cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Use of Digital Technologies in the Nutritional Management of Catabolism-Prone Chronic Diseases: A Rapid Review
Creators: Cruz, Christofer
Prado, Carla M.
Punja, Salima
Tandon, Puneeta
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

Abstract (from author, in quotation marks):

Background: Diet and nutrition applications (apps) have become more readily accessible as smartphone ownership increases. These apps have the potential to improve nutritional outcomes, but it remains unclear whether they are effective in patients with catabolism-prone conditions and specialized nutritional needs.

Aims: The primary aim of this rapid review was to determine if delivery of a nutrition intervention via an app was more effective than standard care in improving nutritional outcomes in patients with a selected set of catabolism-prone chronic diseases. Secondary aims included summarizing intervention components and reviewing adherence and acceptance.

Methods: The research question was developed using the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes (PICO) framework. Comprehensive literature searches were conducted across three databases. Screening, study selection, extraction, and risk of bias (RoB) assessment were conducted for the included randomized clinical trials (RCTs).

Results: 15 articles were included, including 5 RCTs; 3/5 RCTs were judged to be at high RoB. The study aims, measured outcomes, and intervention components were diverse. Adherence and acceptance to the app interventions were encouraging.

Conclusions: Due to the heterogeneity of study design, nutrition interventions, outcomes, and reporting across studies, we were unable to aggregate data regarding the impact on nutritional outcomes. Reassuringly though, the available evidence suggests high adherence and acceptance, which needs to be interpreted in light of the associated personnel support provided within each study. The use of digital technology to deliver diet and nutrition interventions in catabolism-prone conditions is feasible, easy to adhere to, and well-accepted by participants.
Effective Mentoring Relationships with Women in Sport: Results of a Meta-Ethnography
Creators: name: Bower, Dr. Glenna G.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions within sport. One of the most critical aspects of advancing women in leadership positions within sport is the mentoring relationship. As the number of women entering sport increases, a growing number of professionals recognize the inherent benefits and challenges between the mentor and the protégé. This study was designed to identify themes based on key elements of an effective mentoring relationship helping women to advance within leadership positions in sport. A qualitative methodology, meta-ethnography, allowed the researcher to synthesize 15 qualitative studies about mentoring women within sport. These 15 studies were selected by using both content and methodological screening. Each study was read, coded, and analyzed for themes based on the key elements of an effective mentoring relationship. The findings of the study revealed 10 themes and seven implications for female protégés, potential mentors, and organizations to consider when mentoring women within sport.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 29 (2009)
Counsellors’ self-monitoring of day-to-day ethical practice
Creators: name: Stoll, Tara
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this research was to explore how counsellors self-monitor their day-to-day ethical practices. A qualitative methodology, interpretive description (Thorne, Kirkham, & McDonald-Ernes, 1997), was selected as a means of attaining a description of the monitoring process that would depict the commonalities among the participant sample while preserving the unique experience of the individual. Counsellors who had two to seven years of post-graduation (Master's level) experience and who were thought to be self-reflective and familiar with the ethical codes of the counselling profession were nominated by their former University professors. Participants included six female and two male Caucasian counsellors between the ages of 39 and 47. The counsellors engaged in individual audio taped interviews in which they answered the following question: What are the ways that you self-monitor your ethics of practice? The interview began with a free-form description of the monitoring process and concluded with a series of questions pertaining to particular aspects of the monitoring process (e.g., precipitating cues, frequency of engagement). Data analysis involved immersion in individual audio tapes and transcripts, searching for common themes within the individual case, and reflection on the data set as a whole asking, "What is happening here?" and "What am I learning about this?" (Thorne et al., 1997). Results suggest that the monitoring process 1) is a component of day-to-day ethical practice; 2) consists of a set of strategies considered to be either reactive or proactive; and 3) evolves with time and may be somewhat developmental. Results are considered in relation to previous and future research, counsellor training, and regulation of ethical practices of current members of the counselling profession.
