cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Speech genre and temporal conceptual metaphor use in the discourse of speakers with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)
Creators: name: Sun, Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thesis explores how temporal spoken text and metaphors of time are used in semi-structured conversational discourse by speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The focus on time, its structure (through genre) and metaphoric representation, is a potentially revealing line of research for better understanding communication difficulties as well as patterns of conceptualization in ASD. Metaphors, in general, are difficult for people with A S D (Happé, 1993, 1995). Time in this context is an interesting concept to examine as it is largely expressed using metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999). The thesis also provides an opportunity to explore how temporal metaphors, as ingrained concepts of nature, are used by individuals who traditionally struggle with figurative metaphor. Individuals with ASD use temporal metaphors and the findings here may not only serve as a contribution to our knowledge about ASD, but also to the understanding of semantics and philosophy of time.
The Effect of Social Distancing on the Reach of an Epidemic in Social Networks
Creators: name: Gutin, Gregory
name: Hirano, Tomohiro
name: Hwang, Sung-Ha
name: Neary, Philip R.
name: Toda, Alexis Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How does social distancing affect the reach of an epidemic in social networks? We present Monte Carlo simulation results of a capacity constrained Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model. The key modelling feature is that individuals are limited in the number of acquaintances that they can interact with, thereby constraining disease transmission to an infectious subnetwork of the original social network. While increased social distancing always reduces the spread of an infectious disease, the magnitude varies greatly depending on the topology of the network. Our results also reveal the importance of coordinating social distancing policies at the global level. In particular, the public health benefits from social distancing to a group (e.g., a country) may be completely undone if that group maintains connections with outside groups that are not following suit.
The one-pion-exchange potential with contact terms from lattice QCD simulations
Creators: name: Hu, Jinniu
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Shen, Hong
name: Toki, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion-mass-dependent nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) potentials in term of one-pion exchange and contact terms are obtained from the latest lattice QCD simulations of two-nucleon system, which employ the forms of leading order (LO) $NN$ potential from the chiral effective field theory and thus are named as the LO chiral potential in this work. We extract the coefficients of contact terms and cut-off momenta in these potentials, for the first time, by fitting the phase shifts of $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$ channels generated by the results of HALQCD collaboration with various pion masses from $468.6$ MeV to $1170.9$ MeV. The low-energy constants in the $^1S_0$ and $^3S_1$ channels become weaker and approach each other for larger pion masses. These LO chiral potentials are applied to symmetric nuclear and pure neutron matter within the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock method. At this moment, however, we do not have yet the information of the $P$-wave $NN$ interaction to be provided by the lattice QCD simulations for full description of nuclear matter. Our results will enhance the development of nuclear structure and nuclear matter by controlling the contribution of the pionic effect and illuminate the role of chiral symmetry of the strong interaction in complex system.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted to Chin. Phys. C
Do Internet-Based Promotion Efforts Work? Evaluating MarketMaker
Creators: name: Zapata, Samuel D.
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga
name: Lamie, R. Dave
name: Zapata, Samuel D.
name: Carpio, Carlos E.
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga
name: Lamie, R. Dave
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: e-commerce
subject: economic impact
subject: effectiveness
subject: direct marketing
subject: nonparametric methods
subject: supply chain

description: MarketMaker is one of the most extensive collections of electronic searchable food industry-related data engines in the country with over 17,500 profiles, including over 7,600 agricultural producers. This article summarizes the results of a survey that assesses the impact of MarketMaker on agricultural producers registered on the website. Results indicate that, by participating on MarketMaker, producers' annual sales have increased by about $121. The number of contacts received, new customers gained, and increased annual sales due to participation in the site are positively related to self-registration on the MarketMaker site, time since registration, and monthly time devoted to the website .
Probing a Kondo correlated quantum dot with spin spectroscopy
Creators: name: Kupidura, D.
name: Rogge, M. C.
name: Reinwald, M.
name: Wegscheider, W.
