cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-target localisation and tracking in passive and MIMO radar
Creators: name: Liu, Yunhao
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is concerned with multi-target localisation and tracking in passive and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar. First, it is highlighted that in passive radar, the problem of location ambiguities has to be resolved for multi-target localisation. By considering a passive radar employing distributed Small Aperture Arrays (SAAs) as Receivers (Rxs), an algorithm utilising the signals received by the overall Large Aperture Array (LAA) is proposed for identifying the targets from a set of ambiguous locations provided by Direction Of Arrival (DOA) localisation algorithms. Then, in bistatic MIMO radar, subspace-based algorithms are proposed in conjunction with an array manifold extender for multi-target localisation in a Coherent Processing Interval (CPI) where targets remain stationary over multiple Pulse Repetition Intervals (PRIs). With the removal of mutual target interference, the proposed algorithms support estimating and unambiguously associating the delay, DOA, Direction Of Departure (DOD), Doppler frequency, and complex path coefficient for different targets. Next, the existence of adverse clutter is considered in monostatic MIMO radar. By exploiting the low-rank property of the clutter at the output of a Doppler-spatial manifold extender, a clutter subspace estimation approach is proposed for clutter suppression via null space projection. As a clutter pre-processor, the proposed approach enables the use of various localisation and tracking algorithms that rely on the white noise assumption. Finally, for adaptively localising targets that are non-stationary across different CPIs, an H∞ approach is proposed for robust range, DOA, and velocity tracking. This is realised with the proposal of two manifold extenders that combine the slow-time and fast-time dimensions of the MIMO radar received signal. Importantly, the proposed H∞ approach is directly applicable to cluttered signals with unknown clutter statistics.
Reliability of the American English matrix test
Creators: name: Rose, Holly A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2012

description: The current study assessed the list equivalency of six lists from the American English Matrix test as well as training effects when using this test with an adaptive speech stimulus and a fixed speech stimulus. Twenty (N=20) participants (5 males, 15 females) with normal hearing were included in this study. Repeated-measures ANOVA results showed the six test lists were equivalent; in other words, the speech reception threshold (SRT) scores from the participants were comparable. Repeated-measures ANOVA results between the three fixed signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) used in the fixed speech stimulus condition, -6 dB SNR, -8.5 dB SNR and -11 dB SNR, showed significant differences in scores. More specifically, when the fixed SNRs increased in difficulty, the participants? scores decreased. However, the participants? scores were higher than the predicted intelligibility scores of 80%, 50%, and 20%, respectively. Repeated-measures ANOVA results within each session and between sessions showed an increase in SRT scores indicating strong training effects. Further research is needed to determine if gender effects as well as ear effects impact the scores for each list. It is recommended that future studies use lists that do not contain duplicate sentences, in order to truly look at list equivalency and training effects. Following the collection of the data with normal hearing individuals, further research should be conducted to determine how individuals with varying degrees of hearing loss, as well as varying ages, perform on the American English Matrix test.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Dislocating culture, relocating identity: literary formations of the multiplied self in the works of Roberto Bola?o, Ben Okri, and Suheir Hammad
Creators: name: Abuelhiga, Soraya J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: In this thesis I examine identity within the current context of globalization as both an individual and a collective construction using the works of three cross-cultural and transnational authors. By analyzing the roles of language, nationality, and ethnicity in both complementing and complicating notions of identity, I explore how these authors affirm, challenge, and transform their cultural identities through individual artistic expression. My larger argument about personal and social identity as it relates to questions of nationalism and belonging attempts to reconcile seemingly paradoxical definitions of self and culture. The thesis is also an extension of and an intervention into Postcolonial Studies, since it addresses the discipline?s theoretical shortcomings and problematic absences. Lastly, I examine the sociopolitical stakes of pluralizing identity, analyzing how reconstructing the self as multilocal can, by extension, multiply individual affinities thereby radicalizing conceptions external to but closely associated with the self, namely home, citizenship, and patriotism.
description: Warring world(s), conflicting selves -- Lost and found (and lost again) in Latin America: the poetics and politics of multiplying identities in Roberto Bola?o's The savage detectives -- To wander and to wonder: reimagining the world and reclaiming the self in Ben Okri's Astonishing the gods -- "Women walking heavy / brown worlds in her face": global(ized) identities and universal patriotism in the poetry of Suheir Hammad -- Towards (and beyond) a new "home."
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Evolutionary estimation of a Coupled Markov Chain credit risk model
Creators: name: Hochreiter, Ronald
name: Wozabal, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There exists a range of different models for estimating and simulating credit risk transitions to optimally manage credit risk portfolios and products. In this chapter we present a Coupled Markov Chain approach to model rating transitions and thereby default probabilities of companies. As the likelihood of the model turns out to be a non-convex function of the parameters to be estimated, we apply heuristics to find the ML estimators. To this extent, we outline the model and its likelihood function, and present both a Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, as well as an Evolutionary Optimization algorithm to maximize the likelihood function. Numerical results are shown which suggest a further application of evolutionary optimization techniques for credit risk management.
