cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Teaching About the Other in Primary Level Social Studies: The Sami in Norwegian Textbooks
Creators: name: Eriksen, Kristin Gregers
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The aim of this article is to discuss to what extent and in what ways the Sami people are included in national imaginary in textbooks. The article sheds critical light on important aspects of democracy, inclusion and multi-culturalism in education through the example of indigenous peoples in Norway. The article also explores what opportunities textbooks provide for promoting anti-oppressive education and pedagogical subjectification. Method: Social studies textbooks for primary school are analyzed based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and elements from multi-modal analysis. The analysis focuses on the use of vocabulary and pronouns signaling inclusion and exclusion. Specific attention is paid to the hidden curriculum. Findings: The Sami are essentialized and actively constructed as the Other through the structure and content of narratives. This corresponds to the strategy described in anti-oppressive education as education for the Other. Externalization of the Sami from the story of the Norwegian national day and in particular, treatment of the discriminatory Norwegianization politics, reinforce the image of Norwegian exceptionalism. Practical implications: Potential for education that promotes social change and subjectification through disrupting hegemonic discourses are located. Extended knowledge on this implicates further research on the workings of discourse in educational practice.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 2 (2018): European Identity and Citizenship in Textbooks and Educational Media
Dissertation_-_George_Kapetangeorgis.pdf
Creators: name: Kapetangeorgis, George
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 220318 Psychoanalytic Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Applied Psychology

description: This study investigates, through an in depth qualitative analysis, concerning the experience of therapists, in dealing with and managing their negative countertranference reactions, in the here and now of the therapeutic relationship.
In this study, six participants from different theoretical orientations (psychodynamic, CBT, Integrative Counseling Psychotherapy) were interviewed, by using semi-structured interviews, where the transcrpits of those, they were analysed in accordance with the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) principles.
From this analysis three master themes emerged:
1) Focusing on therapeutic relationship and management of countertransference2) Inner processing of therapists3) Immediacy in the here and now
The findings of the analysis highlight the different factors that can influence therapy such as:- the quality of the therapeutic relationship- the communication and the interaction within the sessionthe theoretical concepts from different therapeutic approaches- the work that a therapist does with himself consdering the awareness of his countertransference reactions- the theoretical conceptualization of what is the countertransference
title: Zum Veränderungsrecht des Mieters gemäß § 9 MRG
Creators: name: Schachner, Georg
Year: 2022

description: Ziel dieser Masterarbeit war die Ausarbeitung der Änderungsrechte, welche dem Mieter gem § 9 MRG zustehen. Aus dem Gesetzestext allein gehen die Änderungsrechte nicht genau hervor, daher wurde mithilfe von aktueller Judikatur und Einbeziehung von Lehrmeinungen eine systematische und teleologische Interpretation durchgeführt. Für den Vollanwendungsbereich wurde erarbeitet, unter welchen Umständen der Vermieter, bei einem Änderungsbegehren des Hauptmieters, einer Duldungspflicht unterliegt. Dabei wurde die Anzeigepflicht sowie das Entstehen und die Rechtsfolgen der in § 9 Abs 1 MRG normierten Zustimmungsfiktion ausgearbeitet und seine Wirkung mit dem in § 9 Abs 3 MRG normierten Wiederherstellungsvorbehalt aufgezeigt. Als kritischer Punkt für das Vorliegen einer Duldungspflicht hat sich die Verkehrsüblichkeit und das Vorliegen eines wichtigen Interesses gezeigt. Bei der Verkehrsüblichkeit hat der Hauptmieter objektive Umstände darzustellen und für das Vorliegen eines wichtigen Interesses sein subjektives Interesse aufzuzeigen. Weiter wurde auf die Maßnahmen eingegangen, die privilegiert sind, wo der Hauptmieter diese beiden Punkte nicht mehr erläutern muss und auch der Wiederherstellungsvorbehalt ausgeschlossen ist. Um einen ganzheitlichen Blick auf die Änderungsrechte des Mieters zu geben, wurde auf den Investitionskostenersatz gem § 10 MRG eingegangen, da dies einen Eingriff in die wirtschaftliche Sphäre des Vermieters bedeuten kann. Unter Umständen hat der Vermieter eine Änderung zu dulden und wird, wenn die Investition für den Nachmieter noch einen Nutzen erweist, einen Investitionskostenersatz leisten müssen. Weiters wurde auf die Änderungsrechte des Wohnungseigentümers gegenüber der Wohnungseigentümergemeinschaft eingegangen. Dies hat den Grund, dass es Änderungsbegehren gibt, die in allgemeine Teile der Liegenschaft eingreifen und der Vermieter als Wohnungseigentümer sich seinerseits auch um eine Zustimmung bei der Wohnungseigentümergemeinschaft bemühen muss.
