cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Malay humorous tales: Performance, corpus of oral texts and its study.
Creators: name: Shaiful Bahri, Radzi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2000

description: Like other societies, the Malays enjoy stories which make them laugh. Numerous stories appear and are transmitted by word of mouth when people are gathered at leisure. They bring laughter and joy to teller and audience. The stories usually portray the characters' clumsiness, slow-wittedness, or cunning in their escapades. Up to the present, the subject matter of these stories has never been fully examined. Further studies have mainly focused on the traditional type of humorous tales, their classification, and functions and have based these examinations solely on written texts. This study seeks to investigate the current practice of the performance of humorous tales in Malay society. It will focus on the roles played by the narrator and audience in order to enliven the performance. In this connection, it is essential to look at the background of the storytelling tradition; the whole corpus of the Malay humorous tales : traditional, modem and contemporary type of tales; also other aspects related to the performance ; techniques of delivery, setting, the audience's reception, and the narrator's background (status in the community; personality; level of education; and the way in which they acquired their fund of stories). The introduction of four different types of classification systems - based on themes, heroes, modes of creation; and plots, - shows that the tales consist of a variety of themes; heroes; tales, and actions performed by the heroes respectively. The thematic classification in particular will give an alternative classification scheme which could fit numerous tales that exist in oral form. It also shows why the Malay are fascinated by this kind of tales; who are the butt of humour; why they are targeted; and what laughable actions they perform. The poetic values of Malay humorous tales are evident through their linguistic and literary features. In linguistic terms, the storytellers use colloquial Malay, classical Malay, Malay dialects and some foreign language to execute their repertoire. Literary features take the form of storytelling techniques, which include repetitions, insertion of poetic verses, and shortening phrases. The combination of these linguistic and literary features, reveals that even such colloquial presentation also possesses its own stylized forms of delivery. Discussion of poetics also includes an analysis of the tales' devices of humour and their functions. On the basis of the classification schemes, especially the classification of heroes and plots, it appears that incongruity, ambiguity, absurdity, surprise and a combination of several such elements are the devices of humour that provoke Malays to laughter. Such stories are used to express elements of didacticism in negative terms; for socializing purposes; to represent a form of social and political criticism; to enhance self-respect and arouse a sense of national awareness and integrity.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586719867157 - ICU Patient Family Stress Recovery During Breaks in a Hospital Garden and Indoor Environments
Creators: name: Ulrich, Roger S.
name: Cordoza, Makayla
name: Gardiner, Stuart K.
name: Manulik, Bette J.
name: Fitzpatrick, Paul S.
name: Hazen, Teresia M.
name: Perkins, R. Serene
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_1937586719867157 for ICU Patient Family Stress Recovery During Breaks in a Hospital Garden and Indoor Environments by Roger S. Ulrich, Makayla Cordoza, Stuart K. Gardiner, Bette J. Manulik, Paul S. Fitzpatrick, Teresia M. Hazen and R. Serene Perkins in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal
title: South African life stories under apartheid: Imprisonment, exile, homecoming.
Creators: name: Gready, Paul
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: Apartheid South Africa was variously imprisoned, exiled, and engaged in the task of homecoming. This troika permeated society as reality, symbol and creative capital; as a political reality each of the experiences distilled the diverse human possibilities and potentials of apartheid. This is a study of the linked political encounters of detention/imprisonment, exile and homecoming, as well as the more general dynamics of oppression and resistance and the culture of violence, through the life story genre. Within the dynamics of struggle the focus of the thesis is on the transformative nature of resistance, in particular auto/biographical counter-discourses, as a means through which opponents of apartheid retained/regained agency and power. The main aim of the thesis is to articulate and apply a theory of life story praxis in the context of political contestation. The theory has five main components. Firstly, the life story in such contexts is marked by the imperative for narratives to be provisional, partial, tactical, to be managed in accordance with an evolving political purpose. The second component relates to the violent collaboration of state and opponent in identity construction and interpretation. This argument facilitates, as the third theoretical premise, a broad definition of texts that either are auto/biographical or impact upon the context and process of narration. Fourthly, lives are told many times over, identities are repeatedly un/remade, within an arena that is dense with prior versions and/or a discursive void. Finally, I argue that the ownership and meaning of life story narratives are provisional and contested while retaining a dominant narrative and political truth. In the main body of the thesis this theory is applied to the life stories of incarceration, exile, and homecoming.
Supplementary_Table_S2 – Supplemental material for Treatment effects of cumulative cisplatin dose during radiotherapy following induction chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: propensity score analyses
Creators: name: Peng, Liang
name: Chen, Jia-Luo
name: Zhu, Guang-Li
name: Huang, Cheng-Long
name: Li, Jun-Yan
name: Ma, Jun
name: Wen, Wei-Ping
name: Tang, Ling-Long
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
Aged Health Care
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplementary_Table_S2 for Treatment effects of cumulative cisplatin dose during radiotherapy following induction chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: propensity score analyses by Liang Peng, Jia-Luo Chen, Guang-Li Zhu, Cheng-Long Huang, Jun-Yan Li, Jun Ma, Wei-Ping Wen and Ling-Long Tang in Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Estimated Impact of HIV Testing on Length of Stay at Visits to United States Emergency Departments, 2018-2021
Creators: name: Kuglen, Brian
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: emergency medicine
HIV testing
health policy

description: Background:
Despite calls for increased human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, emergency departments have lower testing rates compared to other healthcare settings. This is, in part, given that many emergency department physicians cite worry that implementing preventative services like HIV testing would increase emergency department visit length of stay. However, it is unclear what impact HIV testing has on visit length of stay.
Objective:
The goal of this work was to use a nationally representative sample of emergency department visits to estimate the impact of HIV testing on emergency department visit length of stay.
Methods:
We completed a cross-sectional analysis of the 2018-2021 National Hospital Ambulatory Care Survey (NHAMCS), which provides weighted estimates of ambulatory care services provided in United States emergency departments. Initial analyses were conducted on the pooled dataset of all four years and sensitivity analyses of 2018-2019 and 2020-2021 grouped data were conducted to investigate possible discrepancies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Negative binomial regression models, both univariate and multivariable, were used to explore the relationship between our primary predictor (whether a HIV test was performed) and our primary outcome of interest (length of visit stay in minutes).
Results:
Overall median length of stay for visits that included an HIV test was longer (254 [interquartile range (IQR): 142-425] minutes) than visits that did not include an HIV test (177 [107-280] minutes). A difference in length of stay persisted when looking at year groupings (2018-2019, 2020-2021), but results were mixed when stratifying by triage immediacy. In regression, HIV testing was associated with a higher unadjusted (RR = 1.44 [95% confidence interval (CI): 1.24- 1.68]) and adjusted (aRR = 1.23 [1.10-1.39]) rate of increased length of stay; this finding persisted when looking at the 2018-2019 visits, but the association was not significant for 2020- 2021 visits.
Conclusion:
In this nationally representative sampling of emergency department visits from 2018-2021, visits with an HIV test had a longer median stay than those without. This difference persisted for all year groupings but not for all levels of triage immediacy. After accounting for possible confounders, HIV testing was also associated with longer patient length of stay overall, but further work is needed to better understand potential differences due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
9_19-0167_Supplementary_Table_A2_final_rpw_(1) - Informed Clustering of Donation Service Areas for Improved Benchmarking
Creators: name: Noreen, Samantha M.
name: Rosendale, John
name: Carrico, Robert J.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110305 Emergency Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery

description: 9_19-0167_Supplementary_Table_A2_final_rpw_(1) for Informed Clustering of Donation Service Areas for Improved Benchmarking by Samantha M. Noreen, John Rosendale and Robert J. Carrico in Progress in Transplantation
title: The spread of the "Japanese type" production system into Asia: Evolutionary theories and the case of Thai auto and electrical parts industries.
Creators: name: Kuroda, Akira
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: In the past, technology efficiently assisted industrialised countries in their conquest of colonies. However, technology has not helped many less developed countries in their industrialisation. Although some literature contended that technology would inevitably spread to less developed countries, it has spread only partially to most less developed countries. The literature seems to have failed to present a clear picture of how a less developed country can acquire technology. Recently, East Asian economies and their peculiar nature became a focal point in Western literature. A key to understand their development path lies in Akamatsu's "flying-geese" pattern theory, which shows the mechanism of technology diffusion from more developed to less developed countries. Starting from Akamatsu's theory, this thesis argues that East Asian economies today are specifically set within a culture, where labour and management co-operate, and where large industry and small-medium industry cooperate. In this culture, technology spreads from more developed to less developed countries and facilitates faster industrialisation. Also, this thesis argues that technology is dynamic and complex. Learning technology is not an easy matter. Technology diffuses through human contact, and accumulates. Japanese expatriates try to teach technology to local workers, not to hide it as argued by the intelligentsia in ASEAN countries. This thesis measures the levels to which technology has been learnt, examining effective borrowing processes in the context of Thailand's auto parts and electrical parts industries. Thus, this thesis contributes to the study of technology transfer in the Third World countries, which has been affected so far by a narrow understanding of technology.
title: Mathematical economics and control theory: Studies in policy optimisation.
Creators: name: Derakhshan-Nou, Masoud
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: Chapter 1 deals with the origin and limitations of mathematical economics and its implications for economic applications of optimal control theory. Using an historical approach, we have proposed a hypothesis on the origin and limitations of classical and modern mathematical economics. Similar hypotheses proposed by Cournot, Walras, von Neumann-Morgenstern and Debreu are shown not to be convincing. Conditions are established under which applications of mathematical methods, in general, and optimal control theory, in particular, may produce economic results of value. Chapter 2 concerns the formation and development of optimal control applications to economic policy optimisation. It is shown that the application of mathematical control theory (as compared with engineering control) may significantly contribute to mathematical economics (as compared to econometrics). The development of optimal growth theory has been examined as an example. Within the context of economic policy optimisation, a critical examination of the recent developments in macroeconomic modelling, the relationship between theory and observation, rational expectations, the Lucas critique and the problem of time- inconsistency is presented. Chapter 3 provides the first illustration of the main theme of the earlier chapters. Using the generalised Hamiltonian in Pontryagin's maximum principle, as well as using Bellman's dynamic programming, we have obtained a number of new results on the mathematical properties of optimal consumption under liquidity constraints. For example, we have demonstrated how the response of optimal consumption to liquidity constraints is conditioned by the consumer's intertemporal elasticity of substitution. Considered as a mathematical structure, this is shown to capture the effects of the following variables on the optimal consumption path; pure preference parameters, the interest rates variations and the structural parameters prevailing in the credit markets. In chapter 4, the dynamic Leontief model, which according to the conditions established in chapter 1, is one of the most successful applications of mathematical methods to economic policy analysis, is first considered as a control problem. We have then obtained the optimal consumption path for deterministic and stochastic dynamic Leontief models with substitute activities which are in turn formulated in deterministic and stochastic environments. Our solution uses Pontryagin's maximum principle. Bellman's method and Astrom's Lemma on stochastic dynamic programming.
Dear_Reviewer_1 – Supplemental material for Social Goals in the Theory of the Firm: A Systems Theory View
Creators: name: Valentinov, Vladislav
name: Roth, Steffen
name: Pies, Ingo
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160509 Public Administration

description: Supplemental material, Dear_Reviewer_1 for Social Goals in the Theory of the Firm: A Systems Theory View by Vladislav Valentinov, Steffen Roth and Ingo Pies in Administration & Society
EB_supplementary_material – Supplemental material for In Cold Weather We Bark, But in Hot Weather We Bite: Patterns in Social Media Anger, Aggressive Behavior, and Temperature
Creators: name: Stevens, Heather R.
name: Graham, Petra L.
name: Beggs, Paul J.
name: Hanigan, Ivan C.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, EB_supplementary_material for In Cold Weather We Bark, But in Hot Weather We Bite: Patterns in Social Media Anger, Aggressive Behavior, and Temperature by Heather R. Stevens, Petra L. Graham, Paul J. Beggs and Ivan C. Hanigan in Environment and Behavior
title: Studies in the career of Chinggis Qan.
Creators: name: Cheng, Chih-Shu E.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: At the turn of twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a Mongol chief, Temujin. best-known by his title Chinggis Qan, began his expansion and created a vast empire in north and central Asia. The conquest was completed in three stages: first the unification of Mongolia, second the submission of neighbouring nations, third an expedition to Central Asia. The history of his military conquests has been extensively studied by modem researchers, while the non-military factors which also contribute to his success have been given less attention. The background of Temujin's success lacks clarity too, because of confusion in the available accounts. This thesis focus on two topics in the career of Temujin. The first three chapters in part one analyze the relationship between Temujin's family and Toyoril, the ruler of the Turkic Kereit tribe, who was a cmcial figure in Temtujin's rise to power. The essential reconstruction of the early history of the Kereit ruling family in this part presents also the background of Temujin's triumph. Part Two studies Temujin's strategy of expansion via his relationship with the other Turkic tribes, his Mongol kinsmen and the powerful Jurchen regime in the south. This examination consists of three chapters and it reveals that Temujin did not accomplish his career solely by the sword. Since these aspects have not been sufficiently investigated because of the confusion of the primary sources, a serious attempt has been made to clarify the situation. Three major sources have been carefully studied in their original languages, respectively Monggol-un niyucha tobchiyan in Mongolian, Jami' al-tawarikh in Persian and Sheng-wu ch'ing-cheng-lu in Chinese. Through a careful comparison of all the relevant details, the career of Temujin can be re-interpreted from a new perspective.
Unexpected linear conductivity in Landau-Zener model: limitations and improvements of the relaxation time approximation in the quantum master equation
Creators: name: Terada, Ibuki
name: Kitamura, Sota
name: Watanabe, Hiroshi
name: Ikeda, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonequilibrium steady states of quantum materials have many challenges. Here, we highlight issues with the relaxation time approximation (RTA) for the DC conductivity in insulating systems. The RTA to the quantum master equation (QME) is frequently employed as a simple method, yet this phenomenological approach is exposed as a fatal approximation, displaying metallic DC conductivity in insulating systems within the linear response regime. We find that the unexpected metallic behavior is caused by the fact that the density matrix in the RTA incompletely incorporates the first order of the external field. To solve this problem, we have derived a new calculation scheme based on the QME that ensure correct behavior in low electric fields. Our method reproduces well the overall features of the exact electric currents in the whole field region. It is not time-consuming, and its application to lattice systems is straightforward. This method will encourage progress in this research area as a simple way to more accurately describe nonequilibrium steady states.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Supplemental Material, Modeling_Inequality_Revision_-_Supplement_(To_Submit) - Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality
Creators: name: Jackson, Joshua Conrad
name: Payne, Keith
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, Modeling_Inequality_Revision_-_Supplement_(To_Submit) for Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality by Joshua Conrad Jackson and Keith Payne in Social Psychological and Personality Science
sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808320934821 - Supplemental material for The spatial structure of US metropolitan employment: New insights from administrative data
Creators: name: Manduca, Robert
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geography
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-epb-10.1177_2399808320934821 for The spatial structure of US metropolitan employment: New insights from administrative data by Robert Manduca in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
title: Charisma and community in a Ghanaian independent church.
Creators: name: Burnett, David G.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: In 1919, J. W. Appiah, a Methodist catechist in the Gold Coast, sought the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and began to prophesy and pray for the sick. He and his followers were expelled from the Church, and formed both a new community and a denomination known as the Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC). It has often been argued that African Independent Churches result as a reaction to Western domination of land or people, but it is shown that this was not the primary issue with the MDCC. The initial quest was for spiritual empowerment, which resulted in prophetic revelation and the formation of a church with distinctively African characteristics. Following Appiah's death, his son (Akaboha II) became the head of the growing church, which was affected by two contemporary developments. The first was the nationalist movement led by Nkrumah, which stimulated the MDCC to a mission of the spiritual liberation of Christianity from remaining Western elements. This was achieved through the innovation of rituals and practices based upon traditional African forms. The second was revivalist teaching brought to Ghana by Pentecostal evangelists, which the MDCC adopted as "instantaneous healing". Although the church continued to grow after the fall of Nkrumah and the death of Akaboha II, in the late 1980s it started to decline. This thesis argues that the innovation of African traditions resulted in a form of contextualization that was inflexible, so the church was unable to adapt to social change and has become less relevant. Former members are now seeking a more relevant charisma of the Holy Spirit in other churches. The illiterate members prefer the Pentecostal churches, and the educated younger generation are attracted to the newer Charismatic churches.
Supplemental_Material - Mapping the Mitochondrial Regulation of Epigenetic Modifications in Association With Carcinogenic and Noncarcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure
Creators: name: Arpit Bhargava
name: Roshani Kumari
name: Surbhi Khare
name: Ruchita Shandilya
name: Pushpendra Kumar Gupta
name: Rajnarayan Tiwari
name: Akhlaqur Rahman
name: Koel Chaudhury
name: Goryacheva, Irina Yu
name: Pradyumna Kumar Mishra
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental_Material for Mapping the Mitochondrial Regulation of Epigenetic Modifications in Association With Carcinogenic and Noncarcinogenic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure by Arpit Bhargava, Roshani Kumari, Surbhi Khare, Ruchita Shandilya, Pushpendra Kumar Gupta, Rajnarayan Tiwari, Akhlaqur Rahman, Koel Chaudhury, Irina Yu Goryacheva and Pradyumna Kumar Mishra in International Journal of Toxicology
Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Post-Fukushima discourse in the US press: Quantified knowledge, the technical object, and a panicked public
Creators: name: Tollefson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_material for Post-Fukushima discourse in the US press: Quantified knowledge, the technical object, and a panicked public by Jonathan Tollefson in Public Understanding of Science
Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Kentucky
Creators: name: Hockersmith, Luciana D.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Health and Physical Education
subject: Home Economics
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Other Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Public Health Education and Promotion
subject: Vocational Education
subject: Women's Health

description: Discussions of sex education of any kind can be controversial in a given setting. Traditional approaches to sex education prompt debate regarding effectiveness. Key indicators central to the effectiveness of sex education continue to be rates of teen pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). With discontentment surrounding the effectiveness of “traditional approaches,” a more wide-ranging method is worthy of being explored. The curriculum approach of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) includes six key concepts, and subsequent sub-concepts, intended to provide a broad and even all-inclusive range of topics for a similarly broad and even all-inclusive range of ages of youth. When considering utilizing CSE in a community one must consider the influence community leaders have in success of implementation. This qualitative study seeks to explore how community leaders in one Kentucky community respond to six key concepts of CSE and its possible delivery. Utilizing snowball sampling in one Kentucky County with low teen birth rates, ten community leaders were interviewed. Results of this study show openness to the topics included in CSE but reveal a need for parent education as it relates to communication within the family as well as the topics of each key concept of CSE.
title: Market reform and the emergence of the entrepreneurial state in China: The case of state commercial and real estate departments in Tianjin.
Creators: name: Duckett, Jane
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: China's post-Mao reforms have gradually introduced markets and transformed the planned economy. This dissertation investigates the impact of those market-oriented reforms on state bureaux that administered the planning system. It does this through a study of departments that allocated consumer goods and housing in the north-eastern city of Tianjin. It argues that markets have resulted in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism in these sectors. The introduction of commodity markets has compelled state commerce bureaux to become entrepreneurial by rendering them obsolete. In the property sector, limited real estate markets have provided bureaux with opportunities to do real estate development business. Contrary to the expectations in current thinking on market reform, the Chinese state entrepreneurialism shows that states do not have to resist change and can embrace markets. In the context of a world-wide trend toward marketisation, the Chinese state's adaptive activities are of wider relevance. The key features of the entrepreneurial state are outlined as a model to aid future comparative research.
What are the reasons for capitalizing advertisement expenses in technology companies
Creators: name: Takahashi, Silvio
name: formigoni, henrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Intangible assets. Advertisement expenses. Capitalization of assets

description: Takahashi, S., Formigoni, H. (2024). Quais são os motivos para capitalização de gastos com propaganda em empresas de tecnologia. Produto técnico-tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Controladoria, Finanças e Tecnologias de Gestão.DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14077242
Land-neutral negative emissions through biochar-based fertilization—assessing global potentials under varied management and pyrolysis conditions
Creators: name: Werner, Constanze
name: Lucht, Wolfgang
name: Kammann, Claudia
name: Braun, Johanna
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Carbon dioxide removal
subject: Negative emissions
subject: Biochar
subject: Pyrolysis
subject: PyCCS
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Climate stabilization is crucial for restabilizing the Earth system but should not undermine biosphere integrity, a second pillar of Earth system functioning. This is of particular concern if it is to be achieved through biomass-based negative emission (NE) technologies that compete for land with food production and ecosystem protection. We assess the NE contribution of land- and calorie-neutral pyrogenic carbon capture and storage (LCN-PyCCS) facilitated by biochar-based fertilization, which sequesters carbon and reduces land demand by increasing crop yields. Applying the global biosphere model LPJmL with an enhanced representation of fast-growing species for PyCCS feedstock production, we calculated a land-neutral global NE potential of 0.20–1.10 GtCO2 year−1 assuming 74% of the biochar carbon remaining in the soil after 100 years (for + 10% yield increase; no potential for + 5%; 0.61–1.88 GtCO2 year−1 for + 15%). The potential is primarily driven by the achievable yield increase and the management intensity of the biomass producing systems. NE production is estimated to be enhanced by + 200–270% if management intensity increases from a marginal to a moderate level. Furthermore, our results show sensitivity to process-specific biochar yields and carbon contents, producing a difference of + 40–75% between conservative assumptions and an optimized setting. Despite these challenges for making world-wide assumptions on LCN-PyCCS systems in modeling, our findings point to discrepancies between the large NE volumes calculated in demand-driven and economically optimized mitigation scenarios and the potentials from analyses focusing on supply-driven approaches that meet environmental and socioeconomic preconditions as delivered by LCN-PyCCS.
title: The style of Lao She and modern Chinese: A study of Lao She's literary language in his fictional works.
Creators: name: Cui, Yan
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: The works of Lao She have inspired many people from all over the world to carry out research into different aspects of his life. However, to date, the study of Lao She's literary language has been largely neglected in comparison to the large volume of work that has been dedicated to other aspects of his writings, so there are still gaps in the study of his literary language. This present research provides a detailed analysis of the nature and development of Lao She's literary language style, and of the unique linguistic characteristics of his works over the thirty-seven year period of his writing career. The distinctive features of the literary language he used in his novels are identified and classified in the following categories through a thorough investigation based on a large amount of selected language data. These are the usage of (1) spoken language, (2) the Beijing dialect, (3) classical Chinese and written language, (4) English and unconventional language phenomena and (5) his distinctive modes of expression, on which no previous research has been carried out. In addition, this research also provides evidence of the development of Lao She's literary language through different historical periods by using charts and statistics which have been produced by the present writer. Lao She's literary language developed with the changes in society around him in China. The pattern of this development reflects the reality of modem Chinese language development: from classical Chinese to the vernacular, and then to the normalised Chinese common language. The Beijing dialect in Lao She's works is not solely the property of the Beijing citizens in the stories. From the usage of classical words to lexical items of written language, Lao She had his own theories on which he based his choice of words. He always consciously used his literary language in order to widen his readership. He regarded the adoption of a foreign language style in the modem Chinese written system as a way of helping the development of the Chinese language. The proof of this lies in the discovery of a large amount of language data which has an English language style and the lexical items which cannot be found in Chinese dictionaries.
title: Adversity or affectivity: A longitudinal experimental study of teaching Japanese ni passives to learners of Japanese as a foreign language.
Creators: name: Furukawa, Akiko
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines an effective way of teaching Japanese ni passives to learners studying Japanese as a foreign language. Japanese passives have triggered controversies in theoretical linguistics regarding issues such as their syntactic structures, classification and the origin of what is called the 'adversity' meaning. Adopting a cognitive approach, I shall propose that ni passives can be taught efficiently and effectively by abandoning the direct/possessor/indirect passive distinction, and instead, explaining all instances of these passives in terms of a single, core notion of 'affectivity' (Kuroda 1979). The effectiveness of this approach was empirically tested by teaching ni passives to two different groups of learners, via explicit grammar explanation designed to encourage the form-meaning and function connections of ni passives. The control group (7 learners) were taught multiple types of ni passives, and the experimental group (10 learners) were provided with the unified account that all ni passives have a meaning of affectedness, whether positive or negative. A series of experiments were conducted, in the form of picture description and other tasks, one week and nine months after the instructional treatment, and with subsequent follow-up. The results show that the approach proposed in the study was indeed effective. The metalinguistic comments some of the learners made indicate that explicit knowledge of the meanings and function of ni passives and the explicit association between the use of ni passives with certain (affective) situations seemed to have assisted learning, by motivating the use of ni passives. Also, certain intermediate forms that the learners produced in the course of learning will be explained by drawing upon a cognitive approach. The positive effects of the instructional treatment proposed in this study are encouraging for learners who only have limited exposure to the target language.
Design of 2D Skyrmionic Metamaterial Through Controlled Assembly
Creators: name: Xu, Qichen
name: Shen, Zhuanglin
name: Edström, Alexander
name: Miranda, I. P.
name: Lu, Zhiwei
name: Bergman, Anders
name: Thonig, Danny
name: Yin, Wanjian
name: Eriksson, Olle
name: Delin, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite extensive research on magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions, a significant challenge remains in crafting nontrivial high-order skyrmionic textures with varying, or even tailor-made, topologies. We address this challenge, by focusing on a construction pathway of skyrmionic metamaterials within a monolayer thin film and suggest several skyrmionic metamaterials that are surprisingly stable, i.e., long-lived, due to a self-stabilization mechanism. This makes these new textures promising for applications. Central to our approach is the concept of 'simulated controlled assembly', in short, a protocol inspired by 'click chemistry' that allows for positioning topological magnetic structures where one likes, and then allowing for energy minimization to elucidate the stability. Utilizing high-throughput atomistic-spin-dynamic simulations alongside state-of-the-art AI-driven tools, we have isolated skyrmions (topological charge Q=1), antiskyrmions (Q=-1), and skyrmionium (Q=0). These entities serve as foundational 'skyrmionic building blocks' to form the here reported intricate textures. In this work, two key contributions are introduced to the field of skyrmionic systems. First, we present a a novel combination of atomistic spin dynamics simulations and controlled assembly protocols for the stabilization and investigation of new topological magnets. Second, using the aforementioned methods we report on the discovery of skyrmionic metamaterials.
Questions (and Answers) for Incorporating Nontraditional Grading in Your Statistics Courses
Creators: name: Curley, Brenna
name: Downey, Jillian
name: Kinnaird, Katherine M.
name: Loy, Adam
name: Reyes, Eric
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Nontraditional grading methods have recently become more common, and as with any large pedagogical shift, there are a number of questions to consider when applying a new grading scheme to a course. This article summarizes four types of nontraditional grading and shares experiences from the authors who have applied them to a variety of courses in statistics. This article is structured as a set of questions and answers, seeking to address many of the concerns and considerations that one may face as they transition a course’s grading structure. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_0333102420929026 - Supplemental material for Differences in pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide and calcitonin gene-related peptide release in the trigeminovascular system
Creators: name: Edvinsson, Jacob Carl Alexander
name: Anne-Sofie Grell
name: Warfvinge, Karin
name: Sheykhzade, Majid
name: Edvinsson, Lars
name: Haanes, Kristian Agmund
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110904 Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 110319 Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy)
subject: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_0333102420929026 for Differences in pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide and calcitonin gene-related peptide release in the trigeminovascular system by Jacob Carl Alexander Edvinsson, Anne-Sofie Grell, Karin Warfvinge, Majid Sheykhzade, Lars Edvinsson and Kristian Agmund Haanes in Cephalalgia
title: Monk poetry as external learning in the Middle and Late Tang, exemplified by the poetry and lives of Guanxiu and Qiji.
Creators: name: Li, Yun-Chung
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is concerned with monk shi poetry within the context of the political, intellectual and literary history focusing on the Middle and Late Tang. Buddhist monks engaged in non-Buddhist studies as external learning (waixue) to assist their interactions with non-Buddhists. Shi poetry was one of these non-Buddhist studies. This thesis introduces the rise of poet-monks from the Middle Tang period (from 785 onwards) as a literary and social phenomenon. One focus is to investigate why the Buddhist clergy tolerated the poet-monks' prolific unreligious poetry writing. The monastic code Shisong lu (Sarvastivada-vinaya) as well as the teachings of Southern Chan Buddhism are examined as Buddhist teachings relevant to the monks' shi poetry writing. It is argued that these teachings facilitated the monks' external learning, however, without directly inspiring the rise of poet-monks. The function of external learning is examined in the context of the clergy's position in the socio-political environment and their political relationship with Confucian orientated scholar-officials. It is concluded that the rise of poet-monks was mainly inspired by the Buddhist monks' political desire to maintain a peaceful relationship with non-Buddhists. Furthermore, the poet-monks wrote poetiy to advance their personal career prospect and as an artistic self-expression. The lives and poems of two poet-monks, Guanxiu (832-912) and Qiji (864-c. 943) are examined as a case study. It is demonstrated that their religious careers and the stylistic characteristics of their poetry were shaped by the function of external learning. Their poetry is analysed and compared to their contemporary literati poetry. It is concluded that, although the motivation for monks to write shi poetry may have been pragmatic, their distinct background allowed them to nevertheless make an independent contribution to the greater shi poetry tradition in its own right.
The Teaching of Introductory Statistics: Results of a National Survey
Creators: name: Legacy, Chelsey
name: Le, Laura
name: Zieffler, Andrew
name: Fry, Elizabeth
name: Corrales, Pablo Vivas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: The Statistics Teaching Inventory (STI) was designed to assess the teaching practices of U.S.-based, college-level introductory statistics instructors in a variety of institutions and departments. This instrument has now been updated to reflect current trends and recommendations in statistics education. In this study, we used the STI to examine the current state of the curricular and instructional practices being used by U.S.-based, college-level introductory statistics instructors. We explore the extent to which instructors report that their introductory statistics courses are aligned with recommended practices as outlined by the 2016 GAISE College Report. Data were collected from a sample of college-level U.S.-based, college-level introductory statistics instructors. Results based on 228 usable responses indicated that instructors, by-and-large, tended to be following the GAISE recommendations, especially related to content. However, courses may not yet be aligned with newer content recommendations (e.g., provide students opportunities to work with multivariate data), and there is still a large percentage of instructors that are not embracing student-oriented pedagogies and assessment methods. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
title: A stranger in the home: Immigration to the UK through marriage from 1962.
Creators: name: Wray, Helena
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is concerned with the British state's response to marriage immigration after 1962. Admission of foreign spouses places strangers at the symbolic heart of national life and their claims have often been denied. Meanwhile. British residents who enable such claims may be regarded as having thereby partially excluded themselves from national life. This has been particularly so for women for whom marriage is often considered a statement of public allegiance as well as a private act. The thesis establishes this argument through analysis of decision-making by the legislature, the judiciary and the entry clearance service. It argues that all decisionmakers exercise discretionary powers and will usually do so in accordance with their sense of their institutional function infonned by their understanding of the nature of the world. Where this understanding is shared across institutions, congruity in patterns of decision-making may emerge. This is argued to be largely the case for the period from 1962 to 1997. The thesis argues that, since 1997, perceptions of the threat posed by marriage immigration have become more complex and less uniform. Skin colour, gender and formal married status have become less significant. Obedience to state-erected hurdles, cultural conformity and social class have become more prominent although tempered by other competing priorities, particularly human rights values which the courts have recently begun to assert more vigorously. The conclusion places these arguments within the context of the continued desire of nation states to prevent unwanted immigration despite global movement and porous borders. Many British residents are now part of international diasporas or are themselves recent immigrants. It is even more difficult to use immigration control to reinforce the role of marriage and family in maintaining an idealised conception of national life even if recent indications are that efforts to do so will continue.
Supplemental_Materials_Resubmission – Supplemental material for Dependent Stress Mediates the Relation Between ADHD Symptoms and Depression
Creators: name: Rychik, Natali
name: Fassett-Carman, Alyssa
name: Snyder, Hannah R.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental material, Supplemental_Materials_Resubmission for Dependent Stress Mediates the Relation Between ADHD Symptoms and Depression by Natali Rychik, Alyssa Fassett-Carman and Hannah R. Snyder in Journal of Attention Disorders
title: Qing-style porcelain in Meiji Japan: The ceramic art of Seifu Yohei III.
Creators: name: Maezaki, Shinya
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents the first detailed study of the life and work of Seifu Yohei III, in either English or Japanese. Seifu Yohei III (1851-1914) was one of the leading ceramic artists of the Meiji period and highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad during his lifetime. Being a literati-style painter and an unabashed Sinophile, Seifu created works that display the distinctive characteristics of Qing porcelain. The multi-faceted character of this artist provides an opportunity to explore crucial issues concerning the transformation of Japanese art in general at the beginning of Japan's modem age. The clientele for such works was an elite with similar predilections for Chinese-style wares, though patronage of his works extended even to the Imperial Household of Japan. A study of Seifu Yohei III demonstrates that Japanese ceramics cannot be discussed in terms of a linear, uniformly progressive development mirroring the Westernisation of Japan. Seifu's career reveals the co-existence of what might normally be perceived as irreconcilable factors in terms of its regional, social, economic and cultural environments, often involving interaction with China. Each chapter takes up a different issue surrounding Seifu Yohei III in the context of the production and consumption of art in Meiji Japan. This interdisciplinary analysis of the life and work of Seifu Yohei III also sheds light on the social, economic and cultural factors affecting other potters of the Meiji era. It takes on previously neglected issues concerning what happened in the area of ceramic production inside Japan and, more broadly, in East Asia as a whole.