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Erstellung eines Service-Portfolios zur FDM-Vermittlung in der Graduiertenausbildung
Creators: name: Krömer, Cora
name: Rohrwild, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Forschungsdatenmanagement
subject: Schulungsprogramm
subject: Drittmittelprojekt
subject: research data management
subject: qualification programme
subject: third party funded project
subject: gnd:1098579690
subject: gnd:4213132-7
subject: gnd:4136792-3

description: Die Vermittlung von grundlegenden und fachspezifischen Kenntnissen im Bereich Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) ist mittlerweile eine erwartete Komponente in größeren Forschungsprojekten, insbesondere in Graduiertenkollegs und Sonderforschungsbereichen der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Diese Handreichung basiert auf Überlegungen an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, ein unterstützendes Portfolio für Schulungsangebote für Graduiertenkollegs aufzubauen. Das Vorgehen ist in erster Linie für Forschungsreferate, Drittmittelstellen und FDM-Beratungsstellen interessant, die Forschende beim Thema FDM-Vermittlung im Antragsprozess unterstützen möchten. Das Dokument ist eine Work-in-Progress. Diese Handreichung wurde im Rahmen des Projektes "eHumanities - interdisziplinär" erstellt.
description: This work is funded by a grant from Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst as part of the project "eHumanities - interdisziplinär".
Selective Separation of Polar Unsaturated Organics Using a Water Stationary Phase in Gas Chromatography
Creators: name: Marno Jones, Amberley
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Analytical

description: In this thesis, a water stationary phase is explored as a novel means of selectively separating unsaturated analytes in gas chromatography. Several unsaturated/saturated analyte pairs consisting mainly of alcohols and carboxylic acids were examined using both a 30 m conventional non-polar HP-5 column and an 11 m water phase column. For most investigated on the HP-5 column, analytes often eluted very close to each other (~6-12 seconds apart) with poor resolution. By comparison, the shorter water phase column well separated each of the analogue pairs by about 3-8 minutes or more. As well on the water phase, analytes with a triple bond were much more retained than those with two double bonds, which in turn were much more retained than those with one double bond. Conversely, on the HP-5 column these were poorly separated if at all. Next, the addition of various metal ion salts to the water phase was explored. While Ca2+ ion produced modest increases in selectivity, the addition of Ag+ ion was most influential and further increased the original water phase selectivity by a factor of 2.3. This also illustrated the flexibility of the system to be adjusted for such separations as a variety of metal ion salts could be easily dissolved into the water stationary phase for this investigation. Lastly, an exploration of unsaturated analyte separations found that cis/trans isomers were baseline resolved on the water phase but co-eluted on a 30 m conventional polar Carbowax column. Similarly, positional isomers varying the location of the double bond were found to separate with a selectivity value near 1.1 on the Carbowax column, whereas on the water phase column they yielded a value of 1.3 and eluted in the reverse order. The mechanistic implications of OH---pi bonding in the water phase was discussed as a potential origin for the selectivity observed. The method was applied to gasoline, model contaminated water, essential oil, and food stuff analysis. Results indicate that this method could be a very useful means of selectively separating such unsaturated analytes.
title: Militarized Workers (Italy)
title: Militarized Workers (Italy)
Creators: name: Salvante, Martina
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Italien
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Industrial mobilization
subject: Italy

description: In 1915 the Italian government created an agency called ''Mobilitazione Industriale'' (Industrial Mobilisation) to manage economic activities and labour relations in wartime. The MI attempted to control social conflict through both repression and new forms of collaboration. Military law was implemented in the factories, while unskilled labour progressively replaced men called to the arms.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Faculty members' professional growth in teaching through the summative peer review of teaching and other departmental practices
Creators: name: Iqbal, Isabeau
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This study investigated the ways that summative peer review of teaching contributes to tenure-track faculty members’ professional growth in teaching. It also explored other practices that support or hinder a departmental culture that values teaching. Using the lens of academic culture, I drew on literature about the peer review of teaching, department culture, and professional growth in academic careers to inform this research. Thirty tenure-track faculty members from six departments and two faculties participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews. Participants were asked about their experiences of summative peer review, how they understood the relationship between peer review and their growth as instructors, and departmental practices that contribute to a culture that values teaching. Participants had varied and inconsistent experiences of summative peer review of teaching. They reported multiple purposes (evaluative, formative, supplement to the student evaluations of teaching) that frequently conflicted. With few known guidelines that direct peer reviews and insufficient clarity as to their purpose, faculty members conducted summative reviews based on a personal sense of “what was best.” Given the demanding nature of academic careers and an institutional reward system that favours research over teaching, peer reviews were primarily limited to classroom observations and engaged few faculty members in dialogue. Such summative peer reviews appeared to make minimal contribution to professional growth in teaching. The study did find numerous other departmental practices conducive to a culture that values teaching, e.g., informal collegial conversations about teaching and team teaching. Faculty members who partook in these grew as instructors. Results demonstrated that academic values and norms (i.e., collegiality and autonomy), disciplinary traditions pertaining to collaboration, and institutional rewards influenced how faculty members pursued professional growth as teachers.
Selective Response of Mesoporous Silicon to Adsorbants with Nitro Groups
Creators: name: McLeod, John A.
name: Kurmaev, Ernst Z.
name: Sushko, Peter V.
name: Boyko, Teak D.
name: Levitsky, Igor A.
name: Moewes, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the electronic structure of mesoporous silicon is affected by adsorption of nitro-based explosive molecules in a compound-selective manner. This selective response is demonstrated by probing the adsorption of two nitro-based molecular explosives (trinitrotoluene and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) and a nonexplosive nitro-based arematic molecule (nitrotoluene) on mesoporous silicon using soft X-ray spec- troscopy. The Si atoms strongly interact with adsorbed molecules to form Si-O and Si-N bonds, as evident from the large shifts in emission energy present in the Si L2,3 X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) measurements. Furthermore, we find that the energy gap of mesoporous silicon changes depending on the adsorbant, as estimated from the Si L2,3 XES and 2p X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurements. Our ab initio molecular dynamics calculations of model compounds suggest that these changes are due to spontaneous breaking of the nitro groups upon contacting surface Si atoms. This compound-selective change in electronic structure may provide a powerful tool for the detection and identification of trace quantities of airborne explosive molecules.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures
Fully Integrated GaN MMIC Power Amplifier Design for Sub-6 GHz 5G Applications
Creators: name: Tangri, Akshita
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical

description: Power amplifiers (PAs) are the most power-hungry component of the transmit chain in a base transceiver system (BTS). Efficiency of the PA thus plays a significant role in the overall efficiency of the transmitter. Today’s modern wireless communications networks need high data rates and low power consumption. Given that the bandwidth is limited, and frequency bands are expensive, therefore, spectral efficiency is of high importance. This is mainly achieved by varying the modulation techniques to accommodate higher data rates. Consequently, with the modern modulation techniques, there is a generation of high peak-to-average ratio power levels. This poses a challenge for the traditional PAs to have high efficiency not only at the peak power but also at back-off power levels. Although there are several techniques to enhance the efficiency at back-off such as envelope tracking, pulse modulation, Doherty PA (DPA) etc., however, there are certain limitations associated with these architectures especially bandwidth restrictions and the complex designs. In this work, an unconventional design architecture for Radio Frequency (RF) PAs is implemented which is based on reverse load modulation technique. The Reverse Modulated Dual-Branch (RMDB) PA uses a constant current-biased transistor in the carrier branch to realize optimal load modulation without using the impedance transformer at the output of the PA, unlike in conventional Doherty. A proof-of-concept monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) PA is designed using 0.25um Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) and process from United Monolithic Semiconductor (UMS) for sub-6 gigahertz (GHz) wireless applications, centered at 3.6 GHz. This first ever fully integrated RMDB PA MMIC provides excellent gain flatness 10.5 dB (±0.5 dB) across 3.4 to 4.0 GHz bandwidth (BW) and delivers an output power of 39 decibel-milliwatt (dBm), (~ 8 watts), at saturation with drain efficiency of greater than 52% while maintaining greater than 38% at 10-dB back-off under continuous wave (CW) signal. This performance makes this design a promising candidate for future 5G and beyond applications.
title: Rickenbacker, Eddie
title: Rickenbacker, Eddie
Creators: name: Seyer, Sean
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Rickenbacker, Eddie
subject: o.P. Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973

description: America’s “ace of aces,” Eddie Rickenbacker received the Distinguished Service Medal, nine Distinguished Service Crosses, and five Croix de Guerres for his service in the skies over the Western Front.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Union of South Africa
title: Union of South Africa
Creators: name: Stapleton, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Staat Südafrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: South Africa

description: In 1914, the Union of South Africa was four years old; its military only two. British supremacy in the South African War (1899-1902) provoked different responses from English and Afrikaner white South Africans to World War I. Prime Minister Botha, seeing global war as a chance for South African expansion, suppressed the 1914 Afrikaner rebellion. South Africa occupied German South West Africa and was proactive in German East Africa. A South African infantry brigade (mostly English-speaking whites), suffered appalling casualties in France and Belgium. Military service, previously reserved for whites, widened so that mixed race (Coloured) infantry fought in East Africa and the Middle East, and mixed race and black men formed military labour units in Western Europe. The hoped-for greater civil rights in recompense for the sacrifices were not forthcoming. The high-profile commemoration of the fallen at Delville, France focussed on whites, creating resentment and parallel commemorations elsewhere for non-whites.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Halo Sampling, Local Bias and Loop Corrections
Creators: name: Chan, Kwan Chuen
name: Scoccimarro, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new test of local bias, by constructing a locally biased halo density field from sampling the dark matter-halo distribution. Our test differs from conventional tests in that it preserves the full scatter in the bias relation and it does not rely on perturbation theory. We put forward that bias parameters obtained using a smoothing scale R can only be applied to computing the halo power spectrum at scales k ~ 1/R. Our calculations can automatically include the running of bias parameters and give vanishingly small loop corrections at low-k. Our proposal results in much better agreement of the sampling and perturbation theory results with simulations. In particular, unlike the standard interpretation of local bias in the literature, our treatment of local bias does not generate a constant power in the low-k limit. We search for extra noise in the Poisson corrected halo power spectrum at wavenumbers below its turn-over and find no evidence of significant positive noise (as predicted by the standard interpretation) while we find evidence of negative noise coming from halo exclusion for very massive halos. Using perturbation theory and our non-perturbative sampling technique we also demonstrate that nonlocal bias effects discovered recently in simulations impact the power spectrum only at the few percent level in the weakly nonlinear regime.
description: 25 pages, 14 figures; V2: significant revision including more details about halo exclusion and low-k noise. Conclusions unchanged
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Italy)
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Italy)
Creators: name: Wilcox, Vanda
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Italien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Soldat
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Italy
subject: Soldiers

description: During the First World War, Italian soldiers’ attitudes varied widely, from enthusiasm to outright rejection of military service thanks to diverse political opinions, socioeconomic backgrounds and conceptions of national identity. The majority were relatively unenthusiastic but obedient, owing not only to the army’s use of harsh coercive techniques but also to soldiers’ own sense of duty to family, nation and comrades. Despite many episodes of indiscipline, most Italians faced their military service with determination, making endurance the most common response to the war.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
China's Economic Growth After WTO Membership
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
name: Woo, Wing Thye
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics

description: We assess the prospects of China's future growth performance in two steps. The first step is to project the potential growth path by determining whether past successes were generated by economic experimentation that produced non-capitalist institutional innovations (e.g. incentive contracts to state enterprises, profit-oriented supervision by state industrial bureaux, collectively-owned rural enterprises), or by institutional convergence toward the advanced WTO economies like France, Japan and the United States - two interpretations known respectively as the experimentalist school and the convergence school. Because WTO membership would harmonise China's economic institutions with those of capitalist economies and reduce the scope for experimentation, the experimentalist school would project a lower potential growth path than the convergence school. The fact that China has sought WTO membership voluntarily and with great tenacity is recognition of the correctness of the convergence interpretation. The second step in assessing China's growth prospects is to project the extent and duration that actual growth would deviate from potential growth. We assess the possibility of a WTO-induced macroeconomic shock that would generate such great political turmoil that prolonged economic stagnation would result. This macroeconomic shock could take two forms: a flood of imports that would cause widespread unemployment; and the entry of foreign banks that would bankrupt the domestic banks, and hence shut down the national credit system, crippling production economy-wide. Our main conclusions are that the government has the technical means to avert such this WTO-induced macroeconomic shock, and that the real threat to macroeconomic stability is China's weak fiscal position.
Efficient Extraction of Valuable Metals from Polymetallic Shale Using Leaching and Adsorption Techniques
Creators: name: Kamalesh, Ashwin Kumar
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: Polymetallic black shale from the Buckton deposit in Northeastern Alberta, Canada, is an undeveloped resource for vanadium, rare earth elements (REEs), nickel, lithium, and a few other metals. The shale mainly contains quartz, calcite, illite and pyrite. The typical method to extract metals from shale is roasting followed by water/acid leaching. In this work, the valuable elements are extracted from polymetallic black shale using a low-temperature sulfation roasting-water leaching method. Sulfation roasting enables the destruction of illite releasing vanadium ions as well as releasing REEs, lithium and nickel from their respective mineral phases. We work on comparing microwave roasting and conventional roasting under varying roasting parameters including temperature, volume of sulfuric acid, and time, followed by water leaching, to determine the optimum leaching efficiencies of metals. Microwave roasting was found advantageous over conventional roasting in a scaled-up process and with a significant reduction in roasting temperature (by 40°C) and time (by 30 minutes), with an obvious reduction in energy consumption. A maximum leaching efficiency of 100% of gadolinium, 85% of ytterbium, 84% of cerium, 76% of nickel, 74% of vanadium, 59% of lithium, 34% of neodymium, 21% of yttrium, and 13% of lanthanum was achieved under optimum conditions. Extraction and recycling the use of rare earth elements (REEs) are very significant in meeting the worldwide demand for REEs. In view of recent advancements in adsorption technologies, amidoxime functionalized cellulose were synthesized and employed for removal of lanthanides (Nd3+, Ce3+, La3+, Y3+, Gd3+, and Yb3+) from aqueous solutions. The functionalized adsorbent was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and the concentration of REEs solution before and after adsorption were determined by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The adsorption kinetics of rare earth ions revealed that an uptake of 50% was achieved within the first 30-60 min. The kinetics of REEs adsorption was modelled better by a pseudo-second-order kinetic rate equation suggesting chemisorption rate-determining step.
The effects of plasma beta and anisotropy instabilities on the dynamics of reconnecting magnetic fields in the heliosheath
Creators: name: Schoeffler, K. M.
name: Drake, J. F.
name: Swisdak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The plasma β (the ratio of the plasma pressure to the magnetic pressure) of a system can have a large effect on its dynamics as high β enhances the effects of pressure anisotropies. We investigate the effects of β in a system of stacked current sheets that break up into magnetic islands due to magnetic reconnection. We find significant differences between β < 1 and β > 1. At low β growing magnetic islands are modestly elongated and become round as contraction releases magnetic stress and reduces magnetic energy. At high β the increase of the parallel pressure in contracting islands causes saturation of modestly elongated islands as island cores approach the marginal firehose condition. Only highly elongated islands reach finite size. The kinking associated with the Weibel and firehose instabilities prevents full contraction of these islands, leading to a final state of highly elongated islands in which further reconnection is suppressed. The results are directly relevant to reconnection in the sectored region of the heliosheath and possibly to saturation mechanisms of the magnetorotational instability in accretion flows.
Data Science: Insights Revealed
Creators: name: ChatGPT 3.5
name: Liu, Alan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: data science
chatgpt

description: Partial transcript of a ChatGPT 3.5 session about data science prompted by Alan Liu on November 15, 2023. (Transcript created by generating a ChtGPT "shared link" that auto-generated the session title "Data Science: Insights Unveiled" and posted the session online as a web page at https://chat.openai.com/share/408ab152-f5a7-4d8a-ab8e-e40c802df56c. For sustainability, Liu captured this web page in PDF/A format for deposit in Zenodo.)
For the full trasncript of the session, see Version 2 in Zenodo (captured in HTML format at https://zenodo.org/records/10234175.
title: East and Central Africa
title: East and Central Africa
Creators: name: Samson, Anne
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Ostafrika
subject: Zentralafrika
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Africa, Central
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Africa, Eastern

description: The war in East and Central Africa was one of the longest running of the Great War. It started on 8 August 1914 when the wireless station at Dar es Salaam was bombed and ended on 25 November 1918 when the Germans officially surrendered'' ''at Abercorn. Although the African campaign was regarded as a sideshow by the European powers, for Africa the war was one in a long list of almost on-going conflicts. At least 177 micro-nations participated in the conflict, which was fought over, and in, seven African territories. It involved the lakes, islands in the Indian Ocean and the air.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
DataCite Best Practice Guide
Creators: name: Kümmet, Sonja
name: Lücke, Stephan
name: Schulz, Julian
name: Spenger, Martin
name: Weber, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Digital Humanities
DataCite
Metadata
Interoperability
Standardization
Research Data Management
Research Data

