cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The physical activity transition among adults in China: 1991-2011: Physical activity transition in China
Creators: name: Zhang, B.
name: Ng, S. W.
name: Su, C.
name: Wang, H. J.
name: Howard, A. G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Previous studies have linked work, home production, travel activities and inactivity with weight and health outcomes. However, these focused on average physical activity (PA) over time rather than changes in PA and associated sociodemographic and economic factors and urbanicity. Using the 1991–2011 China Health and Nutrition Survey data, we estimated the metabolic equivalent of task hours per week for individuals in occupational, domestic, travel and active leisure domains and sedentary hours per week. We present the distributions among adult men and women (aged 18–60), and use quantile regression models to explore factors associated with these trends. Trend analyses on the distribution of PA show declines along the whole distribution of occupational PA for men and women and domestic PA for women in China. These patterns remain consistent after adjusting for individual‐ and household‐level factors. Controlling for urbanicity mitigated the decrease in occupational PA, particularly for men, but not the decrease in domestic PA. Given China's rapid urbanization and its association with occupational PA declines and the strong time trend in domestic PA, there is a need to invest in interventions and policies that promote PA during leisure and travel times.
Contributions to the biodiversity of sea slugs and shelled relatives of the Sea of Marmara (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Creators: name: ARTÜZ, M. Levent
name: TUNÇER, Sezginer
name: POURSANIDIS, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: Even if the Mediterranean Sea is considered one of the most studied areas concerning its malacofauna, to date few areas have upd ated species lists, which are important for ecological and conservation studies. This study deals with the sea slug fauna of the Sea of Marmara, an important region in the Mediterranean Sea area acting as the connection point with the Black Sea. Information reported in the scientific literature as well as material from research projects have been collected and analysed, revealing 52 record s of sea slugs and shelled relatives from the Sea of Marmara belonging to 32 families. From the 52 species, 11 are reported for the first time from the region while two of them are considered invasive species.
(401089) David Lyon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Stick the face out. Talking Head’s use in online courses
Creators: name: Fattorini, Riccardo
name: Paoletti, Gisella
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: In this essay we intend to examine in which contexts and under which conditions a particular and common video format that has within it a Talking Head of the speaker may be an opportunity in teaching or vice versa a critical issue. We will pay particular attention to the use of gestures and the connection between gestures and spoken word; because, gesture and speech form a set that can be significant and lead to understanding the lesson, learning and motivation of the student, but can also represent sources of cognitive load. We will propose the distinction, in the analysis, of significant/insignificant multimedia gestures as one of the elements that help to evaluate the potential of an educational event. Mettiamoci la faccia. L’uso dei Talking Head nelle lezioni online In questo saggio intendiamo esaminare in quali contesti e a quali condizioni un particolare e diffuso formato di video che presenta al suo interno un Talking Head del parlante può rappresentare una opportunità nell’insegnamento o viceversa una criticità. Presteremo particolare attenzione all’uso dei gesti e al collegamento tra gesti e discorso parlato, in quanto gesto e discorso formano un insieme che può essere significativo e aiutare la comprensione della lezione, l’apprendimento e la motivazione dello studente, ma possono rappresentare anche fonti di carico cognitivo. Proporremo una distinzione, nell’analisi, tra gesti significativi/non significativi come uno degli elementi che aiutano a valutare le potenzialità di un evento educativo di tipo multimediale.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
Sparse polynomial surrogates for aerodynamic computations with random inputs
Creators: name: Savin, Eric
name: Resmini, Andrea
name: Peter, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with some of the methodologies used to construct polynomial surrogate models based on generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) expansions for applications to uncertainty quantification (UQ) in aerodynamic computations. A core ingredient in gPC expansions is the choice of a dedicated sampling strategy, so as to define the most significant scenarios to be considered for the construction of such metamodels. A desirable feature of the proposed rules shall be their ability to handle several random inputs simultaneously. Methods to identify the relative "importance" of those variables or uncertain data shall be ideally considered as well. The present work is more particularly dedicated to the development of sampling strategies based on sparsity principles. Sparse multi-dimensional cubature rules based on general one-dimensional Gauss-Jacobi-type quadratures are first addressed. These sets are non nested, but they are well adapted to the probability density functions with compact support for the random inputs considered in this study. On the other hand, observing that the aerodynamic quantities of interest (outputs) depend only weakly on the cross-interactions between the variable inputs, it is argued that only low-order polynomials shall significantly contribute to their surrogates. This "sparsity-of-effects" trend prompts the use of reconstruction techniques benefiting from the sparsity of the outputs, such as compressed sensing (CS). CS relies on the observation that one only needs a number of samples proportional to the compressed size of the outputs, rather than their uncompressed size, to construct reliable surrogate models. The results obtained with the test case considered in this work corroborate this expected feature.
