cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Surface pressure and shear stress field within a frictional contact on rubber
Creators: name: Nguyen, D. T.
name: Paolino, P.
name: Audry, M-C.
name: Chateauminois, A.
name: Frétigny, C.
name: Chenadec, Y. Le
name: Portigliatti, M.
name: Barthel, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper addresses the issue of the determination of the frictional stress distribution from the inversion of the measured surface displacement field for sliding interfaces between a glass lens and a rubber (poly(dimethylsiloxane)) substrate. Experimental results show that high lateral strains are achieved at the periphery of the sliding contacts. As a consequence, an accurate inversion of the displacement field requires that finite strains and non linear response of the rubber substrate are taken into account. For that purpose, a Finite Element (FE) inversion procedure is implemented where the measured displacement field is applied as a boundary condition at the upper surface of a meshed body representing the rubber substrate. Normal pressure is also determined by the same way, if non-diverging values are assumed at the contact edge. This procedure is applied to linearly sliding contacts as well as on twisting contacts.
Pardosa aenigmatica Tongiorgi 1966
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Pardosa aenigmatica Tongiorgi, 1966 (Figure 2g) Pardosa aenigmatica Tongiorgi, 1966: 304, f. 127 (♀); Tongiorgi, 1968: 108, pl. II, f. 1‒3 (♂) Material. ISRAEL: Golan Heights: 1 km N Merom Golan, 33°08.5’N 35°46.3’E, 950 m, 14.v.2012 (SZ) – 2♀ (TAU); Judean Hills: Adullam Nat. Park, 30.iii.2008 (O. Skutelski) – 1♀ (TAU). Comments. Until recently, it was known only from northern Italy, Turkey and southern Azerbaijan (WSC, 2015; Otto, 2014). This species was not previously recorded from Israel, and the current records are the southernmost in the range. The shape of the epigyne (Fig. 2g) and the male palp indicate that P. aenigmatica is not related to P. alacris (C.L. Koch, 1833), the type species of the genus, and most likely represents a separate genus.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 377, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Tongiorgi, P. (1966): Italian wolf spiders of the genus Pardosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 134, 275 - 334.", "Tongiorgi, P. (1968): Su alcuni ragni italiani della famiglia Lycosidae. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, 16, 107 - 112.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015].", "Otto, S. (2014): Caucasian Spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus. Version 1.4. Internet: http: // caucasus-spiders. info [accessed 11 January 2015]."]}
The cognitive relevance of resting-state brain activity
Creators: name: Chen, Richard
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Human cognitive ability has been strongly linked to neural functioning using both experimenter-controlled task activations and correlations between individual differences in behavior and resting state functional connectivity (RSFC). Furthermore, there is evidence supporting a close relationship between RSFC and task co-activations (independent of behavior). Despite this, it remains unclear what neural mechanisms underlie resting-state brain activity and how it relates to task-state activity and behavior. In the work presented in this thesis, I investigated the complex relationship between these three constructs (task state, rest state, and behavior). First, I investigated the relationship between task-state and resting-state by identifying spontaneous cognitive states occurring during resting state. Comparisons with previously identified task activation patterns in task-based studies revealed unique functions for each of the cognitive states. Second, I explored the relationship between RSFC, task activations, and behavior by testing the associations between task activations and RSFC in context of individual variability in behavior. This revealed the relevance of RSFC network architecture, despite the majority of behavioral variance being related to task activations. Finally, I developed a novel task-training paradigm to determine the neural basis of automaticity, assessing the functional relevance of RSFC in the development of automatic behavior. The results indicate the recruitment of task-based FC over RSFC in encoding automatic behavior. Taken together, these findings add to pre-existing research investigating resting-state neural activity, providing an integrated perspective of the relevance of resting-state activity in relation to task-evoked activity and human behavior.
Self-assembly of colloidal molecules due to self-generated flow
Creators: name: Niu, Ran
name: Speck, Thomas
name: Palberg, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of structure through aggregation is a fascinating topic and of both fundamental and practical interest. Here we demonstrate that self-generated solvent flow can be used to generate long-range attractions on the colloidal scale, with sub-pico Newton forces extending into the millimeter-range. We observe a rich dynamic behavior with the formation and fusion of small clusters resembling molecules, the dynamics of which is governed by an effective conservative energy that decays as $1/r$. Breaking the flow symmetry, these clusters can be made active.
Presentation of Genetically Modified (GM) Crop Research to Non-specialists, 1997-2002 : A Case Study
Creators: name: Robbins, P. T.
name: Cook, G.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: The study investigated the presentation of genetic modification (GM) crop research at the University of Reading to non-specialists within the university, and to users, potential students, and the general public outside. The aim was to uncover how linguistic and rhetorical choices vary with the purpose of the communication and with the communicator's perceptions of audience knowledge and views, and how these choices may persuade or antagonise their receivers.

