cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Positive attitude toward people living with HIV/AIDS among women accompanied (n = 82) and not accompanied by the male partner (n = 46).
Additional file 1 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Knowledge on HIV/AIDS transmission (1–8), prevention and treatment (9–15) among women accompanied (n = 82) and not accompanied by the male partner (n = 46).
The Islamicization of Politics: Motivations for Violence in Kashmir
Creators: name: Bhatnagar, Gaurav
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Armed Forces
subject: South Asians

description: "The conflict over Kashmir is the longest unresolved conflict on the UN Security Council docket. It began in 1947 and has continued for six decades without any significant progress toward peace. Due to the rapid rise in the influence of pan-Islamic groups operating in Kashmir over the past decade, scholars have tended to cast the conflict as an Islamic conflict. This paper seeks to address two related questions: first, why has the conflict in Kashmir been interpreted by scholars and commentators as one motivated primarily along religious lines, as a battle between Islamic militant groups in response to religious persecution by a Hindu government? Second, is that characterization accurate? In other words, is the motivation for violence in Kashmir best explained by religious or secular and political factors? In addressing these questions, this paper will focus on the motivations for conflict with specific attention to the various militant groups operating in the region and how both the groups and their grievances have shifted over time. Accurately identifying the motivations for conflicts—especially those that are cast as Islamic conflicts—is important in order to prevent the spread of misconceptions, as these false impressions of conflicts often shape the opinions of the conflict and proposed solutions.
This paper concludes that although the original motivations for the conflict were primarily political, the recent surge in influence of pan-Islamic groups has caused the media and scholars to mischaracterize the essential nature of the conflict as primarily religious. Though religion has influenced how militant groups have mobilized and used symbolism, this popular depiction is flawed because the fundamental grievances and motivations are predominantly political."--from page 1
A survey of research involvement and priorities among occupational therapists in Norway
Creators: name: Taule, Tina
name: Hellem, Inger
name: Eide, Irmelin Smith
name: Gjelvik, Kristin
name: Hinderaker, Liv Elisabeth
name: Kjeken, Ingvild
name: Rolfsnes-Flock, Bianca
name: Hustoft, Merethe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Involvement in research and shared priorities among occupational therapists (OTs) can enhance the quality of occupational therapy practice. To explore the research involvement and research priorities of OTs in Norway. An online survey comprising 14 open-ended and closed questions was made available to participants at the Seventh Norwegian Congress in Occupational Therapy to fill out. Out of 633 congress participants, 307 (49%) OTs completed the survey. Among the respondents, ∼40% were involved in research. The most commonly reported area of research was rehabilitation. Research involvement was associated with employment in education or specialist healthcare services and with greater work experience and post-bachelor’s degree education. The most frequently prioritized research question addressed the effect of occupational therapy. Unmet needs and factors conducive to increasing OT’s involvement in research were identified. The survey revealed that a considerable, but uneven, distribution of OTs were involved in research. To encourage greater participation in research, researchers, decision-makers, and employee associations should take steps to make research more appealing to OTs. The research priorities highlighted by Norwegian OTs align with those stated by OTs in other countries.
Additional file 3 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Safe practice toward HIV/AIDS among women accompanied (N = 82) and not accompanied by the male partner (n = 46).
Maternal Stress: The First 14 Months Postpartum
Creators: name: Maylott, Sarah E.
name: Patel-Syed, Zabin
name: Lebowitz, Mendel
name: Leung, Tiffany S.
name: Simpson, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective. Maternal stress is a psychological response to the demands of motherhood. A high level of maternal stress is a risk factor for maternal mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, as well as adverse infant socioemotional and cognitive outcomes. Yet, levels of maternal stress (i.e., levels of stress related to parenting) among low-risk samples are rarely studied longitudinally, particularly in the first year after birth. Design. We measured maternal stress in an ethnically diverse sample of low-risk, healthy U.S. mothers of healthy infants (N = 143) living in South Florida across six time points between 2 weeks and 14 months postpartum using the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, capturing stress related to the mother, mother-infant interactions, and the infant. Results. Maternal distress increased as infants aged for mothers with more than one child, but not for first-time mothers whose distress levels remained low and stable across this period. Stress related to mother-infant dysfunctional interactions lessened over the first 8 months. Mothers’ stress about their infants’ difficulties decreased from 2 weeks to 6 months, and subsequently increased from 6 to 14 months. Conclusions. Our findings suggest that maternal stress is dynamic across the first year after birth. The current study adds to our understanding of typical developmental patterns in early motherhood and identifies potential domains and time points as targets for future interventions.