"Am I a politics person?" A Qualitative Study of Students`perspectives on Mock Elections as Political Education
Creators: name: Borge, Julie Ane Odegaard
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine mock elections as political education in school, taking the Norwegian case as an empirical example. Methodology: This study’s qualitative content analysis is based on data collected through fieldwork in five upper secondary schools in the Western region of Norway, through observations and in 18 ordinary language interviews with 18-year-old students in the 3rd grade. Findings and implications: In the mock elections at Norwegian schools, the students meet and interact with three different identities of political participation: ‘the politician’, ‘the party member’ and ‘the voter’. How do the students use the mock election (ME) to shape their conceptions of their political selves? The interview data shows that the students who are active members of political parties accept the three analytical categories of political identities, and the students who are not members of political parties, reject ‘the politician’, but accept ‘the party member’ as part of their peer group. Finally, the MEs simulate an ordinary election and offer a norm of voting which the students accept as a school assignment. The students vote in the mock election because they are told to do so and generally do not view voting in the mock elections as a way of expressing the voice of their generation.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Entropy for Quantum Pure States and Its Dynamical Relaxation
Creators: name: Han, Xizhi
name: Wu, Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a complete set of Wannier functions which are localized at both given positions and momenta. This allows us to introduce the quantum phase space, onto which a quantum pure state can be mapped unitarily. Using its probability distribution in quantum phase space, we define an entropy for a quantum pure state. We prove an inequality regarding the long time behavior of our entropy's fluctuation. For a typical initial state, this inequality indicates that our entropy can relax dynamically to a maximized value and stay there most of time with small fluctuations. This result echoes the quantum H-theorem proved by von Neumann in [Zeitschrift für Physik {\bf 57}, 30 (1929)]. Our entropy is different from the standard von Neumann entropy, which is always zero for quantum pure states. According to our definition, a system always has bigger entropy than its subsystem even when the system is described by a pure state. As the construction of the Wannier basis can be implemented numerically, the dynamical evolution of our entropy is illustrated with an example.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
B-series methods are exactly the affine equivariant methods
Creators: name: McLachlan, Robert I.
name: Modin, Klas
name: Munthe-Kaas, Hans
name: Verdier, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C80, 37C10, 41A58

description: Butcher series, also called B-series, are a type of expansion, fundamental in the analysis of numerical integration. Numerical methods that can be expanded in B-series are defined in all dimensions, so they correspond to \emph{sequences of maps}---one map for each dimension. A long-standing problem has been to characterise those sequences of maps that arise from B-series. This problem is solved here: we prove that a sequence of smooth maps between vector fields on affine spaces has a B-series expansion if and only if it is \emph{affine equivariant}, meaning it respects all affine maps between affine spaces.
“The market deals out profits and losses” – How Standard Economic Textbooks Promote Uncritical Thinking in Metaphors
Creators: name: Graupe, Silja
name: Steffestun, Theresa
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: Cognitive Linguistics has repeatedly pointed out the major significance of metaphors. In particular, metaphors are highly effective in the context of political and economic discourse. We analyze the as yet ignored use of metaphors in standard economic textbooks as exemplified by Paul A. Samuelson and N. Gregory Mankiw. The following will focus on the metaphorical semantic context surrounding the abstract concept of „the market“. Design: Using textual analysis and drawing from Conceptual Metaphor Theory the authors examine how the concept of „the market“ is introduced as an abstract and primarily empty concept, (re-)interpreted with the help of entity metaphors, personifications and orientational metaphors, and linked to ideological and political value judgments. In addition the analysis illustrates how the use of metaphors in textbooks is not made transparent, nor is a critical reflection of the metaphorical rhetoric encouraged. Findings: In conclusion, based on their own teaching experience, the authors, addressing both teachers and students, outline possibilities of promoting the critical and conscious use of metaphors, not only in textbooks but also in public discourse.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Local Group dSph radio survey with ATCA (I): Observations and background sources
Creators: name: Regis, M.
name: Richter, L.
name: Colafrancesco, S.
name: Massardi, M.
name: de Blok, W. J. G.
name: Profumo, S.
