cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: German Economy Remaining Robust in Uncertain Times: DIW Economic Outlook
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Breuer, Christian
name: Bruns, Martin
name: Clemens, Marius
name: Hanisch, Max
name: Junker, Simon
name: Schlaak, Thore
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: E66 General Outlook and Conditions
subject: F01 Global Outlook
subject: Business cycle forecast
subject: economic outlook

description: The German economy will keep on growing amid risks although growth will slow down somewhat. GDP will continue to grow noticeably at 1.8 percent this year, 1.7 percent next year, and 1.8 percent in 2020. Private household incomes in particular—and thus consumption as well—are boosting growth, as the labor markets are improving: the unemployment rate will fall from 5.2 percent this year to well below five percent in 2020 and lead to stronger wage increases. However, inflation will remain moderate at almost two percent.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 36, S. 334-337
title: Clinical Diagnostic Reference Levels in Pediatric CT
Creators: name: CASIMIRO, JOÃO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Audit and standards
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Paediatric

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Establishing Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) in Pediatric Computed Tomography (CT) represents a challenge because of the width range of ages, sizes and clinical conditions. Referring physicians and radiology staff must analyze which are the...
Affine and non-affine motions in sheared polydisperse jammed emulsions
Creators: name: Clara-Rahola, J.
name: Brzinski, T. A.
name: Semwogerere, D.
name: Feitosa, K.
name: Crocker, J. C.
name: Sato, J.
name: Breedveld, V.
name: Weeks, Eric R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dense and highly polydisperse emulsions at droplet volume fractions ϕ>= 0.65. We apply oscillatory shear and observe droplet motion using confocal microscopy. The presence of droplets with sizes several times the mean size dramatically changes the motion of smaller droplets. Both affine and nonaffine droplet motions are observed, with the more nonaffine motion exhibited by the smaller droplets which are pushed around by the larger droplets. Droplet motions are correlated over length scales from one to four times the mean droplet diameter, with larger length scales corresponding to higher strain amplitudes (up to strains of about 6%).
description: 6 pages
title: Automated liver density measurement in LDCT lung cancer screening: preliminary results
Creators: name: Gonchar, Anna
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Tissue characterisation
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Segmentation
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Liver
subject: Computer applications

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The frequency of moderate-to-severe hepatic steatosis in an asymptomatic population increases annually [1]. Today non-contrast computed tomography (CT) provides fast, reproducible and noninvasive hepatic steatosis quantification [2,3]. Liver...
Effect of Surface-modified Nano-silica on the Mobility and Fraction of Cd in Contaminated Agricultural Soils
Creators: name: Wang, Yangyang
name: Zhan, Wenhao
name: Zheng, Kaixuan
name: Liu, Yidan
name: Zou, Xueyan
name: Zhang, Chaosheng
name: Ruan, Xinling
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: Cadmium (Cd) contamination in agricultural soils is a widespread problem in China. In situ stabilization has been considered as one of the appropriate methods in remediation of Cd-contaminated soils. Besides the stabilization efficiency, more information regarding the influences of the stabilizer on soil properties is also required. In the present research, surface-modified nano-silica (SMNS) was used to remediate Cd-contaminated agricultural soils. When the dosage of SMNS was at 1%, the diethylenetriaminepentaacetic (DTPA)-extractable Cd decreased from 1.32 mg/kg to 0.116mg/kg on the 180th day, with the stabilization efficiency of 91.21%. Meanwhile, the exchangeable and carbonate-bounded Cd decreased 69.26 and 48.39%, respectively. Correlation analyses implied that SMNS transferred the exchangeable and carbonate-bounded fractions of Cd to the residual fraction. Furthermore, the mobility of Cd in soil also decreased from 45.78 to 18.95%. Mechanism analysis revealed that Cd was adsorbed on SMNS mainly by -SH and -OH bonds. Besides that, the addition of SMNS had negligible influences on soil properties. These results indicate that SMNS has great advantages and potential in stabilizing Cd-contaminated agricultural soils.
On semiclassical four-point correlators in AdS_5 x S^5
Creators: name: Arnaudov, D.
name: Rashkov, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent advances in the holographic calculation of n-point correlation functions with two "heavy" (with large quantum numbers) states at strong coupling, we extend these findings by computing specific four-point correlators of four heavy BMN operators in N=4 SYM.
description: 11 pages, one figure, section removed, improvements made
A closed form equation for extracellular field at a point for time series simulation in diffuse structures.
Creators: name: Fedorov, Leonid A.
name: Werner, Joachim
name: Dijkstra, Tjeerd
name: Yang, Mingyu
name: Murayama, Yusuke
name: Logothetis, Nikos K.
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Single neurons, biophysics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: The Global Economy and the Euro Area: So Far Trade Disputes Have Had Only Limited Effects on Global Growth: DIW Economic Outlook
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Baldi, Guido
name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
name: Engerer, Hella
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Rieth, Malte
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: E66 General Outlook and Conditions
subject: F01 Global Outlook
subject: Business cycle forecast
subject: economic outlook

description: After a strong second quarter, the global upturn appears to remain intact, economic and political turmoils notwithstanding, especially in the United States and the euro area. Therefore, DIW Berlin is slightly raising its forecast for the global economy this year to 4.2 percent. Over the course of the rest of the year, however, non-recurring effects are likely to disappear in the United States, causing growth to slow down somewhat. Thus, for the coming year, DIW Berlin is remaining with its forecast from early summer, which estimated growth of 3.9 percent. Due to the improving labor markets, private consumption continues to be the most important support of the upturn in the global economy. Monetary policy remains expansionary for the time being but this will gradually change. Uncertainties regarding US trade policy are a risk to global trade, which will likely dampen investment in the further course of the forecast period. Further risk factors are the economic policies of the new Italian government and the threat of a hard Brexit. The turbulence in Turkey, on the other hand, is unlikely to have a major impact.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 36, S. 330-333
title: Application of digital tomosynthesis in bone pathology in children
Creators: name: Kovalenko, Yuri
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Comparative studies
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Paediatric
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Dysplasias

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Digital tomosynthesis (DT) is a perspective method for diagnosing the pathology of the skeletal system, especially in children. Tomosynthesis provides slices of limbs in standard projections, eliminating the mad overlays, which lead to difficulties...
LA VALUTAZIONE DELLE COMPETENZE PLURILINGUI E INTERCULTURALI
Creators: name: Lenz, Peter
name: Berthele, Raphael
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Questo documento sulla valutazione è uno studio complementare alla Guida per lo sviluppo e l’attuazione di curricoli per una educazione plurilingue e interculturale del Consiglio d’Europa. Dà inizialmente una breve descrizione dei vari obiettivi della valutazione nell‘educazione plurilingue ed interculturale, cui segue una breve spiegazione di ciò che gli autori intendono con “valutazione“. Infine, descrive ed analizza la valutazione di alcune competenze correlate ad aspetti essenziali dell‘educazione plurilingue ed interculturale.

ASSESSMENT IN PLURILINGUAL AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

This satellite to the Guide for the Development and Implementation of Curricula for Plurilingual and Intercultural Education focuses on assessment aspects. First, a brief overview is given of the various aims of assessment in plurilingual and intercultural education. The authors’ understanding of assessment is then briefly outlined. Finally, the assessment of selected competences having to do with core aspects of plurilingual and intercultural education is presented and discussed.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
Beta Function and Asymptotic Safety in Three-dimensional Higher Derivative Gravity
Creators: name: Ohta, Nobuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum properties of the three-dimensional higher derivative gravity. In particular we calculate the running of the gravitational and cosmological constants. The flow of these couplings shows that there exist both Gaussian and nontrivial fixed points in the theory, thus confirming that the theory is asymptotically safe. It is shown that the new massive gravity or $f(R)$ gravity in three dimensions do not correspond to the fixed point within the approximation that the coefficients of the higher curvature terms are not subject to the flow. The fixed point value of the cosmological constant is found to be gauge-independent, positive and small. We also find that if we start with Einstein term with negative sign, the fixed point only exists when the coefficient of the Einstein term has positive sign.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, v2: minor corrections, refs. added, v3: minor corrections to match the published version, a sentence to the abstract added
LA RIFLESSIONE METALINGUISTICA NEI MANUALI D’ITALIANO L2: CASE STUDY
Creators: name: Matthiae, Claudia
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Gli “attori” di un corso di lingua sono gli apprendenti, il docente facilitatore e… il manuale. La scelta di quest’ultimo, e quindi la metodologia didattica che lo sottende, contribuiscono in maniera decisiva a delineare il percorso d’apprendimento esplicitando finalità e priorità didattiche. In un panorama editoriale ormai ricco e variegato non è sempre agevole districarsi fra le numerose proposte di libri di testo. Oltre alla centralità del discente e al metodo comunicativo, requisiti in linea con i dettami dell’European Common Framework presenti, seppur in dosi differenti, nella quasi totalità dei manuali, altri elementi meritano la dovuta considerazione. La riflessione metalinguistica, per esempio, si è affacciata solo recentemente sulla “scena” glottodidattica assumendo un ruolo tutt’altro che secondario.

METALINGUISTIC REFLECTION IN ITALIAN L2 TEXT BOOKS: A CASE STUDY

The “actors” in a language course are the learners, the teacher/facilitator and… the textbook. Choosing a textbook, and the didactic methodology underlying it, contribute in a decisive way to the learning process by directing the learning objectives and choices. With a varied choice of textbooks available, it is not always easy to evaluate them. Student-centered courses using the communicative method, indications in line with the European Common Framework, are aspects which vary in quantity from text to text but which characterize them all. There are, however, also other elements to consider. Metalinguistic reflection, for example, has only recently taken on a primary role in the glottodidactic scenario.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
Laser-induced charging of microfabricated ion traps
Creators: name: Wang, Shannon X.
name: Low, Guang Hao
name: Lachenmyer, Nathan S.
name: Ge, Yufei
name: Herskind, Peter F.
name: Chuang, Isaac L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical charging of metal surfaces due to photoelectric generation of carriers is of concern in trapped ion quantum computation systems, due to the high sensitivity of the ions' motional quantum states to deformation of the trapping potential. The charging induced by typical laser frequencies involved in doppler cooling and quantum control is studied here, with microfabricated surface electrode traps made of aluminum, copper, and gold, operated at 6 K with a single Sr$^+$ ion trapped 100 $μ$m above the trap surface. The lasers used are at 370, 405, 460, and 674 nm, and the typical photon flux at the trap is 10$^{14}$ photons/cm$^2$/sec. Charging is detected by monitoring the ion's micromotion signal, which is related to the number of charges created on the trap. A wavelength and material dependence of the charging behavior is observed: lasers at lower wavelengths cause more charging, and aluminum exhibits more charging than copper or gold. We describe the charging dynamic based on a rate equation approach.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Stability of Frustration-Free Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Michalakis, Spyridon
name: Pytel, Justyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q15

description: We prove stability of the spectral gap for gapped, frustration-free Hamiltonians under general, quasi-local perturbations. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for stability, which we call "Local Topological Quantum Order" and show that this condition implies an area law for the entanglement entropy of the groundstate subspace. This result extends previous work by Bravyi et al., on the stability of topological quantum order for Hamiltonians composed of commuting projections with a common zero-energy subspace. We conclude with a list of open problems relevant to spectral gaps and topological quantum order.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure, updated references, discussion includes note on stability of symmetry-protected and higher-energy sectors, and a path towards extending the result to frustrated, gapped Hamiltonians. Added new section on overview of the proof and updated the Introduction and Appendices
title: German Economy Continues to Grow Moderately but Risks Remain: Editorial
Creators: name: Michelsen, Claus
name: Baldi, Guido
name: Breuer, Christian
name: Bruns, Martin
name: Clemens, Marius
name: Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine
name: Engerer, Hella
name: Fratzscher, Marcel
name: Gebauer, Stefan
name: Hanisch, Max
name: Junker, Simon
name: Rieth, Malte
name: Schlaak, Thore
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018

description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 36, S. 327-329
title: Differences in Full-Time Work Experience Explain almost a Quarter of the Gender Pay Gap in Management Positions
Creators: name: Holst, Elke
name: Marquardt, Anne
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
subject: J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
subject: J71 Labor Discrimination
subject: J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
subject: L22 Firm Organization and Market Structure
subject: M14 Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
subject: M51 Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
subject: Gender Pay Gap
subject: hourly wages
subject: horizontal segregation
subject: vertical segregation
subject: leadership
subject: management
subject: ISCO-08 (1)
subject: chief executives
subject: high leadershippositions
subject: economic sectors
subject: equality
subject: inequality
subject: gender
subject: women
subject: men

description: Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11 percent remains. With seven percentage points, full-time work experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large differences in working time between women and men throughout their working lives. An important step is more individual time sovereignty for both women and men in their jobs and a change in corporate culture to accommodate that.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 34/35, S. 315-324
Analysis of diameter fluctuations in dendrites of cortical neurons
Creators: name: Haas, Verena
name: Schmidt-Hamkens, Sophie
name: Bird, Alexander
name: Lauterbach, Marcel
name: Cuntz, Hermann
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Single neurons, biophysics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Successful Climate Protection via Rapid Coal Phaseout in Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia
Creators: name: Göke, Leonard
name: Kittel, Martin
name: Kemfert, Claudia
name: Lorenz, Casimir
name: Oei, Pao-Yu
name: Hirschhausen, Christian Von
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Q54 Climate; Natural Disasters; Global Warming
subject: L51 Economics of Regulation
subject: coal
subject: climate protection
subject: Germany
subject: North Rhine Westphalia
subject: Europe

description: Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout to achieve the national climate targets. The Coal Commission has been tasked with submitting specific recommendations by the end of 2018. Supported by detailed model calculations, the present study shows that a rapid reduction in coal-fired power generation nationwide and in North Rhine-Westphalia is necessary to meet the climate targets in 2030. According to the German government’s climate protection plan, emissions in the energy sector must fall by about 60 percent as compared to 1990. The analysis also shows that a German phaseout promotes decarbonization and the expansion of renewable energies throughout Europe. And in North Rhine-Westphalia, a rapid coal phaseout will be necessary to meet the climate protection targets. All lignite power plants and many plants that run on hard coal could be shut down by 2030. The phaseout of lignite mining in NRW could be designed such that surface mine Garzweiler II would no longer engulf any villages; the forest in the Hambach surface mine that is worth conserving would also be saved.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 33, S. 301-311
Zero Lyapunov exponents of the Hodge bundle
Creators: name: Forni, Giovanni
name: Matheus, Carlos
name: Zorich, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: By the results of G. Forni and of R. Treviño, the Lyapunov spectrum of the Hodge bundle over the Teichmüller geodesic flow on the strata of Abelian and of quadratic differentials does not contain zeroes even though for certain invariant submanifolds zero exponents are present in the Lyapunov spectrum. In all previously known examples, the zero exponents correspond to those PSL(2,R)-invariant subbundles of the real Hodge bundle for which the monodromy of the Gauss-Manin connection acts by isometries of the Hodge metric. We present an example of an arithmetic Teichmüller curve, for which the real Hodge bundle does not contain any PSL(2,R)-invariant, continuous subbundles, and nevertheless its spectrum of Lyapunov exponents contains zeroes. We describe the mechanism of this phenomenon; it covers the previously known situation as a particular case. Conjecturally, this is the only way zero exponents can appear in the Lyapunov spectrum of the Hodge bundle for any PSL(2,R)-invariant probability measure.
description: 47 pages, 10 figures. Final version (based on the referee's report). A slightly shorter version of this article will appear in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. A pdf file containing a copy of the Mathematica routine "FMZ3-Zariski-numerics_det1.nb" is available at this link here: http://w3.impa.br/~cmateus/files/FMZ3-Zariski-numerics_det1.pdf
Temporal derivative computation in the dorsal raphe network revealed by an experimentally-driven augmented integrate-and-fire modeling framework
Creators: name: Harkin, Emerson F.
name: Payeur, Alexandre
name: Lynn, Michael B.
name: Boucher, Jean-François
name: Caya-Bissonnette, Léa
name: Cyr, Dominic
name: Stewart, Chloe
name: Longtin, André
name: Béïque, Jean-Claude
name: Naud, Richard
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Single neurons, biophysics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Exzellente Lehre: Gesundheitsberufe im Wandel
Creators: name: Burow, Inka
name: Zorn, Stefan
Publisher: name: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Bibliothek
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 610

description: MHHinfo: Das Magazin der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover, no. 1
title: Diesel Fuel and Passenger Cars Receive Preferential Tax Treatment in Europe; Reform of Taxation Needed in Germany
Creators: name: Kunert, Uwe
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: H23 Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
subject: O38 Technological Change: Government Policy
subject: Q52 Pollution Control Adoption Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
subject: R48 Transportation Systems: Government Pricing and Policy
subject: environmental taxes
subject: technological change: government policy
subject: transportation: regulatory policies

description: Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also designed with the goal of achieving environmental policy objectives. A systematic and quantitative comparison of passenger car taxation in 30 European countries shows significant differences among them. However, in almost every country, the use of vehicles with diesel engines is taxed less than that of cars with gasoline engines, and the share of fixed charges (on acquisition, registration, and ownership) is higher than the share of use-related levies. Germany has shifted its position with regard to both types of tax and now ranks low in terms of the overall tax burden. However, the German motor vehicle tax is neither fiscally profitable nor does it have the desired effect. Energy tax rates have remained the same since 2003 and its real value has declined by a fifth in real terms. With this in mind, both types of taxes are in need of reform and increasing the diesel tax should be a priority.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 32, S. 289-298
Using the Arbor simulator to replicate a published result: Uncertainty Propagation in Nerve Impulses Through the Action Potential Mechanism
Creators: name: Huisman, Brent
name: Schmitt, Sebastian
name: Hater, Thorsten
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Single neurons, biophysics

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Signs of New Housing Bubble in Many OECD Countries – Lower Risk in Germany
Creators: name: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.
name: Michelsen, Claus
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
subject: C33 Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Models with Panel Data; Longitudinal Data; Spatial Time Series
subject: C35 Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
subject: speculative house price bubbles
subject: explosive root test
subject: panel logit model

description: Ten years after the worldwide financial and economic crisis was triggered by the American real estate market, real estate prices are rising around the globe. Concerns about a new housing bubble are growing. The present report based on OECD data for 20 countries demonstrates that this concern is not unwarranted. In eight countries, including the United Kingdom and the USA, the evolution of real estate prices indicates that speculative investment behavior is at work. The continued high level of private household debt and low interest rates are evidence of a new bubble in those countries. There are also signs of this in Germany, but primarily in the country’s largest cities. The risk of a nationwide housing price bubble is assumed to be lower in Germany due to the country’s significantly lower level of private household debt. But since no suitable precautionary measures are in place, there is a need for action. Although it is now possible to cap lending, many market observers feel that the existing instruments could be reinforced. Capping the loan-to-household income ratio would be an especially desirable measure to prevent possible negative developments.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 30/31, S. 275-285
IL TESTO POETICO NELL’INSEGNAMENTO DELL’ITALIANO A STRANIERI
Creators: name: Delucchi, Fabio
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: L’articolo tratta un tema tanto delicato quanto spesso eluso dai docenti di Italiano L2 o LS, quello dell’uso del testo poetico a fini didattici. Dopo una trattazione teorica e critica del tema, in cui vengono brevemente illustrate le posizioni emerse nei principali studi sull’inserimento e la fruizione dei testi letterari nell’insegnamento di italiano a stranieri, seguono una proposta pratica di modalità di selezione dei testi ed esempi di possibili applicazioni didattiche e di diverse tipologie di attività. Un ruolo fondamentale è riconosciuto alla “motivazione”, al “piacere del testo”, ai criteri in base ai quali selezionare i testi letterari, e in particolare i testi poetici, in relazione ai destinatari e alla “utilità” del testo poetico quale opportunità di sperimentazione linguistica, confronto interculturale e crescita, ma soprattutto veicolo di una migliore integrazione sociale anche per immigrati o studenti di italiano L2. L’apprendente viene visto nel suo ruolo “attivo” e la poesia sfruttata come occasione di spunto e integrazione alle tradizionali pratiche didattiche. In particolare, viene proposta una sistematica integrazione tra testo, suono e immagini per motivare e accrescere la consapevolezza critica dell’apprendente rispetto alla lingua e al “mondo”e tra confronto interculturale e ironia quali approcci privilegiati al testo poetici.

POETRY IN ITALIAN L2/FL TEACHING

This article addresses the often overlooked theme of the use of poetry by Italian L2/FL teachers. After a survey of the theoretical and critical literature on the subject that illustrates the existing research on the inclusion and use of literary texts in Italian L2 teaching, a practical proposal for text selection, examples of possible didactic applications and different activities are illustrated. Motivation plays a fundamental role as does “pleasure from the text”, constituting the basic criteria according to which texts, particularly poetry, are selected. These aspects regarding the “utility” of the poetic text as an opportunity for linguistic experimentation, intercultural comparison and growth and especially as a vehicle for better social integration for immigrants or Italian L2 students, are illustrated. The learner is seen in his or her active role and poetry offers the occasion for integrating traditional didactic practices. In particular, systematic integration is necessary between text, sound and image to motivate and enhance the learner’s critical awareness about language and the world, through intercultural comparison and irony as ways to approach poetry.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
Rich and lazy learning in RNNs trained on neuroscience tasks?
Creators: name: Schuessler, Friedrich
name: Mastrogiuseppe, Francesca
name: Ostojic, Srdjan
name: Barak, Omri
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
Chronic optogenetic stimulation regularizes collective activity of neuronal cultures
Creators: name: Schwarz, Friedrich
name: Schottdorf, Manuel
name: Franz, Jonas
name: Vogel, Julian
name: Stühmer, Walter
name: Stadelmann-Nessler, Christine
name: Wolf, Fred
name: Neef, Andreas
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
I PROMESSI SPOSI: PERCORSO DIDATTICO IN UNA CLASSE INTERCULTURALE
Creators: name: Colombo, Loredana
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Il percorso proposto nasce dalla consapevolezza che la presenza di alunni non italofoni nel nostro sistema scolastico è, per i docenti, occasione di aggiornarsi e cercare nuove strategie didattiche, e, per tutti, motivo di arricchimento umano e culturale. Le innegabili difficoltà che presenta l’insegnamento in una classe multiculturale sono particolarmente evidenti quando si affrontano testi letterari, per una serie di ovvie ragioni: le difficoltà legate ad una lingua spesso lontanissima dall’italiano standard, vicende che sono inserite in un passato storico-sociale completamente sconosciuto ai non italofoni, uso di figure retoriche, richiami mitologici, riferimenti religiosi ed artistici. Si è colta la sfida con il presentare un percorso attraverso i primi otto capitoli dei Promessi Sposi che persegua l’obiettivo di sviluppare le competenze linguistiche e di favorire la conoscenza reciproca e l’integrazione, attraverso la narrazione, l’attività di didattica attiva e laboratoriale e il cooperative learning.

I PROMESSI SPOSI: A DIDACTIC EXPERIENCE IN ANINTERCULTURAL CLASS

This experience stems from the awareness that the presence of non-Italian speaking students in our school system is an occasion for teachers to acquire new teaching strategies as well as offering human and cultural enrichment for everyone. The undeniable difficulties in teaching a multicultural class are particularly evident when literary texts are dealt with, for a series of obvious reasons: difficulties linked to unusual, non-standardized Italian, events set in historical-social settings which are completely unfamiliar to foreign students, the use of rhetorical figures, mythological, religious and artistic references. To face this challenge, we present an experience dealing with the first 8 chapters of I Promessi Sposi aimed at developing linguistic competence and encouraging mutual knowledge and integration, through narration, active learning activities and cooperative learning.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
title: The Greek Private Sector Remains Full of Untapped Potential
Creators: name: Kritikos, Alexander S.
name: Handrich, Lars
name: Mattes, Anselm
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Greece
subject: growth strategy
subject: innovation
subject: regulatory environment
subject: SME
subject: economic structure

description: Private businesses’ nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as—with the exception of labor market regulations—the conditions for investments and business activities have not been sufficiently changed through eight years of reform process. Fundamental issues— excessive red tape, bulky administrative procedures, slow courts, complicated taxes, and an inefficient knowledge transfer— remain unaddressed. Greece cannot achieve its urgently needed strong and sustainable economic growth without these reforms. When the third economic adjustment program for Greece ends in August, so will external reform pressure. It remains an open question whether the government—current or future—will feel compelled to complete and implement the pending reforms.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 29, S. 263-272
Wood quality and growth characterization across intra- and inter-specific aspen hybrid clones
Creators: name: Hart, James Foster
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) is Canada’s most abundant poplar species; it is native, found nationwide, and is an ecologically and economically important hardwood species. As the demand for raw material continues to rapidly increase, there is an incentive to improve tree quality and growth rates through breeding, particularly in fast-growing species suitable for the Canadian landscape. Hybridization is considered one of the best options to accelerate tree productivity and improve wood quality. Two aspen species showing particular promise for hybridization with trembling aspen are European aspen (P. tremula) and Chinese aspen (P. davidiana) because their native climates are similar to that of western Canada. In 2003, poplar clones were planted in Athabasca, Alberta from the following species crosses: open pollinated (OP) P. tremuloides (NN), OP P. davidiana (CC), P. tremula × P. tremula (EE), P. tremula × P. tremuloides (EN), and P. tremuloides × P. davidiana (CN). In, November 2010, growth measurements and core samples were taken from the clones. Productivity was quantified through analysis of stem volume. Wood quality attributes were quantified via an assessment of fibre length, fibre width, coarseness, wood density, microfibril angle, total cell wall carbohydrate and lignin content, and lignin composition. Comparisons of the mean values for each attribute were made between crosses using generalized linear model least squares means tests. The NN cross had lower volume growth than the CC and EE crosses. The EN and CN crosses had greater volume than the NN cross. The NN cross had shorter fibre length, but greater syringyl-guaiacyl ratio (S:G) relative to the CC cross. It also had lower density and S:G compared to the EE cross. The EN cross had longer, wider fibres and a greater carbohydrate concentration compared to the NN cross. The CN cross had greater fibre length and lignin concentration, but lower S:G compared to the NN cross. The results indicated that the inter-specific crosses were more desirable wood sources than the pure P. tremuloides cross. Specifically, the P. tremula x P. tremuloides cross showed the best potential to improve future generations of aspen on the Canadian landscape.
Theory of multiple magnetic scattering for quasiparticles on a gapless topological insulator surface
Creators: name: Fu, Zhen-Guo
name: Zhang, Ping
name: Wang, Zhigang
name: Zheng, Fawei
name: Li, Shu-Shen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a general low-energy multiple-scattering partial-wave theory for gapless topological insulator (TI) surfaces in the presence of magnetic impurities. As applications, we discuss the differential cross section (CS) $dΛ/dφ$, the total CS $Λ_{tot}$, the Hall component of resistivity $Ω$, and inverse momentum relaxation time $Γ_{M}$ for single- and two-centered magnetic scattering. We show that differing from the nonmagnetic impurity scattering, $s\mathtt{-}$wave approximation is not advisable and convergent in the present case. The symmetry of CS is reduced and the backscattering occurs and becomes stronger with increasing the effective magnetic moment $M$ of single magnetic impurity. We show a non-zero perpendicular resistivity component $Ω$, which may be useful for tuning the Hall voltage of the sample. Consistent with the analysis of $dΛ/dφ$, by comparing $Γ_{M}$ with $Λ_{tot}$, we can determine different weights of backscattering and forward scattering. Similar to CS, $Ω$ and $Γ_{M}$ also exhibit oscillating behavior for multiple magnetic scattering centers due to interference effect.
description: 19pages, 4 figures
title: Evaluation of shear stress in the arterial wall with Hi-Frame Rate Vector Flow
Creators: name: Goddi, Alfredo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Arteries / Aorta
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Experimental
subject: Education
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education and training
subject: Developmental disease

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe the clinical application of a novel ultrasound ultrafast technique, high -frame rate Vector Flow (HiFR-VF), in estimating the wall shear stress (WSS) in the carotid bifurcation, to obtain a comprehensive assessment of blood flow and a...
title: Affordable Electricity Supply via Contracts for Difference for Renewable Energy
Creators: name: May, Nils
name: Neuhoff, Karsten
name: Richstein, Jörn
Publisher: name: DIW - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Q42 Alternative Energy Sources
subject: Q55 Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
subject: O38 Technological Change: Government Policy
subject: Financing costs
subject: contracts for difference
subject: renewable energy policies
subject: feed-in premium

description: The cost of renewable energy technology has plunged in recent years. But the extent to which electricity consumers can benefit from the reduced costs depends on the design of renewable remuneration mechanisms. Calculations of a financing model show that the current sliding premium is leading to increasingly higher risks for investments and in turn, increasing equity requirements. As a result, financing costs increase, which counteracts the lower cost of technology. Furthermore, increased equity requirements could negatively affect the diversity of players investing in renewable energy and thus the level of competition as well as the rate of project realization in the sector. A change towards contracts for difference (CFDs) can remedy the situation. CFDs lead to low financing costs and therefore reduce overall costs of supplying renewable electricity, reducing expected annual costs for German consumers by approximately 0.8 billion euros per year by 2030. They also safeguard consumers against high payments for renewable electricity in case of high electricity prices. A transition to CFDs provides the opportunity to create more effective and simpler incentives for system-compatible site selection and plant design.
description: DIW Weekly Report, 8 (2018), 28, S. 251-259
DI TEMPO IN TEMPO... PROGETTO DI LABORATORI INTERCULTURALI A PARTIRE DALL’OROLOGIO PLANETARIO FANZAGO DELLA CITTÀ DI CLUSONE
Creators: name: Borlini, Karin
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Lingua e cultura sono inscindibilmente legate. Conoscere la lingua italiana attraverso la scoperta delle ricchezze del patrimonio culturale locale si rivela, quindi, una possibile pratica didattica anche per l’insegnamento dell’italiano come L2. Ormai quasi tutti i musei e gli enti educativi del territorio propongono laboratori e progetti per le scuole, dall’infanzia alla secondaria. Purtroppo, spesso, non viene considerata, in queste scelte, la prospettiva interculturale.Il presente contributo vuole presentare delle possibili attività laboratoriali da proporre a classi plurilingui, finalizzate alla conoscenza del territorio, prendendo spunto da una visita guidata alla città di Clusone. Qui si trova un orologio planetario costruito nel 1583 e ancora funzionante. A partire dalla visita all’orologio, si accompagnano bambini e ragazzi attraverso un percorso che cerca di fornire un maggior consapevolezza della mutevolezza del concetto di tempo e della sua percezione, anche fisica, nelle diverse culture del mondo e in diversi periodi storici.

FROM TIME TO TIME. A PROJECT FOR INTERCULTURAL WORKSHOPS STARTING FROM THE FANZANGO ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK IN THE CITY OF CLUSONE

Language and culture are inseparable. Learning Italian by discovering the richness of its local cultural heritage offers didactic possibilities for teaching Italian L2. Almost all museums and educational institutions offer workshops and projects for schools, from preschool to high school. Unfortunately, often these initiatives do not consider the intercultural perspective.This paper presents a possible workshop for multilingual classes aimed at getting to know the territory, inspired by a visiting the city of Clusone where there is a still functioning astronomical clock that was built in 1583. Starting from visiting the clock, the students are offered the opportunity to develop greater awareness regarding the changing concept of time, from perception to physical reality, in different world cultures and in different historical periods.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)
Recurrent spiking neural networks trained to discriminate time intervals perform Bayesian computations
Creators: name: Serrano-Fernandez, Luis
name: Beiran, Manuel
name: Parga, Nestor
Publisher: name: G-Node
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computational Neuroscience
Networks, dynamical systems

description: Bernstein Conference 2021 abstract. http://bernstein-conference.de
title: Evaluation of Multi-material 3D-printed Tracheal Pathology for Bronchoscopic Training
Creators: name: Tan, Gerald
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Respiratory system
subject: CT
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Education
subject: Education and training

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in many countries, but early detection can improve one-year survival rates to 72.5% (in TMN stage I disease) from 15.9% in stage IV disease [1-2]. Bronchoscopy remains key in evaluating central lung nodules...
Emergence of magnetic long-range order in frustrated pyrochlore Nd$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ with metal-insulator transition
Creators: name: Tomiyasu, K.
name: Matsuhira, K.
name: Iwasa, K.
name: Watahiki, M.
name: Takagi, S.
name: Wakeshima, M.
name: Hinatsu, Y.
name: Yokoyama, M.
name: Ohoyama, K.
name: Yamada, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we performed powder neutron diffraction and inelastic scattering measurements of frustrated pyrochlore Nd$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$, which exhibits a metal-insulator transition at a temperature $T_{\rm MI}$ of 33 K. The diffraction measurements revealed that the pyrochlore has an antiferromagnetic long-range structure with propagation vector $\vec{q}_{0}$ of (0,0,0) and that it grows with decreasing temperature below 15 K. This structure was analyzed to be of the all-in all-out type, consisting of highly anisotropic Nd$^{3+}$ magnetic moments of magnitude $2.3\pm0.4$$μ_{\rm B}$, where $μ_{\rm B}$ is the Bohr magneton. The inelastic scattering measurements revealed that the Kramers ground doublet of Nd$^{3+}$ splits below $T_{\rm MI}$. This suggests the appearance of a static internal magnetic field at the Nd sites, which probably originates from a magnetic order consisting of Ir$^{4+}$ magnetic moments. Here, we discuss a magnetic structure model for the Ir order and the relation of the order to the metal-insulator transition in terms of frustration.
description: 6 pages, 1 table, 3 figures
AUTOBIOGRAFIE LINGUISTICHE CON UNA CLASSE DI ITALIANO L2 DI SINOFONI
Creators: name: Corti, Lorenza
Publisher: name: Italiano LinguaDue
Year: 2012

description: Convinta dell’utilità didattica del racconto autobiografico nel processo di apprendimento/insegnamento dell’italiano da parte di studenti stranieri, presento un’unità didattica di approccio alle autobiografie linguistiche, progettata per giovani apprendenti sinofoni, con una competenza dell’italiano oscillante tra i livelli A2 e B1, giunti in Italia per compiere gli studi universitari.Il percorso didattico ha come punto d’arrivo la stesura da parte di degli studenti della propria autobiografia linguistica; è organizzato in fasi e prevede attività che coinvolgono la ricezione orale e scritta, la produzione orale e scritta e l’interazione.L’unità didattica si propone di far conoscere il genere dell’autobiografia e in particolare di quella in cui chi scrive racconta la propria esperienza con le lingue; di stimolare gli studenti a riflettere su se stessi, sulle loro abitudini linguistiche, sulle esperienze pregresse di studio delle lingue e di contatto con le culture di cui le lingue sono veicolo; di incoraggiare gli allievi a parlare di sé.Si prevede, inoltre, nel corso delle attività proposte, l’introduzione di alcune nozioni di linguistica, come, ad esempio, le nozioni di lingua madre, competenza e varietà linguistica.

LINGUISTIC AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: AN EXPERIENCE WITH CHINESE-SPEAKING ITALIAN L2 LEARNERS

I am convinced of the utility of autobiography in the Italian L2 teaching/learning process with foreign students, and I present a teaching unit centered on linguistic autobiography, designed for young Chinese-speaking learners with A2-B1 competence in Italian, who are studying at Italian universities.The process culminates in the students’ written linguistic autobiography, organized in phases and involving oral and written activities including reception, production and interaction.The unit aims at making the students familiar with the genre of autobiography, focusing on personal experience with languages, in order to stimulate the students to reflect on themselves, their linguistic habits, their former experiences studying languages and contact with cultures where language is the vehicle, as well as encouraging the students to talk about themselves.A few linguistic notions are also introduced, including the idea of mother tongue, competence and linguistic variety.
description: Italiano LinguaDue, Vol 4, No 1 (2012)