cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detecting seasonal episodic-like spatiotemporal memory patterns using animal movement modelling
Creators: Peter R. Thompson
Andrew E. Derocher
Mark A. Edwards
Mark A. Lewis
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2021

Spatial memory plays a role in the way animals perceive their environments, resulting in memory-informed movement patterns that are observable to ecologists. Developing mathematical techniques to understand how animals use memory in their environments allows for an increased understanding of animal cognition.

Here we describe a model that accounts for the memory of seasonal or ephemeral qualities of an animal's environment. The model captures multiple behaviours at once by allowing for resource selection in the present time as well as long-distance navigations to previously visited locations within an animal's home range.

We performed a set of analyses on simulated data to test our model, determining that it can provide informative results from as little as 1 year of discrete-time location data. We also show that the accuracy of model selection and parameter estimation increases with more location data.

This model has potential to identify a specific mechanism in which animals use memory to optimize their foraging, by revisiting temporally and predictably variable resources at consistent time-lags.
Bottom-up driven community empowerment: the case of African Communities in Australia
Creators: name: Hiruy, K
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The idea of community empowerment has emerged as a possible response to the failure of welfare policies. However, there are arguments in the literature that there is a disconnection between empowerment theory and practice and that it is difficult to implement 'empowerment' approaches. In this thesis, a conceptual and analytical framework has been developed by integrating empowerment theorisation and institutional analysis to guide the conduct of research. Ethnographic case studies of African communities were conducted in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. For over a year, the researcher participated in community activities as a participant observer, conducted 50 interviews, attended more than 40 events, and collected relevant documents. The study suggests that the empowerment of migrant communities should be theorised in a new way ‚Äö- in relation to migration and settlement, community formation, and interactions among communities, governments and NGOs. The study demonstrated that contexts such as migration and settlement experiences affect the empowerment of African communities. Community formation is identified as the primary mechanism communities used to attain empowerment. The internal dynamics of communities, social conditions such as community partnerships, leadership and social incidents, cultural and financial resources, and existing rules and policies were found to influence the empowerment of African communities. Social incidents facilitated empowerment by creating political and social context for communities to gain support from governments and NGOs. The study identified governments and NGOs as the key external actors in the empowerment of African communities. These actors developed the resources and structures necessary for empowerment and their interactions with African communities shaped empowerment outcomes. These findings demonstrate that empowerment is attained through the creation of social, political, cultural and institutional space where power is shared with and not exercised over others ‚Äö- where it is relational and not necessarily confrontational. The study suggests that policies and programs that take into account the contexts and dynamics of communities are likely to succeed in achieving better empowerment outcomes for communities. The study contributes to knowledge both by providing an understanding of bottom-up driven community empowerment and by developing a conceptual and analytical framework that can guide empowerment studies. However, the generalisability of this study should be considered with caution due to its focus on African communities. Further studies that examine the perspectives of other communities and the roles of governments, NGOs and the private sector in the empowerment of disadvantaged communities in Australia are required.
Inversion of the Dual Dunkl-Sonine Transform on R Using Dunkl Wavelets
Creators: name: Mourou, Mohamed Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a Calderón reproducing formula for the Dunkl continuous wavelet transform on $\mathbb{R}$. We apply this result to derive new inversion formulas for the dual Dunkl-Sonine integral transform.
Study of the relationship between perceptual training and arithmetic computation
Creators: name: Gaskill, James Leslie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An analysis of the literature showed that many conclusions about the relationship between perceptual skills and reading were based on either the measurement of certain reading skills which did not depend upon the perceptual skills tested, or training programs which were not matched with the perceptual skills being studied. This, together with the fact that research in the field of mathematics has found that many computational mistakes are made because of mistaken symbols, led the author to define a perceptual skill, the search mechanism, which was specifically determined by the method of working algorithms. A pilot study was performed to establish testing procedures. The results of this study indicated that there was a relationship between the search mechanism and arithmetic computation. The experiment consisted of a treatment group and a control.group. All subjects were given pre- and post-tests on each of four measures; the search mechanism, vertical span, horizontal span and arithmetic computation. The treatment group was given training in the search mechanism. The following statistical results were established: there was a significant difference between the control and experimental groups on a measure of change of search ability; there were no significant differences between the control and experimental groups on measures of vertical span, horizontal span and arithmetic computation. Using the post-test on the control group only, it was established that: search ability was correlated with vertical span; search ability was not correlated with horizontal span; vertical span was correlated with horizontal span; search mechanism, with the effects of vertical span and horizontal span removed, was correlated with arithmetic computation. This latter finding means that the variance in arithmetic scores accounted for by search mechanism, vertical span, and horizontal span was significantly different from that accounted for by vertical span and horizontal span alone. Two possible conclusions were suggested. The first was that the training period was too short for transfer from the search skill to algorithmic performance to take place. The second was that the increase in the search procedure test could be explained by vertical span being used with increasing efficiency within the new context of search procedure testing. Because a low correlation was obtained between arithmetic and vertical span the achieved stability of the arithmetic scores was to be expected.