Welcome Ground for Women Faculty in Academe: An International Perspective
Creators: name: Cooper, Joanne
name: Strachan, Jane
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: With the continued documentation of a persistent hostile or chilly climate for women in academe (Blum, 1991; Cooper, 2002; Curtis, 2005; Glazer-Raymo, 1999), questions arise about whether women faculty can find a home or welcome ground, both in the United States and around the world (Caplan, 1993; Cooper, Benham, Collay, Martinez-Aleman, & Scherr, 1999). The literature identifies a number of differing ways of viewing the academy as home. For example, Jane Roland Martin (2000) refers to the academy as "the home of thought" (p. 41). In discussing this concept, many women academics talk about finding or forging, if not a home, then welcome ground or a neighborhood. Whatever the term, the connotation is one of a place that is friendly, rather than hostile; one that counters the chilly climate image that Sandler and Hall (1986) have written about.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 21 (2006)
Contact between hot glass and wet porous material : Part 1. Theoretical considerations and experimental results
Creators: name: Trier, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 660

description: The contact behaviour between hot glass and a porous material containing water has been investigated. The mathematical equations which describe the one-dimensional problem have been derived. A test rig has been developed to measure the time-dependent contact temperature and pressure for contact materials such as sintered stainless steel, alumina, zirconia and sintered glass. It could be shown that the contact temperature is dependent on the saturation pressure of the generated steam. This is valid for the tight system. If the system is leaky and steam escapes laterally, the boiling front migrates into the porous medium and the contact temperature rises rapidly above the saturation temperature. The heat flux density originating from the thermal contact has been calculated using the mathematical equations and the experimental data. In the first second of contact, the heat flux density is nearly constant. With a pressure of 3 bar and a porosity of 25% of the medium the heat flux density ( in W/m²) is 140*10³ for stainless steel, 120*10^ for alumina, 115-10³ for zirconia ( ZrO₂ ) and 70*10³ for sintered glass. The leaky system shows higher values of heat flux density of 260* 10³ W/m² for the sintered stainless steel which is dependent upon the mass flow of the escaping steam. After release o f the pressure, the hot water (ϑhw > 100 °C) reboils. Only some of the water boils, the rest being ejected in form of small droplets or foam. In the case of the leaky system, the reboiling and ejection of water droplets are more violent. The tight system develops a steam layer, which prevents direct contact between the glass and the porous material. The resulting glass surface is very smooth. Under certain not yet fully clarified conditions contact with sintered alumina and zirconia produces glass surfaces covered by numerous rounded pits with a diameter of ≈ 5 µ m . These pits are probably generated by the ejected water droplets.
On the interaction between oxygen, iron and sulfur in industrial glass melts
Creators: name: Müller-Simon, Hayo
Publisher: name: Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 660

description: The oxidation state of iron in industrially molten glasses has been investigated in the cold glass and related to the oxygen activity in the glass melt. The prediction of the oxidation state of iron in the cold glass from the measured oxygen activity in the glass melt is disturbed in such a way that in oxidized molten glasses the Fe²⁺ content and in amber glasses the Fe³⁺ content increase during cooling. This behavior can be explained by an interaction due to the oxidation reactions of sulfur known from the literature during cooling. The reaction constants result in electrochemical standard potentials which agree with voltammetric studies.
What Does Emotional Intelligence and Gender Have to Do with Leadership Effectiveness "¦.Or Does It?
Creators: name: Condren, Tammy
name: Martin, Barbara N.
name: Hutchinson, Sandy
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and gender of the principal, and teacher's perceptions of the principal's leadership effectiveness. The researcher administered the Emotional IQ Test (Jerabek, 1998) to 32 randomly selected principals. One hundred and sixty randomly selected teachers in the buildings of these administrators then took the observer form of the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) (Kouzes & Posner's, 2001) to measure the leader's perceived effectiveness. The leadership practices and gender were correlated to the two aspects of emotional intelligence to determine possible relationships. Findings show that principals with higher emotional intelligence are perceived to be more effective. Overall, women have a higher EQ than their male counterparts and the building level assignment had a significant impact on how principals were perceived.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 21 (2006)
Identifying Planetary Transit Candidates in TESS Full-Frame Image Light Curves via Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Olmschenk, Greg
name: Silva, Stela Ishitani
name: Rau, Gioia
name: Barry, Richard K.
name: Kruse, Ethan
name: Cacciapuoti, Luca
name: Kostov, Veselin
name: Powell, Brian P.
name: Wyrwas, Edward
name: Schnittman, Jeremy D.
