cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Taiwan’s Foreign Policy Transformation: Tsai Ing-wen and the New Southbound Policy
Creators: name: Waltz, Cameron
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen
New Southbound Policy
constraints
domestic politics

description: This thesis investigates the introduction of the New Southbound Policy and the evolution of Taiwan’s foreign policy more broadly. It asks why President Tsai Ing-wen introduced the New Southbound Policy, and how the NSP makes her foreign policy distinct from her predecessors. This thesis introduces an analytical framework for explaining how international forces, domestic forces, leadership, and constraints collectively shape Taiwan’s foreign policy. It then applies this framework to ROC Presidents Lee, Chen, Ma, and Tsai to explain their foreign policy choices. My argument is that Tsai Ing-wen introduced the New Southbound Policy as a response to both international and domestic concerns. The NSP was designed not only to further Tsai’s foreign policy interests by reducing economic dependence on China but also to serve her domestic agenda by delivering economic growth. At the same time, this thesis argues that the NSP was chosen over more aggressive options due to domestic political constraints and institutional constraints. The NSP sets Tsai’s foreign policy apart because it introduces new methods of economic and soft-power engagement that innovatively uses Taiwan’s limited set of foreign policy tools. Importantly, this thesis contributes to the existing literature by emphasizing the significant role that domestic politics and constraints play in motivating and shaping the foreign policy choices of Taiwan’s leaders.
Informática jurídica en la frontera del derecho
Creators: name: Ramos Gómez, Lucas Adolfo
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1989
Subjects: Derecho - Bancos
Informática jurídica

description: Tesis (Abogado) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas. Programa de Derecho, 1989
description: Visión amplia y generalizada de la informática jurídica partiendo de las bases del proceso informático y sus herramientas fundamentales para obtener el acercamiento a la informática jurídica que puede resultar de mucho provecho real para las personas buscando la creación de un banco de datos sobre las sociedades comerciales.
Psychological, Medical and Laboratory Predictors of Cardiac Anxiety in Patients with Heart Failure
Creators: name: Pokrajac-Bulian, Alessandra
name: Zaninović Jurjević, Teodora
name: Dvornik, Štefica
name: Vodopija-Krstanović, Irena
name: Ružić, Alen
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Heart failure; Heart-focused anxiety; Anaemia; Anxiety; Depression; Intolerance of uncertainty.

description: Objective: The aim of the study was to identify predictors of heart-focused anxiety in patients with heart failure. A better understanding of such predictors may help in detecting the comorbidity underlying heart-focused anxiety and identifying patients who need psychological help. Methods: In order to account for multiple sources of heart-focused anxiety, we included psychological, lifestyle, and medical/laboratory predictors. The study involved 148 patients, of whom 74 had a leading diagnosis of worsening heart failure and were hospitalized during the COVID-19 epidemic. A second group of 74 patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases without a diagnosis of acute heart failure, were examined in various out-patient cardiology clinics. The sample consisted of 37.8% females and 62.2% males, with an average age of 63.35 years. The patients completed the Cardiac Anxiety Questionnaire, the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire, and the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale. Results: Patients with heart failure with higher levels of depression and intolerance of uncertainty had higher overall levels of heart-focused anxiety, higher levels of fear about chest and heart sensations. Older patients with higher levels of depression had higher levels of activity avoidance, especially activities believed to elicit cardiac symptoms. Cardiac patients with higher level of anxiety and with anaemia as comorbidity had higher levels of heart-focused attention and monitoring of cardiac activity. Conclusion: In patients with heart failure, the presence of heart-focused anxiety significantly reduces the quality of life, leads to avoidant behaviours, and is associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms. These patients are more likely to seek medical help and specialist services, but the need for psychological help is very rarely recognized.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Assessment of Bid Evaluation Process for Construction Projects: Case of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise
Creators: name: Wolde, Abayneh
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: This project work study was aimed at assessing bid evaluation process for construction projects at the Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services enterprise. A quantitative with little inclusion of qualitative approach using a descriptive design was employed for the project work. The method for data collection was through primary and secondary data sources. On the other way, the method used for data analyses was SPSS version 20.0 and expressed in terms of frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. The major findings of the study are presented as follows. The enterprise follows the PPA and enterprise procurement manuals for the evaluation of bids pertaining to construction projects. Moreover, the criteria put forwarded in bid documents are strictly applied as 92% of respondents confirmed that bid evaluation committees evaluate tenders based on predetermined criteria set in tender documents and they follow to the criteria set. In addition, according to most respondents' replies and confirmations found through interviews assured that the enterprise gives greater attention in evaluation for contractor's selection to technical ability, experience, plant and equipment, personnel ability financial stability, bank arrangements bonds and financial status, past performance and quality and experience of technical personnel availability.it was examined that the time taken for bid evaluation process has been at an average 11.65 months and the standard deviation was calculated to be 4.6. The causes for bid evaluation process delays has been identified to be late pre-bid evaluation processes, late in establishment of technical evaluation committee and late in handing over of documents to the technical committee, long time taking of technical and financial evaluations, commitment among committee members in evaluating bid' and conflict of interest, arithmetical errors in bids submitted and repeated complaints/ protests from the bidders. According to the responses given by participants of the study, common conflict of interest situations are related to personal, family or business interests and activities, gifts and hospitality, disclosure of confidential information. Although most respondents confirmed that the proficiency of the members of the bid evaluation process has been found to be appropriate in terms of knowledge, skill and attitude there are still respondents who argued that there are gaps and hence the enterprise should give continuous training for them.
Programa social de Colombia: Hogares de bienestar infantil, una alternativa para la erradicación de la pobreza absoluta en el sector IV de la zona sur-oriental de Cartagena
Creators: name: Cabrera Rojas, Margarita
name: García Caro, Martha Ligia
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1988
Subjects: Instituciones de cuidados infantiles
Trabajo social con niños - Cartagena