Cognitive and Socioemotional Caregiving in Mothers, Fathers, and Children’s Other Caregivers from 51 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Creators: name: Rothenberg, W. Andrew
name: Bornstein, Marc H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Objective. Cognitive and socioemotional caregiving practices are both important for child development, but little is known about the extent to which children’s different caregivers engage in the two types of practices or their relative effects on child development, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Design. The current study investigates how often mothers, fathers, and children’s other caregivers in 159,959 families from 51 LMICs engage in cognitive versus socioemotional caregiving practices, associations between these caregiving practices, and how the balance between these practices predicts child development. Results. Caregivers reportedly engage in more socioemotional than cognitive caregiving practices in all LMICs examined at all levels of national development. The more mothers, fathers, and other caregivers reportedly engage in cognitive caregiving practices, the more they engage in socioemotional parenting practices. Engaging in cognitive caregiving practices is the strongest predictor of early childhood development when considering cognitive caregiving, socioemotional caregiving, and the balance between the two types of caregiving. Conclusions. Promoting increased caregiver use of cognitive caregiving and integration of cognitive and socioemotional caregiving could close the gap between the number of cognitive and socioemotional caregiving activities parents engage in and potentially promote child development in LMICs.
Ultracold-atom quantum simulator for attosecond science
Creators: name: Sala, Simon
name: Förster, Johann
name: Saenz, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum simulator based on ultracold optically trapped atoms for simulating the physics of atoms and molecules in ultrashort intense laser fields is introduced. The slowing down by about 13 orders of magnitude allows to watch in slow motion the tunneling and recollision processes that form the heart of attosecond science. The extreme flexibility of the simulator promises a deeper understanding of strong-field physics, especially for many-body systems beyond the reach of classical computers. The quantum simulator can experimentally straightforwardly be realized and is shown to recover the ionization characteristics of atoms in the different regimes of laser-matter interaction.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Metrics, Dollars, and Systems Change: Learning from Washington State’s Student Achievement Initiative to Design Effective Postsecondary Performance Funding Policies
Creators: name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Shulock, Nancy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: As the nation’s colleges and universities struggle with declining public funding, growing enrollments, and calls for improved completion rates, state lawmakers are once again looking at performance- based funding as a way to generate a better return on public investments in higher education. This renewed interest in performance funding derives from observations that enrollment-based funding has led institutions to focus on maximizing enrollment and thus pay insufficient attention to student outcomes. By tying institutional funding to completion and other desired outcomes, the expectation is that colleges will have added motivation to identify and implement better ways to accomplish those goals. Earlier models of performance-based funding encountered much resistance from educators and were often short-lived. Designed mostly to reward degree completion, often with arbitrary targets and few dollars, they were rightly criticized for imposing standards and metrics on institutions that did not accurately capture their missions and complexities. Particularly for community colleges, which aim to provide “open access” to higher education, completion rates provide an incomplete measure of their effectiveness in achieving their mission. Thus, with performance-based funding, colleges could in effect be penalized for opening their doors to disadvantaged students, who are more expensive to serve and less likely to complete a program than students with more privileged backgrounds.
