cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scytonema mirabile Bornet 1889
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Scytonemataceae
Scytonema
Scytonema mirabile

description: Scytonema mirabile Bornet (1889: 155) Fig. 75 A–L.
Thallus a felt-like blackish-green mat; filaments straight or variously flexuous, 10.5–21.0 μm broad, with solitary or geminate false-branching; sheaths wide, colourless to yellow or yellowish-brown in colour, with parallel layers. Trichomes cylindrical, widened towards the ends, towards the centre of the trichome not or slightly constricted at the cross walls, distinctly constricted towards the trichome apices. Vegetative cells isodiametric to cylindrical, 6.5–16.0 μm long × 6.3–10.5 μm broad, blue-green to olive-green in colour; apical cells widened, barrel-shaped, distinctly constricted at the cross walls, sometimes vacuolated, end cell hemispherical rounded, up to 16 μm wide. Heterocytes intercalary, isodiametric to cylindrical, 13.0–22.5 μm long × 8.1–10.7 μm broad.
 Specimens examined:—Wallaby Ck at Talaroo, Einasleigh R. at Talaroo.
 Other records:— Queensland: Skinner & Entwisle (2001), New South Wales: Adeline Falls, Lawson, Blue Mountains, S. Skinner & T.J. Entwisle, 2001 (NSW 627141), Swamp on road to Barokee Rest Area, Cathedral Rock Natl Park, Skinner, 2000 (NSW), Woronora R., Eckersley Ford, 11 km below Woronora Dam, Entwisle, 1999 (NSW), Mill Ck, 5 km E of Wisemans Ferry, Entwisle, 2000 (NSW), Playfair (1912), Playfair (1917); Victoria: River into Old R, 5 km W of Mt Castor, South West Natl Park, Entwisle, 1996 (MEL); Northern Territory: Wangi Falls, Litchfield Natl Park, Entwisle, 1997 (MEL).
 Observations:—Growing amongst the metaphyton amongst aquatic plants in the littoral zone and in shallow offstream waterholes in tropical rivers.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
"It's What I Can Do": Uncertainty, Struggle, and the Emotional Know-How of Environmentalists Working for Social Change
Creators: name: Felsher, Maxwell H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental movement
Environment
Social action

description: Time-line interviews and other aspects of Brenda Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology were used to explore the production of knowledge by people who are interested in creating social change-in particular, a group of environmentalists. Three prominent themes emerged in the interviews: the urge to make a difference in the world, uncertainty or doubt about the interviewees' impact, and personal struggles over whether the interviewees were doing enough for the cause. While some of the uncertainty, doubt, and struggles faced by the interviewees might be helped by better factual information, it is argued that some of these difficulties cannot be resolved in such a way. The "know-how" of being able to take action in the face of uncertainty and personal struggles may be an important kind of knowledge being produced and established in groups similar to the one studied.
Curvature estimation from a volume of fluid indicator function for the simulation of surface tension and wetting with a free surface lattice Boltzmann method
Creators: name: Bogner, Simon
name: Rüde, Ulrich
name: Harting, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The free surface lattice Boltzmann method (FSLBM) is a combination of the hydrodynamic lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) with a volume of fluid (VOF) interface apturing technique for the simulation of incompressible free surface flows. Capillary effects are modeled by extracting the curvature of the interface from the VOF indicator function and imposing a pressure jump at the free boundary. However, obtaining accurate curvature estimates from a VOF description can introduce significant errors. This article reports numerical results for three different surface tension models in standard test cases, and compares the according errors in the velocity field (spurious currents). Furthermore, the FSLBM is shown to be suited to simulate wetting effects at solid boundaries. To this end, a new method is developed to represent wetting boundary conditions in a least squares curvature econstruction technique. The main limitations of the current FSLBM are analyzed and are found to be caused by its simplified advection scheme. Possible improvements are suggested.
Scytonema subtile Mobius 1892
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Scytonemataceae
Scytonema
Scytonema subtile