Imaging the breakdown of phonon quasiparticle theory in MgO and BaTiO3 with atomistic simulations
Creators: name: Coiana, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2023

description: The anharmonic effects in crystals have been commonly studied in the assumption that the phonon-phonon interactions are weak. However, unlike strong electronic interactions, which have been studied for decades, strong phononic interactions have not gained the same attention. In this thesis, I study phonon-phonon interactions that are so strong that the quasiparticle picture of the phonons breaks down, and I call this event the melting of phonons. After performing molecular dynamics simulations, I calculate the distribution of kinetic energy among frequencies (w) and wavevectors (k), E(w, k), from the Fourier transform in space and time of the atomic velocity-velocity correlation function. This method, which is known but has not been used extensively in the literature, is fully anharmonic and fully non-perturbative, and hence is possibly the only method that allows to compute phonon spectra at extreme conditions of temperature or for very anharmonic materials in any phase they might be, even liquid. The melting of the phonon bands and its physical consequences are investigated in two oxides, magnesium oxide (MgO) and barium titanate (BaTiO3). In MgO, the departure from a band structure is progressive, and the quasiparticle picture of the phonons holds until temperatures close to its melting point. In BaTiO3, band melting happens suddenly in approaching the phase transition temperature. I show that one of the transverse optical (TO) modes of BaTiO3, the Slater mode, melts because its energy is widely spread out both in w-space and in k-space. The broadening in w-space suggests the presence of a hopping motion of Ti-O atoms between wells of the potential energy surface. The broadening of the Slater mode in k-space creates a flat band over an area in reciprocal space, and implies linear correlations of the atomic motions. The results strongly support the conclusion that the phase transitions in BaTiO3 are of the order-disorder type.
title: Rezension: GÖLLER, THOMAS (2000) Kulturverstehen. Grundprobleme einer epistemologischen Theorie der Kulturalität und kulturellen Erkenntnis
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Dass Fremdsprachenunterricht die Aufgabe hat, über die im engeren Sinne sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen hinaus auch kulturelle oder ‚interkulturelle‘ Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten zu vermitteln, kann heute als allgemein akzeptierte Auffassung gelten. Und es dürfte auch kaum strittig sein, dass innerhalb der komplexen Kompetenz, die häufig als ‚interkulturelle Kommunikationsfähigkeit‘ bezeichnet wird, das Verstehen von ‚fremdkulturellen‘ Verhaltensweisen, Äußerungen oder Texten eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Was mit solchem Verstehen in Bezug auf die fremde Kultur aber genau gemeint ist und unter welchen Bedingungen von gelingendem oder angemessenem Verstehen die Rede sein kann, ist bis heute nicht zufrieden stellend geklärt. So ist es beispielsweise nach wie vor umstritten, ob es sich bei ‚fremdkulturellem‘ Verstehen tatsächlich, wie vielfach angenommen wird, um einen spezifischen Modus des Verstehens handelt, der sich als solcher von anderen Formen des Verstehens, etwa vom Verstehen zeitlich distanter Texte aus der ‚eigenen‘ Tradition, kategorial unterscheiden lässt, oder ob ein Begriff wie ‚Fremdverstehen‘ nicht vielmehr eine Tautologie darstellt, weil alles Verstehen das Verstehen eines ‚Fremden‘ und Unvertrauten ist und die ‚kulturelle Fremde‘ demgegenüber gar nicht wirklich in Betracht kommt.
Cosmological Radiative Transfer Comparison Project II: The Radiation-Hydrodynamic Tests
Creators: name: Iliev, Ilian T.
name: Whalen, Daniel
name: Mellema, Garrelt
name: Ahn, Kyungjin
name: Baek, Sunghye
name: Gnedin, Nickolay Y.
name: Kravtsov, Andrey V.
name: Norman, Michael
name: Raicevic, Milan
name: Reynolds, Daniel R.
name: Sato, Daisuke
name: Shapiro, Paul R.
