cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Xystosomus seriatus Erwin 1973, new species
Creators: name: Erwin, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1973
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Xystosomus
Xystosomus seriatus

description: FIGURES 19, 34, 69 TYPE-LOCALITY.— Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. TYPE-SPECIMENS.—The holotype male and allotype are in BMNH. Both were collected by Plaumann in 1934. Two paratypes: BMNH, 1; MHNP, 1. DESCRIPTION.— Form: As in X. gruti, except elytra more convex. Easily distinguished from all species of the group by the complete lack of pronotal and elytral microsculpture. Color: Head and body rufopiceous; pronotum and elytra very shiny; appendages testaceous or partially infuscated. Head: Narrow between eyes; frontal furrows linear and deeply impressed, extended to past mideye level; eyes large and prominent. Pronotum (Figure 19): Transverse (W/ L, x 1.52; range, 1.47-1.57; 4 specimens): hind angles slightly obtuse; sides anterior to angles straight; side margins slightly explanate basally, beaded anteriorly; otherwise as in X. gruti. Elytra: Each elytron with eight rows of serial punctulae, laterally more coarsely punctulate and partially or totally striate (especially striae 7 and 8); discal intervals flat, lateral intervals slightly convex; otherwise as in X. gruti . Microsculpture: Head with slightly transverse, finely impressed meshes, more isodiametric near clypeus; effaced from pronotum and elytra. Secondaiy sexual characters: Male genitalia (Figure 34) and female genitalia characteristic of the species group. Size: Four specimens: length, 3.0-3.4 mm; width, 1.4—1.5 mm. NATURAL HISTORY.— Unknown, except adults collected in March and May. The specimen collected in May is slightly teneral. LOCALITY RECORDS (Figure 69).—I have seen four specimens from the following locality: SOUTH AMERICA : BRAZIL: Santa Catarina State: Nova Teutonia (BMNH, MHNP).
description: Published as part of Erwin, Terry L., 1973, Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part I: A revision of the Neotropical genus Xystosomus Schaum, pp. 1-39 in Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 140 on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.140, http://zenodo.org/record/3828531
title: “Dey jus’ puts a man and breedin’ woman together like mules”: family, gender, and forced reproduction in the Antebellum South, 1808-1861
Creators: name: Djelid, Aisha
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: Forced reproduction, or ‘slave-breeding’, permeated every aspect of an enslaved person’s life. From 
arranging marriages between enslaved people to forcing enslaved men to rape enslaved women, 
slaveholders controlled enslaved communities’ intimate and sexual lives. Previously, historians have 
dismissed forced reproduction as an abolitionist trope – one that sensationalised and exaggerated ‘slave-breeding’ to the point of claiming the existence of ‘stud farms.’ They all concluded that there is no 
empirical evidence that it existed. This thesis disputes these claims on the basis that they do not 
approach the topic in a qualitative way, nor do they listen to the voices of enslaved and formerly 
enslaved people who have been discussing this topic since its conception. It instead argues that enslavers 
carried out forced reproduction in a day-to-day way along a spectrum of violence: while some 
slaveholders pursued a ‘paternalistic’ approach to breeding by allowing and encouraging enslaved 
people to marry and have children, others violently coerced enslaved people into having sex with 
multiple partners. Though forced reproduction undoubtedly affected enslaved women, it was also a 
form of sexual exploitation for enslaved men, and by using gender as a tool of analysis, this thesis 
argues that enslavers attempted to emasculate enslaved men by forcing them to rape and be raped, but 
also by interfering with masculine ideals such as fatherhood. Forced reproduction infiltrated every 
aspect of an enslaved person’s life, but this thesis will focus on four key themes: coerced relationships, 
fatherhood, health and medical care, and finally marketisation. By primarily using sources from 
enslaved and formerly enslaved people and using these four themes as a lens in which to view sexual 
violence in the antebellum South, this thesis examines the ways that forced reproduction affected 
enslaved men, women, and children in different ways, dividing from one another, and leaving 
emotional and physical scars on enslaved communities throughout the South.
Between the steps on "The Mind's Staircase" : individual pathways to the development of young children's mathematical understanding
Creators: name: Loewen, Susan Nedda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study explored how individual, 4- to 5-year-old children, who displayed average to above-average mathematical ability for their age responded to an instructional program designed to facilitate construction of the mental counting line. Case's (1996a) neo-Piagetian theory, Case's (1996b) model of the process of structural change, and Porath's (1991b) model of the intellectual development of academically advanced children provided the theoretical framework for the study. The microgenetic approach advocated by Catán (1986a) was used to explore change and variability in the developmental pathways of each of the children in the study. Three girls (aged 4.0, 4.1, 4.8 years) and 1 boy (aged 4.11 years), who had not yet constructed the mental counting line, participated in the study. An instructional program (7 weeks long) was used to stimulate the development of the mental counting line. The Quantitative Reasoning subtests of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (Roid, 2003a) and four measures of conceptual understanding (Number Knowledge test, Balance Beam, Money Knowledge and Birthday Party tasks) were administered prior to instruction. The measures of conceptual understanding were readministered following instruction. A qualitative analysis of the children's pretest and posttest scores, descriptive microgenetic quantitative and qualitative analyses of the children's responses to the instructional program, and a trend analysis of the children's performance were conducted. The results indicated the children progressed from the pretest to the posttest. Intra-individual and inter-individual differences in the rate and the pattern of construction of the mental counting line were apparent. The results provide evidence for individual pathways to development as children negotiate the critical transition between the predimensional and dimensional stages of Case's (1996a) theory. The results support Case's (1996a) neo-Piagetian theory, Case's (1996b) model of the process of structural change, and Porath's (1991b) model of the intellectual development of academically advanced children. The results are consistent with the results of studies from Case's (1996a) neo-Piagetian theoretical perspective, the results of studies from other neo-Piagetian theoretical perspectives (Case, 1996c; Siegler, 1996b), and the results of studies on the development of children's mathematical understanding (Abbott, Berninger, & Busse, 1996; Robinson, Abbott, Berninger, Busse, & Mukhopadhyay, 1997).
title: Gravity studies of the Guayabo Caldera and the Miravalles geothermal field, Costa Rica
Creators: name: Hallinan, Stephen Eric
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1992