description: Tesis (Trabajador(a) Social) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación. Programa de Trabajo Social, 1988
description: El presente estudio tiene por objeto establecer el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de las personas, familias y comunidades involucradas en la puesta en marcha del programa social de Colombia, como respuesta a sus necesidades y expectativas.
Pulsatile lipid vesicles under osmotic stress
Creators: name: Chabanon, Morgan
name: Ho, James C. S.
name: Liedberg, Bo
name: Parikh, Atul N.
name: Rangamani, Padmini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The response of lipid bilayers to osmotic stress is an important part of cellular function. Previously, in [Oglecka et al. 2014], we reported that cell-sized giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) exposed to hypotonic media, respond to the osmotic assault by undergoing a cyclical sequence of swelling and bursting events, coupled to the membrane's compositional degrees of freedom. Here, we seek to deepen our quantitative understanding of the essential pulsatile behavior of GUVs under hypotonic conditions, by advancing a comprehensive theoretical model for vesicle dynamics. The model quantitatively captures our experimentally measured swell-burst parameters for single-component GUVs, and reveals that thermal fluctuations enable rate dependent pore nucleation, driving the dynamics of the swell-burst cycles. We further identify new scaling relationships between the pulsatile dynamics and GUV properties. Our findings provide a fundamental framework that has the potential to guide future investigations on the non-equilibrium dynamics of vesicles under osmotic stress.
The institutional management of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy: a qualitative study on the socio-cultural context underpinning the citizens’ evaluation
Creators: name: Venuleo, Claudia
name: Marinaci, Tiziana
name: Gennaro, Alessandro
name: Marco, Castiglioni
name: Cristina, Caldiroli Liviana
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19; Semiotic cultural psycho-social theory; Sensemaking; Crisis management; Citizens’ perspective; Dimensions of meanings; Qualitative study.

description: Background: Studies on the citizens’ evaluation of the government’s crisis management in the COVID-19 pandemic are almost absent. Within the frame of Semiotic Cultural Psycho-social Theory, we argue that better crisis management requires considering the expectations, value systems and questions expressed by the citizens since these criteria organize how they evaluate the actions planned to respond to “their needs”, how legitimate they consider political decisions and their attitude to complying with the measures established by the government. Objectives: This study aimed to explore, with a qualitative approach, the ways ordinary people think and make sense of how Italian institutions responded to the crisis, selected the problems to tackle, and the needs the crisis brought to the fore. Methods: An anonymous online survey was available from 21st February to 26th April 2021. Participants were asked to write about “The institutional management of the pandemic crisis …”. A total number of 374 texts were collected (respondents’ mean age = 35,87; DS = 14,14; women: 71,7%). The Automated Method for Content Analysis (ACASM) procedure was applied to the collected texts to detect the factorial dimensions underpinning (dis)similarities in the respondents’ narratives. Such factors were interpreted as the markers of latent dimensions of meanings (DS). Results: The two main DS that emerged were characterised by the pertinentization of two different focus of discourse – media communication versus the social system – and two different criteria of evaluation of the crisis management – the institutional responses to the emergency versus the kind of investment for the future. Conclusion: Throughout the narratives, two critical points emerged: the Institutions’ failure to analyse the problems’ complexity and the disparity between what has been said and done by the political system and citizens’ expectations and needs.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
The role of loneliness, negative affectivity, mentalization, and alcohol use in adolescent gambling
Creators: name: Cosenza, Marina
name: Ciccarelli, Maria
name: Pizzini, Barbara
name: Griffiths, Mark David
name: Sacco, Mariagiulia
name: Nigro, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gambling; Adolescent gambling; Loneliness; Emotional distress; Mentalization.