name: Orford, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies are key objects in near-field cosmology, especially in connection to the study of galaxy formation and evolution at small scales. In addition, dSphs are optimal targets to investigate the nature of dark matter. However, while we begin to have deep optical photometric observations of the stellar population in these objects, little is known so far about their diffuse emission at any observing frequency, and hence on thermal and non-thermal plasma possibly residing within dSphs. In this paper, we present deep radio observations of six local dSphs performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at 16 cm wavelength. We mosaiced a region of radius of about one degree around three "classical" dSphs, Carina, Fornax, and Sculptor, and of about half of degree around three "ultra-faint" dSphs, BootesII, Segue2, and Hercules. The rms noise level is below 0.05 mJy for all the maps. The restoring beams FWHM ranged from 4.2 x 2.5 arcseconds to 30.0 x 2.1 arcseconds in the most elongated case. A catalogue including the 1392 sources detected in the six dSph fields is reported. The main properties of the background sources are discussed, with positions and fluxes of brightest objects compared with the FIRST, NVSS, and SUMSS observations of the same fields. The observed population of radio emitters in these fields is dominated by synchrotron sources. We compute the associated source number counts at 2 GHz down to fluxes of 0.25 mJy, which prove to be in agreement with AGN count models.
description: 18 pages, 9 figure panels. Companion papers: arXiv:1407.5482 and arXiv:1407.4948. v3: minor revision, matches version accepted in MNRAS
Dynamic deformation, damage and failure of carbon fibre composites under ballistic and blast loading
Creators: name: Coles, Laurence
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs) have proven to be a popular choice in many applications given their higher desired and advantageous high strength to weight ratio, which makes them ideal for extreme loading conditions such as; low velocity impacts through airborne debris (1-100 m/s), high velocity impacts with fragmenting hailstone clouds, or even close-proximity air blast shock waves. In a real environment, these dynamic loading conditions are very rarely mutually exclusive, and so it is necessary to analyse the combined loading of both an impact and air blast shockwave which then creates the following question. Which is the most destructive, an impact closely followed by an air blast or visa-versa? With this in mind, the presented research is first focused on the experiment testing of a consistent CFRP specimen material to ballistic rigid steel and fragmenting ice projectiles, as well as air blast shock wave loading with in-situ deformation analysis via digital image correlation from high speed photography alongside the post loading damage analysis via x-ray tomography. The second part of the research then focuses on the development of a meso-scale modelling strategy for carbon fibre reinforce polymer (CFRP) via a phenomenological continuum damage approach, which delivers accurate through-thickness stress responses, strain-rate sensitive behaviour, and full damage-initiation and evolution tracking of various damage modes with stiffness degradation. The modelling approach was incorporated into Abaqus Explicit 6.14-4 as a user defined subroutine (VUMAT), with inter-ply delamination modelled via cohesive zone surfaces (CZSs). Following a new approach to obtaining and extrapolating material parameters for CFRPs utilising a comparative literature search to obtain an array of common ratios, the CFRP model was validated against the ballistic and air blast experiments, the results of which demonstrate the model delivering accurate correlation of both the specimens deformation behaviour and observed resultant damage to the various experimental loading conditions without modification of the modelling parameters. Finally, the modelling approach was then employed to predict and analyse the hypothetical scenarios of the impact closely followed by an air blast and visa-versa, subjecting the CFRP to set combined loading conditions within the limits of those set out within the scope of the experiment studies.
A Dominant Narrative in Economics?: Preservice Teachers and Pluralism in a Social Studies Methods Class
Creators: name: Shanks, Neil Graham
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate one effort to challenge the problematic assumptions of the dominant narrative of neoclassical economics within a teacher preparation program that focuses on addressing dominant narratives throughout the social studies curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing a theoretical framework that intersects Pedagogical Content Knowledge and pluralist economics, this study consists of a general interpretive study conducted in a master’s plus certification social studies methods course. Data was collected from several class sessions, including observational and artifact data, as well as semi-structured interviews with participants after the conclusion of the class. Findings: Preservice teachers were able to spell out a dominant narrative in economics that exposed the effect of the narrative, but rarely critiqued its epistemology. Second, the fluctuations in content and curricular knowledge as well as the broader challenge of explaining pluralism in a relevant way meant the observed pedagogical content knowledge in economics was devoid of pluralist content. Research limitations/implications: Implications from this study include the need to explicitly critique the epistemological foundations of neoclassical theory, the value of an appreciative stances toward preservice teacher content knowledge, and the need to strategically integrate pluralism into economics methods courses.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Students’ Perceptions of Citizenship Preparation in Social Studies: The Role of Instruction and Students’ Interests
Creators: name: Mathé, Nora Elise Hesby
name: Elstad, Eyvind
