cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A stage of their own : feminist playwrights of the suffrage era
Creators: name: Stowell, Sheila
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: During the years 1906 to 1914, as a flagging woman's movement was revitalized by the controversial Women's Social and Political Union, women of all classes, talents and occupations were galvanized into action. Among them were a number of playwrights who used the overtly 'public' forum of drama to argue feminist views. It is their work, in its social, political and aesthetic context that forms the subject of my study. I take as my starting point Elizabeth Robins' dramatic 'tract' Votes for Women, produced as part of the Barker-Vedrenne Court season of 1907. Introducing both feminist and specifically suffrage topics to the world of Edwardian society drama, Robins showed her sister playwrights how existing theatrical models might be manipulated to their advantage. Her success helped spawn a series of so-called "suffrage" plays produced under the direct auspices of the Actresses' Franchise League and the Women Writers' Suffrage League. Intended as agitprop drama for the converted, this sub-genre, which is looked at in my second chapter, took advantage of the techniques of contemporary realism, farce, and civic pageantry for immediate and narrowly political goals. In so doing, however, it provided valuable experience for a number of women dramatists who chose as well to write for the larger and more broadly based audiences of London's West End. My final chapters focus upon selected works by professional playwrights Cicely Hamilton (Diana of Dobson's 1908), Elizabeth Baker (Chains 1909) and Githa Sowerby (Rutherford and Son 1912). I am particularly concerned with the manner in which each reworked the theatrical conventions of the late Victorians according to avowedly feminist lights. The success of their work as well as the ways in which it may be shown to differ from both the mainstream drama of Pinero and Jones and the progressive "new" theatre of Shaw, Galsworthy and Granville Barker, suggests that in this group of writers the English speaking world enjoyed its first cohesive and substantial women's theatre.
Solving Linearized Equations of the $N$-body Problem Using the Lie-integration Method
Creators: name: Pal, Andras
name: Suli, Aron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several integration schemes exits to solve the equations of motion of the $N$-body problem. The Lie-integration method is based on the idea to solve ordinary differential equations with Lie-series. In the 1980s this method was applied for the $N$-body problem by giving the recurrence formula for the calculation of the Lie-terms. The aim of this works is to present the recurrence formulae for the linearized equations of motion of $N$-body systems. We prove a lemma which greatly simplifies the derivation of the recurrence formulae for the linearized equations if the recurrence formulae for the equations of motions are known. The Lie-integrator is compared with other well-known methods. The optimal step size and order of the Lie-integrator are calculated. It is shown that a fine-tuned Lie-integrator can be 30%-40% faster than other integration methods.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS (13 pages, 4 figures); see http://cm.elte.hu/lie (cm.elte.hu/lie) for software
Quasinormal-modes of the Kerr-Newman black hole: GW150914 and fundamental physics implications
Creators: name: Wang, Hai-Tian
name: Tang, Shao-Peng
name: Li, Peng-Cheng
name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an analytical ringdown waveform model, including both the fundamental and the overtone quasinormal modes, for charged black holes and show that it is precise enough to analyze current gravitational wave data. Applying this waveform model to GW150914, the charge to mass ratio of the remnant black hole ($λ_f$) has been constrained with the sole ringdown gravitational wave data for the first time and the $90\%$ upper limit is $λ_f\leq 0.38$. Correspondingly, the deviation parameter of the scalar-tensor vector gravity ($α_{\rm s}$) is limited to be $α_{\rm s}\leq 0.17$. Our approach can be directly applied to other binary black hole mergers with loud ringdown radiation.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; Updated to match version published in PRD
Studying Blazhko RR Lyrae stars with the 24-inch telescope of the Konkoly Observatory
Creators: name: sódor, Á.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: About a dozen field RR Lyrae stars have been observed with the 24-inch Heyde-Zeiss telescope of the Konkoly Observatory at Svábhegy, Budapest, since its refurbishment in 2003. Most of the observing time is allocated for the investigation of the Blazhko modulation, a phenomenon that still does not have a satisfactory explanation. The obtained multicolour CCD observations are unique in extent. The accuracy of the measurements makes it possible to detect low amplitude modulation of the light curve as well. The discovery of Blazhko stars with low modulation amplitudes warns that the incidence rate of the Blazhko modulation is, in fact, much larger than it was previously expected. This makes the efforts exploring the cause of the modulation even more important. A summary of our measurements and results achieved during the last 3 years is presented.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes). 4 pages, 3 figs