description: Background: The causes and consequences of youth problem gambling have become an area of increasing research interest. The present study investigated the role of loneliness, negative affective states, mentalization, and alcohol use among adolescent gamblers, exploring the relationships between the study variables utilizing path analysis. Methods: A sample of 352 adolescents aged between 16-19 years were administered the (i) South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents, (ii) Loneliness and Aloneness Scale for Children and Adolescents, (iii) Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, (iv) Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, and (v) Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test to assess gambling severity, loneliness, negative affectivity, mentalization, and alcohol consumption. Results: The regression analysis indicated that male gender, affinity for loneliness, hypomentalizing, and alcohol use significantly predicted adolescent gambling severity. Path analysis showed that stress contributed to gambling severity directly as well as indirectly (via hypomentalizing). Analysis of direct and indirect effects showed that unbalanced mentalizing strengthened the effect of stress on gambling severity. Conclusions: Given that adolescent problematic gambling is associated with high levels of stress and inability to reflect on the self, clinical interventions should enhance adolescent gamblers’ ability to process mental states content and to reduce emotional distress associated with gambling involvement.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Conformal blocks, Verlinde formula and diagram automorphisms
Creators: name: Hong, Jiuzu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B67, 81T40, 20G44

description: The Verlinde formula computes the dimension of conformal blocks associated to simple Lie algebras and stable pointed curves. If a simply-laced simple Lie algebra admits a nontrivial diagram automorphism, then this automorphism acts on the space of conformal blocks naturally. We prove an analogue of Verlinde formula for the trace of the diagram automorphism on the space of conformal blocks. Along the way, we get an analogue of Kac-Walton formula for the trace of the diagram automorphism. We also get a twining type formula between the conformal blocks for the pair $(sl(2n+1),sp(2n))$.
description: To appear in Advances in mathematics. 44 pages
Síntesis de particularistas magnéticas modificadas con TiO2 para la foto degradación de fenol en soluciones acuosas
Creators: name: Martinez Valencia, Shailyn Vanessa
name: Reyes Ramos, Ana Milena
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2013
Subjects: Nanotecnología

description: Tesis (Ingeniero Químico).--Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias E Ingenierías. Programa de Ingeniería Química, 2013
description: Las nanoparticulas magnéticas y de dióxido de titanio han sido objeto reciente de intensas investigaciones enfocadas en su síntesis, caracterización y funcionalización, lo cual ha permitido desarrollar aplicaciones ambientales que incluyen su uso como nano-bio sensores y la fotodegradación de contaminantes acuosos. Para ésta aplicación, estudiamos la encapsulación de nanopartículas de magnetita (Fe3O4) en una matriz de poli-siloxanos y su posterior modificación con una capa de nanopartículas de dióxido de titanio (TiO2), las cuales son sensibles para fotodegradación de fenol bajo irradiación UV. Las nanopartículas de magnetita fueron sintetizadas por el método de coprecipitación, obteniendo pequeños aglomerados con tamaño hidrodinámico de 46 nm, los cuales exhibieron una magnetización de saturación de 48 emu/g. Las nanopartículas de dióxido de titanio fueron obtenidas a partir de un proceso eco-amigable usando el extracto de la planta hierba limón como agente reductor. Estas nanopartículas presentaron de acuerdo a análisis de difracción de rayos-X, un tamaño cristalino de 19 ± 4 nm y un 96% de la fase cristalina anatasa. La capacidad de fotodegradación del nanocompuesto sintetizado se probó en suspensión a pH 3.0 en una solución acuosa de fenol preparada a 50 ppm con éste contaminante orgánico. Para estos experimentos, las nanoparticulas fueron adicionadas en concentraciones de 0.2, 0.5, y 1.0 g/L, y se expusieron durante 6 horas a radiación ultravioleta UV (=365 nm) con agitación mecanica a 100 rpm, obteniéndose hasta un 87% de fotodegradación del contaminante orgánico. Aprovechando la alta sensibilidad magnetica del nanomaterial evaluado, se probó la separación magnetica del nanocompuesto y su posterior reutilización, observándose un 25% de disminución de su capacidad fotocatalítica luego de 5 ciclos contínuos de fotodegradación. Lo cual indica la alta capacidad de fotodegradación del nanomaterial sintetizado.
Relationship between countertransference and emotional communication in the counselling process
Creators: name: Negri, Attà
name: De Bei, Francesco
name: Christian, Christopher
name: Rocco, Diego
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Countertransference; referential activity; reorganization activity; therapeutic hindrances; counselling intervention.

