cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects Vocabulary Instruction has on Third Graders’ Reading Comprehension Skills
Creators: name: Ishakis, Gittel
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Vocabulary instruction
subject: Reading comprehension
subject: Third grade
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this research was to examine whether direct vocabulary instruction affects the reading comprehension of third grade students. Study participants were 23 third grade reading students. The study took place over a five week period, during which all students completed one reading assessment under both the treatment and control conditions each week. To accomplish this, the first test of each week was given under the control condition, and the second was given under the treatment condition. In the treatment condition, direct instruction regarding new vocabulary was provided. The teacher used a five step plan to teach students new vocabulary words prior to completing a five item comprehension assessment. In the control condition, the students were given parallel passages to read and assessments which they completed independently without any teacher instruction .The scores earned in the treatment condition were significantly higher than those earned in the control condition. The study provides evidence that vocabulary instruction can have a positive effect on reading comprehension.
The Effect of Direct Instruction of Reading Strategies On the Student Achievement in the Intermediate Grades
Creators: name: Lindsay, Laura
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Direct instruction
subject: Reading strategies
subject: Reading achievement
subject: Intermediate
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if the direct instruction of reading strategies has an effect on the achievement of intermediate students. The study consisted of a sample of ten fifth grade students who were directly instructed reading strategies using the scaffold model in a small group setting over a four month time period. The study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to measure the achievement. The instrument that was used was the Qualitative Reading Inventory--4. The null hypothesis was rejected because the results were statistically significant that the direct instruction of reading strategies raised student achievement. Further research is necessary to uphold the finding that direct instruction of reading strategies is the most effective teaching method for influencing student achievement.
title: Compaction at the Longitudinal Construction Joint in Asphalt Pavements
title: (KYSPR-00-208)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fleckenstein, L. John
name: Allen, David L.
name: Schultz Jr., David B.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the level of compaction at the construction joint in HMA pavements on new and existing projects; to determine the level of water infiltration and segregation at the joint and its effect on joint performance; to determine the most promising joint construction methods around the nation and worldwide by reviewing specifications, experiences, and construction practices for joint construction and the prevention of joint segregation; to develop specifications and construction methods to ensure the level of density necessary at the joint for proper performance; and to review special paving equipment (attachments) for improving densification for the unsupported edge.  Four methods of joint construction were evaluated in this study. These were the notched wedge (12:1), restrained edge, joint reheater, and Joint Maker. In addition, a number of joint adhesives were used. Some of the major conclusions and recommendations from the study include:      Contractors are consistently achieving levels of density at or near the construction joint that are within three percent of the lane density. It is recommended that specifications be written that would require contractors to achieve that level of density at or near the construction joint.     The reheater achieved the highest joint density of all the methods; however, only one short project was included in the study. The effects of reheating the mat could not be determined during construction, but will be evaluated during long-term monitoring. The restrained-edge method of joint construction achieved the second highest overall densities and statistically was significantly better than the conventional method of construction. The notched wedge only marginally improved densities overall, while the Joint Maker showed no improvement over conventional construction techniques. It is recommended that more projects be constructed using the restrained-edge method.     It appeared the notched-wedge method produced the lowest permeabilities at the joint.     Preliminary performance data indicate that all projects are currently performing well with projects having joint adhesives performing as well as, or better than, projects without joint adhesives. It is recommended that other projects be constructed using joint adhesives.
Movements and Settlements of Highway Bridge Approaches
Creators: name: Dupont, Bernadette
name: Allen, David L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2002

description: This report is a discussion of the bridge approach settlement or movement problem that is so prevalent in the United States. An explanation and/or description is given of the causes of these movements as described in the literature. A discussion concerning the cost to highway agencies is also given. A review and discussion of current practices in the country is given . This includes construction practices on approach embankment foundations, the approach embankment itself, various types of approach slabs, types of abutments and end bents, and drainage around approach embankments and bridge ends. A survey of all 50 states was conducted to determine the problems and practices in those states. Those results are summarized in this report. Additionally, a survey was conducted of all 12 highway districts in Kentucky to determine the differences in practice among those districts. Those results are given in Appendix B. Finally, conclusions and recommendations on the apparent best practices are discussed.
Surviving crises – through education?