View integration in database design
Creators: name: Wagner, Christian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this research is the formalization of a method of bottom up database design known as view integration. View integration is one of the main steps of an acknowledged database design procedure, the New Orleans Database Design Workshop procedure. This procedure develops a global database (global schema) for an organization from small partial databases (user views). Individual user views are representations of the data relevant to the users' organizational tasks. Views will overlap since users will share data to some extent. View integration has to merge views without duplicating the information presented in multiple views. The task of merging views without duplication is complicated by the fact that users have different perceptions of the world which lead them to represent the same data differently, the most simple form of different perceptions being naming conflicts such as the occurrence of synonyms. Within the last 13 years a variety of approaches to solve the integration task has been reported. Many of the approaches have neglected the problem of conflicting views altogether, leaving its solution to the database designer. Integration methods that performed conflict resolution did it in an unsystematic and incomplete fashion. Often these methods dealt with conflict situations only if information for their resolution was conveniently available. This research fills that gap. A conflict analysis procedure is outlined which considers all possible conflict conditions and transforms them into conditions that can be merged by means of previously developed techniques. The research proceeds in two steps. First, a conflict analysis procedure is developed that ignores the information requirements problem by assuming complete information. This simplification allows the concentration on completeness of the procedure, since one does not have to be concerned with the difficulties involved in gathering the required information. The second step relaxes the assumption of complete information. Difficult information requirements are identified and replaced by more easily satisfied ones. Main contributions to knowledge are (1) a complete understanding of the factors causing conflicts between views, (2) detection of substitutes for difficult information requirements. Other contributions are (3) suggestions for the development of a semantic data dictionary, (4) an alternative method for the design of knowledge based systems, and (5) suggestions for efficient bottom up systems design strategies.
Personal Financial Planning and Common Sense Estate Review
Creators: name: Mccafferty, Owen E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1981

description: 3 papers are part of a seminar presented by the author: 1981 Economic Recovery Act; Valuation of a Veterinary Practice; Economic Order Quality Methodology in Inventory Order and Control.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1981
Multiplets of representations, twisted Dirac operators and Vogan's conjecture in affine setting
Creators: name: Kac, Victor G.
name: Frajria, Pierluigi Moseneder
name: Papi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We extend classical results of Kostant and al. on multiplets of representations of finite-dimensional Lie algebras and on the cubic Dirac operator to the setting of affine Lie algebras and twisted affine cubic Dirac operator. We prove in this setting an analogue of Vogan's conjecture on infinitesimal characters of Harish-Chandra modules in terms of Dirac cohomology. For our calculations we use the machinery of Lie conformal and vertex algebras.
description: Latex file, 89 pages. Several misprints corrected. To appear in Advances in Mathematics
Efficient slave-boson approach for multiorbital two-particle response functions and superconductivity
Creators: name: Lee, Tsung-Han
name: Lanata, Nicola
name: Kim, Minjae
name: Kotliar, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an efficient approach for computing two-particle response functions and interaction vertices for multiorbital strongly correlated systems based on fluctuation around rotationally-invariant slave-boson saddle-point. The method is applied to the degenerate three-orbital Hubbard-Kanamori model for investigating the origin of the s-wave orbital antisymmetric spin-triplet superconductivity in the Hund's metal regime, previously found in the dynamical mean-field theory studies. By computing the pairing interaction considering the particle-particle and the particle-hole scattering channels, we identify the mechanism leading to the pairing instability around Hund's metal crossover arises from the particle-particle channel, containing the local electron pair fluctuation between different particle-number sectors of the atomic Hilbert space. On the other hand, the particle-hole spin fluctuations induce the s-wave pairing instability before entering the Hund's regime. Our approach paves the way for investigating the pairing mechanism in realistic correlated materials.
