cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
GASS: The Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey. Update: improved correction for instrumental effects and new data release
Creators: name: Kalberla, Peter M. W.
name: Haud, Urmas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galactic All-Sky Survey is a survey of Galactic atomic hydrogen emission in the southern sky observed with the Parkes 64-m Radio Telescope. The first data release (GASS I) concerned survey goals and observing techniques, the second release (GASS II) focused on stray radiation and instrumental corrections. We seek to remove the remaining instrumental effects and present a third data release. We use the HEALPix tessellation concept to grid the data on the sphere. Individual telescope records are compared with averages on the nearest grid position for significant deviations. All averages are also decomposed into Gaussian components with the aim of segregating unacceptable solutions. Improved priors are used for an iterative baseline fitting and cleaning. In the last step we generate 3-D FITS data cubes and examine them for remaining problems. We have removed weak, but systematic baseline offsets with an improved baseline fitting algorithm. We have unraveled correlator failures that cause time dependent oscillations; errors cause stripes in the scanning direction. The remaining problems from radio frequency interference (RFI) are spotted. Classifying the severeness of instrumental errors for each individual telescope record (dump) allows us to exclude bad data from averages. We derive parameters that allow us to discard dumps without compromising the noise of the resulting data products too much. All steps are reiterated several times: in each case, we check the Gaussian parameters for remaining problems and inspect 3-D FITS data cubes visually. We find that in total ~1.5% of the telescope dumps need to be discarded in addition to ~0.5% of the spectral channels that were excluded in GASS II.The new data release facilitates data products with improved quality. A new web interface, compatible with the previous version, is available for download of GASS III FITS cubes and spectra.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
How to teach pupils to read. Presentation of a methodology
Creators: name: Ventriglia, Luciana
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: In this paper I present the first literacy method I have developed over many years of experience and teaching training in the educational system. The method has, as its frame of reference, the characteristics of transparency of the Italian spelling system, which stimulates a phonic-syllabic approach. The first phase to acquire the written code takes into consideration the fact that reading and writing are complex functions composed of multiple subordinate processes: linguistic-metalinguistic-visual-spatial-perceptive and motor skills which have to be optimally developed through a precise and targeted program strictly aimed at results. The approach to the first literacy skills must be systematic in order to allow the progressive building of knowledge and to facilitate the monitoring of the evolution of the process of written language acquisition. I also provide qualitative and quantitative evidence confirming the validity and effectiveness of the teaching methodology. Come insegnare a leggere ai bambini. Presentazione di una metodologia In questo lavoro presento il metodo di prima alfabetizzazione che ho messo a punto attraverso diversi anni di esperienza e su cui faccio formazione nella scuola. Il metodo ha come schema di riferimento le caratteristiche di trasparenza del sistema ortografico italiano che sollecita un approccio di tipo fonico-sillabico. La metodologia per le prime fasi di acquisizione del codice scritto prende in considerazione che scrittura e lettura sono funzioni complesse composte da una molteplicità di processi sottostanti: abilità linguistiche, metalinguistiche, visuo-spaziali, percettive e motorie che devono essere sviluppate in modo ottimale attraverso una progettazione rigorosa e mirata. L’approccio alla prima alfabetizzazione deve essere sistematico per permettere la costruzione progressiva delle conoscenze e favorire il monitoraggio dell’evoluzione del processo di acquisizione della lingua scritta. Adduco anche evidenze di tipo qualitativo e quantitativo che confermano la validità ed efficacia della metodologia didattica.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Study of the $e^+e^-\to K^+K^-$ reaction in the energy range from 2.6 to 8.0 GeV
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $e^+e^-\to K^+K^-$ cross section and charged-kaon electromagnetic form factor are measured in the $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy range ($E$) from 2.6 to 8.0 GeV using the initial-state radiation technique with an undetected photon. The study is performed using 469 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II $e^+e^-$ collider at center-of-mass energies near 10.6 GeV. The form factor is found to decrease with energy faster than $1/E^2$, and approaches the asymptotic QCD prediction. Production of the $K^+K^-$ final state through the $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)$ intermediate states is observed. The results for the kaon form factor are used together with data from other experiments to perform a model-independent determination of the relative phases between single-photon and strong amplitudes in $J/ψ$ and $ψ(2S)\to K^+K^-$ decays. The values of the branching fractions measured in the reaction $e^+e^- \to K^+K^-$ are shifted relative to their true values due to interference between resonant and nonresonant amplitudes. The values of these shifts are determined to be about $\pm5\%$ for the $J/ψ$ meson and $\pm15\%$ for the $ψ(2S)$ meson.