name: Haug, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Kondo effect and spin blockade observed on a many-electron quantum dot and study the magnetic field dependence. At lower fields a pronounced Kondo effect is found which is replaced by spin blockade at higher fields. In an intermediate regime both effects are visible. We make use of this combined effect to gain information about the internal spin configuration of our quantum dot. We find that the data cannot be explained assuming regular filling of electronic orbitals. Instead spin polarized filling seems to be probable.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Fossile Riesen-Eiskeilnetze am Niederrhein
Creators: name: Golte, Winfried
name: Heine, Klaus
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1974

description: Auf niederrheinischen Terrassenschottern finden sich in zum Teil regelmäßigen Abständen taschenförmige Gebilde mit einer durch Eisenoxyde und -hydroxyde auffällig gefärbten Füllung von Feinmaterial. Sie können bis zu 6 m breit werden und bis etwa 3 m in die Tiefe reichen. Bisher wurden sie als Würge- und Taschenböden gedeutet. Es wird gezeigt, daß diese Gebilde netzartig miteinander in Verbindung stehen und Zeugen fossiler Eiskeilnetze darstellen. Ihre Bildung erfolgte sehr wahrscheinlich nur während der Rißeiszeit im unmittelbaren Vorfeld des Inlandeises,
description: research
21st Century Statecraft : Bringing Public Diplomacy into the Future (A Strategic Public Diplomacy Plan for US Embassy Bogota)
Creators: name: Lalinde, Laura
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Description to be added
Testing Metallic Iron Filtration Systems for Decentralized Water Treatment at Pilot Scale
Creators: name: Tepong-Tsindé, Raoul
name: Crane, Richard
name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Nassi, Achille
name: Ruppert, Hans
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2015

description: There are many factors to consider for the design of appropriate water treatment systems including: cost, the concentration and type of biological and/or chemical contamination, concentration limits at which contaminant(s) are required to be removed, required flow rate, level of local expertise for on-going maintenance, and social acceptance. An ideal technology should be effective at producing clean, potable water; however it must also be low-cost, low-energy (ideally energy-free) and require low-maintenance. The use of packed beds containing metallic iron (Fe0 filters) has the potential to become a cheap widespread technology for both safe drinking water provision and wastewater treatment. Fe0 filters have been intensively investigated over the past two decades, however, sound design criteria are still lacking. This article presents an overview of the design of Fe0 filters for decentralized water treatment particularly in the developing world. A design for safe drinking water to a community of 100 people is also discussed as starting module. It is suggested that Fe0 filters have the potential for significant worldwide applicability, but particularly in the developing world. The appropriate design of Fe0 filters, however, is site-specific and dependent upon the availability of local expertise/materials.
description: Open-Access Publikationsfonds 2015
Quantum verification of NP problems with single photons and linear optics
Creators: name: Zhang, Aonan
name: Zhan, Hao
name: Liao, Junjie
name: Zheng, Kaimin
name: Jiang, Tao
name: Mi, Minghao
name: Yao, Penghui
name: Zhang, Lijian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computing is seeking to realize hardware-optimized algorithms for application-related computational tasks. NP (nondeterministic-polynomial-time) is a complexity class containing many important but intractable problems like the satisfiability of potentially conflict constraints (SAT). According to the well-founded exponential time hypothesis, verifying an SAT instance of size $n$ requires generally the complete solution in an $O(n)$-bit proof. In contrast, quantum verification algorithms, which encode the solution into quantum bits rather than classical bit strings, can perform the verification task with quadratically reduced information about the solution in $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$ qubits. Here we realize the quantum verification machine of SAT with single photons and linear optics. By using tunable optical setups, we efficiently verify satisfiable and unsatisfiable SAT instances and achieve a clear completeness-soundness gap even in the presence of experimental imperfections. The protocol requires only unentangled photons, linear operations on multiple modes and at most two-photon joint measurements. These features make the protocol suitable for photonic realization and scalable to large problem sizes. Our results open an essentially new route towards quantum advantages and extend the computational capability of optical quantum computing.
description: 20 pages, 15 figures
title: Factors affecting reading comprehension in primary pupils
Creators: name: MacMartin, Morag I.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1993

description: This thesis addresses the problem of 8-11 year old pupils who, although appearing to read text fluently, frequently misunderstand it. This problem was studied through Scottish school-based research using classroom materials and subjects from natural class groups. Data were collected from language assignments in daily work programmes, with response material in either written or illustrated form. Nine feasibility studies and a main study involving eighty subjects were carried out. The effects of five variables, text, presentation mode, age, ability and geographic location, on the totals and types of miscomprehensions displayed by the subjects in directed and free-recall comprehension tasks were calculated. 'Errors' are considered to be divergences from the author's supposed meaning. It is found that the collected errors are not random but may be classified into groups. Ten types of error were identified as regularly occurring and the category system developed was validated by teachers and others involved in the field of education. The effects of the five variables on the numbers and categories of error collected and the interactions between these variables were subjected to statistical analysis. Text and presentation mode are found to be the factors having most effect on the quantity and type of error produced. This finding is at variance with the generally accepted assumption that age, ability and possibly environment are determinants of potential pupil achievement. Miscomprehensions are discovered to be widely distributed across the ability range but they may be concealed by pupils in their pursuit of acceptable responses. The progress expected with increasing age is not always evident. The value of the category system as a teaching tool in comprehension development across the curriculum and pupil age range is assessed and suggestions given for its use. Implications of the findings for pupil assessment procedures and classroom practice are also discussed.
