cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: To Blend or not to Blend from an Instructor’s Perspective: Introducing Blended Learning in Medical Education in a Gulf Cooperation Council Country
Creators: name: Hasnain, Syed Ahmed
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Abstract This study looks at instructors perceptions of blended learning (BL) at a Medical School (MS) in one of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. The study also looks at the effects of instructors perceptions on implementation of BL in the classroom. And the effect of student perspectives on instructors perceptions of BL. The study is important as it looks into the impact and effectiveness of technology in the classroom, from an instructor’s perspective in the GCC. The study also captures how an instructors’ experiences with technology effect their practice in the classroom. The target populations of the study are eight instructors and five students. Data analysis starts with narratives of each instructor to give the reader an idea of their background, and technology usage preferences. The main methods of data collection are instructors interviews, class observations, and one student focus group discussion (FGD), a thematic analysis was carried out on the notes collected. The analysis of the study is carried out in light of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Findings of this study confirms that perceived ease (PE) of use and perceived usefulness (PU) of technology does contribute to acceptance of technologies. Effect of TAM extension variables content quality (CQ), facilitating conditions (FC), anxiety (ANX), lack of experience (EXP) was evident among the instructors. Findings of this study showed that student perspectives have an effect on instructors perceptions of blended learning. A recommendation is to add student perspectives as an external variable to TAM extensions. It is concluded that the BL approach depends on the individual instructor and can alter from instructor to instructor, depending on personal preferences, past experiences, training, and support. The general perception of the BL approach expressed by the instructors at MS was positive. Based on the findings, it was also revealed that instructors can have negative perceptions of BL, if their expectations are not met. It is also concluded that MS lacked planned implementation of the BL approach institution wide. A recommendation for MS is to come up with a plan to implement BL institution wide, after studying the strengths and limitations of the BL approach. While the findings of this study revealed that instructors perceptions of BL may improve course instruction, and student engagement, more research is required to measure the direct relationship of BL, students, and instructor expectations.
Maximized axial helicity in a Pd2L4 cage: inverse guest size-dependent compression and mesocate isomerism
Creators: name: Bloch, Witold M.
name: Horiuchi, Shinnosuke
name: Holstein, Julian J.
name: Drechsler, Christoph
name: Wuttke, Axel
name: Hiller, Wolf
name: Mata, Ricardo A.
name: Clever, Guido H.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Supramolecular chemistry
subject: Helicity
subject: Supramolecular host
subject: Metallohelicate
subject: Anion binding
subject: 540