name: Semelin, Benoit
name: Smidt, Joseph
name: Susa, Hajime
name: Theuns, Tom
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of radiation hydrodynamical methods that are able to follow gas dynamics and radiative transfer self-consistently is key to the solution of many problems in numerical astrophysics. Such fluid flows are highly complex, rarely allowing even for approximate analytical solutions against which numerical codes can be tested. An alternative validation procedure is to compare different methods against each other on common problems, in order to assess the robustness of the results and establish a range of validity for the methods. Previously, we presented such a comparison for a set of pure radiative transfer tests (i.e. for fixed, non-evolving density fields). This is the second paper of the Cosmological Radiative Transfer (RT) Comparison Project, in which we compare 9 independent RT codes directly coupled to gasdynamics on 3 relatively simple astrophysical hydrodynamics problems: (5) the expansion of an H II region in a uniform medium; (6) an ionization front (I-front) in a 1/r^2 density profile with a flat core, and (7), the photoevaporation of a uniform dense clump. Results show a broad agreement between the different methods and no big failures, indicating that the participating codes have reached a certain level of maturity and reliability. However, many details still do differ, and virtually every code has showed some shortcomings and has disagreed, in one respect or another, with the majority of the results. This underscores the fact that no method is universal and all require careful testing of the particular features which are most relevant to the specific problem at hand.
description: 36 pages, 44 figures (most in color), submitted to MNRAS
Bandstructure and Fermi Surfaces of CeRh3B2
Creators: name: Yamauchi, Kunihiko
name: Yanase, Akira
name: Harima, Hisatomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic bandstructure and the Fermi surfaces of ferromagnetic CeRh3B2 are calculated by using FLAPW and LSDA+U method. As assuming several kinds of the ground state to describe the 4f electronic state, we propose a fully orbital- and spin-polarized state |lz=0, sx=1/2> as the ground state, instead of the conventional LS-coupled CEF ground state, generally expected in typical 4f compounds. This is supported by the fact that both the observed magnetic moment and the observed dHvA frequencies are well explained by the calculated electronic structure and the Fermi surfaces. The unconventional ground state is stabilized by the strong 4f-4f direct mixing between the neighbored Ce atoms along the extremely small distance along the c-axis in the hexagonal crystal cell.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to JPSJ (accepted and will appear in the issue of Vol.79, No.4)
A study of major mergers using a multi-phase ISM code
Creators: name: Weniger, J.
name: Theis, Ch.
name: Harfst, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy interactions are a common phenomenon in clusters of galaxies. Especially major mergers are of particular importance, because they can change the morphological type of galaxies. They have an impact on the mass function of galaxies and they trigger star formation - the main driver of the Galactic Matter Cycle. Therefore, we conducted a study of major mergers by means of a multi-phase ISM code. This code is based on a TREE-SPH-code combined with a sticky particle method allowing for star formation controlled by the properties of a multi-phase ISM. This is in contrast to the usually implemented Schmidt law depending mainly on the gas density. Previously, this code was used on isolated galaxies. Since our star formation recipe is not restricted to a special type of galaxy, it is interesting to apply it to interacting galaxies, too. Our study on major mergers includes a research of global properties of the interacting system, namely the star formation rate and the star formation efficiency, the evaporation and condensation rates, as well as the mass exchange of distinct components, namely stars, diffuse ISM, and clouds. Investigating these properties provides insight to interrelations between various physical processes. The results indicate that the star formation efficiency as well as the evaporation and condensation rates are influenced by the interaction.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, to be published in Astronomische Nachrichten (proceedings of Symposium 6 of the JENAM 2008, Vienna)
title: Rezension: EICHHOFF-CYRUS, KARIN & HOBERG, RUDOLF (Hrsg.) (2000), Die deutsche Sprache zur Jahrtausendwende. Sprachkultur oder Sprachverfall? (Thema Deutsch, Bd. 1)
Creators: name: Hufeisen, Britta
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Mit diesem Band soll die neue Reihe Thema Deutsch vorgestellt werden, die Matthias Wermke, Rudolf Hoberg und Karin Eichhoff-Cyrus im Auftrage der Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache und des Dudenverlages herausgeben. Inzwischen sind außer dem hier zu diskutierenden Band, der die Nummer 1 dieser neuen Reihe darstellt, ein weiterer Band herausgekommen (Band 2: Name und Gesellschaft. Soziale und historische Aspekte der Namengebung und Namenentwicklung, ISBN 3-411-70581-7), und Band 3: Deutsch - Englisch - Europäisch (ISBN 3-411-71781-5) erscheint im Herbst 2002. Mit allen Titeln hat die Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache nicht nur aktuelle und auch die Laien interessierende Themen aufgegriffen, die besonders im ersten Band überdies auch noch hochbrisant sind. Eine der wichtigen Fragen, die in diesem Werk behandelt werden, ist nämlich die, ob der Einfluss des Englischen auf das Deutsche wirklich so groß ist, wie fast radikal zu nennende Gruppen wie der Verein für deutsche Sprache behaupten? Bedeutet der Einfluss einen Sprachverfall und damit einen Kulturverfall?
