cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Filmbegleitete Forschung zu aktivem Altern im ländlichen Japan
Creators: name: Prochaska-Meyer, Isabelle
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: This article outlines the production process of a documentary film, which was created as part of the ethnographic project “Aged communities and active ageing — A case study of rural villages in the Japanese Alps.” Its aim was to present ageing in rural Japan to a wider public, by giving insights into the everyday life of two protagonists and introducing the services and infrastructure for elderly people provided by the municipalities. The fieldwork was conducted in three villages in Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures, where the ageing rate is above the national average. The research schedule included two fieldwork stays, enabling us to visit the municipalities in different seasons, to intensify the relationship with the informants, and to specify the film pitch. At the production stage, cooperation with the local municipal office was crucial for obtaining access to informants and to being able to observe recreational activities for senior citizens — such as gymnastic courses or gateball training sessions. This article introduces the preparatory stage of film production, discusses the question of “participation versus observation” during fieldwork, describes the reactions of locals to the presence of the research team with their camera, and, finally, outlines the post-production process.
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
Binary Bleed: Fast Distributed and Parallel Method for Automatic Model Selection
Creators: name: Barron, Ryan
name: Eren, Maksim
name: Bhattarai, Manish
name: Boureima, Ismael
name: Matuszek, Cynthia
name: Alexandrov, Boian S.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Computer Science - Performance

description: 28th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference, 23 - 27 September 2024
description: In several Machine Learning (ML) clustering and dimensionality reduction approaches, such as non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), RESCAL, and K-Means clustering, users must select a hyper-parameter k to define the number of clusters or components that yield an ideal separation of samples or clean clusters. This selection, while difficult, is crucial to avoid overfitting or underfitting the data. Several ML applications use scoring methods (e.g., Silhouette and Davies Boulding scores) to evaluate the cluster pattern stability for a specific k. The score is calculated for different trials over a range of k, and the ideal k is heuristically selected as the value before the model starts overfitting, indicated by a drop or increase in the score resembling an elbow curve plot. While the grid-search method can be used to accurately find a good k value, visiting a range of k can become time-consuming and computationally resource-intensive. In this paper, we introduce the Binary Bleed method based on binary search, which significantly reduces the k search space for these grid-search ML algorithms by truncating the target k values from the search space using a heuristic with thresholding over the scores. Binary Bleed is designed to work with single-node serial, single-node multi-processing, and distributed computing resources. In our experiments, we demonstrate the reduced search space gain over a naive sequential search of the ideal k and the accuracy of the Binary Bleed in identifying the correct k for NMFk, K-Means pyDNMFk, and pyDRESCALk with Silhouette and Davies Boulding scores. We make our implementation of Binary Bleed for the NMF algorithm available on GitHub.
Brasilianische Migranten in Hamamatsu – Zugang zu einem multikulturellen Feld
Creators: name: Timmerarens, Chaline
Publisher: name: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia
Year: 2021

description: Drawing on fieldwork among Brazilian migrants in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu, and examining the role of mediating institutions for their integration, this paper reflects on the key aspects in gaining access to a multicultural field site in anthropological research: 1) the diversity of the research subject; 2) multilingualism; 3) social and other media; 4) reciprocity; and, 5) the researcher’s personality and identity. I argue that the latter plays the biggest role in successfully accessing the field, as it directly affects informants’ acceptance and trust of the researcher. The diverse nature of the research subject demands as many access points as possible. In order to achieve this, knowledge of the languages and cultures of all ethnic groups studied is necessary. Specific cultural and social contexts also affect the exact choice of media channel(s) for making contact, as well as practices of reciprocity. Based on my own fieldwork experience, I will show how it is flexibility and the ability to put oneself in the position of all groups
description: ASIEN: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
Primary Prevention of Physical Violence and Abuse in British Columbia
Creators: name: Joshi, Pamela
name: Pallaveshi, Luljeta
name: Verma, Pamela
name: Pike, Ian, 1958-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: To address physical violence and abuse, the BC Ministry of Health commissioned this systematic review to determine how physical violence and abuse injuries may be reduced by utilizing primary prevention initiatives, within a public health model. The review focuses on the strength of evidence supporting which interventions have demonstrated effectiveness in the primary prevention of physical violence and abuse. The results of this review will be used to inform programming and planning for the primary prevention of physical violence and abuse by health authorities in BC.
Insights Into The Prompt Gamma Generation In Real Patient Anatomy During Proton Therapy Delivery: A Geant4-Based Monte Carlo Study
Creators: name: Sharma, V. R.
name: Polf, J. C.
name: Peterson, S. W.
name: Jiang, Z.
name: Cham, Mostafa
name: Mossahebi, S.
name: Gobbert, M. K.
name: Ren, L.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024

description: AAPM 66th Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 2024.
Exploring the excerpts: Historical documents and narrating Canadian identity
Creators: name: Langston, Jessica Bennett
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: History, Canadian.
subject: Literature, Canadian (English).