description: Helicity is an archetypal structural motif of many biological systems and provides a basis for molecular recognition in DNA. Whilst artificial supramolecular hosts are often helical, the relationship between helicity and guest encapsulation is not well understood. We report a detailed study on a significantly coiled-up Pd2L4 metallohelicate with an unusually wide azimuthal angle (∼176°). Through a combination of NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, trapped ion mobility mass spectrometry and isothermal titration calorimetry we show that the coiled-up cage exhibits extremely tight anion binding (K of up to 106 M−1) by virtue of a pronounced oblate/prolate cavity expansion, whereby the Pd–Pd separation decreases for mono-anionic guests of increasing size. Electronic structure calculations point toward strong dispersion forces contributing to these host–guest interactions. In the absence of a suitable guest, the helical cage exists in equilibrium with a well-defined mesocate isomer that possesses a distinct cavity environment afforded by a doubled Pd–Pd separation distance.
title: Experiences of Students with Dyslexia in Higher Education in England
Creators: name: Eplin, Randal
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Abstract Title: Experiences of Students with Dyslexia in Higher Education in England Dyslexia is a learning disability that can be characterized by difficulties in reading, word recognition and spelling. Such difficulties create learning challenges for students diagnosed with dyslexia. As a result, students with such disabilities would need specialized support in learning environments. Some universities have made positive inroads by enrolling students with dyslexia and establishing centres that assist such students. There is research that identifies varying degrees of support for students with dyslexia but very little research on how students have responded to the support provided. Using phenomenology as the research methodology, this thesis explores the experiences of nine students with a diagnosis of dyslexia at a university in England. In addition, the study explores academic staff members’ experiences with students diagnosed with dyslexia. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather information from the participants. Thematic analysis was used to identify the themes that emerged from the interviews. Four main findings were identified. First, tutoring was discovered to be a very effective form of support. Second, the ability to self-regulate and seek out help on their own was important. Third, students and academic staff called for the need for ‘inclusive practices.’ Fourth, the speed at which services could be accessed could be improved. There were notable variations in students’ experiences as well as how academic staff understood issues related to supporting students with a diagnosis of dyslexia. Finally, implications for practice are explored with practical suggestions on how this research can be applied in higher education settings desiring to implement ways to assist students with dyslexia.
Pursuit and Synchronization in Hydrodynamic Dipoles
Creators: name: Kanso, Eva
name: Tsang, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the behavior of a class of hydrodynamic dipoles. This study is motivated by recent experiments on synthetic and biological swimmers in microfluidic \textit{Hele-Shaw} type geometries. Under such confinement, a swimmer's hydrodynamic signature is that of a potential source dipole, and the long-range interactions among swimmers are obtained from the superposition of dipole singularities. Here, we recall the equations governing the positions and orientations of interacting asymmetric swimmers in doubly-periodic domains, and focus on the dynamics of swimmer pairs. We obtain two families of `relative equilibria'-type solutions that correspond to pursuit and synchronization of the two swimmers, respectively. Interestingly, the pursuit mode is stable for large tail swimmers whereas the synchronization mode is stable for large head swimmers. These results have profound implications on the collective behavior reported in several recent studies on populations of confined microswimmers.
Reactor performance estimation in microscale flow calorimeter for rapid characterization of exothermic reactions
Creators: name: Frede, Timothy Aljoscha
name: Nikbin, Nick
name: Kockmann, Norbert
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CFD simulation
subject: Compartment Modeling.
subject: Design of Experiments.
subject: Digital Twin.
subject: Flow Calorimetry.
subject: Microreactor.
subject: 660

description: Continuous flow calorimeters are a promising tool in process development and safety engineering, especially for flow chemistry applications to characterize the heat release and kinetic parameters of rapid chemical reactions. In this study, the digital accompaniment of an isoperibolic flow calorimeter for characterization of exothermic reactions is presented. To support experimental planning and evaluation, computational fluid dynamic simulations are carried out for single-phase flow in the microreactor. The residence time distribution is obtained and used for estimation of conversion and temperature profiles along the microreactor channel. This leads to an integration of CFD simulations into the calorimeter’s software-guided workflow reducing the experimental effort regarding the determination of thermokinetic data. The approach is tested for a highly exothermic test reaction, which provides further hints for future investigations.
description: Journal of flow chemistry;13(1)
title: Increasing student engagement with a community college music curriculum
Creators: name: Park, Christine
name: Park, Christine
name: Park, Christine
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2021

