cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Innovation as a Possibility
title: Technological and Social Deterministic Perspectives in Their Dialectical Resolution
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Burmeister, Stefan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Innovation
subject: affordance
subject: Eigensinn
subject: Actor-Network Theory
subject: wagon
subject: chariot
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie

description: This paper analyzes the specific conditions of the innovation of the prehistoric wheeled vehicle innovation according to affordance and Eigensinn of this new technology. The use of wheeled vehicles is a social practice that results from the interests and capabilities of their users, but also from their technical affordances and eigensinn . Wheeled vehicles/wagons expand and restrict their users’ potentialities of action. The realization of possibilities of action is linked to specific interests and technical requirements. Today, wheeled vehicles are the symbol of mobility. However, this is an affordance that was realized only late in history and was not the starting point of this particular innovation.
Is COVID-19 associated with self-reported audio-vestibular symptoms?
Creators: name: AlJasser, Arwa
name: Alkeridy, Walid
name: Munro, Kevin J.
name: Plack, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To determine if a positive test for COVID-19 is associated with self-reported audio-vestibular symptoms. Self-reported changes in hearing, tinnitus, hyperacusis, and dizziness/rotatory vertigo were assessed in hospitalised and non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients during and after the acute phase of the disease and compared to non-COVID controls. There were 150 severe cases of COVID-19 requiring hospital admission and 150 mild cases that were managed at home. Controls were 267 adults, 32 of whom had been hospitalised for a non-COVID-19 condition, and a further 85 who worked in hospital settings. Deterioration in hearing and/or tinnitus was reported in 8% of the COVID-19 cases (tinnitus had resolved in 2% after the acute phase), with no significant difference between severe and mild cases. Deterioration in hearing or tinnitus was not significantly different from controls. However, rotatory vertigo was reported by 5% in the COVID-19 groups and 1.1% in the controls, and this difference was statistically significant. There is no evidence that COVID-19 results in deterioration in hearing or tinnitus during the acute phase or after recovery in mild or severe cases. However, rotatory vertigo, which could be vestibular in origin, may be a clinical manifestation of COVID-19.
Data architecture checklist
Creators: name: Australian Research Data Commons
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: data architecture
research
institution
research data

description: Data architecture defines the data strategy and data flows in organisations. It describes how data is managed from collection to transformation, distribution and consumption. It sets the blueprint for the way data flows through the systems. It also outlines data flows including data collection, transformation, processing and analytics, and decision-making using data science. 
To ensure best practices for research projects and institutions, we've compiled a checklist consisting of questions covering 17 areas of data architecture. After completing the checklist, you'll better understand where you stand regarding data architecture and what areas you need to follow up on.
“Diversity within diversity” - exploring connections between community, participation and citizenship
Creators: name: Ferreira, Pedro D.
name: Coimbra, Joaquim L.
name: Menezes, Isabel
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: Even if recently the notions of citizenship and community have become buzz words of very positive connotation, significant tensions underlie any of them: between homogeneity and difference, belonging and diversity, inclusion and exclusion and, more recently, between freedom and security. Real communities are places of cooperation and mutual recognition as much as they are places of inevitable conflict, social control and exclusion. Following an ecological and contextual perspective, and a relational definition of community, concepts such as sense of community and social capital are explored. An analysis of citizen’s participation in their communities illustrates significant dimensions of participation: power, dialogue, initiative, formality, pluralism and time. The discussion considers how these dimensions might contribute to making community organizations turn into 'schools of democracy' (de Tocqueville 2000), and illustrates this potential with young migrants, as long as the diversity of diverse migrant groups is not only recognized but furthered.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2012: Citizenship and Community
title: Vom "Dichterfürsten" zur Fußnote
Creators: name: Eigner, Benedikt Paul
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die österreichische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung nach dem 2. Weltkrieg mit dem umstrittenen Dichter Josef Weinheber umgegangen ist, der ein Naheverhältnis zum Nationalsozialismus hatte. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt dabei auf Büchern für den Literaturunterricht in der Sekundarstufe. Große Bedeutung hat hierbei die Frage, ob und inwieweit Weinheber ein Teil des literarischen Kanons in Österreich ist. Prozesse der Kanonbildung sind sehr komplex und durch viele Instanzen bestimmt. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass Weinheber in den ersten Jahren nach Ende des Krieges nicht in den Schulbüchern vorkommt, ab den 50er-Jahren aber wieder ein fester Bestandteil des Kanons ist, wie er durch Schulbücher vermittelt wird. In den nächsten Jahrzehnten waren die Schulbücher konservativ geprägt und blenden oft Weinhebers Verstrickungen mit dem Nationalsozialismus vollkommen aus. Ab den 00er-Jahren verschwindet der Dichter immer mehr aus den Unterrichtsbüchern. Erst in den letzten paar Jahren wird Weinheber in den Büchern aufgrund seiner Beteiligung an der Kulturpolitik des Nationalsozialismus problematisiert.