description: Scytonema subtile Möbius (1892: 448) Figs. 77 A–E, 78 A–F.
Filaments solitary amongst other algae, or forming small unstructured clusters, 14–17 (–21) μm wide, with geminate false-branching; branches narrowed at the base, widened towards the ends. Sheath wide, initially colourless, and later yellow to brown in colour, parallely lamellated. Trichomes cylindrical, narrowed in older parts not constricted at the cross walls, continually widened towards the ends and distinctly constricted. Vegetative cells long cylindrical in older parts of the filaments, 11.5–19.5 μm long × 1.8–5.0 (–6.5) μm wide, towards the ends shortened, isodiametric to shortly barrel-shaped, 3.5–5.5 μm long × (5.0–) 7.0–9.5 (–11.5) μm wide; apical cells widely rounded. Heterocytes ± spherical, barrel-shaped to cylindrical, 11.0–20.5 μm long × 6.0–7.5 (–12.0) μm wide.
 Specimens examined:—Blue L., Naree Budjong Djara Natl Park, North Stradbroke Is., Crystal Ck at Bypass Rd.
 Other records:— New South Wales: Central Coast: McCarrs Ck, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase Natl Park, Entwisle, 2000 (NSW); Brisbane Waters Natl Park, Coveny, 2000 (NSW); Sydney International Rowing Course, Penrith Lakes, S. Skinner, 2000 (NSW); Gap Ck Falls, Olney S.F., Cherry, 2000 (NSW). Northern Territory: billabong 25 km SW of Bullita Outstation, Gregory Natl Park, C.A. Coles, 1996 (MEL 2277156A).
 Observations:—Metaphytic or attached to submerged and emergent aquatic plants in the littoral zone of subtropical wallum lakes, acidic tropical streams and waterholes (Komárek 2013).
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Logging In to Life: Examining the Digital Divide through the lens of ELIP and the Library as Place
Creators: name: Lasher, Meggie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017
Subjects: Adult Learners
Everyday Life Information Practices
Digital divide
Public libraries
Digital Inclusion
Library as Place

description: This study aims to understand how individuals who participate in basic computer classes navigate life within the digital divide. Much of the literature available about the digital divide and literacy takes a reductionist focus on the abilities of those learning how to use computers. This study incorporates the literature and frameworks from Everyday Life Information Practices and library as place to inform the direction of the study. The goal of the study was to examine the information practices of older adults in computer classes and gain insight on how they have developed strategies to live in a technology centric world. Overall, the study found that these individuals are creative and resilient when it comes to navigating the digital divide. The implications of this study can be applied to future understandings of the library as a learning place, a positive approach to LIS research, and accessible and adaptable system design.
Hadron-Quark Crossover and Hot Neutron Stars at Birth
Creators: name: Masuda, Kota
name: Hatsuda, Tetsuo
name: Takatsuka, Tatsuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a new isentropic equation of state (EOS) at finite temperature "CRover" on the basis of the hadron-quark crossover at high density. By using the new EOS, we study the structure of hot neutron stars at birth with the typical lepton fraction ($Y_l=0.3-0.4$) and the typical entropy per baryon ($S=1-2$). Due to the gradual appearance of quark degrees of freedom at high density, the temperature T and the baryon density at the center of the hot neutron stars with the hadron-quark crossover are found to be smaller than those without the crossover by a factor of 2 or more. Typical energy release due to the contraction of a hot neutron star to a cold neutron star with 1.4 solarmass is shown to be about 0.04 solarmass with the spin-up rate about 14%.
description: 10 pages and 7 figures
Towards the physical vacuum of cosmic inflation
Creators: name: Jiang, Hongliang
name: Wang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been long debates about the initial condition of inflationary perturbations. In this work we explicitly show the decay of excited states during inflation via interactions. For this purpose, we note that the folded shape non-Gaussianity can be interpreted as the decay of the non-Bunch-Davies initial condition. The one loop diagrams with non-Bunch-Davies propagators are calculated to uncover the decay of such excited states. The observed smallness of non-Gaussianity keeps the window open for probing inflationary initial conditions and trans-Planckian physics.
Constructing Better "Confidence" Intervals for Proportions and Tests of Differences Among Proportions Using a Stratified Multistage Sample
Creators: name: Kott, Phillip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Edgeworth expansion
Third-central moment
Holm-Bonferroni
Variance stratum