description: Abstract This case study is an examination of a cohort of 15 music majors at Los Angeles City College (LACC), a two-year, open-enrollment, public community college. The majority of students enter the music program having had limited exposure to classical music. Given these students low cultural capital, they start on the periphery of the theory and performance communities of music practice (CoMPs). As they gradually engage with the CoMPs and become legitimate peripheral participants through situated learning, students are able to learn to appreciate, value, acquire additional capital, and become more engaged with the Western classical music components of the curriculum. The theoretical basis for the study comes from Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital, which provides the foundation of the exploration of the relationship between LACC music student capital and the institutional capital of the music curriculum, and Lave and Wenger’s concepts of situated learning and communities of practice, which provide the foundation for exploring why the interviewed LACC music students appear to enter CoMPs at different rates and with different levels of engagement. The 15 participants in the study were a cohort of transfer-oriented students in their last semester of studies, selected through a purposeful sampling strategy to match the demographic characteristics of a typical cohort of music majors. Qualitative data were collected through individual semi-structured interviews with each of the participants, which allowed for a comparative analysis of student journeys through the music program. The data suggest that students increase their engagement with the music curriculum when they define their identity by engaging in CoMPs, recognize the connections between theory and performance, and value the curriculum as a whole in helping them reach their musical goals. A significant finding of the research is the influence of emotional experiences in helping students engage with and connect the theory and performance curriculum. Recommendations are that music programs should support the formation of CoMPs, engage students early on with performance classes, create opportunities for students to have emotional experiences in the classroom, and use faculty brokers to bridge the boundaries between the theory and performance curriculum.
Exploring Source and Detector Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions at ESS$ν$SB
Creators: name: Blennow, Mattias
name: Choubey, Sandhya
name: Ohlsson, Tommy
name: Raut, Sushant K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate source and detector non-standard neutrino interactions at the proposed ESS$ν$SB experiment. We analyze the effect of non-standard physics at the probability level, the event-rate level and by a full computation of the ESS$ν$SB setup. We find that the precision measurement of the leptonic mixing angle $θ_{23}$ at ESS$ν$SB is robust in the presence of non-standard interactions, whereas that of the leptonic CP-violating phase $δ$ is worsened at most by a factor of two. We compute sensitivities to all the relevant source and decector non-standard interaction parameters and find that the sensitivities to the parameters $\varepsilon^s_{μe}$ and $\varepsilon^d_{μe}$ are comparable to the existing limits in a realistic scenario, while they improve by a factor of two in an optimistic scenario. Finally, we show that the absence of a near detector compromises the sensitivity of ESS$ν$SB to non-standard interactions.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures. Final version published in JHEP
Cyathea straminea H. Karst., Linnaea
Creators: name: Lehnert, Marcus
name: Kessler, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Cyatheaceae
Cyathea
Cyathea straminea

description: Cyathea straminea H.Karst., Linnaea 28: 457. 1856 [Jun 1857].
 Range:— Andes from Colombia to Bolivia (LP, SC).
 Ecology:—Uncommon in cloud forests and elfin forests, flourishing in open valley bottoms but also found in the forest understory; 2100–2700 m.
 Note s:—This species has petiole scales of a stiff, straw-like texture that ususally are almost completely yellowish white or have a small brown basal spot that is not visible in the imbricate arrangement of the scales. In southern Ecuador and northern Peru, the scales of some plants may be fully bicolorous, with a brown central stripe instead of a spot, whereas the other plants in the population are typical. This may represent an intraspecific color variation as observed in Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth. (Andersson-Kottö 1931, Schneller & Liebst 2007) and many flowering plants, e.g. Corydalis cava (L.) Schweigg. & Kort. (Fumariaceae) and Fritillaria meleagris L. (Liliaceae) (Tutin et al. 1980).
description: Published as part of Lehnert, Marcus & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XX. Cyatheaceae, pp. 118-134 in Phytotaxa 334 (2) on page 130, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13721436
Population dynamics of Leucadendron dubium in the Cederberg, slopes of Langeberg below jeep track, site 3219AC/18
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Cederberg
population dynamics
Langeberg
Leucadendron dubium

description: This is a scanned copy of a document noting the population dynamics of Leucadendron dubium in the Cederberg, slopes of Langeberg below jeep track, site 3219AC/18. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Dynamic alterations in decoy VEGF receptor-1 stability regulate angiogenesis
Creators: name: Citrin, Kathryn M.
name: Bautch, Victoria L.
name: Wylie, Lyndsay A.
name: Clark, Ryan P.
name: Chong, Diana C.
name: Boucher, Joshua M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Blood vessel expansion is driven by sprouting angiogenesis of endothelial cells, and is essential for development, wound healing and disease. Membrane-localized vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 (mVEGFR1) is an endothelial cell-intrinsic decoy receptor that negatively modulates blood vessel morphogenesis. Here we show that dynamic regulation of mVEGFR1 stability and turnover in blood vessels impacts angiogenesis. mVEGFR1 is highly stable and constitutively internalizes from the plasma membrane. Post-translational palmitoylation of mVEGFR1 is a binary stabilization switch, and ligand engagement leads to depalmitoylation and lysosomal degradation. Trafficking of palmitoylation enzymes via Rab27a regulates mVEGFR1 stability, as reduced levels of Rab27a impaired palmitoylation of mVEGFR1, decreased its stability, and elevated blood vessel sprouting and in vivo angiogenesis. These findings identify a regulatory axis affecting blood vessel morphogenesis that highlights exquisite post-translational regulation of mVEGFR1 in its role as a molecular rheostat.
Direct Observation of Large Amplitude Spin Excitations Localized in a Spin-Transfer Nanocontact
Creators: name: Backes, D.
name: Macià, F.
name: Bonetti, S.
name: Kukreja, R.
name: Ohldag, H.
name: Kent, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the direct observation of large amplitude spin-excitations localized in a spin-transfer nanocontact using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy. Experiments were conducted using a nanocontact to an ultrathin ferromagnetic multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Element resolved x-ray magnetic circular dichroism images show an abrupt onset of spin excitations at a threshold current that are localized beneath the nanocontact, with average spin precession cone angles of 25° at the contact center. The results strongly suggest that we have observed a localized magnetic soliton.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Quantized topological magnetoelectric effect of the zero-plateau quantum anomalous Hall state
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Lian, Biao
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological magnetoelectric effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator is a novel phenomenon, where an electric field induces a magnetic field in the same direction, with a universal coefficient of proportionality quantized in units of $e^2/2h$. Here we propose that the topological magnetoelectric effect can be realized in the zero-plateau quantum anomalous Hall state of magnetic topological insulators or ferromagnet-topological insulator heterostructure. The finite-size effect is also studied numerically, where the magnetoelectric coefficient is shown to converge to a quantized value when the thickness of topological insulator film increases. We further propose a device setup to eliminate the non-topological contributions from the side surface.
description: 4.5 pages, 4 figures. Selected as an Editors' Suggestion in PRB Rapid Communication
Thermotropic interface and core relaxation dynamics of liquid crystals in silica glass nanochannels: A dielectric spectroscopy study
Creators: name: Calus, Sylwia
name: Borowik, Lech
name: Kityk, Andriy V.
name: Eich, Manfred
name: Busch, Mark
name: Huber, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report dielectric relaxation spectroscopy experiments on two rod-like liquid crystals of the cyanobiphenyl family (5CB and 6CB) confined in tubular nanochannels with 7 nm radius and 340 micrometer length in a monolithic, mesoporous silica membrane. The measurements were performed on composites for two distinct regimes of fractional filling: monolayer coverage at the pore walls and complete filling of the pores. For the layer coverage a slow surface relaxation dominates the dielectric properties. For the entirely filled channels the dielectric spectra are governed by two thermally-activated relaxation processes with considerably different relaxation rates: A slow relaxation in the interface layer next to the channel walls and a fast relaxation in the core region of the channel filling. The strengths and characteristic frequencies of both relaxation processes have been extracted and analysed as a function of temperature. Whereas the temperature dependence of the static capacitance reflects the effective (average) molecular ordering over the pore volume and is well described within a Landau-de Gennes theory, the extracted relaxation strengths of the slow and fast relaxation processes provide an access to distinct local molecular ordering mechanisms. The order parameter in the core region exhibits a bulk-like behaviour with a strong increase in the nematic ordering just below the paranematic-to-nematic transition temperature T_PN and subsequent saturation during cooling. By contrast, the surface ordering evolves continuously with a kink near T_PN. A comparison of the thermotropic behaviour of the monolayer with the complete filling reveals that the molecular order in the core region of the pore filling affects the order of the peripheral molecular layers at the wall.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Widdringtonia Cederbergensis survey, Grootland, site 3219AC/15
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
Widdringtonia wallichii
Grootland

description: This is a scanned copy of a document, including maps, of a Widdringtonia Cedarbergensis survey, Grootland, site 3219AC/15. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.  SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Cyathea zongoensis Lehnert, Amer. Fern J.
Creators: name: Lehnert, Marcus
name: Kessler, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Cyatheales
Cyatheaceae
Cyathea
Cyathea zongoensis

description: Cyathea zongoensis Lehnert, Amer. Fern J. 93(4): 172 (-175; fig. 2). 2003.
 Range: — Peru, Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Rare in elfin forests and shrubby paramos; 3100 m.
 Notes: —Like Cyathea frigida (H.Karst.) Domin in the northern Andes, C. zongoensis often grows as a stunted trunkless plant in open paramo vegation, but can grow thick erect trunks to 3 m tall under more favorable conditions. Both species also have a peculiar rubbery laminar texture and very flexuous petioles and rachis, probably as adaptation to harsh cold winds.
description: Published as part of Lehnert, Marcus & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XX. Cyatheaceae, pp. 118-134 in Phytotaxa 334 (2) on page 131, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/13721436
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the VASI Manzengwenya Forest Station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Vasi
Meteorological
Tipping bucket rain gauge
Precipitation

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at VASI's Manzengwenya Forest Station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
LIAISON: Strumenti per la valutazione e la valutazione di impatto della co-innovazione
Creators: name: Macken-Walsh, Áine
name: Augustyn, Anna Maria
name: Bettoni, Maddalena
name: Puente, José María Díaz
name: Forde, Aoife
name: Home, Robert
name: Javornicky, Martin
name: Naughton, Anita
name: Quiédeville, Sylvain
name: Repede, Dana Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Questa Guida introduce una serie di metodi e strumenti che possono essere utilizzati per la valutazione e per la valutazione d’impatto di qualsiasi progetto o altra iniziativa che coinvolga gruppi che lavorano insieme per la co-innovazione. Questa guida è adatta a chiunque voglia valutare, monitorare e migliorare un processo di co-innovazione in corso, sia esso un progetto formale o una collaborazione più informale.
Enhanced nanochannel translocation and localization of genomic DNA molecules using three-dimensional nanofunnels
Creators: name: Wang, Yanqian
name: Panyukov, Sergey
name: Menard, Laurent D.
name: Zhou, Jinsheng
name: Michael Ramsey,
name: Rubinstein, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The ability to precisely control the transport of single DNA molecules through a nanoscale channel is critical to DNA sequencing and mapping technologies that are currently under development. Here we show how the electrokinetically driven introduction of DNA molecules into a nanochannel is facilitated by incorporating a three-dimensional nanofunnel at the nanochannel entrance. Individual DNA molecules are imaged as they attempt to overcome the entropic barrier to nanochannel entry through nanofunnels with various shapes. Theoretical modeling of this behavior reveals the pushing and pulling forces that result in up to a 30-fold reduction in the threshold electric field needed to initiate nanochannel entry. In some cases, DNA molecules are stably trapped and axially positioned within a nanofunnel at sub-threshold electric field strengths, suggesting the utility of nanofunnels as force spectroscopy tools. These applications illustrate the benefit of finely tuning nanoscale conduit geometries, which can be designed using the theoretical model developed here.Forcing a DNA molecule into a nanoscale channel requires overcoming the free energy barrier associated with confinement. Here, the authors show that DNA injected through a funnel-shaped entrance more efficiently enters the nanochannel, thanks to facilitating forces generated by the nanofunnel geometry.
What are essential concepts about networks?
Creators: name: Sayama, Hiroki
name: Cramer, Catherine
name: Porter, Mason A.
name: Sheetz, Lori
name: Uzzo, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Networks have become increasingly relevant to everyday life as human society has become increasingly connected. Attaining a basic understanding of networks has thus become a necessary form of literacy for people (and for youths in particular). At the NetSci 2014 conference, we initiated a year-long process to develop an educational resource that concisely summarizes essential concepts about networks that can be used by anyone of school age or older. The process involved several brainstorming sessions on one key question: "What should every person living in the 21st century know about networks by the time he/she finishes secondary education?" Different sessions reached diverse participants, which included professional researchers in network science, educators, and high-school students. The generated ideas were connected by the students to construct a concept network. We examined community structure in the concept network to group ideas into a set of important themes, which we refined through discussion into seven essential concepts. The students played a major role in this development process by providing insights and perspectives that were often unrecognized by researchers and educators. The final result, "Network Literacy: Essential Concepts and Core Ideas", is now available as a booklet in several different languages from http://tinyurl.com/networkliteracy .
description: 21 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. To appear in Journal of Complex Networks
Accurate prediction of band gaps and optical properties of HfO$_2$
Creators: name: Ondračka, Pavel
name: Holec, David
name: Nečas, David
name: Zajíčková, Lenka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on optical properties of various polymorphs of hafnia predicted within the framework of density functional theory. The full potential linearised augmented plane wave method was employed together with the Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson potential for exchange and local density approximation for correlation. Unit cells of monoclinic, cubic, and tetragonal crystalline, and a simulated annealing-based model of amorphous hafnia were fully relaxed with respect to internal positions and lattice parameters. The thus obtained band gaps of 5.76 eV, 5.88 eV, 6.54 eV, and 5.5 eV for monoclinic, cubic, tetragonal, and amorphous hafnia, respectively, are in excellent agreement with available experimental data. Dielectric functions were calculated and a shift of spectral weights to higher energies with respect to experimental data was predicted. This was attributed to the random phase approximation used to calculate the dielectric function, rather than inaccuracies in the band structure.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Scrophularia gracilis Blakelock 1949
Creators: name: Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan
name: Güner, Ebru Doğan
name: Ekici, Murat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophularia
Scrophularia gracilis

description: 3. Scrophularia gracilis Blakelock in Kew Bull. 4(4): 531‒532 (1949, publ. 1950)
 Type: — IRAQ. Jindian nr. Rowanduz, c. 600 m, on rocky cliff wall of Sayyid Taha’s cave, damp cool situation above a spring, 18 April 32, E. R. Guest 2039 (G!).
 Specimens seen: — TURKEY. Şırnak: Çukurca-Şırnak, 34 km from Çukurca-Şırnak crossroad, Ortasu Village, rocky, 1200 m, 10 June 2013, Dirmenci 3890, Akçiçek, Ö. Güner ; Uludere, above Taşdelen village, 1007 m, limestone crevices, 25 May 2004, A. A. Dönmez 11884; 28 June 2009, A. A. Dönmez 15484; Uludere, 2 km from Dağdibi village to Şırnak-Hakkari road, limestone crevices, 1124 m, 28 June 2009, A. A. Dönmez 15487 (HUB).
 Flowering time: — May–June.
 Habitat: — Limestone crevices, rocky. 600‒1130 m elevation.
 Distribution: — Irano-Turanian element.
description: Published as part of Uzunhisarcikli, M. Erkan, Güner, Ebru Doğan & Ekici, Murat, 2018, Synopsis of the genus Scrophularia (Scrophulariaceae) in Turkey, pp. 151-187 in Phytotaxa 333 (2) on page 156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.333.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13721306
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Cathedral Peak Weir 03 station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Grasslands-Forests-Wetlands Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Cathedral Peak
Hydrological
Pressure transducer CS
Pressure transducer
Streamflow
Water temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the hydrological data collected at Cathedral Peak's Weir 03 station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Fast decarbonization in a cost-based wholesale power framework: the case of Chile
Creators: name: Ariztia Leniz, Vicente
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Energy
subject: Wholesale Power
subject: Energy Transition
subject: Market Design
subject: Electricity Markets
subject: Chile
subject: Renewable Energy
subject: Stanford University
subject: Humanities and Sciences
subject: Public Policy Program

description: This study provides an extensive examination of the Chilean power generation market in the last eight years, with a particular focus on the impact of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind on traditional power generation and in the total producer surplus in the short-term market. The research highlights the changing operating patterns of traditional power plants, with a general trend of following net demand, and a corresponding increase in heat rates.

Key figures from the study indicate that, despite the retirement of inefficient coal units and the operation of more efficient ones, heat rates have been increasing, likely due to the higher variability in operation. Moreover, there has been a clear change in the operating pattern of coal based units, from a stable base load, to an hourly variable scheme following net demand. Similar changes have experienced some hydroelectric power plants.

The study also explores the producer surplus in the Chilean short-term market, showing two main findings. First, due to their high correlation and systemic character, solar generation impacts on spot prices has significantly decreased the average perceived price by that technology, unlike other renewable sources such as wind and hydroelectric. Second, under the current cost-based wholesale market design, all zero-cost generation shocks produce a negative impact on total producer surplus, with a small magnitude until the shock becomes relevant. When the generation of zero-marginal cost source is large as a proportion of the demand, the impact on producer surplus becomes disproportionately big.

The research underscores the significant role of ancillary services in the power generation segment, which have grown significantly in recent years. These services, although outside the spot market, contribute to the variable costs in the power generation segment.

The findings might have important implications for energy policy and future research, particularly in the context of renewable energy integration and the pursuit of sustainable and efficient energy systems. The study also underscores the need for further research into the theoretical underpinnings of the quantitative impact of zero-marginal cost generation shocks on producer surplus and short-term prices.
Continuum limit of lattice models with Laughlin-like ground states containing quasiholes
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Ivan D.
name: Nielsen, Anne E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been a significant interest in the last years in finding fractional quantum Hall physics in lattice models, but it is not always clear how these models connect to the corresponding models in continuum systems. Here we introduce a family of models that is able to interpolate between a recently proposed set of lattice models with Laughlin-like ground states constructed from conformal field theory and models with ground states that are practically the usual bosonic/fermionic Laughlin states in the continuum. Both the ground state and the Hamiltonian are known analytically, and we find that the Hamiltonian in the continuum limit does not coincide with the usual delta interaction Hamiltonian for the Laughlin states. We introduce quasiholes into the models and show analytically that their braiding properties are as expected if the quasiholes are screened. We demonstrate screening numerically for the 1/3 Laughlin model and find that the quasiholes are slightly smaller in the continuum than in the lattice. Finally, we compute the effective magnetic field felt by the quasiholes and show that it is close to uniform when approaching the continuum limit. The techniques presented here to interpolate between the lattice and the continuum can also be applied to other fractional quantum Hall states that are constructed from conformal field theory.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; v2: minor changes and accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Upper limb electromyographic analysis of manual wheelchair transfer techniques in individuals with spinal cord injury: a systematic review
Creators: name: Suchita Sunder
name: Suruliraj Karthikbabu
name: Pratiksha Rao
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Anatomy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Nervous System
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Electromyographic analysis
subject: Upper limb muscle activity
subject: Manual wheelchair transfer techniques
subject: Spinal cord injury

description: The objective of this study is to determine the upper limb muscle EMG activity required during various wheelchair transfers in the population of spinal cord injury.
Shading experiment in Leucadendron xanthoconus, Jakkalsrivier
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Leucadendron xanthoconus
Jakkalsrivier

description: This is a scanned copy of a document on a shading experiment in Leucadendron xanthoconus, Jakkalsrivier. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Density count of Leucadendron pubescens and Paranomus at site 3219AC/12
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
datasheet
density counts
Leucadendron pubescens
Paranomus

description: This is a scanned copy of a datasheet noting the density count of Leucadendron pubescens and Paranomus at site 3219AC/12. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.   SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Parallel Pairwise Sequence Alignment Algorithm Based on Longest Common Subsequence
Creators: name: Pich Tantichukaitikul
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Parallel algorithm
longest common
longest common subsequence
biological sequence alignment
computational biology
multi-core processing

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 1, 2, 1-10
The Comparative of Attribute Selection Techniques between CFS and Consistency by Using ANFIS for Thai Enterprises Bankruptcy Prediction
Creators: name: Kulthon Kasemsan
Publisher: name: Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Year: 2010
Subjects: Attribute Selection
ANFIS
Bankruptcy Prediction

description: Journal of Information Science and Technology, 1, 1, 9-14
Trend Assessment of Marloth Nature Reserve, Swellendam, Langeberg, site 3320CD/1
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
trend assessment
Langeberg

description: This is a scanned copy of a trend assessment, including a diagram, map and photographs of Marloth Nature Reserve, Swellendam, Langeberg, site 3320CD/1. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Pinch Analysis of a Sugarcane Wax Extraction and Purification Process
Creators: name: Wanwisa Skolpap
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2019
Subjects: Pinch analysis
Heat exchanger network
Sugarcane wax extraction
Supercritical CO2
Simulation

description: Science & Technology Asia, 24, 1, 30-40
A pair spectrometer for measuring multipolarities of energetic nuclear transitions
Creators: name: Gulyás, J.
name: Ketel, T. J.
name: Krasznahorkay, A. J.
name: Csatlós, M.
name: Csige, L.
name: Gácsi, Z.
name: Hunyadi, M.
name: Krasznahorkay, A.
name: Vitéz, A.
name: Tornyi, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A multi-detector array has been designed and constructed for the simultaneous measurement of energy- and angular correlations of electron-positron pairs. Experimental results are obtained over a wide angular range for high-energy transitions in 16O, 12C and 8Be. A comparison with GEANT simulations demonstrates that angular correlations between 50 and 180 degrees of the electron-positron pairs in the energy range between 6 and 18 MeV can be determined with sufficient resolution and efficiency.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:nucl-ex/0311002 by other authors
Bürgermeister Hans Conrad von Muralt, gestorben den 7. December 1869, Mitglied der Schweizerischen gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft seit 1835
Creators: name: Wyss, Georg Von
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1870
Subjects: subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Muralt, Hans Konrad von
subject: Zürich

description: Nekrolog aus der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Gemeinnützigkeit. IX. Jahrg. 1870, Heft I.
LIAISON: Herramientas para la evaluación y la valoración previa del impacto de la co-innovación
Creators: name: Áine Macken-Walsh,
name: Augustyn, Anna Maria
name: Bettoni, Maddalena
name: Puente, José María Díaz
name: Forde, Aoife
name: Home, Robert
name: Javornicky, Martin
name: Naughton, Anita
name: Quiédeville, Sylvain
name: Repede, Dana Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Esta Guía presenta una serie de métodos y herramientas que pueden utilizarse para la evaluación y la valoración previa del impacto de cualquier proyecto u otra iniciativa en la que participen grupos que trabajen juntos en la co-innovación. Esta Guía es adecuada para cualquier persona que desee evaluar, dar seguimiento y mejorar un proceso de coinnovación en curso, ya sea un proyecto formal o una colaboración más informal.
title: Blended learning and the motivation to learn the English language: A mixed methods study based on first-year university students in Japan
Creators: name: Chapman, J
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: This dissertation investigates the effectiveness of implementing a blended learning (BL) initiative among a class of first-year university students in a mandatory English class in Japan. The research explored how the BL environment affected student interest, how this interest impacted the motivation of the participants, the social and cultural factors at play in this context and the activities participants found most interesting and why. The BL activities took place over a five-week period where participants engaged in solo and pair activities in both a traditional classroom setting and in an online environment. Using a BL approach to combine in-class and online activities was new to many of the participants and literature suggested that the combination of activities and formats as well as a rich social environment would lead to an increase in interest in, and a more positive stance toward, English study. The goals of the research were to assess the effectiveness of the BL environment in enhancing student interest, to improve motivation toward English study, to investigate social and cultural factors affecting English as a Foreign Language (EFL) study as well as to determine which activities participants found interesting and why. Data was gathered through paper entrance and exit surveys as well as an online follow-up survey. The paper surveys included the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Survey (FLCAS) in a before-and-after assessment to specifically target quantitative changes in anxiety and motivation as a result of the BL programme. The mixed methods approach used gathered further quantitative data in the form of login dates, times and locations as well as the participants’ satisfaction with the activities in order to explore their stance toward the BL environment. Results indicate that most participants enjoyed the range of activities and content as well as the social aspect of the in-class component. Participants did engage in the online activities, although this generally occurred immediately following the scheduled class with friends and peers still physically present. Some participants who disliked English at the beginning of the study did not change their stance. However, at the end of the study most participants indicated a more positive stance toward English, more interest and more positive motivation toward English language study. This dissertation explains the rationale of the study with an in depth examination of the cultural, education and social factors at play in Japan and between the Japanese participants and their non-Japanese instructor. It concludes with a discussion of the findings as well as acknowledgment of the dissertation’s limitations and recommendations for further research.