 The objectives of the study were to determine:

what factors guide GM scientists when presenting research findings to outsiders;

whether presentation varies with scientists' perceptions of audience knowledge and views, and purpose of communication;

whether linguistic choices vary with scientists' perception of the formality, distribution and genre of the presentation;

whether linguistic choices aggravate or appease public and academic opinion about the desirability of research into GM crops.
Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966
Mothers Alone
Creators: name: Marsden, D.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This study is available via the UK Data Service QualiBank, an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service.

 Dennis Marsden's study Mothers Alone: Poverty and the Fatherless Family, also known as Fatherless Families, was carried out in 1965-1966. The study explores the lives and experiences of mothers living alone: unmarried, separated, divorced or widowed. The study posed two questions: what is poverty and who are the fatherless? The study asked about housing conditions, homelessness, diet and nutrition, family relations, marriage and marital breakdowns, and the levels and adequacy of community and national assistance. The interviewees were asked about detailed indicators of poverty and also the subjective, felt experience of poverty. The study examined problems families faced as a consequence of both low income and lack of fathers, the causes of their circumstances, and the adequacy of assistance provided by community and national sources.

 The study was developed from a pilot study done for a larger project, 'Poverty in the UK', by Peter Townsend.

 This is an enhanced qualitative data collection. All interviews were converted from paper to partially searchable Adobe PDF files. Additional relevant documents are included in the user guide, such as the questionnaire, the original letter sent to participants with assurances of consent and confidentiality, notes on methodology, and extracts from an interview with the author about conducting this research.
Trochosa urbana O. P. - Cambridge 1876
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Trochosa urbana O. P.-Cambridge, 1876 Trochosa urbana O. P.- Cambridge, 1876: 601, pl. 60, f. 14 (♂♀) Lycosa urbana: Denis, 1947: 32, pl. 1, f. 6‒7 (♂♀) For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Material. ISRAEL: Eastern Galilee: Lake Hula, 27.iv.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 5♂, 1♀ (TAU); Lake Kinneret, Degania, 26.iv.2010 (L. Friedman & C. Drees) – 6♂ (TAU). Comments. Trochosa urbana was originally described from Egypt. Roewer (1955) transferred it to Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904, although the species lacks tibial scopula (a key character of Geolycosa) and has a carapace pattern and male palp typical for Trochosa. Here, we transfer this species back to Trochosa. Although T. urbana is broadly distributed (North, Central Africa, Seychelles to India), it was not previously reported from Israel.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 378, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Cambridge, O. P. (1876): Catalogue of a collection of spiders made in Egypt, with descriptions of new species and characters of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1876, 541 - 630.", "Denis, J. (1947): Spiders. In: Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Bulletin de la Societe Fouad Ier d'Entomologie, 31, 17 - 103.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015].", "Roewer, C. F. (1955): Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2, 1 - 1751."]}
Phosphorus Abundances in FGK Stars
Creators: name: Maas, Z. G.
name: Pilachowski, C. A.
name: Cescutti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured phosphorus abundances in 22 FGK dwarfs and giants that span --0.55 $
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, Accepted to ApJ
Treatment of first-principles data for predictive quasiharmonic thermodynamics of solids: The case of MgO
Creators: name: Otero de la Roza, Alberto
name: Luaña, Víctor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 340701
subject: Computational chemistry