Digital and inclusive environment
Creators: name: Emili, Enrico
name: Gaggioli, Cristina
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: The paper presents, regarding to the actual legislation on the special educational needs (SEN), a search conducted by the University of Perugia, inserted in a pilot project that has involved ten schools in Umbria and Lazio. The work describes the instructional aspects associated to the introduction of the new technologies in classroom and helps us to understand as they influence the processes learning and reinforce those of inclusion. Ambienti digitali inclusivi Il contributo presenta, alla luce della normativa attuale sui bisogni educativi speciali (BES), una ricerca condotta dall’Università degli Studi di Perugia, inserita in un progetto pilota che ha coinvolto dieci scuole in Umbria e Lazio. Il lavoro di ricerca descrive gli aspetti didattici legati all’introduzione delle nuove tecnologie in classe e ci aiuta a comprendere come queste condizionano i processi di apprendimento degli alunni e rafforzano quelli di inclusione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
Omental Gene Expression of Adiponectin Correlates with Degree of Insulin Sensitivity Before and After Gastric Bypass Surgery
Creators: name: Spagnoli, Anna
name: Torquati, Alfonso
name: Chen, Jiegen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Circulating adiponectin is known to correlate negatively with insulin resistance in patients with obesity and diabetes. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of gastric bypass (GB) surgery on adiponectin gene expression in subcutaneous and omental adipose tissues.
English language, immersive teaching and game-based learning in a teacher training project promoted by Indire
Creators: name: Cinganotto, Letizia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: The paper presents the results of an immersive training initiative in “Edmondo”, a virtual world based on OpenSim technology provided by Indire and addressed to Italian teachers and students. The initiative aimed to close the gap of gaming virtual worlds and social virtual worlds through user-generated content created by teachers (primary and secondary English and CLIL teachers). The content created was language learning games, activities, simulations, scenarios, role-plays, designed to be used in a virtual environment. Currently these games and activities are on display in a games park setting readily available for teachers to take their young learners to and engage them in real-time and fun communication activities. This paper presents the development and the results of the methodology course conducted in 2016 delivered by a group of international experts: the initiative will be described with the help of the data collected through questionnaires, diaries, comments and a devoted virtual focus group. Lingua inglese, didattica immersiva e game-based learning in un progetto di formazione per docenti promosso da Indire Il contributo presenta una iniziativa di formazione per docenti promossa da Indire nel 2016 sulla didattica immersiva della lingua inglese in “Edmondo”, il mondo virtuale online dedicato alla scuola. Il progetto di ricerca sotteso alla formazione mirava a rilevare il potenziale della tecnologia immersiva e del game-based learning per l’apprendimento della lingua inglese e per l’applicazione della metodologia CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Il progetto si proponeva di creare un ponte tra gaming virtual worlds e social virtual worlds, mettendo in luce come le tecnologie immersive possano facilitare l’apprendimento e la comunicazione nella lingua straniera attraverso l’uso di giochi interattivi, scenari, ambienti simulati, role-play realizzati nel mondo virtuale dagli stessi partecipanti (docenti di lingua inglese e docenti CLIL di scuola primaria e secondaria), sotto la guida di esperti internazionali. Il progetto di ricerca viene descritto nelle sue molteplici sfaccettature, attraverso l’illustrazione degli ambienti di formazione, l’esame dei dati raccolti nei diari dei partecipanti, nei questionari e in un focus group dedicato.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
(401088) Martha [Yule]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The observational documentary for the educational professions
Creators: name: Panciroli, Chiara
name: Corazza, Laura