Kaluza-Klein Induced Supersymmetry Breaking for Braneworlds in Type IIB Supergravity
Creators: name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
name: Smyth, Paul
name: Stelle, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider Z_2-symmetric braneworlds arising from 5-sphere compactifications with 5-form flux in type IIB supergravity. This Kaluza-Klein reduction produces a D=5 theory which supports 1/2-supersymmetric Z_2-symmetric domain-wall solutions. However, upon lifting such solutions back to D=10, one finds that supersymmetry is broken by 5-sphere Kaluza-Klein effects. This happens owing to the action on the Killing spinor of the Z_2 \subset SO(1,9) symmetry, which requires an orientation-reversing transformation in the 5-sphere directions together with the flip of the orbifold coordinate. We study the consequences of this supersymmetry breaking for the masses of fermion fluctuation modes about the brane background and find a natural two-scale hierarchy: some bulk modes have characteristic masses of order 1/L_5 but other modes more closely associated to the branes have an additional factor exp(-ρ/L_5), where L_5 is the AdS_5 length parameter and ρis the orbifold size.
description: 27 pages, no figures, replaced with published version
Solving the QCD NLO evolution equations with a Markovian Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Placzek, W.
name: Golec-Biernat, K.
name: Jadach, S.
name: Skrzypek, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss precision Monte Carlo (MC) calculations for solving the QCD evolution equations up to the next-to-leading-order (NLO) level. They employ forward Markovian Monte Carlo algorithms, which provide rigorous solutions of the above equations. These algorithms are implemented in the form of the Monte Carlo program EvolFMC. This program has been cross-checked with independent, non-MC, programs (QCDNum16 and APCheb33) and the numerical agreement at the level of 0.1% has been found.
description: 12 pages, 2 eps figures
Causal vs. Noncausal Description of Nonlinear Wave Mixing; Resolving the Damping-Sign Controversy
Creators: name: Mukamel, Shaul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency-domain nonlinear wave mixing processes may be described either using response functions whereby the signal is generated after all interactions with the incoming fields, or in terms of scattering amplitudes where all fields are treated symetrically with no specific time ordering. Closed Green's function expressions derived for the two types of signals have different analytical properties. The recent controversy regarding the sign of radiative damping in the linear (Kramers Heisenberg) formula is put in a broader context.
(Erratum) An f(R) gravitation for galactic environments
Creators: name: Saffari, R.
name: Sobouti, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Without abstract.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Gutzwiller density functional theory for correlated electron systems
Creators: name: Ho, K. M.
name: Schmalian, J.
name: Wang, C. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a new density functional theory (DFT) and formalism for correlated electron systems by taking as reference an interacting electron system that has a ground state wavefunction which obeys exactly the Gutzwiller approximation for all one particle operators. The solution of the many electron problem is mapped onto the self-consistent solution of a set of single particle Schroedinger equations analogous to standard DFT-LDA calculations.
description: 4 pages
Recensione Report - Farinelli Francesco, Bergoglio Errico Francesco, Cossiga Anna Maria, Colarossi Enrico, - Comprendere la radicalizzazione jihadista Il caso Italia
Creators: name: Barbara, Caliandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Recensione Report - Farinelli Francesco, Bergoglio Errico Francesco, Cossiga Anna Maria, Colarossi Enrico, - Comprendere la radicalizzazione jihadista Il caso Italia
DEVELOPMENT OF THE HARRIS-HEAT PROGRAMFOR HIGH-SPEED TEST TRACK HEATING PREDICTION
Creators: name: Velte, Robert Patrick
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400106
subject: Hypersonic propulsion and hypersonic aerothermodynamics

description: The Holloman Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition (HBLT) project seeks to test the practicality of using the Holloman High Speed Test Track to investigate the effects of boundary layer transition on hypersonic bodies. Concurrently, the Harris-Heat Program is being developed to estimate the heat transfer and body temperatures experienced by the test article throughout the duration of the test. A nominal public release case inspired by blunt-cone work from Stetson is investigated. The geometry is a 30% blunt 8-deg half angle cone with a tungsten nosetip and stainless steel frustum, where all walls are 0.5 inches thick. Preliminary findings show that temperature histories measured by surface thermocouples will likely discern the onset of transition as a sudden rise in temperature and heat transfer. The nominal geometry is simulated over a Mach-6 velocity profile. Peak turbulent heating results in tungsten nosetip surface temperatures of up to approximately 1900 degrees Fahrenheit, with temperatures at the downstream end of the stainless steel frustum reaching about 850 degrees Fahrenheit.