description: The quasiharmonic approach to the ab initio calculation of thermodynamic properties in crystals is revisited with the improvement of two significant aspects: (i) the use of averaged strain polynomials is proposed to reduce the uncertainty in the fitting of energy versus volume data, and to provide a statistical measure of the errors introduced by the fit, and (ii) the systematic error of the calculations due to the approximate nature of the exchange and correlation functional is repaired through an empirical energy correction scheme that, based only on two experimental parameters (the equilibrium volume and the bulk modulus), brings the calculated thermodynamic properties into agreement with the experimental measurements on an extremely wide range of pressures and temperatures. The proposed procedure is simple, systematic, and applicable to any solid.
Observations of kinetic-size magnetic holes in the magnetosheath
Creators: name: Yao, S. T.
name: Wang, X. G.
name: Shi, Q. Q.
name: Pitkänen, T.
name: Hamrin, M.
name: Yao, Z. H.
name: Li, Z. Y.
name: Ji, X. F.
name: De Spiegeleer, A.
name: Xiao, Y. C.
name: Tian, A. M.
name: Pu, Z. Y.
name: Zong, Q. G.
name: Xiao, C. J.
name: Fu, S. Y.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Russell, C. T.
name: Giles, B. L.
name: Guo, R. L.
name: Sun, W. J.
name: Li, W. Y.
name: Zhou, X. Z.
name: Huang, S. Y.
name: Vaverka, J.
name: Nowada, M.
name: Bai, S. C.
name: Wang, M. M.
name: Liu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic holes (MHs), with a scale much greater than \r{ho}i (proton gyroradius), have been widely reported in various regions of space plasmas. On the other hand, kinetic-size magnetic holes (KSMHs), previously called small size magnetic holes (SSMHs), with a scale of the order of magnitude of or less than \r{ho}i have only been reported in the Earth's magnetospheric plasma sheet. In this study, we report such KSMHs in the magnetosheath whereby we use measurements from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, which provides three-dimensional (3D) particle distribution measurements with a resolution much higher than previous missions. The MHs have been observed in a scale of 10 ~ 20 \r{ho}e (electron gyroradii) and lasted 0.1 ~ 0.3 s. Distinctive electron dynamics features are observed, while no substantial deviations in ion data are seen. It is found that at the 90° pitch angle, the flux of electrons with energy 34 ~ 66 eV decreased while for electrons of energy 109 ~ 1024 eV increased inside the MHs. We also find the electron flow vortex perpendicular to the magnetic field, a feature self-consistent with the magnetic depression. Moreover, the calculated current density is mainly contributed by the electron diamagnetic drift, and the electron vortex flow is the diamagnetic drift flow. The electron magnetohydrodynamics (EMHD) soliton is considered as a possible generation mechanism for the KSMHs with the scale size of 10 ~ 20 \r{ho}e.
description: The paper need to be removed as some data is not corrected
Women Workers in North-East Shipyards During the Second World War, 1939-1945
Creators: name: Roberts, I.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This project conducted interviews with 45 women about their experiences as workers in the shipbuilding and ship-repair yards of the North-East of England during the Second World War. The project explored the women’s experience of work within a very traditional male dominated occupational world. The primary aim was to secure an oral history record and to establish a resource for future researchers. In addition, the interviews contributed to contemporary historical reassessments, which aimed to accord a proper place to women’s work and roles. The data from the interviews illuminated aspects of the changing division of labour and organisation of work in shipbuilding, contributing to debates about the nature of skill and patterns of autonomy of industrial work. Although 45 interviews were conducted only 41 of these were transcribed.
Ero C. L. Koch 1836
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Ero C. L. Koch, 1836 Only one species of the genus, Ero tuberculata (De Geer, 1778), was known from Israel (Zonstein & Marusik, 2013). Three additional species have now been found.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 378, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Zonstein, S. L., & Marusik Y. M. (2013): Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa, 3671 (1), 1 - 127."]}
Friends and Enemies of Clinton and Trump: Using Context for Detecting Stance in Political Tweets
Creators: name: Lai, Mirko
name: Farías, Delia Irazú Hernández
name: Patti, Viviana
name: Rosso, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Stance detection, the task of identifying the speaker's opinion towards a particular target, has attracted the attention of researchers. This paper describes a novel approach for detecting stance in Twitter. We define a set of features in order to consider the context surrounding a target of interest with the final aim of training a model for predicting the stance towards the mentioned targets. In particular, we are interested in investigating political debates in social media. For this reason we evaluated our approach focusing on two targets of the SemEval-2016 Task6 on Detecting stance in tweets, which are related to the political campaign for the 2016 U.S. presidential elections: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. For the sake of comparison with the state of the art, we evaluated our model against the dataset released in the SemEval-2016 Task 6 shared task competition. Our results outperform the best ones obtained by participating teams, and show that information about enemies and friends of politicians help in detecting stance towards them.
description: To appear in MICAI 2016 LNAI Proceedings
Transition out of the Parental Home in Britain, Spain and Norway, 2001-2002
Creators: name: Holdsworth, C.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: There is considerable diversity in young people's experiences of leaving home throughout Europe, with young people leaving home at much older ages in the south rather than the north. However, relatively little is known about the causes of this diversity and its implications for both young people and their families. This research project explored the relative importance of both structural factors, such as access to higher education, labour and housing market conditions and culturally-defined norms on leaving home in three European countries: Britain, Spain and Norway. Based on in-depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews with young people and their parents in each country, the project investigated both the individual and cultural context of transitions out of the parental home.