description: Coverage intervals for a parameter estimate computed using complex survey data are often constructed by assuming that the parameter estimate has an asymptotically normal distribution. The size of the sample and the nature of the parameter being estimated render the conventional “Wald” methodology and the term “confidence interval” dubious in many applications. A revised method of coverage-interval construction has been developed that “speeds up the asymptotics” of a complex-survey estimator by incorporating a measure of its third-central moment. Public-use data from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) are employed to demonstrate the construction of third-moment-adjusted coverage intervals for population proportions of cocaine and crack use within seven race/ethnicities. A third-moment-adjusted Bonferroni methodology is proposed for making comparison among these seven subdomains. The NSDUH public-use data set contains two variance primary sampling units within each variance stratum and little additional information about the sample design. This complicates measuring third-central moments.
Formation of hexagonal Boron Nitride on Graphene-covered Copper Surfaces
Creators: name: Gopalan, Devashish P.
name: Mende, Patrick C.
name: de la Barrera, Sergio C.
name: Dhingra, Shonali
name: Li, Jun
name: Zhang, Kehao
name: Simonson, Nicholas A.
name: Robinson, Joshua A.
name: Lu, Ning
name: Wang, Qingxiao
name: Kim, Moon J.
name: D'Urso, Brian
name: Feenstra, Randall M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graphene-covered copper surfaces have been exposed to borazine, (BH)3(NH)3, with the resulting surfaces characterized by low-energy electron microscopy. Although the intent of the experiment was to form hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) on top of the graphene, such layers were not obtained. Rather, in isolated surface areas, h-BN is found to form micrometer-size islands that substitute for the graphene. Additionally, over nearly the entire surface, the properties of the layer that was originally graphene is observed to change in a manner that is consistent with the formation of a mixed h-BN/graphene alloy, i.e. h-BNC alloy. Furthermore, following the deposition of the borazine, a small fraction of the surface is found to consist of bare copper, indicating etching of the overlying graphene. The inability to form h-BN layers on top of graphene is discussed in terms of the catalytic behavior of the underlying copper surface and the decomposition of the borazine on top of the graphene.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures; submitted to J. Mater. Res.; v2 adds Fig. 5 and makes some minor modifications to text
Comparing Dyslexia and Visual Impairments under W3C's WCAG: A  Legal Standard for Web Design?
Creators: name: Currier, Brett
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Accessible websites for people with disabilities
Technology--Information services--Law & legislation
Libraries & people with disabilities--Standards

description: W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) has become the de facto legal standard for web design based on recent settlement agreements. The Department of Justice has even tried to make WCAG the actual law. This paper examines the most common plaintiffs in successful Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) litigation against colleges and universities (individuals with visual impairments) and compares these plaintiffs to individuals with dyslexia, as both populations are covered under the ADA, as both populations have the same affected major life activity: reading. After identifying the 15 overlapping Success Criteria, this review then uses a systematic review methodology to determine when designing for individuals with dyslexia, then it also creates accessible webpages for individuals with visual impairments and when they do not.
Scytonema tolypothrichoides Kutzing ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Scytonemataceae
Scytonema
Scytonema tolypothrichoides

description: Scytonema tolypothrichoides Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 100) Fig. 79 A–E.
Thallus flocculose, or forming small unstructured tuft-like clusters, rarely occurring as solitary filaments amongst other algae. Filaments 10–18 μm wide, with geminate false-branching; branches the same morphology as the main filaments. Sheath wide, colourless and slightly parallely lamellated with divergent layers towards the ends. Trichomes cylindrical, not constricted at the cross walls, ± widened towards the ends. Vegetative cylindrical, isodiametric or slightly longer or shorter than broad, 3.5–8.0 μm long × 4.0–6.5 μm wide, towards the ends shortened, isodiametric to shortly barrel-shaped; apical cells widely rounded. Heterocytes ± spherical, barrel-shaped to cylindrical, 5.0–11.5 μm long.
 Specimens examined:—Maloney Springs
 Other records:— Queensland: SE Queensland, McLeod (1975).
 Observations:—Growing in small clusters amongst other algae in the shallows of tropical springs and shallow wetlands.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
MS Gr. class. c. 5 995
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1149 col. 115sup. Epicurus, De natura 2
Drawing by Giuseppe Casanova
Coherent Feedback Improved Qubit Initialization in the Dispersive Regime
Creators: name: Govia, Luke C. G.
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Readout of the state of a superconducting qubit by homodyne detection of the output signal from a dispersively coupled microwave resonator is a common technique in circuit quantum electrodynamics, and is often claimed to be quantum non-demolition (QND) up to the same order of approximation as in the dispersive approximation. However, in this work we show that only in the limit of infinite measurement time is this protocol QND, as the formation of a dressed coherent state in the qubit-cavity system applies an effective rotation to the qubit state. We show how this rotation can be corrected by a coherent operation, leading to improved qubit initialization by measurement and coherent feedback.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure plus 3 pages supplementary, 1 figure supplementary
title: La formazione del tutor dei docenti neoassunti. Una prospettiva ecosistemica
Creators: name: Fiorucci, Massimiliano
name: Moretti, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2022

description:

La situazione emergenziale e l’incertezza che caratterizza sempre di più i contesti scolastici suggeriscono l’adozione di una prospettiva ecosistemica. Il volume, a cura di Massimiliano Fiorucci e Giovanni Moretti, approfondisce il ruolo e le funzioni del tutor dei docenti neoassunti, i contributi sono l’esito delle riflessioni avviate nell’ambito di un percorso pluriennale di formazione svolto dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione di Roma Tre in collaborazione con l’Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per il Lazio. La promozione della leadership educativa diffusa unitamente allo sviluppo di una postura ecosistemica da parte del tutor dei docenti neoassunti rappresentano una risorsa per rendere più resiliente il sistema scolastico (Giovanni Moretti). Il tutor assume una posizione strategica di figura di sistema nell'ecologia dei processi formativi che caratterizzano le istituzioni scolastiche (Fabio Bocci). Tale ruolo richiede al tutor di prestare attenzione alla percezione delle proprie convinzioni e allo sviluppo delle competenze ritenute indispensabili per qualificare l’agire professionale (Massimo Margottini). In particolare si analizza la formazione del tutor al Counselling per la supervisione professionale del docente neoassunto (Valeria Biasi, Nazarena Patrizi, Conny De Vincenzo), la formazione tra pari e il ruolo della ricerca nello sviluppo professionale continuo (Anna Maria Ciraci). Alcuni contributi riflettono sulle modalità di utilizzo e sulla sostenibilità di strumenti volti a: favorire la flessibilità didattica e il confronto sulle pratiche valutative (Concetta La Rocca, Edoardo Casale), condurre attività di osservazione peer to peer nell’ambito della formazione dei docenti neoassunti (Giovanni Moretti, Arianna Morini). Il volume presenta inoltre il profilo dei docenti tutor che emerge dalla analisi dei dati rilevati coinvolgendo oltre duemila tutor (Arianna Morini, Bianca Briceag e Natalia Ciaprini). Le considerazioni sulle iniziative di formazione svolte e sugli esiti della indagine conoscitiva convergono nel corroborare la proposta di adottare una prospettiva ecosistemica nella formazione dei tutor dei docenti neoassunti.
Field Experience in Library Science Education and the Health Sciences: A Survey
Creators: name: Main, Lindsey R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Library schools--Practice work
Internship programs--Evaluation
Education for librarianship
Surveys--Internship programs

description: This review examines the development of effective practical education models of field experiences for library science students through internships and residencies related to health sciences librarianship. A literature review of refereed journal publications was conducted focusing on repeatedly successful criteria utilized for the evaluation of health sciences related practicums and perceived benefits of successful examples. Transferable recommendations for greater productivity and standardization of assessment measures were made in order to suggest the value for a baseline from which to base and by which to compare current and emerging field experience practices for library school students. Findings suggest that through increased collaboration, improved availability, and greater consistency, the resulting assessment products would lead to more successful field experience opportunities that better meet stated objectives and missions.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 996
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1149 col. 93sup. Epicurus, De natura 2
Drawing by Giuseppe Casanova
Stigonema eliskae Komarek & Komarkova 2017
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Stigonematales
Stigonemataceae
Stigonema
Stigonema eliskae

description: Stigonema eliskae Komárek & Komárková (2017: 24) Fig. 82 A–F.
Filaments solitary or in loose agglomerations amongst other algae, not forming sessile colonies; isopolar, uni- to 3–4 × multiseriate, 20–35 (–45) μm broad, rarely laterally branched, branches typically short and of the same morphology as the main filaments. Sheath firm, uncoloured, not lamellated. Vegetative cells irregularly spherical, 7.5–15 (–18.5) μm in diameter, olive-green to yellow-brown in colour. Heterocytes lateral, subspherical to hemispherical, 5–15 μm in diameter. Reproduction by fragmentation and the production of hormogonia from the apices of lateral branches.
 Specimens examined:—Amity Swamp, Tortoise Lagoon, Naree Budjong Djara Natl Park, North Stradbroke Is., Freshwater L., Great Sandy Natl Park, Cooloola Section.
 Observations:—Growing amongst the Hapalosiphon- dominated metaphyton in the littoral zone of wallum lakes and streams. Not known to form sessile mats or attached to the substrate (Komárek & Komárková 2017).
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Cosmic Censorship of Rotating Anti-de Sitter Black Hole
Creators: name: Gwak, Bogeun
name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the validity of cosmic censorship in the rotating anti-de Sitter black hole. For this purpose, we investigate whether the extremal black hole can be overspun by the particle absorption. The particle absorption will change the mass and angular momentum of the black hole, which is analyzed using the Hamilton-Jacobi equations consistent with the laws of thermodynamics. We have found that the mass of the extremal black hole increases more than the angular momentum. Therefore, the outer horizon of the black hole still exists, and cosmic censorship is valid.
description: 8 pages, published version in JCAP
Stigonema informe Kutzing ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Stigonematales
Stigonemataceae
Stigonema
Stigonema informe