Do U/Pb-SHRIMP Dating and Pb Stepwise Leaching (PbSL) Analyses Confirm the Lack of Precambrian Basement Outcrops in Thailand?
Creators: name: Hansen, Bent T.
name: Wemmer, Klaus
name: Putthapiban, Prinya
name: Kleinhanns, Ilka C.
name: Wilsky, Franziska
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2014

description: U/Pb-SHRIMP dating and Pb stepwise leaching (PbSL) experiments on zircons and garnets, respectively have confirmed the lack of Precambrian outcrops within the crystalline basement of Thailand. The obtained data for the high grade metamorphism show Indosinian ages ranging from 225 - 200 Ma as previously suggested for the vast majority of outcrops in NW-Thailand ([1] and references therein), as well as a small group of ages in the range of 445 Ma in the Lampang Province. Further, the age of a thermal imprint around 60 Ma was confirmed near Surat Thani, Peninsular Thailand, and only a few indications of older ages for the unknown source areas were detected in detrital components.
Franz Kossmat – Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains – a translation of the German text with supplementary notes
Creators: name: Meinhold, Guido
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: This work is in honour of Franz Kossmat (1871–1938) and his esteemed paper the Gliederung des varistischen Gebirgsbaues published 1927 in Abhandlungen des Sächsischen Geologischen Landesamts, Volume 1, pages 1 to 39. It constitutes the foundation of the general subdivision of the Central European Variscides into several geotectonic zones and the idea of large-scale nappe transport of individual units. In the English translation presented here an attempt is made to provide a readable text, which should still reflect Kossmat's style but would also be readable for a non-German speaking community either working in the Variscan Mountains or having specific interests in historical aspects of geosciences. Supplementary notes provide information about Kossmat's life and the content of the text. Kossmat's work is a superb example of how important geological fieldwork and mapping are for progress in geoscientific research.
Curation at GFBio Data Centers
Creators: name: Weibulat, Tanja
name: Gleisberg, Maren
name: Klasen, Birgit
name: Kostadinov, Ivaylo
name: Linares, Jimena
name: Penzlin, Anke
name: Weber, Judith
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: GFBio
research data management
Data curation

description: Poster GFBio-10 from the GFBio General Assembly 2021 of the GFBio Project summarizing the projects and subtasks work and outcome between 2013 and 2021. The ten GFBio Data Centers act as infrastructure partners in the GFBio broker network. Data submitted to GFBio are trans- mitted to and curated by data curators at the GFBio Data Centers. The submitted data are enriched with metadata, dependent on the data type, data format and data content. This is done in close collaboration with the data producer.
Critical velocities $c/\sqrt 3$ and $c/\sqrt 2$ in general theory of relativity
Creators: name: Blinnikov, S. I.
name: Okun, L. B.
name: Vysotsky, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a few thought experiments of radial motion of massive particles in the gravitational fields outside and inside various celestial bodies: Earth, Sun, black hole. All other interactions except gravity are disregarded. For the outside motion there exists a critical value of coordinate velocity ${\rm v}_c = c/\sqrt 3$: particles with ${\rm v} < {\rm v}_c$ are accelerated by the field, like Newtonian apples, particles with ${\rm v} > {\rm v}_c$ are decelerated like photons. Particles moving inside a body with constant density have no critical velocity; they are always accelerated. We consider also the motion of a ball inside a tower, when it is thrown from the top (bottom) of the tower and after classically bouncing at the bottom (top) comes back to the original point. The total time of flight is the same in these two cases if the initial proper velocity $v_0$ is equal to $c/\sqrt 2$.