description: This thesis examines a specific type of documentary literature, one that narrates the exploration period of Canadian history through excerpting and re-framing the journal entries of early explorers. Because these literary texts are concerned with English Canada's founding, they provide an important context for thinking about the ways that Canadian history is used to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct national identity. By returning to this seminal historic moment and reconfiguring history through a narrative dialogue with its documents, these authors not only undertake to re-conceptualize national identity; they also engage in a dialogue about representation versus truth. The dissertation begins with an examination of several poems -- John Newlove's "The Pride" (1968) and "Samuel Hearne in Wintertime" (1968), Marion Smith's Koo-koo-sint (1976), Jon Whyte's Homage, Henry Kelsey (1981), and Lionel Kearns' Convergences (1984) -- and then moves on three works of fiction: George Bowering's Burning Water (1980), Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers (1994) and John Sterner's The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992). All these texts incorporate actual passages from original historical documents, the explorers' journals or narratives. The thesis charts the different ways these Canadian writers re-frame the detailed, often dispassionate accounts of explorers, considering how each re-framing deals with the struggle of representing history responsibly and how such a representation also enacts a particular type of national narrative.
The Life-Changing Magic
Creators: name: Gagné, Nana Okura
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: What is “fieldwork”? What is “successful” fieldwork? What does it mean to do fieldwork in Japanese society? While fieldwork has become established as one of the major research methods, it has also been taken for granted. Although all fieldworkers encounter unexpected challenges as well as gratifications in the field, there is little discussion about what fieldwork actually entails. This paper aims to demystify this experience by introducing the concept of fieldwork, briefly looking at its history, and by analyzing the particular importance of doing fieldwork in Japan. Drawing on my own multi-sited research about the changing dominant ideologies and the impact of corporate restructuring on Japanese workers, the paper discusses challenges and outcomes of each field site. I argue that the time and effort one puts into one’s fieldwork will directly impact the subsequent stages of one’s research, analysis, and writings — namely, the process of anthropological knowledge production. Moreover, the deeper one’s engagement with informants’ lifeworlds is, the richer one’s results will be. Thus, fieldwork in Japan entails becoming part of the cosmology of one’s informants, and as such it is a long-term endeavor that can lead to long-lasting and life-changing engagements for the researcher and one’s informants that may shape one’s personal and professional life for years to come.
description: Asien, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
No effect of preterm birth on the risk of multiple sclerosis: a population based study
Creators: name: Ramagopalan, Sreeram V
name: Valdar, William
name: Dyment, David A
name: DeLuca, Gabriele C
name: Orton, Sarah-Michelle
name: Yee, Irene M
name: Criscuoli, Maria
name: Ebers, George C
name: Sadovnick, A D
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Genetic and environmental factors have important roles in multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility. A clear parent of origin effect has been shown in several populations, perhaps resulting from factors operating during gestation. Preterm birth (birth at less than 37 weeks gestational age) has been shown to result in long-term health problems, including impaired neurological development. Here, in a population-based cohort, we investigate whether preterm birth increases the risk to subsequently develop MS. Methods: We identified 6585 MS index cases and 2509 spousal controls with preterm birth information from the Canadian Collaborative Project on Genetic Susceptibility to MS. Rates of individuals born preterm were compared for index cases and controls. Results: There were no significant differences between cases and controls with respect to preterm births. 370 (5.6%) MS index cases and 130 (5.2%) spousal controls were born preterm, p = 0.41. Conclusion: Preterm birth does not appear to contribute to MS aetiology. Other factors involved in foetal and early development need to be explored to elucidate the mechanism of the increased risk conferred by the apparent maternal effect.
Identifying the Relationship Structure among Multiple Datasets Using Independent Vector Analysis: Application to Multi-task fMRI Data
Creators: name: Lehmann, Isabell
name: Hasija, Tanuj
name: Gabrielson, Ben
name: Akhonda, Mohammad Abu Baker Siddique
name: Calhoun, Vince D.
name: Adali, Tulay
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024
Subjects: blind source separation Blind source separation bootstrap Correlation Covariance matrices data-driven Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions Feature extraction fMRI Functional magnetic resonance imaging independent vector analysis Multitasking relationship structure Vectors