description: Stigonema informe Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 75) Fig. 83 A–B.
Thallus short, tufted, expanded and crusty, dark olive-green to brown in colour. Filaments multiseriate or uniseriate, 35–75 μm in diameter, erect, fasciculate; sheath firm, gelatinous, lamellated, uncoloured to yellow-brown in colour. Trichomes 4–6 times multiseriate in the main branches, less so in lateral branches. Vegetative cells compressed globose, or subquadrate, 9–15 (–18) μm in diameter. Heterocytes common, lateral, similar size to vegetative cells. Hormogonia uniseriate, developing at the ends of narrow branches, up to 18 μm wide.
 Specimens examined:—Coomera R. at Lamington Natl Park, Binna Burra Section.
 Other records:— Queensland: Tributary of Sanamore Lagoon, Cape York, A.B. Cribb, 1985, (BRI 1043.3), Hermit Ck, near Benthams Falls, E.A. Brown, 2001 (NSW 884756), McLeod (1975); New South Wales: Lord Howe Is., Brown 2000, Conn & Downs, 2000, McCarrs Ck, Kur Ring-Gai Chase Natl Park, Entwisle, 2000, Adeline Falls, Lawson, Blue Mountains, Entwisle, 2001, (NSW 491960); Tasmania: Uno Gully, Meetus Falls Road, Entwisle, 1996, (MEL 2033635A).
 Observations:—Growing amongst Scytonema and other filamentous cyanobacteria on granitic boulders in the splash zone of clear high-altitude streams.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
STEM Education in the K-8 Classroom: Comparing Robotics to Website Development and Model Bridge Building
Creators: name: Burton, Bill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011
Subjects: Education

description: This study was designed to gauge teacher perspectives on student learning outcomes for  three common science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs. Lego  Robotics, website development and model bridge building were compared in an effort to  understand the impact of different components of STEM programs on student learning  outcomes. Key variables that were studied were student motivation, engagement,  collaboration and independent learning. In addition, the value of a program to teach  skills that were likely to lead to future STEM success was discussed. Results indicated  that Lego Robotics programs were significantly better at providing positive educational  outcomes for a variety of measures when compared to other STEM programs.
Abitare la fine. La questione dell'Ultimo uomo nell'opera di Nietzsche
Creators: name: MIOTTO, LUCA
Publisher: name: Università degli studi di Genova
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nietzsche; Ultimo uomo; Zarathustra; Differenza; Pathos della distanza
subject: Nietzsche
subject: Ultimo uomo
subject: Zarathustra
subject: Differenza
subject: Pathos della distanza