Measuring Parenting Self-Efficacy from Pregnancy into Early Childhood: Longitudinal Factor Analysis and Measurement Invariance
Creators: name: de Moor, Marleen H. M.
name: Verhage, Marije L.
name: Oosterman, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective. Parenting self-efficacy is an important and widely examined construct in parenting research. Yet, studies that thoroughly assess the psychometrics properties of scales that assess parenting self-efficacy are scarce. We examined the longitudinal factor structure and measurement invariance of a self-report measure of parenting self-efficacy. Design. A sample of 1,851 first-time mothers completed the 16-item Self-Efficacy in the Nurturing Role questionnaire at 12, 22, and 32 weeks gestation and 3, 12, and 24 months postnatal. Results. Factor analyses indicated that the SENR consisted of two dimensions at all timepoints: Confidence in parenting skills and Lack of insecurity/distress in the parenting role. Strict measurement invariance was found for the SENR across prenatal timepoints, but only metric measurement invariance across postnatal timepoints. Conclusions. Parenting self-efficacy is a multidimensional construct, consisting of cognitive and emotionally laden appraisals of the ability to parent. Across the transition into motherhood, as mothers gain more experience in their parenting role, parenting self-efficacy levels and the way mothers answer the questions that assess parenting self-efficacy change.
Utilising the pre-crop effect of grain legumes
Creators: name: Notz, Inka
name: Reckling, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: legumes
pre-crop effect

description: The pre-crop effect of legumes is the positive effect a legume crop has on the performance of the following crop. This effect on the following crop, usually a cereal, is often presented as a reason to grow legumes. Full use of this pre-crop effect requires a good understanding of its size and its causes. Factors affecting this include the site conditions, crop management practices, cropping sequences (rotation), and the legume species and cereals grown. Making efficient use of the pre-crop effect can save considerable amounts of nitrogen fertiliser, enable reduced tillage and pesticide application, enhance soil structure, and increase the yield and quality parameters of the following cereal crops. These effects allow cost, energy and time savings, and increase production and revenues for the farmer. It reduces impacts on the environment.
Versiones y construcciones de sentido en torno a la "Huella de ida y vuelta" (Yacomuzzi-Molina) y a la música de la provincia de La Pampa (Argentina)
Creators: name: Romaniuk, Ana María
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2009
Subjects: Music
Argentina
Molina, Gerardo "Lalo"
Yacomuzzi, Roberto

description: El propósito inicial de este escrito es realizar una breve descripción de la música popular de raíz folklórica de La Pampa, provincia ubicada en la región central de la República Argentina. Este repertorio es denominado por sus cultores “música o folklore pampeano” y comprende composiciones musicales que pueden ser interpretadas como la recreación de un repertorio proveniente de zonas rurales, producido principalmente en la ciudad de Santa Rosa, con el propósito de componer, consolidar y hacer trascender una producción musical que se instale en el lugar de reconocimiento de lo local. Luego se focalizará sobre las construcciones de sentido generados a partir de observar diferentes versiones de una canción emblemática, la “Huella de ida y vuelta”, elegida para ser incluida en el repertorio de intérpretes pampeanos que adscriben en su postura ideológica a “este modo de hacer la música” con pretensiones de representatividad de lo regional y en el de quienes se dedican a un repertorio más amplio donde lo local queda inmerso en lo nacional. Además estudiaremos la trascendencia que logra la canción en grabaciones no relacionadas directamente con la producción musical local, pero que son erigidas por los propios cultores locales como factor de legitimación.
$1/f$ Spectrum and 1-Stable Law in One-Dimensional Intermittent Map with Uniform Invariant Measure and Nekhoroshev Stability
Creators: name: Shinkai, Soya
name: Aizawa, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate ergodic properties of a one-dimensional intermittent map that has not only an indifferent fixed point but also a singular structure such that a uniform measure is invariant under mapping. The most striking aspect of our model is that stagnant motion around the indifferent fixed point is induced by the log-Weibull law, which is derived from Nekhoroshev stability in the context of nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems. Using renewal analysis, we derive a logarithmic inverse power decay of the correlation function and a $1/ω$-like power spectral density. We also derive the so-called 1-stable law as a component of the time-average distribution of a simple observable function. This distributional law enables us to calculate a logarithmic inverse power law of large deviations. Numerical results confirm these analytical results. Finally, we discuss the relationship between the parameters of our model and the degrees of freedom in nearly-integrable Hamiltonian systems.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
De militiae instituendae principiis dissertatio; [1822]
Creators: name: Tellkampf, Adolf
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2020

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Gottingae Typis Friderici Ernesti Huth, Typogr. Academ.
Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares Method for Estimating Polyserial and Polychoric Correlation Coefficients
Creators: name: Zhang, Peng
name: Liu, Ben
name: Pan, Jingjing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: An iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method is proposed for the estimation of polyserial and polychoric correlation coefficients in this article. It calculates the slopes in a series of weighted linear regression models fitting on conditional expected values. For polyserial correlation, conditional expectations of the latent predictor is derived from the observed ordinal categorical variable, and the regression coefficient is obtained with the weighted least squares method. In estimating polychoric correlation coefficient, conditional expectations of the response variable and the predictor are updated in turns. Standard errors of the estimators are obtained using the delta method based on data summaries instead of the whole data. Conditional univariate normal distribution is exploited and a single integral is numerically evaluated in the proposed algorithm, comparing to the double integral computed numerically based on the bivariate normal distribution in the traditional maximum likelihood (ML) approaches. This renders the new algorithm very fast in the estimation of both polyserial and polychoric correlation coefficients. Thorough simulation studies are conducted to compare the performances of the proposed method with the classical ML methods. Real data analyses illustrate the advantage of the new method in computing speed. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Additional file 5 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5 Knowledge, attitude and practice toward HIV of women in PMTCT in Malawi (n = 128)*. *A different scoring system was applied (score of ‘1’ for each correct, ‘0’ for each uncertain, ‘-1’ for each wrong answers).
Characterizing the Effectiveness of Developmental Education: A Response to Recent Criticism
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Jaggars, Shanna
name: Scott-Clayton, Judith E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Over the past several years, the Community College Research Center (CCRC) has conducted several research studies on developmental education and has produced reviews synthesizing the results of our own work together with that of colleagues from other research organizations. In a recent issue of the Journal of Developmental Education, Alexandros Goudas and Hunter Boylan (2012) aimed several criticisms at this body of work, with the key claims being that: (1) we unfairly portray developmental education as ineffective because it does not lead to outcomes better than those of college-ready students; (2) we ignore several studies showing positive results; and (3) we overgeneralize from results that are only valid for students near the developmental cutoff scores. These three claims are woven into a broader critique that we have “cherry-picked” negative results, neglected methodological problems with the studies yielding such results, and ignored positive results in order to advance our own reform agenda and, in particular, to support the notion of co-requisite developmental education. In this essay, we address each of the claims advanced by Goudas and Boylan (2012). We disagree with their portrayal of our research as biased and flawed, yet we also believe that their comments may reflect some widespread confusion in the field about research on developmental education—so our response has significance beyond our particular disagreements with these authors.
Additional file 6 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6. Univariable and multivariable analysis examining association between male attendance and explanatory variables (n = 128)*. *A different scoring system was applied (score of ‘1’ for each correct, ‘0’ for each uncertain, ‘-1’ for each wrong answers).
Alternatives to soya for dairy cows: What are the alternatives to soya for dairy cows?
Creators: name: MacPherson Lorna, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dairy
Feed rations

description: Soybean meal is considered the gold standard for supporting high milk yields in dairy cows. However, it is falling out of favour with milk processors, consumers and dairy farmers for many reasons. Environmental concerns around how imported soybean is produced, a desire to reduce the carbon footprint of milk, and pressure from milk buyers means that farmers are looking at alternatives. This practice note discusses the reasoning behind seeking alternatives and the nutritional considerations to bear in mind when formulating dairy cow rations without soya.
Constitutional Design and Democratic Performance in Latin America
Creators: name: Lehoucq, Fabrice
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2006
Subjects: Constitutions
Democracy
Politics
Chile
Costa Rica
Uruguay

description: This paper examines the impact of two models of constitutional design on Latin American politics. It suggests that the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of presidentialism needs to move beyond a discussion of whether parliamentary systems last longer than presidential systems. Constitutional design—the way that political systems assign the functions of government among the parts of government—not only affects democratic stability, but also the responsiveness, transparency, and effectiveness of political systems. This essay argues that the checks and balances version of the separation of powers—one that allocates every function of government among two or more parts of government—has contributed not only to political instability, but also impaired political system performance in many countries in the region. It also contends that most presidential systems possess elements of the old with the new separation of powers—a theory of constitutional design assigns one function of government to one part of government. The essay presents evidence that the most successful political systems of the region—Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay—are those that depart most significantly from the checks and balances version of the separation of powers.