description: Identifying relationships among multiple datasets is an effective way to summarize information and has been growing in importance. In this paper, we propose a robust 3-step method for identifying the relationship structure among multiple datasets based on Independent Vector Analysis (IVA) and bootstrap-based hypothesis testing. Unlike previous approaches, our theory-backed method eliminates the need for user-defined thresholds and can effectively handle non-Gaussian data. It achieves this by incorporating higher-order statistics through IVA and employing an eigenvalue decomposition-based feature extraction approach without distributional assumptions. This way, our method estimates more interpretable components and effectively identifies the relationship structure using hierarchical clustering. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, as it achieves perfect Adjusted Mutual Information (AMI) for different values of the correlation between the components. When applied to multi-task fMRI data from patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, our method successfully reveals activated brain regions associated with the disorder, and identifies the relationship structure of task datasets that matches our prior knowledge of the experiment. Moreover, our proposed method extends beyond task datasets, offering broad applicability in subgroup identification in neuroimaging and other domains.
Cultural variations in relationship provisions: A five-culture study of children's perceptions of support from parents and best friends
Creators: name: Bergeron, Natasha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Psychology, Social.

description: Much of the literature on the support provisions of children's relationships has been based on North American sampling. Cultural context has largely been overlooked and may be important in shaping the development of specific support provisions. The present study is a cross-cultural investigation of children's perceptions of the types of support they receive from their mothers, fathers, and best friends. A total of 1101 children in grade 6 from the Southern region of Brazil, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Cuba, and Southern Italy completed the Children's Social Networks Scale. Children were asked to select among lists of items representing different social provisions, those that best described their relationships. A Latent Class Analysis of children's responses yielded cultural differences in item selections. Canadian children tended to perceive their parents as important sources of enhancement of self worth and protection. Cuban children tended to select descriptors of parent support that reflected intimacy and emotional support. Chinese children viewed their parents as important sources of teaching, assistance, and support. Children in Brazil and Italy described their parents as offering various types of support. Findings for friendships were less differentiated across cultures and elicited fewer distinctions among types of support. Findings from the study raise the possibility of important cultural variations in support provisions, which to date remain understudied. These differences in support provisions across cultures may reflect cultural differences in prevailing ideologies and social organizations, particularly distinctions between individualistic and collectivistic orientations.
Die vergessenen SchulumFragen der Helvetischen Republik
Creators: name: Rothen, Marcel
name: Ruloff, Michael
Publisher: name: Klinkhardt
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Zum Buch: Der Band zu den "Studien im Umfeld der Helvetischen Stapfer-Enquête 1799" umfasst rund 14 Artikel zum Kontext der SchulumFrage des damaligen Schweizer Bildungsministers, Philipp Albert Stapfer. Sie liefern wichtig neue Erkenntnisse für die Schweizerische Historische Bildungsforschung. Zum Artikel: Bildungshistorische Untersuchungen zum schweizerischen Schulwesen vor und um 1800 beziehen sich in der Regel auf die im Frühjahr 1799 durchgeführte SchulumFrage des damaligen helvetischen Bildungsministers Philipp Albert Stapfer. Noch unbekannt ist, dass in der Zeit vor 1800 und somit vor Stapfers UmFrage viele weitere SchulumFragen auf kantonaler Ebene durchgeführt wurden, die in einigen Bereichen viel detaillierter sind als die nationale Erhebung von Stapfer und somit mithelfen können, offene Fragen zur Schweizer Schule um 1800 zu beantworten.
Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik und immersiver Unterricht in der Schweiz
Creators: name: Le Pape Racine, Christine
Publisher: name: Peter Lang
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Nach der Darlegung der sprachenpolitischen Situation in der Schweiz und Erklärungen zum Begriff der Mehrsprachigkeit sowie einigen grundlegenden Erkenntnissen aus der Spracherwerbsforschung, werden die beiden Begriffe und die strukturellen Verbindungen zwischen der hier beschriebenen Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik und des immersiven/bilingualen Unterrichts erläutert. Weiter geht es unter Einbezug von Forschungsergebnissen um den Stand der Umsetzung in der Schweiz sowie um die Lehrpersonen Aus- und Weiterbildung. Es werden schliesslich Perspektiven aufgezeigt, die in Richtung eines plurilingualen und plurikulturellen Habitus der Schule gehen.
Exploring the Role of Social Support when Integrating Generative AI into Small Business Workflows
Creators: name: Lauro, Quentin Romero
name: Bigham, Jeffrey P.
name: Kotturi, Yasmine
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction H.5.3
UMBC Human-Centered Computing Program