Creators: name: Barberis, Eduardo
name: Parreira Do Amaral, Marcelo
Publisher: name: De Europa
Year: 2023

description: Introducing the themed issue on Surviving crises through education, this article puts education and youth policy in the EU in focus, as European countries have to face challenges in at least three domains: youth incorporation into the labour market; the political participation of young generations; the management of internationally mobile youth. The collection of articles in this issue shows that coordinated and effective outcomes are yet to come.


 
description: De Europa, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2023)
Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VII. Elder suns with low-mass companions
Creators: name: Niedzielski, Andrzej T.
name: Villaver, Eva
name: Adamów, Monika
name: Kowalik, Kacper
name: Wolszczan, Aleksander
name: Maciejewski, Gracjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the current status of and new results from our search for exoplanets in a sample of solar-mass, evolved stars observed with the HARPS-N and the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), and the High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS) and the 9.2-m Hobby Eberly Telescope (HET). The aim of this project is to detect and characterise planetary-mass companions to solar-mass stars in a sample of 122 targets at various stages of evolution from the main sequence (MS) to the red giant branch (RGB), mostly sub-gaints and giants, selected from the Pennsylvania-Toruń Planet Search (PTPS) sample, and use this sample to study relations between stellar properties, such as metallicity, luminosity, and the planet occurrence rate. This work is based on precise radial velocity (RV) measurements. We have observed the program stars for up to 11 years with the HET/HRS and the TNG/HARPS-N. We present the analysis of RV measurements with the HET/HRS and the TNG/HARPS-N of four solar-mass stars, HD 4760, HD 96992 , BD+02 3313, and TYC 0434-04538-1. We found that: HD 4760 hosts a companion with a minimum mass of 13.9 MJ (a=1.14 au, e=0.23); HD 96992 is a host to a msin i=1.14 MJ companion on a a=1.24 au and e=0.41 orbit, and TYC 0434-04538-1 hosts an msin i=6.1MJ companion on a a=0.66 au and e=0.08$ orbit. In the case of BD+02 3313 we found a correlation between the measured RVs and one of the stellar activity indicators, suggesting that the observed RV variations may originate in either stellar activity or be caused by the presence of an unresolved companion. We also discuss the current status of the project and a statistical analysis of the RV variations in our sample of target stars.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: Beitrag zur Wirkung von Gehölzwurzeln in oberflächennahen Böschungszonen als natürliche Bewehrung
Creators: name: Werner, Anke
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: Die standsicherheitserhöhende Wirkung von Gehölzvegetation darf nach den anerkannten Regeln der Technik beim Standsicherheitsnachweis von bewachsenen Straßen- und Bahndämmen nicht in Ansatz gebracht werden. In wissenschaftlichen Analysen sowohl auf Basis von experimentellen Untersuchungen, und zwar in Form von (boden-)wurzelmechanischen Laboruntersuchungen (Scher-, Auszieh- und Zugversuchen) und großkalibrigen Scherversuchen in dem neu angelegten Pflanzversuchsfeld der Technischen Universität Darmstadt sind die maßgeblichen wurzelmechanischen Kennwerte in nichtbindigen Böden identifiziert worden. Die Interaktion von Vegetation und Klima ist auf Basis der von über einen Zeitraum von 14 Jahren durchgeführten Langzeitmessungen der Saugspannungen und der Sättigung in einem mit natürlicher Vegetation bewachsenen Bahndamm erfasst worden. Basierend auf diesen Ergebnissen ist die entwickelte Modellbildung mit dem Ansatz der tiefenabhängigen Durchwurzelungskohäsion in den Nachweis der Standsicherheit von oberflächennah durchwurzelten Böschungszonen implementiert worden.
Workshop day 4: Discussion of fishing claims and an attack at Tish-tang-ah-ding
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Jackson, Silis
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-250711-01; video files VP-250711-01-1 and VP-250711-01-2: Discussion of fishing spots belonging to families from the village at Tish-tang-ah-ding and an account of an attack on the village, in Hupa and English. Video file VP-250711-01-1 corresponds to the audio file; video file VP-250711-01-2 contains footage of the river. Recorded at Tish-tang-ah-ding as part of a language workshop in Hoopa Valley. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation. The audio recording was previously deposited with the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) with identifier "0186-20140318 - Dishtang'aading, and attack by the Yurok," part of the collection "Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan)" (collection ID hupa-campbell-0186).