El Metaverso como Medio de Resguardo para los Patrimonios Culturales de la Humanidad
Creators: name: GRITUR, Grupo de Investigadores en Turismo
name: Camargo Rada, Fernando
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430204
subject: Digital heritage
classificationCode: 430207
subject: Heritage tourism, visitor and audience studies

description: La siguiente investigación explora el potencial del metaverso en la preservación y difusión de patrimonios culturales, un campo que está ganando relevancia a medida que las tecnologías digitales avanzan rápidamente. Los metaversos, como The Sandbox y Descentraland, permiten la creación de réplicas digitales de cualquier elemento tangible o intangible del mundo real, ofreciendo una solución innovadora para su protección contra amenazas físicas y su democratización del acceso. Estas plataformas no solo facilitan experiencias educativas y turísticas inmersivas, sino que también abren nuevas vías de financiamiento a través de la comercialización de artefactos digitales como NFTs.Además, la investigación aborda la estrategia de Meta, que a pesar de no contar con un metaverso propio comparable a los ya mencionados, ha invertido significativamente en tecnologías de realidad aumentada (AR), realidad virtual (VR) y realidad mixta (MR) mediante Meta Spark AR. Este enfoque sugiere una futura integración del metaverso en el mundo real, transformando espacios físicos en entornos interactivos accesibles a través de dispositivos móviles, y cómo esta innovación puede ser aprovechada para la preservación patrimonial.Se destaca que la preservación de patrimonios culturales mediante el metaverso no es únicamente una cuestión tecnológica, sino también de voluntad política, compromiso social y responsabilidad cultural. La colaboración entre organizaciones culturales, tecnológicas y educativas será crucial para maximizar los beneficios de estas tecnologías y asegurar la accesibilidad y autenticidad de las experiencias patrimoniales digitales.
APPLICATE energy case study: understanding linkages between the Arctic and mid-latitudes
Creators: name: Terrado, Marta
name: Bojovic, Dragana
name: Isadora Christel
name: Acosta, Juan
name: Ortega, Pablo
name: Donat, Markus
name: Llorenç Lledó
name: Jóhannsson, Halldór
name: Jung, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Presentation on the APPLICATE energy case study in the webinar 'Climate services for energy: sharing knowledge through case studies' organised by the European H2020 project Climateurope
Classroom Incivility, Gender, Race, and Indigeneity in Higher Education: Faculty Perspectives on Social Factors and Identity Markers
Creators: name: Piquemal, Nathalie
name: Mahmud, Md. Nazim
name: Damasceno, Cintia
name: Heringer, Rebeca
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2021

description: Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with faculty members from a mid-sized university in Western Canada, this paper offers an examination of research participants’ experiences and perceptions of classroom incivility, particularly those that are shaped by social factors such as identity markers (race, ethnicity, gender) as well as cultural beliefs regarding what is considered politically sensitive subject-matter (in this case, indigeneity). Data analysis reveals that when research participants detect instances of incivility expressed as resentment around race, gender, and indigeneity, they struggle to find a balance between taking up the teaching moment and maintaining safe space. This paper offers a reflection on the extent to which research participants choose to assume intellectual candor when making sense of incivility. Pedagogical responses are highlighted in an effort to recognize the importance of a critical consciousness about social positioning, race relations, power, and privilege. Key words: Incivility, Race, Gender, Indigeneity, Higher Education. Reposant sur 20 entrevues semi-structurées avec des membres du corps professoral d'une université de taille moyenne dans l'Ouest canadien, cet article propose un examen des expériences et des perceptions des participants à la recherche en matière d'incivilité en classe, particulièrement celles qui sont façonnées par des facteurs sociaux tels que les marqueurs d'identité (race, ethnicité, sexe) ainsi que les croyances culturelles concernant ce qui est considéré comme un sujet politiquement sensible (dans ce cas, l'indigénéité). L'analyse des données révèle que lorsque les participants à la recherche détectent des cas d'incivilité exprimés sous forme de ressentiment autour de la race, du genre et de l'indigénéité, ils luttent pour trouver un équilibre entre la prise en charge du moment d'enseignement et le maintien d'un espace sûr. Cet article propose une réflexion sur la mesure dans laquelle les participants à la recherche choisissent d'assumer la franchise intellectuelle lorsqu'ils donnent un sens à l'incivilité. Les réponses pédagogiques sont mises en évidence dans le but de reconnaître l'importance d'une conscience critique du positionnement social, des relations raciales, du pouvoir et des privilèges. Mots clés : incivilité, race, genre, indigénéité, éducation supérieur
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 67 No. 4 (2021): Winter
Universal dynamical decoherence control of noisy single-and multi-qubit systems
Creators: name: Gordon, Goren
name: Erez, Noam
name: Kurizki, Gershon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we develop, step by step, the framework for universal dynamical control of two-level systems (TLS) or qubits experiencing amplitude- or phase-noise (AN or PN) due to coupling to a thermal bath. A comprehensive arsenal of modulation schemes is introduced and applied to either AN or PN, resulting in completely analogous formulae for the decoherence rates, thus underscoring the unified nature of this universal formalism. We then address the extension of this formalism to multipartite decoherence control, where symmetries are exploited to overcome decoherence.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures
Separable and Low-Rank Continuous Games
Creators: name: Stein, Noah D.
