cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Studies of milk production in crossbred dairy cattle
Creators: name: Okumu Awili, Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The main objectives of this investigation were to determine class averages for crossbreds and for backcrosses, to study heterosis, results of polyallel analysis, sire combining ability and age of maximum milk production in crosses. Production records (60,931) of dairy cattle under test by the Dairy Herd Improvement Association in British Columbia for the years 1958-1961 inclusive were used. Out of these records, 56,765 were of purebreeds (including high grades), 3113 of cross breds and 1053 of backcrosses. To decide class averages for crossbreds, a t-test and F-test (using the average of milk and fat indexes for t-test and fat-corrected-milk values for F-test) were carried out. There were no significant differences between production records of various groups of crossbreds at 5% level of probability in both the tests. Therefore, these data indicate that a single set of class averages may be recommended for all crossbred dairy cows. Fat-corrected-milk values for purebreeds, crossbreds and backcrosses were compared. Nine out of 12 comparisons made indicated that backcrosses were closer in production to the parental breed used in backcrossing than to the crossbreds of the breeds concerned. Therefore, for the purposes of establishing base averages and of calculating indexes, it is considered that backcrosses should be classified with the parental breed used in backcrossing. Fat-corrected-milk values were also used for a comparison of purebreeds and their corresponding crossbreds to detect the presence or absence of heterosis. Hybrid vigour was demonstrated in all crossbreds except Holstein-Ayrshire. A polyallel analysis was applied to the data using the average of milk and fat indexes for the two-year-old and three-year-old production records of the crossbreds. It was found that the general combining ability and reciprical effect were highly significant. Specific combining ability was significant only at the 5% level. Heritability was calculated for fat-corrected-milk values and found to be 0.47. Purebreed and crossbreed daughter indexes were used from 10 artificial insemination sires for a within-breed-of-sire comparison. The analyses indicated that the best sire for purebreeding is not necessarily recommended for crossbreeding. The average production of crossbreds, grouped according to age, showed a sharp increase from 2 years to 4 years, followed by a relatively small increase from 4 years to 7 years. There was a gradual drop in production after the seventh year. Crossbreds reached their maximum milk production at 7 years of age.
Combined STEREO/RHESSI study of CME acceleration and particle acceleration in solar flares
Creators: name: Temmer, M.
name: Veronig, A. M.
name: Kontar, E. P.
name: Krucker, S.
name: Vrsnak, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the potential of two unprecedented missions, STEREO and RHESSI, we study three well observed fast CMEs that occurred close to the limb together with their associated high energy flare emissions in terms of RHESSI HXR spectra and flux evolution. From STEREO/EUVI and STEREO/COR1 data the full CME kinematics of the impulsive acceleration phase up to 4 Rs is measured with a high time cadence of less equal 2.5 min. For deriving CME velocity and acceleration we apply and test a new algorithm based on regularization methods. The CME maximum acceleration is achieved at heights h < 0.4 Rs, the peak velocity at h < 2.1 Rs (in one case as small as 0.5 Rs). We find that the CME acceleration profile and the flare energy release as evidenced in the RHESSI hard X-ray flux evolve in a synchronized manner. These results support the standard flare/CME model which is characterized by a feed-back relationship between the large-scale CME acceleration process and the energy release in the associated flare.
description: accepted for ApJ
title: Sprachlernberatung: Einführung in den Themenschwerpunkt
Creators: name: Mehlhorn, Grit
name: Kleppin, Karin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Im Zuge der Diskussion zu selbstgesteuertem Fremdsprachenlernen taucht immer wieder die Forderung nach einer individuellen Sprachlernberatung als begleitende Unterstützung auf dem Wege zu mehr Lernerautonomie auf. Die Zahl der Institutionen, die Sprachlernberatung anbieten, ist in den letzten Jahren stark angestiegen und steigt weiter. Der große Bedarf an Fortbildung in diesem Bereich war auch der Grund für die Durchführung der Fachtagung "Sprachlernberatung" [1] vom 23. bis 25. Juni 2005 in Bochum. Die vorliegenden Aufsätze sind aus dieser Fachtagung hervorgegangen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren sind v.a. praktizierende Sprachlernberatende in der Erwachsenenbildung, die gute Praxisbeispiele weitergeben möchten, aber auch theoretische Grundlagen der Sprachlernberatung diskutieren und Möglichkeiten der Begleitforschung aufzeigen. Allgemeines Ziel von Sprachlernberatung ist es, Lernende in ihrem Fremdsprachenlernen in einer Reihe von Lernumgebungen (z.B. beim Sprachenlernen im Tandem, in Selbstlernzentren, beim Distanzlernen) zu unterstützen, Verantwortung für den eigenen Lernprozess zu übernehmen und für sie effiziente Lernwege zu finden. Beratende erreichen diese Aufgabe, indem sie Lernenden helfen, ihre Fähigkeit zu entwickeln, · eigene Lernziele und -gegenstände zu bestimmen, · Lernstrategien, Materialien und soziale Arbeitsformen auszuwählen, · sich ihre Motive und Einstellungen zum Lernen bewusst zu machen, · ihre Fortschritte zu verfolgen, ihre Ergebnisse zu evaluieren und · dabei Motivation und Selbstwirksamkeit aufzubauen.
title: Rezension: Interkulturelle Kommunikation und kultureller Wandel. Eine empirische Studie zum russisch-deutschen Schüleraustausch
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Diskussion um den Faktor 'Kultur' beim Fremdsprachenlernen scheint in letzter Zeit ein wenig auf der Stelle zu treten. Nach wie vor stehen theoretische und begriffliche Probleme im Vordergrund, und ein Konsens darüber, was wir nun genau unter 'interkulturellem Lernen', unter ''interkultureller Kompetenz' bzw. 'interkultureller Kommunikationsfähigkeit' oder unter 'Fremdverstehen' verstehen sollen, und ob es sich dabei überhaupt um sinnvolle Konzepte handelt, ist immer noch nicht in Sicht. Dagegen mehren sich seit einiger Zeit die Stimmen, die vorschlagen, solche rein theoretischen Debatten zumindest vorübergehend zu suspendieren und sich stärker der Empirie, d.h. den konkreten und praktischen Problemen zuzuwenden, die sich den Lernenden beim Zugang zu und Umgang mit der fremden Welt der Zielsprache stellen. In der Tat wissen wir ja bisher erstaunlich wenig darüber, wie Lerner etwa des Deutschen als Fremdsprache, aber auch anderer Fremdsprachen, die ihnen in der Sprache und in der 'Realität' begegnende fremde Welt wahrnehmen, in welcher Weise sich durch diese Begegnung vorhandene Bilder und Wissensstrukturen verändern und weiter entwickeln und welche kognitiven, affektiven, sozialen Faktoren dabei eine Rolle spielen. Dazu einen Beitrag zu leisten, hat sich die vorliegende Studie von Astrid Ertelt-Vieth zur Aufgabe gemacht, und sie will damit nicht zuletzt die Basis schaffen "für eine kulturwissenschaftliche, in Handlungs- und Zeichentheorien gleichermaßen verankerte und außerdem empirisch fundierte Theorie interkulturellen Lernens" (314) - ein angesichts der Forschungslage ebenso ambitionierter wie begrüßenswerter Anspruch.
Temperature and power dependent photothermal properties of single-layer MoS2
Creators: name: Watson, Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: The discovery of graphene, nearly a decade ago [1, 2, 3], has since given interest into other atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) crystals. One such material is mono-layer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2). Electronic device manufactures in particular have found 2D materials such as MoS2 interesting because of the physical and electronic properties. MoS2 can be fashioned into electronic components such as field-effect transistors (FETs) or logic gates easily and are particularly thin. This interest means MoS2 must be understood from an electronic and physical perspective before it can fully be integrated into electronic devices. To understand MoS2 better a comprehensive power and temperature dependent study on MoS2 was done using both Raman and photoluminescent spectroscopies. Mechanical ex-foliation of MoS2 from bulk provides single-layer flakes, which are then transferred either to sapphire substrates or suspended over holes in Si/Si3N4. We measure temperature dependence from ”100K to 400K and power dependence from ”6 ?W to ”7mW using an Argon laser at 514.5nm and a HeNe laser at 632.8 nm. Raman spectroscopy was used for initial identification of a single-layer flake of MoS2. In MoS2 when the two Raman peaks, the A1g and E1 2g are less than 18 cm-1 the flake is considered single layer.[4] The thermal conductivity of MoS2 was experimentally extracted from Raman temperature and power measurements using linear coefficients, ?T and ?P , for temperature and power dependence of the peak position respectively.[5] This value of thermal conductivity ? was calculated to be ” 34.5 Wm-1 K-1.[5] Temperature and power dependent photoluminescent (PL) spectroscopy was used to explore the band-gap and energy transitions of MoS2. The PL spectrum exhibits a main exitonic peak (A) at ”1.87 eV, which consist of both neutral excitons and charged trions (A-or A+).[4] The photothermal properties of a material are important when a material is going to be used in electronic devices. The materials thermal conductivity is important for proper heat management in a device. This work reports thermal conductivity along with important insight into the band-gap. All of this information about the photothermal reaction of the material is necessary before MoS2 can be implemented into electronic devices.
description: Experimental methods -- Raman spectroscopy on monolayer MoS2 -- Photoluminescence of mono-layer MoS2
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2014.
title: Orientation, Motivation and Attitudes of Turkish University Students Learning a Second Foreign Language
Creators: name: König, Güray
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: The social-psychological implications of second or foreign language acquisition have been discussed from different perspectives for many years. The question whether studying a second or foreign language causes a difference in the behavior and attitudes of the learners is important in the level of proficiency attained as well. Born (1977: 11; cited in Gardner 1985: 1) states: We propose to treat language as a whole: its nature, its history, its relationship to culture, the acquisition of it, the immediate uses to which it can be put, and the development in our students of an appreciation for the gift of tongues.
title: Representations of Plurilingual Competence and Language Use in Dynamic Trilingual Education: The Case of French-German Schools in Buc and Saarbrücken
Creators: name: Stratilaki, Sofia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Trilingual education and various curricula for third language acquisition have been increasingly implemented around the world in recent decades in order to meet the growing demand for plurilingualism. Key questions in immersion programmes are concerned with the ways in which plurilingual skills and strategies are related to communication and learning of the language registers in L1, L2 and L3, which are required for the learner to function successfully in institutional settings, and where these languages are being used for instruction of educational content (e.g., Cenoz, Hufeisen & Jessner, 2001). As a consequence, the new research area of trilingualism and third language acquisition has already established itself as a field of its own during the last few years (e.g., Griessler, 2001). The present study seeks to ascertain whether the learners' social representations of languages, including their features and status, shape the processes and strategies they develop and implement for language learning and use. Of particular concern for the present paper are learners' representations of plurilingual competence, and their motivation and attitudes towards languages. A French-German example will be presented in this study.
Men, Masculinity and Development in the Pacific
Creators: name: Eves, Richard
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2009

description: Over the last three decades, a wide variety of analytical and policy approaches to gender and development has emerged. This briefing note reviews some of these trends and presents reasons for a stronger focus on men and masculinity as part of the development agenda for the Pacific.
Strong Mobility in Weakly Disordered Systems
Creators: name: Ben-Naim, E.
name: Krapivsky, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transport of interacting particles in weakly disordered media. Our one-dimensional system includes (i) disorder: the hopping rate governing the movement of a particle between two neighboring lattice sites is inhomogeneous, and (ii) hard core interaction: the maximum occupancy at each site is one particle. We find that over a substantial regime, the root-mean-square displacement of a particle, sigma, grows super-diffusively with time t, sigma ~ (epsilon t)^{2/3}, where epsilon is the disorder strength. Without disorder the particle displacement is sub-diffusive, sigma ~ t^{1/4}, and therefore disorder dramatically enhances particle mobility. We explain this effect using scaling arguments, and verify the theoretical predictions through numerical simulations. Also, the simulations show that disorder generally leads to stronger mobility.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Diffuse X-ray emission in globular cluster cores
Creators: name: Hui, C. Y.
name: Cheng, K. S.
name: Taam, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unresolved X-ray emission in the cores of 10 globular clusters hosting millisecond pulsars is investigated. Subtraction of the known resolved point sources leads to detectable levels of unresolved emission in the core region of M28, NGC 6440, M62, and NGC 6752. The X-ray luminosities in the 0.3-8 keV energy band of this emission component were found to lie in the range $\sim 1.5 \times 10^{31}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ (NGC 6752) to $\sim 2.2 \times 10^{32}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ (M28). The lowest limiting luminosity for X-ray source detections amongst these four clusters was $1.1 \times 10^{30}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ for NGC 6752. The spectrum of the unresolved emission can be fit equally well by a power-law, a thermal bremsstrahlung model, a black body plus power-law, or a thermal bremsstrahlung model plus black body component. The unresolved emission is considered to arise from the cumulative contribution of active binaries, cataclysmic variables, and faint millisecond pulsars with their associated pulsar wind nebulae. In examining the available X-ray data, no evidence for any pulsar wind nebular emission in globular clusters is found. It is shown that the X-ray luminosity contribution of a faint source population based on an extrapolation of the luminosity function of detected point sources is compatible with the unresolved X-ray emission in the cores of NGC 6440 and NGC 6752. Adopting the same slope for the luminosity function for M62 as for NGC 6440 and NGC 6752 leads to a similar result for M62. For M28, the contribution from faint sources in the core can attain a level comparable with the observed value if a steeper slope is adopted. The characteristics on the faint source population as constrained by the properties of the unresolved X-ray emission are briefly discussed.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
title: The Negative Influence of ESL-Methodology on the Acquisition of an L3 in Taiwan
Creators: name: Merkelbach, Chris
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In order to understand foreign language teaching in contemporary Taiwan, one must know about something about the native languages spoken there. Taiwan's official language is Mandarin; however, the most commonly spoken language is Taiwanese. A Minnan dialect is spoken in parts of the Fujian Province of the Chinese mainland, and when different ethnic groups migrated to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland over the last five hundred years, they brought their distinct language diversity with them. During the fifty years of Japanese occupation, from 1895 to 1945, attendance at elementary schools, taught in Japanese, was possible and recommended by the authorities, and after 1941 was made compulsory for all Taiwanese.
Better Agricultural Marketing Through Research
Creators: name: Agricultural Marketing Service
name: Agricultural Marketing Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report: This booklet outlines the program of marketing research underway in the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), United States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with State agricultural experiment stations and private industry. Marketing research in AMS covers 4 broad fields of work: (1) analyzing costs and practices, (2) reducing waste and maintaining quality, (3) improving handling and facilities, and (4) expanding markets for farm products.
title: Rezension: Riehl, Claudia Maria (2004), Sprachkontaktforschung. Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Wormer, Jörg
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Mit den vielfältigen Ausprägungen der Sprachkontaktforschung möchte das hier anzukündigende Studienbuch der in Köln lehrenden Sprachwissenschaftlerin Claudia Maria Riehl vor allem Studierende vertraut machen. Die Autorin bereitet den Forschungsstand leicht nachvollziehbar auf und verdeutlicht wesentliche Sprachkontaktphänomene anhand einer beeindruckenden Anzahl von Beispielen aus eigenen Corpora, welche "Kontaktkonstellationen zwischen dem Deutschen (oder einer dialektalen Varietät des Deutschen) einerseits und einer Reihe von anderen Sprachen wie Englisch, Afrikaans, Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch, Rumänisch, Russisch, Tschechisch, Polnisch, Ungarisch usw." repräsentieren (79).
Constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy
Creators: name: Tsang, M. B.
name: Zhang, Yingxun
name: Danielewicz, P.
name: Famiano, M.
name: Li, Zhuxia
name: Lynch, W. G.
name: Steiner, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collisions involving 112Sn and 124Sn nuclei have been simulated with the improved Quantum Molecular Dynamics transport model. The results of the calculations reproduce isospin diffusion data from two different observables and the ratios of neutron and proton spectra. By comparing these data to calculations performed over a range of symmetry energies at saturation density and different representations of the density dependence of the symmetry energy, constraints on the density dependence of the symmetry energy at sub-normal density are obtained. Results from present work are compared to constraints put forward in other recent analysis.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures,accepted for publication in Phy. Rev. Lett
Additional file 1 of Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004–2014
Creators: name: Santaularia, N. Jeanie
name: Ramirez, Marizen R.
name: Osypuk, Theresa L.
name: Mason, Susan M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Appendix Table S1: Proxy Codes used to Define Violence. Appendix Table S2: Fully Adjustedb Negative Binomal Regression with GEE: Rate Ratio for the Association Between All County Level Socio-demographic Characteristics and Subtypes of Proxy Injury Codes.
Transient tinnitus in people with normal hearing induced by sound deprivation
Creators: name: Walck, Jamie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Tinnitus -- Diagnosis
subject: Tinnitus -- Treatment

description: The emergence of silence induced tinnitus perception was studied in 20 normal hearing Caucasian adults. Psychoacoustical characterization of any participants? silence-induced tinnitus was performed after sitting in a sound proof booth for 20 minutes. Participants were then moved to an anechoic chamber in order to compare their experiences to the sound booth. Tinnitus was perceived in 40% of the listeners in the sound booth and in 60% of the listeners in the anechoic chamber. Tinnitus was perceived sooner in the anechoic chamber than in the sound booth. No significant differences in tinnitus perception or emergence were seen between the sound booth and anechoic chamber or between males and females. Of the participants who perceived tinnitus, the largest percent, 33%, matched the pitch to be around 4000 Hz and 44% matched the loudness to be 0-2 dB SL. These pyschoacoustical characterizations are similar to those reported by tinnitus patients.
description: (Au.D.) -- Towson University, 2007. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
title: Rezension: Pasch, Renate, Brauße, Ursula, Breindl, Eva & Waßner, Ulrich Herrmann (2003), Handbuch der deutschen Konnektoren. Linguistische Grundlagen der Beschreibung und syntaktische Merkmale der deutschen Satzverknüpfer
Creators: name: Schmidt, Karin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Was ist ein Konnektor? Dieser seit den 80er Jahren auftretende Begriff kennt nicht nur alternative Bezeichnungen (Konnektiv; Konnektivpartikel), sondern wird auch unterschiedlich gefasst. Einfach gesagt, haben Konnektoren die Aufgabe, sprachliche Einheiten miteinander zu verknüpfen, und leisten damit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Textkohärenz. Eine einheitliche und verbindliche Definition fehlte bislang jedoch - diese Lücke hat das vorliegende Handbuch (=HdK) geschlossen. Konnektoren im Deutschen umfassen gemäß HdK ca. 300-350 Elemente, die üblicherweise den Konjunktionen, Adverbien und Partikeln zugerechnet werden, wie z.B. weil, dann, deshalb, denn, aber etc. Im HdK widmet man sich vor allem den Stellungseigenschaften der Konnektoren im Deutschen. Das in langjähriger Arbeit am Institut für deutsche Sprache entstandene Handbuch stellt den ersten Teil eines weit umfangreicheren Vorhabens dar; ein weiterer Band soll sich der Semantik und Pragmatik der Konnektoren widmen und ist - so viel sei vorab gesagt - sicherlich mit Spannung zu erwarten. Als potentielle Nutzer des Handbuches werden Autoren von Wörterbüchern und Grammatiken, Computerlinguisten und explizit auch Vermittler des Deutschen als Fremdsprache gesehen (XV). Die folgende Rezension beschränkt sich auf die Bedeutung und die Handhabbarkeit des HdK für den Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache.
Additional file 1 of Transforming growth factor-β1 decreases erythropoietin production through repressing hypoxia-inducible factor 2α in erythropoietin-producing cells
Creators: name: Shih, Hong-Mou
name: Pan, Szu-Yu
name: Wu, Chih-Jen
name: Chou, Yu-Hsiang
name: Chen, Chun-Yuan
name: Chang, Fan-Chi
name: Chen, Yi-Ting
name: Chiang, Wen-Chih
name: Tsai, Hsing-Chen
name: Chen, Yung-Ming
name: Lin, Shuei-Liong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.Table S1. Primer sequences used in quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Table S2. Primer sequences used in (quantitative) chromatin immunoprecipitation polymerase chain reaction. Table S3. Primer sequences used in methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction of Epo and Epas1 5’ flanking regions.
Power-dependent soliton steering in thermal nonlinear media
Creators: name: Ye, Fangwei
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Hu, Bambi
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the existence and properties of optical solitons excited in thermal nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient. We show that in such a geometry one can generate controllable switching from surface soliton propagating near the sample edges to bulk solitons. Beam steering associated to the different soliton output locations can be achieved by varying the input light intensity.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Optics Letters
Computer-based recorded speech for word recognition testing
Creators: name: Perry, Matthew H.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Audiology -- Computer programs
subject: Speech therapy -- Computer programs

description: Although the importance of using standardized recordings for word recognition testing is well established, many clinicians still routinely use monitored-live voice (MLV).  A prototype software program was developed to combine the speed and flexibility associated with MLV with the standardization of recorded word lists.  The sound quality of 20 personal computers was evaluated for total harmonic distortion plus noise (THD+N).  The computers with the poorest sound quality were then used to replace the recorded speech sources of two clinical audiometers and tested for compliance with ANSI standard s3.36-1996.  Of the 20 computers evaluated, only one had sound quality too poor to qualify for clinical use under the ANSI standard.  These findings suggest the sound quality of most personal computers is adequate for clinical use, and future computer-based presentation methods for word recognition testing could provide an attractive alternative to traditional methods.
description: (Au.D.) -- Towson University, 2007. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
Applications of DMDs for astrophysical research
Creators: name: Robberto, M.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Jacobsen, A.
name: Zamkotsian, F.
name: Zerbi, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A long-standing problem of astrophysical research is how to simultaneously obtain spectra of thousands of sources randomly positioned in the field of view of a telescope. Digital Micromirror Devices, used as optical switches, provide a most powerful solution allowing to design a new generation of instruments with unprecedented capabilities. We illustrate the key factors (opto-mechanical, cryo-thermal, cosmic radiation environment,...) that constrain the design of DMD-based multi-object spectrographs, with particular emphasis on the IR spectroscopic channel onboard the EUCLID mission, currently considered by the European Space Agency for a 2017 launch date.
description: 10 pages, Proc. SPIE 7210
The word recognition scores of native-English listeners using word lists recorded in English from native-Spanish speakers with varied dialect
Creators: name: Labbe, Monica
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Audiometry, Speech
subject: Speech, Intelligibility of
subject: English language -- Spoken English

description: The profession of audiology is working to recruit professionals from different ethnic backgrounds, particularly Hispanic, into the field to accommodate the increasingly diverse population of the United States. Speech audiometry, a routine part of the audiological test battery, would be most affected by this multicultural push because test scores could be affected by linguistic variations. The purpose of this study was to determine if the word recognition score of 21 native-English listeners would differ significantly if obtained using word lists recorded in English from two male native-Spanish speakers with varied degrees of dialect compared to one male native-English speaker. The results revealed that the participants scored significantly lower on words were recorded by native- Spanish speakers compared to the native-English speaker. This significant difference could lead to a misdiagnosis if the score were interpreted as true word recognition ability rather than a reflection of the audiologist's dialect.
description: (Au.D.) -- Towson University, 2007. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
First photographic documentation of Watanabeopetalia atkinsoni in India and observed shifts in the distribution of other Odonata species in the hill forests of West Bengal
Creators: name: Dolai, Sayak
name: Abu Imran Mallick, Md
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study documents the first photographic record of Watanabeopetalia atkinsoni in India, along with other significant odonata rediscoveries in West Bengal. A total of 23 species were revealed, including 3 Data Deficient, and 20 Least Concern species. Notable findings include the first record of Coeliccia didyma in West Bengal, the second record of Camacinia harterti and Chlorogomphus mortoni in the state, and the fourth record of Camacinia harterti in India. Additionally, six new species were recorded within Buxa Tiger Reserve, expanding the known fauna of Alipurduar District. These discoveries highlight the importance of West Bengal’s odonata fauna and emphasise the need for continued exploration and conservation efforts in the region.
Soil Erosion and Its Control under Furrow Irrigation in the Arid West
Creators: name: Mech, Stephen J.
name: Mech, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Excerpt from the report: Where irrigation water is applied on level or nearly level land or where properly managed flood irrigation of close-growing crops is practiced, erosion usually is slight. Likewise, with properly designed sprinkler systems, erosion does not occur, since water is applied no faster than the soil will absorb it and no runoff occurs. However, when water is applied on sloping lands by the furrow method, erosion is a constant threat.
Additional file 2 of Transforming growth factor-β1 decreases erythropoietin production through repressing hypoxia-inducible factor 2α in erythropoietin-producing cells
Creators: name: Shih, Hong-Mou
name: Pan, Szu-Yu
name: Wu, Chih-Jen
name: Chou, Yu-Hsiang
name: Chen, Chun-Yuan
name: Chang, Fan-Chi
name: Chen, Yi-Ting
name: Chiang, Wen-Chih
name: Tsai, Hsing-Chen
name: Chen, Yung-Ming
name: Lin, Shuei-Liong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Figure S1. Prolyl hydroxylase domain inhibitor induces hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and hypoxia-inducible factor 2α in C3H10T1/2 cells. Figure S2. SiRNA transfection specific for Hif1a and Epas1 downregulates hypoxia-induced genes. Figure S3. 10T1/2 cells exhibited higher levels of TGF-β1 signaling. Figure S4. TGF-β1 inhibits PHDi-induced HIF2α expression through activin receptor-like kinase-5 in 10T1/2 cells. Figure S5. TGF-β1 inhibits hypoxia-induced nuclear accumulation of HIF2α through ALK5 in 10T1/2 cells. Figure S6. TGF-β1 increases hypoxia-induced expression of Egln1, Vegfa and Slc2a1 through ALK5 in 10T1/2 cells. Figure S7. TGF-β1 does not change methylation in 5’ flanking regions of Epo and Epas1 genes in 10T1/2 cells.
Lossless anomalous dispersion and an inversionless gain doublet via dressed interacting ground states (DIGS)
Creators: name: Weatherall, James Owen
name: Search, Christopher P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transparent media exhibiting anomalous dispersion have been of considerable interest since Wang, Kuzmich, and Dogariu [Nature {\bf 406}, 277 (2000)] first observed light propagate with superluminal and negative group velocities without absorption. Here, we propose an atomic model exhibiting these properties, based on a generalization of amplification without inversion in a five-level DIGS system. The system consists of a $Λ$ atom prepared as in standard electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), with two additional metastable ground states coupled to the $Λ$ atom ground states by two RF/microwave fields. We consider two configurations by which population is incoherently pumped into the ground states of the atom. Under appropriate circumstances, we predict a pair of new gain lines with tunable width, separation, and height. Between these lines, absorption vanishes but dispersion is large and anomalous. The system described here is a significant improvement over other proposals in the anomalous dispersion literature in that it permits additional coherent control over the spectral properties of the anomalous region, including a possible $10^4$-fold increase over the group delay observed by Wang, Kuzmich, and Dogariu.
Quantifying the fast outflow in the luminous Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143
Creators: name: Pounds, K. A.
name: Reeves, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report two new XMM-Newton observations of PG1211+143 in December 2007, again finding evidence of the fast outflow of highly ionised gas first detected in 2001. Stacking the new spectra with those from two earlier XMM-Newton observations reveals strong and broad emission lines of FeXXV and OVIII, indicating the fast outflow to be persistent and to have a large covering factor. This finding confirms a high mass rate for the ionised ouflow in PG1211+143 and provides the first direct measurement of a wide angle, sub-relativistic outflow from an AGN transporting mechanical energy with the potential to disrupt the growth of the host galaxy. We suggest PG1211+143 may be typical of an AGN in a rapid super-Eddington growth phase.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Extended version with new figures and tables
Pensionskasse Sorglos (PKS):  Anpassung der versicherungstechnischen Parameter an die veränderten Umweltbedingungen
Creators: Urs, Dreier
Publisher: name: FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Business administration
subject: Pensionskasse
subject: Berufliche Vorsorge
subject: Altersvorsorge
subject: Technischer Zinssatz
subject: Umwandlungssatz

description: Langlebigkeit und tiefe Kapitalmarktzinsen verschärfen die Situation von Pensionskassen. Diese müssen sich den geänderten Rahmenbedingungen anpassen, um ihre finanzielle Stabilität nicht zu verlieren und um systematische Umverteilungen von aktiven Arbeitnehmenden zu Rentnern zu vermeiden. Die vorliegende Fallstudie zeigt am Beispiel einer schweizerischen Pensionskasse die Mechanismen und die gegenseitige Abhängigkeit von versicherungstechnischen Parametern und deren Komplexität in der Umsetzung.
Meniere?s disease and migraine-associated dizziness: differential diagnosis
Creators: name: Janky, Kristen Leigh
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: M?ni?re?s disease
subject: Migraine
subject: Dizziness

description: The objective of the study was to determine if a test battery consisting of electrocochleography and rotary chair testing would differentially diagnose between Meniere?s disease and migraine-associated dizziness. A retrospective chart review of 10 patients diagnosed with Meniere?s disease and 10 patients diagnosed with migraine-associated dizziness was completed. Comparisons between these two groups were made to determine if statistically significant differences existed in terms of their: 1.) mean rotary chair gain values; and 2.) ECochG SP/AP amplitude ratios. Results indicated that no statistically significant differences existed between the ECochG SP/AP amplitude ratios of these two groups. Statistically significant differences between these two groups did however exist in the rotary chair gain values at all of the test speeds with the exception of 0.32 Hz. The results suggest that rotary chair gain values have the ability to differentially diagnose between Meniere?s disease and migraine-associated dizziness.
description: (Au.D.) -- Towson University, 2005. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.
Axigluon Couplings in the Presence of Extra Color-Octet Spin-One Fields
Creators: name: Zerwekh, Alfonso R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study how the interaction of the axigluon with quarks is modified when we introduce new color-octet spin-one fields in a chiral color model. We show that in this case the strength of this interaction is not completely determined by the gauge symmetry any more and can be significantly weaker than the one predicted in the original chiral color model. In this way, we reinterpret the non-observability of the axigluon at the Tevatron, not as a limit on the axigluon mass, but as a limit on the strength of the axigluon coupling to quarks.
title: Rezension: Meyer, Hilbert (2004), Was ist guter Unterricht?
Creators: name: Żylinska, Marzena
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Hilbert Meyers Buch ist für diejenigen Lehrer bestimmt, die sich aus der Routine ausklinken und die Klippen ihres Berufs umschiffen wollen. Alle, die den eigenen Unterricht verbessern möchten, finden hier praktische und brauchbare Werkzeuge zur Verifizierung der eigenen Unterrichtpraxis. Der Autor geht ziemlich unkonventionell vor, denn er schreibt auch von Lehrern, die den Unterricht stören, Schülerarbeiten schludrig korrigieren und ungerecht benoten. Nicht nur die Hefte sollen sauber geführt werden, dasselbe betrifft den Tafelanschrieb, behauptet Hilbert Meyer. Viele Lehrerfehler sind auf den ersten Blick nicht sichtbar; es ist manchmal gar nicht einfach, eingeschliffene Muster als kontraproduktiv zu entlarven.
Astronomy Education and its Role in Saving the Environment: Hassan Baghbani at the OAE's 3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Creators: name: Baghbani, Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astronomy Education

description: The role of astronomy education in helping to preserve the environment Bushehr Teachers’ Astronomical Society has changed the way they look at the Earth by holding several astronomy courses for teachers and students in different cities of Bushehr province, so that instead of having a limited view, they can have a long-term view on preserving the environment. These trainings are the formation of the largest environmental protection groups in different cities of Bushehr province, which has been able to make the most successful examples of environmental protection in Iran.The way it works is that after training teachers, they build environmental conservation teams in schools and teach students, and make students’ families more sensitive to environmental protection.
Analysis of the rabbinic usage of ?because of the ways of peace?
Creators: name: Roth, Bruce
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015

description: Rabbinic Literature highlights the pursuit of a peaceful and just society. This paper argues that contemporary modes of discourse have utility in understanding the social problems that the Rabbis sought to solve. By reading and interpreting a specific rabbinic decree justified as Mipnai Darchei Shalom ?because of the ways of peace? (MDS), this paper demonstrates that the understanding of specific rabbinic laws can be enhanced by using contemporary terms such as ?groups?, ?power? and contemporary definitions such as ?human, cultural and individual values?. The desire to minimize and resolve social conflict sheds light on the sages pursuing an ordered society, much as society aspires to do today.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Measurement of the Cosmic Ray and Neutrino-Induced Muon Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Creators: name: SNO Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are reported on the measurement of the atmospheric neutrino-induced muon flux at a depth of 2 kilometers below the Earth's surface from 1229 days of operation of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). By measuring the flux of through-going muons as a function of zenith angle, the SNO experiment can distinguish between the oscillated and un-oscillated portion of the neutrino flux. A total of 514 muon-like events are measured between $-1 \le \cosθ_{\rm zenith} \le 0.4$ in a total exposure of 2.30\times 10^{14}$ cm$^{2}$ s. The measured flux normalization is $1.22 \pm 0.09$ times the Bartol three-dimensional flux prediction. This is the first measurement of the neutrino-induced flux where neutrino oscillations are minimized. The zenith distribution is consistent with previously measured atmospheric neutrino oscillation parameters. The cosmic ray muon flux at SNO with zenith angle $\cosθ_{\rm zenith} > 0.4$ is measured to be $(3.31 \pm 0.01 {\rm (stat.)} \pm 0.09 {\rm (sys.)}) \times 10^{-10}~μ$/s/cm$^{2}$.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Studies on phosphoglucomutase and phosphofructokinase from brain
Creators: name: Braun, Peter Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: It has recently been established that the activity of crystalline muscle phosphoglucomutase can be greatly stimulated by preincubation of the enzyme with a Mg++-imidazole complex. This observation has aroused interest in the physiological significance of such a system in the possible cellular control of phosphoglucomutase activity. The present study constitutes, in part, an investigation of the properties of phosphoglucomutase from brain tissue. A procedure for the purification of phosphoglucomutase from beef brain is described. The brain enzyme appears to be similar to that from skeletal muscle. Evidence is also presented which indicates that the "activation" produced by Mg++-imidazole is probably of no physiological importance in brain. This observation is consistent with the more recent reports that the phosphoglucomutase reaction is likely not involved in cellular regulatory mechanisms. It is well established that phosphofructokinase is intimately involved in the cellular regulation of glycolysis and the citric acid cycle. Control mechanisms of the phosphofructokinase reaction in mammalian tissues have been postulated on the basis of the complex kinetics of the enzyme. In yeast, however, two enzymatically interconvertible forms of the enzyme have been reported. Preliminary experiments in this study failed to demonstrate a phosphofructokinase system in brain similar to that found in yeast.
title: Rezension: Grünewald, Matthias (2005), Bilder im Kopf. Eine Longitudinalstudie über die Deutschland- und Deutschenbilder japanischer Deutschlernender
Creators: name: Wormer, Jörg
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Matthias Grünewald, von 1998 bis 2001 Lektor an der 1923 als Wirtschaftsfachhochschule gegründeten privaten Universität Matsuyama (Südjapan, Insel Shikoku), hat im Jahr 2000 insgesamt 659 Studierende eines Anfängerjahrganges Deutsch als zweite Fremdsprache im Rahmen von zwei empirischen sozialwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen zu ihren Deutschland- und Deutschenbildern befragt - einmal zu Beginn des Studiums und ein weiteres Mal nach acht Monaten Kurs. Sein zentrales methodisches Instrument war der Fragebogen, "die einzelnen Fragen möglichst neutral, kurz, verständlich, ohne Doppelverneinungen und Suggestionen [...]. Verwendet wurden alle drei grundsätzlichen Fragetypen, d.h. in der Mehrzahl geschlossene Fragen, zahlreiche offene Fragen sowie mehrere hybride, d.h. halboffene Fragen" (159).
An integrated security curriculum model for undergraduate computer science and information systems majors
Creators: name: Taylor, Blair
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer networks -- Security measures
subject: Computer security -- Management
subject: Curriculum planning

description: Security education, especially for undergraduates, has been identified as important to changing problematic security practices. However, current security efforts in education are primarily in the form of tracks or specialized courses, which only reach a subset of students and occur after students have established a foundation of coding techniques. This project aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate an integrated security curriculum model for students in the Computer and Information Sciences department at Towson University. Security modules were developed and subsequently delivered during spring 2007 and fall 2007 across selected sections of the core courses: CS0, CS1, and CS2. The modules were laboratory-based to allow seamless adoption and integration and included the innovative use of checklists to promote active learning and encourage critical thinking. A two group control group experimental design was employed using pretests and posttests for evaluation. A significant improvement in security knowledge was demonstrated (p = .005) indicating that security lab modules are an effective way to teach secure coding and design principles to more students, earlier in their studies, with minimal impact on existing curricula. Towson University, as a designated National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Security and Assurance Education, is the ideal platform to pioneer a ?security across the curriculum? approach. The integrated security curriculum presented in this research complements our undergraduate security track for computer science majors and serves as a model for future integration.
description: (D.Sc.) -- Towson University, 2008. Thesis approval page signed by thesis committee members and the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and Research included in print copy of thesis.