description: Gravity techniques have been used firstly to determine the sub-surface structure of the Guayabo caldera together with the related part of the Guanacaste Arc, and secondly to study the temporal evolution of the Miravalles Geothermal Field. Detailed density and stratigraphy studies of both the drilled and exposed geology have both complemented and constrained the caldera gravity models. A new caldera volume - erupted mass balance model is proposed that computes the buried, intra-caldera mass and volume parameters in terms of the mass deficiency commonly associated with silicic calderas.

 The 10 km diameter topographic expression of the Guayabo caldera comprises nested collapse structures, the boundaries of which are defined within the caldera by distinct gravity discontinuities. The modelled structure shows that the Guayabo caldera formed by multistage collapse across discrete sub-parallel sets of ring faults, rather than by chaotic collapse. The resultant overall structure resembles a funnel caldera, and it is possible that similar structures may be present but remain undetected in comparable calderas. The 200- 400 m collapse across the faulted topographic margins is far less than the previous estimate of 2400 m, where the entire drilled stratigraphy was thought to comprise the fill to the caldera. Most of the stratigraphy drilled on the eastern margin of the caldera pre-dates the formation of the caldera, contrary to the previous theories. Furthermore, the caldera volume far exceeds the volume of the Guayabo tuffs and post-tuff subsidence, possibly related to the build-up of the recent Miravalles stratoconeso n the caldera margin, is required to explain the imbalance. An important result of the revised caldera model is that the geothermal reservoir host rocks continue beneath the caldera margin, and therefore the volume of the reservoir may be greater than previous estimates.

 The 35 mGal gravity couple over the inner margin of the Nicaraguan depression is modelled as the near-surface outcrop of the Cretaceous ophiolitic basement, previously thought to be present at several km depth beneath the Guanacaste arc. Gravity data show that the extensive Plio-Pleistocene silicic pyroclastics of Guanacaste do not have detectable deepseated low-density plutonic equivalents.

 Repeat gravity studies at Miravalles identified 40 tGal fluctuations on a monthly time-scale, due to groundwater movement in the Guayabo caldera rather than geothermal-related sources. Experimental data have shown that LaCoste and Romberg gravimeters record repeatable gravity decreases of up to 700 pGal when subjected to vibration at specific harmonic frequencies. This accounts for the gravity decreases observed during well testing in 1988, that could not be explained by reasonable mass changes. Talring these points into consideration, a repeat gravity monitoring program was designed to both test and complement the future reservoir simulation models.
MPEC 2024-T311 : 2024 TS20
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 TS20