description: Despite the wide resonance known throughout the twentieth-century philosophical scene, Nietzsche's figure of the Last Man (der letzte Mensch) has received only a little attention within critical literature. This work aims to cover this gap by providing both a philological and theoretical account of what Mazzino Montinari called 'the greatest objection to the Overman'. Since this character made its only appearance in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the first part of the dissertation deals with the hermeneutical problem we need to take into consideration when focusing on such a hybrid literary work, in between poetry and philosophy. After having shown how the form of the text itself turns into content, shaping all of its symbolic figures, the investigation moves on to a more thematical approach. Through the figure of the Last Man and its constitutive relation with the Overman, it becomes possible to see that Nietzsche's ethical thought is built on a system of asymmetrical oppositions. In the last years of his conscious life, he explained the core of this view with the idea of the 'pathos of distance', namely the feeling of power arising from the awareness of being different. Finally, in the last chapter, I focus on the reason why Nietzsche chose to counterbalance the Über-mensch with the letzter Mensch and not with the Unter-mensch, therefore hinting at its temporal dimension with a sense of definitiveness.
Educational needs, perception, and perspectives of oncologists regarding compassionate use programs in Asia
Creators: name: Singh, Manmohan
name: Jain, Ankita
name: Fang, Wade
name: Ong, Peter
name: Uehara, Roberto
name: Zhong, Jingming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study was conducted to capture the educational needs, perceptions, and perspectives of oncologists towards Compassionate Use Programs (CUPs) in Asia, with the aim of gathering insights related to unmet needs for physician and patient assistance. The participants responded to a voluntary, self-administered, closed-ended questionnaire through an online platform between 29 April 2020 and 17 June 2020. A total of 111 oncologists provided informed consent to participate in the study. Of these, 102 respondents fully completed the questionnaire and were included in the analyses. Maximum respondents (35.3%) had 10–20 years of experience after specialization with 19.6, 23.5, and 21.6% respondents having <5, 5–10, and ≥20 years of experience, respectively. Practice type plays a statistically significant role in the awareness of the existing compassionate program (p = .0066). While many respondents seem clear on the application process for CUP set in place by pharmaceutical companies, a higher number of respondents are unclear about the country regulations and processes for applying to CUPs set in place by regulatory authorities. Most respondents (75.5%) reported that there are no resources or training provided to them regarding CUPs. There was a significant association between the clarity of the application process for CUP set in place by the sponsors and the number of applications submitted (p = .0321). Our study brings light on various issues faced by physicians in accessing CUPs especially related to the lack of education and training on utilizing CUPs. There are significant unmet needs related to improving the clarity for the application process, providing resources and related training, particularly for oncologists who do not have previous experience with CUPs.
Cosmologically safe QCD axion without fine-tuning
Creators: name: Yamada, Masaki
name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
name: Yonekura, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although QCD axion models are widely studied as solutions to the strong CP problem, they generically confront severe fine-tuning problems to guarantee the anomalous PQ symmetry. In this letter, we propose a simple QCD axion model without any fine-tunings. We introduce an extra dimension and a pair of extra quarks living on two branes separately, which is also charged under a bulk Abelian gauge symmetry. We assume a monopole condensation on our brane at an intermediate scale, which implies that the extra quarks develop the chiral symmetry breaking and the PQ symmetry is broken. In contrast to the original Kim's model, our model explains the origin of the PQ symmetry thanks to the extra dimension and avoids the cosmological domain wall problem because of the chiral symmetry breaking in the Abelian gauge theory.
description: 5 pages
Monitoring established Crohn’s disease with pan-intestinal video capsule endoscopy in Europe: clinician consultation using the nominal group technique
Creators: name: Carretero, Cristina
name: Carbonnel, Franck
name: Ferrante, Marc
name: Knudsen, Torben
name: Van Lent, Nancy
name: Lobo, Alan J.
name: Negreanu, Lucian
name: Vojvodic, Ana
name: Oliva, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Monitoring established Crohn’s disease (CD) through a “treat-to-target” strategy aims to reduce and prevent long-term bowel damage and disability. Despite the availability of different monitoring techniques, there is a current lack of integrated evidence to guide optimal monitoring in terms of appropriate tools and timing. Pan-intestinal video capsule endoscopy (PCE) enables non-invasive and direct visualization of the entire intestinal tract with proven safety and efficacy. This study aims to generate insights on the value of PCE for monitoring established CD from the physician’s perspective. The Nominal Group Technique (NGT) was used to create discussion around pre-defined research questions aimed at identifying target patient populations for PCE, benefits of PCE in terms of improving disease management, comparative benefits of PCE over standard of care, research priorities to ratify the use of PCE, and hurdles to PCE utilization. A NGT panel was held in Brussels, Belgium in October 2018 with 9 gastroenterology experts. Data were collected from multiple rankings of statements to the research questions and analyzed descriptively. Consensus indicated that PCE is differentiated from other diagnostic tools, allowing for non-invasive and direct visualization of the luminal intestinal tract in one single procedure. Participants agreed that PCE is beneficial for mapping and grading established CD in all patients, enabling individual and tailored treatment decision-making. Time required to read PCE results was identified as the main utilization hurdle by participants. Well-designed studies are needed to confirm improved outcomes amongst patients with CD managed through a PCE-guided approach. This study, using the NGT, generated expert opinion on the value of PCE for monitoring established CD in terms of target patient populations and benefits compared to other diagnostic modalities. Participants perceived PCE to facilitate a “treat-to-target” strategy for CD management. Further research is needed to support this value perception.