Paths of unitary access to exceptional points
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the early history of unitary quantum theory the Kato's exceptional points (EPs, a.k.a. non-Hermitian degeneracies) of Hamiltonians $H(λ)$ did not play any significant role, mainly due to the Stone theorem which firmly connected the unitarity with the Hermiticity. During the recent wave of optimism people started believing that the corridors of a unitary access to the EPs could be opened leading, say, to a new picture of quantum phase transitions via an {\it ad hoc} weakening of the Hermiticty (replaced by the quasi-Hermiticity). Subsequently, the pessimism prevailed (the paths of access appeared to be fragile). In a way restricted to the quantum physics of closed systems a return to optimism is advocated here: the apparent fragility of the corridors is claimed to follow from a misinterpretation of the theory in its quasi-Hermitian formulation. Several perturbed versions of the realistic many-body Bose-Hubbard model are chosen for illustration purposes.
description: 24 pp, 6 figures
Coleps hirtus Nitzsch 1827
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Prostomatea
Prostomatida
Colepidae
Coleps
Coleps hirtus

description: Coleps hirtus (Müller, 1786) Nitzsch, 1827
Distribution. BRAZIL: Paraná River between the Nupelia’s Field Station and the district of Porto São José, São Pedro do Paraná (Buosi et al. 2014 b, 2015), (Ad).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Produrre spreco. Usi e consumi dell’abbondanza postindustriale
Creators: name: Moccagatta, Vittoria
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2024

description: Productive waste is described by Jean Baudrillard as one of the most striking reactions to the high internal operating costs of consumer society. In order to sustain growth, this kind of society must integrate into its production processes some calculated disadvantages that are not based solely on consumption, but on the destruction of wide arrays of goods, which are thrown away prematurely to be bought again and again. Understanding productive waste is crucial to grasp the interplay between economic growth, consumerism, and environmental degradation, as it accelerates the commodification of nature through new patterns of destruction, like psychological and planned obsolescence. In this regard, the aim of the present paper is to examine productive waste in relation to violent symbolic destructions called “potlatches” in the interest of highlighting the risk of giving rise to what Marcel Mauss describes as the immense non-repayable potlatch, that is, an unequaled waste, that of the Earth.
description: Filosofia, Vol. 68 (2023): War and Peace
Apoptosis and age-dependent responses to virus infection
Creators: name: Highmore, Roger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60804 Animal Immunology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60103 Cell Development, Proliferation and Death

description: Viruses cause illness both directly by attacking and destroying cells, and indirectly by prompting inflammation as the immune system battles the virus. The severity of such illness appears sometimes to be correlated with the age of the infected organism. We examine how variation of apoptosis behaviour with age might affect both the success of a body’s fight against a virus, and the extent of inflammation.An ideal innate immune response will swiftly trigger apoptosis to stem infection without attendant inflammation, and without requiring an adaptive immune response. In this ideal case the organism will experience few symptoms and will not produce the antibodies which are characteristic of an adaptive immune response. This beneficial immune response, where infected cells are eliminated by apoptosis, may though decline as an organism ages and resources such as stem cells diminish.
"This Whole Thing Smacks of Gender": Algorithmic Exclusion in Bioimpedance-based Body Composition Analysis
Creators: name: Albert, Kendra
name: Delano, Maggie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smart weight scales offer bioimpedance-based body composition analysis as a supplement to pure body weight measurement. Companies such as Withings and Fitbit tout composition analysis as providing self-knowledge and the ability to make more informed decisions. However, these aspirational statements elide the reality that these numbers are a product of proprietary regression equations that require a binary sex/gender as their input. Our paper combines transgender studies-influenced personal narrative with an analysis of the scientific basis of bioimpedance technology used as part of the Withings smart scale. Attempting to include nonbinary people reveals that bioelectrical impedance analysis has always rested on physiologically shaky ground. White nonbinary people are merely the tip of the iceberg of those who may find that their smart scale is not so intelligent when it comes to their bodies. Using body composition analysis as an example, we explore how the problem of trans and nonbinary inclusion in personal health tech goes beyond the issues of adding a third "gender" box or slapping a rainbow flag on the packaging. We also provide recommendations as to how to approach creating more inclusive technologies even while still relying on exclusionary data.
description: Accepted at FAccT 2021. Both authors contributed equally to the work. v2: added citations, v3: fixed typo, minor formatting issues
Workshop day 3: Elicitation of ideophonic verbs
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Jackson, Silis
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-240711-05 and VP-240711-06: Elicitation of ideophonic verbs. Recorded in a classroom at Captain John High School as part of a language workshop in Hoopa Valley. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation.