Screening magnetic fields by a superconducting disk: a simple model
Creators: name: Caputo, J. -G.
name: Gozzelino, L.
name: Laviano, F.
name: Ghigo, G.
name: Gerbaldo, R.
name: Noudem, J.
name: Thimont, Y.
name: Bernstein, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a simple approach to evaluate the magnetic field distribution around superconducting samples, based on the London equations; the elementary variable is the vector potential. This procedure has no adjustable parameters, only the sample geometry and the London length, $λ$, determine the solution. The calculated field reproduces quantitatively the measured induction field above MgB$_2$ disks of different diameters, at 20K and for applied fields lower than 0.4T. The model can be applied if the flux line penetration inside the sample can be neglected when calculating the induction field distribution outside the superconductor. Finally we show on a cup-shape geometry how one can design a magnetic shield satisfying a specific constraint.
Understanding The Student Experience Through The Loss/Momentum Framework: Clearing the Path to Completion
Creators: name: Rassen, Elisa
name: Chaplot, Priyadarshini
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Johnstone, Rob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Why do so many students struggle to complete their educational goals in a timely manner, or at all? As we can see from Sarah’s story, students who are motivated and excited about college are often derailed in their quest for credentials or transfers. While Sarah’s life outside of school sometimes gave her a raw deal, she also encountered a number of obstacles just trying to move through the institution and achieve her goals. Across the nation, community colleges are exploring how they can align their systems, programs and services to best meet student needs and help them to succeed in this global economy. In today’s economic climate, community colleges are one of the most essential resources for low-income Americans seeking a better life. At the same time, colleges are facing disheartening educational outcomes for the students they want to help most. Across the country, schools have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into new initiatives and interventions that have promised to turn things around for their students, only to find that limited, if any, progress has been made. In the face of these stubbornly low credential attainment and transfer rates, paired with tapped-out community college budgets, it is vital that college practitioners find a fresh way of building student success.
On the metallicity of open clusters II. Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Heiter, U.
name: Soubiran, C.
name: Netopil, M.
name: Paunzen, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a series of three papers, we investigate the current status of published metallicities for open clusters that were derived from a variety of photometric and spectroscopic methods. The current article focuses on spectroscopic methods. The aim is to compile a comprehensive set of clusters with the most reliable metallicities from high-resolution spectroscopic studies. This set of metallicities will be the basis for a calibration of metallicities from different methods. The literature was searched for [Fe/H] estimates of individual member stars of open clusters based on the analysis of high-resolution spectra. For comparison, we also compiled [Fe/H] estimates based on spectra with low and intermediate resolution. At medium and high resolution, we found that differences in the analysis methods have a stronger effect on metallicity than quality differences in the observations. We retained only highly probable cluster members and introduced a restriction on atmospheric parameters. We combined 641 individual metallicity values for 458 stars in 78 open clusters from 86 publications to form our final set of high-quality cluster metallicities. The photometric metallicities discussed in the first paper of this series are systematically lower than the spectroscopic ones by about 0.1 dex, and the differences show a scatter of about 0.2 dex. In a preliminary comparison of our spectroscopic sample with models of Galactic chemical evolution, none of the models predicts the observed radial metallicity gradient. Photometric metallicities show a large intrinsic dispersion, while the more accurate spectroscopic sample presented in this paper comprises fewer than half the number of clusters. Only a sophisticated combination of all available photometric and spectroscopic data will allow us to trace the metallicity distribution in the Galactic disk on a local and global scale.
description: Accepted by A&A; 23 pages, 12 tables, 17 figures; Tables 1 and 4 will be available in electronic form at the CDS
Statistical Mechanics of DNA Rupture: Theory and Simulations
Creators: name: Nath, S.
name: Modi, T.
name: Mishra, R. K.
name: Giri, D.
name: Mandal, B. P.