Nuclear annihilation by antinucleons
Creators: name: Lee, Teck-Ghee
name: Wong, Cheuk-Yin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the momentum dependence of $\bar p$$p$ and $\bar n$$p$ annihilation cross sections by considering the transmission through a nuclear potential and the $\bar p p$ Coulomb interaction. Compared to the $\bar n p$ annihilation cross section, the $\bar p p$ annihilation cross section is significantly enhanced by the Coulomb interaction for projectile momenta below $p_{\rm lab}
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Searching for Correlations in Simultaneous X-ray and UV Emission in the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495
Creators: name: Robertson, Damien
name: Gallo, Luigi C.
name: Zoghbi, Abderahmen
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine simultaneous X-ray and UV light curves from multi-epoch 8 day XMM Newton observations of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495. The simultaneous observations reveal that both X-ray and UV emission are variable and that the amplitude of the X-ray variations is significantly greater than that of the UV variations in both epochs. Using a discrete correlation function (DCF) the X-ray and UV light curves were examined for correlation on timescales up to 7.0 d. Low significance (~ 95 percent confidence) correlations with the UV leading the X-ray variations are observed. The lack of a significant correlation between the UV and X-ray bands seems consistent with the X-ray source being centrally compact and dominated by light bending close to the black hole. In addition, multi-band X-ray light curves were examined for correlations on similar timescales. Highly significant (> 99.9 per cent confidence) correlations were observed at zero lag consistent with previous studies of this AGN.
Check Their Head: Implications of the Scarcity and Replicability of Manipulation Checks from the Reproducibility Project
Creators: name: Sabo, John
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Our analysis will focus only on the significance of the MC test as different from zero in the direction of the original study (analysis 4b from the Supplementary Materials of the Science article). This is because we are interested in what the significance of the MC in the replication study might say about the conditions of that study specifically, rather than what it might say about the existence of the effect overall. We will produce a table, excluding original effects and manipulation checks that were reported as nonsignificant (although numbers of these categories will be reported, they are expected to be small). The table will cross a) whether the key effect was judged to be successfully replicated by analysis 4b, with b) whether the MC was judged to be a successful replication of the original MC by the same criterion.
Rotation of a melting ice at the surface of a pool
Creators: name: Dorbolo, S.
name: Adami, N.
name: Dubois, C.
name: Caps, H.
name: Vandewalle, N.
name: Darbois-Texier, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large circular ice blocks up to 80 m of diameter have been observed on frozen river around the world. This rare event has been reported in a publication in 1993. This fascinating self-fashioned object slowly rotates at about 1$^o$ per second. In this paper, we report a model experiment consisting in a 85 mm of diameter ice disc at the surface of a thermalised pool. The rotation speed has been found to increase with the bath temperature. Using particle image velocimetry technique, we evidence the presence of a vortex below the ice block. This vortex results from the descending flow of high density water at 4$^o$C. The vorticity of the vortex induces the rotation of the ice block. This mechanism is generic of any vertical flow that generates a vortex which induces the rotation of a floating object.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Efficacy and safety of once-daily, single-inhaler fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium/vilanterol versus fluticasone furoate/vilanterol in Japanese patients with inadequately controlled asthma: the CAPTAIN study
Creators: name: Nakamura, Yoichi
name: Hozawa, Soichiro
name: Sagara, Hironori
name: Ohbayashi, Hiroyuki
name: Lee, Laurie A.
name: Crawford, Jodie
name: Tamaoki, Jun
name: Nishi, Takanobu
name: Fowler, Andrew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: In CAPTAIN, a double-blind, parallel-group, Phase IIIA study, fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium/vilanterol (FF/UMEC/VI) improved lung function, symptoms and asthma control versus FF/VI in patients with inadequately controlled asthma. Here, we report efficacy and safety from a Japanese cohort in CAPTAIN. Adults with inadequately controlled asthma despite inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting β2-agonist (ICS/LABA) were randomized (1:1:1:1:1:1) to once-daily FF/VI (100/25 mcg or 200/25 mcg) or FF/UMEC/VI (100/31.25/25 mcg, 100/62.5/25 mcg, 200/31.25/25 mcg, or 200/62.5/25 mcg) for ≥24 weeks. Endpoints included change from baseline in clinic trough FEV1 (primary), annualized rate of moderate/severe asthma exacerbations (key secondary), clinic FEV1 3 h post-dose, and Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ)-7, St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) (all Week 24), Evaluating Respiratory Symptoms (E-RS): Asthma total scores (Weeks 21–24) (all secondary). Adverse events and adverse events of special interest were monitored. Clinical trials.gov registry no: NCT02924688. Overall, 229 of 2436 patients in the intention-to-treat (ITT) population were from Japan. In this cohort, change from baseline in trough FEV1 for FF/UMEC/VI 100/62.5/25 mcg versus FF/VI 100/25 mcg was 105 mL (95% confidence interval −5, 216) and 69 mL (–42, 179) for 200/62.5/25 mcg versus 200/25 mcg. These observations were supported by clinic FEV1 at 3 h post-dose. Moderate/severe exacerbation incidence was low and similar across pooled treatment groups (FF/VI, FF/UMEC 31.25 mcg/VI, FF/UMEC 62.5 mcg/VI). All pooled groups demonstrated clinically important improvements from baseline in ACQ-7, SGRQ and E-RS: Asthma total scores. Safety profiles were consistent with the overall ITT population, with no new safety concerns. FF/UMEC/VI is an effective option with a favorable risk-benefit profile in Japanese patients with uncontrolled moderate or severe asthma on ICS/LABA.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 998
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 Subscriptio. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
The Library as an Intervention in Children's Health: An Assessment of How Five Public Libraries in North Carolina are Collecting and Circulating Children's Books that Promote Physical Activity
Creators: name: Burns, Faith
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Children's books
Bibliotherapy for children
Health promotion in libraries