Operational aspects of the Main Injector large aperture quadrupole (WQB)
Creators: name: Chou, W.
name: Bartelson, L.
name: Brown, B.
name: Capista, D.
name: Crisp, J.
name: DiMarco, J.
name: Fitzgerald, J.
name: Glass, H.
name: Harding, D.
name: Johnson, D.
name: Kashikhin, V.
name: Kourbanis, I.
name: Prieto, P.
name: Robotham, W.
name: Sager, T.
name: Tartaglia, M.
name: Valerio, L.
name: Webber, R.
name: Wendt, M.
name: Wolff, D.
name: Yang, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-year Large Aperture Quadrupole (WQB) Project was completed in the summer of 2006 at Fermilab. Nine WQBs were designed, fabricated and bench-tested by the Technical Division. Seven of them were installed in the Main Injector and the other two for spares. They perform well. The aperture increase meets the design goal and the perturbation to the lattice is minimal. The machine acceptance in the injection and extraction regions is increased from 40pi to 60pi mm-mrad. This paper gives a brief report of the operation and performance of these magnets.
description: 2007 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC07)
Шорин С.А. Электронный бюджет как способ применения цифровых технологий в бюджетных правоотношениях // Молодежный научный потенциал в юриспруденции XXI века: от теории к практике: II Всероссийская студенческая науч.-практич. конф. Москва, 16 октября 2019 г.: Сб. ст. / Под ред. Н.И. Архиповой, С.В. Тимофеева, Е.Ю. Князевой. М.: РГГУ, 2019. 418 с. С. 401-409.
Creators: name: Shorin, Sergey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: В статье показано состояние бюджетных правоотношений, реализуемых с применением информационной системы «Электронный бюджет». Рассмотрена открытость, работоспособность системы и др.
NERACA AIR DAN TINGGI MUKA AIR SALURAN PADA DAERAH IRIGASI RAWA PASANG SURUT BELANTI I PROVINSI KALIMANTAN TENGAH
Creators: name: Mubtadi, Ghufron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Irigasi Pasang Surut, HEC-RAS, Neraca Air, Tinggi Muka Air

description: Potensi lahan rawa pasang surut di Indonesia adalah seluas 39,40 juta ha. Dari luasan rawa pasang surut tersebut, hanya 2 juta ha yang telah dikembangkan untuk budidaya pertanian dan pemukiman. Salah satu daerah rawa yang memiliki potensi cukup besar adalah Daerah Irigasi Rawa Belanti I seluas 3.600 ha di Kalimantan Tengah. Guna membantu pemerintah dalam pengembangan rawa sebagai salah satu usaha ektensifikasi pertanian di Kalimantan, diperlukan pemodelan untuk mengetahui bagaimana pola pergerakan air pada Daerah Irigasi Rawa Belanti I serta bagaimana neraca airnya untuk melihat permasalahan yang ada di lokasi serta mencoba memberikan beberapa solusi yang dapat mengatasi permasalahan-permasalahan tersebut.
Electronic transport in quantum cascade structures
Creators: name: Koeniguer, C.
name: Dubois, G.
name: Gomez, A.
name: Berger, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport in complex multiple quantum well heterostructures is theoretically described. The model is focused on quantum cascade detectors, which represent an exciting challenge due to the complexity of the structure containing 7 or 8 quantum wells of different widths. Electronic transport can be fully described without any adjustable parameter. Diffusion from one subband to another is calculated with a standard electron-optical phonon hamiltonian, and the electronic transport results from a parallel flow of electrons using all the possible paths through the different subbands. Finally, the resistance of such a complex device is given by a simple expression, with an excellent agreement with experimental results. This relation involves the sum of transitions rates between subbands, from one period of the device to the next one. This relation appears as an Einstein relation adapted to the case of complex multiple quantum structures.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Autonomously Probing Viscoelasticity in Disordered Suspensions
Creators: name: Abaurrea-Velasco, Clara
name: Lozano, Celia
name: Bechinger, Clemens
name: de Graaf, Joost
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments show a strong rotational-diffusion enhancement for self-propelled microrheological probes in colloidal glasses. Here, we provide microscopic understanding using simulations with a frictional probe-medium coupling that converts active translation into rotation. Diffusive enhancement emerges from the medium's disordered structure and peaks at a second-order transition in the number of contacts. Our results reproduce the salient features of the colloidal glass experiment and support an effective description that is applicable to a broader class of viscoelastic suspensions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Aquatic exercise effect on pain items of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS)
Creators: name: Yázigi, Flávia
name: Espanha, Margarida
name: Marconcin, Priscila
name: Messier, Stephen
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: This study aimed to investigate how each pain item of KOOS questionnaire is affected by 3 months of the PICO aquatic exercise program in overweight and obese individuals.