name: Barclay, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for transiting exoplanets. To search this vast data trove for transit signals, we aim to provide an approach that is both computationally efficient and produces highly performant predictions. This approach minimizes the required human search effort. We present a convolutional neural network, which we train to identify planetary transit signals and dismiss false positives. To make a prediction for a given light curve, our network requires no prior transit parameters identified using other methods. Our network performs inference on a TESS 30-minute cadence light curve in ~5ms on a single GPU, enabling large scale archival searches. We present 181 new planet candidates identified by our network, which pass subsequent human vetting designed to rule out false positives. Our neural network model is additionally provided as open-source code for public use and extension.
description: Updated to match AJ revision
Multi-epoch infrared photometry of the star forming region G173.58+2.45
Creators: name: Varricatt, Watson P.
name: Davis, Christopher J.
name: Adamson, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-epoch infrared photometric study of the intermediate-mass star forming region G173.58+2.45. Photometric observations are obtained using the near-infrared $JHKL'M'$ filters and narrow-band filters centered at the wavelengths of H$_2$ (1-0) S(1) (2.122 $μ$m) and [FeII] (1.644 $μ$m) lines. The H$_2$ image shows molecular emission from shocked gas, implying the presence of multiple star formation and associated outflow activity. We see evidence for several collimated outflows. The most extended jet is at least 0.25 pc in length and has a collimation factor of $\sim$ 10, which may be associated with a binary system within the central cluster, resolved for the first time here. This outflow is found to be episodic; probably occurring or getting enhanced during the periastron passage of the binary. We also find that the variable star in the vicinity of the outflow source, which was known as a FU Ori type star, is probably not a FU Ori object. However, it does drive a spectacular outflow and the variability is likely to be related to accretion, when large clouds of gas and dust spiral in towards the central source. Many other convincing accretion-outflow systems and YSO candidates are discovered in the field.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Thermodynamic approach to viscosity in the glass transition
Creators: name: Conradt, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 660

description: The glass transition is re-investigated by means of the formahsm of linear nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The process is treated for melts cooled down below their liquidus temperatures in terms of three events. These events are, in the order of decreasing temperature: by-passing of crystallization, freezing-in of stress relaxation, and freezing-in o f near-range structural relaxation. Conditions for the viscosity levels are derived at which each of these events is accomplished. The model is tested against data of five one-component, three simple binary and ternary, and three multicomponent systems. Within the scope of this test, it is confirmed that the model correctly describes the viscosity levels typical of the glass transition, as well as their dependence on the cooling rate. An explanation for the 10¹³dPa*s rule at Tg is included.
Outflowing material in the CSS quasar 3C48: evidence of jet-cloud interaction?
Creators: name: Gupta, Neeraj
name: Srianand, R.
name: Saikia, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of a zabs=0.3654 associated absorption-line system in the UV spectrum of the CSS quasar 3C48. The absorbing material is blue shifted with respect to the quasar emission-line redshift, zem=0.3700, suggesting an outflow velocity of ~1000 km/s. We detect absorption lines over a range of ionization states from Ly-beta, Ly-gamma, CIV, NIV, SVI to OVI and possibly OIV and NeVIII. The kinematical properties of the absorption-line system are similar to the blue-shifted emission line gas seen in [OIII]\lambda5007 (Chatzichristou, Vanderriest & Jaffe 1999), which is believed to have interacted with the radio jet. We study the properties of the absorbing material using CLOUDY and find that photoionization models with Solar abundance ratios (with overall metallicity in the range 0.1
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Exploration about the origin of galactic and extragalactic star clusters through simulated H-R diagrams
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Tanuka
name: Mondal, Sreerup
name: Paul, Suman
name: Maji, Subhadip