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Magnetic-Driven Winds from Post-AGB Stars: Solutions for High Speed Winds and Extreme Collimation
Creators: name: Garcia-Segura, Guillermo
name: Lopez, Jose Alberto
name: Franco, Jose
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper explores the effects of post-AGB winds driven solely by magnetic pressure from the stellar surface. It is found that winds can reach high speeds under this assumption, and lead to the formation of highly collimated proto-planetary nebulae. Bipolar knotty jets with periodic features and constant velocity are well reproduced by the models. Several wind models with terminal velocities from a few tens of $\kms$ up to $10^3$ $\kms$ are calculated, yielding outflows with linear momenta in the range $10^{36}-10^{40} \gcms$, and kinetic energies in the range $10^{42}-10^{47} $ erg. These results are in accord with recent observations of proto-planetary nebulae that have pointed out serious energy and momentum deficits if radiation pressure is considered as the only driver for these outflows. Our models strengthen the notion that the large mass-loss rates of post-AGB stars, together with the short transition times from the late AGB to the planetary nebula stage, could be directly linked with the generation of strong magnetic fields during this transition stage.
description: 11 pages, 6 Figures, 2004, ApJ, accepted
title: Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
Creators: name: Ille, Maureen Lilian Westmoreland
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1995

description: Jocus is a virtually forgotten and unrecognised figure in Renaissance iconography today; yet this personification has a substantial history in both art and literature. This study recovers the iconographic tradition of Jocus, identifying its classical literary origins, and tracing its survival, development and transformation in early-Christian, medieval, and Renaissance literature. Thereafter, it analyses representations of Jocus within art, focussing on medieval manuscript illustrations and a selection of Renaissance paintings.

 The most prestigious literary source is a couplet in Horace's Ode to Augustus describing Jocus comprising a triad with Venus and Cupid. Thus, Jocus was associated with carnal love, which this study has found to be based on commonplace euphemistic language in which iocus implied coitus. Furthermore, it identifies a related iconographic theme, "Le giuochi di putti" which also conveyed covert sexual messages based on contemporary euphemistic language.

 It discusses in detail a selection of paintings in which Jocus is most readily identifiable; significantly, all produced in mid-sixteenth-century Tuscany in the circle of the Florentine painter Giorgio Va sari. Each painting represents the Horatian triad with Jocus portrayed as a Cupid-like putto carrying attributes associated with childhood and play. Moreover, since moralising medieval sources associate Jocus with human folly, folly is also signified in these paintings. By further exploring the association between Jocus and folly, this study establishes a link between Italian and northern iconographic themes, and reveals a network of northern artists and humanists in whose work play, folly and love were interconnected. It reveals that the most enduring visual image of Jocus was a drawing by the northern humanist, Conrad Celtes, which was subsequently reproduced for over two centuries in emblem books and iconolgiae.

 Whilst the Horatian allusion consistantly justifies the inclusion of Jocus in literature, art and illustration, this study nevertheless argues that punning references and sexual innuendo subvert the high-mindedness of the prestigious classical roots of the motif. Identifying the evidence of such subversion is an important outcome of this research.
Ceratina (Euceratina) dallatorreana FRIESE 1896
Creators: name: Ebmer, A. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Ceratina
Ceratina dallatorreana

description: Ceratina (Euceratina) dallatorreana FRIESE 1896
Als eingeschleppt mit vielen Funden aus dem nördlich-zentralen Kalifornien mit genauen Daten und Verbreitungskarte durch DALY (1966) entdeckt und beschrieben. Der älteste datierte Fund stammt von Willows in Glenn Co. vom September 1949. Bemerkenswert ist die Entdeckung der parthenogenetischen Fortpflanzung dieser Art durch DALY.
 Autochthon ist Ceratina dallatorreana eine mediterrane Art, von Algerien bis Tunesien, in Europa von Portugal und Spanien, über Südfrankreich, Italien, Kroatien, Griechenland, Türkei bis Israel, einschliesslich der Mittelmeerinseln Balearen, Sardinien, Sizilien, Zypern (DALY 1983); auch auf Kreta, bis in die östliche Türkei und den nördlichen Iran, Elburs-Gebiet, leg. und coll. Ebmer. Eine Meldung für Österreich, die durch die Literatur geistert, ist durch keinen einzigen konkreten Fund verifizierbar. Die Arten der Untergattung Euceratina sind ausschliesslich paläarktisch verbreitet.
description: Published as part of Ebmer, A. W., 2011, Holarktische Bienenarten - autochthon, eingeführt, eingeschleppt, pp. 5-83 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4524335
Determining functionals for random partial differential equations
Creators: name: Chueshov, Igor
name: Duan, Jinqiao
name: Schmalfuß, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15; 35Q30;37H10; 47H10; 34D35

description: Determining functionals are tools to describe the finite dimensional long-term dynamics of infinite dimensional dynamical systems. There also exist several applications to infinite dimensional {\em random} dynamical systems. In these applications the convergence condition of the trajectories of an infinite dimensional random dynamical system with respect to a finite set of linear functionals is assumed to be either in mean or {\em exponential} with respect to the convergence almost surely. In contrast to these ideas we introduce a convergence concept which is based on the convergence in probability. By this ansatz we get rid of the assumption of exponential convergence. In addition, setting the random terms to zero we obtain usual deterministic results.\\ We apply our results to the 2D Navier - Stokes equations forced by a white noise.
Bilancia dei pagamenti deficitaria e politica economica degli Stati Uniti.
Creators: name: HABERLER, G.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: Nell’articolo l’autore analizza il recente peggioramento della bilancia dei pagamenti americana richiamandone i punti essenziali.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 50 (1960)
Effet de la poudre du caméléon (frucifer pardalis) dans la lutte contre la peste porcine africaine dans la contrée de la Tsay/territoire de kenge
Creators: name: Serges Yanga nzilambembi
name: Manwana Dally
name: Odon Ndombe Meso Pamba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Dans le cadre d'une étude visant à expérimenter les effets du caméléon dans la lutte contre la peste porcine africaine, une recherche a été conduite dans la région de Tsay, située dans le territoire de Kenge. Les villes et les campagnes de cette région rencontrent d'énormes difficultés pendant la saison sèche, période durant laquelle la peste porcine africaine sévit particulièrement. Une enquête par questionnaire a été réalisée, accompagnée d'une expérimentation. L'analyse des données a révélé que la poudre de caméléon, associée à de l'eau potable, lutte efficacement contre la peste porcine africaine, offrant des résultats satisfaisants en comparaison avec les pratiques d'ethnomédecine vétérinaire.
Strumenti della politica monetaria: un esame comparativo.
Creators: name: TAMAGNA, F.M.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: L’autore effettua un esame comparativo degli strumenti di politica monetaria abbracciando gli aspetti riguardanti la tradizione e l’organizzazione delle banche centrali, la struttura e i sistemi dei mercati e degli istituti finanziari dei vari paesi del mondo. L’introduzione di strumenti specifici, adatti alla regolamentazione del costo,e della disponibilità, volume, direzione e uso del credito, è frutto di uno sviluppo relativamente recente che si è concentrato gradualmente attraverso le operazioni delle banche centrali come banche di emissione e attraverso le responsabilità da esse assunte in qualità di banchieri del governo.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 50 (1960)
L'oro e il mercato di Londra.
Creators: name: ZENO, A.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: L’ articolo nelle intenzioni dell’autore hai il fine pratico di illustrare come, nella situazione monopolistica creatasi per effetto della nota decisione delle autorità di Washington, il mercato di Londra avesse ripreso a funzionare; e ne descrive quindi gli strumenti, il meccanismo ed i limiti imosti sia agli uni sia all’altro.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 50 (1960)
Topology Dependent Bounds For FAQs
Creators: name: Langberg, Michael
name: Li, Shi
name: Jayaraman, Sai Vikneshwar Mani
name: Rudra, Atri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we prove topology dependent bounds on the number of rounds needed to compute Functional Aggregate Queries (FAQs) studied by Abo Khamis et al. [PODS 2016] in a synchronous distributed network under the model considered by Chattopadhyay et al. [FOCS 2014, SODA 2017]. Unlike the recent work on computing database queries in the Massively Parallel Computation model, in the model of Chattopadhyay et al., nodes can communicate only via private point-to-point channels and we are interested in bounds that work over an {\em arbitrary} communication topology. This is the first work to consider more practically motivated problems in this distributed model. For the sake of exposition, we focus on two special problems in this paper: Boolean Conjunctive Query (BCQ) and computing variable/factor marginals in Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs). We obtain tight bounds on the number of rounds needed to compute such queries as long as the underlying hypergraph of the query is $O(1)$-degenerate and has $O(1)$-arity. In particular, the $O(1)$-degeneracy condition covers most well-studied queries that are efficiently computable in the centralized computation model like queries with constant treewidth. These tight bounds depend on a new notion of `width' (namely internal-node-width) for Generalized Hypertree Decompositions (GHDs) of acyclic hypergraphs, which minimizes the number of internal nodes in a sub-class of GHDs. To the best of our knowledge, this width has not been studied explicitly in the theoretical database literature. Finally, we consider the problem of computing the product of a vector with a chain of matrices and prove tight bounds on its round complexity (over the finite field of two elements) using a novel min-entropy based argument.
description: A conference version was presented at PODS 2019
The Impact of Coffee Certification on the Economic Performance of indonesian Actors
Creators: name: Astuti, Esther Sri
name: Offermans, Astrid
name: Kemp, René
name: Cörvers, Ron
name: Astuti, Esther Sri
name: Offermans, Astrid
name: Kemp, René
name: Cörvers, Ron
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: coffee certification, economic performance, economic rent, enablers and blockers,
subject: sustainable agriculture

description: The prevailing assumption among consumers in the North is that buying certified coffee contributes positively to the economic performance of Southern actors, particularly smallholder farmers. In this paper we examine the impact of coffee certification on the economic performance of Indonesian actors (farmers, traders, exporters, and Indonesian roasters) and analyze how economic rent is distributed among them. Questionnaire results and in-depth interviews revealed that all Indonesian actors benefit financially from certification on a price per kilogram measurement, but the differences between certified and non-certified actors are small. The paper finds that the economic rent from certification is distributed very unequally along the coffee value chain where roasters receive 95.46 percent (Robusta) and 83.66 percent (Arabica) of the total economic rent (retailers excluded). Overall, farmers enjoy a small direct benefit from certification in the form of a higher price per kilogram for their coffee, and possible benefits regarding increased productivity and quality resulting from training and advice in crop management.
title: An exploration of the rapist and patient factors and their relationship to outcome in 2+1 brief therapy
Creators: name: Rudkin, Angharad
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: Introduction: the area of process research has identified differences in the process of CB and PI therapy and has highlighted factors which contribute to outcome. The present research aimed to explore three factors, therapist focus, client experiencing and client cognitive change, in very brief 2+1 therapy, and explore their relation to immediate outcome as measured by the assimilation scale.

 Method: intensive quantitative analyses of eight cases receiving 2+1 therapy was carried out. Four cases received CB therapy, four received PI therapy. Two of each showed 'good' and 'poor' outcome. Ten excerpts, rated in a previous project as significant, were used as items of analysis.

 Results: PI therapists focused more than CB therapists on 'Constructing Meaning' (CM). Good outcome PI therapy showed a greater emphasis than poor outcome PI therapy on CM. PI therapy clients had higher levels of experiencing, which increased over therapy. Good outcome PI therapy was associated with higher EXP levels, good outcome CB therapy with lower levels of EXP. Good outcome CB clients had fewer negative selfstatements. Movement on the assimilation model was associated with increased EXP levels in PI and fewer negative self-statements in CB therapy.

 Discussion: results supported previous findings of differences in the process of CB and PI therapy. The mechanism of change in very brief CB and PI therapy are discussed, followed by implications for clinical practice and future research. Overall, findings suggest a picture of the process of therapy which may contribute to the clarification of the complex nature of change in psychotherapy and what is meant by therapeutic change.
Problemi monetari e bancari del Giappone.
Creators: name: YOSHINO, T.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: Nell’articolo viene analizzata l’economia del Giappone emersa in condizioni disastrose dal dopoguerra con gravi perdite e distruzioni di ricchezze accoppiate con una netta contrazione del reddito nazionale in termini reali. In tali circostanze si ponevano due alternative: applicare imposte progressive straordinarie sulla proprietà e sul reddito, oppure ricorrere al risparmio forzato facendo leva sulla capacità del sistema bancario di creare credito.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 50 (1960)
Energy Flux Correlations and Moving Mirrors
Creators: name: Ford, L. H.
name: Roman, Thomas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum stress tensor correlation function for a massless scalar field in a flat two-dimensional spacetime containing a moving mirror. We construct the correlation functions for right-moving and left-moving fluxes for an arbitrary trajectory, and then specialize them to the case of a mirror trajectory for which the expectation value of the stress tensor describes a pair of delta-function pulses, one of negative energy and one of positive energy. The flux correlation function describes the fluctuations around this mean stress tensor, and reveals subtle changes in the correlations between regions where the mean flux vanishes.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
title: Negotiated Tutoring: An Approach to Interaction in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Creators: name: Baker, Michael J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1990

description: This thesis describes a general approach to tutorial interaction in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, called "Negotiated Tutoring". Some aspects of the approach have been implemented as a computer program in the 'KANT' (Kritical Argument Negotiated Tutoring) system. Negotiated Tutoring synthesises some recent trends in Intelligent Tutoring Systems research, including interaction symmetry, use of explicit negotiation in dialogue, multiple interaction styles, and an emphasis on cognitive and metacognitive skill acquisition in domains characterised by justified belief. This combination of features has not been previously incorporated into models for intelligent tutoring dialogues.

 Our approach depends on modelling the high-level decision-making processes and memory representations used by a participant in dialogue. Dialogue generation is controlled by reasoning mechanisms which operate on a 'dialogue state', consisting of conversants' beliefs, a set of possible dialogue moves, and a restricted representation of the recent utterances generated by both conversants. The representation for conversants' beliefs is based on Anderson's (1983) model for semantic memory, and includes a model for dialogue focus based on spreading activation. Decisions in dialogue are based on preconditions with respect to the dialogue state, higher level educational preferences which choose between relevant alternative dialogue moves, and negotiation mechanisms designed to ensure cooperativity.

 The domain model for KANT was based on a cognitive model for perception of musical structures in tonal melodies, which extends the theory of Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983). Our model ('GRAF' - GRouping Analysis with Frames) addresses a number of problems with Lerdahl and Jackendoff's theory, notably in describing how a number of unconscious processes in music cognition interact, including elements of top-down and bottom-up processing. GRAF includes a parser for musical chord functions, a mechanism for performing musical reductions, low-level feature detectors and a frame-system (Minsky 1977) for musical phrase structures.
The ASEAN Economic Community 2015 and Regional Trade: Some Prospects for ASEAN Agriculture
Creators: name: Daite, Richard B.
name: Daite, Richard B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: ASEAN, trade, agriculture, ASEAN Economic Community, regional integration

description: The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community 2015 (AEC) is seen as a bold effort to promote regional cooperation among the ASEAN member states. It covers not only the usual trade policy prescriptions of lowering tariffs and other trade barriers, but other policy measures to create a single market for unhampered flow of goods, services, investments, labor, and capital. With the ASEAN countries’ extensive intra- and extra-regional trade in agricultural products, the AEC can help further facilitate trade under its first pillar of economic integration. There also remains greater prospects for cooperation on technology transfer, facilitating regional investments in agricultural industries, strengthening agricultural cooperatives, trade in services allied with modern agricultural sectors, and food and nutrition security.
Le fluttuazioni economiche del dopoguerra nell'Europa Occidentale e il ruolo delle politiche governative. (The postwar business cycle in Western Europe and the role of government policy)
Creators: name: MADDISON, A.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Business cycle, post-war period, Europe, policy, demand, employment
subject: E32, E24, E60, F44

description: The article examines the factors which have modified the operation of the business cycle in the post-war period and analyses the extent to which the experience of high levels of demand and employment has been due to accidental and temporary circumstances, to permanent changes in the structure and behaviour of the economy, or to improvements in economic policy. The author first characterises the postwar record in statistical terms and sets it in historical perspective. The factors which have contributed to high levels of European demand are then described, distinguishing between temporary and more permanent changes. Finally, the changed role of government is analysed in detail. JEL: E32, E24, E60, F44
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 51 (1960)
Il Rapporto Radcliff: politica monetaria e gestione del debito pubblico. (Radcliffe Report: monetary policy and debt-management reconciled?)
Creators: name: KATZ, S.I.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Radcliffe Report, English monetary system, policy, central bank, debt management
subject: E42, E52, E58, E62

description: The article discusses the main conclusions of the Radcliffe Report, the first full-scale study of Britain’s monetary system since 1931. The author is especially concerned with debt management and monetary policy that he sees as the primary concern of the Radcliffe Committee members. The main idea, that debt management has become the fundamental domestic task of the central bank, is considered in light of the US experience and the principal that debt management should be the exclusive responsibility of the Treasury under US legislative arrangements. JEL: E42, E52, E58, E62
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 51 (1960)
Aspetti dell'industrializzazione della Bulgaria del 1878 al 1939.
Creators: name: GERSCHENKRON, A.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: L’articolo tratta la storia industriale di un piccolo paese, lontano dai grandi centri culturali ed economici d’Europa. Ciononostante, l’esperienza della Bulgaria nel campo dell’industrializzazione può offrire insegnamenti, o almeno elementi chiarificatori, la cui importanza trascende i ristretti confini del piccolo paese danubiano. La dimostrazione di questa tesi costituisce uno degli scopi del saggio.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 51 (1960)
title: Team approaches to developing innovative products and processes
Creators: name: Caird, Sally Patricia
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: The research aimed to identify the most appropriate team approaches for co-ordinating innovative products or process developments and for enhancing their success. Case studies were conducted in 25 UK companies, focusing on environmental technology projects. Research findings emphasised the diversity of organisational team approaches which were more complex when several departments, teams or companies were involved. Team approaches were broadly classified - 'single-disciplinary', 'multi-disciplinary' or 'multi-functional' - according to members' expertise and innovation function which could be more or less integrated. The results showed that:

 1. Multi-tasking to meet all innovation functions reflected small firm limitations and small firms would benefit from more formal structures. Differences between medium- and large-sized firms were minimal since teams held more specialist expertise, However, the influence of firm size on innovation success was obscured and potentially negated by inter-company alliances.

2. Few differences in the management of minor and major company innovations applied since competitive pressures led to organisational innovation in each case, including integrated team approaches, inter-company alliances and company formations.

3. Multi-functional teams were important for achieving success in open markets because of their control over appropriate expertise, even though they did not guarantee commercial success or other benefits. Surprisingly, multi-functional teams were typically rated as unsatisfactory and ineffective by members which may have implications for staff morale and retention.

4. Inter-company teams represented opportunities for team learning and organisational development because company-based assumptions about organisational behaviour, expectations about inter-company operations and fears about inter-disciplinary teamworking were challenged.

5. Integrated teams were not sufficient for achieving team effectiveness and success outcomes, although most companies regarded their team as necessary for success. Complex team and innovation development processes emphasised the importance of the co-ordinator's role in managing unclear team and organisational boundaries associated with innovative developments.

6. Although the research supports the importance of teams for innovation success, team effectiveness had a more complex influence on success in open markets than on client-funded projects because of the nature of the teams and the influence of market and technological uncertainties.
Smooth stable and unstable manifolds for stochastic partial differential equations
Creators: name: Duan, Jinqiao
name: Lu, Kening
name: Schmalfuss, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15; 37H05;37L55;37L25;37D10

description: Invariant manifolds are fundamental tools for describing and understanding nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we present a theory of stable and unstable manifolds for infinite dimensional random dynamical systems generated by a class of stochastic partial differential equations. We first show the existence of Lipschitz continuous stable and unstable manifolds by the Lyapunov-Perron's method. Then, we prove the smoothness of these invariant manifolds.
TIME AND SPACE IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Creators: name: Botirova Shahlobonu Durbek qizi 3rd level student of Philology and Language Teaching (English) at the Uzbekistan State University of World Languages Sapayeva Sahiba USWLU, Senior teacher of Uzbekistan State University of World Languages
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The relevance of time and space in sociolinguistics is concerned with how temporal and spatial factors influence language use and how these factors shape communication patterns, identities, and social interactions within a given society or community. Over time, the language changes due to the change of generations, the development of technology, the influence of space and time. Sociolinguists study how linguistic features develop over time and the effects of these changes on social identity and communication. Language variation across geographic regions is a central topic of sociolinguistics. Dialectology, a subfield of sociolinguistics, studies how language characteristics change geographically and the social stratification of these changes. The relevance of time and space in sociolinguistics emphasizes the dynamic and multifaceted nature of language that intersects with social, cultural, historical, and geographical dimensions.

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Key words. Time and space, language, language changes, sociolinguistic
Preliminary examination of the effects of the Strong Kids social emotional learning curriculum on grade 4 students' social emotional resiliency, social standing and likeability
Creators: name: MacKay, Leslie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Within education there is a general agreement that it is important to foster children's social emotional development. Social, emotional and behavioural skills can be taught directly to students through packaged SEL programs such as the Strong Kids social emotional learning curriculum. Preliminary studies conducted on Strong Kids have shown that knowledge of social emotional concepts and coping skills have improved and in some cases, decreases in internalizing symptoms have also been noted. Less is known, however, as to how the implementation of Strong Kids affects the broader social contexts in which children shape their social relationships with peers. The goal of the present study was to investigate the affect of Strong Kids on student's social and emotional knowledge, cognitive-behavioural symptoms, resiliency and social standing. In addition, satisfaction with the Strong Kids program was examined. A total of 101 grade 4 students from general education participated (47 boys, 54 girls). Using a pretest-posttest intervention design, results indicated that the treatment group significantly increased in knowledge about social emotional health over the control group, but level of decreased internalizing symptoms did not significantly differ between the two. In relation to student's classroom resiliency, there were no significant differences between the Strong Kids group and the control group. With regard to student's social standing, there were seven statistically significantly different results on the peer nomination scale, only one in favor of the Strong Kids group. The peer rating scales showed no significant differences between the Strong Kids and the control group. In the sections that follow, findings are discussed in relation to previous research, limitations and implications for practice and research are provided.
Enantio-conversion of chiral mixtures via optical pumping
Creators: name: Ye, Chong
name: Liu, Bo
name: Chen, Yu-Yuan
name: Li, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Enantio-conversion with the help of electromagnetic fields is an essential issue due to the chirality-dependence of many chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical processes. Here, we propose a method for this issue based on a five-level double-$Δ$ model of chiral molecules. By utilizing the breaking of left-right symmetry in the two $Δ$-type sub-structures, we can establish the chiral-state-selective excitation with one chiral ground state being excited to an achiral excited state and the other one being undisturbed. In the meanwhile, the achiral excited state will relax to the two chiral ground states. The two effects simultaneously acting on the chiral mixtures can convert molecules of different chiralities to the ones of the same chirality, i.e., the enantio-conversion via optical pumping. With typical parameters in gas-phase experiments, we numerically show that highly efficient enantio-conversion can be achieved. Our method works in the appearance of decoherences and without the precise control of pulse-durations (pulse-areas) and/or pulse-shapes. These advantages offer it promising features in promoting the future exploring of enantio-conversion.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Traumatherapie mit geistig behinderten Kindern und Jugendlichen
Creators: name: Gmünder, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Geistige Behinderung
Kind
Jugend
Psychisches Trauma
Therapie
Masterarbeit

description: Geistig behinderte Kinder und Jugendliche können traumatische Erfahrungen oft nicht verständlich ausdrücken. Gleichzeitig besteht eine Unterversorgung an traumatherapeutischen Angeboten für diese Personengruppe. Diese Masterarbeit untersucht, inwiefern Traumatherapie mit geistig behinderten Kindern und Jugendlichen gelingt. Dazu werden fünf Psychiater/innen bzw. Psychotherapeuten/innen befragt. Die Interviews zeigen auf, dass Traumatherapie mit geistig behinderten Kindern und Jugendlichen unter gewissen Bedingungen erfolgreich ist. Das Trauma bleibt Teil der Biografie. Die Kinder und Jugendlichen können aber einen Umgang mit den traumatischen Erfahrungen finden. Dies hilft ihnen, sich wieder in der Gegenwart zu orientieren und ihre Ressourcen zu stärken. Für die Umsetzung im heilpädagogischen Schulalltag zeigt diese Masterarbeit einzelne traumatherapeutische Elemente auf.
L'esistenza di differenze economiche tra Nord e Sud d'Italia al tempo dell'unificazione.
Creators: name: ECKAUS, R.S.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014

description: L’articolo si propone un’indagine storica sulle origini e le differenze economiche tra il Nord ed il Sud dell’Italia. Interessante analisi perché l’Italia offre l’opportunità di controllare, per quanto permettono i dati, alcune teorie moderne sullo sviluppo economico e sugli effetti dell’integrazione economica.
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 13, N. 51 (1960)
The Field Theory Approach to Percolation Processes
Creators: name: Janssen, Hans-Karl
name: Tauber, Uwe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the field theory approach to percolation processes. Specifically, we focus on the so-called simple and general epidemic processes that display continuous non-equilibrium active to absorbing state phase transitions whose asymptotic features are governed respectively by the directed (DP) and dynamic isotropic percolation (dIP) universality classes. We discuss the construction of a field theory representation for these Markovian stochastic processes based on fundamental phenomenological considerations, as well as from a specific microscopic reaction-diffusion model realization. Subsequently we explain how dynamic renormalization group (RG) methods can be applied to obtain the universal properties near the critical point in an expansion about the upper critical dimensions d_c = 4 (DP) and 6 (dIP). We provide a detailed overview of results for critical exponents, scaling functions, crossover phenomena, finite-size scaling, and also briefly comment on the influence of long-range spreading, the presence of a boundary, multispecies generalizations, coupling of the order parameter to other conserved modes, and quenched disorder.
description: 54 pages, figures included
title: The embody-ment of power? : women and physical activity
Creators: name: Gilroy, Sarah Isobel
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: The thesis examines the connections between being physically active and becoming empowered. It centres on the experiences of women and investigates their involvement in physical activity and how this relates to the rest of their lives and their subjectivities. In so doing the research explores the relation between physicality and social power, and considers the role of the body in the construction of gender power relations. The key concepts used to explore this area are agency and structure, hegemony, negotiation, empowerment and physicality. More broadly the research has been informed by debates in feminist postmodernism and poststructuralism.

 The main data set were generated through interviews with twenty-eight women with additional information coming from questionnaires returned by one hundred and seventy-two women representing a range of activity levels, ages and class locations. The findings were generated largely from the experiences of white women living in a market town within commuting distance of London.

 The findings demonstrate the potential for women to become empowered through their bodies, as a result of being involved in physical activity. The acquisition of new skills and the discovery of new physical potential in their bodies such as feeling stronger, having more energy, were foregrounded by the women as being important to them. This led them to feeling more positive about themselves and their potential. There was nothing to suggest that particular activities were more empowering than others, although the context and purpose of the activity was found to be important. There is little evidence of there being any difference between working-class and middle-class women in terms of their experience of empowerment or disempowerment through physical activity. The findings also highlight the need to set an understanding of physical activity within the context of intra-household relations. By doing this it is argued that we are better able to understand how the construction of women's subjectivities operates simultaneously across fields of activity.