How to Increase Mathematics Achievement in At-Risk 6th Grade Students
Creators: name: Powell, Shaneen
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: At-risk students
subject: Math
subject: Math achievement
subject: Math intervention
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: This study examined the impact of two interventions, Accelerated Math (AM) and Response to Intervention (RTI), on at-risk 6th grade students’ math achievement. Participants with similar math skills and who were identified as ‘at-risk’ were grouped into two groups of five. Each participant received a pretest, intervention, and posttest. One group received AM, and the other group received RTI. The groups met four times a week for 55 minute sessions for a total of three weeks. It was predicted that providing the math interventions would not increase at-risk students’ math scores. However, students’ scores improved under both conditions. Mean gains were 7.2 points for the AM condition and 10 points for the RTI condition. Therefore, the hypotheses that the interventions would not significantly improve math scores were rejected. The hypothesis that the two interventions would yield statistically equivalent results was retained, however, as the mean difference in gains for the AM and RTI groups were not statistically significant.
Alignment Timescale of the Microquasar GRO J1655-40
Creators: name: Martin, Rebecca G.
name: Tout, Christopher A.
name: Pringle, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microquasar GRO J1655-40 has a black hole with spin angular momentum apparently misaligned to the orbital plane of its companion star. We analytically model the system with a steady state disc warped by Lense-Thirring precession and find the timescale for the alignment of the black hole with the binary orbit. We make detailed stellar evolution models so as to estimate the accretion rate and the lifetime of the system in this state. The secondary can be evolving at the end of the main sequence or across the Hertzsprung gap. The mass-transfer rate is typically fifty times higher in the latter case but we find that, in both cases, the lifetime of the mass transfer state is at most a few times the alignment timescale. The fact that the black hole has not yet aligned with the orbital plane is therefore consistent with either model. We conclude that the system may or may not have been counter-aligned after its supernova kick but that it is most likely to be close to alignment rather than counteralignment now.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Effect of Physical Activity on Maladaptive Behaviors in a Behavior Learning Support (BLS) Classroom
Creators: name: Paradis, Alexander
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Behavior
subject: Elementary students
subject: ADHD and behavior
subject: Reducing behavior problems
subject: Intermediate elementary students
subject: Behavior disorders and physical activity
subject: Intermediate students and behavior and exercise
subject: Antecedent and behavior and exercise
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if antecedent physical activity would impact the prevalence of maladaptive behaviors in a behavior support elementary classroom (n = 6). The measurement tool was a behavioral point sheet that provided behavioral scores for each participant in the study. This study used a pre-experimental design with a variant of a one-group pretest-posttest design to compare pre-intervention baseline data to post-intervention data. There was no significant difference in the Behavioral Score of students during the baseline period (Mean = 92.40, SD = 4.32) and during the intervention period (Mean = 91.24, SD = 5.42)[t(5) = .61, p > .05]. Researchers should continue to study the effects of antecedent physical activity as maladaptive behaviors become an increasing concern for classroom teachers.
Dynamic $^{14}\rm N$ nuclear spin polarization in nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Creators: name: Busaite, Laima
name: Lazda, Reinis
name: Berzins, Andris
name: Auzinsh, Marcis
name: Ferber, Ruvin
name: Gahbauer, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the dynamic nuclear spin polarization of nitrogen in negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond both experimentally and theoretically over a wide range of magnetic fields from 0 to 1100 G covering both the excited-state level anti-crossing and the ground-state level anti-crossing magnetic field regions. Special attention was paid to the less studied ground-state level anti-crossing region. The nuclear spin polarization was inferred from measurements of the optically detected magnetic resonance signal. These measurements show that a very large (up to $96 \pm 2\%$) nuclear spin polarization of nitrogen can be achieved over a very broad range of magnetic field starting from around 400 G up to magnetic field values substantially exceeding the ground-state level anti-crossing at 1024 G. We measured the influence of angular deviations of the magnetic field from the NV axis on the nuclear spin polarization efficiency and found that, in the vicinity of the ground-state level anti-crossing, the nuclear spin polarization is more sensitive to this angle than in the vicinity of the excited-state level anti-crossing. Indeed, an angle as small as a tenth of a degree of arc can destroy almost completely the spin polarization of a nitrogen nucleus. In addition, we investigated theoretically the influence of strain and optical excitation power on the nuclear spin polarization.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The Challenge of the Subject in the Face of the Real
Creators: name: Šerpytytė, Rita
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2023

description: In one of her recent interviews, Catherine Malabou pointed out a problem which I deem to be pivotal in considering the question of the real with all its implications: speculative realists are indifferent to the subject. In this paper, I will present my position that in contemporary philosophy it is precisely the problem of the subject that becomes an actual challenge when raising the question “What kind of reality are we talking about?”; “What is real?” In light of treating the problem of the subject as a theoretical challenge in regard to the question of reality, two positions, that of Catherine Malabou (The New Wounded, Before Tomorrow) and Giorgio Agamben (Infanzia e storia), will be analysed and attempted to be compared. I will endeavour to discuss the problem how is the notion of the subject, the question of its identities, its transformations, being human-non-human, correlated to the question of reality.
