cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Rezension: Erinnerungsorte. Deutsche Geschichte im DaF-Unterricht. Materialien und Kopiervorlagen.
Creators: name: Altmayer, Claus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Dass geschichtliche Inhalte Teil jedes landeskundlichen Unterrichts in Deutsch als Fremdsprache sind und sein müssen, ist sicherlich, bei allen sonstigen Differenzen, die beim Thema Landeskunde seit langer Zeit bestehen, nicht umstritten. Ohne einen gewissen Einblick in die Ereignisse der Vergangenheit, ohne Kenntnis zentraler Daten und Fakten der deutschen respektive österreichischen oder Schweizer Geschichte erschließt sich die Gegenwart nicht und bleiben insbesondere auch die in deutscher Sprache verfassten Texte und Diskurse, zu denen DaF-Lerner ja über ihr Sprachelernen einen Zugang finden sollten, weit gehend stumm. Über diesen zunächst noch sehr grundlegenden und damit auch allgemeinen Konsens hinaus stellen sich aber eine Reihe von Fragen, die auch in den immer noch vergleichsweise wenigen Arbeiten, die zur Rolle der Geschichte in der Landeskunde in den letzten Jahren entstanden sind (vgl. z.B. Koreik 1995, Thimme 1996, Majala 2004), nicht erschöpfend beantwortet werden konnten: Welche historischen Themen und Inhalte sind wichtig, für wen, warum? Wo soll man beginnen? Kann es überhaupt darum gehen, Lernenden einen Überblick über ‚die’ deutsche Geschichte zu vermitteln, den die meisten Deutschen auch nicht haben? Was sind die Ziele eines historisch orientierten Landeskunde-Unterrichts? Reicht bloßes Faktenwissen aus? Wenn nicht, was sonst? Welcher didaktische bzw. methodische Zugriff ist geeignet?
Decoherence and Collisional Frequency Shifts of Trapped Bosons and Fermions
Creators: name: Gibble, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform exact calculations of collisional frequency shifts for several fermions or bosons using a singlet and triplet basis for pairs of particles. The "factor of 2 controversy" for bosons becomes clear - the factor is always 2. Decoherence is described by singlet states and they are unaffected by spatially uniform clock fields. Spatial variations are critical, especially for fermions which were previously thought to be immune to collision shifts. The spatial variations lead to decoherence and a novel frequency shift that is not proportional to the partial density of internal states.
description: Final version with corrected and clarified discussion of g2
title: Rezension: Der Gebrauch des Perfekt-Präteritum-Paradigmas in der gesprochenen deutschen Sprache. Die Normen- und Varietätenproblematik im Fremdsprachenunterricht anhand eines ausgewählten Beispiels
Creators: name: Rothstein, Björn
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Bei Jägers Arbeit handelt es sich um eine eingereichte Qualifikationsschrift zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades. Der Verfasser geht der Frage nach, wie Perfekt und Präteritum im gesprochenen Deutsch gebraucht werden, und kann auf der Basis eines selbst erstellten Korpus die immer wieder vertretene These vom sogenannten Präteritumschwund als zu ungenau zurückweisen. Man geht nach dieser These davon aus, dass in den oberdeutschen Dialekten (z.B. Schwäbisch, Bairisch), aber auch im Schweizerdeutschen, das Präteritum zugunsten des Präsensperfekts aufgegeben worden ist. Nur einige Verben (vorwiegend Auxiliar- und Modalverben) werden in diesen Dialekten noch im Präteritum verwendet. Ansonsten hat – nach Standardauffassung – das Perfekt das Präteritum völlig verdrängt.