A Statistical Summary of Farm Tenure, 1954
Creators: name: Harmon, Marie B.
name: Harmon, Marie B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Financial Economics
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report Preface: The Graphic Summary of Farm Tenure for 1954 is a picture of tenure patterns painted with a broad brush. For many purposes, greater detail and a finer degree of accuracy are necessary. This statistical summary of tenure data is issued to fill this need. So far as possible, data are given comparability, but wherever data are not comparable because of sampling or definitional changes, explanations are made in footnotes. Some of the data used herein, particularly those for commercial farms only, are estimates based on reports for a sample of farms.
An assessment of ecosystem services: a case study for Baltimore, Maryland
Creators: name: Dean, Carly A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: The purpose of this study is to quantify in economic terms the benefits that ecosystems provide to human societies. We collect per area, per year 2010 US$ estimates of value for the regulating and cultural services provided by different ecosystems (for which land use/ land cover provides a proxy) and transfer those values to Baltimore County and Baltimore City, Maryland. By mapping land use change from 1973 to 2010, we find that ecosystem service value has decreased by about $180 million per year. We also compare the impact of using different metrics and filters to summarize primary valuation data, quantify current stocks of ecosystem services provided by different policy areas, and demonstrate how ecosystem service maps combined with other metrics of ecosystem value can be used to identify potential target areas for conservation.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
A No-Go Theorem for Gaussian Quantum Error Correction
Creators: name: Niset, Julien
name: Fiurasek, Jaromir
name: Cerf, Nicolas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proven that Gaussian operations are of no use for protecting Gaussian states against Gaussian errors in quantum communication protocols. Specifically, we introduce a new quantity characterizing any single-mode Gaussian channel, called entanglement degradation, and show that it cannot decrease via Gaussian encoding and decoding operations only. The strength of this no-go theorem is illustrated with some examples of Gaussian channels.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX4
title: Rezension: KARIN AGUADO & CLAUDIA RIEMER (Hrsg.) (2001), Wege und Ziele. Zur Theorie, Empirie und Praxis des Deutschen als Fremdsprache (und anderer Fremdsprachen)
Creators: name: Nerlicki, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit Gert Henricis war auf den von ihm gebahnten Wegen mit fest angestrebten Zielen immer von dem Bedürfnis getragen, das universitäre Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache theoretisch und empirisch zu fundieren. Dazu stand das von vornherein geäußerte Postulat: „aus der Praxis für die Praxis“ (Henrici, 1996) im Mittelpunkt seiner Forschungsbemühungen. Unter seinen zahlreichen Schriften, die am Anfang dieser aus Anlass seines 60. Geburtstages erschienenen Publikation verzeichnet werden, sind vor allem die Arbeiten zu den Schwerpunkten „Fremdsprachenerwerb und Interaktion“, „Fremdsprachenerwerbsspezifische Diskursanalyse“ und „Strukturgeschichte des akademischen Fachs Deutsch als Fremdsprache“ (VII) hervorzuheben.
Effects of test environment on behavioral auditory processing test scores
Creators: name: Courtney, Deirdre
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: The effect of ambient environmental noise on performance on three behavioral assessments of auditory processing was examined. Assessments included speech in noise, frequency pattern, and low-pass filtered speech. Twenty-five normal-hearing, typically developing adults were administered these tests in both an ideal sound-treated booth and while ambient environmental noise was routed through a sound field setup. Results yielded no overall effect of the environmental noise on the overall performance on the measures. However, differences noted between individual tests are presented and possible reasons for these differences are explored.
description: (Au. D.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Hadronic contribution to g-2 from twisted mass fermions
Creators: name: Renner, Dru B.
name: Feng, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the vacuum polarization tensor for pion masses from 480 MeV to 270 MeV using dynamical twisted mass fermions at a lattice spacing of 0.086 fm. We analyze the form of the polarization tensor on the lattice using the symmetries of twisted QCD and we study both finite size effects and lattice artifacts at a pion mass of 310 MeV. Results for the lowest order hadronic contribution to g-2 are presented and the impact of systematic errors is discussed.
description: talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Additional file 1 of The contribution of musculoskeletal factors to physical frailty: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Tembo, Monica C.
name: Mohebbi, Mohammadreza
name: Holloway-Kew, Kara L.
name: Gaston, James
name: Sui, Sophia X.
name: Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L.
name: Williams, Lana J.
name: Kotowicz, Mark A.