A new continuum limit of matrix models
Creators: name: Ambjorn, J.
name: Loll, R.
name: Watabiki, Y.
name: Westra, W.
name: Zohren, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define a new scaling limit of matrix models which can be related to the method of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) used when investigating two-dimensional quantum gravity. Surprisingly, the new scaling limit of the matrix models is also a matrix model, thus explaining why the recently developed CDT continuum string field theory (arXiv:0802.0719) has a matrix-model representation (arXiv:0804.0252).
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
title: Private credit, public investment and natural disasters: creating and destroying private capital at local level
Creators: name: Mari, Rebecca Maria
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores two main drivers of creation of private capital at local level: private credit, and public investment, using natural disasters as exogenous shocks to private wealth and public policy intervention. It does so by adopting a quasi-experimental approach with case studies set in Italy and the United Kingdom between 2007 and 2019. Theoretical models and literature drawn from economic geography, public economics and finance frame the discussion and the identification designs over the three chapters. The originality of this thesis lays in the novel combination of the research questions addressed, the empirical identification designs and the highly granular datasets from which evidence is obtained. Three main questions are explored using natural disasters, private credit, and public investment alternatively as shocks and conditioning assumptions in the study of private capital development at local level. What is the role of local private capital endowment on the private sector’s responsiveness to public investment? How do credit market imperfections affect the firm’s response to investment subsidies and the selection of the policy’s optimal target group? What is the impact of a negative shock to the entrepreneur’s home on their small-medium business? This thesis provides three main novel insights. The first one is the crucial role of private capital stock endowment at local and firm-level in determining the effectiveness of different types of public investment in mobilising private investment and labour demand. The second one is the significant impact of natural disasters on local economies not just through physical destruction and factor relocation, but also through indirect effects generated by credit market imperfections and wealth effects. The third one is the effectiveness of public policy in fostering private capital development at local level, which is shown to be related to the degree of complementarity between the public investment and the pre-existing private capital stock.
Chern-Simons: Fano and Calabi-Yau
Creators: name: Hanany, Amihay
name: He, Yang-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the complete classification of smooth toric Fano threefolds, known to the algebraic geometry literature, and perform some preliminary analyses in the context of brane-tilings and Chern-Simons theory on M2-branes probing Calabi-Yau fourfold singularities. We emphasise that these 18 spaces should be as intensely studied as their well-known counter-parts: the del Pezzo surfaces.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
Comment on "Signatures of Surface States in Bismuth at High Magnetic Fields"
Creators: name: Behnia, Kamran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nernst effect is the transverse electric field due to a longitudinal thermal gradient in presence of magnetic field. Its magnitude was recently studied up to 33 T in a bismuth single crystal with a magnetic field oriented along the trigonal axis . In addition to quantum oscillations of the Nernst response, a rich structure with several additional peaks was also detected when the magnetic field exceeded the quantum limit, which is of the order of 10 T in this configuration. The origin of these high-field Nernst anomalies is a subject of ongoing research. Very recently, Seradjeh, Wu, and Phillips have suggested that a surface state can give rise to these anomalies. This proposal does not resist a critical examination.
description: 1 page & 1 figure
Complexity through interaction: An investigation into the spontaneous development of collective musical ideas from simple thematic materials
Creators: name: Haywood, NT
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this research is to investigate and describe the optimum conditions under which collaborative improvised musical expression in performance can be established. This study is an exhaustive examination of selected performances of an ensemble in which I perform. This ensemble was newly formed, specifically for this research study. The research investigates the impact of the ensemble dynamic on the improvisations of each individual within the ensemble and the way in which this affects and informs my own playing. Performances and recordings by this ensemble are used as the basis of the research presented in the accompanying exegesis. The weighting of this project is 80% folio and 20% exegesis. The recordings have not been analysed in the traditional harmonic, melodic and rhythmic manner as the focus of this study is on the way in which musicians connect at an intuitive level. The manner in which each participant's contributions affect their co-¬¨‚â†‚ÄövÑv™performers has been analysed and discussed. Aural perception and the collective and individual musical history of the participants are seen as significant factors and as such have been investigated through interviews. It is proposed that a musician's familiarity with repertoire should be such that conscious decision making in performance becomes redundant. In fact, it is felt that the need to deliberately think about both physical and material requirements of music making, when playing, is a hindrance to high quality musical performance, both during improvisation and interpretation of pre-¬¨‚â†‚ÄövÑv™composed materials. To this end, there is a need to separate the manner in which a musician accumulates musical knowledge via practice, from the way they present music, as a performer. The study explores this important relationship in the context of the case study of the project album. These issues have also been examined with a view to offering some insight into the mindset and methods that best support the development of high-¬¨‚â†‚ÄövÑv™level improvisation and interpretive skills.
M. M. P. I. characteristics of chronic criminal offenders
Creators: name: Gardy, Terry Tyrone