name: Chattopadhyay, Asis Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work explores the origin of the formation of star clusters in our Galaxy and in Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) through simulated H-R diagrams and compare those with observed star clusters. The simulation study produces synthetic H-R diagrams by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique using star formation history (SFH), luminosity function (LF), abundance of heavy metal (Z) and a big library of isochrones as basic inputs and compares them with observed H-R diagrams of various star clusters. The distance based comparison between those two diagrams is carried out through two dimensional matching of points in Color-Magnitude Diagram (CMD) after optimal choice of bin size and appropriate distance function. It is found that a poor medium of heavy elements (Z = 0.0004), Gaia LF along with mixture of multiple Gaussian distributions of SFH may be the origin of formation of globular clusters (GCs). On the contrary, enriched medium (Z = 0.019) is favoured with Gaia LF along with double power law (i.e. unimodal) SFH. For SMC clusters, the choice of exponential LF and exponential SFH is a proper combination for poor medium whereas Gaia LF with Beta type SFH is preferred in an enriched medium for the formation of star clusters.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Kinetics of the Two-dimensional Long-range Ising Model at Low Temperatures
Creators: name: Agrawal, Ramgopal
name: Corberi, Federico
name: Lippiello, Eugenio
name: Politi, Paolo
name: Puri, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low-temperature domain growth kinetics of the two-dimensional Ising model with long-range coupling: $J(r) \sim r^{-(d+σ)}$, where $d=2$ is the dimensionality. According to the Bray-Rutenberg predictions, the exponent $σ$ controls the algebraic growth in time of the characteristic domain size $L(t)$, $L(t) \sim t^{1/z}$, with growth exponent $z=1+σ$ for $σ<1$ and $z=2$ for $σ>1$. These results hold for quenches to a non-zero temperature $T>0$ below the critical temperature $T_c$. We show that, in the case of quenches to $T=0$, due to the long-range interactions, the interfaces experience a drift which makes the dynamics of the system peculiar. More precisely we find that in this case the growth exponent takes the value $z=4/3$, independent of $σ$, showing that it is a universal quantity. We support our claim by means of extended Monte Carlo simulations and analytical arguments for simplified models.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures. Accepted by Phys. Rev. E
Educational Leadership: Where are the Women?
Creators: name: Stufft, Dr. Derry
name: Coyne, Kelly
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Throughout time, stereotypes regarding women and men have permeated society, creating many obstacles for women, especially in the professional world. Where words like nurturing, compassionate, emotional, expressive, communal, passive, uncertain, subjective and supportive have historically been used to describe women; words like intelligent, powerful, competent, objective, independent, methodical and driven have typically been reserved to describe men (Porat, 1991). These adjectives have long supported the social perception that men are superior and women are inferior. Obviously times are changing. Women are emerging as powerful leaders in business and government and are disproving many long-standing skewed perceptions of females. Despite these advances, however, certain labels for women continue to impede their efforts to be strong leaders in other areas.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 29 (2009)
Dimension Reduction in Quantum Key Distribution for Continuous- and Discrete-Variable Protocols
Creators: name: Upadhyaya, Twesh
name: van Himbeeck, Thomas
name: Lin, Jie
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method to connect the infinite-dimensional description of optical continuous-variable quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols to a finite-dimensional formulation. The secure key rates of the optical QKD protocols can then be evaluated using recently-developed reliable numerical methods for key rate calculations. We apply this method to obtain asymptotic key rates for discrete-modulated continuous-variable QKD protocols, which are of practical significance due to their experimental simplicity and potential for large-scale deployment in quantum-secured networks. Importantly, our security proof does not require the photon-number cutoff assumption relied upon in previous works. We also demonstrate that our method can provide practical advantages over the flag-state squasher when applied to discrete-variable protocols.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Transformational Learning in Women's Leadership Development Training
Creators: name: Debebe, Dr. Gelaye
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Recent years have seen a sharp increase in interest in women's leadership development. However, the nature of change for women in leadership development training and the processes within the training setting that produce change remain under-explored. This paper examines the learning processes within training settings in the context of the Women's Leadership Series (WLS), a leadership development initiative for scientists and managers within the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It documents this process within a multi-stage framework and concludes that transformational learning can indeed take place in the context of a classroom and in the specific setting of leadership development training.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 29 (2009)
Testing the general theory of relativity using gravitational wave propagation from dark standard sirens
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Suvodip
name: Wandelt, Benjamin D.