Improving short-term EOP prediction using combination procedures
Creators: name: Malkin, Zinovy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A well known problem with EOP prediction is that a prediction strategy proved to be the best for some testing period and prediction length may not remain as such for other period of time. In this paper we consider possible strategies to combine EOP predictions made using different analysis technique to obtain a final prediction with the best accuracy corresponding to the least prediction error between input predictions. This approach can be used to improve the short-term real-time EOP forecast.
description: 5 pp., presented at the Journees 2008: Astrometry, Geodynamics and Astronomical Reference Systems, Dresden, Germany, 22-24 Sep 2008
title: Rezension: Leseförderung mit literarischen Texten im DaZ-Unterricht
Creators: name: Spaniel, Dorothea
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Seitdem Politiker und Bildungsinstitutionen nach Veröffentlichung der ersten PISA-Ergebnisse (vgl. Deutsches PISA-Konsortium 2001) erkennen mussten, dass sich die sprachliche Integration von Kindern nichtdeutscher Herkunftssprache nicht von selbst vollzieht und ein Drittel der Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund die Schule ohne Schulabschluss verlässt (vgl. Engin 2003), werden zahlreiche Programme unterstützt, die auf die Verbesserung der Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Kenntnisse der Schüler abzielen (vgl. u.a. das FörMig-Programm unter: http://www.blk-foermig.uni-hamburg.de/web/de/all/home/index.html). An erster Stelle stehen dabei Konzepte zur Förderung der Lesekompetenz, da der Wissenserwerb in der Schule „v.a. auf der Basis von Texten“ (Schmölzer-Eibinger 2006: 179) erfolgt. Die Autorin des vorliegenden Bandes wendet sich daher einem aktuellen didaktischen „Pioniergebiet“ (ebd.) zu, wenn sie versucht sich der Frage zu nähern, „welche Anteile von Leseverstehen und –kompetenz in welchen schulischen Kontexten und in Form welcher möglichen Inhalte des Deutschunterrichts gefördert werden können“.
title: In search for the independent learner: A case study
Creators: name: Marie Hadzima, Ann
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Three key problems in undergraduate academic English composition classes in Taiwan can be identified which restrict student achievement: differences in educational cultures (both L1 and L2 education cultures as well as differences between L1 high school education culture and L1 undergraduate education culture); issues dealing with the ownership of ideas and limitations in frameworks of approaching foreign language study. To ameliorate these problems, Foreign Language and Literature majors completed a semester-long assignment wherein they compiled their own individual treasuries of information which they felt would be a useful reference to consult when writing future English compositions. An analysis of their work approach to this assignment and their judgment in selecting information for inclusion in their treasury is provided. Finally, recommendations for the further implementation of this assignment are given.
Additional file 2 of Challenges facing the More Doctors program (Programa Mais Médicos) in vulnerable and peri-urban areas in Greater Brasilia, Brazil
Creators: name: Shimizu, Helena Eri
name: Santos, Leonor Maria Pacheco
name: Sanchez, Mauro Niskier
name: Hone, Thomas
name: Millett, Christopher
name: Harris, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 2: Portuguese Abstract.
title: What’s missing? Compensation strategies – A case for task-specific strategy use
Creators: name: Ying Hsu, Hong
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: After thirty years of research and practice, the field of Language Learner/Learning Strategies (LLS) has witnessed a clear shift away from compiling ―good‖ strategies employed by the ―good‖ language learner to localizing an individual‘s strategic reactions to contextualized tasks. The present study‘s objective was to investigate if there is a link between strategy use and specific tasks within a specific setting, i.e., task-specific strategy use in an adult EFL (as opposed to ESL) classroom. This direction adds to the strategy research repertoire with more examples from different learning environments, making the research thread richer. This study also measured the effect of learners‘ prior strategy knowledge on actual strategy use. Results can help the process of mapping specific strategies to specific tasks.
The development of the ACADVL scanning assay using a two-step PCR and high resolution melting analysis
Creators: name: Benkhadra, Nadia
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014

description: Very long chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency is the second most common fatty acid oxidation disorder detected by newborn screening. Currently, tandem mass spectrometry is used as the primary detection method, followed by molecular genetic testing to confirm the presence of a mutation. A simpler, more cost effective method of diagnosis is high resolution melting (HRM) following amplification of the target. HRM does not require physical processing or separation steps. In this study, PCR primers? that amplify each of the 20 exons that make up the ACADVL gene were designed. One primer pair for each exon was selected based on PCR performance and target specificity. After defining the PCR cycling conditions, we performed a blinded study with 30 different genomic DNA samples. Synthetic constructs were used as positive controls for each test. Seven different mutations were detected from the high resolution melting profiles. Bi-directional DNA sequencing (Sanger Sequencing) confirmed the mutations.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2014.