description: 13 pages
title: Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
Creators: name: Gregson, Michael Anthony O'Malley
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: This thesis examines the phenomenon of Sir Walter Scott's extraordinary Victorian popularity. Focussing on criticism of his Waverley Novels between 1832 - the year of his death - and the end of the century, the thesis plots the development and terms of Scott's eminence. An introductory chapter sets out principal areas of study, being followed by a section leading up to 1832. Then follow analyses of critical work on Scott by, respectively, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, John Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, Richard Hutton and Julia Wedgwood. The thesis concludes with an epilogic section covering critics of the late nineteenth century, including Frederic Harrison and Andrew Lang. In each instance the context of each critic's wider work figures prominently. The thesis contends that large elements of Scott's achievement received relatively little attention in Victorian criticism. These are Scotti,s Enlightenment interests in speculative history and detailed, almost sociological, methods of composition, as well as the 'experimental' character of his work. By contrast, much was made in criticism of what may be summarised as his 'health' and 'beneficial effects'. It is claimed that the construction of such consensual critical notions about the merits of Scott's very popular work had a great deal to do with the buttressing and underpinning of some Victorian attitudes. While these varied with critics' own preoccupations - and Scott's 'malleability' is remarkable - Scott's role was so significant in Victorian culture that his employment, within what was still a relatively eclectic and formally undisciplined critical practice, constituted significant ideological manoeuvring. Specifically, Scott's remit in Victorian criticism was most usually to represent and validate some kind of opposition to the present. This both excluded much of his achievement, and also narrowed the terms of his appraisal so as to permit a revealing coalescence of literary with social, political and even racial arguments. This thesis traces the increasing definition of such a pattern within Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels.
Supplementary File 2-CA-model: from Fuzzy optimization for identifying anti-cancer targets with few side effects in constraint-based models of head and neck cancer
Creators: name: Wang, Feng-Sheng
name: Chen, Pei-Rong
name: Chen, Ting-Yu
name: Zhang, Hao-Xiang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The reconstructed genome-scale metabolic model of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
title: Distance higher education in the People's Republic of China
Creators: name: McCormick, Robert
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: This is a study of distance learning as part of the higher education system in China. The thesis investigates the development of distance learning systems in the post-Mao period (1976-1991), and assesses their roles in higher education as a whole. The first part of the thesis considers the theory, policy and practice in China as contexts within which distance learning has to operate. It also considers concepts and hopes for distance learning that are found in the international literature. Three major distance learning systems are investigated in detail in the second part of the thesis. The third part considers these systems in the context of one province and also in the national context, bringing together the first two parts. The contribution of distance learning to higher education in China has been important, and it has shown great promise. However, the government at local and national level has sought to control some of the systems to suit its planning needs for the economy, and to conform to its view of quality. The thesis argues that this has meant that an opportunity has been lost to capitalize on the contribution of distance learning. Future developments are likely to rest in part on changes to programmes away from the higher education level, and in part on the degree to which the systems co-operate and indeed integrate their activity.
Le marinier de Couëron
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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Active Galactic Nuclei with Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
Creators: name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an initial sample of 19 intermediate-mass black hole candidates in active galactic nuclei culled from the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using the linewidth-luminosity-mass scaling relation established for broad-line active nuclei, we estimate black hole masses in the range of 8 x 10^4 - 10^6 solar masses, a regime in which only two objects are currently known. The absolute magnitudes are faint for active galactic nuclei, ranging from M_g of -15 to -18 mag, while the bolometric luminosities are all close to the Eddington limit. The entire sample formally satisfies the linewidth criterion for so-called narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies; however, they display a wider range of FeII and [OIII] (5007) line strengths than is typically observed in this class of objects. Although the available imaging data are of insufficient quality to ascertain the detailed morphologies of the host galaxies, it is likely that the majority of the hosts are relatively late-type systems. The host galaxies have estimated g-band luminosities ~ 1 mag fainter than M* for the general galaxy population at z of 0.1. Beyond simply extending the known mass range of central black holes in galactic nuclei, these objects provide unique observational constraints on the progenitors of supermassive black holes. They are also expected to contribute significantly to the integrated signal for future gravitational wave experiments.
description: ApJ Accepted, 13 pages, 9 figures, uses emulateapj.cls
Towards Certification of GFBio Data Centers
Creators: name: Klasen, Birgit
name: Grobe, Peter
name: Ebeling, Christian
name: Gaikwad, Jitendra
name: Gleisberg, Maren
name: Glöckler, Falko
name: Güntsch, Anton
name: Holstein, Joachim
name: König-Ries, Birgitta
name: Penzlin, Anke
name: Petersen, Mareike
name: Seifert, Stefan
name: Sharafeldeen, Dina
name: von Mering, Sabine
name: Weibulat, Tanja
name: Triebel, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: CoreTrustSeal
GFBio
research data management
Data center
Long-term archival

description: Poster GFBio-06 from the GFBio General Assembly 2021 of "Work Package 2 - Data Submission, Ingest, Archiving & Publication" of the GFBio Project summarizing the projects and subtasks work and outcome between 2013 and 2021. In a selection process, CoreTrustSeal was chosen as the certification authority. Subsequently, the GFBio data Centers worked towards certification, including the required documentation of the technical and data management workflows.
Optimized Deep Encoder-Decoder Methods for Crack Segmentation
Creators: name: König, Jacob
name: Jenkins, Mark
name: Mannion, Mike
name: Barrie, Peter
name: Morison, Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Surface crack segmentation poses a challenging computer vision task as background, shape, colour and size of cracks vary. In this work we propose optimized deep encoder-decoder methods consisting of a combination of techniques which yield an increase in crack segmentation performance. Specifically we propose a decoder-part for an encoder-decoder based deep learning architecture for semantic segmentation and study its components to achieve increased performance. We also examine the use of different encoder strategies and introduce a data augmentation policy to increase the amount of available training data. The performance evaluation of our method is carried out on four publicly available crack segmentation datasets. Additionally, we introduce two techniques into the field of surface crack segmentation, previously not used there: Generating results using test-time-augmentation and performing a statistical result analysis over multiple training runs. The former approach generally yields increased performance results, whereas the latter allows for more reproducible and better representability of a methods results. Using those aforementioned strategies with our proposed encoder-decoder architecture we are able to achieve new state of the art results in all datasets.
description: Accepted Manuscript at Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier)
Impact of Saudization Program Amongst Nurses in Selected Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Dumayahon, Betty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Saudization program, a pivotal policy initiative in Saudi Arabia, aims to increase the employment of Saudi nationals in various sectors, including healthcare. This study investigates the impact of the Saudization program among nurses in a selected military hospital in Saudi Arabia, situated at the intersection of specialized healthcare and national security. The purpose of this qualitative-descriptive research is to explore the experiences, perspectives, and outcomes of nurses affected by the Saudization program within a military healthcare setting. Qualitative methods were employed, with semi-structured interviews serving as the primary data collection tool. Thematic analysis was applied to the interview transcripts to identify recurring themes and patterns. The thematic analysis revealed several key themes, including changes in workforce composition, challenges in recruitment and training, shifts in patient care dynamics, and the impact on healthcare quality. Nurses' responses ranged from apprehension to optimism regarding the program's effects on their professional roles and the quality of healthcare services. The discussion contextualizes the findings within the broader framework of Saudization in healthcare and the unique characteristics of military hospitals. It addresses the delicate balance between nationalization efforts and maintaining the highest standards of care in specialized healthcare settings. The impact of the Saudization program on nurses in military hospitals is complex, with multifaceted implications for healthcare quality, national security, and workforce dynamics. This study underscores the need for strategic planning, ongoing support, and tailored policies to optimize the program's outcomes in the military healthcare sector.
title: The reality and implications of community perceptions of school effectiveness: a case study of selected schools
Creators: name: Glover, Derek Charles
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: This research begins by analysing the effects of parental choice on the development of two neighbouring schools in one county between 1980 and 1990 and questions the validity of community judgement of schools. The literature review traces the development of home and school links and community involvement, the measurement of school effectiveness and previous work on parental choice of school. A distinction is made between "choice" and "judgement" of schools. The community which might affect a school is defined as parents, leavers and the community at large. An initial survey in one school identified those features which were considered important in judging the effectiveness of schools, and, backed by findings from a number of research sources, twelve criteria were selected as the basis for the main fieldwork. By means of a rapid response survey up to one hundred respondents in each of seven secondary schools, selected to give a range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, were asked to identify which of the twelve criteria were seen as strengths in the school. Up to thirty interviews were also held in each school community. In each school the identified strengths were compared with evidence for the existence of those strengths in school performance.