description: 18 pages, 19 postscript figures
Modelling Australian Domestic and International Inbound Travel: a Spatial-Temporal Approach
Creators: name: Deng, Minfeng
name: Athanasopoulos, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: In this paper Australian domestic and international inbound travel are modelled by an anisotropic dynamic spatial lag panel Origin-Destination (OD) travel flow model. Spatial OD travel flow models have traditionally been applied in a single cross-sectional context, where the spatial structure is assumed to have reached its long run equilibrium and temporal dynamics are not explicitly considered. On the other hand, spatial effects are rarely accounted for in traditional tourism demand modelling. We attempt to address this dichotomy between spatial modelling and time series modelling in tourism research by using a spatial-temporal model. In particular, tourism behaviour is modelled as travel flows between regions. Temporal dependencies are accounted for via the inclusion of autoregressive components, while spatial autocorrelations are explicitly accounted for at both the origin and the destination. We allow the strength of spatial autocorrelation to exhibit seasonal variations, and we allow for the possibility of asymmetry between capital-city neighbours and non-capital-city neighbours. Significant spatial dynamics have been uncovered, which lead to some interesting policy implications.
Dissection of molecular assembly dynamics by tracking orientation and position of single molecules in live cells
Creators: name: Tani, Tomomi
name: Oldenbourg, Rudolf
name: Mehta, Shalin B.
name: McQuilken, Molly
name: Occhipinti, Patricia
name: Gladfelter, Amy S.
name: La Riviere, Patrick J.
name: Verma, Amitabh
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In living cells, the 3D architecture of molecular assemblies, such as chromosomes, lipid bilayers, and the cytoskeleton, is regulated through the interaction among their component molecules. Monitoring the position and orientation of constituent molecules is important for understanding the mechanisms that govern the structure and function of these assemblies. We have developed an instantaneous fluorescence polarization microscope to track the position and orientation of fluorescently labeled particles, including single molecules, which form micrometer-scale macromolecular assemblies in living cells. Our imaging approach is broadly applicable to the study of dynamic molecular interactions that underpin the function of micrometer-scale assemblies in living cells.
The role of stage in teacher training for early childhood education: a debate, the University of Florence and the University of Vale do Itajaí models
Creators: name: Bonfanti, Claudete
name: Silva, Clara Maria
name: Schlindwein, Luciane Maria
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The paper discusses the stage role in teacher training for early childhood education. Are research subjects the trainees of the Faculty of Education at the University of Vale do Itajaí (Brazil) in 2014, and Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formazione Primaria indirizzo Scuola dell’infanzia dell’Università di Firenze (Italy) in 2015. The study is guided in qualitative research (Bogdan & Biklen, 1994). Interviews and documents of both courses were analyzed. We seek to support the theoretical studies (Bondioli & Ferrari, 2008; Calvani, 2014; Catarsi, 2014; Catarsi & Fortunati, 2012; Gomes, 2009; Pimenta & Lima, 2012; Silva, 2014). The analysis indicates that sometimes the students do not understand the connection between theory and practice, referring to the internship in the child education. It is considered that overcoming the dichotomy between theory and practice constitutes weakness to be overcome in the initial training of future teachers. We did not intend to compare the two contexts, but this paper is a suggestion for future researchers to continue the debate on the weaknesses identified in this research. O papel do estágio na formação de professores para a educação infantil: em debate, o modelo da Università degli Studi di Firenze e o da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí O trabalho discute o papel do estágio na formação dos professores para a educação infantil. São sujeitos da pesquisa as estagiárias do curso de Pedagogia da Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (Brasil), em 2014, e do Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Formazione Primaria indirizzo Scuola dell’infanzia dell’Università di Firenze (Italia), em 2015. O estudo pauta-se na abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa (Bogdan & Biklen, 1994) e foram analisados entrevistas e documentos de ambos os cursos. Buscou-se respaldo nos estudos teóricos de (Bondioli & Ferrari, 2008; Calvani, 2014; Catarsi, 2014; Catarsi & Fortunati, 2012; Gomes, 2009; Pimenta & Lima, 2012; Silva, 2014). A análise indica que não é sempre que as estudantes compreendem a conexão entre teoria e prática, ao se tratar do estágio em educação infantil. Considera-se que a superação da dicotomia entre teoria e prática se constitui em fragilidade a ser superada na formação dos futuros professores. Não tivemos a intenção de comparar os dois contextos, todavia fica a sugestão para futuros pesquisadores de continuar o debate em torno das fragilidades apontadas na presente pesquisa.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Risks and opportunities of digital technologies in the school. Reflections about planning the teacher’s training
Creators: name: Vayola, Patrizia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: Looking forward to the new intensive sessions of teacher training about the use of digital technologies promised by the Italian National plan for Digital school, this paper points out some risks to avoid and some opportunities to highlight. The aim is to ensure that teachers understand the value and the limits of the use of digital technologies in everyday didactics and are able to individuate the settings and the objectives in which technology supply actually results useful. I rischi e le opportunità del digitale a scuola. Spunti di riflessione per progettare la formazione dei docenti In vista delle nuove intensive tornate di formazione dei docenti all’uso delle tecnologie digitali promosse dall’attuazione del Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale, l’articolo segnala alcuni rischi da evitare ed alcune opportunità da sottolineare per fare in modo che gli insegnanti comprendano valore e limiti dell’introduzione di questi strumenti nella didattica quotidiana e siano in grado di individuare gli ambiti e gli obiettivi per i quali può essere utile il loro apporto.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Topological representation of intuitionistic and distributive abstract logics
Creators: name: Brunner, Andreas B. M.