description: Background: The negative effects of the unmanaged countertransference on session outcome are well documented, but little is known about the impact of countertransference reactions on the in-session elaboration processes. This study investigated the impact of countertransference reactions on the quality of client and counsellor’s in-session work as revealed by their linguistic style, assuming that linguistic style shows the quality of speakers’ referential process, i.e., their ability to translate into words and reorganize the client’s emotional experiences. Methods: To test this hypothesis twenty-three in-training psychotherapists were asked to rate their emotional reactions through the Therapist Response Questionnaire at the end of the first three counselling sessions with one of their clients, for a total of 69 sessions. These sessions were recorded, transcribed, and evaluated by three external observers who applied the Countertransference Behavior Measure. Finally, the transcripts were analyzed by applying the computerized linguistic measures of the referential process. Results: We found that countertransference reactions were associated to clients’ specific speech styles characterized by a lower referential process especially in the case of dominant, helpless, overwhelmed, and parental countertransference reactions. For the counsellors, we observed a linguistic style marked by emotional distancing. Conclusions: This study confirms that linguistic indicators can capture the impact of countertransference reactions, which shows to hinder the emotional elaboration in the counselling sessions.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Development of the Monte Carlo event generator tuning software package Lagrange and its application to tune the PYTHIA model to the LHCb data
Creators: name: Popov, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: LHCb
subject: Monte Carlo
subject: Generator
subject: PYTHIA
subject: Simulation
subject: Tuning
subject: 530

description: One of the general problems of modern high energy physics is a problem of comparing experimental data, measurements of observables in high energy collisions, to theory, which is represented by Monte Carlo simulations. This work is dedicated to further development of the tuning methodology and implementation of software tools for tuning of the PYTHIA Monte Carlo event generator for the LHCb experiment. The aim of this thesis is to create a fast analytical model of the Monte Carlo event generator and then fitting the model to the experimental data, recorded by the LHCb detector, considering statistical and computational uncertainties and estimating the best values for the tuned parameters, by simultaneous tuning of a group of phenomenological parameters in many-dimensional parameter-space. The fitting algorithm is interfaced to the LHCb software framework, which models the response of the LHCb detector. Typically, the tunings are done to the measurements which are corrected for detector effects. These corrections depend on the model which is input into the detector simulation, and the proposed approach allows to avoid this dependence. This tuning methodology and the developed software tools were tested on a small subset of kinematical parameters, which describe the gross fraction of the hadronic final states in high energy pp-collisions.
description: Eines der allgemeinen Probleme der modernen Hochenergiephysik besteht darin experimentelle Daten, also Messungen von Observablen in Hochenergie-Kollisionen, mit Ergebnissen der Theorie zu vergleichen, die aus Monte Carlo Simulationen hervorgehen. Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Weiterentwicklung der Tuning-Methodik und dem Implementieren von Softwarewerkzeugen zum Tunen des PYTHIA Monte Carlo Event Generators für das LHCb-Experiment. Das Ziel ist ein schnelles analytisches Modell des Monte Carlo Event Generators zu erstellen und dann dieses Modell an die vom LHCb Detektor aufgenommenen Daten anzupassen, dabei statistische wie numerische Fehler zu berücksichtigen, und die besten Schätzwerte für die zu tunenden Parameter durch ein simultanes Tuning einer Gruppe von phänomenologischen Parameter im vieldimensionalen Parameterraum zu erhalten. Der Anpassungsalgorithmus hat eine Schnittstelle zum LHCb-Software-Framework, welches das Ansprechen des Detektors modelliert. Üblicherweise werden für die Tunings Messungen verwendet, die auf Detektoreffekte korrigiert sind. Diese Korrekturen sind aber abhängig von den in den Detektorsimulationen verwendeten Modellen, was der vorgeschlagene Ansatz umgeht. Diese Tuningmethode und die entwickelten Softwarewerkzeuge wurden mit einer kleinen Anzahl von kinematischen Parametern getestet, welche den größten Teil der hadronischen Endzustände von Hochenergie-Kollisionen beschreibt.
An empirical study on investors’ preferences for liquid assets
Creators: name: Niestroj, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: nonparametric analysis
subject: euler equation
subject: liquidity premium
subject: asset pricing
subject: revealed preference
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: The present study seeks to analyze the demand for liquid assets under the assumption that holdings of money, U.S. Treasuries, and corporate debt securities directly contribute to investors utility. Specifically, the representative agent' s utility function includes a separate argument denoted as "liquidity services" which depends on the level of liquid asset holdings. First, this paper presents results from nonparametric tests of investors behavior - namely tests for utility maximization, and tests for weak separability. I find that monthly per capita data on consumption, money balances, and holdings of U.S. Treasuries, and corporate debt securities are consistent with utility maximization and weak separability. The second part of the empirical analysis employs Generalized Method of Moments to estimate coefficients of Euler equations which are derived from a variety of specifications of the representative agent s modified utility function. Further, to find the most suitable functional form, parameter estimates are compared across different specifications and different data sets. However, only the most restrictive utility specification yields parameter estimates which are relatively robust to the choice of data, while in some cases the estimates differ from those known from the literature.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;15/2014
A Stable FDTD Method with Embedded Reduced-Order Models
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinyue
name: Bekmambetova, Fadime
name: Triverio, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The computational efficiency of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method can be significantly reduced by the presence of complex objects with fine features. Small geometrical details impose a fine mesh and a reduced time step, significantly increasing computational cost. Model order reduction has been proposed as a systematic way to generate compact models for complex objects, that one can then instantiate into a main FDTD mesh. However, the stability of FDTD with embedded reduced models remains an open problem. We propose a systematic method to generate reduced models for FDTD domains, and embed them into a main FDTD mesh with guaranteed stability up to the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) limit of the fine mesh. With a simple perturbation technique, the CFL of the whole scheme can be further extended beyond the fine grid's CFL limit. Reduced models can be created for arbitrary domains containing inhomogeneous and lossy materials. Numerical tests confirm the stability of the proposed method, and its potential to accelerate multiscale FDTD simulations.
description: Accepted and published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Attachment dimensions and adolescent gambling: The mediating role of mentalization
Creators: name: Cosenza, Marina
name: Ciccarelli, Maria
name: Sacco, Mariagiulia
name: Nigro, Giovanna
name: Pizzini, Barbara
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gambling; Adolescent gambling; Mentalization; Attachment dimensions; Mediation analysis; Clinical Psychology.