name: Reggiani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: The aim of this research is to test the tool Observational Documentary in training educational professionals. We tested this learning tool with the students of the course on Theories and Tools of Didactic Mediation of the Master’s Degree in Pedagogy of the University of Bologna, in this context we showed a video shot into a primary school during an innovative lesson. The experience revealed that this kind of video, portraying real class situations through an immersive experience, is able to create engagement and stimulate interest in educational professions student. There is a limit: the possibility to confuse the reality with the filmic representation. Il documentario di osservazione per la formazione delle professionalità educative La ricerca ha avuto come obiettivo la sperimentazione dell’uso di un documentario di osservazione per la formazione iniziale di professionisti dell’educazione. Nell’ambito dell’insegnamento di Teorie e strumenti della mediazione didattica, nel Corso di laurea magistrale in Pedagogia erogato dall’Università di Bologna, abbiamo introdotto sperimentalmente la visione di un filmato autoprodotto e girato in una classe quarta di scuola primaria con un insegnante che attua pratiche didattiche innovative. L’esperienza ha dimostrato che un documentario di questo tipo può essere una leva motivazionale molto efficace per stimolare interesse e attivare meccanismi d’apprendimento, grazie a una struttura video che consente un’esperienza immersiva diretta nella situazione reale della classe. Con un limite: la possibilità di confondere il piano della realtà con quello della rappresentazione filmica.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
A New Merging Double Degenerate Binary in the Solar Neighborhood
Creators: name: Debes, John H.
name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel
name: López-Morales, Mercedes
name: Anglada-Escudé, Guillem
name: Napiwotzki, Ralf
name: Osip, David
name: Weinberger, Alycia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing the local space density of double degenerate binary systems is a complementary approach to broad sky surveys of double degenerates to determine the expected rates of white dwarf binary mergers, in particular those that may evolve into other observable phenomena such as extreme helium stars, Am CVn systems, and supernovae Ia. However, there have been few such systems detected in local space. We report here the discovery that WD 1242$-$105, a nearby bright WD, is a double-line spectroscopic binary consisting of two degenerate DA white dwarfs of similar mass and temperature, despite it previously having been spectroscopically characterized as a single degenerate. Follow-up photometry, spectroscopy, and trigonometric parallax have been obtained in an effort to determine the fundamental parameters of each component of this system. The binary has a mass ratio of 0.7 and a trigonometric parallax of 25.5 mas, placing it at a distance of 39 pc. The system's total mass is 0.95 M$_\odot$ and has an orbital period of 2.85 hours, making it the strongest known gravitational wave source ($\log h = -20.78$) in the mHz regime. Because of its orbital period and total mass, WD 1242$-$105 is predicted to merge via gravitational radiation on a timescale of 740 Myr, which will most likely not result in a catastrophic explosion.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; to appear in Astronomical Journal
The role of phonological awareness for learning how to read: an overview
Creators: name: Neri, Alessandra
name: Pellegrini, Marta
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: This overview aims to study the role of phonological awareness for learning how to read. We have searched studies about the relationship between this competence and reading on educational electronic databases and then we have included the studies that met the inclusion criteria. Seven studies were included. The studies show that the phonological awareness is the competence that affects more reading, even if with some difference between languages. Il ruolo della consapevolezza fonologica per l’apprendimento della lettura: una revisione descrittiva La presente revisione descrittiva si pone l’obiettivo di indagare il ruolo svolto dalla consapevolezza fonologica all’interno del processo di apprendimento della lettura. Dopo una ricerca sui repository in rete di studi che avessero l’obiettivo di indagare il rapporto fra la consapevolezza fonologica e la lettura e che soddisfacessero i criteri di inclusione stabiliti, sono stati selezionati sette studi. Dall’analisi di queste ricerche, si conferma la tendenza a ritenere che la consapevolezza fonologica sia la competenza che maggiormente influenza l’apprendimento della lettura, anche se con qualche differenza in base al sistema ortografico di riferimento.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2017): Teaching to learn reading. Methods and tools
Supplementary Methods and Data from Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories.