name: Lewitzka, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We continue work of our earlier paper (Lewitzka and Brunner: Minimally generated abstract logics, Logica Universalis 3(2), 2009), where abstract logics and particularly intuitionistic abstract logics are studied. Abstract logics can be topologized in a direct and natural way. This facilitates a topological study of classes of concrete logics whenever they are given in abstract form. Moreover, such a direct topological approach avoids the often complex algebraic and lattice-theoretic machinery usually applied to represent logics. Motivated by that point of view, we define in this paper the category of intuitionistic abstract logics with stable logic maps as morphisms, and the category of implicative spectral spaces with spectral maps as morphisms. We show the equivalence of these categories and conclude that the larger categories of distributive abstract logics and distributive sober spaces are equivalent, too.
description: 19 pages. The results of this article were presented in a session at the XVI. Brazilian Logic Conference EBL in Petr\'opolis, Brazil, in 2011
Erratum to: Updated measurement of time-dependent $$C\!P$$CP-violating observables in $${{B} ^0_{s}} \rightarrow J/\psi K^+ K^-$$Bs0→J/ψK+K- decays
Creators: name: More Than 100 Authors
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: For a complete list of authors, please look at article.
description: In the Introduction section of the original article [1].
The effective teacher: definition and main aspects in the educational research
Creators: name: Concina, Eleonora
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: For fostering a significant learning process, the teacher has a relevant role, as a co-protagonist with the student in the educational process. For this reason, many studies in the educational field have tried to examine the main characteristics of the effective teacher. They have searched for a more general dimension of efficacy, which can summarize effective teacher’s aspects that are common in different disciplines. With the knowledge of disciplinary contents, elements connected to teacher’s personal and professional dimensions have emerged. The aim of the present paper is to consider the main international research contributions on effective teacher and to suggest a summary model, which can offer a representation of the relationships between the different elements. L’insegnante efficace: definizione e caratteristiche nella ricerca educativa La figura del docente assume un ruolo rilevante nella promozione di un apprendimento significativo, come co-protagonista, insieme con lo studente, del processo educativo. Per questo motivo numerosi studi in ambito educativo hanno cercato di esaminare le caratteristiche dell’insegnante efficace. Si è cercato di delineare una dimensione di efficacia più generale, che riassuma aspetti comuni degli insegnanti considerati efficaci in varie discipline. Accanto alla conoscenza dei contenuti disciplinari, sono emersi elementi legati alla dimensione personale e a quella professionale del docente. L’obiettivo del presente articolo è di considerare i principali contributi internazionali di ricerca relativi alla tematica dell’insegnante efficace e di proporre un modello, che possa fornire indicazioni sulle possibili relazioni tra i diversi elementi.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Learning to learn: comparing learning and teaching style
Creators: name: Falcinelli, Floriana
name: Gaggioli, Cristina
name: Capponi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The essay concerns a survey that has been made with the students and teachers of two secondary and high schools in Città della Pieve (PG - Italy). The aim of this survey is the knowledge comprehension and comparison of the students’ learning styles 1and the teachers’ teaching styles. In the educational environment the relevance of individual differences is unquestionable; the knowledge of students’ learning styles allows the teacher to take advantage of individual abilities. Two different questionnaires have been submitted and the results have been examined to analyse the students’ learning styles and to study the teachers’ teaching styles. The obtained data concern the fundamental themes related to the learning and teaching process. Imparare ad imparare: stili di apprendimento e di insegnamento a confronto Il contributo descrive l’indagine, condotta in due classi delle scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado di Città della Pieve (PG), volta a rilevare e comparare gli stili di apprendimento degli studenti e gli stili d’insegnamento dei loro docenti. L’importanza di considerare le differenze individuali è per l’ambito educativo indiscutibile, dal momento che solo conoscendo le modalità attraverso cui gli studenti apprendono, un insegnante può riuscire a valorizzare le attitudini di ognuno. I risultati emersi dalla somministrazione di due distinti questionari, sono stati esaminati con il duplice scopo di: approfondire la conoscenza degli stili di apprendimento e avviare una riflessione sugli stili di insegnamento dei docenti. I dati raccolti toccano aspetti fondamentali delle tematiche legate ai processi di apprendimento e di insegnamento.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Multivariate exponential smoothing for forecasting tourist arrivals to Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: de Silva, Ashton
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: In this paper we propose a new set of multivariate stochastic models that capture time varying seasonality within the vector innovations structural time series (VISTS) framework. These models encapsulate exponential smoothing methods in a multivariate setting. The models considered are the local level, local trend and damped trend VISTS models with an additive multivariate seasonal component. We evaluate their performances for forecasting international tourist arrivals from eleven source countries to Australia and New Zealand.