name: Ozdaglar, Asuman
name: Parrilo, Pablo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study nonzero-sum separable games, which are continuous games whose payoffs take a sum-of-products form. Included in this subclass are all finite games and polynomial games. We investigate the structure of equilibria in separable games. We show that these games admit finitely supported Nash equilibria. Motivated by the bounds on the supports of mixed equilibria in two-player finite games in terms of the ranks of the payoff matrices, we define the notion of the rank of an n-player continuous game and use this to provide bounds on the cardinality of the support of equilibrium strategies. We present a general characterization theorem that states that a continuous game has finite rank if and only if it is separable. Using our rank results, we present an efficient algorithm for computing approximate equilibria of two-player separable games with fixed strategy spaces in time polynomial in the rank of the game.
libjohn/intro2r-holepunch: update DESCRIPTION
Creators: name: Little, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: test
R
RStudio
Tidyverse

description: following the zenodo.org instructions to "Go to GitHub and create a release. " following the github instructions to create a release manually update the package DESCRIPTION file
description: This is a test of how library(holepunch) can facilitate creating a mybinder.org container out of a GitHub repository which is archiveed at Zenodo
Stroke-Based Scene Text Erasing Using Synthetic Data for Training
Creators: name: Tang, Zhengmi
name: Miyazaki, Tomo
name: Sugaya, Yoshihiro
name: Omachi, Shinichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scene text erasing, which replaces text regions with reasonable content in natural images, has drawn significant attention in the computer vision community in recent years. There are two potential subtasks in scene text erasing: text detection and image inpainting. Both subtasks require considerable data to achieve better performance; however, the lack of a large-scale real-world scene-text removal dataset does not allow existing methods to realize their potential. To compensate for the lack of pairwise real-world data, we made considerable use of synthetic text after additional enhancement and subsequently trained our model only on the dataset generated by the improved synthetic text engine. Our proposed network contains a stroke mask prediction module and background inpainting module that can extract the text stroke as a relatively small hole from the cropped text image to maintain more background content for better inpainting results. This model can partially erase text instances in a scene image with a bounding box or work with an existing scene-text detector for automatic scene text erasing. The experimental results from the qualitative and quantitative evaluation on the SCUT-Syn, ICDAR2013, and SCUT-EnsText datasets demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods even when they are trained on real-world data.
Northern Rural and Indigenous Canadian Children’s Responses to an Open-ended Writing Task: Comparisons of Children in First and Second Year of Kindergarten
Creators: name: Stagg Peterson, Shelley
name: Friedrich, Nicola
name: Portier, Christine
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2021

description: In this study, we offer a unique perspective of time spent in kindergarten and young children’s writing by presenting a multi-dimensional analysis of the writing of 72 children (5-years-old) living in northern communities in two Canadian provinces. We administered the Drawing, Writing, Talking Task (DWTT), a research-based classroom tool, in the fall and spring to children attending kindergarten in seven (six rural and one First Nations) schools. We assessed their writing in terms of their use of letters to write words, their spelling stage, and their intended content. Although the fall writing samples of children in their first year of kindergarten were significantly less developed than those of similar-aged children beginning their second year of kindergarten, by spring, the children’s writing was comparable. Our research adds to the literature on children’s learning and time spent in kindergarten by focusing on characteristics of young children’s writing, rather than test scores. Key words: writing assessment; early literacy; junior and senior kindergarten; Indigenous children’s literacy; rural children’s literacy Dans cette étude, nous offrons une perspective unique du temps passé à la maternelle et de l'écriture des jeunes enfants en présentant une analyse multidimensionnelle de l'écriture de 72 enfants âgés de 5 ans vivant dans des communautés nordiques de deux provinces canadiennes. Nous avons administré le Drawing, Writing, Talking Task (DWTT), un outil de classe basé sur la recherche, à l'automne et au printemps à des enfants fréquentant la maternelle dans sept écoles (six écoles rurales et une école des Premières nations). Nous avons évalué leur écriture en fonction de leur utilisation des lettres pour écrire des mots, de leur stade d'orthographe et du contenu visé. Bien que les échantillons d'écriture de l'automne des enfants en première année de maternelle étaient significativement moins développés que ceux d'enfants d'âge similaire commençant leur deuxième année de maternelle, au printemps, l'écriture des enfants était comparable. Notre recherche s'ajoute à la littérature sur l'apprentissage des enfants et le temps passé en maternelle en se concentrant sur les caractéristiques de l'écriture des jeunes enfants plutôt que sur les résultats des tests. Mots clés: évaluation de l'écriture; littératie précoce; maternelle et jardin d'enfants; littératie des enfants autochtones; littératie des enfants en milieu rural