description: Filosofia, Vol. 68 (2023): War and Peace
Assessment and Linear Programming under Fuzzy Conditions
Creators: name: Voskoglou, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 03E72

description: A new fuzzy method is developed using triangular/trapezoidal fuzzy numbers for evaluating a group's mean performance, when qualitative grades instead of numerical scores are used for assessing its members' individual performance. Also, a new technique is developed for solving Linear Programming problems with fuzzy coefficients and everyday life applications are presented to illustrate our results.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
The Impact of Video-Modeling on the Engagement of a Student with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Neff, Sara
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Autism
subject: Technology
subject: Engagement
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of video-modeling on engagement of a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This was a six-week case study broken down into three cycles that measured the number of prompts as well as the amount of time a student with ASD required to complete a vocational task. After initial baseline data was collected, video-modeling was introduced using an iPad. The student then used video-modeling to assist with completion of three different vocational tasks. The researcher used a data-collection chart to record the number of prompts and total time the student required each day. The findings revealed that engagement was slightly higher at the end of each cycle when compared with engagement at the beginning of each cycle. The use of video-modeling benefited the participant in this study, but investigations should continue with a larger group.
Workshop day 3: Elicitation of breaking verbs
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Jackson, Silis
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-240711-04: Elicitation of verbs of breaking, especially differences between words formed with the stems -mil versus -k'il. Recorded in a classroom at Captain John High School as part of a language workshop in Hoopa Valley. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation.
The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter Family comets
Creators: name: Volk, Kathryn
name: Malhotra, Renu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The short period Jupiter family comets (JFCs) are thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt; specifically, a dynamical subclass of the Kuiper Belt known as the `scattered disk' is argued to be the dominant source of JFCs. However, the best estimates from observational surveys indicate that this source may fall short by more than two orders of magnitude the estimates obtained from theoretical models of the dynamical evolution of Kuiper belt objects into JFCs. We re-examine the scattered disk as a source of the JFCs and make a rigorous estimate of the discrepancy. We find that the uncertainties in the dynamical models combined with a change in the size distribution function of the scattered disk at faint magnitudes (small sizes) beyond the current observational limit offer a possible but problematic resolution to the discrepancy. We discuss several other possibilities: that the present population of JFCs is a large fluctuation above their long term average, that larger scattered disk objects tidally break-up into multiple fragments during close planetary encounters as their orbits evolve from the trans-Neptune zone to near Jupiter, or that there are alternative source populations that contribute significantly to the JFCs. Well-characterized observational investigations of the Centaurs, objects that are transitioning between the trans-Neptune Kuiper belt region and the inner solar system, can test the predictions of the non-steady state and the tidal break-up hypotheses. The classical and resonant classes of the Kuiper belt are worth re-consideration as significant additional or alternate sources of the JFCs.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures. Revised Content. To be published in The Astrophysical Journal
Link between superconductivity and a Lifshitz transition in intercalated Bi$_2$Se$_3$
Creators: name: Almoalem, A.
name: Silber, I.
name: Sandik, S.
name: Lotem, M.
name: Ribak, A.
name: Nitzav, Y.
name: Kuntsevich, A. Yu.
name: Sobolevskiy, O. A.
name: Selivanov, Yu. G.
name: Prudkoglyad, V. A.
name: Shi, M.
name: Petaccia, L.
name: Goldstein, M.
name: Dagan, Y.