name: Pasco, Julie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1. Association between frailty items in the Fried frailty phenotype and musculoskeletal parameters in men. Frailty items; 1 = Low physical activity, 2 = fatigue, 3 = weight loss, 4 = slowness, 5 = low handgrip strength, Heel Ultrasound measures; BUA = broadband ultrasound attenuation, SOS = speed of sound, SI = stiffness index. Supplementary Fig. 2. Association between frailty items in the Fried frailty phenotype and musculoskeletal parameters in women. Frailty items; 1 = Low physical activity, 2 = fatigue, 3 = weight loss, 4 = slowness, 5 = low handgrip strength, Heel Ultrasound measures; BUA = broadband ultrasound attenuation, SOS = speed of sound, SI = stiffness index. Supplementary Table 1. Spearman correlation of frailty items with frailty in men. Supplementary Table 2. Spearman correlation of frailty items with frailty in women. Table 3. Model 1 Femoral BMD. Table 4. Model 2 BUA. Table 5 Model 3 SI. Table 6. Model 4 SOS. Table 7. Model 5 ALMI. Table 8. Model 6 HGS. Table 9. Model 1 Femoral BMD. Table 10 Model 2 BUA. Table 11 Model 3 SI. Table 12 Model 4 SOS. Table 13 Model 5 ALMI. Table 14. Model 6 HGS.
title: Rezension: MARGIT GRÜNER & TIMM HASSERT (2000), Computer im Deutschunterricht. Fernstudieneinheit 14 (Fernstudienprojekt zur Fort- und Weiterbildung im Bereich Germanistik und Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Teilbereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache)
Creators: name: Kranz, Dieter
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Im Rahmen des Fernstudienprojekts des Deutschen Instituts für Fernstudienforschung an der Universität Tübingen (DIFF), der Universität und Gesamthochschule Kassel (GhK) und des Goethe Instituts (GI) bieten die beiden Verfasser die Fernstudieneinheit in gewohnter Weise als Selbststudienmaterial in Buchform mit Lern- und Übungseinheiten dar. Sie gehen dabei mit Recht von einem gesteigerten Interesse an multimedialen Lernprogrammen und an den Lehr- und Lernmöglichkeiten des Internets aus und untersuchen die Anwendungsbereiche, in denen der Computer im Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-Unterricht sinnvoll und ertragreich genutzt werden kann/sollte. Bei der Kurzlebigkeit spezieller Hardware und Software werden manche Beschreibungen und Darstellungen nur kurze Zeit auf dem neuesten Stand sein, wie M. Grüner und T. Hassert freimütig einräumen. Ihre grundsätzlichen methodisch-didaktischen Überlegungen werden jedoch länger gelten und lassen sich außerdem noch auf andere Fremdsprachen übertragen. Sie schaffen interessante und diskussionswürdige theoretische Grundlagen zum Fremdsprachenerwerb, die durch eine Vielzahl von Quellen aus dem Internet ergänzt, aktualisiert, vertieft oder modifiziert werden können.
Dunia dalam Skema Volume 1
Creators: name: Huda, Sokhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Dunia
Skema

description: Slide presentasi volume 1 ini merupakan koleksi 24 skema dari 14 artikel dan paper konferensi. Koleksi ini penulis sengaja beri judul “Dunia dalam Skema” untuk memudahkan identifikasi keunikan gagasan. Argumen yang dibangun adalah penjelasan ilmiah tentang dunia dapat disederhanakan secara sistematis kedalam bentuk skema. Setiap bagian (part) diawali oleh identitas karya dan nice point. Nice point (NP) merupakan deskripsi singkat dan reflektif terhadap hasil kajian atau penelitian tertentu. Kemasan bahasanya efisien dan efektif dengan diksi terpenting yang ingin diberikan oleh peneliti. NP memperlihatkan kekayaan diksi, keluasan wawasan baca, penguasaan hasil penelitian, sekaligus kemampuan daya refleksi seorang penulis. Dengan kondisi ini, NP seperti untaian mutiara dalam keutuhan gagasan penulis tentang suatu persoalan.
title: Rezension: DAGMAR ABENDROTH-TIMMER & STEPHAN BREIDBACH (Hrsg.) (2000), Handlungsorientierung und Mehrsprachigkeit. Fremd- und mehrsprachliches Handeln in interkulturellen Kontexten (Kolloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht Bd. 7)
Creators: name: Oebel, Guido
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der vorliegende, mittlerweile 7. Sammelband in der Reihe Kolloquium Fremdsprachenunterricht, kompiliert überarbeitete Aufsätze, die im November 1999 als Vorträge auf dem zweiten Fremdsprachendidaktischen Kolloquium des Instituts für Fremdsprachendidaktik und Förderung der Mehrsprachigkeit (INFORM) am Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften der Uni Bremen gehalten wurden; es galt dem Thema „Handlungsorientierung und Mehrsprachigkeit: Fremd- und mehrsprachliches Lernen und Handeln in interkulturellen Kontexten“. Die Besonderheiten des Kolloquiums bestanden laut dem Vorwort der Herausgeber in der gemeinsamen Perspektivierung der Forschungsinteressen und der Öffnung für Fremdsprachenlehrerinnen und Fremdsprachenlehrer.