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to explore how 16- to 17-year-old students’ experiences within the social studies classroom and their online political communication are related to their perceptions of citizenship preparation in social studies. Design/methodology/approach: To meet the purpose of this study, regression analyses were executed based on a survey of 264 Norwegian students aged 16–17. The dependent variable was the students’ perceptions of citizenship preparation in social studies. Findings: The analyses indicated that enjoying social studies was strongly associated with students’ perceptions of citizenship preparation in social studies. The teacher’s contributions, discussing democracy and politics in social studies lessons, and students’ online political communication were also significantly associated with students’ per-ceptions of citizenship preparation in social studies. Research limitations/implications: Some limitations exist in the instrument and in internal and external validity. Future research could add more content to improve the model’s explanatory adequacy. More nuanced explanatory factors from outside school are needed to study factors indirectly influencing students’ perceptions of citizenship pre-paration. Practical implications: These results indicate that focusing on students’ interests and quality instruction have positive implications for students’ perceived value of the subject when it comes to preparing them for civic and political engagement.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Hybrid Spectral Difference/Embedded Finite Volume Method for Conservation Laws
Creators: name: Choi, Jung J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A novel hybrid spectral difference/embedded finite volume method is introduced in order to apply a discontinuous high-order method for large scale engineering applications involving discontinuities in the flows with complex geometries. In the proposed hybrid approach, the finite volume (FV) element, consisting of structured FV subcells, is embedded in the base hexahedral element containing discontinuity, and an FV based high-order shock-capturing scheme is employed to overcome the Gibbs phenomena. Thus, a discontinuity is captured at the resolution of FV subcells within an embedded FV element. In the smooth flow region, the SD element is used in the base hexahedral element. Then, the governing equations are solved by the SD method. The SD method is chosen for its low numerical dissipation and computational efficiency preserving high-order accurate solutions. The coupling between the SD element and the FV element is achieved by the globally conserved mortar method. In this paper, the 5th-order WENO scheme with the characteristic decomposition is employed as the shock-capturing scheme in the embedded FV element, and the 5th-order SD method is used in the smooth flow field. The order of accuracy study and various 1D and 2D test cases are carried out, which involve the discontinuities and vortex flows. Overall, it is shown that the proposed hybrid method results in comparable or better simulation results compared with the standalone WENO scheme when the same number of solution DOF is considered in both SD and FV elements.
description: 27 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational Physics, April 2015
Hecke algebras for inner forms of p-adic special linear groups
Creators: name: Aubert, Anne-Marie
name: Baum, Paul
name: Plymen, Roger
name: Solleveld, Maarten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G25, 22E50

description: Let F be a non-archimedean local field and let $G^\sharp$ be the group of F-rational points of an inner form of $SL_n$. We study Hecke algebras for all Bernstein components of $G^\sharp$, via restriction from an inner form G of $GL_n (F)$. For any packet of L-indistinguishable Bernstein components, we exhibit an explicit algebra whose module category is equivalent to the associated category of complex smooth $G^\sharp$-representations. This algebra comes from an idempotent in the full Hecke algebra of $G^\sharp$, and the idempotent is derived from a type for G. We show that the Hecke algebras for Bernstein components of $G^\sharp$ are similar to affine Hecke algebras of type A, yet in many cases are not Morita equivalent to any crossed product of an affine Hecke algebra with a finite group.
description: 63 pages. New in the second version: an index of notations, an improved introduction and several minor modifications
Teaching Economics among other Social Sciences? The issue of Pluralism in the Struggles surrounding the Economic and Social Sciences Curricula in the French High School since 1967.
Creators: name: Martinache, Igor
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: This article aims at presenting the original design of the teaching of Economic and Social Sciences (SES) in the French High School and at demonstrating that the issue of pluralism lies at the core of the various controversies surrounding it since its creation. Approach: This article is based on more than 40 interviews with SES teachers and key personalities, on curricula and official reports analyses and on a ten years participating observation in the SES teachers professional association. Findings: This text strives to display how the defence of pluralism has become a core issue to SES teachers, as a “mobilized group” as well as in their individual professional practices. Research implications: Such statements may be deepen in two directions. The first consists in comparing the French situation to that in other countries as regards the teaching of economics and social sciences in high school. The second may imply to investigate deeper about teachers’ training and practices about such issues. Practical implications: The other aim of this text is raising debates about the objectives of teaching economics and social sciences in general in high school in a context where school is more and more committed to strengthening citizenship as well as preparing for higher education and professional life.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Physical properties and magnetic structure of the intermetallic CeCuBi2 compound
Creators: name: Adriano, C.
name: Rosa, P. F. S.
name: Jesus, C. B. R.
name: Madergan, J. R. L.
name: Garitezi, T. M.
name: Grant, T.
name: Fisk, Z.
name: Garcia, D. J.
name: Reyes, A. P.
name: Kuhns, P. L.
name: Urbano, R. R.
name: Giles, C.
name: Pagliuso, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we combined magnetization, pressure dependent electrical resistivity, heat-capacity, 63Cu Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and X-ray resonant magnetic scattering experiments to investigate the physical properties of the intermetallic CeCuBi2 compound. Our single crystals show an antiferromagnetic ordering at TN ~ 16 K and the magnetic properties indicate that this compound is an Ising antiferromagnet. In particular, the low temperature magnetization data revealed a spin-flop transition at T = 5 K when magnetic fields about 5.5 T are applied along the c-axis. Moreover, the X-ray magnetic diffraction data below TN revealed a commensurate antiferromagnetic structure with propagation wavevector (0 0 1/2) with the Ce^3+ moments oriented along the c-axis. Furthermore, our heat capacity, pressure dependent resistivity and temperature dependent 63Cu NMR data suggest that CeCuBi2 exhibits a weak heavy fermion behavior with strongly localized Ce^3+ 4f electrons. We thus discuss a scenario taking into account the anisotropic magnetic interaction between the Ce^3+ ions along with the tetragonal crystalline electric field effects in CeCuBi2.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Assessing the Effect of Social Science Education on Punitive Attitudes
Creators: name: Costelloe, Michael Thomas
name: Arazan, Christine
name: Stenger, Madeline
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: One of the most consistent predictors of punitiveness is education, with more educated individuals expressing less punitive sentiments. While much of the earlier research focused on the level of education, some researchers have recently begun to look more closely at the nature of that education such as examining the effect of specific majors on punitiveness. This paper goes even further by also analyzing more broadly the effect of a social science education on punitive attitudes. Methods: This article presents results from an online survey of 4,000 undergraduate students attending a United States’ university. Ordinary least squares analysis is used to examine the effect of majoring in the social sciences on support for punitive criminal justice policies, while controlling for a number of theoretically relevant variables. Findings: We find that more educated students and those majoring in social science disciplines are generally less punitive than their counterparts. If we are to unburden ourselves of the intricately intermingled economic and social costs of mass incarceration, it will require a re-visioning of how we do justice in America. Social scientists can play a crucial role in this regard through focused research and in educating young people to be critical thinkers and thoughtful citizens.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Fluctuations of differential number counts of radio continuum sources
Creators: name: Chen, Song
name: Schwarz, Dominik J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the differential number counts of sources in radio continuum surveys, including all terms at linear order in cosmological perturbations. Our framework does not assume a specific gauge condition. This general approach allows us to recover gauge invariance explicitly. With the complete derivations of the covariant volume integral on the past light cone, we have identified several contributions in the number counts. To clarify their underlying physics, we present each contributions in terms of scalar, vector and tensor modes. This theoretical framework promises to be widely applicable to continuum radio galaxy surveys to model the expected angular power spectrum and two-point correlation.
description: 9 pages 3 figures
Avoiding catastrophic failure in correlated networks of networks
Creators: name: Reis, Saulo D. S.
name: Hu, Yanqing
name: Babino, Andrés
name: Andrade, José S.
name: Canals, Santiago
name: Sigman, Mariano
name: Makse, Hernán A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Networks in nature do not act in isolation but instead exchange information, and depend on each other to function properly. An incipient theory of Networks of Networks have shown that connected random networks may very easily result in abrupt failures. This theoretical finding bares an intrinsic paradox: If natural systems organize in interconnected networks, how can they be so stable? Here we provide a solution to this conundrum, showing that the stability of a system of networks relies on the relation between the internal structure of a network and its pattern of connections to other networks. Specifically, we demonstrate that if network inter-connections are provided by hubs of the network and if there is a moderate degree of convergence of inter-network connection the systems of network are stable and robust to failure. We test this theoretical prediction in two independent experiments of functional brain networks (in task- and resting states) which show that brain networks are connected with a topology that maximizes stability according to the theory.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures
title: Auf Gedeih und Verderb ausgeliefert
Creators: name: Waniek, Alexandra
Year: 2022

description: Die Entwicklungen, Strömungen und Neuerungen an der Wende zum 16. Jahrhundert in Fragen der Politik, Gesellschaft, Religion und Philosophie lassen ein neues Verhältnis zwischen den Menschen und der Glücksgöttin Fortuna entstehen. Das Streben nach persönlichem Glück hält Einzug in die menschliche Existenz und etabliert sich in der Gedanken- und Lebenswelt der Zeit. Anhand dreier, seinerzeit höchst erfolgreicher, literarische Werke und deren Illustrationen sollen die Vorstellungen der Zeitgenossen in Bezug auf das Glück und seine Facetten in Liebe, Narrheit und Tod näher beleuchtet werden, sodass am Ende die Frage danach beantwortet werden kann, wie und worin die Menschen der beginnenden frühen Neuzeit ihr persönliches Glück zu finden gedachten. Die Frage, welche signifikanten Veränderungen in diesen wenigen Jahrzehnten rund um die „Zeitenwende“ im Denken und Handeln der Menschen vor sich gehen und inwiefern die Buchillustration ihren Teil dazu beiträgt, soll ebenso beantwortet werden.
Influence of Economics Teachers’ Personality on Secondary School Students’ Classroom Perfor-mance in Public Secondary Schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State
Creators: name: Idika, Ezinne O.
name: Onuoha, Joseph C.
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: The study investigated the influence of Economics teachers’ personality on students’ classroom performance in Public Secondary Schools in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. Design: The study adopted Ex-post facto research design. The sample consisted of 19 teachers randomly selected out of thirty one and their SS2 Economics students numbering 326. An observational schedule titled Economics teachers’ personality test (ETP) was the instrument for data collection. The academic records (grades) of the Students were collected from the 19 teachers. One research questions was answered using mean and standard deviation and four null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance using t- test and ANOVA. Findings: The findings revealed that teachers’ gender had no effect on the classroom performance of the students. However, teachers teaching experience, qualifications, interpersonal relationship with students, knowledge of subject matter, and attitude of the teacher had influence on students’ classroom performance. It was recommended that only teachers with relevant teaching qualifications in Economics should be employed to teach the course in Secondary schools. Also, teachers should be given proper incentives that will make them remain in their job so as to gain experience as they grow in the profession.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
Science in context: An overview of all Wikipedia's sources
Creators: name: Puyu Yang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Wikipedia stands on its sources: scientific articles and monographs, but also news media and online content. In fact, the number of news media and online content sources in Wikipedia is considerably larger than scientific ones. When considering Wikipedia as a source of altmetric data, this broader context of use becomes relevant. We provide a breakdown of Wikipedia sources by typology and an overview of how they are used in Wikipedia. We find that scientific sources are especially important in STEM Wikipedia, while news media sources find broader applicability. We also assess the reliability of news media sources in Wikipedia, finding that it is overall high. When news media sources are used in STEM Wikipedia, their selection for reliability is the strictest across Wikipedia.
A Cohomological Proof that Real Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras Have $\mathbb{Q}$-Forms
Creators: name: Morris, Dave Witte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B10 (Primary), 17B20, 11E72, 20G30 (Secondary)

description: A Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}_\mathbb{Q}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is said to be $\mathbb{R}$-universal if every homomorphism from $\mathfrak{g}_\mathbb{Q}$ to $\mathfrak{gl}(n,\mathbb{R})$ is conjugate to a homomorphism into $\mathfrak{gl}(n,\mathbb{Q})$ (for every $n$). By using Galois cohomology, we provide a short proof of the known fact that every real semisimple Lie algebra has an $\mathbb{R}$-universal $\mathbb{Q}$-form. We also provide a classification of the $\mathbb{R}$-universal Lie algebras that are semisimple.
Talking About Sustainability Issues When Teaching Business Economics - The ‘Positioning’ of a Responsible Business Person in Classroom Practice
Creators: name: Andersson, Pernilla
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: This paper presents a study of the roles of a business person privileged by teachers when the concept of ‘sustainable development’ is incorporated into the subject of business economics. Methodology: A logics approach to discourse analysis was used to analyse the empirical material, which consisted of video recorded observations in five teachers’ classrooms collected two years after the inclusion of the concept in the upper secondary school syllabus in Sweden. Findings: The results show how different rules and conditions for doing business are foregrounded in classroom practice. This in turn has different implications for whether a responsible business person is expected to: a) adapt to self-interest, b) respond to customers’ increasing interests in sustainable products, or c) be sensitive to the needs or interests of others (including humans, animals and nature), when making business decisions. The results also illuminate how talking about ‘homo economicus’ as ‘real’ can hinder, how talking about customers in altruistic terms can facilitate, and how talking about the complexity of others’ interests can suggest ways of doing business (more) sustainably. Practical implications: The empirical examples that illuminate the privileging of specific roles could be used for critical reflection in order to make students better equipped to address uncertain and complex sustainability issues.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 17 No 3 (2018): Pluralist Thinking in Economic and Socioeconomic Education
title: Charakteristik der journalistischen Sorgfalt und ihre spezifischen Ausprägungen
Creators: name: Ehrentraut, Carmen
Year: 2022

description: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Herausarbeitung der wesentlichen Merkmale der journalistischen Sorgfalt im Anwendungsbereich des MedienG. Zu Beginn der Arbeit wird mittels juristischer Auslegungsmethoden untersucht, was grundsätzlich unter der journalistischen Sorgfalt und dem journalistischen Berufsbild zu verstehen ist. Als Quersschnittsmaterie hat das Medienrecht Berührungspunkte mit vielen anderen Rechtsbereichen, daher wird die journalistische Sorgfalt auch in Bezug auf ihre Auswirkung auf andere Vorschriften untersucht. Dabei wird insbesondere das Verhältnis zum ORF-G und dem darin verankerten Objektivitätsgrundsatz thematisiert. Der Hauptteil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse der Straf- und Haftungsausschlussgründe des MedienG. Durch eine Gegenüberstellung der Ausschlussgründe werden deren Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede herausgearbeitet. Dazu wird die einschlägige Judikatur der österreichischen Höchstgerichte und des EGMR herangezogen. Neben den Merkmalen für sorgfältiges Handeln werden weitere Voraussetzungen der Sorgfaltsbeweise klassifiziert. Aufgrund der Verschiedenheit der Mediengattungen und der vielen in die Beurteilung einfließenden Faktoren ist eine abschließen-de Definition des Begriffs der journalistischen Sorgfalt jedoch nicht möglich, weshalb eine fallbezogene Prüfung unumgänglich ist.