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Alternative theories of gravity predict modifications in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) through space-time. One of the smoking-gun predictions of such theories is the change in the GW luminosity distance to GW sources as a function of redshift relative to the electromagnetic (EM) luminosity distance expected from EM probes. We propose a multi-messenger test of the theory of general relativity from the propagation of gravitational waves by combining EM and GW observations to resolve these issues from GW sources without EM counterparts (which are also referred to as dark standard sirens). By using the relation between the geometric distances accessible from baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, and luminosity distance measurements from the GW sources, we can measure any deviation from the general theory of relativity via the GW sources of unknown redshift that will be detectable by networks of GW detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. Using this technique, the fiducial value of the frictional term can be measured to a precision $Ξ_0=0.98^{+0.04}_{-0.23}$ after marginalizing over redshift dependence, cosmological parameters, and GW bias parameters with $\sim 3500$ dark standard sirens of masses $30\,\rm M_\odot$ each distributed up to redshift $z=0.5$. For a fixed redshift dependence, a value of $Ξ_0=0.99^{+0.02}_{-0.02}$ can be measured with a similar number of dark sirens. Application of our methodology to the far more numerous dark standard sirens detectable with next generation GW detectors, such as LISA, Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will allow achievement of higher accuracy than possible from use of bright standard sirens.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Challenges and Breakthroughs of Female Department Chairs Across Disciplines in Higher Education
Creators: name: Mullen, Dr. Carol A.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study is to explore the department chair role relative to challenges and breakthroughs women leaders experience both inside and outside the discipline of education. The research reported is an exploration of relatively uncharted territory, adding to the data-based studies that exist of female leadership in this post-secondary context. Incorporated into this survey-based study are constructs established in the literature around relational and organizational aspects of leadership behavior. While attention is given to gender and leadership issues reported by 121 female department chairs, the discussion is broader than gender considerations. Focus is on the major challenges that practicing leaders have encountered, particularly within the domains of administration and scholarship. Included is discussion of these leaders' initiatives, reflections, and advice, complete with verbatim quotes, thematic analyses, and relevant tables. One recommendation is that more research be conducted of the issues and work of female department chairs, with consideration of the gender dynamics involving work-role identity. Other recommendations include the advocacy of women faculty members as college-level leaders who are effectively mentored.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 29 (2009)
Compressive Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor based on Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Jia, Peng
name: Ma, Mingyang
name: Cai, Dongmei
name: Wang, Weihua
name: Li, Juanjuan
name: Li, Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor is widely used to measure aberrations induced by atmospheric turbulence in adaptive optics systems. However if there exists strong atmospheric turbulence or the brightness of guide stars is low, the accuracy of wavefront measurements will be affected. In this paper, we propose a compressive Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing method. Instead of reconstructing wavefronts with slope measurements of all sub-apertures, our method reconstructs wavefronts with slope measurements of sub-apertures which have spot images with high signal to noise ratio. Besides, we further propose to use a deep neural network to accelerate wavefront reconstruction speed. During the training stage of the deep neural network, we propose to add a drop-out layer to simulate the compressive sensing process, which could increase development speed of our method. After training, the compressive Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing method can reconstruct wavefronts in high spatial resolution with slope measurements from only a small amount of sub-apertures. We integrate the straightforward compressive Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing method with image deconvolution algorithm to develop a high-order image restoration method. We use images restored by the high-order image restoration method to test the performance of our the compressive Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing method. The results show that our method can improve the accuracy of wavefront measurements and is suitable for real-time applications.
description: To appear in the MNRAS and the complete code can be downloaded from: https://nadc.china-vo.org/article/20200722160959?id=101045
The meaning of change through therapeutic enactment in psychodrama
Creators: name: Brooks, Dale Theodore
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning of change through therapeutic enactment in psychodrama. Existential and hermeneutic phenomenology conducted from the perspective of a dialectic between storied narrative and thematic analysis was used to investigate the essential meaning of the experience. Eight co-researchers who had experienced significant change through therapeutic enactment in psychodrama were interviewed in depth. Transcripts from these interviews were transposed into narrative form in order to straighten the story of change through enactment in a before, during, and after sequence. These eight individual narratives were validated by the co-researchers. An independent reviewer checked each narrative against the original transcript, video tapes of the enactments, and comments of each co-researcher for trustworthiness. Each validated narrative provided a rich description of the lived experience of change through therapeutic enactment. In addition, fifty-nine (59) essential themes were formulated from the individual narratives: Fourteen (14) in the planning stage, twenty-four (24) in the enactive stage, and twenty-one (21) in the reflective, or integrative stage, of the enactment process. These themes were then woven into a common story representing the pattern and meaning of change through therapeutic enactment for this group of co-researchers. Finally, notations made during the transposing of the transcripts into personal narratives, formulation of the essential themes, and construction of the common story were used to develop a theoretical story of change through therapeutic enactment, as a final level of hermeneutic interpretation. This theoretical story was then presented in summary form as a thematic sequence of multi-modal change processes representing a model of change through therapeutic enactment. The results of this study suggested numerous theoretical and technical implications. Foremost among theoretical implications was the suggestion that Tomkins (1992) script theory of affect may best illuminate the effects and processes of psychodrama and enactment. This study also had implications for interactional theories of development, contemporary psychoanalytic theories of interpersonal functioning, theories of moral development, theories of dream functioning, and ethological theories of myth and ritual. The results of this study also suggested a number of additional qualitative and comparative outcome studies for future research.