Far-infrared optical excitations in multiferroic TbMnO_3
Creators: name: Schmidt, M.
name: Kant, Ch.
name: Rudolf, T.
name: Mayr, F.
name: Mukhin, A. A.
name: Balbashov, A. M.
name: Deisenhofer, J.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a detailed study of the reflectivity of multiferroic TbMnO_3 for wave numbers from 40 cm^{-1} to 1000 cm^{-1} and temperatures 5 K < T < 300 K. Excitations are studied for polarization directions E || a, the polarization where electromagnons are observed, and for E || c, the direction of the spontaneous polarization in this material. The temperature dependencies of eigenfrequencies, damping constants and polar strengths of all modes are studied and analyzed. For E || a and below the spiral ordering temperature of about 27 K we observe a transfer of optical weight from phonon excitations to electromagnons, which mainly involves low-frequency phonons. For E || c an unusual increase of the total polar strength and hence of the dielectric constant is observed indicating significant transfer of dynamic charge probably within manganese-oxygen bonds on decreasing temperatures.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for submission in European Physical Journal B
Additional file 10 of Sex and nest type influence avian blood parasite prevalence in a high-elevation bird community
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Marina D.
name: Doherty, Paul F.
name: Piaggio, Antoinette J.
name: Huyvaert, Kathryn P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S10. Model rankings exploring factors affecting detection probability (p) and prevalence (ψ) of Haemoproteus parasites in White-crowned Sparrows.
The Impact of Climate Change: Advanced Mass Spectrometry on Occurrence of Natural Toxins in Food
Creators: name: Krska, Rudolf
name: Poschmaier, Birgit
name: Gago-Martínez, Ana
name: Moreiras, Guillermo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 30101 Analytical Spectrometry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: This paper is a draft of an article published in: chrom+food FORUM, 2017, 09:24-25.
Numerical relativity simulations in the era of the Einstein Telescope
Creators: name: Hannam, Mark
name: Hawke, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of compact binaries are expected to be an invaluable tool in gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. The sensitivity of future detectors such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) will place much higher demands on NR simulations than first- and second-generation ground-based detectors. We discuss the issues facing compact-object simulations over the next decade, with an emphasis on estimating where the accuracy and parameter space coverage will be sufficient for ET and where significant work is needed.
description: 20 pages, invited review for ET special issue of GRG
The end of history or politics as usual? United States-Russian relations in the post-Cold War era
Creators: name: Chamberlain, David T.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Throughout the period of the Cold War, the theory of realism was the dominant international relations theory used to explain the behavior of states on the world stage. However, in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many began to call into question the ability of realist theory to account for these new developments in the international system, thus putting the once dominant theory on the defensive. In the mid-1990s as relations between the United States and the Russian Federation began to sour over issues such as NATO expansion, some began to wonder if they had been too hasty in discrediting realist theory and perhaps the realists had been correct after all. In this paper I analyze several key issues in United States-Russian relations which have arisen in the post-Cold War era as a means of testing the explanatory power of realist, liberal, and constructivist theories. It is my observation that while alternative theories are able to offer some insights into the relationship between the two states, it is the theory of realism which is best able to account for these developments. Russian action throughout this period could best be described as balancing behavior, very much in keeping with the predictions put forth by realist theory. Based on my empirical findings I offer some insights into the future the United States? relationship with the Russian Federation along with some thoughts on what policies would best serve the interests of the United States while also reducing the likelihood of conflict with our Russian counterparts.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЕ ИЗДАНИЯ: ОСОБЕННОСТИ РЕДАКЦИОННО-ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКОЙ ОБРАБОТКИ ИНФОРМАЦИИ
Creators: name: Ищенко Диана Сергеевна
name: Малянова Маргарита Юрьевна
Publisher: name: Инновационные аспекты развития науки и техники
Year: 2020
Subjects: электронное издание
редакционно-издательская обработка информации
распространение электронных изданий
electronic publication
editorial and publishing processing of information
distribution of electronic publications

description: В статье рассматривается трансформация понятия «электронное издание». Выявляется специфика редакционно-издательской обработки информации для электронных изданий. Проводится анализ особенностей и проблемных зон продвижения электронного издания.
description: The article deals with the transformation of the concept of "electronic publication". The article reveals the specifics of editorial and publishing processing of information for electronic publications. The analysis of features and problem areas of electronic publication promotion is carried out.