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 67 No. 4 (2021): Winter
An Introduction to the Use of Computers In Bovine Practice
Creators: name: Davidson, Jeffrey N.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1981

description: Electronic data processors, computers, have been around since World War II. The first computers were used for decoding of German War codes. From the early l 950's to the l 970's there was a slow evolution of development which had little direct effect on bovine practitioners. The closest the profession came to computers was through Dairy Herd Improvement Centers which utilized large computers to help manage the production records. To this date, DHI Centers have concentrated on utilizing a large mainframe computer and maintaining a central data base. During the I 970's came a wave of new technology that led to the introduction of the microcomputer. This new technology has created an entirely new industry involving the microcomputer and the peripherals and services associated with it.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1981
Material, Human, and Social Capital in the Professional Learning Community and Correlations With Teacher/School Characteristics
Creators: name: Bouchamma, Yamina
name: Basque, Marc
name: April, Daniel
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2021

description: This study examines the practices and perceptions of Canadian teachers (N = 172) from the provinces of Québec and New Brunswick with respect to the professional learning community (PLC) in light of several sociodemographic and socioprofessional characteristics of the teachers and those of their school. Factor analyses and correlation tests were thus conducted to determine factor validity and the presence of between-factor connections. The conceptual framework was composed of three groups of predictive factors, namely, material and school-based (material capital), human (human capital), and social (social capital) conditions. This study will enrich the knowledge base on PLCs by describing certain positive and negative correlations and will also contribute to school practices and decisions to prepare and improve the development of Professional learning communities (PLCs) and guide them toward total sustainment. Keywords: Professional learning communities, School environment, Teacher collaboration, PLC teacher beliefs/perceptions, PLC teacher practices Cette étude porte sur les pratiques et les perceptions d’enseignants canadiens (N = 172) provenant du Québec et du Nouveau-Brunswick à l'égard de la communauté d'apprentissage professionnelle (CAP) et ce, en lien avec plusieurs de leurs caractéristiques sociodémographiques et socioprofessionnelles et de celles relatives à leur école. Des analyses factorielles et des tests de corrélation ont été effectués pour examiner la validité factorielle et les liens entre les facteurs. Le cadre conceptuel est composé de trois groupes de facteurs, à savoir les conditions matérielles et institutionnelles (capital matériel), humaines (capital humain) et sociales (capital social). Cette étude enrichit la base de connaissances sur les CAP en décrivant certaines corrélations positives et négatives et contribue également aux pratiques et aux décisions prises dans les écoles afin de préparer et d’améliorer le développement des CAP, et ce, pour amener celles-ci vers la maturité. Mots clés: Communautés d'apprentissage professionnelles (CAP); environnement scolaire; collaboration des enseignants; croyances et perceptions des enseignants; pratiques des enseignants en CAP.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 67 No. 4 (2021): Winter
Extreme points of the set of density matrices with positive partial transpose
Creators: name: Leinaas, Jon Magne
name: Myrheim, Jan
name: Ovrum, Eirik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite dimensional density matrix to be an extreme point of the convex set of density matrices with positive partial transpose with respect to a subsystem. We also give an algorithm for finding such extreme points and illustrate this by some examples.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Benefits for Researchers and Practitioners
Creators: name: Brown, Barbara
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this research was to study how researchers and practitioners from universities and school authorities in Alberta, Canada, lead eleven research partnership projects, shared work and learning responsibilities, as well as understood their common challenges. Project leaders (N = 38) revealed their perceptions of the research partnership through an online survey and semi-structured interviews. Practitioners indicated advantages to partnering such as access to research expertise and data analysis tools in addition to deepening their research skills for educational decision making. Researchers outlined three benefits to the partnership: having access to research sites, learning more about current issues in schools, and developing relationships with practitioners. The researchers explained that these relationships would facilitate their ability to complete future research and conduct knowledge mobilization activities that would reach professional and academic audiences. Both researchers and participants identified challenges, such as time, communications, reporting requirements, and unforeseen circumstances while engaging in these research partnerships. Key words: University-school partnerships; educational partnerships; researcher-practitioner partnership; knowledge mobilization; case study L'objectif de cette recherche était d'étudier comment les chercheurs et les praticiens des universités et des autorités scolaires de l'Alberta, au Canada, ont dirigé onze projets de partenariat de recherche, partagé les responsabilités de travail et d'apprentissage, et perçu leurs défis communs. Les chefs de projet (N = 38) ont révélé leurs perceptions du partenariat de recherche par le biais d'un sondage en ligne et d'entrevues semi-structurées. Les praticiens ont indiqué les avantages du partenariat, tels que l'accès à l'expertise en recherche et aux outils d'analyse des données, en plus de l'approfondissement de leurs compétences en recherche pour la prise de décision en matière d'éducation. Les chercheurs ont souligné trois avantages du partenariat : avoir accès à des sites de recherche, en apprendre davantage sur les problèmes actuels dans les écoles et développer des relations avec les praticiens. Les chercheurs ont expliqué que ces relations faciliteraient leur capacité à réaliser des recherches futures et à mener des activités de mobilisation des connaissances qui toucheraient des publics professionnels et universitaires. Les chercheurs et les participants ont identifié des défis, tels que le temps, les communications, les exigences en matière de rapports et les circonstances imprévues, dans le cadre de ces partenariats de recherche. Mots clés : partenariats université-école; partenariats éducatifs; partenariat chercheur-praticien; mobilisation des connaissances; étude de cas.
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 67 No. 4 (2021): Winter
Charge accumulation at the boundaries of a graphene strip induced by a gate voltage: Electrostatic approach
Creators: name: Silvestrov, P. G.
name: Efetov, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distribution of charge induced by a gate voltage in a graphene strip is investigated. We calculate analytically the charge profile and demonstrate a strong(macroscopic) charge accumulation along the boundaries of a micrometers-wide strip. This charge inhomogeneity is especially important in the quantum Hall regime where we predict the doubling of the number of edge states and coexistence of two different types of such states. Applications to graphene-based nanoelectronics are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, Title changed due to Editor
International technology transfer with an information asymmetry and endogenous research and development
Creators: name: Wright, Donald John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis developed a partial equilibrium model of international technology transfer in which the extent of technological change and the mode of technology transfer were endogenous. This endogeneity was obtained by explicitly considering the problem faced by a monopolist that was trying to lower production costs by undertaking research and development and was trying to maximise global profit by transferring technology abroad. The modes of transfer considered were (1) the export of goods, (2) production abroad in a wholly owned subsidiary, and (3) licensing a foreign producer. A fixed cost was assumed to be associated with subsidiary production while transfer via license was assumed to involve an information asymmetry. The interaction of the fixed cost, the information asymmetry, and convex cost functions at home and abroad determined which mode of transfer was optimal. Initially it was assumed that research and development resulted in either a high or low cost technology and that license contracts were characterised by a market share restriction and a lump sum payment. Some results that emerged from the analysis of the transfer decision were, that licensing always dominated the export of goods and the high cost technology was always licensed. The welfare implications of the home country banning technology transfer via license or subsidiary were derived. In general, the welfare effects were ambiguous depending on the interaction of a profit, price, and research and development effect. The foreign country policies that were considered also had ambiguous welfare effects. Although ambiguous welfare results are disappointing, the model does highlight important welfare effects that have not been formalised in previous work. A number of extensions to the basic model were considered. The first was increasing the number of possible technology types, and the second was including per unit royalties in license contracts. Under both extensions ambiguous welfare results were still obtained. The third and final extension involved eliminating market share restrictions from license contracts. With complete information it was shown that the owner of the new technology may license a potential competitor. The solution of the incomplete information problem is a proposed area of future research.
Additional file 2: of The association of neck circumference with incident congestive heart failure and coronary heart disease mortality in a community-based population with or without sleep-disordered breathing
Creators: name: Zhang, Jingjing
name: Guo, Qi
name: Peng, Liyuan
name: Li, Jiamei
name: Gao, Ya
name: Yan, Bin
name: Fang, Bangjiang
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Table S1. Characteristics of subjects between the population with SDB and non-SDB. (DOC 18 kb)
A comparison of three replication strategies in complex multicellular organisms: Asexual replication, sexual replication with identical gametes, and sexual replication with distinct sperm and egg gametes
Creators: name: Tannenbaum, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper studies the mutation-selection balance in three simplified replication models. The first model considers a population of organisms replicating via the production of asexual spores. The second model considers a sexually replicating population that produces identical gametes. The third model considers a sexually replicating population that produces distinct sperm and egg gametes. All models assume diploid organisms whose genomes consist of two chromosomes, each of which is taken to be functional if equal to some master sequence, and defective otherwise. In the asexual population, the asexual diploid spores develop directly into adult organisms. In the sexual populations, the haploid gametes enter a haploid pool, where they may fuse with other haploids. The resulting immature diploid organisms then proceed to develop into mature organisms. Based on an analysis of all three models, we find that, as organism size increases, a sexually replicating population can only outcompete an asexually replicating population if the adult organisms produce distinct sperm and egg gametes. A sexual replication strategy that is based on the production of large numbers of sperm cells to fertilize a small number of eggs is found to be necessary in order to maintain a sufficiently low cost for sex for the strategy to be selected for over a purely asexual strategy. We discuss the usefulness of this model in understanding the evolution and maintenance of sexual replication as the preferred replication strategy in complex, multicellular organisms.
description: 18 pages, figures included with journal submission
The Statistics of the Points Where Nodal Lines Intersect a Reference Curve
Creators: name: Aronovitch, Amit
name: Smilansky, Uzy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the intersection points of a fixed planar curve $Γ$ with the nodal set of a translationally invariant and isotropic Gaussian random field $Ψ(\bi{r})$ and the zeros of its normal derivative across the curve. The intersection points form a discrete random process which is the object of this study. The field probability distribution function is completely specified by the correlation $G(|\bi{r}-\bi{r}'|) = $. Given an arbitrary $G(|\bi{r}-\bi{r}'|)$, we compute the two point correlation function of the point process on the line, and derive other statistical measures (repulsion, rigidity) which characterize the short and long range correlations of the intersection points. We use these statistical measures to quantitatively characterize the complex patterns displayed by various kinds of nodal networks. We apply these statistics in particular to nodal patterns of random waves and of eigenfunctions of chaotic billiards. Of special interest is the observation that for monochromatic random waves, the number variance of the intersections with long straight segments grows like $L \ln L$, as opposed to the linear growth predicted by the percolation model, which was successfully used to predict other long range nodal properties of that field.
description: 33 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
Community and Teacher Education, Convergence or Divergence? Saskatoon and the Saskatoon Normal School, 1930–1950
Creators: name: Lemisko, Lynn Ellen
name: Porter, Gemma
name: Clausen, Kurt
Publisher: name: Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Year: 2021

description: Teacher education in Canada is a contested discipline with long standing national and international debates about what teachers need to know and be able to do. But teacher education programmes are also influenced by the social, political, and economic context in which the programmes developed, so it is reasonable to suppose that debates about teacher education programming are connected to local issues and concerns of the community. Given the supposition that teacher education programming is shaped, at least in part, by the tensions and contentions arising in particular localities, this study provides historical insight into the relationship between a local community and a teacher education program by examining connections between the Saskatoon Normal School teacher education program and the community of Saskatoon in the years of 1930–1950. Key words: history of teacher education; community and teacher education La formation des enseignants au Canada est une discipline contestée qui fait l'objet de débats nationaux et internationaux de longue date sur ce que les enseignants doivent savoir et être capables de faire. Mais les programmes de formation des enseignants sont également influencés par le contexte social, politique et économique dans lequel ils ont été élaborés. Il est donc raisonnable de supposer que les débats sur les programmes de formation des enseignants sont liés aux questions et préoccupations locales de la communauté. Étant donné l'hypothèse selon laquelle les programmes de formation des enseignants sont façonnés, du moins en partie, par les tensions et les différends qui surgissent dans des localités particulières, cette étude fournit un aperçu historique de la relation entre une communauté locale et un programme de formation des enseignants en examinant les liens entre le programme de formation des enseignants de la Saskatoon Normal School et la communauté de Saskatoon dans les années 1930-1950. Mots clés: histoire de la formation des enseignants; communauté et formation des enseignants
description: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 67 No. 4 (2021): Winter