Observables and Correlators in Nonrelativistic ABJM Theory
Creators: name: Nakayama, Yu
name: Rey, Soo-Jong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-relativistic ABJM theory is defined by Galilean limit of mass-deformed N=6 Chern-Simons theory. Holographic string theory dual to the theory is not known yet. To understand features candidate gravity dual might exhibit, we examine local and nonlocal physical observables and their correlations in the non-relativistic ABJM theory. We show that gauge invariant local observables correspond to zero-norm states and that correlation functions among them are trivial. We also show that a particular class of nonlocal observables, Wilson loops, are topological in the sense that their correlation functions coincide with those of pure Chern-Simons theory. We argue that the theory is nevertheless physical and illustrate several physical observables whose correlation functions are nontrivial. We also study quantum aspects. We show that Chern-Simons level is finitely renormalized and that dilatation operator acting on spin chain is trivial at planar limit. These results all point to string scale geometry of gravity dual and to intriguing topological and tensionless nature of dual string defined on it.
description: 1+30 pages, no figure, v2. typos fixed and references added
Evaluating the effectiveness of a metacognitive tool on education graduate students? information search behavior in digital libraries
Creators: name: Blummer, Barbara
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: This study evaluates the effectiveness of a tutorial in enhancing eight education graduate students? information searching in digital libraries for problem solving activities. The tool centered on ?idea tactics? that expert searchers employ to ?help improve their thinking and creative processes during searching? (Bates, 1979, p. 280). These tactics also represent metacognitive strategies and twelve of these concepts are incorporated in a tutorial to improve users? search strategies during a problem solving exercise. The mixed method study targeted education graduate students, an underserved population in library information seeking research (Earp, 2008, p.74). Quantitative measures were utilized to track participants? accesses to the tutorial components, number of revised searches and records examined, as well as time spent in the tutorial, devising search strategies and reviewing results. Scores comparing students? initial (pre-tutorial) search with their post-tutorial search were also considered. For the qualitative part of the research participants verbalized their actions as they located resources in the library?s commercial databases. Follow-up interviews considered participants? satisfaction level with the results, the helpfulness of the tutorial, difficulties with the think aloud protocol, and any additional information they chose to offer. The research adopted two coding schemes for the transcripts including the use of pre-figured codes as well as an open coding format. Reliability was enhanced through the availability of two individuals for the coding process. Overall, students benefited from the application of various idea tactics or metacognitive strategies to their problem solving in library databases that was illustrated in improved scores for their final search.
description: (Ed. D.) -- Towson University, 2012.
An experimental test of small mammal dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi spores
Creators: name: Zaharick, John G.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) affect the structure of plant communities by influencing plant survivorship, growth, and diversity. Many AMF species produce spores below ground that have no obvious means of dispersal. Small mammals feed on AMF spores and those spores can still inoculate plants after passing through digestive systems. For this reason, small mammals are hypothesized to disperse AMF spores; however, few data exist to support this idea. I tested the ability of small mammals to disperse AMF spores by examining their impact on mycorrhizal inoculum potential in a northeast mesophytic forest. A field survey determined that small mammals sporadically consumed AMF spores. In a field experiment, more plots that were accessible to small mammals contained AMF than control plots, which excluded small mammals. This study provides experimental evidence that small mammals disperse AMF spores in a patchy manner, and wind dispersal also plays a role in AMF dispersal.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
The Dialogue Between Jesus and the Devil: A Translation and Introduction
Creators: name: Bonar, Chance
name: Čéplö, Slavomír
Publisher: name: Eerdmans
Year: 2023

description: The Dialogue between Jesus and the Devil (Dial. Devil; CANT 84) is a narrative dialogue
between Jesus and the devil that takes place amidst the temptation account
of Matt 4:1–11 and Luke 4:1–13. In the Greek manuscripts, the text is known as the
"Discourse of our Lord Jesus Christ regarding the dispute with the devil" and the
"Narration of the dispute of the devil with our Lord Jesus Christ." This apocryphal text
has been given relatively little attention by scholars because of its general lack of translation
into modern languages and the lack of a critical edition of all known Greek and
Church Slavic manuscripts. Dial. Devil provides a glimpse into Byzantine dialogue
traditions as well as the development of the character of Satan and the antichrist in the
late ancient and early medieval Christian world.