name: Kumar, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the effects of the shear force on the rupture mechanism on a double stranded DNA. Motivated by recent experiments, we perform the atomistic simulations with explicit solvent to obtain the distributions of extension in hydrogen and covalent bonds below the rupture force. We obtain a significant difference between the atomistic simulations and the existing results in the iterature based on the coarse-grained models (theory and simulations). We discuss the possible reasons and improve the coarse-grained model by incorporating the consequences of semi-microscopic details of the nucleotides in its description. The distributions obtained by the modified model (simulations and theoretical) are qualitatively similar to the one obtained using atomistic simulations.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures. Accepted in J. Chem. Phys. (2013). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1104.3059
title: Eine Predigt Von dem seligen Abschied des Wolgebornen vnd Edlen Herrn, Herrn Samuels, weiland Grauen vnd Herrn zu Waldeck, welcher am Festage Epiphaniae zwischen sieben vnd achten, des morgens Christlich entschlaffen, im Jar Christi 1570; 1570
title: Gethan zu Corbach Durch Magistrum Georgium Nymphium Rotachensem, des orts Diener am Euangelio Jhesu Christi
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Nymphius, Georg
name: Lufft, Hans
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2020

description: Rückseite des Titelblatts unbedruckt
Bifurcation of Solutions to the Allen-Cahn Equation
Creators: name: Smith, Graham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58E05, 58G28

description: We use Morse Homology to study bifurcation of the solution sets of the Allen-Cahn Equation.
Additional file 4 of Social determinants of male partner attendance in women’s prevention-of mother-to-child transmission program in Malawi
Creators: name: Triulzi, Isotta
name: Keiser, Olivia
name: Somerville, Claire
name: Sangwani Salimu
name: Ciccacci, Fausto
name: Palla, Ilaria
name: Sagno, Jean Baptiste
name: Gondwe, Jane
name: Marazzi, Cristina
name: Orlando, Stefano
name: Palombi, Leonardo
name: Turchetti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Median of correct knowledge, positive attitude and safe practice toward HIV/AIDS among women accompanied (n = 82) and not accompanied by the male partner (n = 46).
"Massless'' Spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ Fields in the de Sitter Space
Creators: name: Azizi, A.
name: Amiri, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the ``massless" spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ fields in the de Sitter space are considered. This work is in the continuation of a previous paper devoted to the quantization of the de Sitter ``massive" spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ fields. Due to the appearance of gauge invariance and indefinite metric, the covariant quantization of the ``massless" spin-$\frac{3}{2}$ fields requires an indecomposable representation of the de Sitter group. The gauge fixing corresponding to the simplest Gupta-Bleuler structure is used, and gauge invariant field is discussed. The field equation is obtained by using the Casimir operator of the de Sitter group. The solutions are written in terms of the coordinate-independent de Sitter plane waves. Finally, the generalized two-point function is calculated.
description: 18 pages, no figure, submitted in E. Phys. J. C. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0608004 by other authors
Energy Insecurity as a Driving Force for South Korea’s Weapons Exports
Creators: name: Park, Dayea Diana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Armed Forces
subject: Asians

description: "This paper will seek to identify the strategy behind South Korea’s heavily promoted military export program. Why does South Korea continue to pursue an expansion of arms exports despite their potential setbacks to its national security, regional dynamics, and alliance with the United States?
My hypothesis is that the South Korean government promotes arms exports to strengthen strategic relations with countries in order to best increase its prospects for securing energy and natural resources abroad. Whether the recipient country provides security guarantees, is an ally of South Korea, or has a democratic form of government is not the most important factor in determining its likelihood of receiving South Korean arms exports. Instead, it is the recipient country’s wealth of oil and energy resources that make the country a candidate for South Korean weapons and dual-use technology exports."--from pages 20-21
Nuances of Completion: Improving Student Outcomes by Unpacking the Numbers
Creators: name: Rassen, Elisa
name: Chaplot, Priyadarshini
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Johnstone, Rob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: “Accountability” is one of most loaded terms in education today. State governments, students, parents and taxpayers are demanding to know whether public education institutions are spending their money wisely and producing results. In response, colleges are investing enormous amounts of time, energy and resources in trying to increase the number of certificates and degrees awarded and transfers achieved. Increasingly, “completion” numbers often become the litmus test for the success or failure of an entire institution. Amidst this frenzy of activity to improve student completion rates, few colleges have had time to “unpack” the numbers and examine the student experiences being represented by these figures. No matter how big or small, each and every community college serves a diverse group of students with a broad range of backgrounds, talents and goals. These students have not only widely varied starting points and end goals, but also varied pathways to completion. How can colleges better understand the factors that affect diverse students’ ability to achieve completion?