description: Background: Several studies demonstrated that insecure attachment style represents a risk factor for gambling behavior. The recent literature strongly argues that attachment could be better described as a dimensional construct, in as much as variations in attachment seem to exist on a graded continuum rather than in categories, better grasped by dimensional models. However, only a few studies have investigated the role of specific attachment dimensions in adolescent gambling. Moreover, even if the role of attachment style on mentalization abilities and their influence on gambling are well established, no studies have so far investigated how attachment dimensions and mentalization interact each other in influencing gambling behavior. The present study was aimed to clarify the role of specific dimensions of attachment in adolescent gambling and to explore, for the first time, the causal relationships between attachment, mentalization, and adolescent gambling. Methods: Four hundred and eighty-two adolescents aged 16-20 years were administered the South Oaks Gambling Screen Revised for Adolescents (SOGS-RA), the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ), and the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8). Results: The results of the hierarchical linear regression analysis showed that high scores on Uncertainty about mental states (RFQ-8) and Preoccupation with relationships (ASQ) were significant predictors of gambling severity. Moreover, mediational analysis revealed that the effect of Preoccupation with relationships on gambling severity was totally mediated by Uncertainty about mental states. Conclusion: The present study provided, for the first time, insight into the interrelationships between attachment dimensions, mentalization, and gambling severity, and suggested that preoccupation with relationships may be an important precursor to gambling and support the hypothesis that adolescents preoccupied with relationships have more severe gambling involvement due to poor mentalization abilities. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Aspekte fachdidaktischer Analysekompetenz bezogen auf den Umgang mit Repräsentationen im Mathematikunterricht
Creators: name: Friesen, Marita
name: Dreher, Anika
name: Kuntze, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Neben professionellem Wissen zu Repräsentationen müssen Lehrkräfte auch über die fachdidaktische Kompetenz verfügen, Unterrichtssituationen in Bezug auf den Umgang mit Repräsentationen analysieren zu können. In einer explorativen Studie mit 31 Lehramtsstudierenden wurden anhand authentischer Unterrichtsvideos Aspekte einer solchen Analysekompetenz untersucht. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Qualität der Antworten der befragten Lehramtsstudierenden von unterschiedlichen Befragungsformaten beeinflusst wird.
Metodología de intervención profesional para la conformación de organizaciones comunitarias.
Creators: name: Peralta Castro, Myrian C.
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 1999
Subjects: Participación social - Desarrollo de la comunidad