name: Kanigel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological superconductivity is an exotic phase of matter in which the fully gapped superconducting bulk hosts gapless Majorana surface states protected by topology. Intercalation of copper, strontium or niobium between the quintuple layers of the topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ increases the carrier density and leads to superconductivity that is suggested to be topological. Here we study the electronic structure of strontium-intercalated Bi$_2$Se$_3$ using angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations. Despite the apparent low Hall number of $\sim2 \times 10 ^{19}$cm$^{-3}$, we show that the Fermi surface is shaped as an open cylinder with a larger carrier density of $\sim 10 ^{20}$cm$^{-3}$. We suggest that superconductivity in intercalated Bi$_2$Se$_3$ emerges with the appearance of a quasi-2D open Fermi surface.
Backscattering off a dynamical impurity in one-dimensional Fermi systems: A perturbative computation
Creators: name: Naón, Carlos M.
name: Salvay, Mariano J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the problem of backscattering off a time-dependent and spatially extended barrier in a one-dimensional electron gas. By performing a perturbative expansion in the backscattering amplitude, we compute the total energy density of the system. We show how the free fermion spectrum and the conductance of the system are affected by the interplay between dynamical and geometrical properties of the impurity.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
The Effects of Parental Involvement on Student Success
Creators: name: Montalbano, Victoria
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Parents
subject: Involvement
subject: Parental involvement
subject: Student success
subject: Secondary
subject: High school
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study is to describe parent perceptions of school involvement with their ninth grade students. The tool used to measure involvement was the Parent Involvement Survey created by the researcher. The parents completed the survey electronically via Survey Monkey or using a paper and pen version sent home. This was a descriptive study, using the data collected in the survey to determine different levels of parent involvement by analyzing responses to the given prompts. Research in the area of successful types of involvement should continue given the various forms of parental involvement being used successfully in different schools across the United States.
Bertrand Russell: from Neo-Idealism to Mathematical Logic
Creators: name: Genna, Caterina
Publisher: name: Filosofia
Year: 2023

description: This essay is dedicated to the transition from neo-idealism to neo- positivism at Trinity College Cambridge at the beginning of 20th century. In 1903 George Edward Moore’s The Refutation of Idealism and Bertrand Russell’s The Principles of Mathematics marked the birth of mathematical logic. Especially Russell’s The Principles of Mathematics contain the theory of classes and the notion of denoting for the development of neo-positivism, then logical empiricism in the European continent. The objective of the article consists of underline the central position of neo-positivism in the twentieth-century philosophy. Indeed neo- positivism of Trinity College Cambridge has to be linked to the logical empiricism of the Vienna Circle, of the Berlin Circle and of the Lvov-Warsaw School. In that sense, the history of contemporary thought can be interpreted by the duality idealism/anti-idealism.
description: Filosofia, Vol. 68 (2023): War and Peace
A computer-assisted proof of the existence of Smale horseshoe for the folded-towel map
Creators: name: Gierzkiewicz, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper contains a rigorous proof of existence of symbolic dynamics chaos in the generalized Hénon map's 4th iterate $H^4$, which was conjectured in the paper \textit{A 3D Smale Horseshoe in a Hyperchaotic Discrete-Time System} of Li and Yang, 2007. We prove also the uniform hyperbolicity of the invariant set with symbolic dynamics. The proofs are computer-assisted with the use of C++ library \textit{CAPD} for interval arithmetic, differentiation and integration.
Short GRBs: Rates and luminosity function implications
Creators: name: Guetta, Dafne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the BATSE short hard bursts (SHBs) peak flux distribution with the redshift and luminosity distributions of SHBs observed by Swift/HETE II. The Swift/HETE II SHB sample is incompatible with SHB population that follows the star formation rate. However, it is compatible with a distribution of delay times after the SFR. This would be the case if SHBs are associated with the mergers of double neutron star (DNS) systems. DNS may be ``primordial'' or can form dynamically by binary exchange interaction in globular clusters during core collapse. The implied SHB rates that we find range from \sim 8 to \sim 30h_(70)^3 Gpc^(-3)yr^(-1). This rate is a much higher than what was previously estimated and, when beaming is taken into account, it is comparable to the rate of neutron star mergers estimated from statistics of binary pulsars. If GRBs are produced in mergers the implied rate practically guarantees detection by LIGO II and possibly even by LIGO I.
description: 6 pages, 2figures. Submitted to the proceedings of the Swift-Venice 2006 meeting to be published by "Il Nuovo Cimento"
Bimodality in Damped Lyman alpha Systems
Creators: name: Wolfe, Arthur M.