The magnetosphere of the close accreting PMS binary V4046 Sgr AB
Creators: name: Gregory, S. G.
name: Holzwarth, V. R.
name: Donati, J. -F.
name: Hussain, G. A. J.
name: Montmerle, T.
name: Alecian, E.
name: Alencar, S. H. P.
name: Argiroffi, C.
name: Audard, M.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Damiani, F.
name: Güdel, M.
name: Huenemoerder, D. P.
name: Kastner, J. H.
name: Maggio, A.
name: Sacco, G. G.
name: Wade, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a preliminary 3D potential field extrapolation model of the joint magnetosphere of the close accreting PMS binary V4046 Sgr. The model is derived from magnetic maps obtained as part of a coordinated optical and X-ray observing program.
description: 2 pages, proceedings of IAUS 302 "Magnetic Fields throughout Stellar Evolution", Biarritz, France, August 2013. CUP, in press
Perineuronal nets affect memory and learning after synapse withdrawal.
Creators: name: Ruzicka, Jiri
name: Dalecka, Marketa
name: Safrankova, Kristyna
name: Peretti, Diego
name: Jendelova, Pavla
name: Kwok, Jessica CF
name: Fawcett, James W
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Article
/631/378/1595/1554
/631/378/1595/2167
/64/60
/64/110
/82/1
/82/80
/96/63
/14/28
/14/19
/82/51
article

description: Perineuronal nets (PNNs) enwrap mature neurons, playing a role in the control of plasticity and synapse dynamics. PNNs have been shown to have effects on memory formation, retention and extinction in a variety of animal models. It has been proposed that the cavities in PNNs, which contain synapses, can act as a memory store and that they remain stable after events that cause synaptic withdrawal such as anoxia or hibernation. We examine this idea by monitoring place memory before and after synaptic withdrawal caused by acute hibernation-like state (HLS). Animals lacking hippocampal PNNs due to enzymatic digestion by chondroitinase ABC or knockout of the PNN component aggrecan were compared with wild type controls. HLS-induced synapse withdrawal caused a memory deficit, but not to the level of untreated naïve animals and not worsened by PNN attenuation. After HLS, only animals lacking PNNs showed memory restoration or relearning. Absence of PNNs affected the restoration of excitatory synapses on PNN-bearing neurons. The results support a role for hippocampal PNNs in learning, but not in long-term memory storage for correction of deficits.
Additional file 1 of Reliability of tibiofemoral contact area and centroid location in upright, open MRI
Creators: name: Schmidt, Andrew M.
name: Stockton, David J.
name: Hunt, Michael A.
name: Yung, Andrew
name: Masri, Bassam A.
name: Wilson, David R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 1.
The Common Core State Standards: Implications for Community Colleges and Student Preparedness for College
Creators: name: Barnett, Elisabeth
name: Fay, Margaret
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community colleges
Common Core State Standards (Education)
Community college students--Education

description: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English and math were finalized in 2010 and, as of July 2012, have been adopted in full by 45 states. These standards provide a framework that is intended to ensure that all students who graduate from high school in the United States have attained the knowledge and competencies that prepare them well for college and for their future careers. Two sets of assessments that map to these standards are currently under development by two consortia of states and are expected to be deployed beginning in 2014. Based on a review of literature and on interviews with individuals involved in the CCSS nationally and in Washington, Florida, and Kentucky, this paper outlines the development of the CCSS and the CCSS-aligned assessments, the involvement of higher education representatives in their design and implementation, and how the CCSS and the aligned assessments can be used to support the mission of community colleges. The authors recommend that community colleges use the CCSS 11th grade assessment as one in a set of multiple measures used in placement decisions for students entering college directly after high school, align developmental education and introductory college-level courses in math and English composition to the CCSS to smooth the transition for recent high school graduates entering college, and work directly with local K–12 partners to help more graduating high school students enter college without needing remediation.