Contact between hot glass and wet porous material : Part 2. Trials on a continuously operating container forming machine
Creators: name: Trier, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Offenbach : Verlag der Deutschen Glastechnischen Gesellschaft
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 660

description: The narrow neck press and blow process for the production of lightweight bottles uses a slender plunger. It is suspected that the plunger decreases the bursting strength and above all the impact resistance of the bottles by damaging the inner glass surface of the parison. It was the aim of the project to develop a "steam plunger" using a wet porous material, which would protect the glass surface by a developing steam layer between glass and plunger. Trials with different steam plunger constructions show that the production of bottles is possible with this system at normal production speeds. The bursting strength of the bottles produced was a little higher than that of the normal production; the impact resistance remains the same. Steam plungers, permeated by water from the inside, have a tendency to thermal instability The control of the water penetration is essential. The vulnerable point is the tip of the plunger. The control of the contact temperature of the plunger tip after the loading of the gob is very important. For the trials stainless steel was used for the plungers. The results show that, especially for the tip region, a material with a high heat penetration coefficient is advantageous. Bronze would be better than stainless steel. Parallel with the trials, a mathematical model was developed in order to understand better the behaviour of the steam plunger system. The results were in good agreement with the trials.
NANOGrav Signal from First-Order Confinement/Deconfinement Phase Transition in Different QCD Matters
Creators: name: Li, Shou-Long
name: Shao, Lijing
name: Wu, Puxun
name: Yu, Hongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, an indicative evidence of a stochastic process, reported by the NANOGrav Collaboration based on the analysis of 12.5-year pulsar timing array data which might be interpreted as a potential stochastic gravitational wave signal, has aroused keen interest of theorists. The first-order color charge confinement phase transition at the QCD scale could be one of the cosmological sources for the NANOGrav signal. If the phase transition is flavor dependent and happens sequentially, it is important to find that what kind of QCD matter in which the first-order confinement/deconfinement phase transition happens is more likely to be the potential source of the NANOGrav signal during the evolution of the universe. In this paper, we would like to illustrate that the NANOGrav signal could be generated from confinement/deconfinement transition in either heavy static quarks with a zero baryon chemical potential, or quarks with a finite baryon chemical potential. In contrast, the gluon confinement could not possibly be the source for the NANOGrav signal according to the current observation. Future observation will help to distinguish between different scenarios.
description: latex, 12 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor corrections, references updated
Realization of critical eigenvalues for scalar and symmetric linear delay-differential equations
Creators: name: Buono, Pietro-Luciano
name: LeBlanc, Victor G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K06, 37G40, 37G10

description: This paper studies the link between the number of critical eigenvalues and the number of delays in certain classes of delay-differential equations. There are two main results. The first states that for k purely imaginary numbers which are linearly independent over the rationals, there exists a scalar delay-differential equation depending on k fixed delays whose spectrum contains those k purely imaginary numbers. The second result is a generalization of the first result for delay-differential equations which admit a characteristic equation consisting of a product of s factors of scalar type. In the second result, the k eigenvalues can be distributed amongst the different factors. Since the characteristic equation of scalar equations contain only exponential terms, the proof exploits a toroidal structure which comes from the arguments of the exponential terms in the characteristic equation. Our second result is applied to delay coupled D_n-symmetric cell systems with one-dimensional cells. In particular, we provide a general characterization of delay coupled D_n-symmetric systems with arbitrary number of delays and cell dimension.