description: This document is a guideline to use the DataCite Metadata Schema [external link], version 4.3. It is meant for researchers, IT and library support staff in the context of the following institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Leibniz Supercomputing Centre If you wish to publish your research data in one of these institutions, this guide helps to make your submission compliant to best practices in the context of research data management. This guide is also designed to be reused by other institutions as well.
Singular perturbation of reduced wave equation and scattering from an embedded obstacle
Creators: name: Liu, Hongyu
name: Shang, Zaijiu
name: Sun, Hongpeng
name: Zou, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider time-harmonic wave scattering from an inhomogeneous isotropic medium supported in a bounded domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\geq 2$). {In a subregion $D\SubsetΩ$, the medium is supposed to be lossy and have a large mass density. We study the asymptotic development of the wave field as the mass density $ρ\rightarrow +\infty$} and show that the wave field inside $D$ will decay exponentially while the wave filed outside the medium will converge to the one corresponding to a sound-hard obstacle $D\SubsetΩ$ buried in the medium supported in $Ω\backslash\bar{D}$. Moreover, the normal velocity of the wave field on $\partial D$ from outside $D$ is shown to be vanishing as $ρ\rightarrow +\infty$. {We derive very accurate estimates for the wave field inside and outside $D$ and on $\partial D$ in terms of $ρ$, and show that the asymptotic estimates are sharp. The implication of the obtained results is given for an inverse scattering problem of reconstructing a complex scatterer.}
Methods of Teaching Piano to Children with Autism
Creators: name: Dimitrova, Violetta
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Teaching piano, beginners' level, children with autism
subject: Music
subject: Education

description: The present study investigated pedagogical approaches of teaching piano to beginner level students with autism. The research focused on consideration of students’ learning abilities and traditional piano methods and assessing better practical solutions for learning and playing piano. Taking into consideration the positive effects of music therapy on social communication, cognitive, emotional, and motor abilities of children with autism, and the difficulties public schools have in providing music education for children with diverse abilities, the purpose of this study was to enhance the opportunities for accessible music education and practical performances for children with autism. Participants were elementary school children aged 6.5, 7.5, and 11 years old, who have never taken piano classes before, but had an interest in participating in musical activities. Using an action research approach that followed a 12-week (24 lessons) cycle design, each cycle was completed within two lessons each week. The expectation for accomplishment after the completion of 24 lessons was that each student would have the ability to memorize and play 8 measures with various rhythms, such as quarter and eighth notes, understand melodic lines, and play without interruptions when performing. In conclusion, all three participants performed two pieces (8 measures), understood rhythms, read notes from the staff, and could identify them on the piano keys. Given that the students had learned differently, and each had distinct logical understandings of the material, some of them demonstrated a higher-than-expected understanding of the theory. This study was sufficiently successful in terms of developing piano teaching strategies for students with autism. It includes positive emotions, an enjoyable collaborative teaching-learning process, and the piano classes where they can create harmonious environments, musical sounds, and wonderful friendships.
title: Prussian War Ministry
title: Prussian War Ministry
Creators: name: Pöhlmann, Markus
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Preußen / Kriegsministerium
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. Prussia (Germany). Kriegsministerium

description: The Prussian War Ministry (''Preußisches Kriegsministerium'') was the highest administrative agency in the German army and was responsible for the organization of military personnel, the procurement of weapons and equipment, and for payment and pensions. The minister of war was neither involved in the army’s war planning process nor did he – except for a brief episode in early 1919 – exercise any command over German troops.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Wilhelm II, German Emperor
title: Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Creators: name: Rohl, John C.G.
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Wilhelm [II., Deutsches Reich, Kaiser]
subject: o.P. William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941

description: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s ambitious policies played a major part in bringing about the First World War, yet with the onset of hostilities he was sidelined by his generals. In certain key areas, however, notably in appointments to top positions and in the conduct of naval warfare he continued to have the decisive say. He ultimately lost touch with his people, coming to be seen as an impediment to peace. He abdicated in November 1918.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Local negotiation of globalised educational discourses : the case of Child Friendly Schools in rural Cambodia
Creators: name: Reimer, Jill Katheryn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Despite massive donor aid to the education sector over the past two decades, school achievement in Cambodia remains poor. Key challenges include low survival rates, limited contact hours, poor literacy skills, and gender disparity. The question of why basic education continues to fail Cambodian children catalysed this research. This feminist postcolonial inquiry analysed the interface between the global and the local as expressed in Child Friendly Schools (CFS) policy to understand how local Cambodian communities negotiate hegemonic transnational influences. It explored how schools and communities understand and implement CFS on their own terms and how concurrent global discourse about gender equality has impacted gendered identities and relations. This “vertical case study” shows how exogenous influences are mediated through local perspectives. At least seven critical elements of the Cambodian socio-cultural milieu (worldview, protracted conflict, educational history, political system, poverty, gender perspectives, educational philosophy) converge to shape micro- (school, village) and meso-level (national) response to macro-level (global) influences. While numerous international norms have been institutionalised as policy, many have not been internalised. Local response to global educational discourses takes five forms: deployment, incorporation, adaptation, contestation, and resistance. In some cases, the response is wilful and deliberately negotiated. In other cases it may reflexively arise from conflicting values; witness, for instance, traditional perspectives on gender and gender equality. While homogenisation of basic education clearly occurs at the rhetorical level, hybridity characterises actual implementation. Cambodia’s negotiation of international norms has resulted in poor quality education; much educational reform has been in form rather than in substance. Study findings show that gender norms, as expressed in school-related texts and relationships, have not been significantly influenced toward gender equality. Rather, the male-centric status quo is supported through teacher attitudes, textbook content, the neutering of gender mainstreaming processes, and the defining of equality in essentially economic terms. A more coherent and contextualised (and therefore relevant and vernacular) version of elementary education can be achieved by applying a social justice frame which necessarily includes dialogue around cultural values. For policy sharing to succeed, senders and recipients alike must attend seriously to local context, particularly how worldview mediates practice.
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Australia)
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Australia)
Creators: name: Connor, John
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Australien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Politik
subject: o.P. Australia--Politics and government
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Australia

description: The Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing Dominion of the British Empire, experienced splits during the Great War in the major parties of both the left and right. The Australian Labor Party, in 1914 the most successful social democratic party in the world, divided in 1916 over the issue of conscription for overseas military service. Conscription was defeated, but Labor would not win another national election for a decade. The Liberal Party split in 1916 as farmers, opposed to government price controls and wartime economic disruptions, created the Australian Farmers Federation Organisation, which in early 1920 would become the Country Party.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
РАЗНООБРАЗИЕ НЕВРОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ И НЕЙРОПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ СИМПТОМОВ У ПАЦИЕНТОВ, ПЕРЕНЕСШИХ COVID-19
Creators: name: Ибрагимов, Зуфар
name: Халимова, Ханифа
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Этиология психоневрологических симптомов у пациентов, перенесших COVID-19, сложна и многофакторна. Они могут быть связаны с непосредственным воздействием инфекции, цереброваскулярными заболеваниями (включая гиперкоагуляцию) [1], физиологическими нарушениями (гипоксией), побочными эффектами лекарств, а также с заболеваниями, которые могут привести к летальному исходу [2]. Наиболее распространенными психиатрическими нарушениями являются тревожность и бессонница. Нарушения сна могут свидетельствовать о развитии психических расстройств [5].
Constraints on Non-standard Top Quark Couplings
Creators: name: Zhang, Cen
name: Greiner, Nicolas
name: Willenbrock, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study non-standard top quark couplings in the effective field theory approach. All nine dimension-six operators that generate anomalous couplings between the electroweak gauge bosons and the third-generation quarks are included. We calculate their contributions at tree level and one loop to all major precision electroweak observables. The calculations are compared with data to obtain constraints on eight of these operators.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
title: Exercise or not?
title: An empirical illustration of the role of behavioral alternatives in exercise motivation and resulting theoretical considerations
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Timme, Sinika
name: Brand, Ralf
name: Raboldt, Michaela
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Objective: Individuals’ decisions to engage in exercise are often the result of in-the-moment choices between exercise and a competing behavioral alternative. The purpose of this study was to investigate processes that occur in-the-moment (i.e., situated processes) when individuals are faced with the choice between exercise and a behavioral alternative during a computerized task. These were analyzed against the background of interindividual differences in individuals’ automatic valuation and controlled evaluation of exercise. Method: In a behavioral alternatives task 101 participants were asked whether they would rather choose an exercise option or a behavioral alternative in 25 trials. Participants’ gaze behavior (first gaze and fixations) was recorded using eye-tracking. An exercise-specific affect misattribution procedure (AMP) was used to assess participants’ automatic valuation of exercise before the task. After the task, self-reported feelings towards exercise (controlled evaluation) and usual weekly exercise volume were assessed. Mixed effects models with random effects for subjects and trials were used for data analysis. Results: Choosing exercise was positively correlated with individuals’ automatic valuation (r = 0.20, p = 0.05), controlled evaluation (r = 0.58, p < 0.001), and their weekly exercise volume (r = 0.43, p < 0.001). Participants showed no bias in their initial gaze or number of fixations towards the exercise or the non-exercise alternative. However, participants were 1.30 times more likely to fixate on the chosen alternative first and more frequently, but this gaze behavior was not related to individuals’ automatic valuation, controlled evaluation, or weekly exercise volume. Conclusion: The results suggest that situated processes arising from defined behavioral alternatives may be independent of individuals’ general preferences. Despite one’s best general intention to exercise more, the choice of a non-exercise alternative behavior may seem more appealing in-the-moment and eventually be chosen. New psychological theories of health behavior change should therefore better consider the role of potentially conflicting alternatives when it comes to initiating physical activity or exercise.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 834
title: Tirpitz, Alfred von
title: Tirpitz, Alfred von
Creators: name: Epkenhans, Michael
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Tirpitz, Alfred von
subject: Tirpitz, Alfred von, 1849-1930

description: Grand Admiral Tirpitz was Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office from 1897 until 1916. Quickly losing his former great influence on German politics after the outbreak of war, he was eventually forced to ask for his dismissal in March 1916. After his dismissal he helped found a new right-wing movement, the German Fatherland Party, in 1917.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Tensorial slip of super-hydrophobic channels
Creators: name: Schmieschek, Sebastian
name: Belyaev, Aleksey V.
name: Harting, Jens
name: Vinogradova, Olga I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a generalization of the tensorial slip boundary condition, originally justified for a thick (compared to texture period) channel, to any channel thickness. The eigenvalues of the effective slip length tensor, however, in general case become dependent on the gap and cannot be viewed as a local property of the surface, being a global characteristic of the channel. To illustrate the use of the tensor formalism we develop a semi-analytical theory of an effective slip in a parallel-plate channel with one super-hydrophobic striped and one hydrophilic surface. Our approach is valid for any local slip at the gas sectors and an arbitrary distance between the plates, ranging from a thick to a thin channel. We then present results of lattice Boltzmann simulations to validate the analysis. Our results may be useful for extracting effective slip tensors from global measurements, such as the permeability of a channel, in experiments or simulations.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
title: Jutland, Battle of
title: Jutland, Battle of
Creators: name: Epkenhans, Michael
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Seeschlacht vor dem Skagerrak
subject: Jutland, Battle of, 1916

description: On 31 May/1 June 1916 the British Grand Fleet and the German High Sea Fleet clashed at Jutland. It was the largest naval battle in history until the Battle of Leyte Gulf off the Philippines in 1944, involving 151 British and ninety-one German warships. Although the German vessels inflicted heavier losses upon its enemies, they were unable to change the strategic situation and break the British blockade.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Cuestionario a creadores de contenido científico en redes sociales
Creators: name: GÁLVEZ-DE-LA-CUESTA, María-del-Carmen
name: ÁLVAREZ-GARCÍA, Sergio
name: GUTIÉRREZ-MANJÓN, Sergio
name: GERTRUDIS-CASADO, María-del-Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: comunicación-científica
redes-sociales
divulgación-científica
creadores-de-contenido

description: Cuestionario utilizado para recabar información de creadores y creadoras de contenido científico en redes sociales, en el marco de la investigación sobre estrategias en la creación de contenido científico en redes sociales
Trauma and the elsewhere of queer : autobiography and the erotics of haunting
Creators: name: Hoy, Alyson
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation is an inquiry into the future of queer theory after the death of Eve Sedgwick. A founding scholar of the field, Sedgwick radically changed thinking about sexuality in history in ways that have critically defined queerness not only in relation to but also as temporality. Commenting on the brevity of a future that sees, too frequently, "the brutal foreshortening of so many queer life spans" (2003, p. 148), Sedgwick anticipated an end not of queer theory but rather of her own life. This dissertation argues that Sedgwick's death, far from signalling that queer theory is over, marks an occasion for re-evaluating the field that can be at once a return and a movement toward a future. In mourning and memorializing her, queer scholars enact a return to the politics that gave rise to Sedgwick's theorizing. At the same time we turn the focus inward, narrating in various forms of personal voice what her loss has meant. This dissertation continues and begins again the queer work forged by Sedgwick by drawing connections between the personal and the collective. Intervening into theories of negativity that have become pervasive in the field, it turns to her reparative mode of reading while still acknowledging the damage and aggression that are at the heart of psychic life. Weaving memoir and critical essay in a way that methodologically reference Sedgwick's innovative use of form, this dissertation queerly disrupts medicalized and pathologized accounts of illness, sexuality, and trauma. It brings into public view and connects to other histories accounts of my personal experiences of anorexia and self-harm in ways that mark a continuation of and, critically, are permitted by an engagement with Sedgwick's work. In this sense the question emerges: Might the future of queer theory be found in a reading of Sedgwick after Sedgwick?
Leveraging a Digital Asset Management System for the Full Data Lifecycle for Digital Collections
Creators: name: Ruddock, Kathryn
Publisher: name: CNI
Year: 2022
Subjects: digital curation
digital asset management
digital collections
data lifecycle

description: https://www.cni.org/topics/digital-curation/leveraging-a-digital-asset-management-system-for-the-full-data-lifecycle-for-digital-collections
description: Digital asset management systems can offer a lot of functionality that creates a one stop platform for managing digital collections at each step of the data lifecycle – plan, create, collect, process, analyze, store, preserve and share. This capacity to manage so many pieces of digital collections services through one platform, can make the adoption of this kind of technology a key component in designing sustainable digital collections services. This presentation will provide a summary of University of Calgary’s implementation of the Cortex digital asset management system and how we are using Cortex at each step of the data lifecycle to manage digital collections.
The Roadblock to a Sovereign Bankruptcy Law
Creators: name: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: Bankruptcy law is a necessary feature of a modern economy, and the principles for a bankruptcy apply whether the debtor happens to be a sovereign or not. The essential point is that markets cannot handle situations of extreme financial distress or debtor-creditor workouts in an efficient manner without a sound legal framework. Indeed, Adam Smith himself was a champion of applying bankruptcy processes to insolvent sovereign debtors, arguing that when the situation warranted it, bankruptcy was a sensible alternative to the chaotic ways that sovereign insolvency was otherwise handled. Thus, the fact that the private financial community continues to oppose a sovereign bankruptcy law is quite unconvincing, especially since an enormous number of countries has had a sovereign workout at some point in history.
title: War Correspondents
title: War Correspondents
Creators: name: Luckhurst, Tim
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsberichterstatter
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Press coverage

description: At its outbreak, newspapers in the Allied and neutral democracies hoped to present vivid descriptions of the First World War. They were soon frustrated. Censorship obstructed the adventurous style of war reporting to which readers had grown accustomed. Belligerent governments wanted journalists to encourage enlistment and maintain home front morale. Many newspapers in Britain, France and America were content to behave as patriotic propagandists. All were constrained by rules and circumstances. War correspondents downplayed misery and extolled victory. Soldiers found their behavior hard to forgive. War reporting promoted the belief that newspapers could not be trusted to tell the truth.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Relativistic Theory of Hydrodynamic Fluctuations with Applications to Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Kapusta, J. I.
name: Müller, B.
name: Stephanov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the relativistic theory of hydrodynamic fluctuations for application to high energy heavy ion collisions. In particular, we investigate their effect on the expanding boost-invariant (Bjorken) solution of the hydrodynamic equations. We discover that correlations over a long rapidity range are induced by the propagation of the sound modes. Due to the expansion, the dispersion law for these modes is non-linear and attenuated even in the limit of zero viscosity. As a result, there is a non-dissipative wake behind the sound front which is generated by any instantaneous point-like fluctuation. We evaluate the two-particle correlators using the initial conditions and hydrodynamic parameters relevant for heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. In principle these correlators can be used to obtain information about the viscosities because the magnitudes of the fluctuations are directly proportional to them.
description: 39 pages, 6 figures; references added
title: Room 40
title: Room 40
Creators: name: Czak, Steven
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Großbritannien
subject: Marine
subject: Geheimdienst
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Secret service--Great Britain
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Cryptography

description: Room 40 was a highly secretive British intelligence organization within the directorate of intelligence of the Admiralty. Its primary task was to intercept and decrypt German wireless and telegraph messages. It also intercepted some diplomatic traffic, including the infamous Zimmermann Telegram.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War