description: Tesis (Trabajadora Social) -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Educación. Programa de Trabajo Social, 1999
description: Objeto de sistematización en el marco de referencia teórico-conceptual y la estrategia metodológica, incluyendo análisis del contexto institucional y caracterización del equipo de intervención y experiencia.
Assessment Of Communication Management Factors That Influence Successful Project Delivery In The Ethiopian Healthcare Projects: The Case Of Urban Hiv/Aids, Nutrition And Food Security Project In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Fikadu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: Many organizations carry out their business tasks using the project-based approach. Realization of projects requires effective and diligent communication strategies which calls for communication management that has importance to the area of project management, and because of its impact on the success of the project. However, despite the existence of numerous communication medium and approaches, still there are communication management factors that influence the success of the project delivery in the Ethiopian healthcare projects. The purpose of this case study is to find out communication management factors that influence project success for successful project delivery in the Ethiopian healthcare projects. Qualitative method was adopted to identify the communication management factors that influence project success for successful project delivery. Semi-structured questionnaire was used in purposely selected 20 samples to have a detailed data with participants knowledgeable on the study subjects. Narrative data analysis technique was employed. The findings indicate that project stakeholder communication practices depend on the project phase, which varies with project's life cycle; and communication focused on different stakeholder groups (internal and external) in the different stages of project life cycle. Behavioral and structural factors were found to be the challenges of effective communication. The study recommended that ensuring proper and effective project communication through good personal contact with team members and stakeholders, developing positive relationships and obeying fundamental rules of clear and positive communication is so compulsory for projects to succeed
Effects of placebos vs. SMS reminders on homework compliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for depression: a randomized trial
Creators: name: Jurinec, Nina
name: Schienle, Anne
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Depression; Homework compliance; Placebo; SMS reminders; Relaxation training.

description: Background: Nonadherence to homework assignments is a frequent problem among patients with depression during cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The present study investigated the effects of two additional treatment components of CBT: a placebo and SMS (short message service) reminders. These components aimed at improving homework compliance (the practicing of a daily relaxation exercise at home) during a four-week outpatient program. Subjects and Methods: Eighty-six patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder were randomly assigned to one of three groups: ‘Coping with Depression’ course (treatment as usual; TAU group), ‘Coping with Depression’ course with additional daily placebo treatment (PLA group), or ‘Coping with Depression’ course with additional daily SMS reminders (SMS group). The placebo (sunflower oil) was introduced as a natural medicine to mobilize the body’s natural healing powers. SMS messages were sent out once a day to remind the patients of their homework. Results: The placebo group showed better homework compliance than the two other groups with improved quantity and quality of relaxation exercises. The SMS group practiced more often than TAU but did not differ in homework quality (relaxation level) from TAU. All groups showed a significant reduction of depression symptoms at the end of the course with the most pronounced reduction in the PLA group. Conclusions: The results suggest that placebo treatment is more effective than SMS reminders to support relaxation training in patients with depression. Additionally, the placebo was associated with a larger reduction of depression symptoms.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Schulbuch als Teil des implementierten Curriculums
Creators: name: Glasnović Gracin, Dubravka
name: Jukić Matić, Ljerka
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Eine Umfrage, die 2008 im Rahmen der Studie von Glasnović Gracin (2011) durchgeführt wurde, zeigte, dass Schulbücher im kroatischen Mathematikunterricht in hohem Ausmaß benutzt werden. Diese Ergebnisse entsprechen den Resultaten aus anderen Ländern (etwa Johansson, 2006; Peppin & Haggarty, 2001; Robitaille & Garden, 1989). Befragt wurden ca. 1000 TeilnehmerInnen, was ungefähr 50% aller MathematiklehrerInnen der Sekundarstufe I in Kroatien entspricht. Da die Ergebnisse in Glasnović Gracin (2011) durch eine deskriptive Analyse gewonnen wurden, zeigte sich ein Bedarf an tieferen Analysen der Ergebnisse und an weiteren Studien. Diese Studien umfassen qualitative Forschungen (Interviews und Unterrichtsbeobachtungen) die das Ziel hatten, die Rolle der Mathematikschulbücher in der Praxis zu erforschen. Die Ergebnisse können helfen, ein besseres Bild über die Rolle der Schulbücher zu bekommen.
Detecting Dependencies in Sparse, Multivariate Databases Using Probabilistic Programming and Non-parametric Bayes
Creators: name: Saad, Feras
name: Mansinghka, Vikash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Datasets with hundreds of variables and many missing values are commonplace. In this setting, it is both statistically and computationally challenging to detect true predictive relationships between variables and also to suppress false positives. This paper proposes an approach that combines probabilistic programming, information theory, and non-parametric Bayes. It shows how to use Bayesian non-parametric modeling to (i) build an ensemble of joint probability models for all the variables; (ii) efficiently detect marginal independencies; and (iii) estimate the conditional mutual information between arbitrary subsets of variables, subject to a broad class of constraints. Users can access these capabilities using BayesDB, a probabilistic programming platform for probabilistic data analysis, by writing queries in a simple, SQL-like language. This paper demonstrates empirically that the method can (i) detect context-specific (in)dependencies on challenging synthetic problems and (ii) yield improved sensitivity and specificity over baselines from statistics and machine learning, on a real-world database of over 300 sparsely observed indicators of macroeconomic development and public health.
Internet use during the COVID-19 outbreak: A resource for well-being or an amplifier of psychological distress? A study on an Italian sample
Creators: name: Venuleo, Claudia
name: Marino, Claudia
name: Ferrante, Lucrezia
name: Rollo, Simone
name: Schimmenti, Adriano
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19; Loneliness; Online social support; Internet use motives; Problematic Internet use; Well-being.