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An exploratory study was conducted among inmates of a Canadian penitentiary to determine MMPI characteristics associated with chronic criminality. A criterion group of chronic offenders was compared to a randomly derived group, and significant differences were obtained on three MMPI scales. These differences ceased to become significant in deriving subgroups and applying covariate adjustments in attempting to control for the influence of differences in age and incarceration. Reduction in sample sizes appeared to contribute towards the absence of significant differences among five scales which appeared to differentiate Ss who had low incarceration indices, compared to Ss who had high incarceration indices. Although trends were suggested which may relate to chronic criminality, the incidence of violence appeared to follow a similar trend. In the absence of statistical control, no conclusions were drawn regarding the trends in the scales. The MMPI profile characteristics of the present groups were compared to other criteria groups of psychiatric and prison subjects and the relationships of various scales were examined. Criminal and social characteristics were explored, and Chronic Offenders were found to differ in criminal patterns, place of childhood residence, education, marital status, and employability. Difficulties in the present study were explored and suggestions made for further research.
Field induced magnetic order in the frustrated magnet Gadolinium Gallium Garnet
Creators: name: Petrenko, O. A.
name: Balakrishnan, G.
name: Paul, D. McK
name: Yethiraj, M.
name: McIntyre, G. J.
name: Wills, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gd3Ga5O12, (GGG), has an extraordinary magnetic phase diagram, where no long range order is found down to 25 mK despite Θ_CW \approx 2 K. However, long range order is induced by an applied field of around 1 T. Motivated by recent theoretical developments and the experimental results for a closely related hyperkagome system, we have performed neutron diffraction measurements on a single crystal sample of GGG in an applied magnetic field. The measurements reveal that the H-T phase diagram of GGG is much more complicated than previously assumed. The application of an external field at low T results in an intensity change for most of the magnetic peaks which can be divided into three distinct sets: ferromagnetic, commensurate antiferromagnetic, and incommensurate antiferromagnetic. The ferromagnetic peaks (e.g. (112), (440) and (220)) have intensities that increase with the field and saturate at high field. The antiferromagnetic reflections have intensities that grow in low fields, reach a maximum at an intermediate field (apart from the (002) peak which shows two local maxima) and then decrease and disappear above 2 T. These AFM peaks appear, disappear and reach maxima in different fields. We conclude that the competition between magnetic interactions and alternative ground states prevents GGG from ordering in zero field. It is, however, on the verge of ordering and an applied magnetic field can be used to crystallise ordered components. The range of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic propagation vectors found reflects the complex frustration in GGG.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, HFM 2008 conference paper
Comparison of three primary reading schemes in Tasmania
Creators: name: Bush, Stephanie
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A sample of 3135 grade 3 to grade 6 children from ten metropolitan Hobart, Tasmania primary schools was selected to contrast three reading schemes: Wide Range Readers (UK), the SRA Basic Reading Programme (USA), and SRA Reading Laboratories (USA). Standardised test results from the Tasmanian Education Department Sub-Junior and Junior General Ability Tests, the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices Sets and the Schonell Silent Reading Tests A and B for the period 1971 to 1976 were provided by high school Guidance Officers and primary school principals. Schools were selected on the basis of using one reading scheme exclusively and only those children who were in continuous attendance were considered. Numbers per reading scheme were: Wide Range Readers, 1598; the SRA Basic Reading Programme, 501; SRA Reading Laboratories, 1036. The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics furnished data (1971 Census) which enabled the following grouping of classes by socioeconomic level: Lower, 1340; Middle, 1413; Upper Middle, 382. Factors influencing children's reading achievement that have been considered in this study are: Reading scheme, sex, IQ, change of school, socioeconomic level and school grade. The following factors, outlined in the literature on children's reading, were not considered: Teaching style and teacher effect, effect of television and other media, parent's attitudes to education, parent's educational level, reading opportunities in the home, home stability, language spoken in the home, family size, child's position in the family, and various psychological and physiological problems. Experimental procedures were selected to minimise the influence of these factors. Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Covariance, and a posteriori testing were performed on IQ and RQ (reading quotient) scores for the various groups with computer programmes provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the University of Tasmania. With the significance cut-off taken at p ‚Äöv¢¬ß 0.05 no significant pattern of one reading scheme's effectiveness over another was found. Superior class mean RQ and IQ levels for middle socioeconomic level children were found. irrespective of reading scheme, with the exception of the grade 3 sample. Male and female reading achievement was not significantly different, with the exception of the grade 6 sample, where females' achievement was superior. Wide variation was found in reading achievement over time and SRA Reading Laboratories showed the most regular improvement.
Vortices as Instantons in Noncommutative Discrete Space: Use of $Z_{2}$ Coordinates
Creators: name: Otsu, Hideharu
name: Sato, Toshiro
name: Ikemori, Hitoshi
name: Kitakado, Shinsaku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that vortices of Yang-Mills-Higgs model in $R^{2}$ space can be regarded as instantons of Yang-Mills model in $R^{2}\times Z_{2}$ space. For this, we construct the noncommutative $Z_{2}$ space by explicitly fixing the $Z_{2}$ coordinates and then show, by using the $Z_{2}$ coordinates, that BPS equation for the vortices can be considered as a self-dual equation. We also propose the possibility to rewrite the BPS equations for vortices as ADHM equations through the use of self-dual equation.
description: 19 pages, various arguments are added, the exposition is improved
Il volgare trentino in una tariffa rivana del 1409
Creators: name: Cristelli, Stefano
name: Wild, Mario
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2022