 The research questions addressed include:

meanings of home and leaving home identified by young people and parents;

young people's expectations of residential independence and its achievement;

the role of parents and the state in assisting the transition out of the parental home;

the importance of peer groups on leaving home including experiences of young people in other European countries.
Empirical study on social groups in pedestrian evacuation dynamics
Creators: name: von Krüchten, Cornelia
name: Schadschneider, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pedestrian crowds often include social groups, i.e. pedestrians that walk together because of social relationships. They show characteristic configurations and influence the dynamics of the entire crowd. In order to investigate the impact of social groups on evacuations we performed an empirical study with pupils. Several evacuation runs with groups of different sizes and different interactions were performed. New group parameters are introduced which allow to describe the dynamics of the groups and the configuration of the group members quantitatively. The analysis shows a possible decrease of evacuation times for large groups due to self-ordering effects. Social groups can be approximated as ellipses that orientate along their direction of motion. Furthermore, explicitly cooperative behaviour among group members leads to a stronger aggregation of group members and an intermittent way of evacuation.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Behavior of digital sequences through exotic numeration systems
Creators: name: Leroy, Julien
name: Rigo, Michel
name: Stipulanti, Manon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A63, 11B85, 41A60

description: Many digital functions studied in the literature, e.g., the summatory function of the base-$k$ sum-of-digits function, have a behavior showing some periodic fluctuation. Such functions are usually studied using techniques from analytic number theory or linear algebra. In this paper we develop a method based on exotic numeration systems and we apply it on two examples motivated by the study of generalized Pascal triangles and binomial coefficients of words.
description: 32 pages, 27 figures
Supplementary Materials Appendix for Carroll's Three-Stratum (3S) Cognitive Ability Theory at 30 Years: Impact, 3S-CHC Theory Clarification, Structural Replication, and Cognitive-Achievement Psychometric Network Analysis Extension
Creators: name: McGrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: intelligence,Carroll,Horn,Cattell,three-stratum theory,CHC theory,Gf-Gc theory,factor analysis,psychometric network analysis

description: These are supplementary materials for the paper--Carroll's Three-Stratum (3S) Cognitive Ability Theory at 30 Years: Impact, 3S-CHC Theory Clarification, Structural Replication, and Cognitive-Achievement Psychometric Network Analysis Extension
EPIC 210894022b - A short period super-Earth transiting a metal poor, evolved old star
Creators: name: Fridlund, Malcolm
name: Gaidos, Eric
name: Barragán, Oscar
name: Persson, Carina M.
name: Gandolfi, Davide
name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Hirano, Teruyuki
name: Kuzuhara, Masayuki
name: Csizmadia, Sz.
name: Nowak, Grzegorz
name: Endl, Michael
name: Grziwa, Sascha
name: Korth, Judith
name: Pfaff, Jeremias
name: Bitsch, Bertram
name: Johansen, Anders
name: Mustill, Alexander J.
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
name: Deeg, Hans
name: Palle, Enric
name: Cochran, William D.
name: Eigmüller, Philipp
name: Erikson, Anders
name: Guenther, Eike
name: Hatzes, Artie P.
name: Kiilerich, Amanda
name: Kudo, Tomoyuki
name: MacQueen, Phillip
name: Narita, Norio
name: Nespral, David
name: Pätzold, Martin
name: Prieto-Arranz, Jorge
name: Rauer, Heike
name: Van Eylen, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The star EPIC 210894022 has been identified from a light curve acquired through the K2 space mission as possibly orbited by a transiting planet. Our aim is to confirm the planetary nature of the object and derive its fundamental parameters. We combine the K2 photometry with reconnaissance spectroscopy and radial velocity (RV) measurements obtained using three separate telescope and spectrograph combinations. The spectroscopic synthesis package SME has been used to derive the stellar photospheric parameters that were used as input to various stellar evolutionary tracks in order to derive the parameters of the system. The planetary transit was also validated to occur on the assumed host star through adaptive imaging and statistical analysis. The star is found to be located in the background of the Hyades cluster at a distance at least 4 times further away from Earth than the cluster itself. The spectrum and the space velocities of EPIC 210894022 strongly suggest it to be a member of the thick disk population. We find that the star is a metal poor ([Fe/H]=-0.53+/-0.05 dex) and alpha-rich somewhat evolved solar-like object of spectral type G3 with Teff=5730+/-50 K, logg=4.15+/-0.1 (cgs), radius of 1.3+/-0.1 R_Sun, and mass of 0.88+/-0.02 M_Sun. The RV detection together with the imaging confirms with a high level of significance that the transit signature is caused by a super-Earth orbiting the star EPIC 210894022. We measure a mass of 8.6+/-3.9 M_Earth and a radius of 1.9+/-0.2 R_Earth. A second more massive object with a period longer than about 120 days is indicated by a long term linear acceleration. With an age of > 10 Gyrs this system is one of the oldest where planets is hitherto detected. Further studies of this planetary system is important since it contains information about the planetary formation process during a very early epoch of the history of our Galaxy.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
R3PACK WP7 D7.2 Business plan
Creators: name: Schott, Elodie
name: Covillers, Antoine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Business plan
Strategy
Upscaling strategy
Plastic reduction
Reuse
Substitution