Geometrical Spinoptics and the Optical Hall Effect
Creators: name: Duval, Christian
name: Horvath, Zalan
name: Horvathy, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Geometrical optics is extended so as to provide a model for spinning light rays via the coadjoint orbits of the Euclidean group characterized by color and spin. This leads to a theory of ``geometrical spinoptics'' in refractive media. Symplectic scattering yields generalized Snell-Descartes laws that include the recently discovered optical Hall effect.
description: 33 pages. Two subsections and new references added. To appear in the Journal of Geometry and Physics
title: Embodying conversational characteristics in a graphical user interface
Creators: name: Singer, Ronald A.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: In the history of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, SOPHIE (Brown, Burton, and Bell, 1974), now considered a classic, contained many important ideas and features. One of these was its natural language user interface. Today, the trend has moved away from natural language interfaces towards graphical ones although the argument in favour of natural language user interfaces, both from Human Computer Interaction and natural language researchers, still persist. Is this argument correct? This thesis explores this question by investigating how SOPHIE might be re-implemented with a graphical direct manipulation interface instead of a natural language one, with the goal of improving its standard of usability. It begins by analysing the features that seem to have been central to SOPHIE's usability. These, it argues, were not so much an ability to accept well formed complete English sentences, as an ability to accept and interpret correctly a wide range of abbreviated inputs. Two models of interaction, Circuit 1, a pilot, and Circuit II, a fairly full implementation of SOPHIE were implemented and tested. Both employ free-order syntax that allows users to specify the components of a full command in any order. The combination of deixis and free-order syntax supported allows completely general ellipsis which achieves, in extended interaction sequences, the same economy and naturalness that SOPHIE achieved through its use of anaphora and ellipsis. Whilst the free-order syntax. technique is little used at present in user interfaces, the results of observational studies conducted have shown that it saves users time and convenience. Thus, considering key linguistic features of a natural language user interface has shown how novel features can enhance the usability of direct manipulation interfaces. This thesis argues that user interfaces can be improved by employing structures found in natural language or at least conversation which can be constructed within direct manipulation interface styles. This approach was further expanded to support topic shifts between different circuit contexts. Circuit II, like SOPHIE, supports three different topics: normal circuit behaviour, a circuit with an unknown fault, and circuits with user-hypothesised faults. Drawing on Reichman's (1981) work, Circuit II uses natural language cue phrases of the type "by the way", re-implemented in the direct manipulation style, to facilitate shifts between topics in a smoother and more natural way than SOPHIE which , used clumsy explicit commands.
FAIR Digital Objects with Structured Trait Data in the GFBio Portal
Creators: name: Link, Anton
name: Seifert, Stefan
name: Weibulat, Tanja
name: Reichert, Wolfgang
name: Weiss, Markus
name: Triebel, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EML
SDD-EML
research data management
DWB
GFBio

description: Poster GFBio-04 from the GFBio General Assembly 2021 of "Work Package 2 - Data Submission, Ingest, Archiving & Publication" of the GFBio Project summarizing the projects and subtasks work and outcome between 2013 and 2021. The ecological and environmental research community relies on the Ecological Markup Language (EML) as metadata exchange standard. It allows for providing information packages with XML-based EML files and assigned tabular CSV data files structured according user-specific proprietary content schemas, often matrices with measurement data (EML-CSV). The biological systematics, nature observation and conservation domain focus on structuring descriptive and trait data acording community agreed vocabularies, internal data schemas and classifications. A combination of EML metadata and research data in the XML-based TDWG approved standard SDD (Structured Descriptive Data) is appropriate to create well structured trait data (EML-SDD).
Building Water Resilience at the Water Leaders Summit
Creators: name: Vogel Davis, Stacy
name: The Water Council
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This publication is a summary from The Water Council's 2023 Water Leaders Summit, held Sept. 13 and 14, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Resiliency – defined as the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties – is important to many of our members working in water technology, water and wastewater utilities, and water stewardship. We know climate change will only heighten difficulties such as water scarcity, flooding and contamination and increase the demand for solutions.

In spring 2023, The Water Council and our partners received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a Regional Innovation Engine focused on water and energy resiliency for manufacturers and utilities. This engine would eventually be called Water + Energy Forward.

So it made sense for resiliency to be the theme of our 2023 Water Leaders Summit. Each year, the summit draws water and sustainability professionals from across the country to discuss pressing water issues and network with fellow leaders in the water sector.
$Λ(1405)$ production in the $π^-p\to K^0πΣ$ reaction
Creators: name: Hyodo, T.
name: Hosaka, A.
name: Oset, E.
name: Ramos, A.
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the mechanisms that lead to $Λ(1405)$ production in the $π^-p\to K^0πΣ$ reaction. The problem has gained renewed interest after different works converge to the conclusion that there are two resonances around the region of 1400 MeV, rather than one, and that they couple differently to the $πΣ$ and $\bar{K}N$ channels. We look at the dynamics of that reaction and find two mechanisms which eventually filter each one of the resonances, leading to very different shapes of the $πΣ$ invariant mass distributions. The combination of the two mechanisms leads to a shape of this distribution compatible with the experimental measurements.
description: RevTeX4, 10 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, Version to appear in Phys. Rev. C
title: Ultrastructural studies of cornea and sclera
Creators: name: Fullwood, Nigel James
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: The work of Goodfellow et al., (J. Mol. BioI. 119: 231. 1918) and Sayers et al., (J. Mol. BioI. 160: 593. 1982), was repeated using fresh, equilibrated cornea, confirming their finding that the plot of interfibrillar spacing against liydration is a linear relationship. Intermolecular spacing in cornea, sclera and rat-tail tendon was shown to increase rapidly over the hydration range H=O to H≈1, then tan off (physiological hydration is at H=3.2). Intermolecular and interfibrillar spacings rise in unison over the hydration range H=O to H≈1, after which virtually all of the water goes between the fibrils. It was found that freezing corneas to 40oC and then thawing had no effect on normally hydrated or dehydrated corneas, but caused damage to swollen corneas. Freezing to -180°C and thawing resulted in permanent damage to normally hydrated corneas . The changes in intermolecular spacing, D-period spacing, fibril diameter and fibril packing as a result of processing for TEM and SEM have been described. Low temperature embedding in Lowicryl K4M resin produced least disruption in the cornea. The fibril diameter in cornea at normal hydration was established to be 37.4nm±1.4. X-ray data modelling indicates that fibril packing in the cornea is liquid-like, as proposed by Worthington and Inoyue (Int. J. Macromol. 7: 2. 1985). It was shown that the water in the corneal stroma is evenly distributed around the fibrils over the hydration range H=O to H=4. Above H=4 more water is entering the stroma than can be "accounted for if its distribution is uniform. The transmittance of light through the bovine cornea (excluding interference effects), was calculated as T≈12%. Thus, most of the transparency of the cornea must be due to constructive interference as first proposed by Maurice (J. Physiol. 136: 263. 1951). Examination of keratoconus corneas by the the SEM and TEM and showed abnormal epithelial cells, disrupted lamellae, and abnormally arranged proteoglycans. Analysis of X-ray data proved that stromal thinning in keratoconus was not due to closer fibril packing. Also that keratoconus corneas had increased intermolecular spacing, and an abnormal arrangement of proteoglycans along the fibrils. No differences were found between the corneal stroma of normal and myopic chicks. Myopic chick sclera was shown to have more aggrecan proteoglycan which was associated with larger empty spaces, than normal sclera. The fibril attachment sites of the proteoglycans was the same in normal and myopic sclera.
Phylogenetic Analysis of a Microbialite-Forming Microbial Mat from a Hypersaline Lake of the Kiritimati Atoll, Central Pacific
Creators: name: Schneider, Dominik
name: Arp, Gernot
name: Reimer, Andreas
name: Reitner, Joachim
name: Daniel, Rolf
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2013

description: On the Kiritimati atoll, several lakes exhibit microbial mat-formation under different hydrochemical conditions. Some of these lakes trigger microbialite formation such as Lake 21, which is an evaporitic, hypersaline lake (salinity of approximately 170%). Lake 21 is completely covered with a thick multilayered microbial mat. This mat is associated with the formation of decimeter-thick highly porous microbialites, which are composed of aragonite and gypsum crystals. We assessed the bacterial and archaeal community composition and its alteration along the vertical stratification by large-scale analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences of the nine different mat layers. The surface layers are dominated by aerobic, phototrophic, and halotolerant microbes. The bacterial community of these layers harbored Cyanobacteria (Halothece cluster), which were accompanied with known phototrophic members of the Bacteroidetes and Alphaproteobacteria. In deeper anaerobic layers more diverse communities than in the upper layers were present. The deeper layers were dominated by Spirochaetes, sulfate-reducing bacteria (Deltaproteobacteria), Chloroflexi (Anaerolineae and Caldilineae), purple non-sulfur bacteria (Alphaproteobacteria), purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiales), anaerobic Bacteroidetes (Marinilabiacae), Nitrospirae (OPB95), Planctomycetes and several candidate divisions. The archaeal community, including numerous uncultured taxonomic lineages, generally changed from Euryarchaeota (mainly Halobacteria and Thermoplasmata) to uncultured members of the Thaumarchaeota (mainly Marine Benthic Group B) with increasing depth.