Sensitivity of atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande to Lorentz violation
Creators: name: Akiri, Tarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk, given at CPT'13, showed Super-Kamiokande atmospheric-neutrino Monte Carlo sensitivity to Lorentz-violation effects using the perturbative model derived from the Standard-Model Extension.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2013
TempoNest: A Bayesian approach to pulsar timing analysis
Creators: name: Lentati, Lindley
name: Alexander, Paul
name: Hobson, Michael P.
name: Feroz, Farhan
name: van Haasteren, Rutger
name: Lee, Kejia
name: Shannon, Ryan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new Bayesian software package for the analysis of pulsar timing data is presented in the form of TempoNest which allows for the robust determination of the non-linear pulsar timing solution simultaneously with a range of additional stochastic parameters. This includes both red spin noise and dispersion measure variations using either power law descriptions of the noise, or through a model-independent method that parameterises the power at individual frequencies in the signal. We use TempoNest to show that at noise levels representative of current datasets in the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) the linear timing model can underestimate the uncertainties of the timing solution by up to an order of magnitude. We also show how to perform Bayesian model selection between different sets of timing model and stochastic parameters, for example, by demonstrating that in the pulsar B1937+21 both the dispersion measure variations and spin noise in the data are optimally modelled by simple power laws. Finally we show that not including the stochastic parameters simultaneously with the timing model can lead to unpredictable variation in the estimated uncertainties, compromising the robustness of the scientific results extracted from such analysis.
description: 21 pages, 12 Figures
Additional file 3 of Reliability of tibiofemoral contact area and centroid location in upright, open MRI
Creators: name: Schmidt, Andrew M.
name: Stockton, David J.
name: Hunt, Michael A.
name: Yung, Andrew
name: Masri, Bassam A.
name: Wilson, David R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 3.
title: Warhafftiger bericht vnnd kurtze beschreibung des grossen Schadens, welchen das Dorff Rockenhausen, Keffenburgischer Pfleg, durch schreckliche Gewitter vn[d] Sturmwinde, so einem Erdbidem gleich, empfangen, den 5. Julij dieses jetztlauffenden 1582. Jars; [1582]
title: den folgenden tag in Augenschein genommen, neben warhafftiger erkündigung bei Pfarherrn, Schultessen, Heymburgen vnd etlichen Einwonern, beschrieben
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rhode, Johann
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2020

description: Kolophon: Getruckt zu Erffort bey Hans Becken
Homogeneity and isotropy in a laboratory turbulent flow
Creators: name: Bellani, Gabriele
name: Variano, Evan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new design for a stirred tank that is forced by two parallel planar arrays of randomly actuated synthetic jets. This arrangement creates turbulence at high Reynolds number with low mean flow. Most importantly, it exhibits a region of 3D homogeneous isotropic turbulence that is significantly larger than the integral lengthscale. These features are essential for enabling laboratory measurements of turbulent suspensions. We use quantitative imaging to confirm isotropy at large, small, and intermediate scales by examining one-- and two--point statistics at the tank center. We then repeat these same measurements to confirm that the values measured at the tank center are constant over a large homogeneous region. In the direction normal to the symmetry plane, our measurements demonstrate that the homogeneous region extends for at least twice the integral length scale $L=9.5$ cm. In the directions parallel to the symmetry plane, the region is at least four times the integral lengthscale, and the extent in this direction is limited only by the size of the tank. Within the homogeneous isotropic region, we measure a turbulent kinetic energy of $6.07 \times 10^{-4} $m$^2$s$^{-2}$, a dissipation rate of $4.65 \times 10^{-5} $m$^2$s$^{-3}$, and a Taylor--scale Reynolds number of $R_λ=334$. The tank's large homogeneous region, combined with its high Reynolds number and its very low mean flow, provides the best approximation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence realized in a laboratory flow to date. These characteristics make the stirred tank an optimal facility for studying the fundamental dynamics of turbulence and turbulent suspensions.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures