cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: What do Germans of Russian and Turkish migration background think about sanctions against Russia?
Creators: name: Debus, Marc
name: Diener, Julius
name: Himmelrath, Noam
name: Stecker, Christian
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2025

description: The Russian invasion of Ukraine has significant implications not only for foreign, defence, economic and energy policies of European democracies, but also for their societal cohesion. While the debates about sanctions against Russia are mainly structured along partisan lines, with supporters of far-left and far-right parties tending to be against harsh responses, we argue that also a specific migrant background and an ethnic identity matter for the position on this highly salient and polarizing issue. Using original survey data from Germany, we find that respondents with a Russian or a Turkish ethnic background are less in favour of sanctions against Russia. This finding remains robust when considering respondents’ party preferences, education level, age, religious affiliation, and their region of residence, whether in Western or Eastern Germany. The results suggest that Russia’s war against Ukraine is likely to create tensions not only between individuals with different ideological orientations, but can also result in conflicts between citizens with and without a Russian or Turkish migrant background or identity.
title: Rezension: Götze, Lutz (2004), Zeitkulturen. Gedanken über die Zeit in den Kulturen
Creators: name: Kranz, Dieter
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: "Der Mensch besitzt nichts Edleres und Kostbareres als die Zeit." (Ludwig van Beethoven) "Gewöhnliche Menschen denken nur daran, wie sie ihre Zeit verbringen. Ein intelligenter Mensch versucht, sie zu nützen." (Arthur Schopenhauer) Die beiden Eingangszitate vermitteln Gedanken von einem Komponisten und einem Philosophen von Weltrang zum Phänomen Zeit, Gedanken, die in den Zitatenschatz der deutschen Sprache aufgenommen wurden. Diese persönlichen Ansichten und Empfindungen werden von vielen Mitmenschen geteilt, die sich auch im Alltagsleben mit der Frage nach dem Wesen der Zeit auseinandersetzen. "Das Nachdenken über Zeit und Raum hat Menschen seit frühester Zeit beschäftigt. Kulturen sind davon in hohem Maße geprägt und charakterisiert. Das Werk stellt Zeitsinn und Ideen über die Zeit von der Antike bis in die Moderne und in zahlreichen Ländern und Ethnien vor." (Rückseite der Umschlagsbroschur)
Foreign direct investment and aid to Africa: exploring the views of Kenyan academics and civil servants
Creators: name: Ndegwa, Martin G.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: This paper explores the issue of Chinese investment in Kenya through the eyes of Kenyan academics and civil servants. I discuss initial findings from interviews and surveys that explored these informants' views on Chinese aid and foreign direct investment (FDI), their effects on national economic and social development, and the emergence of Chinese economic interest in Kenya. Fundamentally, I reflect on differences between Chinese and Western aid and investment in Kenya and explore whether these informants view the Chinese-Kenyan relationship as conducive to development and sustainability in Kenya. Informants suggest that China is able to deliver aid at a speed unmatched by Western donors and confirm that Chinese investment in infrastructure dwarfs that of Western donors (Lyman, 2005). However, they also criticize Chinese investors for ignoring human rights and refusing to listen to complaints from Africans on topics that range from low wages to negative environmental effects of aid and investment projects.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2014.
title: Deutsch für Brasilianer: Begegnungen mit dem Fremden als Vorbereitung für interkulturelle Kompetenz
Creators: name: Bohunovsky, Ruth
name: Zink Bolognini, Carmen
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Diskussionen über die (mangelnde) Qualität des Fremdsprachenunterrichts sind in Brasilien momentan sehr aktuell. Dabei geht es hauptsächlich um den Englischunterricht, der ab dem 5. Schuljahr obligatorisch ist, aber die grundlegenden Fragen, die diskutiert werden, betreffen den Fremdsprachenunterricht in Brasilien allgemein. Oft steht die angeblich mangelnde Ausbildung der LehrerInnen im Mittelpunkt der Debatten, manchmal sind es die strukturellen Schwächen des Schulsystems im Allgemeinen. In zunehmendem Ausmaß werden jedoch auch die Merkmale der in Brasilien verwendeten Lehrmaterialen und -methoden diskutiert und kritisiert. Statt sich wie bisher um die Übernahme international anerkannter Materialien und Methoden zu bemühen, geht es dabei immer mehr um die spezifischen Eigenheiten des Fremdsprachenunterrichts in Brasilien und darum, wie im Unterricht darauf eingegangen werden soll. Die aktuelle Tendenz dieser Debatten zeigt sich am Beispiel folgenden Zitats aus einem Beitrag einer weit verbreiteten Tageszeitung zum Thema Englischunterricht im Kontext der brasilianischen Realität: "Es bringt nichts, in der Peripherie São Paulos die Kinder zu bitten, einen Dialog von jemandem zu wiederholen, der gerade am Londoner Flughafen ankommt" (O Estado de São Paulo, 2. Mai 2005). Der Tenor vieler akademischer Arbeiten zum selben Thema ist ähnlich, da auch hier oft darauf hingewiesen wird, dass die im Fremdsprachenunterricht üblicherweise verwendeten Methoden und Lehrmaterialien nicht an die Realität der meisten brasilianischen StudentInnen angepasst sind (Coracini, 2003; Grigoletto, 2003).
Additional file 3 of Spatio-temporal impacts of aerial adulticide applications on populations of West Nile virus vector mosquitoes
Creators: name: Holcomb, Karen M.
name: Reiner, Robert C.
name: Barker, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Text S1. R script outlining our workflow of covariate development, GAM model fitting and estimated change in abundance.
title: Landeskunde in der Praxis: Erfahrungen und Visionen: Einleitung zum Themenheft
Creators: name: Schweiger, Hannes
name: Gilly, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die theoretischen Überlegungen und Konzepte zum Landeskundeunterricht sind vielfältig und setzen völlig unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte: von einer faktenzentrierten Landeskunde über kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze, wie sie auch Gegenstand des Heftes Nr. 3/2004 der ZIF waren, bis hin zur interkulturellen Landeskunde, die sich insbesondere die Vermittlung von Wahrnehmungs- und Interpretationsstrategien, die in interkulturellen Situationen notwendig und hilfreich sind, zum Ziel setzt. Die Unterrichtenden können aus einer breiten Palette an Theorieangeboten zur Landeskunde auswählen - eine Wahl, die nicht immer leicht fällt.
title: Rezension: Zenderowska-Korpus, Grazyna (2004), Sprachliche Schematismen des Deutschen und ihre Vermittlung im Unterricht DaF
Creators: name: Schneider, Britta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Ein kommunikativ und interkulturell orientierter Fremdsprachenunterricht hat weltweit Einzug in die DaF-Klassenzimmer gehalten. Die Andersartigkeit der Zielsprache und Zielkultur sowie die Unterschiedlichkeit der Lernerkompetenzen sind generell anerkannt, und der moderne Sprachunterricht verzichtet daher weitgehend auf vorgefertigte Schablonen und Routinen. Um so spannender klingt der gewählte Titel des hier zu rezensierenden Buches von Graźyna Zenderowska-Korpus, das sich den sprachlichen Schematismen des Deutschen und ihrer Vermittlung im Unterricht DaF widmet.
Unitary loops and factorization
Creators: name: Pickrell, Doug
name: Pittman-Polletta, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a refinement of triangular factorization for unitary matrix valued loops.
description: 18 pages
Personenfreizügigkeit zwischen der Schweiz und der Europäischen Union und der Zugang zum europäischen Binnenmarkt
Creators: Ludwig, Zurbriggen
HSLU – Hochschule Luzern
Publisher: name: Open Education Platform for Management Schools
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Migrationspolitik
subject: Personenfreizügigkeit
subject: Integration
subject: Lohnunterbietung
subject: Problembewusstsein
subject: Europapolitik

description: Es gibt viele Fehlkonzeptionen und verzerrte Vorstellungen über die Europäische Union. Die Fallstudie will die Studierenden anleiten, ihr Vorverständnis am Beispiel der Personenfreizügigkeit zu überprüfen und zu korrigieren. Sie sollen ein Bewusstsein für die Konflikte zwischen politischen Akteuren und der Vielzahl an Interessen erarbeiten. Im Rahmen von Rollenspielen vertiefen die Studierenden ihre Kenntnisse der Schweizer Migrationspolitik, der Integration in den europäischen Binnenmarkt, der möglichen Desintegration sowie über Lohndumping und Lohnschutzmassnahmen.
L2C2: Logic-based LSC Consistency Checking
Creators: name: Guo, Hai-Feng
name: Zheng, Wen
name: Subramaniam, Mahadevan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Live sequence charts (LSCs) have been proposed as an inter-object scenario-based specification and visual programming language for reactive systems. In this paper, we introduce a logic-based framework to check the consistency of an LSC specification. An LSC simulator has been implemented in logic programming, utilizing a memoized depth-first search strategy, to show how a reactive system in LSCs would response to a set of external event sequences. A formal notation is defined to specify external event sequences, extending the regular expression with a parallel operator and a testing control. The parallel operator allows interleaved parallel external events to be tested in LSCs simultaneously; while the testing control provides users to a new approach to specify and test certain temporal properties (e.g., CTL formula) in a form of LSC. Our framework further provides either a state transition graph or a failure trace to justify the consistency checking results.
description: To be included in the on-line proceedings of WLPE'2009
The Conservation Reserve Program of the Soil Bank: Effects in Selected Areas, 1957
Creators: name: Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service
name: Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use

description: Excerpts from the report Highlights: Approximately 83,000 farm operators put a total of 6.5 million acres of cropland in the conservation reserve part of the Soil Bank Program in 1957. They made agreements to reduce the acreages of cropland harvested on their farms by the acreages put in the conservation reserve for 3, 5, or 10 years and to establish permanent cover where it is needed to protect and conserve the land. Farm operators receive annual rental payments that average about $9 per acre and practice payments that cover up to 80 percent of the cost of establishing protective cover on cropland placed in the program. Most contracts are for 5 years. However, 10-year contracts call for planting of trees on nearly 500,000 acres. Farm surveys were made in selected areas of six States during the summer of 1957 to learn what effects the Conservation Reserve Program, is having on farming. Altogether, more than 1,000 farm operators were interviewed. Half of them, were participating in the Conservation Reserve Program. The study areas are representative of widely differing types of farming situations.
Flavour Physics in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity: Effects in the K, B_d/s and D systems
Creators: name: Recksiegel, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Littlest Higgs Model with T parity (LHT) is an interesting alternative model for New Physics at the TeV scale. Although Flavour Physics was not the reason for creating the LHT model, significant effects (such as large CP violation where not predicted by the SM) can be created without violating existing experimental bounds. We study the B-, K- and especially the D-sector.
description: Talk given at the Flavianet Workshop on Low energy constraints on extensions of the Standard Model, 23-27 July 2009, Kazimierz, Poland
Protective effects of auditory toughening on noise induced hearing loss in rats
Creators: name: DeMots, Cynthia A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Deafness, Noise induced
subject: Acoustic trauma
subject: Noise -- Health aspects

description: Exposure to a sound provides protection against a subsequent traumatic sound. This toughening effect was studied in rats using different levels of stimuli. Rats were exposed to a 60 dBA or 72 dBA broad band noise for 5 days, 12 hours per day. Recovery from a 110 dB SPL 7.8 kHz pure tone presented for 20 minutes was measured using auditory brainstem response thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emissions immediately after the traumatic exposure and 10 to 12 days later. Auditory toughening did not have an effect on hearing and outer hair cell function immediately following a traumatic sound exposure. The toughened groups showed, however, a greater recovery than the control group, which was proportionally dependent on the toughening sound intensity, 10 to 12 days after the traumatic sound exposure.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2008. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
The effectiveness of bioretention structures for metal retention and toxicity reduction of copper roof runoff
Creators: name: LaBarre, William J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: Concern has increased over the concentrations of copper in stormwater runoff from copper roofs due to its effects on sensitive aquatic biota. Stormwater control measures (SCMs) are being used as a way to treat effluent from various nonpoint pollution sources such as roadways and parking lots, but their efficacy has not been well demonstrated in the treatment of more concentrated sources such as copper roofs. Influent and effluent stormwater from a copper roof with two kinds of SCMs (bioretention planter boxes and biofiltration swales) were examined over a two year period to determine their ability to sequester copper and attenuate toxicity. The planter boxes averaged 93% copper removal and the swales averaged 97% removal. Effluent water toxicity was substantially decreased through water chemistry changes that reduce the bioavailability of copper as determined by the biotic ligand model and toxicity testing.
description: Introduction to the problem -- Attenuation of copper in runoff from copper roofing materials by two stormwater control measures -- Stormwater control measures decrease the toxicity of copper roof runoff.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2014.
title: Rezension: Xanthos-Kretzschmer, Sigrid; Douvitsas-Gamst, Jutta & Xanthos, Eleftherios (2003), Das neue Deutschmobil 1 und 2
Creators: name: Fuhrmann, Susanne
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Mit Das neue Deutschmobil stellt der Klett-Verlag eine "vollständige Neubearbeitung" [1] des erstmals 1989 erschienenen Lehrwerks Das Deutschmobil vor. Diese Neubearbeitung erfolgte u.a. "im Hinblick auf aktuelle methodisch-didaktische Aspekte" und orientiert sich an den Niveaustufen des Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens, so dass Anfänger mit den drei aufeinander aufbauenden Bänden eine Sprachkompetenz bis zur Niveaustufe B 1 (Zertifikat Deutsch) erwerben können.
Additional file 6 of Spatio-temporal impacts of aerial adulticide applications on populations of West Nile virus vector mosquitoes
Creators: name: Holcomb, Karen M.
name: Reiner, Robert C.
name: Barker, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Smooth functions included in the final GAMs for both Cx. tarsalis and Cx. pipiens. Table outlining the construction of smooth function used in the final models, including spline type and basis dimensions chosen.
Optimal Paths on the Space-Time SINR Random Graph
Creators: name: Baccelli, Francois
name: Blaszczyszyn, Bartlomiej
name: Mirsadeghi, Mir Omid Haji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60D05, 05C80 (Primary) 90C27, 60G55 (Secondary)

description: We analyze a class of Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise-Ratio (SINR) random graphs. These random graphs arise in the modeling packet transmissions in wireless networks. In contrast to previous studies on the SINR graphs, we consider both a space and a time dimension. The spatial aspect originates from the random locations of the network nodes in the Euclidean plane. The time aspect stems from the random transmission policy followed by each network node and from the time variations of the wireless channel characteristics. The combination of these random space and time aspects leads to fluctuations of the SINR experienced by the wireless channels, which in turn determine the progression of packets in space and time in such a network. This paper studies optimal paths in such wireless networks in terms of first passage percolation on this random graph. We establish both "positive" and "negative" results on the associated time constant. The latter determines the asymptotics of the minimum delay required by a packet to progress from a source node to a destination node when the Euclidean distance between the two tends to infinity. The main negative result states that this time constant is infinite on the random graph associated with a Poisson point process under natural assumptions on the wireless channels. The main positive result states that when adding a periodic node infrastructure of arbitrarily small intensity to the Poisson point process, the time constant is positive and finite.
title: Rezension: Kilp, Elóide (2003), Spiele für den Fremdsprachenunterricht. Aspekte einer Spielandragogik
Creators: name: Mátyàs, Emese
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Obwohl Spiele schon Mitte der 70er Jahre in kommunikativ orientierten Methoden ihren Boom erlebt haben, scheint das Interesse an ihrem Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht bis zum heutigen Tag erhalten geblieben zu sein. Die Aktualität des Themas belegen u.a. das Erscheinen von einschlägigen Themenheften in den letzten Jahren [1] und die Fülle von neuen und neu bearbeiteten Spielsammlungen. Im Gegensatz dazu besteht in der Fremdsprachendidaktik ein Mangel an wissenschaftlichen und systematischen Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Thema. Die Zielsetzung von Elóide Kilp besteht darin, mit ihrer Dissertation das bestehende Forschungsdefizit einigermaßen zu beheben.
Permeability of the insect cuticle to water and the transition phenomenon
Creators: name: Oloffs, Peter Christian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The epicuticular wax layer prevents excessive loss of body water in most insects. The innermost layer of the wax is an oriented monolayer, offering the greatest resistance to the movement of water molecules across the cuticle. Several workers have shown that this oriented monolayer undergoes phase transition at a certain temperature and that the loss of water increases rapidly above this temperature which is now known as transition temperature. Other researchers deny a sharply defined transition point and claim that loss of water increases exponentially with temperature. The controversy includes Corixids. This work was carried out in an attempt to study the water relations of Cenocorixa expleta (Hungerford) in dry air. An apparatus was built to pass dry air over a single insect at constant speed and temperature. Measurements were made of the evaporation rate and the temperature of the cuticle, using copper-constantan thermo-couples made from 47 s.w.g. wires. In one series of experiments, the insects were pre-treated by immersion in water or surfactant solutions of various temperatures before their evaporation rates were measured in dry air of 20 G. Adult C. expleta have a transition point which lies near 30 C but composite evaporation/temperature curves do not show it. The evaporation rates in dry air are slightly temperature-dependent below, and highly temperature-dependent above transition. When caused by high temperature air, transition appears to be reversible: the insects regain waterproofness at approximately 25 C. To prove or disprove the existence of a transition point it is necessary to measure the evaporation rates of an individual insect over the entire temperature range. Phase transition and loss of waterproofness can also be caused by water of 30 C to 35 C. In this case the effect is irreversible. Detergent solutions of sub-transition temperatures remove a small fraction of waterproofing agent, possibly the non-oriented portion of the wax layer. The presence of the transition phenomenon in G. expleta, i. e., the fact that these insects lose their waterproofing, suddenly at approximately 30 G, and the fact that they lose this waterproofing permanently if it is caused by high temperature water, may limit their successful survival in small water bodies and thus their distribution.
The auditory steady-state response: a web based tutorial
Creators: name: Bents, Trisha A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: A comprehensive literature review of the Auditory Steady-State Response (ASSR) was performed and an informational website designed for doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) students, recent Au.D. graduates, and audiologists unfamiliar with the current recommended evidence-based ASSR testing protocol was also developed. The ASSR is a unique auditory evoked potential (AEP) that encompasses unique terminology. Topics reported in this literature review include the history of the ASSR and its initial limitations, its neural generators, terminology specific to the ASSR, unique stimuli (sinusoidally amplitude modulated (AM), frequency modulated (FM), mixed modulated (MM), and repeating sequence tones (RSG)), single frequency (SF) and multiple frequency (MF) stimulation techniques, methods for analyzing the ASSR (Phase Coherence and Fast Fourier Transform with F-ratio), recommended recording parameters, the accuracy of behavioral threshold prediction, calibration considerations, and the clinical application of the ASSR. The website is an easily accessible central resource for current evidence-based practices in ASSR testing.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
Spectral properties of supersymmetric Polychronakos spin chain associated with A_{N-1} root system
Creators: name: Basu-Mallick, B.
name: Bondyopadhaya, Nilanjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the exact partition function of su(m|n) Polychronakos spin chain associated with A_{N-1} root system, we study some statistical properties of the related spectrum. It is found that the corresponding energy level density satisfies the Gaussian distribution and the cumulative distribution of spacing between consecutive energy levels obeys a certain `square root of a logarithm' law.
description: latex, 17 pages, 3 figures
title: Entwicklungen des mehrsprachlichen Kontexts im universitären Deutschunterricht in der Türkei
Creators: name: Seyhan Yücel, Mukadder
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Muttersprache, Mehrsprachigkeit, Zweitsprache, Interkulturalität und speziell der Erwerb der 2. Fremdsprache – mit diesen Begriffen sind aktuelle Tendenzen in der fachwissenschaftlichen und fachdidaktischen Diskussion sowie aktuelle bildungspolitische Entwicklungen der Europäischen Union verbunden. In diesem Kontext spielen sich auch in der Türkei bedeutende Entwicklungen ab. Die Themen ‘Frühförderung im Fremdsprachenunterricht’, ’Deutsch als zweite Fremdsprache nach Englisch’ und ‘Deutsch als Fremdsprache im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit‘ werden intensiv diskutiert und die Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Fragestellungen hat Folgen. Dem Erlernen von Fremdsprachen wird in der Türkei eine immer grössere Bedeutung beigemessen. Ausgehend von dieser Feststellung möchte ich versuchen darzustellen, wie der mehrsprachliche Kontext auf der Basis des Englischen als L2 sich im universitären Deutschunterricht in der Türkei entwickeln.
ANÁLISE TÉCNICA E JURÍDICA PARA INTRODUÇÃO DE SUBSÍDIO NO TRANSPORTE PÚBLICO
Creators: name: Melo, Thadeu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: As recorrentes reinvindicações da população para redução das tarifas de transporte, os impactos nefastos da concorrência desleal com modos clandestinos ou sem regulamentação, somadas aos efeitos negativos ocasionados pela pandemia de COVID-19, reforçaram a importância do debate sobre subsídio tarifário e a necessidade de estabelecer novas formas de financiar o transporte coletivo com objetivo de manter a tarifa em valores acessíveis aos cidadãos sem afetar a justa remuneração dos operadores. A lacuna na literatura sobre a prática de subsídios em contratos vigentes contribui para a geração de dúvidas e insegurança na tomada de decisão. Pretende-se com este artigo reduzir a lacuna existente através da realização de uma análise técnico-jurídica sobre o tema, além de contribuir com recomendações de propostas de novas fontes de financiamento para melhorar o serviço no Brasil.
Summary of Fiber and Processing Test Results on Some Varieties of Cotton Grown by Selected Cotton Improvement Groups, Crop of 1957
Creators: name: Agricultural Marketing Service
name: Agricultural Marketing Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpt from the report: Results of tests on fiber properties and performance in processing of the principal varieties of cotton produced commercially by cotton improvement groups for the 1957 crop are summarized in this report. Test data are included that were published in monthly reports from August 1957 through January 1958. The cottons for which test results aw reported are grouped according to processing procedures employed in making the spinning tests. This facilitates comparisons of the performance in processing of the principal varieties of cotton as produced in the various areas throughout the Cotton Belt.
title: Zur Relevanz des bewussten Einsatzes des Englischen im Unterricht "Deutsch als zweite Fremdsprache" bei Muttersprachlern des Türkischen
Creators: name: Serindağ, Ergün
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In der Folge neuerer Forschungen zum Fremdspracherwerb verlieren derzeit strikt einsprachige Unterrichtsmethoden zu Gunsten der Mehrsprachigkeit an Bedeutung. Man geht dabei davon aus, dass nicht nur die Muttersprache einen Einfluss auf das Lernen einer zweiten oder weiteren Fremdsprache hat, sondern dass auch durch Erfahrungen mit dem Lernen anderer Fremdsprachen eine bedeutende Wirkung erzielt wird. Dies ist besonders zu Beginn des Lernens der zweiten Fremdsprache zu beobachten. Als Deutschlehrer fallen uns sowohl im Unterricht des Deutschen als zweite Fremdsprache als auch bei den Korrekturen von Arbeiten der Studenten auf, dass bewusst oder unbewusst die erst gelernte Fremdsprache Englisch zu Hilfe genommen wird und dass dabei auch Interferenzfehler aus dem Englischen gemacht werden. Das heißt, es wird in Unsicherheitsfällen eher ein englisches als türkisches Element in die Produktion des Deutschen übertragen. Dies hängt wahrscheinlich damit zusammen, dass das Englische als germanische Sprache dem Deutschen relativ näher steht als das Türkische. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in diesem Beitrag mit empirischen Befunden und Beispielen versucht, nachzuweisen, dass die bewusste Ausnutzung der Englischkenntnisse in der Sprachenkonstellation Türkisch-Englisch-Deutsch einen lernfördernden Effekt hat. Unseren statistischen Auswertungen zufolge kann man mit bewusster Ausnutzung des Englischen Deutsch relativ leichter, schneller und mit wenigen Fehlern lernen kann als ohne Hilfe des Englischen. Der Ablauf der Arbeit gestaltet sich so, dass im 1. Teil anhand verschiedener Beispiele ein Überblick über die Ähnlichkeit bzw. den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Deutschen und Englischen mit gleichzeitigen Hinweisen auf die Distanzen zum Türkischen gegeben wird. Der Überblick beschränkt sich auf den Elementarbereich der Grammatik, des Wortschatzes und der Orthografie, auf den die Deutschlerner besonders in der Anfangsphase des Lernens zurückgreifen können1 . Im zweiten, empirischen Teil wird – nach einer Beschreibung des Untersuchungsortes, der Untersuchungsgruppen und der methodischen Vorgehensweise – eine Fehleranalyse bei schriftlichen Prüfungen durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse der Fehleranalyse werden einer statistischen Auswertung unterzogen, in der versucht wird, nachzuweisen, dass der Anteil der Interferenzfehler durch bewusste Ausnutzung der Englischkenntnisse, besonders in den im 1. Teil aufgeführten Bereichen, relativ niedriger ist.
Pathway to salvation? Public perceptions of the impact of religion on criminal behavior and recidivism
Creators: name: Beeson, Charles Jeff
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2011

description: For centuries, religion has inspired debate regarding the role it might play in advancing a person?s position within society. Proponents of the value of religious involvement in shaping adherents? behavior have framed it as a mechanism that can provide a fundamental foundation for human conduct and a script for human interaction. In considering these points, what are the implications for those individuals that society has deemed to be unfit to participate as a free and contributing citizen due to their involvement in crime? Can religion possibly offer a vehicle to salvation for incarcerated offenders, not in the philosophical sense, but within the context of inspiring an abandonment of criminal conduct? Research on the topic suggests that religious participation and practice can impact choices, but remains fractured, failing to adequately draw significant correlations between practice and outcomes in terms of a reduction of criminal activity. Regardless, participation in faith-based programming is encouraged in many correctional facilities. This paper will explore the literature on the subject and discuss the results of a survey designed to measure community attitudes and beliefs regarding the impact of prison-based religious involvement and programming upon inmate recidivism.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2011.
Repository features: response to the COAR, OpenAIRE, LIBSENSE
Creators: name: Matthew, Cannon
name: Graf, Chris
name: MacCallum, Catriona
name: Threlfall, Jonathan
name: Cranston, Imogen
name: Callaghan, Sarah
name: Carnevale, Ilaria
name: Khodiyar, Varsha
name: Edmunds, Scott
name: Lemberger, Thomas
name: Chan, Wei Mun
name: McNeice, Kiera
name: Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain
name: Leary, Adam
name: McQuilton, Peter
name: Sansone, Susanna-Assunta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: repository features, repository selection

description: Response to the COAR, OpenAIRE and LIBSENSE community.
Border crossings and mestiza consciousness in AIDS art in the US: a content analysis
Creators: name: Barr, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: In this thesis, I argue that ?the AIDS body? faces a crisis of representation. Mainstream representations of the AIDS body work through discourses of sexism, homophobia, and racism to ?other? the AIDS body and create arbitrary ?borders.? I discuss the inadequacies of many US feminist responses to AIDS: namely, their insistence on an oppositional framework that ultimately limited these responses. I suggest that Chicana feminisms offer a framework for action that might broaden the possibilities of feminist response to the AIDS crisis. This framework includes mestiza consciousness and ?border?-crossing. AIDS art is one place where the crisis of representation can be addressed and resolved. I undertake an analysis of AIDS art in the US to show that AIDS art can cross ?borders? and cultivate mestiza consciousness in such a way as to resolve the crisis of representation faced by the AIDS body.
description: Feminism, AIDS and the borderlands -- Initial artistic responses to AIDS in the US -- Contemporary AIDS art in the US
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2011.
The impact of digital and paper-based graphic organizers on the persuasive writing process of fourth and fifth grade students
Creators: name: Thomas-Fuller, Mila
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: At present, graphic organizers have become recognized instructional tools to help support students as they write. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of paper-based and digital graphic organizers to improve persuasive writing of fourth and fifth grade students. A quasi-experimental study with a comparison design with pre-test and post-tests was used with the switching replication method. The population consists of sixty-seven public and private school students in fourth and fifth grade. The most prominent results indicate that the use of a digital graphic organizer first, leads to significant improvements in the following five writing outcome areas: goal statements, reasoning statements, supporting arguments, conclusion statements, and overall scores. Likewise, female students also showed significant improvements in all five writing outcomes. Comparable to digital, the use of paper-based graphic organizers first, resulted in significant improvements in three areas: supporting arguments, conclusion statements, and overall scores. For older students (aged 10-11), the use of both paper-based and digital graphic organizers first, leads to significant improvements in the following five writing outcome areas: goal statements, reasoning statements, supporting arguments, conclusion statements, and overall scores. The overall results indicate that graphic organizers yield significant improvements in the persuasive writing of fourth and fifth grade students. Furthermore, a consistent finding throughout this study is that the use of paper-based and digital graphic organizers results in significant improvements in these three areas: supporting arguments, conclusion statements, and overall scores.
description: (Ed. D.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Dynamical Unbinding Transition in a Periodically Driven Mott Insulator
Creators: name: Hassler, Fabian
name: Rüegg, Andreas
name: Sigrist, Manfred
name: Blatter, Gianni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the double occupancy in a fermionic Mott insulator at half-filling generated via a dynamical periodic modulation of the hopping amplitude. Tuning the modulation amplitude, we describe a crossover in the nature of doublon-holon excitations from a Fermi Golden Rule regime to damped Rabi oscillations. The decay time of excited states diverges at a critical modulation strength, signaling the transition to a dynamically bound non-equilibrium state of doublon-holon pairs. A setup using a fermionic quantum gas should allow to study the critical exponents.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 7 of Spatio-temporal impacts of aerial adulticide applications on populations of West Nile virus vector mosquitoes
Creators: name: Holcomb, Karen M.
name: Reiner, Robert C.
name: Barker, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S2. Change (%) in nightly abundance from expected for collections preceding aerial spraying. Table indicating the final model estimates for change in expected trap-counts for collections in the 1 to 4 weeks preceding an aerial spray event.
Resolving the mid-infrared cores of local Seyferts
Creators: name: Gandhi, P.
name: Horst, H.
name: Smette, A.
name: Hoenig, S.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Gilli, R.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Duschl, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new photometry of 16 local Seyferts including 6 Compton-thick sources in N-band filters around 12-microns, obtained with the VISIR instrument on the 8-m Very Large Telescope. The near-diffraction-limited imaging provides the least-contaminated core fluxes for these sources to date. Augmenting these with our previous observations and with published intrinsic X-ray fluxes, we form a total sample of 42 sources for which we find a strong mid-infrared:X-ray (12.3 micron:2-10 keV) luminosity correlation. Performing a physically-motivated sub-selection of sources in which the Seyfert torus is likely to be best-resolved results in the correlation L_{MIR} ~ L_X^{1.11+/-0.07}, with a reduction of the scatter in luminosities as compared to the full sample. Consideration of systematics suggests a range of 1.02-1.21 for the correlation slope. The mean 2 keV:12.3 micron spectral index (alpha_IX) is found to be -1.10+/-0.01, largely independent of luminosity. Observed 12-micron bolometric corrections range over ~10-30 if a known luminosity trend of intrinsic X-ray bolometric corrections is assumed. Comparison with ISO data spanning a larger luminosity range suggests that our correlation can be extended into the quasar regime. The fact that unobscured, obscured and Compton-thick sources all closely follow the same luminosity correlation has important implications for the structures of Seyfert cores. The typical resolution-limit of our imaging corresponds to ~70 pc at a median z=0.01, and the tightness of the correlation constrains any residual star-formation within these physical scales, for which we infer a mean upper-limit of
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Philosophie und Grundlagen des Marketings: Erfolgreich Kunden und Kundinnen akquirieren und rentable Kunden und Kundinnen langfristig binden
Creators: Stephanie, Greiwe
Thomas, Helbling
Olga, Samuel
Publisher: name: FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Marketing
subject: Marketingphilosophie
subject: Marketinganalyse
subject: Kundenakquise
subject: Kundenbindung

description: Das primäre Ziel des Marketings ist eine profitable Befriedigung der Kundenbedürfnisse. Nach einer Einleitung in die Aufgaben des Marketings sowie Marketingphilosophie werden Kundenbedürfnisse und –nutzen näher erläutert und verschiedene Marketingkonzepte und Instrumente sowie die Durchführung von Marketinganalysen anhand von Beispielen erläutert. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird auf die Kundenakquisition und –bindung gelegt.
title: Hypothesen zur Organisation des mentalen Lexikons bei türkisch-deutsch-englischen trilingualen Jugendlichen
Creators: name: Cedden, Gülay
name: Onaran, Sevil
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts erlebte einen enormen Durchbruch in Forschungen, deren Ziel es war, die linguistischen Regelsysteme, deren Erwerb, Störungen und Ausfall und die neuronalen Abläufe von Sprachperzeption und -produktion, zu erfassen. Die bemerkenswerten Fortschritte, die in diesen Bereichen erzielt wurden, haben gezeigt, dass die Kooperation der Fachbereiche für Neurologie und Sprachwissenschaft von großer Notwendigkeit ist. Neuere Forschungsarbeiten der letzten Jahrzehnte haben sich auf dem Gebiet von Sprache und Gehirn darauf spezialisiert, Störungen von linguistischen Komponenten in der Aphasie zu erfassen, um eine Struktur der Sprache im Gehirn erstellen zu können. Zum derzeitigen Zeitpunkt steht weitgehend fest, dass ein konkretes Aggregat von Neuronen, also eine funktionale Struktur des neuronalen Systems im menschlichen Gehirn vorhanden ist, die den Sprachperzeptions, -verarbeitungs und -produktionsmechanismus verwirklicht. Der Begriff ‘mentales Lexikon’, der sowohl diesen Mechanismus umschreibt, als auch ganz allgemein als der Speicher im Langzeitgedächtnis für die mentale Repräsentation der Wörter einer Sprache definiert werden kann, rückt jetzt immer mehr ins Zentrum sprachwissenschaftlicher und neuropsychologischer Forschungen. Die Organisation des trilingualen Lexikons ist der zentrale Punkt unserer Forschung. Der Schwerpunkt aber liegt aber auf folgender Frage: ”Wie ist es möglich, dass unterschiedliche Sprachen mit ihren eigenen Lexemen und Regelsystemen gleichzeitig abgerufen werden können?’ Könnte dies ein Hinweis darauf sein, dass unterschiedliche Sprachen miteinander vernetzt im Gehirn abgespeichert werden und nicht voneinander getrennt?’ An Fehlern, die bei mündlichen Äußerungen von trilingualen Studenten aufgetreten sind, versuchen wir darzustellen, wie eng vernetzt Sprachen gespeichert sind. In dieser Arbeit werden wir zuerst einige Modelle beschreiben, die die Funktionsweise der Mechanismen des mentalen Lexikons oder des Sprachproduktionsprozesses zu erfassen suchen. Anschließend werden wir von unserer Studie an der Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Türkei) berichten und uns im letzten Teil auf die dargestellten Modelle beziehend Schlussfolgerungen ziehen.
Fidicina mannifera
Creators: name: McClearn, Deedra
name: Arroyo-Mora, J. Pablo
name: Castro, Enrique
name: Coleman, Ronald C.
name: Espeleta, Javier F.
name: García-Robledo, Carlos
name: Gilman, Alex
name: González, José
name: Joyce, Armond T.
name: Kuprewicz, Erin
name: Longino, John T.
name: Michel, Nicole L.
name: Rodríguez, Carlos Manuel
name: Romero, Andrea
name: Soto, Carlomagno
name: Vargas, Orlando
name: Wendt, Amanda
name: Whitfield, Steven
name: Timm, Robert M.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Fidicina
Fidicina mannifera

description: In Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowland forests, most associations between plants and sap-feeders remain unknown. Astudy on the distribution of cast nymphal skins of the sundown cicada
 (Fidicina mannifera, Homoptera: Cicadidae)
suggests apotential association between this insect and plants from the family Fabaceae (Young 1980, 1984).
description: Published as part of McClearn, Deedra, Arroyo-Mora, J. Pablo, Castro, Enrique, Coleman, Ronald C., Espeleta, Javier F., García-Robledo, Carlos, Gilman, Alex, González, José, Joyce, Armond T., Kuprewicz, Erin, Longino, John T., Michel, Nicole L., Rodríguez, Carlos Manuel, Romero, Andrea, Soto, Carlomagno, Vargas, Orlando, Wendt, Amanda, Whitfield, Steven & Timm, Robert M., 2016, The Caribbean lowland evergreen moist and wet forests, pp. 527-587 in Costa Rican Ecosystems, Illinois :University of Chicago Press on page 559, DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226121642.003.0016, http://zenodo.org/record/10379283
Constant net-time headway as key mechanism behind pedestrian flow dynamics
Creators: name: Johansson, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that keeping a constant lower limit on the net-time headway is the key mechanism behind the dynamics of pedestrian streams. There is a large variety in flow and speed as functions of density for empirical data of pedestrian streams, obtained from studies in different countries. The net-time headway however, stays approximately constant over all these different data sets. By using this fact, we demonstrate how the underlying dynamics of pedestrian crowds, naturally follows from local interactions. This means that there is no need to come up with an arbitrary fit function (with arbitrary fit parameters) as has traditionally been done. Further, by using not only the average density values, but the variance as well, we show how the recently reported stop-and-go waves [Helbing et al., Physical Review E, 75, 046109] emerge when local density variations take values exceeding a certain maximum global (average) density, which makes pedestrians stop.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
The influence of variety and maturity on organic acids and related constituents in the highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum, L.)
Creators: name: Vance, Bayne Ferrier
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The possibility of evaluating the quality of blueberry fruit in chemical terms rather than by color or organoleptic methods was considered. The fruit of three varieties of commercial highbush blueberries at four stages of physiological maturity was analysed for total solids, water-insoluble solids, soluble solids, titratable acids, total acids, volatile acids, reducing sugars, total sugars and sugar-acid ratios. Differences among varieties and stages of physiological maturity were sought by use of the above measurements supplemented by a study of the individual organic acid patterns of the fruit. Meaningful differences were evident among the four stages of physiological maturity for all measurements except volatile acids and total solids. Varietal differences were evident from measurements of the pH, soluble solids, sugar-acid ratios, and a number of the individual organic acids.
Astro-cultural Tourism in Romania - Another Way of Doing Astronomy Education: Elisabeta Ana Naghi at the OAE's 3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Creators: name: Naghi, Elisabeta Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy Education

description: Victor Anestin – considered to be the father of Romanian amateur astronomy: "Numbers and long equations are not the bait with which the admirers of heaven can be caught". In the last few years, we have witnessed a series of private inquiries unveiling a special kind of astronomical heritage in Romania. We group the main objects of interest for the Romanian astro-cultural tourist into the following list: 1) Astronomical ornaments to be found on old village houses, 2) Astronomical timekeeping devices, sundials, 3) Cosmological representations inside churches. The list may go on but what is most important is the fact that astro-cultural tourism can be a good starting point for astronomical education in the case of youngsters, adults and the elderly alike.