description: This master’s thesis deals with the question of how Austrian literary historiography after the Second World War dealt with the controversial poet Josef Weinheber, who had a close relationship with National Socialism. A special focus is on books for literature lessons in secondary schools. The question of whether and to what extent Weinheber is part of the literary canon in Austria is of great importance here. Processes of canon formation are very complex and are determined by many instances. The thesis shows that Weinheber does not appear in school books in the first few years after the end of the war, but that from the 1950s on he is again an integral part of the canon as conveyed through school books. In the decades that followed textbooks were conservative leaning and often completely ignored Weinheber’s involvement with National Socialism. From the 2000s onward, the poet increasingly disappeared from textbooks. Only in the last few years has Weinheber been problematized in the books because of his involvement in the cultural politics of National Socialism.
From Internationalism to Internationalisation: the Illusion of a Global Community in Higher Education
Creators: name: Pike, Graham
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: Both global education and international education are movements designed to promote the concepts of internationalism and global community in national education systems, but with different histories. While the former, a grassroots K-12 movement, has struggled to make headway against the forces of neoliberalism, the latter has thrived in a market-driven era in which revenue from international student mobility has offset declining public funding of higher education in many developed countries. Current trends in the internationalisation of higher education have resulted in increasing commercialisation and intensive competition for international students, fuelled by world rankings of elite universities. Tensions exist between these trends and the more altruistic goals of international education proclaimed in institutional mission statements and government policies. An analytical matrix is offered as a tool with which higher education institutions can map their internationalisation activities and assess the extent to which they match their stated policies and missions. While the rhetoric of international education purports to promote the concept of a global community, the article suggests this claim may be illusory.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2012: Citizenship and Community
Geography and political skills: a case study in a school of education
Creators: name: Doussot, Sylvain
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: this article is a case study based on the work of a group of students trained to teach. They build a lesson for 10-11-year-old pupils on geography and education for sustainable development aiming at linking civic and social skills to scientific geography. This example is changed in a case study by questioning a prevailing idea about relations between school knowledge and “…educations” (citizenship education, environmental education): disciplines such as geography are serving the development of citizenship skills in order to promote a critical education instead of a standard one. Beyond the questioning, this case study offers alternative ways based on philosophy, history and sociology of science to understand how pupils could become critical citizens. Theses ways focus on the hypothesis of a general skill often unseen though essential to any critical approach of world problems: what knowledge should be used when? Geographical knowledge then refers less to “knowing that”, than to scientific, collective and language practices, specific to the viewpoints built through scientific disciplines; among which, the building of space problems.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2012: Educations for ... in French Language Context: What Contribution of the Social Sciences?
The impact of cardiovascular diseases on hearing deterioration: a 13-year follow-up study
Creators: name: Lohi, Venla
name: Ohtonen, Pasi
name: Sorri, Martti
name: Mäki-Torkko, Elina
name: Hannula, Samuli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: To study the impact of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) on hearing deterioration among ageing adults in a longitudinal setting. Furthermore, to describe the pure tone threshold changes at the 0.125–8 kHz frequency range over 13 years. A population-based follow-up study. A random sample of 850 adults, of whom 559 participated in the follow-up study. Otological examination, a structured interview, and pure tone audiometry were conducted. Multivariate regression models were used to estimate the effect of CVD (participants had at least one cardiovascular condition) on hearing deterioration of the better ear hearing level (BEHL), defined as a change in the pure-tone average (PTA) of the frequencies 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 kHz and separately at the lower (0.125, 0.25, and 0.5 kHz) and higher (4, 6, and 8 kHz) frequencies. In the multivariable-adjusted analysis, the BEHL change at 13 years was 0.7 dB greater among participants with CVD (p = 0.3). The mean BEHL change during the 13-year follow-up was 12.0 dB (95% CI 11.4–12.6) among all participants. No significant association between CVD and hearing threshold changes was found.
title: Working Lives in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
title: Uruk-Period Mesopotamia
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pollock, Susan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mechanical reproduction
subject: work
subject: repetitiveness
subject: Uruk period
subject: Mesopotamia
subject: standardization
subject: creativity
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie

description: The notion of mechanical reproduction was made famous by Walter Benjamin in a 1936 essay. Benjamin was concerned with modern developments; in this paper I argue that a shift toward pervasive repetitiveness in work and thus a form of mechanical reproduction was already introduced in the Uruk period (4th millennium BCE) in southern Mesopotamia. I consider the ways in which work was conceptualized and structured in Uruk times, and by extension how innovations in the realm of work affected other spheres of life. My examination includes the production and use of pottery, buildings and their constituent mudbricks, durable imagery involving anthropomorphic depictions, and textiles.
description: Ein Aufsatz Walter Benjamins aus dem Jahr 1936 verschaffte dem Begriff der mechanischen Reproduktion zur Berühmtheit. Benjamin beschäftigte sich allerdings mit modernen Ent- wicklungen. Hier argumentiere ich, dass es schon in der Uruk-Zeit im 4. Jt. v.u.Z. in Südmesopotamien eine weit verbreitete Tendenz zu sich wiederholenden Arbeitsvorgängen und damit zu mechanischer Reproduktion festzustellen ist. Ich erörtere, wie Arbeit in der Uruk-Zeit verstanden wurde und strukturiert war, und wie Innovationen im Bereich der Arbeit selbst andere Lebenssphären beeinflusste. Meine Überlegungen schließen Herstellung und Verwendung von Keramik, Bauten und das Baumaterial Lehmziegel, aber auch anthropomorphe Bilder aus dauerhaftem Material und Textilien ein
Deterministic superreplication of one-parameter unitary transformations
Creators: name: Dür, W.
name: Sekatski, P.
name: Skotiniotis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that one can deterministically generate out of $N$ copies of an unknown unitary operation up to $N^2$ almost perfect copies. The result holds for all operations generated by a Hamiltonian with an unknown interaction strength. This generalizes a similar result in the context of phase covariant cloning where, however, super-replication comes at the price of an exponentially reduced probability of success. We also show that multiple copies of unitary operations can be emulated by operations acting on a much smaller space, e.g., a magnetic field acting on a single $n$-level system allows one to emulate the action of the field on $n^2$ qubits.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. The title has changed from Deterministic Super-replication of unitary operators to Deterministic Superreplication of One-Parameter Unitary Transformations to reflect the title of the published version. Version 2 is the published version
What contribution can the humanities and social sciences make to career guidance in general and vocational lycées? The case of economics in year one of lycée
Creators: name: Richit, Nathalie
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: In accordance with the 2008 Resolution of the Council of the European Union on “Better integrating lifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies”, the reform of French lycées has included career guidance among its priorities. This reform, which was implemented in 2010, includes lessons on exploring economics for all students in year one (seconde) of the French three-year lycée. Will this new feature help to promote career guidance? This research aims to show that academic and vocational guidance is socially controversial, and that the two year one programmes on economics, “SES” (social and economic sciences) and “PFEG” (basic principles of economics and management), provide knowledge and skills from the humanities and social sciences that are useful for the guidance of year one students, even if the teachers involved do not feel directly involved in assisting with career guidance. As career guidance is not a discipline, will effective teachers be those who are able to distinguish between “knowledge that” and “knowledge for”?
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2012: Educations for ... in French Language Context: What Contribution of the Social Sciences?
What kind of critical university education for sustainable development?
Creators: name: Barthes, Angela
name: Jeziorski, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: In the course of the institutional integration of education for sustainable development (ESD), university courses have been going through rapid changes, but this process can be blocked or aided by each country’s particular features, whether institutional, financial, cultural or other. This article proposes an examination of the specific socio-educational characteristics of the implementation of ESD based on a study of the social representations of students in three European countries (Germany, France and Poland), and in two types of Master’s level university education. The analysis initially focuses on the differences and similarities in the student research groups. It then analyzes the representational components in terms of the possible impacts on the implementation of ESD at the university from a critical, citizenship perspective. Despite the differences in the students’ representational structures in the various countries, we can see that, in the three national groups, the social representations of sustainable development are highly focused and have a highly fragmented character. The lack of systematization of the different elements of the representation poses barriers to critical education, although this takes different forms in the different countries.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2012: Educations for ... in French Language Context: What Contribution of the Social Sciences?
Investigating Professional Users' Adoption of E-Health: The Case of Telehealth in Australia
Creators: name: JANGHORBAN, ANITA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health
classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration

description: This thesis investigated professional users’ adoption of E-health through an in-depth examination of Telehealth programs' adoption, adoption processes and management practices in Australia. Its findings offered insights and recommendations on how to improve the adoption, management and integration of E-health programs.
Doctoral thesis recital (trombone)
Creators: name: Brito, Felipe Zaccarias De
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Concertos (Trombone with band)--Solo with piano
Trombone and piano music, Arranged
Trombone and piano music

description: T-bone concerto : (1996) / Johan de Meij -- Dichterliebe : op. 48. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai ; Aus meinen Tränen sprießen ; Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen / Robert Schumann -- Wandres Nachtlied / Franz Schubert -- Andante et allegro pour trombone en ut et piano / Joseph Edouard Barat
Presenting land surface changes through the web-based Arctic Landscape EXplorer (ALEX) to permafrost communities – A permafrost service
Creators: name: Lübker, Tillmann
name: Nitze, Ingmar
name: Laboor, Sebastian
name: Irrgang, Anna M.
name: Lantuit, Hugues
name: Grosse, Guido
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The EU-funded Arctic PASSION research project focuses on refining, improving and extending pan-Arctic scientific and community-based monitoring systems. The aim is to create a coherent and integrated Arctic observing system, tailored to the needs of the users or stakeholders. Within the project’s Permafrost Service, we are developing a web-based portal, the ‘Arctic Landscape EXplorer’ (ALEX). In this online tool we present data on permafrost region land surface changes derived from remote sensing analysis. Using tailored visualizations and story maps as a means of more effectively communicating scientific observations of change, we specifically address non-scientific user communities, stakeholders, and rights holders in the Arctic.
Fear of positive evaluation in borderline personality disorder
Creators: name: Weinbrecht, Anna
name: Roepke, Stefan
name: Renneberg, Babette
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: borderline personality disorder
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background: Being afraid of others’ positive appraisal of oneself is called fear of positive evaluation. Fear of positive evaluation has been studied intensively in the context of social anxiety disorder (SAD). It is not known if individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) fear positive evaluation and which factors are associated with fear of positive evaluation in BPD. Methods: We applied the fear of positive evaluation scale and further self-report measures (e.g., social phobia inventory, rejection sensitivity questionnaire) to 36 patients with BPD, 29 patients with SAD and 35 healthy controls (HC). Results: A one-way ANOVA revealed that patients with BPD and patients with SAD reported significantly higher fear of positive evaluation than HC. Patients with BPD and SAD did not differ in their fear of positive evaluation. A hierarchical regression analysis revealed an association between rejection sensitivity and fear of positive evaluation in the BPD sample. However, this association disappeared when controlling for social anxiety. Conclusion: Our results indicate that individuals with BPD fear positive evaluation as much as individuals with SAD do, which has implications for clinical practice. Our results further imply that social anxiety is decisive for high fear of positive evaluation in patients with SAD and patients with BPD.
The "social frameworks" of teaching high school history: teaching as part of the modernization of Québec society
Creators: name: LeVasseur, Louis
name: Cardin, Jean-François
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: The teaching of academic subjects does not constitute an enclave within society; nor can it be reduced to the initial training teachers receive, training which is primarily psychoeducational, disciplinary, didactic, curricular and practical. Teachers do use justifications for their teaching that proceed from the disciplinary, didactic, curricular and even professional logics that predominate in their initial training, as well as "extra-professional" justifications that refer more broadly to a changing society and culture, to a vast movement modernizing Western societies with which the empowerment of the subject can be associated. History teachers get professional training that prepares them to teach. However, their teaching is, perhaps even more fundamentally, shaped by social frameworks that are external to that training, suggesting that how history is taught is heavily influenced by extra-academic social and cultural structures. Based on remarks from history teachers, we will see that how they justify what they teach relates directly to these structures.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2012: Educations for ... in French Language Context: What Contribution of the Social Sciences?
Influence of different PEG/salt aqueous two-phase system on the extraction of 2,3-butanediol
Creators: name: Silva, Fabiana Luisa
name: Pinheiro, Jádina Carina
name: Leite, Monique Juna Lopes
name: Proner, Mariane Carolina
name: da Silva, Anderson Felipe Viana
name: Freire, Denise Maria Guimarães
name: Treichel, Helen
name: Ambrosi, Alan
name: Di Luccio, Marco
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The production of 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO), a dialcohol of great interest for the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industry, through the fermentation of biomass, is a sustainable process strategic position for countries with abundant biomass generated by the agribusiness. However, the downstream process of 2,3-BDO is onerous due to the complexity of fermentation broth and the physical-chemical characteristics of the 2,3-BDO. This study investigated the feasibility of 2,3-BDO extraction from model aqueous solutions using aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS). A central composite rotational design (CCRD) was employed to evaluate different ATPS compositions and the influences on the 2,3-BDO recovery and partition coefficient. The polyethylene glycol (PEG) and different concentrations of sodium citrate, ammonium sulfate, and potassium phosphate were investigated. The concentration of salt and PEG in the ATPS was identified as the most significant factors influencing the recovery and partition coefficient of 2,3-BDO. The recovery of 2,3-BDO reached 94.5% and was obtained when the system was composed of 36.22% (w/w) of PEG 4000 and 4.47% (w/w) of potassium phosphate. The results indicate that ATPS based on PEG-salt has a high potential for industrial application, using mild conditions and a simple process for recovering and purifying the 2,3-BDO produced from microbiological synthesis.
Bayesian estimation for semiparametric stochastic frontier models
Creators: name: NIE, PUGUANG
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 380202
subject: Econometric and statistical methods
classificationCode: 380204
subject: Panel data analysis

description: This thesis investigates three topics in stochastic frontier models using panel data via Bayesian simulations. First, the marginal posterior density of inefficiencies is approximated by a conditional density. The simulation result shows that the predictive inefficiency distribution derived from this model can capture information about inefficiencies very well. Further, we propose a data-driven adaptive bandwidth kernel estimator for the unknown frontier function. The application and simulation results imply that the adaptive bandwidth model outperforms the fixed bandwidth model. Finally, we present two sampling algorithms to model the unobserved grouped heterogeneity in the stochastic frontier mode with a latent class structure. Using the algorithms, we find evidence supporting the grouped heterogeneity in the cost frontier function.
Citizenship education to nanotechnologies: teaching knowledge about nanotechnologies and educating for responsible citizenship
Creators: name: Panissal, Nathalie
name: Brossais, Emmanuelle
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: We present a research based on a project for citizenship education to nanotechnologies in a French highschool which aims at teaching the specific characteristics of nanotechnologies, of their fields of application and of the controversies which are linked to them. At the junction of Socially acute questions didactics and of the cultural-historical Vygotskian theory, we analyse the knowledge at work in a debate on the promises and risks connected with nanotechnologies. The knowledge mobilized by the students (17- to 18 years-old) in their dialogical interactions can refer back to the archetypal narratives whose origin lies in men’s social and cultural history. Through the joint effect of cumulative talk and exploratory talk, the students co-construct the concepts linked to the Social Ethical Issues: risks and human enhancement. We show that the debate at school leads students to be able to construct reasoned opinion and position themselves in their environment in a responsible way. This educational innovation appears to be relevant for combining the learning of academic and cultural contents with social competencies to an education for engaged citizenship in the field of nanotechnologies.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2012: Educations for ... in French Language Context: What Contribution of the Social Sciences?
Effects of different levels of dietary black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) and fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) and their combination on productive traits, selected blood constituents, microbiota and immunity of broilers
Creators: name: Laudadio, Vito
name: Nasiri-Dehbaneh, Mohsen
name: Bilal, Rana Muhammad
name: Qotbi, Ali
name: Javandel, Faramin
name: Ebrahimi, Abbas
name: Seidavi, Alireza
name: Slozhenkina, Marina
name: Gorlov, Ivan
name: Dunne, Peter G.
name: Tufarelli, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The effects of inclusion of powdered seeds of black cumin (B) (Nigella sativa L.) and fenugreek (F) (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) on productive traits, selected blood constituents, microbiota and immunity of broilers were studied. A total of 648 day-old chicks were randomly assigned to nine treatments, with four pen replicates, each with 18 birds, including three levels of B seed powder (BSP; 0, 5 or 10 g/kg) and three levels of F seed powder (FSP; 0, 5 or 10 g/kg) in a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement. Neither powder affected feed intake. The FSP increased (p = 0.048) feed conversion ratio (FCR), but decreased daily BW gain (p = 0.02) between days 0 and 21, while BSP increased daily gain between days 22 and 42 and overall (both p = 0.005). Abdominal fat was decreased (p = 0.003) by BSP. Blood constituents were unaffected by either powder, but ileal Escherichia coli were decreased (p = 0.039) at day 42. The BSP increased a range of immunological titers, where BSP affected positively the measured variables. The interactions between BSP and FSP, specifically on broiler carcass cuts, suggested that where BSP is included at 10 g/kg, the inclusion of FSP at the same level may provide no additional benefit. Thus, while either powder could be included separately, the co-inclusion of both at 10 g/kg is not recommended.
The Impact of Social Media on Globalization, Democratization and Participative Citizenship
Creators: name: Tarman, Bulent
name: Yigit, Mehmet Fatih
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: It is crucial to increase the civic and political participation during the process of democratization and globalization. There are several effective ways of achieving it in our time. Social media and networking tools have been one of the most effective tools to direct political elections and social changes. In this study, researchers discuss how social media tools have been used in the process of democratization and globalization, where those initiatives were successful, how they affected civic and political participation, and what kinds of variables in social media are important and affect people's attitudes and behaviors.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2013: Youth Civic & Political Participation & Citizenship Education in the Mediterranean: Lessons from the Arab Spring
Investigations of how to strategise human resource management systems to enhance organisational performance: A meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhai, Xiaoxuan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management

description: Drawing on multiple management theories and positive psychological perspectives, this study investigates how strategic human resource management (SHRM) systems can be deployed to improve individual and organisational performance. Findings from meta-analysis via structural equation modelling methods show that the systemic synergy of SHRM enhances corporate social performance through a positive psychological route jointly shaped by employees’ psychological empowerment, job satisfaction and well-being, ultimately leading to better business performance. Such a performance improvement mechanism varies for organisations operating in Western versus Eastern countries. This study highlights the critical roles of social performance and positive psychological experiences in sustaining optimised business performance.
The Lie group structure of the Butcher group
Creators: name: Bogfjellmo, Geir
name: Schmeding, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E65 (primary), 65L06, 58A07, 16T05 (secondary)

description: The Butcher group is a powerful tool to analyse integration methods for ordinary differential equations, in particular Runge--Kutta methods. In the present paper, we complement the algebraic treatment of the Butcher group with a natural infinite-dimensional Lie group structure. This structure turns the Butcher group into a real analytic Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff Lie group modelled on a Fréchet space. In addition, the Butcher group is a regular Lie group in the sense of Milnor and contains the subgroup of symplectic tree maps as a closed Lie subgroup. Finally, we also compute the Lie algebra of the Butcher group and discuss its relation to the Lie algebra associated to the Butcher group by Connes and Kreimer.
description: 34 pages, TiKZ, v3: major revision, rewritten to increase readability, main results remain unchanged
COVID-19 pandemic-related aspects and predictors of emotional and behavioural symptoms in youth with pre-existing mental health conditions: results from Georgia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey
Creators: name: Stevanovic, Dejan
name: Basay, Burge Kabukcu
name: Basay, Omer
name: Leskauskas, Darius
name: Nussbaum, Laura
name: Zirakashvili, Medea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study evaluated levels of and predictors of emotional and behavioral symptoms in youth with pre-existing mental health conditions over the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 across Georgia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey. The study included 421 children and adolescents aged 5 − 18 years with pre-existing mental health conditions and corresponding ongoing treatments. We used a parent- and/or child-report, which taps into a broad range of mental health symptoms and contextual factors thought to be particularly pertinent during periods of social restrictions. Data were collected simultaneously across the countries from May 2020 to August 2020. According to parents, 121 (33.1%) children had deteriorations in the overall quality of mental health over the COVID-19, 156 (43.1%) deteriorations in the quantity of mental health care received, while 82 (25.1%) mental health care received did not meet the needs. For 121 (49.8%) of children, there was worsening in the main presenting psychiatric symptom compared to January 2020, while for 64 (26.3%) there was some improvement. In total, 128 (43.9%) children reported worsened emotional and 118 (40.6%) behavioral symptoms. The COVID-related worry, parental emotional difficulties, and parent-child relationships emerged as the most relevant predictors for higher levels of emotional and behavioral difficulties. This study found that the COVID-19 pandemic has considerably changed the daily lives of some children with pre-existing mental health conditions, where almost every second child had deteriorations in overall mental health or worsening of psychiatric symptoms.
Fast MATLAB assembly of FEM matrices in 2D and 3D: Edge elements
Creators: name: Anjam, Immanuel
name: Valdman, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 97N80, 65M60

description: We propose an effective and flexible way to assemble finite element stiffness and mass matrices in MATLAB. We apply this for problems discretized by edge finite elements. Typical edge finite elements are Raviart-Thomas elements used in discretizations of H(div) spaces and Nedelec elements in discretizations of H(curl) spaces. We explain vectorization ideas and comment on a freely available MATLAB code which is fast and scalable with respect to time.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, ESCO 2014 conference
Effects of Strategic Category Management, Data Analytics Insights and Customer Experience Alignment in Driving Business Performance
Creators: name: Rees, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 350605
subject: Marketing management (incl. strategy and customer relations)

description: In today’s highly competitive retail industry, organisations are increasingly facing pressures to improve profitability, minimise costs, and provide an enhanced value proposition to customers. This thesis examines the role of strategic category management, relational governance mechanisms, data analytics insights, and customer experience alignment, in sustaining and enhancing business performance. A new measurement item was created; insights orientation, with sub-constructs; market insights, consumer insights and shopper insights. Mixed methodology of semi-structured interviews and online surveys were used, and a conceptual model was proposed, which explains the relationship between all these constructs explored. This research has implications for theory, managers, and policy makers.
Evolution of the gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Dvorkin, Irina
name: Rephaeli, Yoel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass fraction of hot gas in clusters is a basic quantity whose level and dependence on the cluster mass and redshift are intimately linked to all cluster X-ray and SZ measures. Modeling the evolution of the gas fraction is clearly a necessary ingredient in the description of the hierarchical growth of clusters through mergers of subclumps and mass accretion on the one hand, and the dispersal of gas from the cluster galaxies by tidal interactions, galactic winds, and ram pressure stripping on the other hand. A reasonably complete description of this evolution can only be given by very detailed hydrodynamical simulations, which are, however, resource-intensive, and difficult to implement in the mapping of parameter space. A much more practical approach is the use of semi-analytic modeling that can be easily implemented to explore a wide range of parameters. We present first results from a simple model that describes the build up of the gas mass fraction in clusters by following the overall impact of the above processes during the merger and accretion history of each cluster in the ensemble. Acceptable ranges for model parameters are deduced through comparison with results of X-ray observations. Basic implications of our work for modeling cluster statistical properties, and the use of these properties in joint cosmological data analyses, are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, updated to match MNRAS accepted version
Cognitive functioning and cannabis use in first-episode psychosis
Creators: name: Karpov, Boris
name: Lindgren, Maija
name: Kieseppä, Tuula
name: Wegelius, Asko
name: Suvisaari, Jaana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cannabis use is common in people with psychotic disorders. However, the effect of cannabis on cognition in psychosis remains unclear. Our study investigates relationships between the history of cannabis use and cognitive performance in patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) during a one-year follow-up. The present study included FEP (N = 91) and control (N = 61) groups. Cannabis use was evaluated with a self-report questionnaire, clinical assessment, and medical records during a lifetime and 12 months prior to the treatment onset (recent). Symptoms of psychosis and anxiety were evaluated on the brief psychiatric rating scale. Negative symptoms were assessed using the scale for the assessment of negative symptoms. Cognitive tests were used to evaluate neurocognition (summarized in the g factor) and social cognition. Crude regression analyses for the g factor included variables of cannabis use as independent variables. Full regression models were controlled for gender, education, and clinical symptoms. In the FEP group, men used cannabis more frequently than women. In the crude regression model for FEP patients, never having used cannabis was associated with a better neurocognitive profile at 12 months. In the full model, more severe anxiety symptoms were associated with better neurocognition at two months, and less severe negative symptoms were associated with better neurocognition at 12 months. Cannabis use was not associated with social cognition. No associations between cognitive performance and cannabis use emerged in the controls. Negative and affective symptom severity in FEP was associated with cognitive performance to a greater degree than a lifetime history of cannabis use.
On Noncommutative Finite Factorization Domains
Creators: name: Bell, Jason P.
name: Heinle, Albert
name: Levandovskyy, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A domain $R$ is said to have the finite factorization property if every nonzero non-unit element of $R$ has at least one and at most finitely many distinct factorizations up to multiplication of irreducible factors by central units. Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and let $A$ be a $k$-algebra. We show that if $A$ has an associated graded ring that is a domain with the property that the dimension of each homogeneous component is finite then $A$ is a finite factorization domain. As a corollary, we show that many classes of algebras have the finite factorization property, including Weyl algebras, enveloping algebras of finite-dimensional Lie algebras, quantum affine spaces and shift algebras. This provides a termination criterion for factorization procedures over these algebras. In addition, we give explicit upper bounds on the number of distinct factorizations of an element in terms of data from the filtration.
Phylogenetic differentiation between Awassi and Hamdani sheep using the mitochondrial 12S rRNA
Creators: name: Fadhil, Israa A.
name: Al-Shuhaib, Mohammed Baqur S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study was conducted to assess the role of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA variations in the phylogenetic discrimination between two Iraqi breeds of sheep that differ in geographical distribution. A total of 122 animals (68 Awassi and 54 Hamdani) were included in the study. Direct sequencing of amplicons followed by the construction of a median-joining network and several trees were performed to identify the possible phylogenetic differences between both involved breeds. Genetic diversity, relative frequencies, and analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) were performed to assess the genetic correlation between both populations. The median-joining network and minimized tree values showed that all observed haplotypes were separated into two groups according to their breed. Comprehensive phylogenetic data revealed only one Asian ancestor for all observed haplotypes. As indicated by AMOVA, the observed diversity was mostly due to between-population variation (1.24836%), while within-population variation (0.91221%) accounted for much less. The currently investigated rRNA amplicons exhibited different mitochondrial manifestations between Awassi and Hamdani breeds. Due to the ability of these 12S rRNA amplicons to mimic the geographical diversity for the currently investigated breeds, it is highly recommended to be used as potent mitochondrial genetic markers among broader ovine sequences.
title: Na, gut geschlafen?
Creators: name: Kleinschuster, Theresa Maria
Year: 2022

description: Hintergrund: Jüngste Studien verwiesen auf die Relevanz von Schlaf auf die Arbeitsleistung von Personen. Eine Form der Arbeitsleistung, der ein immer höherer Stellenwert zugeschrieben wird, ist Kreativität. Kreativität ist definiert als die Möglichkeit, neue und nützliche Inhalte im Arbeitskontext zu generieren. In Anlehnung an frühere Studien betrachtet folgende Arbeit Kreativität aus einer selbstregulationstheoretischen Perspektive. Dabei wird Kreativität, mit Affektregulation und Schlafqualität in Verbindung gebracht. Annahmen: Ziel der folgenden Studie ist es, ein breiteres Verständnis über den Zusammenhang von Schlaf, Affektregulation und Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz zu erlangen. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass eine gute Schlafqualität einen positiven Einfluss auf die Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz ausübt. Zusätzlich wird angenommen, dass ein indirekter Effekt von Schlafqualität über die Heraufregulierung von positivem Affekt und die Herunterregulierung von negativem Affekt auf die kreative Leistung am Arbeitsplatz besteht. Methode: Es wurde eine zehntägige Online-Tagebuchstudie durchgeführt, an der N = 100 Personen in die Studie eingeschlossen wurden. Die Teilnehmer*innen füllten einen einmaligen Vorabfragebogen und täglich in der Früh, zu Mittag und am Nachmittag Fragebogen aus. Ergebnisse: Die Analysen zeigten keinen signifikanten Effekt von Schlafqualität auf Kreativität. Auch der indirekte Effekt von Schlafqualität auf die Kreativität über die Herunterregulierung von negativem Affekt zeigte kein signifikantes Ergebnis. Es wurde jedoch ein indirekter signifikanter Effekt von Schlafqualität über die Heraufregulierung von positivem Affekt morgens bis mittags auf die arbeitsbezogene Kreativität festgestellt. Zusätzlich wurde eine signifikante Interaktion der Affektregulation auf die Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz erkannt. Diskussion: Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse untermauern die Relevanz einer guten Schlafqualität für die Affektregulation, die wiederum für das Zeigen von Kreativität am Arbeitsplatz notwendig ist. Zusätzlich wurde verdeutlicht, dass ein positiver Affekt eine wichtige Rolle für die kreative Arbeitsleistung spielt, ein Ergebnis, das mit früheren Studienergebnissen im Einklang steht.
Open access - informační leták Univerzity Karlovy
Creators: name: Simandlová, Tereza
name: Pecková, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: open access
scholarly publishing

description: Informační leták vytvořený pro potřeby propagace otevřeného přístupu během Open Access Week 2018. K dispozici je verze pro tisk a náhled bez ořezových značek.