A comparative analysis of a selection of Hungarian folktales in English
Creators: name: Szilagyi, Andrea Katalin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A significant body of Hungarian folktales in English exists, but these tales are difficult to locate, out of print, and/or excluded from international folktale anthologies. Critics have attributed this lack of prominence to linguistic isolation or to issues surrounding translation and economic challenges in today's publishing world. This thesis examines a selected body of Hungarian folktales in English. Specifically, it presents the findings of my extensive search for tales in translation and for scholarship on these tales; it offers a system of classifying and describing the selected tales and provides a comparative analysis of variants and types; and it offers an argument for anthologizing tales for a Canadian and/or Hungarian Canadian reading audience. Twenty tales (four variants within each tale category), chosen according to the selection criteria, comprise the body of primary material and are grouped according to tale categories - fairy tales, humorous tales, animal tales, anecdotes, and historical legends. In considering the variants of a selection of tale types and their particular references to Hungarian culture, this study illuminates the persistence of certain Hungarian folktales while highlighting their cultural distinctiveness. Ultimately, by creating awareness of this unique body of tales, my hope is for Canadian readers to be made aware of Hungary's culture and its folk literature, and for the tales to find their way into collections of multicultural folktales, to be released from their isolation, and to join other well-known international folktales on bookshelves around the world.
PP-waves and softly broken N=1 SYM
Creators: name: Bigazzi, F.
name: Cotrone, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the Penrose limit of the Type IIB dual of softly broken N=1 SYM in four dimensions obtained as a deformation of the Maldacena-Nunez background. We extract the string spectrum on the resulting pp-wave background and discuss some properties of the conjectured dual gauge theory hadrons, the so called ``Annulons''.
description: LaTeX, iopart class, 8 pages. Contribution to the proceedings of the workshop of the RTN Network "The quantum structure of space-time and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions", Copenhagen, September 2003
Evaluating the phase dynamics of coupled oscillators via time-variant topological features
Creators: name: Itabashi, Kazuha
name: Tran, Quoc Hoan
name: Hasegawa, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By characterizing the phase dynamics in coupled oscillators, we gain insights into the fundamental phenomena of complex systems. The collective dynamics in oscillatory systems are often described by order parameters, which are insufficient for identifying more specific behaviors. To improve this situation, we propose a topological approach that constructs the quantitative features describing the phase evolution of oscillators. Here, the phase data are mapped into a high-dimensional space at each time, and the topological features describing the shape of the data are subsequently extracted from the mapped points. These features are extended to time-variant topological features by adding the evolution time as an extra dimension in the topological feature space. The time-variant features provide crucial insights into the evolution of phase dynamics. Combining these features with the kernel method, we characterize the multi-clustered synchronized dynamics during the early evolution stages. Finally, we demonstrate that our method can qualitatively explain chimera states. The experimental results confirmed the superiority of our method over those based on order parameters, especially when the available data are limited to the early-stage dynamics.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Equilibrium of charges and differential equations solved by polynomials
Creators: name: Loutsenko, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We examine connections between rationality of certain indefinite integrals and equilibrium of Coulomb charges in the complex plane.
description: LATEX, 15 pages
Measuring the impact of agricultural research on Catalan agricultural productivity
Creators: name: Guesmi, Bouali
name: Gil, Jose Maria
name: Guesmi, Bouali
name: Gil, Jose Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural productivity
subject: Public agricultural research
subject: Knowledge stock
subject: Internal rate of return
subject: Catalonia

description: The main purpose of this article is to assess the impact of public agricultural research effort on agricultural total factor productivity in Catalonia. A complementary approach based on accounting and econometric techniques is applied to annual data over the period 1985–2015 to fit the relationship between agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) and agriculture research spending. The results show that TFP grows on average at an annual rate less than one percent. TFP growth was much faster during the tow first decades of the analysis, with a considerable slowdown in the last decade. Our empirical findings indicate that public agricultural research has statistically significant positive impact on Catalan agricultural productivity. Furthermore, from a cost–benefit perspective, our study reveals that the social marginal annualized real rate of return to public resources invested in agricultural research is about 15–28%.