description: The document describes the first version of R3PACK's business plan. The project aims at reducing single use plastic packaging by using the means of reuse and substitution. The plan consists in an uptake strategy for the to-be developed solutions to secure their success and adoption across the European Union, as well as a forecast of the potential reachable reduction impact.
Meeting Basic Needs? Exploring the Survival Strategies of Forced Migrants, 2004
Creators: name: Dwyer, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: The aims of the project were:

to consider how far the basic housing and financial needs of refugees and asylum seekers are being adequately met;

to explore the strategies used by asylum seekers and refugees in order to meet their needs in relation to housing and social security;

to explore the role of the formal and informal welfare agencies and actors in meeting such needs;

to engage in some preliminary scoping of the appropriateness of a policy that would allow asylum seekers to engage in paid work in order to meet their needs.
Homework and its Contributions to Learning, 1999-2001
Creators: name: Greenhough, P.
name: Hughes, M.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: The overall aims of the research were to examine the contribution which homework makes to student learning at Key Stages 2 and 3, and to identify some of the conditions under which this contribution is enhanced or reduced. The main research questions were:

what kind of tasks are set for homework?

to what extent and in what ways do students engage with homework?

what are the main contexts in which homework originates and is carried out, and how is homework perceived and valued within those contexts?

what kinds of support are provided for homework within these contexts?

what effects do pupil characteristics (such as age, gender and learning identity) have on the way in which homework is perceived and carried out?

what are the learning outcomes arising from particular homework tasks?

how do tasks, contexts and pupil characteristics interact with each other to enhance or reduce learning outcomes?

 The research was intended to be exploratory and hypothesis-generating. It was therefore based on the in-depth study of how homework is practised and perceived in and around a small number of primary and secondary schools.
Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in bilayer dipolar systems
Creators: name: Lee, Hao
name: Matveenko, S. I.
name: Wang, Daw-Wei
name: Shlyapnikov, G. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase diagram of fermionic polar molecules in a bilayer system, with an imbalance of molecular densities of the layers. For the imbalance exceeding a critical value the system undergoes a transition from the uniform interlayer superfluid to the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state with a stripe structure, and at sufficiently large imbalance a transition from the FFLO to normal phase. Compared to the case of contact interactions, the FFLO regime is enhanced by the long-range character of the interlayer dipolar interaction, which can combine the s-wave and p-wave pairing in the order parameter.
description: 5+13 pages, 3+9 figures, including Supplemental Material
Event-based State Estimation: An Emulation-based Approach
Creators: name: Trimpe, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An event-based state estimation approach for reducing communication in a networked control system is proposed. Multiple distributed sensor agents observe a dynamic process and sporadically transmit their measurements to estimator agents over a shared bus network. Local event-triggering protocols ensure that data is transmitted only when necessary to meet a desired estimation accuracy. The event-based design is shown to emulate the performance of a centralised state observer design up to guaranteed bounds, but with reduced communication. The stability results for state estimation are extended to the distributed control system that results when the local estimates are used for feedback control. Results from numerical simulations and hardware experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in reducing network communication.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures, this article is based on the technical report arXiv:1511.05223 and is accepted for publication in IET Control Theory & Applications
Cross-Generational Investigation of the Making of Heterosexual Relationships, 1912-2003
Creators: name: Hockey, J.
name: Meah, A.
name: Robinson, V.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This study represents the first major UK-based empirical study of the making of heterosexual relationships over the last 80 years. Making intimacy and the practices of everyday life its core focus, it asks how women and men manage and subjectively experience the institution of heterosexuality. Taking up VanEvery's (1996) argument that marriage and the family are heterosexuality's hegemonic manifestations, the study uses a life course perspective to investigate the processes through which women and men have identified and constituted themselves as 'heterosexual' at various points across the last 80 years. Drawing on interviews with 71 women and men across three generations in 22 families (all families had to have some connection with East Yorkshire), it was asked how heterosexuality as an institution is reproduced, resisted and reinvented through the practices of everyday life (consent was not given by all respondents, the deposited data consist of 54 interviews from 20 families). Key areas of focus include embodiment, emotionality and the centrality of heterosexuality as an implicit principle underpinning the organisation of both public and private space. With the focus on the extended family, also considered are the temporalities of heterosexuality, exploring the meshing of historical, familial and biographical time.

 Key heterosexual moments identified within these data include: the acquisition of sexual knowledge through talk and practice; courtship, weddings and home-making; parenthood, work and family life; separation and divorce; redundancy and retirement; death, dying and bereavement. While these data provided extensive scope for cross-generational comparison, of perhaps greater significance is their contribution of an account of the transmission of heterosexual practice within the family and across generations. The study provides an account of how individuals seek to navigate the uncertainties of contemporary heterosexual life, thus describing not only the practice of heterosexuality, but also the reflections of members of different generations upon the values and experiences of older and younger family members.

 Further information about the study may be found on the project's web page
 The Making of Heterosexual Relationships.
An Overview of Mobile Capacitive Touch Technologies Trends
Creators: name: Du, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Touch sensing, as a major human/machine interface, is widely used in various commercial products such as smart watches, mobile phones, tablets and TVs. State-of-the-art touch detections are mainly based on mutual capacitive sensing, which requires necessary contact-touch, limiting the mobile user experience. Recently, remote gesture sensing is widely reported in both academy and industry as it can provide additional user-experience for mobile interface. The capacitive remote gesture sensing is mainly based on detecting self-capacitance, achieving high resolution through eliminating the parasitic mutual capacitance. In this work, we overview the different generations of touchscreen technology, comparing the touch and remote gesture sensing technologies difference. In addition, different remote gesture sensing technologies are also compared. The limitations and potentials of different topologies are discussed and a final conclusion about the technology trends is summarized in the end.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures
Regionalisation and the New Politics of Waste, 2002-2004
Creators: name: Davoudi, S.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: This research project examined how new policy agendas, institutional arrangements and political pressures have influenced the strategic planning for the management of municipal solid waste across England. Focusing on the evolution of regional institution building and particularly the role of the new Regional Technical Advisory Bodies for waste management, the study traced the level of involvement and the role of various actors and regulatory frameworks from different spatial scales in the development and implementation of subnational waste management strategies. Emphasis was placed on the variety of coalitions developing around strategic waste planning and their role in enabling or constraining different waste policy options. Placing these issues in the context of the challenges of sustainable development, the project sought to inform the wider debate on institutional change and the prospect for new ways of thinking about sustainable resource management through England's emerging regional structures.

 The research comprised two key phases:
semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis to provide an initial comprehensive assessment of the regional structures and emerging policy processes in all English regions

detailed case-study analysis on interactions between regional and local decision-making processes in three regions (Yorkshire and Humberside, North West England and Eastern England), selected on the basis of the findings from the first phase
Pulsejet engine dynamics in vertical motion using momentum conservation
Creators: name: Cheche, Tiberius O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The momentum conservation law is applied to analyse the dynamics of pulsejet engine in vertical motion in a uniform gravitational field in the absence of friction. The model predicts existence of a terminal speed given frequency of the short pulses. The conditions that the engine does not return to the starting position are identified. The number of short periodic pulses after which the engine returns to the starting position is found to be independent of the exhaust velocity and gravitational field intensity for certain frequency of the pulses. The pulsejet engine and turbojet engine aircraft models of dynamics are compared. Also the octopus dynamics is modelled. The paper is addressed to intermediate undergraduate students of classical mechanics and aerospace engineering.
description: 14 pages
Structure Preserving Model Reduction of Parametric Hamiltonian Systems
Creators: name: Afkham, Babak Maboudi
name: Hesthaven, Jan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: While reduced-order models (ROMs) have been popular for efficiently solving large systems of differential equations, the stability of reduced models over long-time integration is of present challenges. We present a greedy approach for ROM generation of parametric Hamiltonian systems that captures the symplectic structure of Hamiltonian systems to ensure stability of the reduced model. Through the greedy selection of basis vectors, two new vectors are added at each iteration to the linear vector space to increase the accuracy of the reduced basis. We use the error in the Hamiltonian due to model reduction as an error indicator to search the parameter space and identify the next best basis vectors. Under natural assumptions on the set of all solutions of the Hamiltonian system under variation of the parameters, we show that the greedy algorithm converges with exponential rate. Moreover, we demonstrate that combining the greedy basis with the discrete empirical interpolation method also preserves the symplectic structure. This enables the reduction of the computational cost for nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The efficiency, accuracy, and stability of this model reduction technique is illustrated through simulations of the parametric wave equation and the parametric Schrodinger equation.
Ero cambridgei Kulczynski 1911
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mimetidae
Ero
Ero cambridgei

description: Ero cambridgei Kulczyński, 1911 Ero cambridgei: Roberts, 1998: 274, f. (♂♀); Thaler et al., 2004: 360, f. 23‒24, 28‒29, 34‒35, 60‒61 (♂♀) Material. ISRAEL: Hermon, 1700 m, 12.v.2010 (C. Drees & L. Friedman) ‒ 1♂ (TAU). For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Comments. This well-known species is distributed across the entire Palaearctic. The record from Israel is the southernmost in the entire range.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 378, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Roberts, M. J. (1998): Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn (the Netherlands).", "Thaler, K., van Harten, A., & Knoflach, B. (2004): Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C. L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia, 13, 359 - 368.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Constraints on the flux of $\sim (10^{16} - 10^{17.5})$ eV cosmic photons from the EAS-MSU muon data
Creators: name: Fomin, Yu. A.
name: Kalmykov, N. N.
name: Karpikov, I. S.
name: Kulikov, G. V.
name: Kuznetsov, M. Yu.
name: Rubtsov, G. I.
name: Sulakov, V. P.
name: Troitsky, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of the search for $\sim (10^{16} - 10^{17.5})$ eV primary cosmic-ray photons with the data of the Moscow State University (MSU) Extensive Air Shower (EAS) array are reported. The full-scale reanalysis of the data with modern simulations of the installation does not confirm previous indications of the excess of gamma-ray candidate events. Upper limits on the corresponding gamma-ray flux are presented. The limits are the most stringent published ones at energies $\sim 10^{17}$ eV.
Ero flammeola Simon 1881
Creators: name: Zonstein, Sergei
name: Marusik, Yuri
name: Omelko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Mimetidae
Ero
Ero flammeola