On Becoming and Being Faculty-Leaders in Urban Education and also Being African- American...Seems Promising
Creators: name: Loder, Tondra L.
name: Sims, Michele Jean
name: Collins, Loucrecia
name: Brooks, Michael
name: Voltz, Deborah
name: Calhoun, Charles
name: Coker, Angela D.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Seven African-American women and men faculty members at a Southeastern urban research university reflect on their collective experiences of creating an intellectual community and spearheading an urban teacher education initiative within their School of Education . Employing a qualitative self-study and project reflection approach, the authors situate themselves within the historical trajectory of the African-American struggle for education, emphasizing the problems and promises confronting contemporary urban educators. Highlighting their role in launching the Training and Retaining Urban Student Teachers (T.R.U.S.T.) Initiative in the Birmingham City Schools, the authors conclude that the future of urban education is predicated on the capacity of contemporary African-American educators to forge effective alliances first with one another, and then with other partners in higher education, urban school districts, the local community, and national educational organizations.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 22 (2007)
Life Notes about the Dual Careers of a Black Female: Race and Gender Politics in Public School Administration and Higher Education Professorship
Creators: name: Simmons, Juanita Cleaver
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: This article is written from the experiential and theoretical perspectives that I encountered as a Black female public school educator who, after twenty-plus years of public school teaching and administrative experiences, became an assistant professor at a predominately White research university. Being a student of critical race theory, I write this experience narrative from the perspective of life notes in order to help "demystify[ing] African American feminist ways of knowing, in moments of reflection, relation, and resistance" (Dillard, 2003, p. 135). Moreover, this article represents an " endarkened feminist epistemology" (Dillard, 2003) in order to shed light on how incidents and events with race, class, and gender translate into meaning for both of my professional careers and my life in general. A chronologic comparison of my experiences in both careers reveals the debilitating affects of race and gender. By sharing this experience, I hope that all who are involved in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women and minorities in these professions (public school administration and the academy) will better understand how acts of racism and sexism create distractions that hinder their success in these careers.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 22 (2007)
Black Women Teacher Educators: Creating Enduring Afriographies as Leaders and Change Makers
Creators: name: Hill-Brisbane, Djanna A.
name: Dingus, Jeannine E.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: ithin the womanist tradition, Black women have fought against multiple oppressions through the construction of enduring afriographies , as leaders and change-makers, and as scholars committed to research and service in and for communities of color (Henry, 1998; Hill, 2002; Ladson-Billings, 1996). This study investigated the perspectives, experiences, and practices of three Black women teacher educators using womanist theory and portraiture methodology. In interviewing and shadowing participants, and reviewing documents related to their teaching practices, two questions were posed: a) In what ways are their teaching practices informed by their experiences?; and, How does the theme of "race uplift" help to shape their work within the academy? This paper explores findings from the latter question and considers participants' power to lead and effect change in their academic roles and in their creation of enduring afriographies.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 22 (2007)
Large coupling-strength expansion of the Møller-Plesset adiabatic connection: From paradigmatic cases to variational expressions for the leading terms
Creators: name: Daas, Timothy J.
name: Grossi, Juri
name: Vuckovic, Stefan
name: Musslimani, Ziad H.
name: Kooi, Derk P.
name: Seidl, Michael
name: Giesbertz, Klaas J. H.
name: Gori-Giorgi, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail the first three leading terms of the large coupling-strength limit of the adiabatic connection that has as weak-interaction expansion the Møller-Plesset perturbation theory. We first focus on the H atom, both in the spin-polarized and the spin-unpolarized case, reporting numerical and analytical results. In particular, we derive an asymptotic equation that turns out to have simple analytical solutions for certain channels. The asymptotic H atom solution for the spin-unpolarized case is then shown to be variationally optimal for the many-electron spin-restricted closed-shell case, providing expressions for the large coupling-strength density functionals up to the third leading order. We also analyze the H2 molecule and the uniform electron gas.