title: Cultural diversity in the classroom: Shortcomings and successes of English co-teaching programs in East Asia
Creators: name: Herbert, Peter
name: Hsin-feng Wu, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: English co-teaching programs between native speakers and local teachers have been established in schools in a number of countries in East Asia with the aim of improving standards of teaching and students’ English proficiency. Despite the large investment of resources, there is little clear evidence in the literature that the objectives have been achieved, and research has identified a number of challenges such programs face in an East Asian context. This study first examines different co-teaching programs in East Asia where it finds cultural friction, role confusion, differing concepts of professionalism and unrealistic goals are the main factors undermining the effectiveness of such programs. It then looks at the Fulbright Taiwan English Teaching Program which seems to have been able to overcome many of these obstacles.
title: Fremdsprachenlernen in Taiwan. Eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Situation des institutionellen Deutschunterrichts
Creators: name: Lay, Tristan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Situation der deutschen Sprache in der Republik China auf Taiwan. Die Themen Sprachenlernen und Mehrsprachigkeit werden in einem Taiwan-spezifischen Kontext erörtert, da diese für das Verständnis der Stellung des Deutschen als zweite Fremdsprache von Bedeutung sind. Alle Bildungseinrichtungen und Organisationen, die sich mit der Vermittlung und Förderung der deutschen Hochsprache beschäftigen, werden vorgestellt. Institutionelle Aspekte des Lehrens und Lernens von Deutsch im tertiären Bildungsbereich werden diskutiert und Motive sowie Funktionen für das Lernen der deutschen Sprache in Taiwan dargelegt.
Measuring approval rating for election in Twitter
Creators: name: You, Jongsung
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: With the advances in Social networks, many fields use Social networks service to increase user. The most popular Social networks service is Twitter. Companies use Twitter to get information about film advertisement, product advertisement, and approval ratings for such thing like the president. In the previous research, we searched influence nodes related to political fields using the Data Gathering Tool and gave weight to the influence nodes. Users express opinion's using tweets on Twitter that is both positive and negative. Many researchers study positive and negative tweet to use for a survey. So we measure presidential approval rating using influence weight and positive and negative weight and compare the measurement results and real approval ratings. In conclusion, we confirm whether Twitter approval ratings reflect real approval ratings or not.
description: (M.S.) -- Towson University, 2013.
title: Glocalizing “foreign” language teaching in Taiwan: Conditions and convergences
Creators: name: Daly, Nigel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: With the transformation of English as an International language, the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) industry – from researcher to publisher to teacher – is burgeoning. However, as globalization deterritorializes English from native speaking peoples and places and thus necessitates a Non-Native Speaker (NNS) English Language Teacher population greatly outnumbering the Native Speaker (NS) one, the EFL industry has entered into a foggy post-methods era in which both the standards defining English as a language to be taught, and how it should be taught, are being contested in both English and nonEnglish speaking countries alike. The deterritorialization of English and the massive population of NNS EFL teachers, however, are also the conditions that point towards a solution to the pedagogical contentions: a principled pragmatism that encourages a convergence of “foreign” and local EFL pedagogies is starting to emerge.
title: Rezemnsion: BERGEM, WOLFGANG (2005), Identitätsformationen in Deutschland.