description: The 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), November 9-13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica
description: Small business owners stand to benefit from generative AI technologies due to limited resources, yet they must navigate increasing legal and ethical risks. In this paper, we interview 11 entrepreneurs and support personnel to investigate existing practices of how entrepreneurs integrate generative AI technologies into their business workflows. Specifically, we build on scholarship in HCI which emphasizes the role of small, offline networks in supporting entrepreneurs’ technology maintenance. We detail how entrepreneurs resourcefully leveraged their local networks to discover new usecases of generative AI (e.g., by sharing accounts), assuage heightened techno-anxieties (e.g., by recruiting trusted confidants), overcome barriers to sustained use (e.g., by receiving wrap-around support), and establish boundaries of use. Further, we suggest how generative AI platforms may be redesigned to better support entrepreneurs, such as by taking into account the benefits and tensions of use in a social context.
Einstellung von Schweizer Lehrkräften zu verschiedenen Formen der Kooperation
Creators: name: Stommel, Sarah
name: Hildebrandt, Elke
name: Senn, Patricia
name: Widmer, Rahel
Publisher: name: Prolog
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 370 - Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Lehrpersonenkooperationen werden an Schweizer Schulen aufgrund aktueller Integrationsanforderungen verstärkt bildungspolitisch gefordert. Die Kooperation zwischen Lehrpersonen gilt dabei als zentrale Gelingensbedingung, um den steigenden Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Als zentraler Einflussfaktor zum Eingehen von Kooperationsbeziehungen unter Lehrpersonen wird in der Literatur die Einstellung zu dieser Form der Zusammenarbeit genannt.
Fieldwork in Japan
Creators: name: Reiher, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: This special issue presents six papers based on these presentations, and includes also an additional one on ethnography in Japan that was not part of the original conference. The authors address how fieldwork has changed and how they respond to challenges when accessing the field, specifically in their reciprocal relations with informants, when choosing the best means of presenting results and teaching research methods to students. I argue that a discussion about ethics, transparency, and teaching research methods in Japanese Studies and in Area Studies in general is necessary in order to produce reliable, comparable, and comprehensive results that scholars from Area Studies and from the social science disciplines alike can relate to. Thus, beyond summarizing the outcomes of the discussion in the anthropology section of the aforementioned conference, this special issue hopes to inspire further conversations within and beyond Japanese Studies communities both in and outside of Germany.
description: Asien, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
The Online-Offline Nexus
Creators: name: Gerster, Julia
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: In Japan as well as in other countries social media is now part of daily life. During fieldwork, researchers are confronted with decisions to be made concerning the engagement in social media activities in the course of ongoing research, or with their informants in general. Taking experiences from several years of ethnographic field research in Northeast Japan after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster as examples, this paper analyzes the opportunities and challenges regarding the use specifically of Facebook in fieldwork. I argue that social media can become a tool for building rapport and enacting reciprocity, as well as for providing informants with agency. At the same time, challenges regarding privacy, the distribution of information, and possible influences on ongoing research projects have to be kept in mind. Therefore the usage of online tools should be extensively discussed among scholars, while ethics boards have to consider the interdependence of online and offline social dynamics — so as to incentivize greater reflection on this issue among researchers.
description: Asien, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
Modeling Heat Mitigation in Hollow-Core Gas Fiber Lasers With Gas Flow
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Lane, Ryan A.
name: Menyuk, Curtis
name: Hu, Jonathan
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024
Subjects: UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
compressible gas flow Fluid flow heat mitigation Heating systems Hollow-core fiber lasers Laser modes Laser theory Mathematical models Optical fibers Prevention and mitigation thermal dynamics

description: We carry out a computational study to evaluate the temperature reduction by using gas flow in hollow-core gas fiber lasers. We first use the Navier-Stokes equations to study the gas flow in the hollow-core fibers. We compare the density, pressure, and velocity using both an incompressible and a compressible gas model. We show that an incompressible gas model leads to large errors in the case that we study in this paper. We then present a coupled model to study gas flow and heat transfer simultaneously in hollow-core fibers using a compressible gas model. We found that a temperature reduction of about 20% can be achieved by using a differential pressure of 10 atm between the inlet and outlet of the hollow-core fibers. The results also demonstrate that the relative temperature reduction increases when the heat power decreases, the fiber length decreases, and the heat profile is more localized.
The Effect of Campus News Video Library on Secondary Vocational School Students' Sense of Responsibility and Self-Awareness Ability
Creators: name: publication, ijmarrp.com
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This research inverstigates the Campus News Video Library (CNVL) to confirm whether it has a significant impact on the cultivation of students’ sense of social responsibility and self-awareness ability. The finding shows that there were differences in social responsibility among students of different grades, and there were also differences in the ways in which students of different sexes were affected in self-awareness. These findings not only enrich the understanding of the effect of CNVL on students’ learning, but also provide useful reference for educational practice and further research. In summary, the research results show that CNVL could serve as an effective teaching tools to improve the moral education level in general, and social responsibility and self-awareness of secondary vocational school students.
Japanese Foodscapes in Berlin
Creators: name: Reiher, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Asien
Year: 2021

description: This paper introduces research and fieldwork methods education for Japanese Studies students at Freie Universität Berlin. It aims to support training in research design, research methods and fieldwork in and beyond Japan in order to respond to the increasing demand for systematic and transparent research practices in Japanese Studies and Area Studies communities. Drawing on Berlin’s vibrant Japanese foodscape this course provides students with opportunities to plan and conduct research projects on various aspects of Japanese food. Students present their research results and reflections on methods and fieldwork in video tutorials online through the course blog. Based on my experiences with teaching this course for four years, I suggest that in order to teach a successful method course in Japanese studies programs, it is important to 1) inspire students to conduct their own fieldwork, 2) provide opportunities for students to actively participate in the course and decision-making processes with regard to the syllabus and 3) make students’ results visible in order to build a body of knowledge other students can draw on. In doing so, the course contributes to a more systematic method training in Japanese Studies through continuity.
description: Asien, Nr. 149 (2018): ASIEN (Oktober)
A Look at External Political Efficacy and the Role of Digital Skills in the Adults U.S. Population
Creators: name: Punksungka, Wonmai
name: Yamashita, Takashi
name: Narine, Donnette
name: Helsinger, Abigail
name: Cummins, Phyllis A.
name: Kramer, Jenna W.
name: Karam, Rita
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2024

description: The ability to effectively use digital technology and problem-solve are critical skills for maintaining democratic health, particularly as civil society and the modern digital landscape continuously evolve. However, information on whether individuals have the critical problem-solving skills to use digital technology and confidently affect change is yet to be further explored. Using data from the 2017 Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (n = 2749), we examined the associations between digital problem-solving skills and the three levels (low, neutral, high) of external political efficacy in the U.S. adult population. We used multinomial logistic regression and found a positive association between digital problem-solving skills and external political efficacy, while explanations for the three levels of efficacy are nuanced. Continuous development of digital problem-solving skills through adult education has implications for political efficacy, and ultimately for the promotion of a variety of civic engagement in the adult life stages.
Gene Ontology term overlap as a measure of gene functional similarity
Creators: name: Mistry, Meeta
name: Pavlidis, Paul
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The availability of various high-throughput experimental and computational methods allows biologists to rapidly infer functional relationships between genes. It is often necessary to evaluate these predictions computationally, a task that requires a reference database for functional relatedness. One such reference is the Gene Ontology (GO). A number of groups have suggested that the semantic similarity of the GO annotations of genes can serve as a proxy for functional relatedness. Here we evaluate a simple measure of semantic similarity, term overlap (TO). Results: We computed the TO for randomly selected gene pairs from the mouse genome. For comparison, we implemented six previously reported semantic similarity measures that share the feature of using computation of probabilities of terms to infer information content, in addition to three vector based approaches and a normalized version of the TO measure. We find that the overlap measure is highly correlated with the others but differs in detail. TO is at least as good a predictor of sequence similarity as the other measures. We further show that term overlap may avoid some problems that affect the probability-based measures. Term overlap is also much faster to compute than the information content-based measures. Conclusion: Our experiments suggest that term overlap can serve as a simple and fast alternative to other approaches which use explicit information content estimation or require complex pre-calculations, while also avoiding problems that some other measures may encounter.
Disrupting Niceness in Literacy Teacher Education: Non-Linear Trajectories Toward Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Creators: name: Tondreau, Amy
name: Gardiner, Wendy L.
name: Hinman, Tierney B.
name: Dussling, Tess M.
name: Stevens, Elizabeth Y.
name: White, Kristen L.
name: Wilson, Nance S.
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2024

description: Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of practice (SSCoP) of eight White female literacy teacher educators at different institutions collaborated to narrow the gap between our aspirations for implementing CRP and enacted practice. Through analysis of collaborative journal entries, we interpret tensions between what niceness and whiteness demand of us and what enactment of CRP requires: (a) between centering equity in our courses and addressing equity on the margins, (b) between enactment of critical pedagogy and maintaining status as “nice” educators, and (c) between the expectation of expertise and the necessity of a learning stance. We argue that teacher educators might use SSCoP spaces to navigate the complex interplay between their identities and the sociopolitical context of teacher education to more fully enact CRP.
Equality and accommodation: A narrative approach to Canadian multiculturalism
Creators: name: McKenna, Iain
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Theory and Methods.
subject: Canadian Studies.
subject: Philosophy.
subject: Political Science, General.

description: In Canada, a liberal democracy that constitutionally protects liberal freedoms and civic equality, how should the government respond to culturally based demands for accommodation? Should culture be recognized by a liberal democratic government? Does such recognition challenge liberal freedoms and civic equality? In this thesis I argue that there may be times when the Canadian government ought to acknowledge cultural differences for the purposes of legislating and creating public policy in the interest of fairness and to achieve good outcomes. Previous attempts at reconciling cultural diversity with public institutions have focused on protecting and affirming cultural identities. I critically examine three such approaches and argue that cultural identification is tied to fundamental liberal freedoms such that fixing cultural identities in bureaucratic and legislative frameworks conflicts with liberal freedoms in a problematic way. I propose an alternative approach to cultural accommodation that avoids the problems of cultural identification by focusing on concrete relationships between citizens and the practical consequences of cultural practices.
Martian atmospheric hydrogen and deuterium: Seasonal changes and paradigm for escape to space
Creators: name: Clarke, John T.
name: Mayyasi, Majd
name: Bhattacharyya, Dolon
name: Chaufray, Jean-Yves
name: Schneider, Nicolas
name: Jakosky, Bruce
name: Yelle, Roger
name: Montmessin, Franck
name: Chaffin, Michael
name: Curry, Shannon
name: Deighan, Justin
name: Jain, Sonal
name: Bertaux, Jean-Loup
name: Cangi, Erin
name: Crismani, Matteo
name: Evans, Scott
name: Gupta, Sumedha
name: Lefevre, Franck
name: Holsclaw, Greg
name: Lo, Daniel
name: McClintock, William
name: Stevens, Michael
name: Stewart, Ian
name: Stone, Shane
name: Mahaffy, Paul
name: Benna, Mehdi
name: Elrod, Meredith
Publisher: name: AAAS
Year: 2024

description: Mars’ water history is fundamental to understanding Earth-like planet evolution. Water escapes to space as atoms, and hydrogen atoms escape faster than deuterium giving an increase in the residual D/H ratio. The present ratio reflects the total water Mars has lost. Observations with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spacecraft provide atomic densities and escape rates for H and D. Large increases near perihelion observed each martian year are consistent with a strong upwelling of water vapor. Short-term changes require processes in addition to thermal escape, likely from atmospheric dynamics and superthermal atoms. Including escape from hot atoms, both H and D escape rapidly, and the escape fluxes are limited by resupply from the lower atmosphere. In this paradigm for the escape of water, the D/H ratio of the escaping atoms and the enhancement in water are determined by upwelling water vapor and atmospheric dynamics rather than by the specific details of atomic escape.
Interpersonal Factors, Peer Relationship Stressors, and Gender Differences in Adolescent Depression
Creators: name: Potter, Julia R.
name: Yoon, K. Lira
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023
Subjects: UMBC Affect, Cognition, & Emotional Disorders Lab (ACED Lab)
Adolescent depression Gender differences Interpersonal vulnerability Peer relationships Stressors

description: Purpose of ReviewCompared to boys, girls value close relationships more. Thus, heightened affiliative proclivities may serve as a particularly salient psychosocial risk factor for depression in adolescent girls. The purpose of this review is to examine whether the preponderance of depression in girls is because of gender differences in interpersonal vulnerabilities and peer relationship stressors and/or in the associations between these factors and depression.Recent FindingsGirls (vs. boys) exhibit higher levels of co-rumination and affective empathy, but not excessive reassurance-seeking. The prevalence of different forms of peer relationship stressors (e.g., peer victimization) varies by gender depending on the specific type. Evidence is mixed regarding gender differences in the association between peer victimization and depression.SummaryGender differences in the association between peer victimization and depression not only depend on peer victimization subtype but also on the country. Most studies were conducted in non-clinical samples, highlighting the need for future research to assess major depressive disorder (not just depressive symptoms). Future research should also assess interpersonal factors (e.g., co-rumination) and peer relationship stressors together.
Understanding attitudes to health research or “who can phone you at dinner time?”
Creators: name: Teschke, Kay
name: Chu, Rachel
name: Marino, Suhail
name: Harris, Anne
name: Tsui, Joseph CK
name: Marion, Steve
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: We conducted a survey of adult British Columbians, asking the following questions: 1. Are you willing to participate in health research? 2. How would the organization contacting you affect whether you felt comfortable and willing to participate in health research? 3. How would the method of selecting you affect whether you felt comfortable and willing to participate in health research? 4. Would other factors make you feel better or worse about participating in health research? ￼
The pastoral office of priests and its relationship to the canonical institute of incardination
Creators: name: Keeler, Roger H
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Religion, Clergy.
subject: Canon Law.

description: The church's law dealing with incardination is a venerable ancient guarantor of its highest values with regard to community, holy orders, ministry, and the content of faith. By establishing a juridic protection for a permanent relational bond, incardination provides the context within which these are enabled to be vivid, dynamic, and reciprocally life/Life giving. Explored in light of the Legislator's intent as that was given shape and substance in the Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Pastores dabo vobis, incardination is lifted up from a flat uni-dimensional and somewhat narrow juridic plane, to become something rich and multi-dimensional. When this is combined with the work of Oblate theologian David N. Power, it is learned that incardination involves a series of attitudes that invite a range of spiritual and pastoral decisions that make koinonia (fellowship or collaboration; Christ's ministry of love), diakonia (service; Christ's ministry of service), martyrion (witness; Christ's proclamation of the word), and leitourgia (worship; the origin and ultimate end of Christ's entire ministry)---the God-life---possible. This leads to the formulation of a new definition for incardination that pushes doors ajar inviting new exploration. The Pastoral Office of Priests and its Relationship to the Canonical Institute of Incardination is a historical exploration into one of the church's oldest canonical institutes. By returning to the most fundamental of sources, the New Testament, it seeks to discover the root of a spiritual bond that identifies those in the ministerial priesthood. The Fathers of the Church are consulted, together with early conciliar decrees, and ordination rites extant in ancient times, in order to understand the pastoral bond that unites priests and their bishops. The Council of Trent and legislation found in the 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici are explored in order to learn the specific nature of the juridic bond formally called incardination. Pope John XXIII initiated a new fuller understanding of the theology of ordained ministry that was eventually reflected by the Conciliar Fathers in Presbyterorum ordinis, and enveloped in the 1983 Code of Canon Law. This is identified as a movement toward a unified understanding of incardination with implications for the church today.
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress
Creators: name: Fischer, Ethan
name: Fox, Cosette
name: Yoon, K. Lira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: UMBC Affect, Cognition, & Emotional Disorders Lab (ACED Lab)
acute stress anxiety cortisol Mindset Trier Social Stress Test

description: Individuals with high levels of growth mindsets believe that attributes are malleable. Although links between acute stress responses and growth mindsets of thought, emotion, and behaviour are central to the conceptualisation of psychological disorders and their treatment, such links have yet to be examined. Undergraduate participants (N = 135) completed a modified Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), and their salivary cortisol and anxiety were assessed throughout the session. Hierarchical linear models revealed that higher growth mindset of behaviour was associated with lower cortisol levels at 25-min after the TSST onset (i.e. peak cortisol stress reactivity) in men, but not in women. Considering one’s gender may be critical in understanding the relationship between growth mindset and stress responses.
Humidity Responsive Tripeptide Crystals
Creators: name: Piotrowska, Roxana
name: Hesketh, Travis
name: Wang, Haozhen
name: Martin, Alan R. G.
name: Bowering, Deborah
name: Zhang, Chunqiu
name: Hu, Chunhua T.
name: McPhee, Scott
name: Wang, Tong
name: Park, Yaewon
name: Singla, Pulkit
name: McGlone, Thomas
name: Florence, Alastair
name: Tuttle, Tell
name: Ulijn, Rein V.
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Water-responsive materials undergo reversible shape changes upon varying humidity levels. These mechanically tough, yet flexible structures can exert significant forces and hold promise as efficient actuators for energy harvesting, adaptive materials, and soft robotics. Using nanoporous tripeptide crystals, we demonstrate that energy transfer during evaporation-induced actuation results from strengthening of water H-bonding that drives the contraction of the pores. The seamless integration of mobile and structurally bound water inside these pores with a supramolecular network which contains readily deformable aromatic domains, translates dehydration-induced mechanical stresses through the crystal lattice, suggesting a general mechanism of efficient water-responsive actuation. The observed strengthening of water bonding complements accepted understanding of capillary force induced reversible contraction for this class of materials. These minimalistic peptide crystals are much simpler in composition compared to natural water-responsive materials, and the insights provided here can be applied more generally for the design of high-energy molecular actuators. Poster presented at the 2020 Virtual Systems Chemistry Symposium, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.
description: This work was supported in part by The Office of Naval Research (ONR) (N00014-18-1-2492), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (FA9550-19-1-0111), the EPSRC-funded ARCHIE-WeSt High Performance Computer (www.archie-west.ac.uk) for computational resource via EPSRC grant no. EP/K000586/1, and the CUNY/ Strathclyde partnership. C.T.H. acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program (CHE-0840277) and Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Program (DMR-1420073).
Biased cognitive control of emotional information in remitted depression: A meta-analytic review
Creators: name: Wen, Alainna
name: Fischer, Ethan
name: Watson, David
name: Yoon, K. Lira
Publisher: name: APA
Year: 2023
Subjects: UMBC Affect, Cognition, & Emotional Disorders Lab (ACED Lab)
Cognitive Bias Cognitive Control Emotions Information Processing Model Major Depression Recurrent Depression Remission (Disorders) Short Term Memory