description: Ero flammeola Simon, 1881 (Figures 1e‒g) Ero flammeola: Thaler et al. 2004: 362, f. 4, 17‒18, 20, 26, 32, 41‒42, 49-50, 54‒55 (♂♀) For a complete synonym listing and references, see the World Spider Catalog (2015). Material. ISRAEL: Mt. Meron, Ba’al-Shem-Tov f., 32°58’N 35°28’E, 13.ix.2007 (T. Levanony) ‒ 1♂ (TAU); Mt. Meron, Ba’al-Shem-Tov, 32°58’N 35°28’E, 13.ix.2007 (T. Levanony) ‒ 1♂ (TAU). Comments. It is a poorly known species and, therefore, we provide figures of the male palp to support our identification. Until recently, E, flammeola was known from the Canary Islands to Corfu. The record from Israel is the south-easternmost in the entire range.
description: Published as part of Zonstein, Sergei, Marusik, Yuri & Omelko, Mikhail, 2015, A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae), pp. 372-385 in Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) on page 378, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525, http://zenodo.org/record/807961
description: {"references": ["Thaler, K., van Harten, A., & Knoflach, B. (2004): Pirate spiders of the genus Ero C. L. Koch from southern Europe, Yemen, and Ivory Coast, with two new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Mimetidae). Denisia, 13, 359 - 368.", "World Spider Catalog (2015) World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http: // wsc. nmbe. ch, version 15.5 [accessed on 20.01.2015]."]}
Transcranial alternating current stimulation modulates visual adaptation and visuospatial attention
Creators: name: Liu, Yinghua
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that passes a mild sinusoidal current through a few scalp electrodes to modulate neural activity. The relatively simple set up of tACS makes it a feasible and affordable approach of brain intervention that can benefit the general public. tACS has brought exciting behavioral effects on augmentation of various aspects of cognitive performance. Meanwhile, rising concerns have surfaced on the high variability in tACS results and call for a better understanding of the neural mechanisms of tACS. The work presented in this thesis answered this need by studying tACS with a multi-methodological approach: in the first study, we investigated the effect of tACS on the orientation selective response of neurons in the primary visual cortex of monkeys through extracellular recording; in the second study, we tested the behavioral outcomes of tACS with healthy human subjects. We found that tACS at a broad range of frequencies consistently induced a mild reduction of adaptation of the tuning properties of orientation selective neurons. Meanwhile, we found a frequency-selective modulation of spike timing. These results provided valuable evidence of tACS modulation on a translatable function with a rarely studied animal model of tACS. It showed the generalizability of adaptation attenuation that was first found in the visual motion encoding neurons with tACS. The frequency-independent effect of adaptation attenuation suggested a cellular mechanism of tACS that was likely not dependent on membrane potential. Our human behavioral study combined HD-tACS with a classic cognitive paradigm, the Posner endogenous attention cueing task. We found robust effect of tACS at 10 Hz but not 40 Hz, on reaction time to the visual targets. tACS targeting the right temporoparietal junction and the occipital visual areas each significantly delayed subjects’ reaction time. The robust effect demonstrated the potential of this behavioral paradigm as a reliable research tool to probe tACS effect. It also provided indirect supporting evidence for the role of alpha oscillation in attention suppression. Taken together, this thesis contributed valuable insights into both the basic mechanism of tACS and practical improvement of tACS application.
Devolution and Identity in Northern Ireland: a Longitudinal Discursive Study, 2003-2004
Creators: name: Wilson, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2006

description: The purpose of the study was to explore the ways in which potential identity shifts in Northern Ireland might be tracked across time by focusing on interactional discourse as it relates to issues of devolution and peace. The approach is broadly influenced by discursive psychology. Transcriptions of focus group recordings from East Belfast and West Belfast were analysed both within a macro frame of the linguistic realisation of political identity in content and historical context and within a micro frame of the structural and interactional realisation of identity positions in talk. The discussions centred around a series of 'critical social incidents', i.e. major news events which impacted generally on the community and may have caused reflection on identity positions. Northern Ireland operates in a different context to other devolved regions of the United Kingdom, in that not only has it suffered from many years of conflict, but the very nature of the conflict relates to potential identities as they draw upon the concept of devolution for divergent purposes. This is one of the major dimensions of identity talk in the data; Protestants/Unionists and Catholics/Nationalists may see the process of devolution as having competing and mutually exclusive ends. This suggests that devolution, a process assumed by both British and Irish governments to be a positive step in achieving 'parity of esteem', may actually work to promote single-identity politics. Overall, the analysis of the research revealed a range of key discursive patterns that were utilised to maintain division, but at the same time, construct different patterns of interpretation within a socio-political context. Hence, it may be seen how discourse is a tool for dealing with different socio-political events and circumstances and also how it would be a useful resource for policy analysts, who tend to focus on the macro quantitative frame, thereby missing the subtle flexibility of talk and identity. Such analyses still assume dualities in Northern Ireland, whereas the research conducted for this project revealed that underneath such differences also lie a set of concerns and commonalities reflected at the micro level of talk.

 This data collection contains verbatim transcriptions of eight focus group discussions held with community members in East and West Belfast on the theme of political devolution and its impact on their lives, as discussed above.
Catalogue of the Published Papers of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1857-1886
Creators: name: McGregor, O. Ross
name: White, S.
name: Goldman, L.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 2005

description: The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (or Social Science Association as it was known in short) provided a highly influential forum for the discussion of social, political, economic, educational, sanitary, legal and cultural issues between the 1850s and 1880s. Its debates featured leading Victorians, among them prime ministers and other politicians; intellectuals; social reformers; the first British feminists; trade unionists; and civil servants. Approximately 4,500 papers, published in more than 50 volumes, were delivered to the Association by more than 2,000 speakers but they have been little used by scholars because their contents are largely unknown. The aim of the project has been to produce a searchable catalogue, freely accessible over the World Wide Web, to assist researchers in finding some of the most important social commentary of the Victorian era.