description: Internet usage increased globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined the role of online/offline relational resources to see whether the Internet improved well-being or amplified psychological distress, also considering the mediating role of Internet use motives. A sample of 573 Italian adults (Mean age = 40.28 years; SD = 16.43; 64% women) reported their motives for Internet use during lockdown and completed standardized measures on loneliness, online social support, well-being and problematic Internet use (PIU). A path analysis showed that loneliness positively predicted PIU and negatively predicted well-being, whereas perceived online social support positively predicted well-being. Loneliness was significantly associated with social/coping motives, which in turn were associated with PIU. Moreover, loneliness mediated the relationship between online social support and PIU. No significant mediating role was found for knowledge and studying/working motives. These findings call for tailored efforts to blunt the impact of social isolation and foster social connectivity.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Evaluación de la efectividad de la etilefrina y de la norepinefrina en el tratamiento de la hipotensión intraoperatorias segundaría a anestesia espinal en el Hospital Universitario del Caribe, Cartagena de Indias
Creators: name: Núñez Pérez, Helbert Leonel
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2017
Subjects: Anestesiología
Hipertensión intraoperatoria - Investigaciones

description: Tesis (Especialista en Anestesiología y Reanimación). -- Universidad de Cartagena. Facultad de Medicina. Departamento Quirúrgico, 2017
description: El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo principal, comparar la efectividad de la etilefrina y la norepinefrina en el tratamiento de la HIO clínicamente significativa en el Hospital Universitario del Caribe (Cartagena)
Gagea juliae Pascher, Sitz.
Creators: name: Tekşen, Mehtap
name: Erkul, Seher Karaman
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Liliales
Liliaceae
Gagea
Gagea juliae

description: Gagea juliae Pascher, Sitz. -Ber. Deutsch. Naturw.-Med. Ver. Böhm. «Lotos», n. ser., 24: 125 (1904)
 Type (lectotype designated by Stroh 1937: 492): — CYPRUS. in monte Pentedactylos, 28 March 1880, Sintenis P. E. E. 181 (P!).
 Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Adana: d. Pozantı, Bürücek, rocky slopes, 1300 m, 3 April 1957, Davis 26343 & Hedge (K!); Antalya: Kemer, Yukarıbeycik village, S slopes, Pinus brutia-Cupressus sempervirens forest, 600–700 m, 24 March 1978, H. Peşmen 3626 & B. Yıldız (E!); Ibradı, Üzümdere-Handost state, stony places, 490 m, 2 March 2011, M. Tekşen 2666 (GAZI!), 2670 & S. Karaman (AKSU!); above Sapadere village, limestone slopes, 362 m, 4 March 2007, A. A. Dönmez 14213 & B. Mutlu (HUB!); Ibradı, Üzümdere-Handost state, rocks in clearings of open woodland, 500–1000 m, 18 April 1999, Eustace 8 (E!); d. Manavgat, Manavgat-Akseki, above Fersinuluni, edge of Pinus brutia forest, 700 m, 8 April 1956, Davis 25774 & O. Polunin (E!); Manavgat-Akseki road, 3 km before village of Taskesen, 30 March 1975, T. Baytop, C. Brickey & B. Mathew 84106 (K!); Hatay: Antakya, Serinyol, around Yıldırım river, wet places, clearings of Pinus brutia forest, macchie, 220 m, 12 February 2013, M. Tekşen 2884a (GAZI!); Içel: d. Gülnar, Bozağaç-Ahirini, between Gülnar and Gilindere, 14 April 1956, Rix 1981 (K!); Muğla: d. Muğla, Yaraş village-Gölcük village, macchie, 726 m, 5 March 2011, M. Tekşen 2706 & S. Karaman (AKSU!).
 Flowering time: — March–April.
 Habitat: — clearings of Pinus brutia forest, macchie, limestone slopes, rocky and stony places, 220–1300 m.
 Distribution: — East Mediterranean (mt.) element. Turkey (West Anatolia), Cyprus (Govaerts 2015).
description: Published as part of Tekşen, Mehtap & Erkul, Seher Karaman, 2015, The synopsis of the genus Gagea (Liliaceae) in Turkey, pp. 101-129 in Phytotaxa 230 (1) on page 110, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13630814
Somatic Symptom Disorder: a narrative review of literature of the last twenty years
Creators: name: Turiaco, Fabrizio
name: Iannuzzo, Fiammetta
name: Hadipour, Abed L.
name: Pandolfo, Gianluca
name: Muscatello, Maria Rosaria Anna
name: Bruno, Antonio
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology
Year: 2022
Subjects: Somatic symptom disorder; Somatization; Somatoform disorder; Medically unexplained symptoms; Bodily distress syndrome; Psychosomatic medicine.