Canadian confederation poetry, 1855-1880
Creators: name: Dalton, Kathleen Ellen (Sister Mary Katherine)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Even a hasty perusal of Dr. W.E. Matters' Check List reveals the vast quantity of poetry published in Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century. This thesis is an attempt to explore and evaluate a crosscut of this poetry over a period of fifteen years, 1855-1880, and to establish the qualitative values in such a quantitative output. It is axiomatic that where there is movement there is life, and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that since the Confederation era was a particularly fluid period in Canadian growth, it called for a lively response. That there was such a response is evidenced in the various magazines and periodicals published during that time, with circulation wide enough to make it both convenient and profitable for any aspiring poets. And if there should be no especially aesthetic value to their poetry, at least they have recorded the aspirations and convictions of the average Canadian in the decade preceding and following Confederation. This aspect alone makes them worthy of consideration. Because of the quantity of material some selectivity was necessary. It seemed advisable to discuss only such poems as had some reference to Canada. The poems are, therefore, divided into three classes. After the Introductory Chapter which is devoted chiefly to an explanation and recreation of the Canadian scene at the time of Confederation, Chapter II deals with those poems Praising Canada's Beauty; Chapter III - those Praising Country as Country; Chapter Iv - those Miscellaneous-Mentioning Confederation. Chapter V is a brief evaluation only, since the poems are individually evaluated throughout. The study, confined as it is to a period between I855-I880, is obviously restricted, as it excludes many of the better, or better-known, poems particularly those of Charles; G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman. N or was it deemed advisable to include the French Canadian poems of which there is a considerable number. The poems included have been analysed, more or less, and whatever may be their merit individually, they are, en masse, a significant contribution to Canadian Literature. Appendix I gives the musical setting for an adaptation of "My Own Canadian Home". Appendix II records in full "Our New Dominion". The Bibliography is chiefly a Check List, and includes a few works not recorded in Dr. W.E. Watters’ Check List.
Mixed action computations on fine dynamical lattices
Creators: name: Bernardoni, F.
name: Garron, N.
name: Hernandez, P.
name: Necco, S.
name: Pena, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on our first experiences in simulating Neuberger valence fermions on CLS $N_f=2$ configurations with light sea quark masses and small lattice spacings. Valence quark masses are considered that allow to explore the matching to (partially quenched) chiral perturbation theory both in the $ε$- and $p$-regimes. The setup is discussed, and first results are presented for spectral observables.
description: 7 pages. Presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China
Additional file 11 of Sex and nest type influence avian blood parasite prevalence in a high-elevation bird community
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Marina D.
name: Doherty, Paul F.
name: Piaggio, Antoinette J.
name: Huyvaert, Kathryn P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 11: Table S11. Model rankings exploring factors affecting detection probability (p) and prevalence (ψ) of Haemoproteus parasites in Wilson’s Warblers.
Latin American social policy comes of age: conditional cash transfer programs
Creators: name: Bowler, Marquel
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Governments and international organizations are responsible for donating immense funds to eradicate poverty worldwide; however, the effect of this assistance on the daily lives of the poor in many cases has been nominal. Since many remain ignorant of the extent of global poverty there is little inspiration to generate solutions that work to assuage poverty. The US has copious programs aimed at assisting those in poverty; however, these programs have not achieved the same optimistic results as the conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) now flourishing in Latin America. In order to understand where the ideas for CCTs originated, an understanding of social policy is explored. Subsequently, Latin America demonstrates the success of CCTs and why there is the potential for the programs use in the US. New York City has already down its own trial program. Overall, CCTs have unprecedented success and the US should take note and follow Latin America?s example.
description: Evolution of social policy in industialized nation states. Analysis of effectiveness of poverty policy -- Social policy in the Latin American context. Evolution of Mexico's development models; Evolution of Brazil's development models -- The move from Neoliberalism to CCTs. Social policy context of CCT programs -- Mexico's Oportunidades program. Mexico's achievements with CCTs -- Brazil's Bolsa-Familia. Brazil's achievements in CCT programs -- Overall effectiveness of CCT programs -- Final conclusion. New York opportunity
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
title: Digitale Ethnographie: Eine Methode zum Erlernen interkultureller Kompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht
Creators: name: Fischhaber, Katrin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der Erwerb von Strategien zum Umgang mit Fremdheit und die Entwicklung einer ausgeprägten interkulturellen Kompetenz sind heute die herausragenden Aufgaben eines Unterrichts, der zur Völkerverständigung und zu einem erfolgreichen Zusammenleben innerhalb der multikulturellen Gesellschaft beitragen will. Dabei wird über die fremdsprachliche Kompetenz hinaus interkulturelle Kompetenz als wichtiges Instrument angesehen, um in der pluralistischen Gesellschaft und der globalen wirtschaftlichen Welt kommunizieren und handeln zu können. Der institutionalisierte Fremdsprachenunterricht bietet hier eine Chance, fremde Kulturen kennen zu lernen und sich im Zuge dessen auch mit der eigenen Kultur und der eigenen kulturellen Geprägtheit auseinander zu setzen. Um diese Fähigkeiten zu vermitteln, müssen die traditionellen Unterrichtsformen überdacht werden. Das komplexe Lernziel der interkulturellen Kompetenz kann nur durch erfolgreiches Lernen ausgebildet werden. Im Folgenden soll ein Modell vorgestellt werden, das unter Ausnutzung der Möglichkeiten der Neuen Medien in Verbindung mit lerntheoretisch bewährten Methoden und geeigneten Kursformen das Lernziel der interkulturellen Kompetenz im Fremdsprachenunterricht zu erreichen sucht.