Improving the estimation of environment parameters via initial probe-environment correlations
Creators: name: Ather, Hamza
name: Chaudhry, Adam Zaman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Small, controllable quantum systems, known as quantum probes, have been proposed to estimate various parameters characterizing complex systems such as the environments of quantum systems. These probes, prepared in some initial state, are allowed to interact with their environment, and subsequent measurements reveal information about different quantities characterizing the environment such as the system-environment coupling strength, the cutoff frequency, and the temperature. These estimates have generally been made by considering only the way that the probe undergoes decoherence. However, we show that information about the environment is also imprinted on the probe via the probe and environment correlations that exist before the probe state preparation. This information can then be used to improve our estimates for any environment. We apply this general result to the particular case of a two-level system probe undergoing pure dephasing, due to a harmonic oscillator environment, to show that a drastic increase in the quantum Fisher information, and hence the precision of our estimates, can indeed be obtained. We also consider applying periodic control pulses to the probe to show that with a combination of the two - the effect of the control pulses as well as the initial correlations - the quantum Fisher information can be increased by orders of magnitude.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, comments most welcome
Gendered Emotion Management and Perceptions of Affective Culture in a Military Nonprofit Organization
Creators: name: CALLAHAN, JAMIE L.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: This paper explores the emotion work conducted by men and women in a nonprofit organization and their perceptions of the feeling rules in the organization. The study found that qualitative differences showing that women performed more emotion work than men were supported by a quantitative survey that measured perceptions of affective culture. Specifically, women were more likely than men to say that the culture of the organization required members to be affectively neutral (p
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 20 (2006)
Factors Influencing Career Choice for Women in Science, Mathematics, and Technology: The Importance of a Transforming Experience
Creators: name: Besecke, Leslie M.
name: Reilly, Anne H.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Organizations in the business sector, as well as government and academia, continue to demand intelligent professionals trained in science, mathematics, and technology. This paper explores factors that may influence women's initial choices to pursue careers in these fields. In addition to the many well-established factors that guide an individual's career choice, we propose that women who choose careers in science and technology have a subset of common early experiences that encourage them to pursue a career path still regarded as contrary to traditional gender roles for women. For many women, this common background is a transforming experience that supports their career choice in science, mathematics, and technology. This transforming experience is composed of personal contact with a role model and often an intimate involvement with the process that serves as an invitation into the world of scientific inquiry. The researchers outline a model for women's career selection in these nontraditional fields, and our results suggest some recommendations for increasing the numbers of women in these careers.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 21 (2006)
Finding My Voice:An African-American Female Professor at a Predominantly White University
Creators: name: Marbley, Aretha Faye
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: Drawing from her personal experience, the author shares concrete examples from her promotion and tenure review, including the experience of social integration issues and the ramifications that the higher education environment had on her personal and professional attitudes as an African-American female faculty member. Included in the discussion is her feeling isolated, devalued, and unwelcomed. She discusses how her value systems, culture, ethnicity, and behavior patterns often conflict with those held by the university and white faculty members and students, and finally, how these conditions disempowered and suppressed her voice as a female faculty and faculty member of color.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 22 (2007)
El Valle de la Trinidad
Creators: name: Ochurte Espinoza, Trinidad
name: Mixco, Mauricio J.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: klb

description: See Kiliwa Texts: “When I have Donned My Crest of Stars” (University of Utah Press, 1983), p. 263 for transcription, segmentation, glossing, and translation of this story.
การพัฒนาระบบฐานข้อมูลพืชสมุนไพรกัญชง มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
Creators: name: สุภักตร์ ปัญญา
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้
Year: 2019
Subjects: กัญชง
ระบบฐานข้อมูล
ระบบสารสนเทศ

description: วารสารแม่โจ้เทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและนวัตกรรม, 5, 1, 75 ถึง 89
Linking Literacy and Community Development: A Case Study of Women in New Orleans
Creators: name: Subban, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
Year: 2017

description: This paper examines the impact of a family literacy program in New Orleans , developed in response to low literacy levels, high drop-out rates, and a corresponding lack of resident participation in community development efforts in the area. The program, Toyota Families for Learning (TFFL), worked to transcend disciplinary barriers by linking adult literacy education and community development through a communitybased approach to adult literacy. TFFL continuously evolved to serve as a catalyst for transformation in the lives of the women it served, their families, and their communities. The experiences of the women in this study were explored in relation to the following indicators of community building: (1) developing the ability to express personal experiences and observed phenomena, (2) constructing one's own knowledge, (3) setting and following through on goals, (4) building a positive community environment, and (5) developing a vision of the community. Qualitative data in the form of literacy narratives informed this inquiry. The narratives were triangulated with field notes and focus group data collected over a six-year period commencing in 1992. The findings of this research indicate that literacy programs can be structured to successfully build the capacity of participants to engage in community development processes.
description: Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, Vol. 21 (2006)