description:

This article analyses the language of an early fifteenth-century manuscript concerning the muta (excise taxes) of Riva del Garda (Trentino, Italy). The linguistic interest of said document, written mainly in Latin, lies in the number of vernacular terms and their nature (mostly mercantile goods). The authors provide a partial edition of the source, which includes also a series of business notes, a linguistic analysis, a glossary and onomastic indices. In order to better characterise the document’s linguistic phenomenology comparisons are drawn with other Northern Italian Vernaculars (such as Veronese and Bresciano) and with the few known texts from medieval Trentino.

description: Quaderni Veneti
title: Menschenwürde und Geschlecht: Aspekte einer Kosmopolitik des Sozialen
Creators: name: Poferl, Angelika
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10219 Sociology of Knowledge
subject: gender
subject: human rights
subject: human dignity
subject: modernity
subject: social status
subject: cosmopolitanism
subject: humanization

description: Das Konzept einer "Kosmopolitik" des Sozialen verweist auf Prozesse der Einbeziehung des Ausgeschlossenen in Form der "inklusiven Differenz", womit an den modernisierungstheoretischen Begriff der Kosmopolitisierung von Ulrich Beck angeknüpft, dieser zugleich aber sozialtheoretisch weiter gefasst wird. Die Erfindung des Menschen als Menschenrechtssubjekt - das heißt als ein existenziell berechtigtes Wesen - und die Ausrichtung der je eigenen Selbstwahrnehmung daran ist ein ebenso eindrucksvolles Beispiel für die Kosmopolitik des Sozialen wie die Zuschreibung einer Würde des Menschen. Sie stellt keine substantielle, ahistorische Eigenschaft dar, sondern eine geschichtlich und gesellschaftlich konturierte symbolische Formgebung des Mensch-Seins und liefert so einen ethischen und moralischen Maßstab dafür, wie Menschen(nicht) behandelt und was ihnen (nicht) angetan werden soll. Dieser Maßstab verknüpft "globale" (weltweit zirkulierende) Wissensbestände und "lokale" (situativ verankerte) Erfahrungen mit Vorstellungen von Humanität und darauf bezogener Solidarität, mit Selbstsorge und Sozialität. Ob "Me too", ob lautes oder stummes Entsetzen angesichts von Exzessen geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt im Zeichen des Terrors, ob Kränkung, Demütigung oder Grausamkeit als institutioneller Normalfall der Geschlechterordnung und ihrer "glokalen" Infragestellung - stets schließt die Kosmopolitik des Sozialen die Erfahrung der existenziellen Verletzlichkeit bis hin zur De- und Re-Humanisierung ein. Der Mensch kommt - unbenommen seiner jeweiligen sozial-kategorialen Besonderungen - als "absolute" und zugleich höchst fragile Statuskategorie zum Tragen, hinter die nicht weiter (als bis zum Ding oder Tier - oder zum anderen Geschlecht?) zurückgegangen werden kann. Menschenwürde ist, wissenssoziologisch betrachtet, der Versuch, der humanen Ausstattung des Menschen "als Menschen" einen Namen zu geben, das heißt einer Selbstverständlichkeit, die doch keine ist. Dies wird bei weitem nicht nur, aber zunehmend auch vor dem Hintergrund globaler Verflechtungen und lokaler Interaktionsordnungen sichtbar.
description: Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018
La biblioteca di una filantropa
Creators: name: Vozza, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2022

description:

The aim of this article is to deepen the complex personality of Stéphanie Etzerodt Omboni (1839-1917), the Anglo-Belgian philanthropist and activist for women’s rights who lived in Padua in the second half of the nineteenth century by considering which readings were at the basis of her cultural, human, and spiritual formation, with a special account on the books or authors marked her philanthropic work or nourished her intellect or her curiosity, which kind of literary genres could be found in her library, in which languages, their quality, and their extent. The sources for this research are the correspondence between Stéphanie Omboni and some of the most preeminent personalities of her time (particularly with the anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza, the feminist and writer Sibilla Aleramo and the philosopher Gaetano Meale) and the remains of her family library, a partial book collection that constituted the much larger personal library of the Omboni couple, currently kept at the Museum of the Education of the University of Padua.

description: Quaderni Veneti
Nonperturbative effect of attractive forces in viscous liquids
Creators: name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Tarjus, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of the attractive intermolecular forces in the viscous regime of a simple glass-forming liquid by using computer simulations. To this end, we compare the structure and the dynamics of a standard Lennard-Jones glass-forming liquid model with and without the attractive tail of the interaction potentials. The viscous slowing down of the two systems are found to be quantitatively and qualitatively different over a broad density range, whereas the static pair correlations remain close. The common assumption that the behaviour of dense nonassociated liquids is determined by the short-ranged repulsive part of the intermolecular potentials dramatically breaks down for the relaxation in the viscous liquid regime.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: "There is no country that has not passed through a colonial regime": Zum Imperium als Grundbegriff historischer Soziologie
Creators: name: Rapior, Ralf
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10201 General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
subject: state formation
subject: bureaucratization

description: Anschließend an Einsichten aus den postkolonialen und globalgeschichtlichen Studien lädt der Beitrag die historische Soziologie ein, Imperien stärker zu berücksichtigen. Dazu zeige ich am Fall der Entstehung des modernen bürokratischen Staats auf, dass die Entdeckung der Imperien gestattet, den eurozentrischen Rahmen der historisch-soziologischen Rekonstruktion der Moderne welt- und globalgeschichtlich zu erweitern. In imperialhistorischer Sicht ist die "bürokratische Revolution" erstens kein europäischer Sonderfall, sondern ein weltgeschichtlich ganz normaler Fall der Bürokratisierung von Imperien, der unter ähnlichen Bedingungen und mit vergleichbaren Folgen bereits mehrfach angelaufen war. Zweitens ist die moderne Staatsbildung kein endogenes europäisches Ereignis, sondern auch eine globalgeschichtliche Folge der Anpassung mittelalterlicher Herrschaftsverhältnisse an die neuen Herausforderungen transatlantischer Überseereiche.
description: Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018
The practice of urban planning in Canada
Creators: name: Gerecke, John Kent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Despite the presence and growth of urban planning, urban problems persist and in some instances are worsening. A major problem of urban planning appears to be an inability to achieve a high level of accomplishment. Urban planning in Canada was examined by the Federal Task Force on Housing and Urban Development in 1969. They found it to be reactive, negative, without sociological or ecological concerns, and lacking in vision. These judgments are intuitive and require verification, but no empirical evidence is available on the practice of Canadian urban planning. The objective of this study, therefore, is to provide empirical evidence on the practice of urban planning in Canada in 1970 as a basis for its further assessment. To guide this study, the following hypothesis was tested: that the practice of urban planning in Canada follows the traditional model (physical orientation, reliance on long range plans, and an apolitical stance). A three stage approach was adopted to test the hypothesis and describe the practices examination of 1. procedural variables, 2, external variables, and 3. planning decisions. Procedural and external variables were identified from theoretical literature and empirical studies done in the U.S.A. Data was collected through a questionnaire mailed to the 7k urban planning directors in Canada of which 53 responses were received. For further understanding of the practice, three hypotheses about the determinants of the practice were tested using the Chi-square statistic (the practice is determined by 1. location of the agency, 2. local power structure, and 3. a complex of variables). In search of a more definitive explanation, a multivariate statistical technique was applied to the data. Lastly, an analysis of the important planning decisions over the past five years was made. This study has found that the traditional hypothesis cannot be accepted. Rather the practice has been modified in a complex way which de-emphasizes comprehensive planning, new ideas and the apolitical stance, and places new emphasis on physical development, zoning and subdivision regulations. Furthermore, Canadian, urban planning has not met urban problems because it has a limited approach. This limited approach has not been fully recognized or appreciated which leaves a void in the total planning spectrum.
Rapporti culturali nella tradizione poetica del Novecento dalle lettere di Ernesto Calzavara
Creators: name: Rinaldin, Anna
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2022

description:

This article lists the best-known correspondents of Ernesto Calzavara, whose letters are kept in the Ernesto Calzavara Collection of the Archivio Carte del Contemporaneo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A complete list of the letters for each of them is provided, with a material description and some of the most exemplary passages. Some documents are also reproduced, as well as letters and some photos kept in the Collection.

description: Quaderni Veneti
title: The Role of Plant Foods Among Native Americans in Seventeenth-Century Virginia An Historical and Botanical Study
Creators: name: Cameron, Timothy W.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: Seventeenth-century Powhatan Indians practiced a subsistence economy utilizing plant resources from both the forest and wetland areas of Virginia to maintain adequate nutrition levels throughout the year. They chose not to depend heavily upon maize agriculture, but instead combined marine and animal resources with wild plants according to the seasonal round. Cultigens such as squash, beans, and maize provided dietary sources for only six months of the year; foraged plant foods made up the difference. Primary plant resources included nuts such as acorns, chestnuts, and hickory and the emergent tubers known as tuckahoe. Secondary plant foods, such as starchy seeds, leaves, and shoots, were also manipulated. The Powhatans would have been unable to maintain their lifeways without a wide range of plants in their diet; their willingness to capitalize on wild resources ensured that their food habits would remain largely unchanged by European contact until the end of the century.
title: TTIP und das 'Chlorhuhn' - was 'wir' nicht essen wollen: Zur Verhandlung von 'richtiger' Lebensmittelproduktion und Ernährung im Diskurs um das Freihandelsabkommen TTIP
Creators: name: Robnik, Tanja
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10299 Other Fields of Sociology
subject: nutrition
subject: morality

description: Im Kontext der Diskussionen um das Freihandelsabkommen TTIP wurde 'das Chlorhuhn' zum Zeichen einer Protestbewegung, die durch die internationalen Verträge wesentliche Standards zur Lebensmittelsicherheit wie auch zur Absicherung regionaler Produzent_innen in Gefahr sah. Kritische Stimmen sahen in dieser Gegenbewegung wiederum Hysterie und einen Kampf um Schlagzeilen, der die wesentlichen Punkte der Vertragsverhandlungen zu TTIP verfehle. Meine Beitrag stützt weder die eine noch die andere Seite, ich möchte vielmehr die These entwickeln, dass die Seite der Protestierenden ebenso wie die der Kritiker gleichermaßen symptomatisch dafür stehen, wie in Deutschland medial über 'richtige' Ernährung und Nahrungsmittelproduktion verhandelt wird. Der Widerstand gegen sogenannte 'Chlorhühner' reflektiert und manifestiert Standards für Ernährung und Lebensmittelproduktion unabhängig von der Möglichkeit der Einhaltung derselben. Gleichzeitig spiegelt sich in der medialen Degradierung des 'Chlorhuhns' zu einer 'einfachen' Ernährungsfrage eine moralische Norm in Bezug auf 'die Essenden' Subjekte. Statt eines 'maßvollen' Umgangs mit Essen, bezieht sich diese auf einen 'maßvollen' Umgang mit dem Thema 'Essen' oder 'Ernährung' selbst.
description: Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018
Omaggio ad Andrea Zanzotto
Creators: name: Tamiozzo Goldmann, Silvana
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2022

description:

Per il centenario della nascita di Andrea Zanzotto, ho pensato che un modo bello di rendergli omaggio fosse quello di chiedere una ‘riflessione-lampo’ a due poeti e traduttori, entrambi ben noti: l’intento è stato quello di ascoltare due voci che dessero una prospettiva inedita in mezzo ai numerosi interventi critici, alle molte iniziative che circondano questo grande poeta.