name: Prochaska, Jason X.
name: Jorgenson, Regina A.
name: Rafelski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report evidence for a bimodality in damped Ly systems (DLAs). Using [C II] 158 mu cooling rates, lc, we find a distribution with peaks at lc=10^-27.4 and 10^-26.6 ergs s^-1 H^-1 separated by a trough at lc^crit ~= lc < 10^-27.0 ergs s^-1 H^-1. We divide the sample into low cool DLAs with lc < lc^crit and high cool DLAs with lc > lc^crit and find the Kolmogorv-Smirnov probabilities that velocity width, metallicity, dust-to-gas ratio, and Si II equivalent width in the two subsamples are drawn from the same parent population are small. All these quantities are significantly larger in the high cool population, while the H I column densities are indistinguishable in the two populations. We find that heating by X-ray and FUV background radiation is insufficient to balance the cooling rates of either population. Rather, the DLA gas is heated by local radiation fields. The rare appearance of faint, extended objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field rules out in situ star formation as the dominant star-formation mode for the high cool population, but is compatible with in situ star formation as the dominant mode for the low cool population. Star formation in the high cool DLAs likely arises in Lyman Break galaxies. We investigate whether these properties of DLAs are analogous to the bimodal properties of nearby galaxies. Using Si II equivalent width as a mass indicator, we construct bivariate distributions of metallicity, lc, and areal SFR versus the mass indicators. Tentative evidence is found for correlations and parallel sequences, which suggest similarities between DLAs and nearby galaxies. We suggest that the transition-mass model provides a plausible scenario for the bimodality we have found. As a result, the bimodality in current galaxies may have originated in DLAs.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal 18 pages 14 figures
The Effects of Instructional Techniques Promoting an Increased Level of Foreign Language Vocabulary Retention for High School Students
Creators: name: McColley, Sarah
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Second language learning
subject: Cognitive memory
subject: High school retention
subject: Memory
subject: Vocabulary instruction
subject: Direct instruction
subject: High school
subject: Secondary
subject: Visual teaching
subject: Vocabulary teaching
subject: Visual
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate)

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the implementation of instructional techniques using visuals on a selected class of high school Spanish level three students. The null hypothesis is that there will be no statistically significant difference between the vocabulary retention score of the Spanish III students who follow the traditional teaching vocabulary model (i.e. the control group) and students who follow new instructional techniques using visuals to help increase knowledge of vocabulary (i.e. the treatment group). The two groups were comprised of twenty-eight students, nine boys and nineteen girls, in high school Spanish III classes. The measurement tool utilized throughout the study was the Baltimore County Spanish Test, the speaking and writing rubrics for Spanish III. This study involved the use of a pretest/posttest design to compare data from March of 2014 to data from May of 2014. There were no significant gains in the retention of vocabulary scores, thus the null hypothesis failed to be rejected. Teachers must anticipate the reality that they cannot stop adolescent bodily changes nor the cognitive developmental stages that are happening simultaneously to the adolescence, but teachers can be proactive with mental stimulation and purposeful movement activities to keep students stimulated and engaged. In order to achieve a significant change in the retention of vocabulary for high school students there should be further research on this topic.
title: Familienpolitik. Wichtige Fragen – zeitgemäße Antworten
Creators: name: Schulte-Basta, Dorothee
name: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Publisher: name: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Das Bild der Familie ist bunter geworden und wandelt sich schneller als früher: In vielfältigen Gemeinschaften kümmern sich Menschen umeinander, übernehmen füreinander Verantwortung, ziehen oft Kinder groß. Eine zeitgemäße Familienpolitik muss sie dabei unterstützen: Sie ermöglicht es Menschen, Fürsorge für Andere mit individuellen Lebenszielen wie Bildung oder Karriere zu verbinden. Und sie fördert die Entwicklung von Kindern genauso wie die Solidarität zwischen den Geschlechtern. Das erste Heft der neuen Reihe Böll.Fakten zeigt in knapper wie präziser Form die wichtigsten Punkte einer Politik, die nicht nur Familien, sondern auch den Zusammenhalt unserer Gesellschaft stärkt.
description: Böll.Fakten
Beten für die Einheit - von Osnabrück 2008 an nun immerzu?
Creators: name: Sattler, Dorothea
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 57 Nr. 4 (2008): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 57, Heft 4