The collaborative dimension between participation and learning in teachers’ education
Creators: name: Annese, Susanna
name: Loperfido, Fedela Feldia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: This paper assumes that collaborative learning is a tool to generate innovation in educational activities, as participation to social practices is strongly connected with learning activities. We will describe a training experience for 129 teachers, that can be placed in a diagnostic step of action-research. The teachers, from different school levels, were divided into groups involved in collaborative learning practices by activities, jigsaw or progressive inquiry. Through self-report items and graphical representations, both individual and group contributions to learning and participation processes were perceived. The iconic, descriptive and correlational analyses have shown that social and educational dynamics are closely linked in the collaborative dimension and can promote the planning of future interventions. La dimensione collaborativa tra partecipazione e apprendimento nella formazione degli insegnanti Il presente articolo considera l’apprendimento collaborativo uno strumento per generare innovazione nelle attività educative, per cui la partecipazione a pratiche sociali diventa inscindibilmente connessa alla realizzazione delle attività di apprendimento. Di seguito sarà descritta un’esperienza di formazione per 129 insegnanti, collocabile in uno step diagnostico di action-research. I docenti, appartenenti a diversi ordini scolastici, sono stati divisi in gruppi coinvolti in pratiche di apprendimento collaborativo per attività, jigsaw o indagine progressiva. Attraverso una scheda di auto-osservazione e rappresentazioni grafiche, è stato rilevato il contributo individuale e gruppale ai processi di partecipazione e apprendimento. Le analisi iconiche, descrittive e correlazionali hanno messo in evidenza come dinamica sociale ed educativa siano strettamente connesse nella dimensione collaborativa e in grado di stimolare la pianificazione di interventi futuri.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Distinct cortical and striatal actions of a β-arrestin-biased dopamine D2 receptor ligand reveal unique antipsychotic-like properties.
Creators: name: Roth, Bryan L.
name: Rodriguiz, Ramona M.
name: Caron, Marc G.
name: Gee, Steven M.
name: Snyder, Joshua C.
name: O'Donnell, Patricio
name: Borrelli, Emiliana
name: Wetsel, William C.
name: McCorvy, John D.
name: Urs, Nikhil M.
name: Snyder, Solomon H.
name: Pack, Thomas F.
name: Evron, Tama
name: Yang, Xiaobao
name: Jin, Jian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The current dopamine (DA) hypothesis of schizophrenia postulates striatal hyperdopaminergia and cortical hypodopaminergia. Although partial agonists at DA D2 receptors (D2Rs), like aripiprazole, were developed to simultaneously target both phenomena, they do not effectively improve cortical dysfunction. In this study, we investigate the potential for newly developed β-arrestin2 (βarr2)-biased D2R partial agonists to simultaneously target hyper- and hypodopaminergia. Using neuron-specific βarr2-KO mice, we show that the antipsychotic-like effects of a βarr2-biased D2R ligand are driven through both striatal antagonism and cortical agonism of D2R-βarr2 signaling. Furthermore, βarr2-biased D2R agonism enhances firing of cortical fast-spiking interneurons. This enhanced cortical agonism of the biased ligand can be attributed to a lack of G-protein signaling and elevated expression of βarr2 and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) kinase 2 in the cortex versus the striatum. Therefore, we propose that βarr2-biased D2R ligands that exert region-selective actions could provide a path to develop more effective antipsychotic therapies.