Efficacy of memory rehabilitation therapy: a meta-analysis of TBI and stroke cognitive rehabilitation literature
Creators: name: Elliott, Madison A.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: This meta-analysis evaluated 26 studies of memory retraining and recovery that were published between the years 1985 and 2013. The primary purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the overall effect size (ES) in these studies. The study assessed the significance of the overall ES and determined which of several covariates in these studies predict the obtained ESs. Results indicated a significant average ES (r = .51) in the treatment intervention conditions. There was also a significant average ES (r = .31) in the control conditions, in which participants did not receive any treatment. The largest treatment ESs occurred in studies of stroke patients, and the smallest ESs occurred in studies of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Results showed that memory rehabilitation was an effective therapeutic intervention. However, the results also indicated that significant memory improvement occurred spontaneously over time.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.
The impact of learning environment on student success in developmental math
Creators: name: Ashby, Jean M.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Distance education
subject: College students -- Rating of
subject: Learning, Psychology of

description: Increasing enrollments in community colleges has led to an increase in distance education courses. The developmental coursework necessary for many community college students is being offered both in online and hybrid environments. These students face challenges with the content and now find themselves needing to learn in a virtual classroom. Current research (Chernish, DeFranco, Lindner, & Dooley, 2005; Frederickson, Reed, & Clifford, 2005; Herman & Banister, 2007; Kromrey & Purdom, 1995; Scheetz & Guntner, 2004) shows that there is no difference in student success based on the learning environment, but this was completed primarily with upper-class and graduate students. This study investigated student success in a developmental math course taught in the face-to-face, hybrid, and online environments at a mid-Atlantic community college. Cognitive Load Theory was used during the design of the course and its principles were maintained in all of the learning environments. The sample was 167 students with an average age of 25 years, 58% were female, 49% were Caucasian and 43% were African-American. The focus was on student success, but the impact attrition had on the results of the study is discussed. The study also investigated student characteristics and their relationship to success. Age, gender, race, student status, placement scores, financial aid, learning style, locus of control, and technology skills are all compared between successful and unsuccessful students to determine if specific traits were more beneficial within a particular environment.
description: (Ed. D.) -- Towson University, 2010.
The Economic Position of Fertilizer Use in the United States
Creators: name: Ibach, D. B.
name: Lindberg, R. C.
name: Ibach, D. B.
name: Lindberg, R. C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1958
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics
Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpt from the report Summary: Increased use of fertilizer has played a major part in meeting production needs and in lowering unit production costs. The present level of use on many crops in many areas is below the level that would be most profitable for most farmers. Projected crop production needs can be met more economically through use of more fertilizer and fewer acres than are represented by the present fertilizer-land use ratio. For a fixed output, either for a farmer or for the Nation as a whole, resource combinations that will reduce unit costs are economically desirable. This often means use of more fertilizer and fewer acres. But the sacrifice involved in shifting acreage away from, the crops to which they are best adapted is greater in areas where fixed costs per acre are relatively high. Therefore, in using improved technology to make profitable changes in farming, farmers need to recognize regional and local differences in the farm cost structure, as do those concerned with general adjustment programs.
Difference, identification, evolution: posthumanism as paradigmatic shift in contemporary speculative fiction
Creators: name: Doane, Bethany
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: This study is an initial attempt to investigate the ways that posthumanism manifests within three works of contemporary speculative fiction: Margaret Atwood?s Oryx and Crake (2010), Kazuo Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go (2005) and Richard Powers?s Galatea 2.2 (1995). Posthumanism seeks to overturn the assumptions of liberal humanism, which places ?the human? as the central, most important, and possibly only ethical subject in order to recognize inhuman beings-whether they be animal, clone, or artificial intelligence-as legitimate ethical subjects. At the same time, it recognizes that human beings and technology are intimately bound together. Therefore, it is impossible to ?escape? the human through technological culture (as transhumanism might suggest) or to ?return to nature? by eschewing technology and culture altogether. Each of these three works addresses these posthumanist assertions, employing various narrative techniques to reinforce both the ethical status of non-humans and the embedded nature of human technological culture.
description: Posthumanism and the Other: an evolution of understanding -- Burned by Prometheus' gift: posthumanism and cultural disease in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- Engendering sympathy for the Other: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go and posthumanist subjectivity -- Awakening the trans/posthuman: Galatea 2.2 and the postmodern Pygmalion -- On reconciling science and the humanities
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.