description: Cognitive theories of depression posit that maladaptive information processing increases the risk for depression recurrence. There is increasing theoretical and empirical support for the cognitive control of emotional information as a vulnerability factor for depression recurrence. In this investigation, findings from behavioral studies that compared the cognitive control of emotional information between participants with remitted major depressive disorder (rMDD) and healthy control (HC) participants were examined. Response times (RTs) and error rates were used as outcome variables, and aspects of clinical features, sample characteristics, and methodology and design were examined as moderating variables. The final review included 44 articles with a total of 2,081 rMDD participants and 2,285 HC participants. The two groups significantly differed in the difference score between RTs for negative and positive stimuli. Specifically, the difference in RTs between negative and positive stimuli was larger in participants with rMDD than in HC participants, indicating greater difficulty controlling irrelevant negative (vs. positive) stimuli in rMDD. Such cognitive control bias may be associated with preferential processing of negative over positive information in working memory. This imbalance may then be linked to other emotional information processing biases and emotion dysregulation, thereby increasing the risk for depression recurrence. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
From being to becoming: Mapping out the subjective, affective, and temporal 'in-between' in "A History of Violence"
Creators: name: Audette-Longo, Michael
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Speech Communication.

description: While the self is a central figure in the study of Communication, it is generally depicted as an autonomous figure that communicates to connect with others and the world. In this thesis we problematize this instrumental articulation by focussing on the concepts of affect and time. Specifically, we analyze these concepts in the film A History of Violence through the three-tiered methodology of discourse analysis, articulation, and intermediality. By analyzing specific scenes in this film, we demonstrate that affective investments function as a communicative circuit in which the individual becomes 'in-between' the pre-personal and subjective intensities of affect. Concomitant with this circuit is the revelation of multiple temporalities that underpin the present moment of investment. We then conclude that affect and time can help us move from being to becoming by challenging the assumption of autonomous selves, which raises new issues that are pressing to be recognized in Communication Studies.
RNA STRAND: The RNA Secondary Structure and Statistical Analysis Database
Creators: name: Andronescu, Mirela
name: Bereg, Vera
name: Hoos, Holger H
name: Condon, Anne
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The ability to access, search and analyse secondary structures of a large set of known RNA molecules is very important for deriving improved RNA energy models, for evaluating computational predictions of RNA secondary structures and for a better understanding of RNA folding. Currently there is no database that can easily provide these capabilities for almost all RNA molecules with known secondary structures. Results: In this paper we describe RNA STRAND – the RNA secondary STRucture and statistical ANalysis Database, a curated database containing known secondary structures of any type and organism. Our new database provides a wide collection of known RNA secondary structures drawn from public databases, searchable and downloadable in a common format. Comprehensive statistical information on the secondary structures in our database is provided using the RNA Secondary Structure Analyser, a new tool we have developed to analyse RNA secondary structures. The information thus obtained is valuable for understanding to which extent and with which probability certain structural motifs can appear. We outline several ways in which the data provided in RNA STRAND can facilitate research on RNA structure, including the improvement of RNA energy models and evaluation of secondary structure prediction programs. In order to keep up-to-date with new RNA secondary structure experiments, we offer the necessary tools to add solved RNA secondary structures to our database and invite researchers to contribute to RNA STRAND. Conclusion: RNA STRAND is a carefully assembled database of trusted RNA secondary structures, with easy on-line tools for searching, analyzing and downloading user selected entries, and is publicly available at http://www.rnasoft.ca/strand.
Fed Up: The Determinants of Public Opposition to the U.S. Federal Reserve
Creators: name: Anson, Ian
Publisher: name: Sage
Year: 2024

description: The U.S. Federal Reserve plays a major role in the global economy, despite low public awareness of its functions and responsibilities. Scholars have recently noted three ongoing developments in the politics of the Fed: A dramatic increase in the size of the Fed’s balance sheet, a decrease in the Fed’s insulation from partisan politics, and evidence that the Fed has struggled to manage inflation in recent times. Despite the contributions of recent studies, little is known about how Americans’ levels of diffuse and specific public support for Federal agencies are influenced by trends in agencies’ size and scope, politicization, and performance. In this study, I use a survey experimental design to evaluate the effects of emphasis frames on support for the Federal Reserve. Results demonstrate that while specific support declines in reaction to frames that associate Fed actions with rising inflation, messages about the Fed’s growing balance sheet erode diffuse support for the Fed. However, when reminded of the Fed’s declining political independence, partisans’ levels of support diverge. These results imply the potential for substantial future declines in public support for the operation of this critical, yet largely overlooked, Federal institution, especially among partisans of the presidential out-party.