Creators: name: Siegel, Katherine J.
name: Reniel B. Cabral
name: McHenry, Jennifer
name: Ojea, Elena
name: Owashi, Brandon
name: Lester, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Detailed descriptions of data and analyses used to assess social-ecological vulnerability
(401087) Peter Stratton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Healing processes for historical trauma in Latinx communities
Creators: name: Zavaleta, Sara Melissa
name: 0000-0001-8044-432X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Historical trauma
Latinx communities
Healing interventions
Intersectional feminism
Grounded theory

description: This study examined the healing strategies that community healers have developed in response to historical trauma in Latinx communities and the accompanying successes or struggles. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with 8 participants in Austin, Texas from a constructivist grounded theory approach that also operated from an intersectional feminist and participatory action framework. The researcher prioritized recruiting a sample of Latinx healers that were racially diverse in addition to representing a wide range of fields such as social work, community organizing, birth work, cultural centers, and other fields. All the participants identified personal experiences of historical trauma across their backgrounds. The researcher found that these community healers drew from their own healing journeys to develop the “most effective strategies” against historical trauma. In addition, the researcher found that the participants identified community healing as occurring through connection, as creating alternative pathways outside of hegemonic institutions, and as gaining a greater understanding of self and community. A core theory emerged of healing as a cyclical process that occurs through multi-level connection and in reciprocity between the individual and their communities. The researcher aims to add greater nuance to conversations about whole being health in the field of social work, which for the most part systematically fails to recognize historical trauma as an issue affecting any communities. The study contributes to the growing body of research on the diverse Latinx communities experiencing historical trauma. The researcher also hopes to contribute to the multi-disciplinary conversations that focus on healing interventions from historical trauma
(401086) Peter Stratton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Post-operative Psychosocial Predictors of Outcome in Bariatric Surgery
Creators: name: Bocchieri-Ricciardi, Lindsey
name: Peat, Christine M.
name: Mitchell, James E.
name: White, Emily K.
name: Berg, Kelly C.
name: Sheets, Carrie S.
name: Chen, Eunice Y.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Although there are several recent reviews of the pre-operative factors that influence treatment outcome for bariatric surgery, commensurate efforts to identify and review the predictive validity of post-operative variables are lacking. This review describes the post-operative psychosocial predictors of weight loss in bariatric surgery. Results suggest empirical support for post-operative binge eating, uncontrolled eating/grazing, and presence of a depressive disorder as negative predictors of weight loss outcomes; whereas, adherence to dietary and physical activity guidelines emerged as positive predictors of weight loss. With the exception of depression, psychological comorbidities were not consistently associated with weight loss outcomes. Results highlight the need for post-operative assessment of disordered eating and depressive disorder, further research on the predictive value of post-operative psychosocial factors, and development of targeted interventions.