The professional profile of quality teacher
Creators: name: Tammaro, Rosanna
name: Calenda, Marika
name: Ferrantino, Concetta
name: Guglielmini, Maura
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The paper examines in depth the importance of teachers, seen as professionals able to generate an improvement on the quality and effectiveness of instruction and education. The teacher profile describes a complex profession, which does not perform only in the classroom but also in the whole school and in the community, in a permanent development. The overview on Italian and European models profile expected for teachers sheds light the gradual emerging of new competences in relation to current challenges of education. The expertise of teachers is seen as a set of cognitive, affective, social and instrumental competences, in which assume particular importance the specific characteristics of the educational context. Il profilo professionale dell’insegnante di qualità Nel contributo si pone al centro l’importanza della figura dell’insegnante, intesa come professionalità capace di generare un miglioramento rispetto alla qualità e all’efficacia di istruzione e formazione. Il profilo dell’insegnante descrive una professione complessa, che non si esplica solo in classe, ma anche nella scuola e nella comunità, in uno sviluppo permanente. L’excursus sui modelli italiani ed europei dei profili attesi per gli insegnanti mette in luce il progressivo emergere di competenze nuove in relazione alle sfide attuali dell’educazione. L’expertise degli insegnanti è intesa come un insieme di competenze cognitive, affettive, sociali e strumentali, in cui particolare rilevanza è assunta dal carattere situato, dunque alle specificità del contesto educativo.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Spin chain in magnetic field: limitations of the large-N mean-field theory
Creators: name: Wohlfeld, Krzysztof
name: Chen, Cheng-Chien
name: van Veenendaal, Michel
name: Devereaux, Thomas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent success in describing the spin and orbital spectrum of a spin-orbital chain using a large-N mean-field approximation [Phys. Rev. B 91, 165102 (2015)], we apply the same formalism to the case of a spin chain in the external magnetic field. It occurs that in this case, which corresponds to N=2 in the approximation, the large-N mean-field theory cannot qualitatively reproduce the spin excitation spectra at high magnetic fields, which polarize more than 50% of the spins in the magnetic ground state. This, rather counterintuitively, shows that the physics of a spin chain can under some circumstances be regarded as more complex than the physics of a spin-orbital chain.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; appeared in the proceedings of the European Conference "Physics of Magnetism" (2014)
Resilience and motivation: a training course for primary teachers
Creators: name: Schiavone, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: The research starts from a reflection on educational resilience as a prerequisite for the development of inclusive competences for teachers. 42 teachers and 226 students were involved from three primary schools in the province of Trapani and Palermo, situated in contexts at risk of cultural degradation, early school dropout and high multiculturalism. Research enabled teachers to know and deal with the sense of resilience, not yet widely known, in view of the educational/developmental context, providing them with tools and materials to be used in the classroom, in order to carry out activities, promote resilience and support processes of inclusion by providing causes for reflection on their professional motivation. Resilienza e motivazione: un percorso per la formazione dei docenti di scuola primaria La ricerca nasce dalla riflessione sull’aspetto educativo della resilienza come presupposto per lo sviluppo di competenze inclusive per i docenti. Sono stati coinvolti 42 docenti e 226 studenti di tre scuole primarie della provincia di Trapani e Palermo, situate in contesti a rischio di degrado culturale, dispersione scolastica ed alta multiculturalità. Il percorso di ricerca ha permesso agli insegnanti di conoscere e di affrontare il costrutto di resilienza, non ancora ampiamente conosciuto, in un’ottica di tipo educativo/evolutivo fornendo loro strumenti e materiali da applicare in classe per la realizzazione di attività per promuovere la resilienza e favorire processi di inclusione ed offrendo spunti di riflessione sulla loro motivazione alla professione.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Rubric to improve teachers’ self-assessment
Creators: name: Pedone, Francesca
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: Through this research we focused on features related to teachers’ self-assessment, understood as a systematic process of examination and as a review of the practices put in place by a professional community. This paper documents a research carried out with a group of 144 in-service teachers. In order to allow teachers to become more aware of their own educational and teaching practice, it was decided to design and develop together with them in a cooperative structure, a rubric for self-assessment of their own skills. In final results we can see that the rubric design and development process was for the teachers a moment of analysis, reflection and discussion on professionalism, about the meaning of the actions. Through the rubric, teachers were equipped with the means to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their professional competence. This instrument also facilitated the integration and effective combination of self-assessment and development, looking forward to an organic design of effective and inclusive educational programs. La rubrica per promuovere l’autovalutazione degli insegnanti Attraverso la ricerca presentata si sono voluti mettere a fuoco quegli aspetti legati all’autovalutazione degli insegnanti, intesa come processo sistematico di esame e revisione delle pratiche messe in opera da una comunità professionale. Questo lavoro documenta una ricerca svolta con un gruppo di 144 docenti in servizio. Per consentire agli insegnanti di acquisire maggiore consapevolezza della propria pratica educativa e didattica, si è scelto di progettare e realizzare insieme a loro, in assetto cooperativo, una rubrica per l’autovalutazione dell’efficacia dell’insegnamento. Nei risultati finali si evidenzia come il processo di progettazione e costruzione della rubrica abbia rappresentato per gli insegnanti un momento di analisi, di riflessione e di confronto sulla propria professionalità e sul significato delle azioni compiute. Attraverso la rubrica gli insegnanti sono stati messi nelle condizioni di individuare i punti di forza e le criticità della loro competenza professionale. Tale strumento ha, inoltre, favorito l’integrazione e il connubio efficace tra autovalutazione e sviluppo, in vista di una progettazione organica di percorsi educativi efficaci.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
title: The Mathematical Relation between IFVM2022 as expressed in ITRF2020 with IFVM2022 as Expressed in the Four Terrestrial Reference Frames of the Modernized NSRS with Dependence on EPP2022
Creators: name: Smith , Dru
Publisher: name: National Geodetic Survey (U.S.)
Year: 2021

description: NOAA technical memorandum NOS NGS ; 90
Effect of holding office on the behavior of politicians
Creators: name: Enemark, Daniel
name: McCubbins, Mathew D.
name: Gibson, Clark C.
name: Seim, Brigitte
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Does being elected to political office change an individual’s behavior? Some scholars and policymakers assert that elected officials are inherently different from nonpoliticians, whereas others argue that political institutions or the culture of politics inculcate certain behaviors. We identify the effect of holding office on behavior. We recruit in-office and out-of-office politicians in Zambia to participate in behavioral games that measure reciprocity, a behavioral trait that underpins various interactions in the political arena from bribery to lobbying to legislative bargaining. We find that holding elected office causes an increase in reciprocity. The policy implication of this finding is that political institutions, culture, and incentive structures can be designed to shape the behavior and choices of society’s leaders.
Co-Designing Digital Health Solutions with Refugee Communities to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Literacy
Creators: name: BARTLETT, REBECCAH ELLEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital health
Public health not elsewhere classified

description: Australia is home to over 300 hundred different language communities, and on average, three in four people speak another language at home other than English. Despite this, there remains a chronic under-funding and under-resourcing of services that could help increase culturally and linguistically diverse people’s trust in the healthcare system, improving their health literacy and supporting them to engage further and in an enhanced manner with local, preventive healthcare services. This thesis is a culmination of research focused on improving the health of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds, applying principles of equity-based design thinking through the development of Shifra.
Additional file 1 of Design and analysis of outcomes following SARS-CoV-2 infection in veterans
Creators: name: Smith, Valerie A.
name: Berkowitz, Theodore S. Z.
name: Hebert, Paul
name: Wong, Edwin S.
name: Niederhausen, Meike
name: Pura, John A.
name: Berry, Kristin
name: Green, Pamela
name: Korpak, Anna
name: Fox, Alexandra
name: Baraff, Aaron
name: Hickok, Alex
name: Shahoumian, Troy A
name: Bohnert, Amy S.B.
name: Hynes, Denise M.
name: Boyko, Edward J.
name: Ioannou, George N.
name: Iwashyna, Theodore J.
name: Bowling, C. Barrett
name: O’Hare, Ann M.
name: Maciejewski, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
FEF inactivation with improved optogenetic methods
Creators: name: Boyden, Edward S.
name: Pino, Erica N.
name: Acker, Leah
name: Desimone, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The frontal eye field (FEF) is critical for making eye movements to remembered locations. FEF neurons increase their firing rate in response to seeing a target, to remembering the target location during a delay period, and to planning eye movements to the location. Conventional tools do not allow us to determine what aspects of FEF neuronal activity (i.e., visual, delay, motor) are critical for memory-guided eye movements, so we developed optogenetic tools to inactivate FEF neurons during each task epoch individually. We found that all aspects of FEF firing contribute to behavior. Further, we present tools that inactivate large enough brain volumes for optogenetics to be widely used in primate neuroscience and, potentially, human medicine.
Vector Autoregresive Moving Average Identification for Macroeconomic Modeling: Algorithms and Theory
Creators: name: Poskitt, D.S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper develops a new methodology for identifying the structure of VARMA time series models. The analysis proceeds by examining the echelon canonical form and presents a fully automatic data driven approach to model specification using a new technique to determine the Kronecker invariants. A novel feature of the inferential procedures developed here is that they work in terms of a canonical scalar ARMAX representation in which the exogenous regressors are given by predetermined contemporaneous and lagged values of other variables in the VARMA system. This feature facilitates the construction of algorithms which, from the perspective of macroeconomic modeling, are efficacious in that they do not use AR approximations at any stage. Algorithms that are applicable to both asymptotically stationary and unit-root, partially nonstationary (cointegrated) time series models are presented. A sequence of lemmas and theorems show that the algorithms are based on calculations that yield strongly consistent estimates.
Searching for a Heavy Higgs boson in a Higgs-portal B-L Model
Creators: name: Banerjee, Shankha
name: Mitra, Manimala
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the discovery prospects of a heavy neutral scalar arising from a $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model (SM) during the Large Hadron Collider's high luminosity runs (HL-LHC). This heavy neutral scalar mixes with the SM Higgs boson through a Higgs portal and interacts with the SM particles with an interaction strength proportional to the sine of the mixing angle. The mixing between the two Higgs bosons is constrained by direct and indirect measurements. We choose an experimentally viable mixing angle and explore in detail the $ZZ$ and $WW$ decay modes of the heavy Higgs boson. For the $ZZ$ case, we focus on the cleanest $4\ell$ and $2\ell 2j$ final states and find that a heavy Higgs boson of mass smaller than 500 GeV can be discovered at the HL-LHC. For the $WW$ decay mode, we analyze the $\ell jj \slashed{E}_T$ signature. We implement novel background reduction techniques in order to tackle the huge background by performing both cut-based and multivariate analyses. However, large backgrounds render this channel challenging. We briefly discuss the discovery prospects of the heavy $Z'$-boson arising in this model.
description: 44 pages, 14 figures and 10 tables; v3 : Some typos fixed
Fleeing educators: the contribution of research in the training courses in early childhood education services
Creators: name: Schenetti, Michela
name: Guerra, Elisa
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: This paper aims at presenting a research training project on the subject of environmental education that took place in the nurseries. The collaboration between the University of Bologna and the Pedagogical Coordination of the city was born from the recognition of a demand, emerged while compiling a self-assessment tool about the quality of the service, through which a very limited use of the green areas of the nurseries and preschools was assessed. This problem, that was perceived by the administrators as a stringent limit to be removed, became the starting point from which the research training project was developed. The project involved, besides actual educators and pedagogical coordinators, also the environmental educators of an excellence centre in Bologna and the researchers of the Department of Educational Sciences. The results obtained during the first stage of the research, which involved the participants in a nature immersion experience, are presented. Educatrici in fuga: il contributo della ricerca nei percorsi di formazione dei servizi per l’infanzia Il presente contributo intende presentare un progetto di ricerca-formazione sul tema dell’educazione naturale svoltosi in alcuni nidi d’infanzia. La collaborazione tra Università di Bologna e Coordinamento Pedagogico del Comune nasce dalla rilevazione di una necessità emersa durante la compilazione dello strumento di autovalutazione della qualità del servizio: grazie a quest’ultimo veniva posto in evidenza un utilizzo scarso se non nullo degli spazi verdi dei servizi. A partire da questa constatazione percepita dai coordinatori come un limite sul quale occorreva lavorare, è stato progettato il percorso di ricerca-formazione che ha visto coinvolti oltre agli educatori e ai coordinatori, anche gli educatori ambientali di un centro di eccellenza di Bologna, e le ricercatrici afferenti alla cattedra di didattica generale del dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione. In questa sede verranno presentati i risultati della prima parte della ricerca che ha visto i partecipanti coinvolti in un’esperienza di immersione in natura.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise
Hopping magnetoresistance in ion irradiated monolayer graphene
Creators: name: Shlimak, I.
name: Zion, E.
name: Butenko, A. V.
name: Wolfson, L.
name: Richter, V.
name: Kaganovskii, Yu.
name: Sharoni, A.
name: Haran, A.
name: Naveh, D.
name: Kogan, E.
name: Kaveh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetoresistance (MR) of ion irradiated monolayer graphene samples with variable-range hopping (VRH) mechanism of conductivity was measured at temperatures down to $T = 1.8$ K in magnetic fields up to $B = 8$ T. It was observed that in perpendicular magnetic fields, hopping resistivity $R$ decreases, which corresponds to negative MR (NMR), while parallel magnetic field results in positive MR (PMR) at low temperatures. NMR is explained on the basis of the "orbital" model in which perpendicular magnetic field suppresses the destructive interference of many paths through the intermediate sites in the total probability of the long-distance tunneling in the VRH regime. At low fields, a quadratic dependence ($|ΔR/R|\sim B^2$) of NMR is observed, while at $B > B^*$, the quadratic dependence is replaced by the linear one. It was found that all NMR curves for different samples and different temperatures could be merged into common dependence when plotted as a function of $B/B^*$. It is shown that $B^*\sim T^{1/2}$ in agreement with predictions of the "orbital" model. The obtained values of $B^*$ allowed also to estimate the localization radius $ξ$ of charge carriers for samples with different degree of disorder. PMR in parallel magnetic fields is explained by suppression of hopping transitions via double occupied states due to alignment of electron spins.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures. As accepted for publication on Physica E
From the Cover: Rationalizing spatial exploration patterns of wild animals and humans through a temporal discounting framework
Creators: name: Mihalas, Stefan
name: Namboodiri, Vijay Mohan K.
name: Shuler, Marshall G. Hussain
name: Levy, Joshua M.
name: Sims, David W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Understanding the movement patterns of wild animals is a fundamental question in ecology with implications for wildlife conservation. It has recently been hypothesized that random search patterns known as Lévy walks are optimal and underlie the observed power law movement patterns of wild foragers. However, as Lévy walk models assume that foragers do not learn from experience, they may not apply generally to cognitive animals. Here, we present a decision-theoretic framework wherein animals attempting to optimally learn from their environments will show near power law-distributed path lengths due to temporal discounting. We then provide experimental support for this framework in human exploration in a controlled laboratory setting and in animals foraging in the wild.
Erratum to: Measurements of top-quark pair differential and double-differential cross-sections in the $$\ell $$ ℓ +jets channel with pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector [Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 1028]
Creators: name: More Than 100 Authors
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: For a complete list of authors, please look at article.
description: Corrections for five figures and six tables are noted for the paper, which do not affect the conclusions reported.
Quantum Gravity and Causal Structures: Second Quantization of Conformal Dirac Algebras
Creators: name: Bonezzi, R.
name: Corradini, O.
name: Latini, E.
name: Waldron, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is postulated that quantum gravity is a sum over causal structures coupled to matter via scale evolution. Quantized causal structures can be described by studying simple matrix models where matrices are replaced by an algebra of quantum mechanical observables. In particular, previous studies constructed quantum gravity models by quantizing the moduli of Laplace, weight and defining-function operators on Fefferman-Graham ambient spaces. The algebra of these operators underlies conformal geometries. We extend those results to include fermions by taking an osp(1|2) "Dirac square root" of these algebras. The theory is a simple, Grassmann, two-matrix model. Its quantum action is a Chern-Simons theory whose differential is a first-quantized, quantum mechanical BRST operator. The theory is a basic ingredient for building fundamental theories of physical observables.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX
Vertical kinematics of the thick disc at 4.5 < R < 9.5 kpc
Creators: name: Hattori, Kohei
name: Gilmore, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explored a method to reconstruct the distribution function of the Galactic thick disc within the action space where nearby thick-disc stars are distributed. By applying this method to 127 chemically-selected thick-disc stars in the Solar neighbourhood, we found that the vertical velocity dispersion that corresponds to the reconstructed distribution function declines approximately as $\exp (-R/R_s)$ at 4.5 kpc < R < 9.5 kpc, with $R_s$ = 8.3 $\pm$ 1.1 (rand.) $\pm$ 1.6 (sys.) kpc. Also, we found that the vertical velocity dispersion $σ_z$ of our local thick-disc stars shows only weak dependency on radial and azimuthal velocities $(v_R, v_ϕ)$. We discuss possible implications of these results on the global structure of the Milky Way thick disc.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures. MNRAS accepted. Comments welcome
Teachers’ training: an empirical study on training needs and digital skills
Creators: name: Calzone, Samuele
name: Chellini, Claudia
Publisher: name: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete
Year: 2016

description: Starting from the results of an empirical research on digital skills and training needs of Italian teachers involved in the National Operational Programme 2007-2013 “Skills for Development” (ESF), this paper debates the teachers’ expertise in order to identify their training needs. The research is focused on four areas of interest: the perception of self-efficacy as unexpressed need, the obstacles that prevent the well-being using the teaching methodology and digital technology, the behaviour related to the use of technology in classroom and the training need expressed by teachers. La formazione del personale docente: un’indagine empirica sul fabbisogno formativo e le competenze digitali A partire da un’indagine sul fabbisogno formativo e le competenze digitali del personale docente coinvolto nel PON 2007-2013 “Competenze per lo sviluppo” (FSE), il presente lavoro intende esplorare l’expertise del personale docente al fine di intercettare il suo fabbisogno formativo. Sono stati individuati quattro ambiti di analisi: la percezione della self-efficacy (bisogno inespresso), gli ostacoli che impediscono di sentirsi “a proprio agio” con metodologie didattiche e tecnologie digitali, il comportamento relativo all’uso delle ICT in classe e il bisogno formativo espresso.
description: Form@re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2016): The teachers' expertise