description: Quaderni Veneti
title: Die De-Organisation von Organisation? Zu den Konsequenzen des Ersetzens menschlicher Entscheiderinnen und Entscheider durch Algorithmen in Organisationen
Creators: name: Grothe-Hammer, Michael
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10207 Organizational Sociology, Military Sociology
subject: digitalization
subject: communication
subject: system theory
subject: organization
subject: decision
subject: algorithm
subject: decision making

description: Menschliche Entscheiderinnen und Entscheider in Organisationen werden heutzutage zunehmend durch daten-intensive Algorithmen ersetzt. Algorithmen steuern Autos, Flugzeuge und Fahrstuhlsysteme, schreiben Nachrichten und Bücher, und verschlagworten Fotos auf digitalen Plattformen. Dieses sog. "algorithmische Entscheiden" scheint folglich signifikante Veränderungen in Organisationen zu verursachen. Nichtsdestotrotz spielt dieses Phänomen im soziologischen Diskurs bislang kaum eine Rolle. Lediglich außerhalb der Soziologie findet sich mittlerweile eine Vielzahl an Arbeiten, die sich mit den sozialen Folgen algorithmischen Entscheidens auseinandersetzen. Allerdings wird in eben diesen Studien weder die Organisation als Untersuchungsgegenstand beachtet, noch wird der Begriff der „Entscheidung“ näher definiert. Beide Phänomene werden als gegeben hingenommen und nicht weiter reflektiert. In der Folge wissen wir überraschend wenig darüber, welche Implikationen das Ersetzen menschlicher Entscheiderinnen und Entscheider durch Algorithmen hat. Der vorliegende Beitrag adressiert diesen Umstand in zwei Hinsichten. Er präsentiert zum einen ein strikt soziologisches Verständnis von "Entscheidungen", welches es erlaubt, das Phänomen des algorithmischen Entscheidens und dessen weitreichende Implikationen theoretisch zu erfassen. Zum anderen geht der Beitrag kurz auf einige Folgen algorithmischer Entscheidungen am Beispiel selbst-lernender Algorithmen ein. Dabei wird diskutiert, ob und inwieweit Organisationen ihre Entscheidungen überhaupt noch selbst treffen, wenn solche Algorithmen zum Einsatz kommen. Außerdem wird darauf eingegangen, inwiefern Organisationen als kollektiven Personen die Verantwortung für algorithmische Entscheidungen zugerechnet werden kann.
description: Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018
Mario Isnenghi. Vite vissute e no. I luoghi della mia memoria
Creators: name: Bisutti, Francesca
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2022

description:

Recensione di: Isnenghi, M. (2020). Vite vissute e no. I luoghi della mia memoria. Bologna: il Mulino, 327 pp.

description: Quaderni Veneti
Some relationships between physiology and storage behaviour in individual apples.
Creators: name: Cerny, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The relations between storage behaviour and some physiological characteristics of individual apples have been studied. The fruits of a single tree have shown considerable individual variability in the different characteristics. Improved methods have been devised for extracting samples of the internal atmosphere of apples and for measuring respiratory activity on the basis of oxygen uptake. The investigations have shown no evidence that a higher concentration of internal carbon dioxide in the apple increases its susceptibility to breakdown. Internal carbon dioxide was shown to be positively correlated with the respiration rate and protein nitrogen content. The rate of oxygen uptake measured shortly after picking was positively correlated with the incidence of bitter pit in Cox variety and of Jonathan spot in Jonathan. These disorders manifested themselves after 14 or more weeks of cool storage. The relation between Jonathan spot and fruit size in apples which were subjected to insertion of a gas pipette and to delay of ten days before cool storage was anomalous compared with uninjured fruit stored immediately. There was a strong positive correlation between the rate of yellowing and the cell volume of the fruit. Correlations found between certain characteristics and differences found between fruits of light and heavy crops were in accord with findings reported by other workers. Further investigations are now in progress which include studies of the resistances to gaseous exchange and the role of mineral elements.
Bayesian analysis in moment inequality models
Creators: name: Liao, Yuan
name: Jiang, Wenxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62F15, 62N01 (Primary) 62F99 (Secondary)

description: This paper presents a study of the large-sample behavior of the posterior distribution of a structural parameter which is partially identified by moment inequalities. The posterior density is derived based on the limited information likelihood. The posterior distribution converges to zero exponentially fast on any $δ$-contraction outside the identified region. Inside, it is bounded below by a positive constant if the identified region is assumed to have a nonempty interior. Our simulation evidence indicates that the Bayesian approach has advantages over frequentist methods, in the sense that, with a proper choice of the prior, the posterior provides more information about the true parameter inside the identified region. We also address the problem of moment and model selection. Our optimality criterion is the maximum posterior procedure and we show that, asymptotically, it selects the true moment/model combination with the most moment inequalities and the simplest model.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOS714 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Einflussfaktoren auf die Studienfachentscheidung "Lehramt" bei Personen mit Migrationshintergrund
Creators: name: Gülen, Seyma
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10610 University Education
subject: 10208 Sociology of Education
subject: teaching position
subject: migration background
subject: choice of studies
subject: student
subject: decision making
subject: educational motivation
subject: training success
subject: Federal Republic of Germany

