cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Benchmarking the Hooke-Jeeves Method, MTS-LS1, and BSrr on the Large-scale BBOB Function Set
Creators: name: Tanabe, Ryoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper investigates the performance of three black-box optimizers exploiting separability on the 24 large-scale BBOB functions, including the Hooke-Jeeves method, MTS-LS1, and BSrr. Although BSrr was not specially designed for large-scale optimization, the results show that BSrr has a state-of-the-art performance on the five separable large-scale BBOB functions. The results show that the asymmetry significantly influences the performance of MTS-LS1. The results also show that the Hooke-Jeeves method performs better than MTS-LS1 on unimodal separable BBOB functions.
description: This is an accepted version of a paper to the Workshop on Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking (BBOB 2022) published in the companion volume of GECCO2022
title: The face of the factory girl: Educational rhetoric in the mediation of an historical place
Creators: name: Jørgensen, Iben Brinch
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: World heritage cities and sites convey culture and form understandings of the past as well as show a way to relate to it in a present context. These cities and sites are concrete examples of what to remember; and their mediated rhetoric, as found in exhibitions and on websites, gives a view into the management of our collective, cultural memory. This article will analyse key elements of the website for New Lanark, a Scottish heritage site, and in so doing will observe how rhetorical agency is shaped through the use of iconic photographs, visual rhetoric and the foregrounding of specific topics. Predominant on this website is the face of a young factory girl, smiling at the viewer. The heritage site thus has its identity formed, but so does the public addressed by this rhetoric. The institutional position of the historical place and its mediated rhetoric point to the fact that world heritage sites are rhetorical educational texts, far from being as neutral as might be expected.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
Efficient bead-on-plate weld model for parameter estimation towards effective wire arc additive manufacturing simulation
Creators: name: Strobl, Dominic
name: Unger, Jörg F.
name: Ghnatios, Chady
name: Klawonn, Alexander
name: Pittner, Andreas
name: Rethmeier, Michael
name: Robens-Radermacher, Annika
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: proper generalized decomposition
subject: model order reduction
subject: hardly separable problem
subject: additive manufacturing
subject: model calibration
subject: wire arc additive manufacturing

description: Despite the advances in hardware and software techniques, standard numerical methods fail in providing real-time simulations, especially for complex processes such as additive manufacturing applications. A real-time simulation enables process control through the combination of process monitoring and automated feedback, which increases the flexibility and quality of a process. Typically, before producing a whole additive manufacturing structure, a simplified experiment in the form of a bead-on-plate experiment is performed to get a first insight into the process and to set parameters suitably. In this work, a reduced order model for the transient thermal problem of the bead-on-plate weld simulation is developed, allowing an efficient model calibration and control of the process. The proposed approach applies the proper generalized decomposition (PGD) method, a popular model order reduction technique, to decrease the computational effort of each model evaluation required multiple times in parameter estimation, control, and optimization. The welding torch is modeled by a moving heat source, which leads to difficulties separating space and time, a key ingredient in PGD simulations. A novel approach for separating space and time is applied and extended to 3D problems allowing the derivation of an efficient separated representation of the temperature. The results are verified against a standard finite element model showing excellent agreement. The reduced order model is also leveraged in a Bayesian model parameter estimation setup, speeding up calibrations and ultimately leading to an optimized real-time simulation approach for welding experiment using synthetic as well as real measurement data.
title: Developing intercultural language learning textbooks: Methodological trends, engaging with the intercultural construct, and personal reflections on the process
Creators: name: Morgan, Anne-Marie
name: Kohler, Michelle
name: Harbon, Lesley
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: Historically, textbook development for languages education has reflected methodological trends in languages learning, from grammar-translation methods used in the first half of the twentieth century, through audio-lingual, notionalfunctional, communicative language learning and other methodological paradigms. A current methodological trend – arguably more an ‘orientation’ to languages learning than a ‘method’ – involves developing ‘intercultural’ perspectives. In this orientation, learners are invited to constantly consider the interrelationship of language and culture; what this interplay means within variable cultural contexts; to work ‘across and between’ the languages they know and are learning; and to think reflexively on how developing understandings of new languages and cultures ultimately affects them as individuals and members of communities. The authors have been researching and working with intercultural language learning over a number of years. In response to the need for resources reflecting this orientation and their own desire to see how this might be realised in commercially available materials (textbooks and online support), Lesley Harbon, Michelle Kohler and Anne-Marie Morgan have developed a textbook series with an intercultural orientation for Australian middle years learners of Indonesian. The journey in developing these materials has raised many questions and challenges, including considering how a diversity of perspectives about languages and cultures might be represented and catered for in ‘static’ resources. This article situates the current trend towards intercultural language learning within an historical context of textbook development and language teaching methodologies; explores current understandings of the intercultural construct and considers how this understanding has influenced the writing of the series; and provides reflections on the complexities and challenges of development of this resource.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
Dynamics of hydrogen in silicon at finite temperatures from first-principles
Creators: name: Gomes, Diana
name: Markevich, Vladimir P.
name: Peaker, Anthony R.
name: Coutinho, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hydrogen point defects in silicon still hold unsolved problems, whose disclosure is fundamental for future advances in Si technologies. Among the open issues is the mechanism for the condensation of atomic hydrogen into molecules in Si quenched from above $T\sim700\,^{\circ}$C to room temperature. Based on first-principles calculations, we investigated the thermodynamics of hydrogen monomers and dimers at finite temperatures within the harmonic approximation. The free energies of formation indicate that the population of H$^{-}$ cannot be neglected when compared that of H$^{+}$ at high temperatures. The results allow us to propose that the formation of molecules occurs during cooling processes, in the temperature window $T\sim700\textrm{-}500\,$K, above which the molecules collide with Si-Si bonds and dissociate, and below which the fraction of H$^{-}$ becomes negligible. The formation of H$^{-}$ and most notably of a fast-diffusing neutral species could also provide an explanation for the apparent \emph{accelerated} diffusivity of atomic hydrogen at elevated temperatures in comparison to the figures extrapolated from measurements carried out at cryogenic temperatures. We finally show that the observed diffusivity of the molecules is better described upon the assumption that they are nearly free rotors, all along the minimum energy path, including at the transition state.
title: Books versus ‘The Book’: The 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy
Creators: name: Crawford, Keith
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: In 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia witnessed one of the most violent textbook wars the USA has seen. The paper chronicles the direction of the dispute identifying key issues, protagonists and ideological positions; this is followed by an analysis of core protester motivation and intention focusing around the embryonic emergence of Christian fundamentalism and the politics of Conservatism. This is placed within the context of Gramscian notions of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic struggle (Gramsci 1971), the construction of moral panic (Cohen 1972) and authoritarian populism (Hall 1988) as organising ideas. Finally, the paper reflects upon how the Kanawha incident offered a template for the subsequent development of an articulated Christian fundamentalist and political right-wing counter-hegemonic movement aimed at dominating educational policy agendas in the USA.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
title: Re-write or be written out: moving a textbook through changing paradigms
Creators: name: Stewart, Colin
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: This paper responds to Paxton?s lament that suggests there is a „deafening silence? between those who author, edit and publish textbooks and the teachers and students who use them. The writer of a textbook that has been through three editions over twenty years necessarily adapts the book to changing teaching paradigms and evolving conceptions of what defines the core teaching of a subject. There are even changes in the expectations of what a textbook should be and do – especially if those twenty years span the emergence of the internet. This article charts the writing process for the three editions of the Australian Media Studies textbook Media: new ways and meanings, and places the book within the context of the emblematic discourses or paradigms of the subject in each time period. It examines the significant changes in thinking about the pedagogy of media studies subjects that have occurred over this period in all Australian states, and the role of a textbook in both reflecting and leading these changes. Key informant interviews were held in two Australian states to ascertain the role of the book within its context. As part of the writing process for the third edition of the textbook, an internet survey of media teachers in two Australian states, together with a focus group and several descriptive surveys aimed to find out what teachers wanted in a contemporary media studies textbook, and to involve them in the selection of content. The research presented here suggests that there were several paradigm shifts in Australian media studies and that various authors and the textbooks they wrote participated in, and to some extent shaped these. The research also suggests that the perceived role of textbooks in media studies subjects varies to some extent between the three main Australian states that have formal media studies subjects. Findings also suggest that the role of textbooks has changed over time as teachers demand more recontextualisation, and as textbooks incorporate more visual and multimedia material.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
title: Production and adaptation of materials for teachers and students: understanding socio-cultural diversity in marginalised and disadvantaged contexts.
Creators: name: Rodríguez Rodríguez, Jesús
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: This paper will investigate how the development and adaptation of educational materials by teachers and students can promote an understanding of socio-cultural diversity in marginalised and underdeveloped communities. Textbooks cannot always address the diversity of teaching/learning situations in a classroom, nor can they always provide material suited to different educational contexts. The paper will outline recent research on the representation of diversity in materials, including projects and initiatives dealing with the production of materials in marginalised communities. We will begin by presenting a brief review of studies on the lack of cultural and linguistic diversity in textbooks and teaching materials. This will be followed by discussion of the advantages of teacher-developed didactic materials in supporting socio-cultural diversity in marginalised communities and contexts. Finally, we will suggest ways to encourage the production of these materials, together with case studies. Teachers encounter many difficulties in producing materials: lack of time for production and trial; lack of teacher training in this area; limited institutional recognition of the process and lack of space to exhibit materials. This paper will look at the role of universities and other institutions in materials development; offer guidelines for the development and evaluation of these resources; and consider whether teacher-developed materials constitute an alternative or complement to textbooks.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
Creators: name: IARTEM E-Journal
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: Editorial...1-3 Production and adaptation of materials for teachers and students: understanding socio-cultural diversity in marginalised and disadvantaged contexts....100-125 Re-write or be written out: moving a textbook through changing paradigms...74-99 Books versus ‘The Book’: The 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy...52-73 Developing intercultural language learning textbooks: Methodological trends, engaging with the intercultural construct, and personal reflections on the process...20-51 The face of the factory girl: Educational rhetoric in the mediation of an historical place...1-19
Synthesis, crystal structures, antimicrobial activities, and DFT calculations of two new azido nickel(II) complexes
Creators: name: Shaabani, Behrouz
name: Khandar, Ali Akbar
name: Dusek, Michal
name: Pojarova, Michaela
name: Maestro, Miguel Anxo
name: Rabindranath Mukherjee
name: Mahmoudi, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Two new complexes, [Ni(HL1)(N3)(μ1,1N3)]2 (1) [HL1: NC5H4CH3C=NNH (C=O) NH2] and [Ni(L2)N3] (2) [HL2: NC5H4HC=N NH(C=S)NH2], have been synthesized by reaction of Ni(OAC)2·4H2O and sodium azide with HL1 and HL2 and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, and UV–vis spectral studies. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that 1 is dinuclear with nickel(II) in an octahedral environment of NNO donors of HL1, two nitrogens of azide bridges and one nitrogen of terminal azide; 2 is mononuclear containing nickel(II) in a distorted square-planar environment of NNS donors of HL2 and one terminal azide. The structures of 1 and 2 have been optimized by density functional theory. The results of antimicrobial activities of ligands, 1 and 2 demonstrated that HL2 and 2 have good antimicrobial activity in contrast with HL1 and 1, related to the presence of sulfur donor in HL2.
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Horsley, Mike
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2011

description: We are very pleased to present the latest issue (Volume 4, Number 1, July 2011) of the e-Journal of the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media. The next issue of the IARTEM e-Journal, Volume 4, Number 2, will be published in December, 2011.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)
Accretion Scenario of MAXI J1820+070 during 2018 Outbursts with Multi-mission Observations
Creators: name: Prabhakar, Geethu
name: Mandal, Samir
name: P, Athulya M.
name: Nandi, Anuj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive spectral and temporal study of the black hole X-ray transient MAXI J1820+070 during its outbursts in 2018 using Swift/XRT, NICER, NuSTAR and AstroSat observations. The Swift/XRT and NICER spectral study shows a plateau in the light curve with spectral softening (hardness changes from $\sim$ $2.5$ to $2$) followed by a gradual decline without spectral softening during the first outburst. Also, spectral modelling suggests that the first outburst is in the low/hard state throughout with a truncated disk whereas the thermal disk emission dominates during the second outburst. During the entire outburst, strong reflection signature (reflection fraction varies between $\sim$ $0.38 - 3.8$) is observed in the simultaneous wideband (NICER-NuSTAR, XRT-NuSTAR, AstroSat) data due to the presence of a dynamically evolving corona. The NICER timing analysis shows Quasi-periodic Oscillation (QPO) signatures and the characteristic frequency increases (decreases) in the plateau (decline) phase with time during the first outburst. We understand that the reduction of the electron cooling timescale in the corona due to spectral softening and the resonance oscillation with the local dynamical timescale may explain the above behavior of the source during the outburst. Also, we propose a possible scenario of outburst triggering and the associated accretion geometry of the source.
description: 19 pages,14 figures
title: The role of textbooks in lower secondary schools in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Sikorova, Zuzana
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: The paper presents research on textbook use conducted in lower secondary schools in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. The main research aim was to identify the role the textbooks play in teaching and learning in lower secondary schools. The factors influencing the role of textbooks were also examined. The concept of the role of the textbook is discussed from several perspectives in this paper. The role of textbooks was empirically investigated from four viewpoints: prevalence of textbook use, textbook-based activities, the role of textbooks in students? homework, and textbook control. The investigation was conducted in ten lower secondary schools. A total of 155 lessons across 20 classes were observed to elicit data on the prevalence of textbook use in various phases of the lessons, and the time and frequency of textbook-based activities. The observations were conducted during English, History, Mathematics and Civics lessons and supplemented with individual semi-structured interviews with teachers and pair interviews with students. The research findings confirmed that textbooks were used extensively, particularly in the presentation of new content. Textbooks were mainly used for activities based on text perception. Simple activities prevailed, such as reading the text aloud, or students following the text with the teacher?s explanation. As to the students? use of text materials, the research concluded that students largely ignored the textbooks for their homework; they did not “learn from textbooks”. The teachers used the textbooks for various purposes: primarily as a resource for content and for assigning tasks and exercises. The research suggests that textbooks impact greatly on lesson content and to a certain degree on the methodology of the lesson.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
title: Educational styles and contents of illustrations in Tunisian texts in geology: A critical textbook analysis from the didactic perspective
Creators: name: Boughanmi, Youssef
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: This paper presents a comparative analysis of two textbooks. The comparisons relate to three topics: earthquakes, biological crises and the formation of mountain ranges. This research falls within the theoretical framework of constructivist teaching and is based on the process of learning. The present approach is based on a methodology founded on indicators that help to identify the educational styles (informative, injunctive, persuasive and participative) of textbooks. Illustrations are also analysed, comparing the scientific message relating to geologic time. Our studies show that the informative style range, which promotes transmission of knowledge as cumulative results, could lead authors to dismiss the real objectives of scientific content. The absence of persuasive and injunctive styles limits scientific dogmatism and breaks with an authoritarian style education. The trend in the new geology curriculum towards using the participative pedagogies remains limited and may not help learners to develop their autonomy in constructing knowledge.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
title: Judging the quality of educational materials – a research project on student voice
Creators: name: Dargusch, Jo
name: Persaud, Nayadin
name: Horsley, Mike
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: This article reports a research project investigating student voice in the judging of published educational materials. Students‘ opinions of the quality of educational materials that are used for teaching and learning purposes in classrooms do not feature in the research into educational materials. Multiple data sources were accessed, both qualitative and quantitative, including: focus group data, interviews, group judging processes, students‘ score sheets, and judges‘ short-listed and winning titles. This article concludes that there is significant alignment between the views of students and publishers as to what constitutes quality teaching and learning materials, and that students interpret the quality of materials by aligning materials to their own prior knowledge. Further, students developed agency in the use of the metalanguage of evaluation in relation to educational materials.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
Canine hypothyroidism: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment strategies
Creators: name: Abdulkadir A. Makwana1, Rajkumar S. Delvadiya2, Raisudin M. Sherasiya3, Swati S. Patel1, Khevana A. Thakore1
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: Canine hypothyroidism is a common endocrine disorder characterized by deficient thyroid hormone production, primarily affecting middle-aged to older dogs. The condition arises from various etiologies, including autoimmune thyroiditis, congenital abnormalities, and iatrogenic causes. Clinical manifestations often manifest subtly and can vary widely, encompassing lethargy, weight gain, hair loss, skin abnormalities, and neuromuscular signs. Diagnosis involves a combination of clinical assessment and laboratory tests measuring serum thyroid hormone levels, with thyroid imaging serving as adjunctive diagnostic tools. Levothyroxine replacement therapy remains the cornerstone of management, aiming to restore euthyroidism and alleviate clinical signs. Proper dosing and regular monitoring are essential to ensure therapeutic efficacy and minimize potential adverse effects.
title: Textbook approval systems and the Program for International Assessment (PISA) results: A preliminary analysis
Creators: name: Wilkens, Hendrianne J.
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: This paper examines the textbook approval systems of various countries in relation to educational outcomes. This investigation is based on research in the Netherlands that aimed to gain an overview of textbook approval systems in use across the world. The study also looked at the Program for International Assessment PISA results, in order to determine which countries have high and low PISA results. The researchers also sought to determine whether there was a relationship between state influence, as reflected and formalised in textbook approval systems, and student achievement educational outcomes. It is hoped this investigation will be a starting point for ongoing discussion about the usefulness of comparing textbook approval systems, and the possible relationships between national approval systems and educational outcomes.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
Creators: name: IARTEM E-Journal
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: Editorial...1-2 Textbook approval systems and the Program for International Assessment (PISA) results: A preliminary analysis...63-74 Judging the quality of educational materials – a research project on student voice...45-62 Educational styles and contents of illustrations in Tunisian texts in geology: A critical textbook analysis from the didactic perspective...23-44 The role of textbooks in lower secondary schools in the Czech Republic...1-22
title: Editorial
Creators: name: Horsley, Mike
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: We are very pleased to present the latest issue (Volume 4, Number 2, December 2011) of the e-Journal of the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media. The next issue of the IARTEM e-Journal, Volume 5, Number 1, will be published in July, 2012.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2011)
Synthesis, crystal structures, antimicrobial activities and DFT calculations of two new azido nickel(II) complexes
Creators: name: Shaabani, Behrouz
name: Khandar, Ali Akbar
name: Dusek, Michal
name: Pojarova, Michaela
name: Maestro, Miguel Anxo
name: Rabindranath Mukherjee
name: Mahmoudi, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new complexes, [Ni(HL1)(N3)(μ1,1N3)]2 (1) [HL1: NC5H4CH3C=NNH (C=O) NH2] and [Ni(L2)N3] (2) [HL2: NC5H4HC=N NH(C=S)NH2], have been synthesized by reaction of Ni(OAC)2·4H2O and sodium azide with HL1 and HL2 and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR and UV–Vis spectral studies. Single crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that 1 is dinuclear with nickel(II) in an octahedral environment of NNO donors of HL1, two nitrogens of azide bridges and one nitrogen of terminal azide; 2 is mononuclear containing nickel(II) in a distorted square planar environment of NNS donors of HL2 and one terminal azide. The structures of 1 and 2 have been optimized by density functional theory. The results of antimicrobial activities of ligands, 1 and 2 demonstrated that HL2 and 2 have good antimicrobial activity in contrast with HL1 and 1, related to the presence of sulfur donor in HL2.
Information Inequalities via Submodularity and a Problem in Extremal Graph Theory
Creators: name: Sason, Igal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present paper offers, in its first part, a unified approach for the derivation of families of inequalities for set functions which satisfy sub/supermodularity properties. It applies this approach for the derivation of information inequalities with Shannon information measures. Connections of the considered approach to a generalized version of Shearer's lemma, and other related results in the literature are considered. Some of the derived information inequalities are new, and also known results (such as a generalized version of Han's inequality) are reproduced in a simple and unified way. In its second part, this paper applies the generalized Han's inequality to analyze a problem in extremal graph theory. This problem is motivated and analyzed from the perspective of information theory, and the analysis leads to generalized and refined bounds. The two parts of this paper are meant to be independently accessible to the reader.
description: The paper is published in the Entropy journal, MDPI (publication date: April 25, 2022). The published version is available at https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/597
Synthesis, crystal structures, antimicrobial activities, and DFT calculations of two new azido nickel(II) complexes
Creators: name: Shaabani, Behrouz
name: Khandar, Ali Akbar
name: Dusek, Michal
name: Pojarova, Michaela
name: Maestro, Miguel Anxo
name: Rabindranath Mukherjee
name: Mahmoudi, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: Uncategorised

description: Two new complexes, [Ni(HL1)(N3)(μ1,1N3)]2 (1) [HL1: NC5H4CH3C=NNH (C=O) NH2] and [Ni(L2)N3] (2) [HL2: NC5H4HC=N NH(C=S)NH2], have been synthesized by reaction of Ni(OAC)2·4H2O and sodium azide with HL1 and HL2 and characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, and UV–vis spectral studies. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction reveals that 1 is dinuclear with nickel(II) in an octahedral environment of NNO donors of HL1, two nitrogens of azide bridges and one nitrogen of terminal azide; 2 is mononuclear containing nickel(II) in a distorted square-planar environment of NNS donors of HL2 and one terminal azide. The structures of 1 and 2 have been optimized by density functional theory. The results of antimicrobial activities of ligands, 1 and 2 demonstrated that HL2 and 2 have good antimicrobial activity in contrast with HL1 and 1, related to the presence of sulfur donor in HL2.
Simplifying Multilingual News Clustering Through Projection From a Shared Space
Creators: name: Santos, João
name: Mendes, Afonso
name: Miranda, Sebastião
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The task of organizing and clustering multilingual news articles for media monitoring is essential to follow news stories in real time. Most approaches to this task focus on high-resource languages (mostly English), with low-resource languages being disregarded. With that in mind, we present a much simpler online system that is able to cluster an incoming stream of documents without depending on language-specific features. We empirically demonstrate that the use of multilingual contextual embeddings as the document representation significantly improves clustering quality. We challenge previous crosslingual approaches by removing the precondition of building monolingual clusters. We model the clustering process as a set of linear classifiers to aggregate similar documents, and correct closely-related multilingual clusters through merging in an online fashion. Our system achieves state-of-the-art results on a multilingual news stream clustering dataset, and we introduce a new evaluation for zero-shot news clustering in multiple languages. We make our code available as open-source.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
title: Views and voices: indigenous people in Australian teaching and learning materials 2000-2011
Creators: name: Knudsen, Suzanne V.
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: The article compares the telling of Indigenous Australians’ history as they are presented in teaching and learning materials for History education written and illustrated by Indigenous Australians and by White Australians. Three positions of ethno-race are presented: firstly the Indigenous people as a people of nature, secondly Indigenous people becoming European Australians and thirdly Indigenous people as nomadic. Inspired by the concept of intersectionality, the three positions are connected with the socio-cultural categories of gender, sexuality, nationality and class. Different views of history are shown in light of the questions ‘where’ and ‘who’ used by Indigenous Australians, whereas the questions of ‘why’ and ‘when’ are more used by White Australians. The storytelling in the materials written by Indigenous Australians is about the European invasion of their country and the nature of Indigenous people. White Australians present this history as an invasion but also as a period of European exploration and adventure.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012)
A new sesquiterpene from Ixeris chinensis
Creators: name: Qinghu Wang
name: Nayintai Dai
name: Narenchaoketu Han
name: Rongjun Wu
name: Jiesi Wu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: The petroleum ether (PE) extract from Ixeris chinensis was submitted to chromatographic separation. A new sesquiterpene, namely 14-noreudesma-3-hydroxy-3-en-2,9-dione, was isolated from the PE extract. The structures of the sesquiterpene was elucidated by using spectroscopic methods, including UV, IR, HR-ESI-MS and extensive 1D and 2D NMR techniques.
Relativistically calculated K-shell level widths and fluorescence yields for atoms with 20$\le$Z$\le$30
Creators: name: Kozioł, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $K$-shell level radiative, non-radiative, and total widths, $K$-shell fluorescence yields and $K$-shell hole state lifetimes for atoms with 20$\le$Z$\le$30 have been calculated in fully-relativistic way using the extensive multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock calculations with the inclusion of the Breit interaction and QED corrections and also using multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Slater calculations.
description: Published in Physical Review A
title: European traditional national minorities in Slovenian geography textbooks compared with textbooks from other European countries
Creators: name: Senegačnik, Jurij
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2012

description: Slovenia is a very small country with 2 million inhabitants, in a wider Europe. Accordingly, the Slovene school geography syllabus reflects a certain favorable disposition towards the treatment of European national minorities. This study, using the method of content analysis, compares the treatment of “traditional” or “old” minorities in selected Slovenian textbooks with content relating to the geography of Europe from 24 countries. There are considerable differences among the textbooks from the western and eastern parts of Europe. The latter give greater attention to traditional national minorities and use a different approach to content and instruction. The study shows that traditional national minorities are presented in more depth in Slovene textbooks than in textbooks from other European countries.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2012)
Observation Principles for an earth Observer
Creators: name: Beaudry, Gilbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Interstellar and Intergalactic Matter
Instrumentation, Techniques, and Astronomical Observations
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Stars, Variable Stars

description: Phenomenalism from the Greek phainomenon (appearance) philosophically means any system of thought that has to with appearances. If the descriptions and conclusions for an observation are altered in any way by conditions of perception due to phenomenalism, discombobulating science is created. One of the scientific goals of this paper is to develop and build a new branch of scientific methodology specifically called Astrophysics Phenomenalism. Astrophysics Phenomenalism can be overcome by developing observation principles for earth observers. This is done in this paper by providing examples of observations with measurements, which after the results and discussions section, I state in the conclusion section, the observation principles gained by analytical and comparative reasoning.
Correlation function and linear response function of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in the Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Takeshi
name: Otsuki, Michio
name: Ooshida, Takeshi
name: Goto, Susumu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the correlation function and mean linear response function of the velocity Fourier mode of statistically steady-state, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in the Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates through direct numerical simulation (DNS). As the Lagrangian velocity, we here adopt Kraichnan's Lagrangian history framework where Lagrangian particles are labelled with current positions and their velocity are measured at some time before. This Lagrangian velocity is numerically calculated with a method known as passive vector method. Our first goal is to study relation between the correlation function and the mean linear response function in the Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates. Such a relation is known to be important in analysing the closed set of equations for the two functions, which are obtained by direct-interaction-approximation type closures. We demonstrate numerically that the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (proportionality between the two functions) does not hold. The relation is further investigated with general analytical expressions of the mean linear response function under stochastic settings, which are known as the fluctuation-response relations in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Our second goal is to identify characteristic times associated with the two functions and to compare the times between the Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates. Our DNS result supports the common view that the Eulerian characteristic times have the sweeping-time scaling ($\propto k^{-1}$, where $k$ is the wavenumber) for both functions and the Lagrangian characteristic times in the inertial range have the Kolmogorov-time scaling ($\propto k^{-2/3}$) for both functions.
description: 47 pages, 14 figures, published version. One typo in Eq.(2.2) is corrected
Evaluation of Malaysian Retail Service Quality
Creators: name: Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor
name: Zalina Ibrahim
name: Dana, Linda
name: Mahdi, Ahmad Faisal
name: Zin, Mohamad Zaid Mohd
name: Mohd Anuar Ramli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics

description: In retailing different requirement of service quality in product or services environment required. Some of the
retail stores have lack on service quality whereas the salesperson is not well trained, unknowledgeable and rude.
This study aims to evaluate the retail service quality from a supermarket in Kuching, Malaysia and sets out to
determine what influence customers to shop. This research looks at the five dimensions of retail service quality:
the physical aspect, reliability, personal interaction, problem solving and policy. A survey of 200 respondents
was conducted and reliability test is measured to represent the dimensions whereas regression test and Pearson
correlation is used to answer the research questions and testing the hypotheses. The overall finding confirms the
importance of quality service, the need to upgrade services to remain competitive, and consideration by
government on modernization of retail outlets using the credit card will bring burden to the consumers as against
the benefits. In addition, implications of this study as well as directions for future research are discussed.
Bibliographic Analysis of the Capacity and Applicability of Li-Fi Networks
Creators: name: Seibt, Kelvin I.
name: Kich, Victor A.
name: Heisler, Gabriel V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article aims to bring a metric of capacities and applicability of Light Fidelity (Li-Fi) as a communication system through a direct comparison to subareas of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication, which is the main wireless communication system. The actual vision of Li-fi in a global scenario was discussed based on the use cases of this technology and your relation to 5th Generation (5G) technology. Finally, the difficulties and new paths that this system must still take were presented.
Analysing the cadastral template using a grounded theory approach
Creators: name: Hull, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: Survey Results

description: The Cadastral Template contains a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data gathered from 47 nations over the past decade, but there has been little analysis of the qualitative data component to date. What has been done focuses on the Oceania region and groups countries according to their level of development. Also there have been several additions and updates to the data since the last published analysis in 2010. A more thorough qualitative analysis needs to be undertaken, and for this a grounded theory approach is advocated. The analysis to date focuses on the purpose of cadastral systems, with the aim of extending this analysis to include the state of development of cadastral systems around the world, including the challenges faced and how these challenges are being addressed. The results of this analysis should assist policy-makers and land administrators in developing the cadastre in Africa. This is a work in progress and initial results only are reported here.
Practical Analysis of Permeable Concrete Properties with Polypropylene Fiber Addition
Creators: name: Kich, Rebeca de M.
name: Kich, Victor A.
name: Seibt, Kelvin I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the recent approaches used to minimize the impacts of the growth of impermeable areas in urban centers is permeable flooring. Permeable floors can be made of concrete and are called permeable concrete. This research aims to analyze the use of polypropylene fibers in the mixture of permeable concrete to assess whether the fibers significantly alter the properties of this type of concrete, such as compression resistance and flexure tensile strength. For the tests, three concrete mixes of permeable concrete were first used to determine the reference of the composition of concrete: 1:3, without the use of sand and with water-to-cement ratio (w/c) equal to 0.32; 1:4, with the use of 10\% of coarse sand and w/c of 0.35; and finally 1:5, with the use of 10\% of coarse sand and w/c of 0.35; and finally 1:5, using 10\% of coarse sand and w/c of 0.35. In these concrete mixes, tests were performed to determine their mechanical properties being them: permeability, compression resistance, and flexure tensile strength. After the reference concrete mix was determined, three more concrete mixes were made using polypropylene fibers, at levels of 0.6 kg/m$^3$, 1.8 kg/m$^3$, and 3.0 kg/m$^3$. The same initial tests were then carried out for concrete with the addition of fibers. The analysis of the results showed that the concrete mix that achieved the best result for the flexure tensile strength test, which was the main focus of the research, was the 1:4 trait with the addition of 1.8 kg/m$^3$.
Method of Polycaprolactone impregnation with fibers
Creators: name: Kitchen, Kris
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Design
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 91308 Solid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Biological Techniques
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: Structural Biology
subject: Molecular Biology

description: Method of Polycaprolactone impregnation with fibers Polycaprolactone and combining it with Fibers Fibers as defined: a thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed. When combined with fibers the tensile strength increases and allows a low working temperature for rapid use anywhere. I.e graphene fibers this can be use in nearly any situation, globally and universally.
I.e
graphene fibers this can be use in nearly any situation, globally and univerally.
A Spiral into the Mind: Gaze Spiral Visualization for Mobile Eye Tracking
Creators: name: Koch, Maurice
name: Weiskopf, Daniel
name: Kurzhals, Kuno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Comparing mobile eye tracking data from multiple participants without information about areas of interest (AOIs) is challenging because of individual timing and coordinate systems. We present a technique, the gaze spiral, that visualizes individual recordings based on image content of the stimulus. The spiral layout of the slitscan visualization is used to create a compact representation of scanpaths. The visualization provides an overview of multiple recordings even for long time spans and helps identify and annotate recurring patterns within recordings. The gaze spirals can also serve as glyphs that can be projected to 2D space based on established scanpath metrics in order to interpret the metrics and identify groups of similar viewing behavior. We present examples based on two egocentric datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for annotation and comparison tasks. Our examples show that the technique has the potential to let users compare even long-term recordings of pervasive scenarios without manual annotation.
description: To be published in ACM Symposium of Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), 2022
RobBERTje: a Distilled Dutch BERT Model
Creators: name: Delobelle, Pieter
name: Winters, Thomas
name: Berendt, Bettina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pre-trained large-scale language models such as BERT have gained a lot of attention thanks to their outstanding performance on a wide range of natural language tasks. However, due to their large number of parameters, they are resource-intensive both to deploy and to fine-tune. Researchers have created several methods for distilling language models into smaller ones to increase efficiency, with a small performance trade-off. In this paper, we create several different distilled versions of the state-of-the-art Dutch RobBERT model and call them RobBERTje. The distillations differ in their distillation corpus, namely whether or not they are shuffled and whether they are merged with subsequent sentences. We found that the performance of the models using the shuffled versus non-shuffled datasets is similar for most tasks and that randomly merging subsequent sentences in a corpus creates models that train faster and perform better on tasks with long sequences. Upon comparing distillation architectures, we found that the larger DistilBERT architecture worked significantly better than the Bort hyperparametrization. Interestingly, we also found that the distilled models exhibit less gender-stereotypical bias than its teacher model. Since smaller architectures decrease the time to fine-tune, these models allow for more efficient training and more lightweight deployment of many Dutch downstream language tasks.
description: Published in CLIN journal