cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Chronic Kidney Disease among Diabetic Patients that attend Public Hospitals of Addis Ababa
Creators: name: Moges, Meron
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Background: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a global public health problem with high mortality and morbidity. It is becoming more prevalent in Ethiopia, but there are very limited researches regarding the prevalence and associated factors of the disease in general and particularly among diabetic patients. Understanding the situation in Addis Ababa would help to excel the effort on the prevention of further expansion of the disease in the city and will be used as an input for the country level efforts. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of CKD among diabetic patients that attend the public hospitals of Addis Ababa. Methods and Materials: A hospital based quantitative cross sectional study was conducted in 3 public hospitals; the hospitals were Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Zewditu Memorial Hospital and St. Paul Hospital. Among 355 systematically selected diabetic patients. Proportion to population size was applied to determine the proportion of participants from the study areas based on the number of diabetic patients that attended the hospitals in the first quarter of 2008 Ethiopian fiscal year. Accordingly, 51 % of participants were from Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital while 31 % were from St Paul Hospital and 18 % were from Zewditu Memorial Hospital. The research is conducted from September 2015 to May 2016. Relevant demographic and clinical data was collected using Semi-structured questionnaire, interview and document analysis from April 20 – May 12/2016. As the aim of the research was to find the period prevalence of CKD, five years data from April 2011 to April 2016 was used. Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) of participants was calculated using Cockcroft Gault and MDRD (Modification of Diet in Renal Disease) equation.The collected data was analyzed using SPSS software: version 20. For the purpose of this study, CKD is defined as K/DOQI CKD stages 3–5 (eGFR< 60 ml/min/1.73 m2): with eGFR 30–59, 15–29 and < 15 ml/min/1.73 m2, respectively. Result: The overall prevalence of CKD among the diabetic patients was 68 (19.1 %)) and 37 (10.4 %) by Cockcroft Gault and MDRD equations respectively. Stage (3-5) prevalence of CKD was 79.4 %, 16.2 % and 4.4 % by Cockcroft Gault equation while it is 73%, 21.6 % and 5.4 % by MDRD equation respectively. No association was found between the analyzed factors. Conclusion: The prevalence of CKD in the study population was 19.1 % by Cockcroft Gault and10.4 % by MDRD equations.
"Verstehenselemente" im Mathematikunterricht
Creators: name: Drollinger-Vetter, Barbara
Publisher: name: Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Ausgehend von kognitionspsychologischen und fachdidaktischen Vorstellungen von Verstehensprozessen lassen sich Merkmale jener Phasen im Mathematikunterricht bestimmen, in denen es darum geht, ein neues Konzept klar und verständlich einzuführen. Diese Merkmale lassen sich konzeptspezifisch, aber gleichzeitig unabhängig von den im Unterricht verwendeten Methoden und Handlungsformen formulieren. Grundlage dazu ist der Begriff des "Verstehenselements".
Tridimensional to bidimensional transition in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with a guide field and kinetic helicity injection
Creators: name: Sujovolsky, N. E.
name: Mininni, P. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transition in dimensionality of a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flow forced only mechanically, when the strength of a magnetic guiding field is gradually increased. We use numerical simulations to consider cases in which the mechanical forcing injects (or not) helicity in the flow. As the guiding field is increased, the strength of the magnetic field fluctuations decrease as a power law of the guiding field intensity. We show that for strong enough guiding fields, the helical magnetohydrodynamic flow can become almost two-dimensional. In this case, the mechanical energy can undergo a process compatible with an inverse cascade, being transferred preferentially towards scales larger than the forcing scale. The presence of helicity changes the spectral scaling of the small magnetic field fluctuations, and affects the statistics of the velocity field and of the velocity gradients. Moreover, at small scales the dynamics of the flow becomes dominated by a direct cascade of helicity, which can be used to derive scaling laws for the velocity field.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
The Completeness of out Patient Indivdual folder Medical Recording in Gedo Hospital, West Shoa, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Detti, Kassaye
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: BACKGROND: the completeness of outpatient individual folder medical/health documentation are used to document patient's medical history, illness and treatment procedures. Properly documented medical records are important in patient care. This study is designed to improve the completeness of outpatient medical /health documentation at Gedo hospital. METHODS (project design): , 50 individual patient folder medical recording were randomly selected on pre-intervention and 62 post-intervention after training was provided on medical records. The completeness of each medical records was checked against a EHRIG standard. The pre –intervention was conducted on September, 2011 and post- intervention on March, 2012 RESULTS: The outpatient individual folder medical records completeness was found 34.81% in the pre and has improved later in post intervention to 82.3. It is found statistically significant at (P-value <0.001) CONCLUSION: Capstone project on the completeness of out patient individual folder medical documentation in Gedo hospital was improved after intervention from 34.81% out of 50 medical documentation which were completed in pre- intervention to 82.3% medical documentation completeness level with overall statistically significant result of (P-value <0.001). There were positive relationships also between each of the intervention elements & an increase in improving medical documentation in Gedo hospital.
title: Scaling relationships of global river deltas
Creators: name: Prasojo, Octria Adi
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: River deltas are home for ~300 million people worldwide and are hotspots for biodiversity. In recent decades, river deltas have been facing growing stressors due to dams and reservoirs, sand mining and sea-level rise, putting the human and natural systems that rely on river deltas at considerable risk to land subsidence, inland and coastal flooding, and other socially impactful geomorphological changes. The geomorphic response of river deltas to these growing stressors depends on the geomorphic controls on delta morphology and their scaling relationships. However, our current understanding of delta’s geomorphic response to these forcing is limited to local cases, fragmented physical and numerical delta experiments, and simplified global models. In this thesis, I explore the possibility of adopting scaling relationships originally developed for quantitative watershed analysis of fluvial systems to river delta systems to understand deltas’ morphodynamic response towards these stressors. Chapter 1 introduces the challenges faced by modern and ancient river deltas along with the scaling relationship theory. Chapter 2 details the methods used in this thesis, including modern delta observation, numerical modelling and characterisation of ancient delta deposits. Chapter 3 introduces a novel globally consistent scaling from 114 modern river deltas using satellite imageries observation, solving previously debated avulsion scaling. I found that slope break and avulsion location scale consistently, opens potential insights into how delta naturally respond to the growing stressors and how the avulsion mobility is closely tied with slope break, that are imperative for understanding delta flood risk. Chapter 4 investigates the role of the novel scaling found in Chapter 3 in controlling avulsion-bifurcation timescale and interaction in river deltas using numerical model. Avulsion is primarily controlled by delta topset slope, in which it occurs simultaneously with bifurcation process. In Chapter 5, novel palaeodischarge estimation models are proposed by correlating water discharge with delta channel widths and catchment areas from modern global deltas by adopting hydraulic geometry concept. These simple and rock-record focused correlations produce palaeodischarge estimates within the same order of magnitude as the palaeodischarge derived from existing, more complex approaches. In Chapter 6, I reclassified palaeodischarge models built in Chapter 5 based on the marine influence that affects the hydraulic geometry assumption used in earlier models. By establishing more detailed scaling relationships, I found that estimating discharge using hydraulic geometry concept is only applicable for river- and wave-dominated deltas, but not for tide-dominated deltas. Finally, Chapter 7 synthesises the previous chapters and proposes further works.
Planning aspects of a total energy, low waste city - water resources
Creators: name: Grynberg, H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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(Re)Defining communication roles of extension workers in a Philippine state university: A phenomenological study
Creators: name: Pascual, Claudine Kristia B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: research-extension linkage; RDE system; BIDANI program; extension skills; communication in extension

description: The communication roles and the challenges faced by university extension workers were explored based on their lived experiences. Underpinned by the theory of phenomenology, I gathered narratives from 10 purposively selected participants from August 2020 to February 2021 and analyzed their answers using Saldaña’s open, axial, and thematic codings. The communication roles of extension workers have extended: 1) from project proponent and leader to being a product developer; 2) from being a subject matter expert to being a researcher and researcher-extensionist; and 3) from being a multimedia communicator to being a market manager. They maintain communication roles as facilitator and coordinator; monitoring agent; community builder; and, administrative support. In these roles, they need communication skills; innovation and resourcefulness; and, mediation skills. The challenges they face include implementation problems; gaps between research and extension system and between extension system and farmers; the need for professional leadership and management; and overloaded extension staff. To address these challenges, they suggest harmonization; innovation; professionalization; and, cultural immersion. Suggestions are given to enhance the communication roles and skills of university extension workers.
description: Master's Thesis
My Religious Identity: An Unfinished Project
Creators: name: FRIDLUND, Patrik
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Missiology
Year: 2023

description: The matter of identity is ever present in academic, and non-academic, discourses on religion and interreligious relations: identity as a category of something that can be nailed down, established and maintained with the help of definitions and logic; identity as a matter of something stable and even rigid. This is significant in deliberations regarding syncretism. In this paper, references are made to a previous study in which it is argued that a ‘religious approach’ to syncretism is wiser in several respects than what may be labelled a ‘logical approach’. The opposition should by no means be pushed too far, and there are of course many interesting in-between positions. Nonetheless, fundamentally one could have one approach rather than another and this indeed forms a watershed: the one and not the other as the point of departure. This paper starts in the question of ‘identity’. The aim is to bring light to a different approach altogether, an approach that is made possible through a reading of Emmanuel Levinas. Although interreligious relations and syncretism are not thematised in the texts read, it is suggested that reading them is fruitful. Giving space to the unexpected, the unforeseeable, the impossible, means also giving space to ‘human’ and to God. Here is a watershed, which has little to do with ‘religion’, ‘religious belief and practice’, religious belonging and adherence; what is at stake is whether there is a strong value in the unknown, the unknowable and the impossible, or not. The argument here is that this is crucial when issues of religious identity are tabled.
description: Norwegian Journal of Missiology, Vol 77 Nr. 1 (2023): Norsk Tidsskrift for Misjonsvitenskap
Heavy-Quark QCD Exotica
Creators: name: Lebed, Richard F.
name: Mitchell, Ryan E.
name: Swanson, Eric S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review presents an overview of the remarkable progress in the field of heavy-quark exotic hadrons over the past 15 years. It seeks to be pedagogical rather than exhaustive, summarizing both the progress and specific results of experimental discoveries, and the variety of theoretical approaches designed to explain these new states.
description: 59 pages, 17 pdf figures (reproduced with permissions). References added. Version accepted to appear in "Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics"
ADHS – erst im Erwachsenenalter entdeckt ein qualitatives Forschungsprojekt mit drei Einzelfallstudien
Creators: name: Fischer, Elisabeth
name: Huonder, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: In dieser Arbeit wird der Fokus auf Erwachsene gerichtet, deren ADHS erst nach dem 20. Altersjahr diagnostiziert wurde, mit dem Ziel hinzuschauen, was geschieht, wenn die Beeinträchtigung im Kindesalter nicht entdeckt oder ignoriert wird. Beim adulten ADHS steckt die Forschung noch in den Anfängen. Bei Behandlungsbedarf wenden in der klinischen Praxis tätige Fachpersonen eine multimodale Behandlungsstrategie an. In dieser Arbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern die Komponenten dieser Behandlung von Betroffenen in der deutschen Schweiz umgesetzt werden. Mit einer qualitativen Untersuchung wird die Perspektive von Betroffenen erforscht. Mittels eines Leitfadeninterviews wurden drei Betroffene im Alter zwischen 30 und 60 Jahren befragt. Es zeigt sich: mit viel Eigeninitiative ist alles möglich.
Schwammstadt im Strassenraum : Herausforderungen und Lösungen für blau-grüne Massnahmen
Creators: name: Burkhardt, Michael
name: Kulli, Beatrice
name: Saluz, Andrea Gion
Publisher: name: Schweizerischer Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches
Year: 2022
Subjects: 363: Umwelt- und Sicherheitsprobleme

description: Im Strassenraum sind nicht nur die Anforderungen an eine standortgerechte Begrünung und an den Rückhalt von Wasser für die Pflanzen hoch, auch soll das Strassenabwasser möglichst schnell abgeführt und gereinigt werden. Im Rahmen einer umfassenden Recherche wurden der Wissensstand und die offenen Herausforderungen zusammengetragen, verbunden mit konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen für die Planungspraxis
Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness among Rural Women of Reproductive Age in Abeshige Woreda, Guraghe Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zepre, Kebebush
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Background: Every pregnant woman is at risk of pregnancy complications which are unpredictable and can lead to maternal and neonatal morbidity or mortality. Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) is a tool that promotes utilization of maternal health services there by improving maternal and neonatal survival. Objective: To assess the current level of practice regarding BPCR and associated factor among rural women of reproductive age at community level in Abeshige woreda guraghe zone SNNPR Ethiopia. Method: Community-based cross-sectional study supplemented by qualitative design was conducted from February to march 2015. A total of 454 women from 8 kebeles were selected after proportionally allocated to population size and interviewed using structured and semi-structured, pre-tested questionnaires. Qualitative data also collected from purposely selected members of the community by using open ended questionnaires .Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS and associations were determined using regression analysis. Qualitative data on the other hand were analyzed in line of study objective manually. Results: In This study about 37.2% of the respondents were prepared for birth and its complications. BPCR was lower among mothers who were farmer (AOR= 0.50, 95% CI:0.28, 0.91).However, BPCR was higher among Women who live with in one hour walk from health center (AOR =3.51, 95% CI:1.78,36.79),Women who had awareness on danger signs of pregnancy (AOR=1.72, 95% CI=1.78, 2.94) and on danger signs of postpartum (AOR=2.32, 95% CI: 1.32, 4.21).Source of information about BPCR from health extension worker and mother's one to five network (AOR=2.81, 95% CI:1.34, 6.21) and (AOR=2.52, 95% CI=1.17, 5.54) respectively also had significant association with BPCR. Conclusion: This study revealed practice of BPCR was low (37.2%) due to; access to health facility, awareness on danger signs of obstetric complication, and health information related factors. Based on this finding; enhancing women awareness about obstetric danger signs through repeated sensitization, strengthening BPCR information netwok at grass root level and better acces to health facility help to improve practice of BPCR.
title: Automatic architecture selection for hierarchical mixture of experts models
Creators: name: Voroneckaja, Ivona
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Hierarchical mixture of experts (HME) is a powerful tree-structured modeling technique based on the divide and conquer principle. HME model trees consist of two types of nodes - gate nodes, which are responsible for splitting a large complex problem into several smaller subproblems, and expert nodes, which perform the corresponding subproblemsolving. Selecting the number of such nodes as well as the order in which they are arranged is, however, a non-trivial task. A commonly used approach involves fitting several architectures and using methods such as cross-validation to pick the best one. As well as being computationally intensive, this method first requires one to pick the set of architectures to consider. For complex models with a large number of architectural elements, this leads to an unmanageable number of potential options. Pre-setting model architecture also requires choosing initial parameter values, which becomes progressively more challenging as parameter dimensionality increases. The latter challenges could be addressed by growing trees during the model fitting process instead of selecting the architecture in advance. It is thus evident that HME models suffer from a lack of a flexible and adaptive way of performing automatic architecture selection. The work presented in this thesis proposes automatic architecture selection methods for HME models, which allow for adding and removing tree nodes as well as adjusting the order in which they are arranged. As part of the development, three Bayesian parameter sampling strategies are proposed and systematically evaluated resulting in a recommended strategy. An adaptation of the Reversible Jump (RJ) algorithm is then used to grow and prune HME model trees. The main downfall of the RJ, which lies in low acceptance rates, is addressed by the addition of a novel reversible jump proposal algorithm. A new Gate Swaps (GS) algorithm is then proposed to tackle the problem of changing the order in which the existing tree nodes are arranged. Both algorithms are evaluated on two real-life problems with a particular focus on the Glasgow rental property prices data. It is shown that HME models fitted using the proposed RJ GS MCMC yield accurate predictions as well as provide an exceptionally high level of model interpretability, which is unusual amongst other machine learning methods.
Time-dependent correlations in quantum magnets at finite temperature
Creators: name: Fauseweh, B.
name: Groitl, F.
name: Keller, T.
name: Rolfs, K.
name: Tennant, D. A.
name: Habicht, K.
name: Uhrig, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we investigate the time dependence of the gap mode of copper nitrate at various temperatures. We combine state-of-the-art theoretical calculations with high precision neutron resonance spin-echo measurements to understand the anomalous decoherence effects found previously in this material. It is shown that the time domain offers a complementary view on this phenomenon, which allows us to directly compare experimental data and theoretical predictions without the need of further intensive data analysis, such as (de)convolution.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Vertex-centred Method to Detect Communities in Evolving Networks
Creators: name: Canu, Maël
name: Lesot, Marie-Jeanne
name: d'Allonnes, Adrien Revault
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding communities in evolving networks is a difficult task and raises issues different from the classic static detection case. We introduce an approach based on the recent vertex-centred paradigm. The proposed algorithm, named DynLOCNeSs, detects communities by scanning and evaluating each vertex neighbourhood, which can be done independently in a parallel way. It is done by means of a preference measure, using these preferences to handle community changes. We also introduce a new vertex neighbourhood preference measure, CWCN, more efficient than current existing ones in the considered context. Experimental results show the relevance of this measure and the ability of the proposed approach to detect classical community evolution patterns such as grow-shrink and merge-split.
Dynamic Elastic Moduli in Magnetic Gels: Normal Modes and Linear Response
Creators: name: Pessot, Giorgio
name: Löwen, Hartmut
name: Menzel, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the perspective of developing smart hybrid materials with customized features, ferrogels and magnetorheological elastomers allow a synergy of elasticity and magnetism. The interplay between elastic and magnetic properties gives rise to a unique reversible control of the material behavior by applying an external magnetic field. Albeit few works have been performed on the time-dependent properties so far, understanding the dynamic behavior is the key to model many practical situations, e.g. applications as vibration absorbers. Here we present a way to calculate the frequency-dependent elastic moduli based on the decomposition of the linear response to an external stress in normal modes. We use a minimal three-dimensional dipole-spring model to theoretically describe the magnetic and elastic interactions on the mesoscopic level. Specifically, the magnetic particles carry permanent magnetic dipole moments and are spatially arranged in a prescribed way, before they are linked by elastic springs. An external magnetic field aligns the magnetic moments. On the one hand, we study regular lattice-like particle arrangements to compare with previous results in the literature. On the other hand, we calculate the dynamic elastic moduli for irregular, more realistic particle distributions. Our approach measures the tunability of the linear dynamic response as a function of the particle arrangement, the system orientation with respect to the external magnetic field, as well as the magnitude of the magnetic interaction between the particles. The strength of the present approach is that it explicitly connects the relaxational modes of the system with the rheological properties as well as with the internal rearrangement of the particles in the sample, providing new insight into the dynamics of these remarkable materials.
description: 24 pages, 20 figures
Dispersive treatment of $K_S\toγγ$ and $K_S\toγ\ell^+\ell^-$
Creators: name: Colangelo, Gilberto
name: Stucki, Ramon
name: Tunstall, Lewis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the rare kaon decays $K_S \to γγ$ and $K_S \to γ\ell^+\ell^-$ $(\ell = e \mbox{ or } μ)$ in a dispersive framework in which the weak Hamiltonian carries momentum. Our analysis extends predictions from lowest order $SU(3)_L\times SU(3)_R$ chiral perturbation theory ($χ$PT$_3$) to fully account for effects from final-state interactions, and is free from ambiguities associated with extrapolating the kaon off-shell. Given input from $K_S \to ππ$ and $γγ^{(*)}\toππ$, we solve the once-subtracted dispersion relations numerically to predict the rates for $K_S \to γγ$ and $K_S \to γ\ell^+\ell^-$. In the leptonic modes, we find sizeable corrections to the $χ$PT$_3$ predictions for the integrated rates.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures. v2: Improved assessment of systematic uncertainties, some typos corrected, matches published version
Recommendation to User For Stress
Creators: name: Mrudula Saravane, Bhagyashri Dhakne, Aditya Sutar, Samiulla Shaikh, Prajwal Narke, Pooja More
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mental health issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression are growing concerns in today’s fast-pacedworld. Many individuals face challenges in accessing professional mental health support due to stigma, cost, orlimited availability of services. To address this gap,Dr.Mine is developed as a comprehensive mental health webapp with a personalized recommendation system.The app offers a holistic approach to emotional well-being, combining features such as mood-basedrecommendations, secure journaling, guided meditations. These features provide users with immediate emotional support and tools for long-term self-reflection. The recommendation engine curates personalized content, including music, books, and movies, to enhance users’ emotional states.
Ich weiss, was ich brauche! die Bedeutung der Schülerperspektive in der Förderplanung von Jugendlichen mit einer Verhaltensstörung
Creators: name: Fehlmann, Simon
name: Keller, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Diese qualitative Untersuchung geht davon aus, dass Jugendliche mit einer Verhaltensstörung über ihr Verhalten reflektieren können. Die Einbindung dieser Fähigkeiten in den Förderprozess, so die These, ist eine wichtige Gelingensbedingung für eine Verhaltensänderung. Anhand von Leitfadeninterviews und Dokumentenanalysen werden zwei Jugendliche mit einer externalisierenden Verhaltensstörung bezüglich ihren Erfahrungen mit Schulischen Standortgesprächen befragt und bestehende Gesprächsprotokolle analysiert. Die aus der Inhaltsanalyse gewonnenen Daten werden miteinander und mit der Literatur verglichen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zeigen exemplarisch auf, dass die Jugendlichen über die Ressource der Selbstreflexion verfügen. Sie zeigen aber auch auf, dass die Jugendlichen beim Bestreben, ihr Verhalten zu verändern, Hilfe und Unterstützung von Seiten der Pädagogen benötigen.
Compositional asymmetry of disordered structure: Role of spatial constraint
Creators: name: Yuge, Koretaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When spatial constraint for the constituents (e.g., atom or particle) of system is once given, disordered structure for non-interacting system in equilibrium states is symmetric with respect to equiatomic composition. Meanwhile, when the interaction between constituents is introduced, this symmetry is typically broken, naturally appearing compositional asymmetry. Although this asymmetry, depending on temperature, comes from multibody interactions in the system, we here clarify that the asymmetry near equiatomic composition can be universally well-characterized by two specially selected microscopic structure, which can be known a priori without any information about interactions or temperature: The key role is the class of spatial constraint. Based on the facts, we provide analytical expression of temperature dependence of disordered structure, and demonstrate its validity and applicability by predicting short-range order parameters of practical alloys compared with full thermodynamic simulation.
description: 3pages, 2figures
Prevalence of Caesarean section and the Associated Factors in Private Hospitals in Addis Ababa - a Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Olanipekun, Ayodeji
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Caesarean delivery has been increasing at an alarming rate globally. This increase has become a major challenge across health institutions in both developed and developing countries. Caesarean delivery rate has been shown to be more common in the private fee–for– service hospitals than public hospitals. The Ethiopia Demographic and health survey reported an increase in the caesarean delivery rate between 2005 and 2011 from 16% to 21.8% and even a higher rate among women who delivered in private health institutions (41.7%) which was twice higher than their counterparts who delivered in public institutions (20.6%) signifying the possibility of over-utilization of the service in the private hospital. Objective: To determine the prevalence of Caesarean delivery and the associated factors in private hospital in Addis Ababa. Method: This study was a facility based cross-sectional survey carried out in private hospitals in Addis Ababa during the months of April to May 2017. Study participants were selected using multi-stage random sampling technique. Four hundred and eleven consecutive delivered mothers who consented from the selected private hospitals providing basic and comprehensive obstetrics services participated in study. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from the respondents. Data was entered in Epi Info version 7 and exported to STATA version 12 for analysis. Multivariable analysis was carried out. Strength of associations and significance level was examined using odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals respectively. Result: The prevalence of Caesarean delivery in private hospitals in Addis Ababa was 63.7% [CI (59.1%, 68.3%)]. Being primiparous [AOR=2.89, 95% CI (1.19, 6.98)], multiparous [AOR=10.2, 95% CI (4.13, 25.4)], previous Caesarean delivery [AOR=12.48, 95% CI (6.01, 25.95)] and having health insurance coverage were found to be positive and statistically significantly associated with having Caesarean delivery. Conclusion: Limiting primary Caesarean delivery to the barest minimum by only performing such for only absolute indications, allowing vaginal birth after Caesarean section (VBAC) through close monitoring during labour, counselling of parturient at the antenatal clinics on possibility of VBAC and the risks associated with unnecessary request for Caesarean section would be important to decrease the high prevalence of CS.
Trajectories in Early Career Research: Data Repository
Creators: name: Litson, Kaylee
name: Feldon, David
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: graduate education
subject: secondary data analysis
subject: intensive longitudinal data
subject: open source data
subject: longitudinal data
subject: longitudinal
subject: longitudinal dataset
subject: interview data
subject: education
subject: longitudinal quantitative data
subject: longitudinal mixed methods data
subject: mixed methods
subject: longitudinal qualitative data
subject: multimethod

description: Data were gathered under NSF grants 1760894 & 1431234. Participants included 336 bioscience Ph.D. students from 53 research universities across the United States. Data include include yearly surveys and biweekly assessments sent to all participants who opted to participate and met criteria for remaining in the study each year, yearly scores on a sole-author submitted research paper writing sample graded by 2 trained experts and averaged across expert ratings, and yearly interviews conducted with a subset of participants. Retention and missing data handling are outlined in the documents below. Further information about methods regarding instrumentation, interview protocols, participation, and assessment of writing samples can be found in these materials. If there are pieces of these materials that need further clarification or detail, please let us know. When using this data in any publication or other form of public communication, please cite this repository as specified in the Open Data Commons Attribution License, Sections 4.2.b and 4.2.c.
Marine reserves for Victoria - social aspects
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Paul Anthony.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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String Theory in Polar Coordinates and the Vanishing of the One-Loop Rindler Entropy
Creators: name: Mertens, Thomas G.
name: Verschelde, Henri
name: Zakharov, Valentin I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the string spectrum of flat space in polar coordinates, following the small curvature limit of the $SL(2,\mathbb{R})/U(1)$ cigar CFT. We first analyze the partition function of the cigar itself, making some clarifications of the structure of the spectrum that have escaped attention up to this point. The superstring spectrum (type 0 and type II) is shown to exhibit an involution symmetry, that survives the small curvature limit. We classify all marginal states in polar coordinates for type II superstrings, with emphasis on their links and their superconformal structure. This classification is confirmed by an explicit large $τ_2$ analysis of the partition function. Next we compare three approaches towards the type II genus one entropy in Rindler space: using a sum-over-fields strategy, using a Melvin model approach and finally using a saddle point method on the cigar partition function. In each case we highlight possible obstructions and motivate that the correct procedures yield a vanishing result: $S=0$. We finally discuss how the QFT UV divergences of the fields in the spectrum disappear when computing the free energy and entropy using Euclidean techniques.
description: 58 pages + appendices, v2: typos corrected, matches published version
On the Accuracy of Fixed Sampled and Fixed Width Confidence Intervals Based on the Vertically Weighted Averages
Creators: name: Steland, Ansgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62L10, 62G09, 62G15

description: Vertically weighted averages perform a bilateral filtering of data, in order to preserve fine details of the underlying signal, especially discontinuities such as jumps (in dimension one) or edges (in dimension two). In homogeneous regions of the domain the procedure smoothes the data by averaging nearby data points to reduce the noise, whereas in inhomogenous regions the neighboring points are only taken into account when their value is close to the current one. This results in a denoised reconstruction or estimate of the true signal without blurring finer details. This paper addresses the lack of results about the construction and evaluation of confidence intervals based on the vertically weighted average, which is required for a proper statistical evaluation of its estimation accuracy. Based on recent results we discuss and investigate in greater detail fixed sample as well as fixed width (conditional) confidence intervals constructed from this estimator. The fixed width approach allows to specify explicitly the estimator's accuracy and determines a random sample size to ensure the required coverage probability. This also fixes to some extent the inherent property of the vertically weighted average that its variability is higher in low-density regions than in high-density regions. To estimate the variances required to construct the procedures, we rely on resampling techniques, especially the bootstrap and the jackknife. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed confidence intervals are reliable in terms of their coverage probabilities for a wide range of parameter settings.
Positive Einstellung von Klassenlehrpersonen in Bezug auf die integrative Förderpraxis an der Primarschule
Creators: name: Falk, Karoline
name: Latzer-Mühlbauer, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Eine positive Einstellung zur integrativen Förderpraxis wird in der Fachliteratur oftmals als Gelingensbedingung für deren Realisierung genannt. Jedoch werden von Lehrpersonen heterogene Klassen vielfach als belastend wahrgenommen. Die vorliegende qualitative Studie geht der Fragestellung nach, welche Erfahrungswerte und Faktoren mit einer positiven Einstellung bei Klassenlehrpersonen in Bezug auf die integrative Förderpraxis an der Primarschule zusammenhängen. Das explorative Forschungsvorhaben wird anhand von vier Leitfadeninterviews realisiert, welche in Anlehnung an die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet und interpretiert werden. Aufgrund der Ergebnisse kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass innerhalb der Kernbereiche Sozialisation und Biografie, eigene Lernerfahrungen und Heterogenität Erfahrungswerte liegen, welche die Einstellung bedeutsam prägen. Weiter kann festgestellt werden, dass ein starkes Kohärenzgefühl einer Klassenlehrperson für das Gelingen der integrativen Förderpraxis zentral ist.
Indoor Air Bacterial Load and Contributing Factors in Government and Private Hospitals in Harar, Harar Town, Eastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Abebe, Hiwot
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Background: Human can be exposed to airborne microorganisms in both residential and hospital indoor environments. This may lead to adverse health effects with major public health impacts. Hospital indoor air may contain a vast number of disease causing agents that could be originate from patients, the staff, visitors, ventilation and outdoors. Hospitalized patients are at a higher risk of infection due to confined spaces that can accumulate microorganisms and create favorable condition for their growth and multiplication. Objectives: to determine and compare indoor bacterial load, and contributing factors in different wards of the four hospitals in Harar town, 2017. Methods: A cross sectional study design was used to assess the bacterial load and associated factors in two government hospitals (Police and Jugula), one teaching hospital (Hiwot-Fana) and one private hospital (Yemage) in Harar town. Nine inpatient wards and 96 rooms were taken as a sample to determine the bacterial load. All of the impatient rooms of all wards of these hospitals were included in the study. To determine the bacterial load of these rooms' passive air sampling technique was used. Data was collected using settle plate method by exposing petridish of blood agar media for an hour to the indoor air of the sampled rooms. Observation checklist was used to assess the contributing factors that influence the quality of the indoor air. Results; Based on our finding, airborne bacteria load ranged from 74.2–14,310 CFU/m3. The highest bacterial load was found in medical ward and the lowest in OR of Hiwot-Fana specialized teaching hospital. The result of one-way ANOVA showed a significant difference in mean bacterial load among the four hospitals and also the major wards of these four hospitals. In those hospitals, S.aureus, micrococcus and CoNS were among the most common bacteria identified. This study suggests that cleaning frequency, room temperature, a high number of health and medical students as well as number of visitors were found to be determinants that affect bacterial load in the sampled rooms. Conclusion: High bacterial load was recorded in Jugula, Police & Hiwot-Fana specialized teaching hospitals. The bacterial load of Hiwot-Fana specialized teaching hospital was much higher the other hospitals. Environmental factors play a major role in the increase of bacterial load. Thus, this high bacterial load in those hospitals may lead to high infection risk to the admitted patients.
Two-color above threshold ionization of atoms and ions in XUV Bessel beams and combined with intense laser light
Creators: name: Seipt, D.
name: Müller, R. A.
name: Surzhykov, A.
name: Fritzsche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two-color above-threshold ionization (ATI) of atoms and ions is investigated for a vortex Bessel beam in the presence of a strong near-infrared (NIR) light field. While the photoionization is caused by the photons from the weak but extreme ultra-violet (XUV) vortex Bessel beam, the energy and angular distribution of the photoelectrons and their sideband structure are affected by the plane-wave NIR field. We here explore the energy spectra and angular emission of the photoelectrons in such two-color fields as a function of the size and location of the target (atoms) with regard to the beam axis. In addition, analogue to the circular dichroism in typical two-color ATI experiments with circularly polarized light, we define and discuss seven different dichroism signals for such vortex Bessel beams that arise from the various combinations of the orbital and spin angular momenta of the two light fields. For localized targets, it is found that these dichroism signals strongly depend on the size and position of the atoms relative to the beam. For macroscopically extended targets, in contrast, three of these dichroism signals tend to zero, while the other four just coincide with the (standard) circular dichroism, similar as for Bessel beams with small opening angle. Detailed computations of the dichroism are performed and discussed for the $4s$ valence-shell photoionization of Ca$^+$ ions.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, some references corrected
Familienergänzende Betreuung von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund Voraussetzungen für einen optimalen Zugang zu institutionalisierter Betreuung und Förderung von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund in Aarau im Hinblick auf ihren schulischen Erfolg
Creators: name: Erni Schneider, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Für Kinder aus Familien mit Migrationshintergrund ist der Zugang zu familienergänzender Betreuung erschwert. Die Voraussetzungen für einen optimalen Zugang - und damit für Chancengerechtigkeit im Hinblick auf den Schulerfolg - werden für die Stadt Aarau anhand von vier Interviews mit Fachpersonen und Eltern untersucht. Die qualitative Auswertung der Aussagen zeigt, dass es verschiedene Gründe für den erschwerten Zugang gibt. Allen voran sind dies eine fehlende systematische Informationsvermittlung, die zu grosse finanzielle Belastung für die Eltern und eine mangelnde interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit der Institutionen.
Some social factors related to fertility decline within the Melbourne Statistical Division 1971-1976: with particular reference to Doncaster Templestowe and Eltham local government areas
Creators: name: Kupsch, Timothy F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Meson cloud effects on the pion quark distribution function in the chiral constituent quark model
Creators: name: Watanabe, Akira
name: Kao, Chung Wen
name: Suzuki, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the valence quark distribution function of the pion $v^π(x,Q^2)$ in the framework of the chiral constituent quark model and evaluate the meson cloud effects on $v^π(x,Q^2)$. We explicitly demonstrate how the meson cloud effects affect $v^π(x,Q^2)$ in detail. We find that the meson cloud correction causes an overall 32\% reduction of the valence quark distribution and an enhancement at the small Bjorken $x$ regime. Besides, we also find that the dressing effect of the meson cloud will make the valence quark distribution to be softer in the large $x$ region.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, version accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Supplementary document for Slice-Less Optical Arbitrary Waveform Measurement (OAWM) in a Bandwidth of More than 600 GHz Using Soliton Microcombs - 6442411.pdf
Creators: name: Drayss, Daniel
name: Fang, Dengyang
name: Füllner, Christoph
name: Likhachev, Grigorii
name: Henauer, Thomas
name: Chen, Yung
name: Peng, Huanfa
name: Marin-Palomo, Pablo
name: Zwick, Thomas
name: Freude, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Details on the system model, related schemes, the system calibration, the Kerr soliton comb, the measurement of WDM signals with different OSNR, the measurement of short optical pulses, the characterization of distortions introduced by the OAWM syste