description: Lehrkräfte mit Migrationshintergrund stellen an deutschen Schulen nach wie vor eine Seltenheit dar. Die Frage, weshalb sich AbiturientInnen mit Migrationshintergrund im Vergleich zu AbiturientInnen ohne Migrationshintergrund seltener für den LehrerInnenberuf entscheiden, ist bislang nicht geklärt. Anhand der Daten des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS) wird analysiert, welche Gründe für diese Diskrepanz in der Studienfachentscheidung ausschlaggebend sind. Als theoretische Grundlage dient das Rational-Choice-Konzept, worin die Theorie Hollands aus der Berufswahlforschung und das Success Frame Model nach Lee und Zhou, für migrationsspezifische Besonderheiten, einfließen. Die Ergebnisse deskriptiver Statistiken sowie der logistischen Regression zeigen grundlegende Differenzen zwischen beiden Studierendengruppen in ihren Einstellungen zu den angestrebten Zielen im Rahmen ihrer Bildungslaufbahn, die die geringere Wahrscheinlichkeit für die Wahl eines Lehramtsstudiums im Vergleich zu Studiengängen ohne das Abschlussziel Lehramt bei Studienberechtigten mit Migrationshintergrund erklären. Dabei erweist sich im Rahmen der beruflichen Orientierung insbesondere der Wunsch nach Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten als bedeutungsvoll.
description: Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018
Year 1 report on Exploitation, Standardization, Communication and Dissemination
Creators: name: Contreras, Luis M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

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Ks-band detection of thermal emission and color constraints to CoRoT-1b: A low-albedo planet with inefficient atmospheric energy redistribution and a temperature inversion
Creators: name: Rogers, Justin C.
name: Apai, Daniel
name: Lopez-Morales, Mercedes
name: Sing, David K.
name: Burrows, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection in Ks-band of the secondary eclipse of the hot Jupiter CoRoT-1b, from time series photometry with the ARC 3.5-m telescope at Apache Point Observatory. The eclipse shows a depth of 0.336+/-0.042 percent and is centered at phase 0.5022 (+0.0023,-0.0027), consistent with a zero eccentricity orbit ecosω = 0.0035 (+0.0036,-0.0042). We perform the first optical to near-infrared multi-band photometric analysis of an exoplanet's atmosphere and constrain the reflected and thermal emissions by combining our result with the recent 0.6, 0.71, and 2.09 micron secondary eclipse detections by Snellen et al. (2009), Gillon et al. (2009), and Alonso et al. (2009a). Comparing the multi-wavelength detections to state-of-the-art radiative-convective chemical-equilibrium atmosphere models, we find the near-infrared fluxes difficult to reproduce. The closest blackbody-based and physical models provide the following atmosphere parameters: a temperature T = 2454 (+84,-170) K, a very low Bond albedo A_B = 0.000 (+0.087,-0.000), and an energy redistribution parameter P_n = 0.1, indicating a small but nonzero amount of heat transfer from the day- to night-side. The best physical model suggests a thermal inversion layer with an extra optical absorber of opacity kappa_e =0.05cm^2g^-1, placed near the 0.1-bar atmospheric pressure level. This inversion layer is located ten times deeper in the atmosphere than the absorbers used in models to fit mid-infrared Spitzer detections of other irradiated hot Jupiters.
description: accepted for publication on ApJ
Elastic theory of unconstrained non-Euclidean plates
Creators: name: Efrati, Efi
name: Sharon, Eran
name: Kupferman, Raz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Euclidean plates are a subset of the class of elastic bodies having no stress-free configuration. Such bodies exhibit residual stress when relaxed from all external constraints, and may assume complicated equilibrium shapes even in the absence of external forces. In this work we present a mathematical framework for such bodies in terms of a covariant theory of linear elasticity, valid for large displacements. We propose the concept of non-Euclidean plates to approximate many naturally formed thin elastic structures. We derive a thin plate theory, which is a generalization of existing linear plate theories, valid for large displacements but small strains, and arbitrary intrinsic geometry. We study a particular example of a hemispherical plate. We show the occurrence of a spontaneous buckling transition from a stretching dominated configuration to bending dominated configurations, under variation of the plate thickness.