description: Background: according to the DSM-5, somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterized by physical symptoms that cause a disruption in patient functioning and by excessive preoccupation about symptoms. There is a high prevalence of SSD in the general population, with a range going from 5 to 7% and with a relevant cost burden for healthcare system. So, it appears useful to know what the state of art regarding this significant problem is. Methods: the aim of this work is to review studies published in the last twenty years, using Pubmed, Scopus, Cochrane and PsichInfo, as search engines and the following terms: “somatic symptom disorder”, “somatization”, “somatoform disorder”, “medically unexplained symptoms”, “bodily distress syndrome” and “psychosomatic medicine”, linked by the Boolean operator “OR”. Exclusion criteria are studies in languages other than English and French, studies about pediatric population and animals, type of publication other than journal articles. Results: etiology of SSD is multifactorial, involving internal and external factors. Neuroanatomical studies show the presence of abnormalities in CNS of SSD patients. Assessment still results a problematic field, due to uncertainty of nosography. The therapeutic approach toward SSD can be pharmacological, but also the psychotherapy in its different approaches. Conclusions: the issue of SSD is complex and needs further investigations. To correctly analyze this phenomenon, it is necessary to consider both psychological and organic factors, being on the base of this disorder. It is worth to develop this research because an improvement of the state of art about this matter could lead to improve the approach to SSD, resulting in better quality of patients’ life.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol 10, No 3 (2022)
Formation of a Magnetic Soliton Lattice in Copper Metaborate
Creators: name: Bezmaternikh, L.
name: Boehm, M.
name: Ouladdiaf, B.
name: Petrakovskii, G. A.
name: Roessli, B.
name: Schefer, J.
name: Staub, U.
name: Vorotinov, A.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
An Assessment Of Top Management Support On Information System Project Success In the Case of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Doni, Henok
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: Top Management Support is widely claimed to be a critical success factor responsible for Information Systems Project success. The objective of this study was to identify those top management support dimension that have the greatest effect on system implementation project success and to investigate whether these dimensions are actually used by top management in Information system Projects. Information system projects was selected as the unit of study. A descriptive approach that utilized both qualitative and quantitative methods was employed to investigate the contribution levels of top management support in an information system project, and the effect top management support has on Information system project success. The findings of this quantitative study addressed the research questions and demonstrated that (a) an important contribution does exist between "Provide Resources", "Structural Arrangement", "Expertise", "Communication" and "Power" with Information system Project success. (b) A significant and relatively critical relationship does exist between "Provide Resources" with Information system Project success. (c) This study identified an overall relationship of top management support dimensions and information system project success and the findings do imply that information system project success might be improved by improving top management support on the five significant dimensions.
Doppler-Free Two-Photon Millimeter Wave Transitions in OCS and CHF3
Creators: name: Dumesh, B. S.
name: Pak, I.
name: Rusin, F. S.
name: Surin, L. A.
name: Winnewisser, G.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
A stylized model for wealth distribution
Creators: name: Düring, Bertram
name: Georgiou, Nicos
name: Scalas, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 60J05, 60J10, 60J20, 82B31, 82B40

description: The recent book by T. Piketty (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) promoted the important issue of wealth inequality. In the last twenty years, physicists and mathematicians developed models to derive the wealth distribution using discrete and continuous stochastic processes (random exchange models) as well as related Boltzmann-type kinetic equations. In this literature, the usual concept of equilibrium in Economics is either replaced or completed by statistical equilibrium. In order to illustrate this activity with a concrete example, we present a stylised random exchange model for the distribution of wealth. We first discuss a fully discrete version (a Markov chain with finite state space). We then study its discrete-time continuous-state-space version and we prove the existence of the equilibrium distribution. Finally, we discuss the connection of these models with Boltzmann-like kinetic equations for the marginal distribution of wealth. This paper shows in practice how it is possible to start from a finitary description and connect it to continuous models following Boltzmann's original research program.
description: 16 pages, this version corrects typos and an error while calculating the invariant distribution of the discrete space-time chain, and the proof is simplified