Composition and spatial distribution of the meiofauna in the Wagner and Consag basins, Gulf of California, Mexico
Creators: name: ÁLVAREZ-CASTILLO, Lucía
name: HERMOSO-SALAZAR, Margarita
name: ESTRADAS-ROMERO, Alejandro
name: RIVAS, Gerardo
name: PROL-LEDESMA, Rosa María
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: In this study, we analyse the horizontal and vertical distribution of the meiofauna in the Wagner and Consag basins. Samples were collected at soft bottom sites on board of the R/V "El Puma " (WAGNER-02 Expedition) during July- August 2010 with a Smith McIntyre grab and 10 cm cores. At each station physical and chemical variables were measured including depth, salinity, pore water temperature and pH. Twelve higher taxa of meiofauna were recorded in both basins. Meiofauna was dominated by Nematoda (73.1%) followed by Copepoda Harpacticoida (11.28%), Polychaeta (8.41%) and Kinorhyncha (4.71%). Density of meiofauna in these two basins ranked from 19.12 to 742.20 ind.10 cm-2 and were mainly concentrated in the first four centimeters of the sediment (78.6%) and decreased with sediment depth; PERMANOVA analysis show significant differences among sediment depth layers. However, PERMANOVA analysis did not show significant differences of the abundances of meiofauna between basins. Multivariate Correspondence Canonica l Analysis (MCCA) was performed but the assemblages identified had no spatial gradient. This only confirms the patchy distribution already reported for the meiofauna. This analysis reported two faunal groups: Nematoda -Polychaeta and Copepoda - Kinorhyncha. In the present study, we report for the first time the horizontal and vertical distribution of the meiofauna in a natural CO2 venting area in the Gulf of California. There is still so much that we do not know about meiofauna processes, more studies are needed specially down to species level in order to ha ve a clea rer view of how environmental factors affect each species spatial distribution.
Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Minority Adolescent Women: A Public Health Challenge
Creators: name: Lee, Jennifer
name: Cooksey, Christie M.J.L.
name: Berggren, Erica K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection in the United States. This disease disproportionately affects adolescent minority women, and untreated infection can lead to lasting reproductive tract morbidity. Recommendations for primary prevention include patient counseling to decrease risky behavior and increase barrier protection use; secondary prevention recommendations include screening and treatment of affected individuals and their sexual partners, barrier contraception use, as well as counseling to decrease behaviors that lead to re-infection. Despite these strategies, both incidence and prevalence of Chlamydia have continued to escalate in this population. Interventions to decrease chlamydial infection should encompass all facets of primary and secondary prevention as well as address the fundamental barrier to prevention – lack of perception of risk in this young age group.
First record of alien Indo-Pacific fish Pacific diamondback puffer Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 (Tetraodontidae) in Syrian coastal waters (Eastern Mediterranean)
Creators: name: SABOUR, Waad
name: MASRI, Mai
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: The puffer fish Lagocephalus guentheri Miranda Ribeiro, 1915 is a new invader species to the Eastern Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal. It was recorded for the first time from Syrian coastal waters (Levantine Basin, Eastern Mediterranean). Two adult specimens were caught on 30 November 2016 by trammel net at a depth between 3 and 50 m. Morphometric and meristic data were reported and compared with other congeneric species.
Digital practices in primary school: is the pupil protagonist?
Creators: name: Fabbro, Francesco
name: Agosti, Alberto
name: Correa, Elaine
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: Much of the political, economic and theoretical emphasis on the use of digital technology in school tends to focus on the child’s agency in the learning processes. In this respect several educational policies and also some influential theories in the field of educational technology seem to assume that the use of technology at school leads to a more informal and participated learning. This paper takes into account the results of a qualitative research conducted with students attending Italian primary schools and explores their perceptions, representations and positions concerning their experience with digital media in school. On the one hand, the paper highlights how students very often perceive digital technology as a useful and fun support of their learning process at school. On the other hand it presents and discusses some problems suggested by children concerning both their digital practices at school, as well as the different ways in which students represent themselves and their relationships in the classroom when they use digital media. The paper concludes with a summary of the research results followed by the proposal of a participated teaching design informed by a dialogue with the pupils. Pratiche digitali nella scuola primaria: il bambino è protagonista? Buona parte dell’enfasi politica, economica e teorica sull’uso della tecnologia digitale a scuola è posta sull’agency del bambino nei processi di apprendimento. In questo senso diverse politiche educative e anche alcune influenti teorie elaborate nel campo delle Tecnologie dell’Educazione sembrano presupporre che l’impiego della tecnologia a scuola renda l’apprendimento più informale e partecipato. L’articolo si basa sui risultati di una ricerca qualitativa condotta con allievi frequentanti la scuola primaria allo scopo di esplorare le percezioni, le rappresentazioni e le posizioni dei bambini rispetto alla loro esperienza con i media digitali a scuola. Da un lato l’articolo mette in luce come gli allievi percepiscono in maniera piuttosto condivisa la tecnologia digitale come un utile e divertente supporto al loro apprendimento a scuola, dall’altro esso presenta e discute anche alcune criticità indicate dai bambini rispetto alle loro pratiche digitali in ambito scolastico, nonché come gli allievi rappresentano se stessi e le loro relazioni in classe quando usano i media digitali. L’articolo si conclude con una sintesi dei risultati della ricerca, seguita dalla proposta di una progettazione didattica partecipata e informata dal dialogo con i bambini.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
Spadella kappae, a new small benthic chaetognath (Spadellidae) from Roscoff, France
Creators: name: SCHMIDT-RHAESA, Andreas
name: VIELER, Vera
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: We describe a new small species from the genus Spadella (Chaetognatha: Spadellidae), collected from two localities in Roscoff, France. Spadella kappae was collected during the extraction of meiofaunal animals from sediment samples, it is not clear if they live on or within the sediment. The new species differs from every other species of similar size by characters like the number and fine structure of grasping spines and the shape of the corona ciliata. Further characters are that the lateral fins are continuous with the tail fin, that intestinal diverticles are absent and that the ventral ganglion is very large.
Participatory Didactics and the role of feedback through game-based technologies
Creators: name: Iavarone, Maria
name: Lo Presti, Francesco
name: Stangherlin, Orazio
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of feedback in the knowledge and learning processes and the central role that it can play through smart-device technologies.The contribution is aimed at analyzing some issues arising from theoretical backgrounds and guidelines for innovative instructional design to enhance the experience in digital interaction. The research conducted at the University Parthenope of Naples, with a group of 149 students enrolled in different courses of study, used game-based technologies and a platform called Kahoot which offered the possibility to create a single response quiz-game. In light of the theoretical framework analyzed, the experience and the results, it is reasonable to argue that game-based technologies enable a more effective engagement, improving overall learning processes and optimizing knowledge retention. Didattiche partecipative e ruolo del feedback attraverso tecnologie game-based Lo scopo di questo articolo è sottolineare l’importanza del feedback nei processi di conoscenza e di apprendimento ed il ruolo centrale che esso può svolgere tramite l’ausilio di tecnologie smart-device. Il contributo tratteggia gli orientamenti prevalenti per una progettazione didattica che preveda l’utilizzo di tecnologie digitali. A tale proposito l’analisi si è avvantaggiata di evidenze empiriche acquisite nell’ambito di un’esperienza svolta presso l’Università Parthenope di Napoli, con la partecipazione di 149 studenti di diversi corsi di studio, che ha previsto l’uso di tecnologie game-based per la realizzazione di un quiz-game tramite la piattaforma Kahoot. Alla luce del quadro teorico, dell’esperienza e dei risultati, è ragionevole ritenere che le tecnologie game-based contribuiscano a migliorare complessivamente i processi di apprendimento consentendo un più efficace engagement ottimizzando l'acquisizione delle conoscenze.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
(401085) George Stratton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Methods and Data from Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social–ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
Creators: name: Siegel, Katherine J.
name: Reniel B. Cabral
name: McHenry, Jennifer
name: Ojea, Elena
name: Owashi, Brandon
name: Lester, Sarah E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Detailed descriptions of data and analyses used to assess social-ecological vulnerability
On the advantages of using relative phase Toffolis with an application to multiple control Toffoli optimization
Creators: name: Maslov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Various implementations of the Toffoli gate up to a relative phase have been known for years. The advantage over regular Toffoli gate is their smaller circuit size. However, their use has been often limited to a demonstration of quantum control in designs such as those where the Toffoli gate is being applied last or otherwise for some specific reasons the relative phase does not matter. It was commonly believed that the relative phase deviations would prevent the relative phase Toffolis from being very helpful in practical large-scale designs. In this paper, we report three circuit identities that provide the means for replacing certain configurations of the multiple control Toffoli gates with their simpler relative phase implementations, up to a selectable unitary on certain qubits, and without changing the overall functionality. We illustrate the advantage via applying those identities to the optimization of the known circuits implementing multiple control Toffoli gates, and report the reductions in the CNOT-count, T-count, as well as the number of ancillae used. We suggest that a further study of the relative phase Toffoli implementations and their use may yield other optimizations.
description: 14 pages
Videoanalysis and Math teachers’ training. First results of a pilot course on formative assessment
Creators: name: Ferretti, Federica
name: Vannini, Ira
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: In teacher training, the use of specific technologies such as the video-recording of teaching and assessing practices (and their systematic analysis) can be an important mean to make the training of in-service and pre-service teachers effective. This article intends to show an experience of research aimed to verify the use of video-analysis on the development teachers’ professionalism. The research – carried out through a pre-experimental design – involved a group of mathematics teachers of low and high secondary schools and it allowed us to observe how much video-analysis affects the development of competences indicators such as the teachers’ perception of knowledge and skills on formative assessment, their beliefs and self-efficacy. Videoanalisi e formazione degli insegnanti di matematica. Primi risultati di un corso pilota sul formative assessment Nella formazione degli insegnanti, l’uso di specifiche tecnologie quali la videoregistrazione delle pratiche didattiche e valutative in classe (e la relativa analisi sistematica delle situazioni filmate) può costituire un mezzo importante per l’efficacia della formazione, iniziale e in servizio, dei docenti. In questo articolo vengono presentati processi e primi risultati di un’esperienza di ricerca finalizzata a controllare l’influenza della videoanalisi sul progressivo sviluppo di alcuni importanti aspetti della competenza valutativa degli insegnanti. La ricerca – realizzata attraverso un disegno pre-sperimentale – ha coinvolto un gruppo di insegnanti di matematica delle scuole secondarie e ha consentito di osservare l’incidenza della videoanalisi sull’evoluzione di indicatori di competenza dei docenti quali la loro percezione di conoscenza e abilità sul formative assessment, le loro convinzioni e il loro senso di autoefficacia.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
(401084) Catherine Carmichael
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Recensione. Rossi Pier Giuseppe, Guerra Luigi (a cura di), Come le tecnologie cambiano la scuola, come la scuola cambia le tecnologie. Numero monografico di “Pedagogia Oggi. Semestrale Siped”, n. 2 (2016)
Creators: name: Bruni, Filippo
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: Recensione. Rossi Pier Giuseppe, Guerra Luigi (a cura di), Come le tecnologie cambiano la scuola, come la scuola cambia le tecnologie. Numero monografico di “Pedagogia Oggi. Semestrale Siped”, n. 2 (2016)
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2017): Learning and school technologies. Critical issues and potentiality
Parents' Decisions to Screen Newborns for FMR1 Gene Expansions in a Pilot Research Project
Creators: name: Guarda, Sonia
name: Sideris, John
name: Bailey Jr., Donald B.
name: Buansi, Allen
name: Choudhury, Summer
name: Skinner, Debra
name: Powell, Cynthia
name: Roche, Myra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The goal of this study was to document rates of parental consent in a pilot study of newborn screening for FMR1 gene expansions, examine demographic characteristics of mothers who consented or declined, describe the reasons for their decision, and discuss ethical and social aspects of the consent process.
Textual comprehension difficulties. Metacognitive strategies for the educational intervention
Creators: name: Fontani, Saverio
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2017

description: Textual comprehension difficulties are one of the main factors responsible for failure at school, which presents strong correlations with the Learning Disorders. Their high incidence in the school population imposes the research of effective educational interventions for the answer to educational needs of students with comprehension deficits. In this paper the most effective metacognitive strategies are presented and their implications for the educational intervention are discussed. Difficoltà di comprensione testuale. Strategie metacognitive per l’intervento educativo Le difficoltà di comprensione del testo rappresentano uno dei principali fattori responsabili dell’insuccesso scolastico, e presentano forti correlazioni con i Disturbi dell’Apprendimento. La loro elevata diffusione nella popolazione scolastica impone la ricerca di interventi efficaci per rispondere alle esigenze educative degli allievi con deficit di comprensione. In questo articolo sono presentate le strategie metacognitive più efficaci e vengono discusse le loro implicazioni per l’intervento educativo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 17 No. 2 (2017): Teaching to learn reading. Methods and tools
(401083) Peter Stratton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
New record of Fissuroderes thermoi (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida) in the Gulf of California
Creators: name: ÁLVAREZ-CASTILLO, Lucía
name: HERMOSO-SALAZAR, Margarita
name: ESTRADAS-ROMERO, Alejandro
name: PROL-LEDESMA, Rosa María
name: PARDOS, Fernando
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: This study is the first record of the species Fissuroderes thermoi of the phylum Kinorhyncha in México, specifically in the Wagner and Consag basins in the northern Gulf of California. The species F. thermoi has not been reported since the original description from the coast of Costa Rica. This article expands the species latitudinal distribution from the Pacific Costa Rica to the northern end of the Gulf of California. Ecological data of the specie´s habitat and some remarks on the morphological variations of the species from Mexico and Costa Rica are also shown.
Summary of International Guidelines for Physical Activity After Pregnancy
Creators: name: Mottola, Michelle F.
name: Brown, Wendy J.
name: Owe, Katrine M.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Rousham, Emily K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Postpartum physical activity can improve mood, maintain cardiorespiratory fitness, improve weight control, promote weight loss, and reduce depression and anxiety. This review summarizes current guidelines for postpartum physical activity worldwide. PubMed (MedLINE) was searched for country-specific government and clinical guidelines on physical activity following pregnancy through the year 2013. Only the most recent guideline was included in the review. An abstraction form facilitated extraction of key details and helped to summarize results. Six guidelines were identified from five countries (Australia, Canada, Norway, United Kingdom, United States). All guidelines were embedded within pregnancy-related physical activity recommendations. All provided physical activity advice related to breastfeeding and three remarked about physical activity following Caesarean delivery. Recommended physical activities mentioned in the guidelines included aerobic (3/6), pelvic floor exercise (3/6), strengthening (2/6), stretching (2/6), and walking (2/6). None of the guidelines discussed sedentary behavior. The guidelines that were identified lacked specificity for physical activity. Greater clarity in guidelines would be more useful to both practitioners and the women they serve. Postpartum physical activity guidelines have the potential to assist women to initiate or resume physical activity following childbirth, so that they can transition to meeting recommended levels of physical activity. Health care providers have a critical role in encouraging women to be active at this time, and the availability of more explicit guidelines may assist them to routinely include physical activity advice in their postpartum care.
Superradiance of a subwavelength array of independent classical nonlinear emitters
Creators: name: Nefedkin, N. E.
name: Andrianov, E. S.
name: Zyablovsky, A. A.
name: Pukhov, A. A.
name: Vinogradov, A. P.
name: Lisyansky, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a mechanism for the emergence of a superradiance burst in a subwavelength array of nonlinear classical emitters. We assume that the emitters interact via their common field of radiative response and that they may have an arbitrary distribution of initially phases. We show that only if this distribution is not uniform, a non-zero field of radiative response arises leading to a superradiance burst. Although this field cannot synchronize the emitters, it forces fast oscillations of a classical nonlinear emitter to have long-period envelopes. Constructive interference in the envelopes creates a large dipole moment of the array which results in a superradiance pulse. The intensity of the superradiance is proportional to the squared number of the emitters, which envelopes participate in the fluctuation.
(401082) Thomas Stirling
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.