description: Childhood obesity is a concern in the United States, with over one-third of children being overweight or obese. Obesity increases children's risks for chronic conditions, premature disability and death. Bibliotherapy is an intervention that encourages individuals to cope with life and health challenges through reading. It has been used to help children deal with issues and can be guided by a trained professional. Because of their professional skills, and the collection of materials in the library, librarians are at a unique position to use bibliotherapy to help children. With the growing emphasis on fighting obesity, many libraries have implemented initiatives and programs that encourage healthy lifestyle choices. This paper examines the extent to which five public libraries in North Carolina collect and circulate children's books promoting physical activity.  The paper uses the data collected to assert that the studied libraries have a unique opportunity to help fight childhood obesity.
TRONCO: an R package for the inference of cancer progression models from heterogeneous genomic data
Creators: name: De Sano, Luca
name: Caravagna, Giulio
name: Ramazzotti, Daniele
name: Graudenzi, Alex
name: Mauri, Giancarlo
name: Mishra, Bud
name: Antoniotti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivation: We introduce TRONCO (TRanslational ONCOlogy), an open-source R package that implements the state-of-the-art algorithms for the inference of cancer progression models from (epi)genomic mutational profiles. TRONCO can be used to extract population-level models describing the trends of accumulation of alterations in a cohort of cross-sectional samples, e.g., retrieved from publicly available databases, and individual-level models that reveal the clonal evolutionary history in single cancer patients, when multiple samples, e.g., multiple biopsies or single-cell sequencing data, are available. The resulting models can provide key hints in uncovering the evolutionary trajectories of cancer, especially for precision medicine or personalized therapy. Availability: TRONCO is released under the GPL license, it is hosted in the Software section at http://bimib.disco.unimib.it/ and archived also at bioconductor.org. Contact: tronco@disco.unimib.it
Epidemiology of skin event rates among users of pumps for the subcutaneous administration of drugs for chronic conditions
Creators: name: Jick, Susan S.
name: Oleske, Denise M.
name: Persson, Rebecca
name: Zamudio, Jorge
name: Facheris, Maurizio F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: To provide the epidemiology of skin events occurring during long-term administration of medications delivered by continuous subcutaneous infusion pump (CSIP) systems as background rates for the development of novel CSIP treatments to use in community-based settings. Using a United Kingdom general practice database, we conducted a study to assess the rates of skin events among new users of apomorphine and insulin delivered by CSIP in patients with Parkinson’s disease or diabetes, respectively. Skin events included skin infections, skin nodules/localized swelling, dermatitis/eczema, urticaria/erythema, and rash/other non-specific skin eruptions. Five hundred and fifty-seven adults (age 30+) were included in this descriptive cohort. The median duration of CSIP use was 17 months among 255 apomorphine users and 41 months among 302 insulin users. By 60 months, ∼40% of both cohorts experienced skin events. Repeated skin events occurred in 11% of the apomorphine cohort and 14% of the insulin cohort at any time during follow-up. The overall skin event rate in the apomorphine cohort was 17 per 1000 person-months (PM) and 13 per 1000 PM in the insulin cohort. The most common skin events in both cohorts were infection and rash/unspecified skin eruptions. The highest rates of skin events occurred soon after apomorphine CSIP initiation (36 per 1000 PM in weeks 1–2 and 50 per 1000 PM in weeks 3–4), with lower rates after 4 weeks. Insulin CSIP users’ skin event rates were consistent over the treatment duration. Clinically important skin events are common during long-term administration of medications by CSIP.
Labrocarpon Etayo & Perez-Ortega
Creators: name: Dai, Dong-Qin
name: Tang, Li-Zhou
name: Liu, Chao
name: Wang, Hai-Bo
name: Hyde, Kevin D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Eremithallales
Melaspileaceae
Labrocarpon

description: Labrocarpon Etayo & Pérez-Ortega, in Pérez-Ortega & Etayo, Lichenologist 42(3): 271 (2010)
 Type species: Labrocarpon canariense (D. Hawksw.) Etayo & Pérez-Ortega [as ‘canariensis’], in Pérez-Ortega & Etayo, Lichenologist 42(3): 272 (2010)
description: Published as part of Dai, Dong-Qin, Tang, Li-Zhou, Liu, Chao, Wang, Hai-Bo & Hyde, Kevin D., 2018, Studies on Parmulariaceae I. A phylogeny based on available sequence data; introducing Parmulariales ord. nov., and Hemigraphaceae, Melaspileellaceae and Stictographaceae fam. nov., pp. 63-79 in Phytotaxa 369 (2) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.369.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704420
Lutas, narrativas e o fortalecimento da língua Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó) por uma liderança Metuktire
Creators: name: Machado, Michelly Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Entrevista com Okreãjti Metuktire (Patxon). Entrevistadora Michelly Silva Machado.