Probing the Flat Band of Optically-Trapped Spin-Orbital Coupled Bose Gases Using Bragg Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Li, Wu
name: Chen, Lei
name: Chen, Zhu
name: Hu, Ying
name: Zhang, Zhidong
name: Liang, Zhaoxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent efforts in creating the flat band in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate how to probe the flat band in an optically-trapped spin-orbital coupled Bose-Einstein condensate using Bragg spectroscopy. We have found that the excitation spectrum and the dynamic structure factor of the condensate alter dramatically, when the band structure exhibits various level of flatness. In particular, when the band exhibits perfect flatness around the band minima corresponding to a near infinite effective mass, a quadratic dispersion emerges in the low-energy excitation spectrum; in sharp contrast, for the opposite case when an ordinary band is present, the familiar linear dispersion arises. Such linear-to-quadratic crossover in the energy spectrum presents a striking manifestation of the transition of an ordinary band into a flat band, thereby allows the direct probe of the flat band by using Bragg spectroscopy.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Tecniche di visualizzazione: dalla microscopia alla catodoluminescenza
Creators: name: M. Bellomo
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Microscopy
Physics
Cathodoluminescence

description: In this thesis, the evolutionary path that leads to the development of investigation techniques on a micrometric scale is traced. In the first chapter, we consider the oldest and also the most common of all microscopes, i.e. the optical microscope, so-called because it uses visible light as a probe. After describing this instrument, its limits were analyzed, focusing in particular on the concept of diffraction limit and its implications. In the second chapter, once explained the implication of wave-particle dualism, and then how electrons can be treated as waves, the characteristics of the electron microscope were discussed. After a parenthesis on the history of this device, its operating principle was explained and all the possible signals that it can produce have been described. In particular, the characteristics and the experimental apparatus of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) have been highlighted in detail, relating it to the optical microscope. In the third chapter the cathodoluminescence (CL) technique, due to the emission of electromagnetic radiation stimulated by the electron beam, is studied in depth. Final- ly, the processes generating this phenomenon and the experimental apparatus necessary for the acquisition of the signal are described discussing some top applications such as the study of semiconductors, that of rocks, and finally that of nanostructures.
title: Linguistic Landscape zu Lëtzebuerg
Creators: name: Mujkic, Melissa
Year: 2022

description: Diese Masterarbeit widmet sich der ‚Linguistic Landscape-Study' (LLS) in Luxemburg, die die visuelle, schriftliche Kommunikation und den Grad der Sichtbarkeit der Mehrsprachigkeit im öffentlichen Raum analysiert. Den Untersuchungsgegenstand bilden Haltestellen des öffentlichen Verkehrs mit Wartehäuschen aus fünf verschiedenen Erhebungsorten Luxemburgs. Im Rahmen der Studie wurde ein Korpus aus LL-Items kompiliert, das aus selbstgeschossenen Fotos (Zeitraum: Februar bis April 2021) zusammengestellt, und in Lingscape eingespeist wurde. Die Foto-Daten sind in Lingscape unter dem Projektnamen „Wartehäuschen-LL" öffentlich zugänglich: lingscape-app.uni.lu Anschließend wurden die Daten in MAXQDA kategorisiert, codiert und ausgewertet, die den im zugrunde liegenden LL-Forschungsprojekt ausgewählten Methodenansatz (Mixed-Methods) unterstützt. Ein wesentlicher Beitrag der vorliegenden Arbeit bestand in der detailreichen und genauen Beschreibung der Umsetzung der eigenen Studie, die inhaltliche, methodische und praktische Anknüpfungspunkte für weitere Untersuchungen zur LL liefern soll.
description: This Master’s thesis is dedicated to the 'Linguistic Landscape-Study' (LLS) in Luxembourg. The study focuses on the degree of visibility of multilingualism in the public space. In the center of the investigation are public transport stops with bus shelters of five different localities in Luxembourg. The analysis is based on a corpus of photos taken of a variety of public transport stops between February and April 2021, which is open access and available under the project name 'Wartehäuschen-LL' via the repository: lingscape-app.uni.lu The linguistic landscape of Luxembourg is investigated using a mixed-methods approach with the software MAXQDA, which allowed to categorize, code and analyze the data of this project. A major contribution of the present work was the detailed and accurate description of the implementation of the author's own study, which should provide substantive, methodological and practical points of departure for further research on LL.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie Liceum, Sokołów Podlaski, Polen
Creators: name: Artych, Ewa
name: Witkowska, Wieslawa
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

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description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2014 Insights into Citizenship Classrooms: The Art of Documentation & Description
Symmetry classification of bond order parameters in cuprates
Creators: name: Zeyher, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study bond-order parameters for generalized $t$-$J$ models on a square lattice. Using the plane-wave limit the considered order parameters form basis functions for irreducible representations of the symmetry transformations of the point group and of time reversal. We show that for instability wave vectors along the diagonals all possible basis functions are either fine-tuned (i.e., obey restrictions beyond the requirements of symmetry) or break time reversal symmetry and thus describe flux states. For instability wave vectors along the crystalline axes, corresponding to the observed case in underdoped cuprates, there are only three representations with $A_1$, $B_1$, and $E$ symmetry which do not break time reversal symmetry in the general case. We suggest that one of them has recently been observed in resonant elastic X-ray scattering.
description: 9 pages, 1 table, 2 figures, extended version
title: Sprachsensibler Biologieunterricht
Creators: name: Geishofer, Karin
Year: 2022

description: Das Beherrschen der Bildungssprache hat einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf einen erfolgreichen Schulerfolg und um diesbezüglich annähernd Bildungsgerechtigkeit herzustellen, bedarf es einer Sprachbildung, die jahrgangsübergreifend ist und alle Schüler*innen ansprechen soll. In dieser vorliegenden Masterarbeit sollen die Bedeutung der Sprachregister Alltagssprache, Bildungssprache und Fachsprache, im Speziellen im Biologieunterricht, und die Funktionsweise von Sprachbildungskonzepten, wie der sprachsensible Fachunterricht, dargestellt werden. Nach diesem theoretischen Einblick wird anhand einer ethnographischen Untersuchung erläutert, welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen einer herkömmlich konzipierten Biologieeinheit, die dem Stil der beobachteten Lehrperson entspricht, und einer sprachsensibel konzipierten vorliegen. Das Augenmerk dieser teilnehmenden Beobachtung liegt dabei auf den Verhaltensweisen der Lehrkraft, der insgesamt acht Schüler*innen und auf deren Interaktion untereinander. Zusammengefasst kann festgestellt werden, dass die herkömmlich geplante Unterrichtseinheit einige Aspekte abdeckt, die dem sprachsensiblen Konzept zufolge verständnisfördernd sind, wie etwa das Einsetzen der Körpersprache oder das schriftliche sowie mündliche Vorliegen von Aufgabenstellungen. Dahingegen haben in der sprachsensiblen Unterrichtseinheit Aspekte, die hätten auftreten sollen, gefehlt. So wurden zum einen zu Stundenbeginn fachliche Ziele, aber keine sprachlichen Ziele genannt. Außerdem können bei der Sektion einer Ratte aufgrund zeitlicher und praktischer Gründe keine Lernhilfen im Sinne eines Arbeitsblattes o. Ä. ausgeteilt werden, was zeigt, dass dieses Konzept nicht in jeder Unterrichtssituation umfangreich umgesetzt werden kann. Darüber hinaus wurde beobachtet, dass eine explizite und keine nebenbei erwähnte Fachbegriffserklärung vonnöten ist und auch das bewusste Formulieren offener Fragen mittels Operatoren die Schüler*innen dazu auffordert, vollständigere Sätze anstelle von Ein-Wort-Beiträgen zu bilden.
Cosmopolitan capabilities in the HE classroom
Creators: name: Crosbie, Veronica
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: This study, concerning the development of cosmopolitan citizenship, draws on theories of human development and capabilities (Sen 1999; Nussbaum 2000) from a social justice perspective, where individual wellbeing is articulated as having the freedom to live a life of one’s choosing. In the context of an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classroom this involves paying attention to pedagogical strategies, power dynamics and curriculum content as a means of developing valued beings and doings (or capabilities and functionings as they are described in the literature). Sample activities are presented and evaluated to see to what extent they achieve the desired end. These include critical pedagogical interventions, students’ artefacts and extracts from focus group interviews, class reports and reflective journals. Results from the textual data offer research evidence of successful curriculum change, demonstrating that the learning that takes place there can make a difference: in terms of the learners’ identity development, capability enhancement and cosmopolitan citizenship.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2014 Social Sciences in Higher Education