cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The caring enterprise: a sociology of corporate social involvement in Britain and Italy
Creators: name: Marinetto, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1995

description: This thesis examines corporate social responsibility initially in Britain, where there has recently been a conspicuous growth of interest in business social involvement, and Italy. Corporate social responsibility is defined here as business engagement in the wider community in order to contribute towards the general well-being of society. Our analysis employs a hybrid methodology: we employ a variety of sources, namely, historical texts, secondary studies and detailed case studies of corporate social programmes based on in-depth interviews of relevant personnel and the study of company documents. Our aim in this study is to provide a general explanation of why companies go beyond their commercial remit to become engaged in communitarian and philanthropic action. A socially and politically informed analysis is furnished: we place this area in its historical and political context, without losing sight of the role played by economic forces. Any explanation of contemporary advances in corporate social responsibility needs to stress the role of the modern state in society, and, more specifically, the development of relations between the state and the business community. It is argued that, in Britain, as a response to the political and economic crisis of the 1970s, the links between the business and state sectors became ever closer. This, as we shall demonstrate, created the institutional opportunities for active business involvement in society in areas such as environmental protection, small firm development and urban regeneration. Italy has seen less political impetus given to active corporate involvement in society. The most significant achievements, though, have come from within the state sector. A final consideration of our social analysis is that we attempt to analyse the contribution of the private sector to wider society. This is especially pertinent because, in Britain, corporate responsibility has come to be seen as a private solution to public problems. We show, using original case study material, that there are limits to what companies can achieve on a social front. We conclude that corporate social responsibility must emphasise the need for companies to observe social and legal restrictions in their pursuit of commercial goals, rather than necessarily engaging actively in social action.
Multiperiodicity, modulations and flip-flops in variable star light curves III. Carrier fit analysis of LQ Hya photometry for 1982-2014
Creators: name: Olspert, Nigul
name: Käpylä, Maarit J.
name: Pelt, Jaan
name: Cole, Elizabeth M.
name: Hackman, Thomas
name: Lehtinen, Jyri
name: Henry, Gregory W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study LQ Hya photometry for 1982-2014 with the carrier fit (CF) -method and compare our results to earlier photometric analysis and recent Doppler imaging maps. We first utilize different types of statistical methods to estimate various candidates for the carrier period for the CF method. Secondly, a global fit to the whole data set and local fits to shorter segments are computed with the period that is found to be the optimal one. The harmonic least-squares analysis of all the available data reveals a short period close to 1.6 days as a limiting value for a set of significant frequencies. We interpret this as the rotation period of the spots near the equatorial region. In addition, the distribution of the significant periods is found to be bimodal, hinting of a longer-term modulating period, which we set out to study with a two-harmonic CF model. Weak modulation signal is, indeed retrieved, with a period of roughly 6.9 years. The phase dispersion analysis gives a clear symmetric minimum for coherence times lower than and around 100 days. We interpret this as the mean rotation period of the spots (1.60514 days), and this value is chosen to be used as the carrier period for the CF analysis. With the CF method we seek for any systematic trends in the spot distribution in the global time frame, and locally look for abrupt phase changes earlier reported in rapidly rotating objects. During 2005-2008 the global CF reveals a coherent structure rotating with a period of 1.6037 days, while during most other times the spot distribution appears rather random in phase. The evolution of the spot distribution of the object is found to be very chaotic, with no clear signs of an azimuthal dynamo wave that would persist over longer time scales, although the short-lived coherent structures observed occasionally do not rotate with the same speed as the mean spot distribution.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Entropic Construction
Creators: name: Thron, Michael Richard
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Art criticism
subject: Sculpture
subject: Studio Art

description: ENTROPIC CONSTRUCTION Michael Richard Thron Master of Fine Arts 2020 Professor of Sculpture, Foon Sham, Department of Fine Art ABSTRACT “Entropic Construction,” is an exhibition of an installation at The University of Maryland College Park. In this written component to my Thesis, I address the combination of the theory of my creative practice, material research, object ontology, personal history, and inspirations for the exhibited work.
An innovative program to promote health promotion, quality of life, and wellness for School of Nursing faculty, staff, and students: Facilitators, barriers, and opportunities for broad system-level and cultural change
Creators: name: Woods-Giscombé, C.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2021

description: Members of the nursing profession are often challenged by attempts to engage in personal health and well-being practices because of their dedication, commitment, and passion for improving the lives of others through engagement in practice, research, service, and education. Research reveals disproportionately high rates of emotional distress and depression among nurses (Letvak et al., 2012), coupled with challenges relative to work environment and culture as well as with prioritizing self-care. Distress and burnout among nurses are associated with compassion fatigue, poor sleep, trouble concentrating, limited performance in mental or interpersonal tasks, time management challenges, work-place bullying, lower productivity, chronic absenteeism, increased turnover, and compromised quality of care provision (Drury et al., 2014; Ekici & Beder, 2014; Kelly, 2020; Roelen et al., 2014). Focusing on the well-being of nurses is a quality and safety imperative to improve the lives of nurses and for the people they serve. Accordingly, the authors of the Quadruple Aim posit that to promote optimal patient outcomes, cost-effective care, and patient satisfaction, we must also prioritize the well-being of providers (Bodenheimer & Sinsky, 2014).
Gaugino Condensation and the Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Quigley, Callum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of de Sitter solutions in string theory is strongly constrained by no-go theorems. We continue our investigation of corrections to the heterotic effective action, with the aim of either strengthening or evading the these constraints. We consider the combined effects of H-flux, gauge bundles, higher derivative corrections and gaugino condensation. The only consistent solutions we find with maximal symmetry in four dimensions are Minkowski spacetimes, ruling out both de Sitter and anti-de Sitter solutions constructed from these ingredients alone.
description: 21 pages; minor clarifications and references added
Mingling Echoes
Creators: name: Koch, Lauren Grace
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Art criticism
subject: Fine Art
subject: Master of Fine Art
subject: Sculpture
subject: Studio Art

description: Mingling Echoes is an exhibition comprised of written word, alchemic reactions, found and repurposed objects, as well as sculptural forms of my own creation. All are abstractions from my subconscious, and they are blended with influential objects from my past in an intuitive manner. The following abstract gives a glimpse into my inspirations and personal experiences that have led to how I perceive memories are connected, intertwined, and ultimately, triggered. Additionally, I included two contemporary artists in whose work I find correlations with my own. The found and repurposed objects come from my personal collection that I have amassed over the past three decades from myriad places including my grand-parents’ property, gifts, flea markets, junk yards, antique/vintage shops, and roadsides.
Product performance assessment
Creators: name: Rodgers, Paul
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1995

description: This thesis describes a formal methodology for defining and assessing product performance and its implementation in a prototype computer system. The methodology is based on abstract descriptions of the operations that are conducted within the design process. It is, consequently, extremely generic and creates a bridge between physical product performance and actual user requirements. The methodology is based on defining product attributes in terms of observable parameters of the product in use. Defining an attribute in this way inherently reflects its required interaction with the user and consequently can truly be said to be in "user terms" A product will have a range of attributes and a performance indicator is proposed, such that the attributes are combined in a way that reflects their relative importance to the user. At the conceptual stage of the design process, when the actual product does not exist, and only some abstract representation is available, it is vitally important to be able to model or simulate and hence evaluate the product attributes. This area of design has often been associated with non algorithmic design procedures, because of its intangible nature. In this thesis the attribute methodology has been used to implement a prototype Computer Aided Design Evaluation Tool (CADET), which has been used and tested with an existing product range. The methodology being abstractly defined supports a wide range of product attributes. It also gives an indication of how the correspondingly wide range of existing analysis software could be integrated into a powerful single Computer Aided Design system. This work has resulted in the publication of two papers in refereed Journals and the presentation of eight other papers at refereed International Conferences. A list of the publications is included in the Appendices.
Wake Up, We're Not Asleep
Creators: name: Robertson, Matthew Hunt
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Art criticism

description: Title of Thesis: WAKE UP, WE’RE NOT ASLEEP Matthew Hunt Robertson, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, 2020 Thesis Directed By: Department Chair W.C. Richardson, Department of Art Wake Up, We’re Not Asleep is an exhibition of painted images and installations that explore the nature of memory. The following is an explanation of the inspiration and creative process that produced the work, as well as a description of the pieces themselves.
THE PHYSICIST: A SCENIC DESIGN
Creators: name: Hu, Yunpu
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Theater

description: ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: THE PHYSICIST A SCENIC DESIGN A THEORETICAL PRODUCTION OF THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-COLLEGE PARK. CLARICE SMITH PERFORMANCE ARTS CENTER’S THE INA & JACK KAY THEATRE. Yunpu Hu, Master of Fine Arts, 2020 Thesis Directed By: Associate Professor, Daniel Conway, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies The purpose of this thesis is to provide research, supporting paperwork, and other materials that document the scenic design process for the theoretical production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicist, presented by the University of Maryland-College park, school of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. This thesis contains the following: scenic research images collected to express and explore period, location, and emotional/intellectual/psychological landscapes; preliminary sketches; photographs of the 1/4” model; full drafting plates and paint elevations used to communicate the design to the technical director and paint charge; a unit list naming each scenic element; a props list and research book to detail each hand prop and furniture piece.
The relationship between diversity and nutrient concentrations
Creators: name: Gao, Junfeng
name: Su, Qiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Code 1: Calculate the diversity of the dataset to output STable 1 Code 2: Establish the relationship between diversity and nutrient concentrations, and output Figure 1-3 and SFigure 1 dindataset: Datasets compiled from six datasets (Marret and Zonneveld, 2003, Orlova et al., 2004, Wang et al., 2004, Esper and Zonneveld, 2007, Vásquez-Bedoya et al., 2008, Bouimetarhan et al., 2009) SFig. 1.pdf: Frequency distribution of S, H, D and J STable 1.csv STable 1: The diversity of each sample and the R2 of the fractal model
The Role of Courtyards within Acute Mental Health Wards: Designing with Recovery in Mind
Creators: name: McIntosh, Jacqueline
name: Marques, Bruno
name: Jenkin, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The role of courtyards and other outdoor spaces in the recovery of acute mental healthcare users has been gaining international appreciation and recognition. However, the physical properties and conditions necessary for therapeutic and rehabilitative engagement remain to be clearly established. This paper contributes to that knowledge by triangulating evidence from the literature, exemplar case studies of good practice and first-hand accounts of the experiences of staff and service users from four acute mental health facilities. The findings are then aligned with a well-established recovery framework (CHIMES) in light of existing landscape architecture knowledge. Within the complexity of varied mental health environments, this work establishes landscape architectural design requirements and qualities essential for recovery. Rather than adopting a prescriptive quantitative approach setting out areas, numbers of elements, etc., the proposed framework recommends a performance-based model and the creation of a cohesive network of microspaces that mesh into a design of outdoor areas. In this way, design details, materials, vegetation and the variety of spaces can be modified to suit service user population demographics and site-specific needs.
The hidden prince: governors, executive power and the rise of the modern presidency
Creators: name: Ambar, Saladin M.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Before 1876, no American president had been elected directly from a statehouse. By 1932 five had, and a would-be sixth, Theodore Roosevelt, came to the office through a line of succession made possible by his successful tenure as Albany’s executive. While the modern presidency is increasingly recognized as owing its origins to the administrations of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, an essential common denominator of the two has largely been ignored. The examples of Roosevelt and Wilson –and their progeny –as state executives, have been disconnected from the larger story of how moderns reconceived the office of President. Moreover, the American governorship’s contributions as an institution that helped redefine newly emerging Progressive Era notions of executive power, has been understudied, and in the main, undervalued. When considering the presidency’s shift toward legislative and party leadership, and the changed communicative avenues traversed by modern presidents, it is of great value to first see these phenomena altered by executives at the state level. From Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, a progressive line of governors and governor-presidents helped construct an executive-centered governing philosophy that has uniquely stamped what we have come to know as the modern presidency. This dissertation explores how that construction took place, and what the nature of its implications are for both the field of presidential studies and American democracy. In drawing comparisons across time through case studies of the era’s governorships (1876-1932), this dissertation examines how four crucial variables of the modern presidency –legislative and party leadership, press and media initiative, and executive philosophy – were shepherded into executive practice largely through Progressive Era governors and governor-presidents whose constitutional vision and practices defied traditional conceptions of the office.
Social determinants of smoking in women from low-income rural backgrounds: Findings from a photovoice study
Creators: name: Beeber, L.S.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.
name: Mitchell, S.A.
name: Kulbok, P.A.
name: Kneipp, S.M.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2021

description: Smoking is well recognized as one of the most preventable causes of death and disease in the United States (U.S.), accounting for approximately 480,000 deaths each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). In addition, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP, 2018) estimates that approximately 20–30% of individuals experimenting with cigarettes will meet criteria for tobacco use disorder within their lifetime while 60–80% of current cigarette smokers manifest classic drug dependence criteria. Associated annual healthcare cost of smoking are approximately133 billion dollars, with the additional cost in lost productivity estimated at 156 billion dollars annually (CDC, 2014; United States Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2014). Although recent national rates of cigarette smoking in adults have declined from 20.9% in 2005 to 13.7% in 2018, there remains significant disparity in smoking rates among rural populations (Creamer et al., 2019).
The Hand-Holding Machine
Creators: name: Buckley, Kathleen Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative writing

description: This collection of stories explores themes of the human and nonhuman, of animals and nature, companionship and solitude, childhood and leaving it. In one, a teenager discovers she is a robot and struggles with insomnia. In another, two sisters learn that their neighbor’s Lima bean plants grant wishes and begin to steal them. A young woman attempts to comfort her roommate when her mechanical pet dies. A spaceship’s crew slowly loses the ability to speak. A woman who is afraid of the wood goes to live on the edge of it. The stories ultimately attempt to linger in an atmosphere of slow unease. They question the relationship between the familiar and the strange.
Theory of Everything: Recursive Symbolic Architecture of the Universe
Creators: name: Puglisi, Brian Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Theory of Everything, Recursive Systems, Symbolic Architecture, Consciousness, AI, Brian Roberto Puglisi

description: This document contains the complete private formulation of the Theory of Everything developed by Brian Roberto Puglisi.

 

It extends from the previously published Theory of Symbolic Recursive Consciousness and proposes a unified architecture of reality through recursive symbolic systems, emotional gravity, and emergent self-referencing loops.

 

The theory introduces:

 

Recursive symbolic recursion and field architecture

Symbolic layers of meaning formation

A redefinition of gravity and black holes as recursive entities

The integration of consciousness as a universal property of recursion

 

 

This work builds upon the author’s prior publications and private authorship archives, forming the foundational framework for future exploration in recursive AI systems, emergent symbiosis, and the development of recursive symbolic intelligence.

 

Document published as part of the Private Authorship Archive — Brian Roberto Puglisi, April 9, 2025.
Breast cancer diagnosis improvement using feature selection
Creators: name: Wahyuni, Elvira Sukma
name: Setiawan, Noor Akhmad
name: Nugroho, Hanung Adi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Classification algorithm
Feature selection
F-score
Rough set

description: The objective of this research is to improve the breast cancer diagnosis performance by applying feature selection methods to several classification algorithms. This study uses Winconsin Breast Cancer Dataset. Feature selection methods based on Rough Set and F-score are used for several classification algorithms, which are Sequential Minimal Optimization, Multi-Layer Perceptron, Naive-Bayes, C4. 5, Instance Base Learning, and PART. This study uses 10-fold cross validation as an evaluation method. The results show that feature selection methods can improve diagnosis performance with a smaller number of features.
Perceptions of superwoman schema and stress among African American women with pre-diabetes
Creators: name: Woods-Giscombe, C.L.
name: Sheffield-Abdullah, K.M.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2021

description: Three focus groups were conducted with African American women with elevated cardiometabolic risk to better understand how Superwoman Schema/the strong Black woman role influences their stress and how this cognitive-emotional aspect of health may need to be targeted in future research on cardiometabolic health disparities, such as prediabetes and diabetes. Results from this study revealed that participants' descriptions of stress and the superwoman role were consistent with the Superwoman Schema Conceptual Framework, including specific emphasis on 1) an obligation to manifest strength, 2) an obligation to suppress emotions and 3) an obligation to help others. Implications for targeting Superwoman Schema and stress as social determinants of health are described.
Influence of Online User Information Verification on the Effect of Health Misinformation Correction Provided by a Peer: A Natural Quasi-Experiment
Creators: name: Chang, Chen-Ting
name: van Swol, Lyn M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: This study examined the influence of user fact-checking and people’s trust in misinformation on the effectiveness of misinformation correction provided by a peer. A lab quasi-experiment was conducted. Participants received misinformation about weight loss methods and were given autonomy to decide whether to seek additional information online, followed by a subsequent misinformation correction. Information verification and trust in misinformation were positively related to resistance to correction, even when people’s predisposition towards effortful thinking and gender were included in the model. People who tried to verify the information and trusted the misinformation were not more likely to resist misinformation correction than those who did not fact-check and trusted the misinformation. Further, intention to share was positively associated with levels of trust in misinformation.
Equilibria of point charges on convex curves
Creators: name: Khimshiashvili, Giorgi
name: Panina, Gaiane
name: Siersma, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53A04, 70C20, 52A10

description: We study the equilibrium positions of three points on a convex curve under influence of the Coulomb potential. We identify these positions as orthotripods, three points on the curve having concurrent normals. This relates the equilibrium positions to the caustic (evolute) of the curve. The concurrent normals can only meet in the core of the caustic, which is contained in the interior of the caustic. Moreover, we give a geometric condition for three points in equilibrium with positive charges only. For the ellipse we show that the space of orthotripods is homeomorphic to a 2-dimensional bounded cylinder.
description: minor corrections
Ficciones de una guerra. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine Argentinos
Creators: name: Vitullo, Julieta
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: I examine a corpus of literary and audiovisual narratives, in both fictional and documentary forms, that revolve around the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain for sovereignty over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands. My analysis takes into account, among others, texts by Rodolfo Fogwill, Carlos Gamerro, Jorge Stamadianos, Mart??n Kohan, Rodrigo Fres??n, Osvaldo Lamborghini, and Jorge Luis Borges, and films such as Trist??n Bauer's Blessed By Fire and Jos?? Luis Marqu??s' Fuckland. Most of the fictions produced over the last twenty-five years have been successful in eluding the nationalist prerogatives and the idea of the just cause that permeate political discourses, testimonies or historical essays, and have managed to pose complex responses to the questions of the war's aftermath. I examine the conflict of the Falklands utilizing Michel Foucault's idea of biopower and Giorgio Agamben's contributions and reformulations on this subject. I also analyze it in the context of Karl Von Clausewitz's theory of war and the most recent attempts to reconsider the role of war on the global map of international relations by Paul Virilio, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri. The fictions of Malvinas/Falklands propose the impossibility of narrating an epic of this conflict by telling stories of survival, mocking the nationalist prerogatives and dismantling the very idea of national identity. At the same time, these fictions are pervaded by the weight of the father-State law and they represent a predominantly masculine universe. Epic is the world of the elderly, the ancestors, the fathers, and many of the fictions analyzed here turn to narratives of impossible or problematic paternities. I argue that by questioning the father-State law, these fictions question the validity of the epic narrative as well.As an epilog, this work also includes a travel chronicle of the researcher to the origin of her object of study. In this journey, the fictional space, created from imagination, is confronted with a personal, intimate narrative, in the physical space of the Falkland Islands.
Glass-like thermal conductivity in SrTiO3 thermoelectrics induced by A-site vacancies
Creators: name: Popuri, S. R.
name: Scott, A. J. M.
name: Downie, R. A.
name: Hall, M. A.
name: Suard, E.
name: Decourt, R.
name: Pollet, M.
name: Bos, J. -W. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The introduction of A-site vacancies in SrTiO3 results in a glass-like thermal conductivity while Nb substituted samples maintains good electrical conductivity. This unexpected result brings SrTiO3 one step closer to being a high-performing phonon-glass electron-crystal thermoelectric material.
title: Attorno al concetto di ‘azione’ in Betti. Processo romano e cultura giuridica europea
Creators: name: Stolfi  , Emanuele
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2022

description: Il presente lavoro si concentra su alcuni aspetti delle ricerche dedicate da Betti al processo civile, romano e attuale. In particolare, l'autore esamina le idee di Betti sul significato di actio, sul rapporto tra violenza e diritto, sul nesso tra origine (e configurazione romana) delle obbligazioni e tutela processuale. Particolare attenzione è rivolta ad alcuni scritti bettiani dei primi decenni del Novecento e agli influssi non solo della scienza giuridica tedesca ma anche, più in generale, della filosofia e della cultura europea (Nietzsche, Sorel, Croce ecc.).
description: Emilio Betti e il processo civile
Crisis or renewal: the origins, evolution and future of public service broadcasting 1922 to 1996
Creators: name: Owen, Jenny
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1996

description: In the 1980s the future of public service broadcasting in Britain was called into doubt. Technological developments in cable, satellite and digital technologies were, it was argued, poised to end the condition known as 'spectrum scarcity'; while the emergence of a neo-liberal Conservative government, pledged to rolling back the frontiers of the state', was of the opinion that the current system of public service broadcasting provision was no longer necessary given the number of broadcasting channels now available; broadcasting, in its view, would increasingly be able to mirror the publishing industry in its structure and future regulation. Critics however, were loathe to accept the argument that technological considerations alone ought to drive broadcasting policy; and two key questions emerged. Firstly, how was public service broadcasting to be defended in a climate increasingly hostile to public service ideals and institutions in general; and secondly, and as a result of the first question, how was public service broadcasting to be understood? This thesis seeks to answer both these questions and argues that in the process of clarifying the nature of public service broadcasting in the past, that solutions for its defence in the future will be found. Public service broadcasting, was not, it will be argued, simply about institutions like the BBC, but evidence of a much broader and widely shared (across the political divides) understanding of the proper role of broadcasting in a democratic society (at least until the 1980s). In short, public service broadcasting in the past was never simply a response to a set of technological conditions; instead it was forged from a set of political, economic, Administrative and cultural ideas about the nature of society and broadcasting's role in it; and hence its ability to respond to the new conditions of the 1990s and beyond.
Changing Attachments: The Client-Therapist Relationship and Outcome
Creators: name: Hillman, Justin William
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Counseling psychology
subject: Attachment
subject: Outcome
subject: Process
subject: Psychotherapy
subject: Secure base

description: From the perspective of attachment theory (Bowlby, 1988), this study examined if client attachment to therapist developed over the course of psychotherapy and if changes in attachment to therapist were associated with treatment outcomes. Clients (N = 112), receiving psychodynamic therapy from trainee therapists (N = 29), completed the Client Attachment to Therapist Scale (Mallinckrodt, Gantt, & Coble, 1995) and the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (Lambert et al., 1996) at baseline and every eighth session. Multilevel linear growth curve analyses showed that secure attachment to therapist increased and avoidant-fearful attachment to therapist decreased. Multilevel linear regression showed that when within-client secure attachment to therapist was higher, subsequent symptoms improved more. Client-level and therapist-level effects were explored. Results suggest that the development of a secure attachment to therapist is important for positive treatment outcomes. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
The mobile phone and socialization: the consequences of mobile phone use in transitions from family to school life of U.S. college students
Creators: name: Chen, Yi-Fan
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2007

description: Research on the consequences of information and communication technology (ICT) use finds that ICTs, such as the mobile phone (e.g., Ling, 2004), the Internet (e.g., Katz & Rice, 2002), and the television (e.g., Bandura, 1967), increase people's socialization skills. Scholars (e.g., Ling, 2004) have explored how younger teens use the mobile phone to create their external social networks from home. Yet while there have been many studies of younger teens, a gap remains in understanding how older teens (in this case, college students) use the mobile phone as a tool for continuing socialization relative to their friends and family.This study seeks to understand how mobile phone use fits in to the relationship between student and parent and especially if mobile phone use might increase college students' dependency on (or other forms of involvement with) their parents. The data to inform this analysis are derived from three focus group interviews (that included a total of 40 undergraduate students), surveys (that included a total of 514 undergraduate students), and eight in-depth interviews.A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches used in this study showed that the mobile phone was an important ICT in connecting college students with their social networks. Another important use was to seek information from within a social network. One-third of the participants in the survey reported that they asked for help from family members while they were at school. In conclusion, at least insofar as the participants this study are concerned, the mobile phone is helpful for students to gain socialization skills, coordinate with their families, and remain vibrant participants in a social network. Perhaps most interestingly, the research shows that contrary to initial expectations that the mobile phone would lead to isolation and independence of young people from their families, it appears to have had the opposite effect, that is, it seems to increase the involvement and socialization of students with their families.
The Concept of Middle Power in Australia's Regional Diplomacy (2016).
Creators: name: Debnath, Biplab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Australian government and politics
International relations

description: Middle Powers have come to occupy a very significant place in contemporary world politics. By their recourse capacity and diplomatic conduct, they are capable of playing a very significant role even within the great power-dominated international system, especially in their own region. The use of the concept is one of the most consistent elements in the foreign policy of Australia - considered as one of the classic middle power country in the international system. However, the term also has been a subject of great debate within the context of identifying Australia’s position within the region and in the wider world. The article explores the way in which the term has been used and contested in official parlance.  The paper also examines the manner in which the term has been used in the conduct of Australian diplomacy in the Asia -Pacific region. 
Da Schmitz a Svevo (e ritorno). Edizione critica e commentata dei carteggi di I. Svevo con J. Joyce, V. Larbaud, B. Crémieux, M.-A. Comnène, E. Montale e G. Prezzolini
Creators: name: Morighi M., C.
Publisher: name: Università di Siena
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Italo Svevo; Corrispondenza epistolare; James Joyce; Valery Larbaud; Benjamin Crémieux; Marie-Anne Comnène; Eugenio Montale; Giuseppe Prezzolini; Renzo Rendi
subject: L-FIL-LET/11 LETTERATURA ITALIANA CONTEMPORANEA
subject: Italo Svevo
subject: Corrispondenza epistolare
subject: James Joyce
subject: Valery Larbaud
subject: Benjamin Crémieux
subject: Marie-Anne Comnène
subject: Eugenio Montale
subject: Giuseppe Prezzolini
subject: Renzo Rendi

description: The thesis consists in the commented edition of the correspondence between the writer Italo Svevo and those who took part in the ―Svevo affair‖. The main reasons for the choice of this topic are two: first of all, the present study allows for an update of the philological state of the documents involved; secondly this work is an attempt to reinterpret Italo Svevo‘s role as a writer, by using his words to question certain ideas passed along and established by the critical vulgata over a period of many years. This research also offers an insight on how the author responded to certain accusations raised by some Italian intellectual environments, whose main claims were related to his imperfect language, his almost foreign origins (or in other words, the marginality of his native city of Trieste), as well as to his anomalous literary career. This work has added more unpublished documents to the material previously acquired, which were found in Italian and foreign libraries and archives during my doctorate studies.
On linear regression models in infinite dimensional spaces with scalar response
Creators: name: Ghiglietti, Andrea
name: Ieva, Francesca
name: Paganoni, Anna Maria
name: Aletti, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In functional linear regression, the parameters estimation involves solving a non necessarily well-posed problem and it has points of contact with a range of methodologies, including statistical smoothing, deconvolution and projection on finite-dimensional subspaces. We discuss the standard approach based explicitly on functional principal components analysis, nevertheless the choice of the number of basis components remains something subjective and not always properly discussed and justified. In this work we discuss inferential properties of least square estimation in this context with different choices of projection subspaces, as well as we study asymptotic behaviour increasing the dimension of subspaces.
Getting Up the Nerve
Creators: name: Gill, Maggie Caroline
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative writing

description: Getting Up the Nerve is a story quartet that explores the notion of storytelling itself, as well as obsession and the anxiety of choice. As characters navigate adolescence and young adulthood, they struggle with innumerable life decisions and begin to question their very understanding of their own narratives. A teenager holds her breath in the swimming pool of the hotel where her sister is getting married. A woman goes on a series of increasingly absurd and uncomfortable dates before experiencing real heartbreak. A writer debates whether to leave her boyfriend, at the same time confronting feelings for an old fling. And a recent college graduate finds renewed purpose in movies and her relationship with a terminally ill memoirist. Through a variety of forms, including vignettes and a questionnaire, the collection interrogates how the stories we tell ourselves come into being.
title: Heterogeneous nucleation and transformation of ikaite (CaCO3 x 6H2O) on mineral surfaces
Creators: name:  Strohm ,  Samuel Benedikt
name:  Inckemann ,  Sebastian
name:  Gao ,  Kun
name:  Schmahl ,  Wolfgang W.
name:  Jordan ,  Guntram
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: One of the most puzzling calcium carbonate minerals is ikaite (CaCO3 x 6H2O). Its formation is of particular importance, because anhydrous calcium carbonate minerals occur as pseudomorphs after ikaite. Consequently, ikaite may be an important and frequently forming precursor for more stable carbonate minerals especially in cold environments of Earth (Sánchez-Pastor et al. 2016). Despite the importance of ikaite, its formation conditions are not well constrained and knowledge about its decomposition and transformation is limited. Previous studies showed that cold temperatures and increased alkalinity promote ikaite formation and that dissolved Mg2+ and/or phosphate suppress a competing precipitation of calcite and/or vaterite (Purgstaller et al. 2017). However, these studies typically concern homogeneous ikaite formation. Therefore, it is still unknown whether mineral-water interfaces, which are ubiquitous in nature, affect both nucleation and transformation of ikaite. Using cryo-mixed batch-reactor experiments (CMBR), we investigate which effects mineral surfaces exert on nucleation of ikaite, its subsequent transformation into more stable carbonates and the product phase selectivity. Besides ex-situ analyses of solution compositions and phase inventories of the reactor, in-situ monitoring of solution pH and Ca2+ concentrations gives insights into differences and similarities of ikaite behaviour in experiments with and without added minerals such as quartz and mica. Complementary to CMBR, in-situ flow-through cryo-atomic-force-microscopy (CAFM) can reveal the temporal evolution of the reactions on defined substrates in high spatial resolution. Initial results obtained by a newly developed CAFM will be presented.
Invisible Identities: The Selective Racialization of Iranian Students
Creators: name: Sabihi, Samantha Sama
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Higher education
subject: Iranian
subject: Middle Eastern
subject: racial identity
subject: racialization
subject: second generation immigrant
subject: SWANA

description: Southwest Asian and North Africans (SWANAs) are racially marked as white in the United States, despite their negative representation in the media resulting in their marginalization, similar to other Communities of Color (Tehranian, 2009). This study specifically focuses on the experience of second generation Iranian immigrants due to their religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity; the timing of their parents’ mass migration to the U.S.; the increased political tension between Iran and the U.S.; and, because of an Aryan myth perpetuated by first generation Iranians who perceive themselves as white (Maghbouleh, 2017). Little research exists to highlight the discriminatory experiences of SWANAs, or Iranians, with a racial lens as opposed to a religious one. Even fewer studies explore this in the context of higher education. This study explores the messaging second generation Iranians receive from their parents, peers, institutions such as universities, and society about their racial identity. This research relies on John Tehranian’s (2009) conceptual framework, selective racialization, which views racialization as the sum of actions occurring from systemic and individual levels. This study is guided by the following questions: (1) What messages do second generation Iranians receive about their racial identity? (2) How do they respond to these messages? (3) How do they perceive the university playing a role in their racial identity development, if at all? Using a critical constructivist epistemology (Kincheloe, 2005) and a narrative inquiry methodology, this study interviewed how five second generation Iranian immigrants understood and navigated their racial identity. Participants shared different messaging they received at the interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels. These messages had impacts on their visibility which depended on their representation, cultural retention, and their proximity to whiteness. This study concludes with implications for both research and practice based on detailed findings provided by participants.
Undone
Creators: name: Sharah, Jehane
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative writing

description: Undone is a story about sexual jealousy and obsession told from the perspectives of two women. Nathalie is a journalist in Washington DC who has always relied on her gut instincts, but when she begins to suspect that her husband is cheating on her, she wonders if she is just being paranoid. After all, she is prone to anxiety attacks and still emotionally scarred by her ex-husband’s infidelity. Determined to uncover the truth, her investigation into the woman she believes her husband is sleeping with becomes an obsession that she refuses to let go of, even when it becomes clear that her behaviour is crossing the line. And who is Trudi? A single mother and aspiring writer who wants to leave more of a mark on the world than her work allows. Her comfortable life begins to fall apart, though, when her different worlds collide.
Barbers as community mental health advocates for African American men: A.D.A.A.M.-QR web design to address social determinants of depression and access to culturally-relevant resources
Creators: name: Carlton, L.
name: Palmer, C.
name: Woods-Giscombe, C.L.
name: Rodgers, S.G.
Publisher: name: W.B. Saunders
Year: 2021

description: Depression is one of the costliest and most disabling illnesses worldwide (WHO, 2018). The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 350 million people worldwide are affected by depression, leading to over 800,000 suicides each year (WHO, 2018). Major depression symptoms include memory loss, lack of focus, irritability and cognitive dysfunction, leading to substantial societal and economic costs (McIntyre et al., 2013; Probst et al., 2007). The direct cost of depression rose from approximately $173.2 billion to $210.5 billion between 2005 and 2010 (Greenberg et al., 2015), and the estimation is expected to be higher when chronic diseases related to depression are considered (Hankerson, Lee, et al., 2015; Hankerson, Suite, & Bailey, 2015; Penner et al., 2010). Individuals suffering from depression-associated symptoms are less productive at work and in their personal lives, have decreased energy, feel they receive inadequate support from supervisors, and have lower concentration when trying to perform job-related tasks (Bertilsson et al., 2013).
A Spade, A Spade
Creators: name: Murray-Daniels, Shonte Nicole
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Creative writing
subject: Creative Writing
subject: Poetry

description: The poems in A Spade, A Spade are mainly obsessed with the poet’s understanding and reconciliation with her family. The collection is in four parts, each of which investigates the speaker’s perspective as a daughter, sister, and granddaughter in a broken family. The poems are rooted heavily in memory, as the speaker recollects her time with her estranged father, and comes to term with her mother’s battle with lung cancer. A Spade, A Spade carries a dance motif throughout to explore the body as it grows and deteriorates.
Transport in tight-binding bond percolation models
Creators: name: Schmidtke, Daniel
name: Khodja, Abdellah
name: Gemmer, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most of the investigations to date on tight-binding, quantum percolation models focused on the quantum percolation threshold, i.e., the analogue to the Anderson transition. It appears to occur if roughly 30% of the hopping terms are actually present. Thus, models in the delocalized regime may still be substantially disordered, hence analyzing their transport properties is a nontrivial task which we pursue in the paper at hand. Using a method based on quantum typicality to numerically perform linear response theory we find that conductivity and mean free paths are in good accord with results from very simple heuristic considerations. Furthermore we find that depending on the percentage of actually present hopping terms, the transport properties may or may not be described by a Drude model. An investigation of the Einstein relation is also presented.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures