fluorite and ordered pyrochlore oxides as two primary examples, we further consider the complexities of aliovalent cations and anion vacancies as well as ordered structures with two cation sublattices. Better thermally-insulating yet stiff CCCs have been found in non-equimolar compositions with optimal amounts of oxygen vacancies and in ordered pyrochlores with substantial size disorder. It is demonstrated that medium-entropy ceramics (MECs) can prevail over their high-entropy counterparts. The diversifying classes of CCCs provide even more possibilities than HECs to tailor the composition, defects, disorder/order, and, consequently, various properties.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures
Test Sequence Generation with Cayley Graphs
Creators: name: Hallé, Sylvain
name: Khoury, Raphaël
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: test sequence generation
model-based testing
triaging function
equivalence class partitioning

description: The paper presents a theoretical foundation for test sequence generation based on an input specification. The set of possible test sequences is first partitioned according to a generic "triaging" function, which can be created from a state-machine specification in various ways. The notion of coverage metric is then expressed in terms of the categories produced by this function. Many existing test generation problems, such as t-way state or transition coverage, become particular cases of this generic framework. We then present algorithms for generating sets of test sequences providing guaranteed full coverage with respect to a metric, by building and processing a special type of graph called a Cayley graph. An implementation of these concepts is then experimentally evaluated against existing techniques, and shows it provides better performance in terms of running time and test suite size.
description: Recording of a presentation prepared for the 17th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST), April 12th, 2021
MANAGERIAL CONTROL IN LARGE JAPANESE FIRMS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Moayedi, Roxana
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The primary purpose of this study is to examine critically the mode and form of managerial control that has been employed in the Japanese monopoly firms. The review of literature shows that the Japanese management structure has at times been accused of being paternalistic and, at other times, of being the perfection of bureaucracy. We offer a new conceptualization of the Japanese management system and suggest that, though it does involve some elements of both, its essential nature is quite different. It shares with the ideal model of bureaucracy an emphasis on centralized, formal authority structures, and formalized evaluation procedures and reward scales. And it differs in its decentralization and personalization of its labor control function and collectivization of responsibility at the lower level of organization so as to develop a tighter system of control and a more flexible, adaptable work force. The method of our study was to integrate the available literature with the analysis of data from specially conducted surveys of Japanese managerial employees. A historical review of the emergence of the Japanese large-firm management system further allowed us to substantiate our first stage model. We found that with the emergence of the modern monopoly firms, the Japanese management system early began to exhibit a dual constellation of modes of control, which has persisted to the present day. Our historical exploration also discerned the decollectivization and recollectivization of the labor process at the shop floor. We found that after World War II technological rationalization destroyed the workers' shop floor organization, which had its root in the craft system of production. In turn, this allowed managerial recollectivization through the imposition of quality control (QC), which enabled capital finally to replace workers' identity with its own.
Farmland Values, Land Ownership, and Returns to Farmland, 2000-2016
Creators: name: Burns, Christopher
name: Key, Nigel
name: Tulman, Sarah
name: Borchers, Allison
name: Weber, Jeremy
name: Burns, Christopher
name: Key, Nigel
name: Tulman, Sarah
name: Borchers, Allison
name: Weber, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: farmland values
subject: net cash farm income
subject: farmland appreciation
subject: tenure
subject: farm
subject: financial stress

description: Farmland plays a unique and important role in agriculture. Farm real estate (which includes land and the structures on it) accounts for over 80 percent of farm-sector assets. Farm real estate values reached record highs in 2015, driven by high net cash farm income and low interest rates. However, farmland appreciation has slowed considerably over the last 2 years due to lower commodity prices and lower net cash farm income, raising questions about the potential impact on farm financial stress. This study finds that farmland appreciation lowered the share of farms that were considered financially stressed in 2000-2012, particularly those that owned less than one-quarter of their acres operated. It also finds that farms that owned at least 50 percent of their acres purchased more farmland during periods of high appreciation and land equity gains. Finally, using an economic model, it finds that current farmland values are not supported by returns to farming, suggesting that a decline in values is possible.
Quantum walks on cycles
Creators: name: Bednarska, Malgorzata
name: Grudka, Andrzej
name: Kurzynski, Pawel
name: Luczak, Tomasz
name: Wojcik, Antoni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider asymptotic behaviour of a Hadamard walk on a cycle. For a walk which starts with a state in which all the probability is concentrated on one node, we find the explicit formula for the limiting distribution and discuss its asymptotic behaviour when the length of the cycle tends to infinity. We also demonstrate that for a carefully chosen initial state, the limiting distribution of a quantum walk on cycle can lie further away from the uniform distribution than its initial state.
MANAGERIAL CONTROL IN LARGE JAPANESE FIRMS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Moayedi, Roxana
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The primary purpose of this study is to examine critically the mode and form of managerial control that has been employed in the Japanese monopoly firms. The review of literature shows that the Japanese management structure has at times been accused of being paternalistic and, at other times, of being the perfection of bureaucracy. We offer a new conceptualization of the Japanese management system and suggest that, though it does involve some elements of both, its essential nature is quite different. It shares with the ideal model of bureaucracy an emphasis on centralized, formal authority structures, and formalized evaluation procedures and reward scales. And it differs in its decentralization and personalization of its labor control function and collectivization of responsibility at the lower level of organization so as to develop a tighter system of control and a more flexible, adaptable work force. The method of our study was to integrate the available literature with the analysis of data from specially conducted surveys of Japanese managerial employees. A historical review of the emergence of the Japanese large-firm management system further allowed us to substantiate our first stage model. We found that with the emergence of the modern monopoly firms, the Japanese management system early began to exhibit a dual constellation of modes of control, which has persisted to the present day. Our historical exploration also discerned the decollectivization and recollectivization of the labor process at the shop floor. We found that after World War II technological rationalization destroyed the workers' shop floor organization, which had its root in the craft system of production. In turn, this allowed managerial recollectivization through the imposition of quality control (QC), which enabled capital finally to replace workers' identity with its own.
Influence of the middle man in the formation of social castes in the United States
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1886
Subjects: subject: Social stratification
subject: Literary Union (Jacksonville, Ill.)
subject: Social Class
subject: United States
subject: Middle Class
subject: Social Class
subject: Social stratification
subject: Middle class
subject: United States

description: Presented to the Literary Union of Jacksonville, Ill
Neutron background in large-scale xenon detectors for dark matter searches
Creators: name: Carson, M. J.
name: Davies, J. C.
name: Daw, E.
name: Hollingworth, R. J.
name: Kudryavtsev, V. A.
name: Lawson, T. B.
name: Lightfoot, P. K.
name: McMillan, J. E.
name: Morgan, B.
name: Paling, S. M.
name: Robinson, M.
name: Spooner, N. J. C.
name: Tovey, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulations of the neutron background for future large-scale particle dark matter detectors are presented. Neutrons were generated in rock and detector elements via spontaneous fission and (alpha,n) reactions, and by cosmic-ray muons. The simulation techniques and results are discussed in the context of the expected sensitivity of a generic liquid xenon dark matter detector. Methods of neutron background suppression are investigated. A sensitivity of $10^{-9}-10^{-10}$ pb to WIMP-nucleon interactions can be achieved by a tonne-scale detector.
description: 35 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Additional file 1 of Treating AO/OTA 44B lateral malleolar fracture in patients over 50 years of age: periarticular locking plate versus non-locking plate
Creators: name: Chien-An Shih
name: I-Ming Jou
name: Lee, Pei-Yuan
name: Chin-Li Lu
name: Su, Wei-Ren
name: Yeh, Ming-Long
name: Po-Ting Wu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Simple regression model results for 1-year FAOS total scores and VAS scores in lateral malleolar fracture patients (n = 72).