Creators: name: Paul Pietzuch, Jan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Mit dem vorliegenden Buch, der gekürzten und aktualisierten Fassung seiner 2004 eingereichten Habilitationsschrift, begibt sich der Politikwissenschaftler Wolfgang Bergem in ein Themenfeld, das in den letzten Jahren nicht nur im Bereich des Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften eine 'unheimliche Konjunktur' (Lutz Niethammer) erfahren hat, sondern auch einen gleichermaßen konstanten wie gegenwärtig hoch aktuellen Topos im internationalen gesellschaftspolitischen Diskurs bezeichnet: das Diskussions- und Untersuchungsfeld der ‚kollektiven Identität’. Mit der eingangs recht allgemein formulierten Absicht, „zu ergründen, [...] welche Veränderungen die verschiedenen Formen kollektiver Identität in Deutschland vor allem seit der staatlichen Vereinigung erfahren haben“ (20), legt der Autor von Beginn an eine spezifische, an politisch-formal institutionalisierten Räumen orientierte Perspektive auf den Gegenstand offen.
The effects of objectification and self-esteem on body shame, appearance-contingent self-worth and restrained eating
Creators: name: Sypher, Allison K.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Using objectification theory (Fredrickson and Roberts ,1997), this study examined the moderating influence of trait self-esteem and the mediating influence of appearance-contingent self-worth on interrelationships among self-objectification, body shame, and disordered eating. Female participants first completed a trait self-esteem measure. Self-objectification was then manipulated through the recording of physical body measurements (e.g. weight, waist circumference). Among various distractor questionnaires, participants then completed measures of state self-objectification, body shame, and appearance-contingent self-worth. Disordered eating was finally observed using a purported taste test. A series of multiple regression analyses were used to examine the effect of objectification, trait self-esteem, and the Objectification X Trait Self-Esteem interaction on appearance-contingent self-worth, body shame and restrained eating, respectively. Individuals with higher trait self-esteem reported lower state self-objectification, appearance-contingent self-worth and body shame. Participants in the objectification condition consumed significantly less food than participants in the control condition and, thus, demonstrated significantly more restrained eating behavior.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.
A global attractor for a fluid--plate interaction model accounting only for longitudinal deformations of the plate
Creators: name: Chueshov, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30; 74F10

description: We study asymptotic dynamics of a coupled system consisting of linearized 3D Navier--Stokes equations in a bounded domain and the classical (nonlinear) elastic plate equation for in-plane motions on a flexible flat part of the boundary. The main peculiarity of the model is the assumption that the transversal displacements of the plate are negligible relative to in-plane displacements. This kind of models arises in the study of blood flows in large arteries. Our main result states the existence of a compact global attractor of finite dimension. We also show that the corresponding linearized system generates exponentially stable $C_0$-semigroup. We do not assume any kind of mechanical damping in the plate component. Thus our results means that dissipation of the energy in the fluid due to viscosity is sufficient to stabilize the system.
description: 18 pages
title: Rezension: BEHR, URSULA (2006), Sprachenübergreifendes Lernen und Lehren in der Sekundarstufe I. Ergebnisse eines Kooperationsprojektes der drei Phasen der Lehrerbildung. Tübingen: Narr (=Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik).
Creators: name: Marx, Nicole
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand als wissenschaftliche Begleitstudie im Rahmen eines Projekts, das an Realschulen und Gymnasien in Thüringen durchgeführt wurde. Die aus diesem Projekt entstandenen, von Behr herausgegebenen und beim Cornelsen-Verlag erschienenen Begleitmaterialien (Sprachen entdecken - Sprachen vergleichen. Kopiervorlagen zum sprachenübergreifenden Lernen: Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Russisch, Latein) bieten ein interessantes und umfangreiches lehrwerk- und schulartunabhängiges Konzept zum sprachenübergreifenden Lernen in der Sekundarstufe I. Diese seien zwar zur Lektüre empfohlen, werden aber an dieser Stelle nicht weiter diskutiert.
Comparisons of dissociative patients to maltreated and non maltreated samples on the personality assessment inventory
Creators: name: Stadnik, Ryan D.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2013

description: Patients with dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DID/DDNOS) exhibit a wide range of psychological symptoms according to self-report measures such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). DID/DDNOS patients are often elevated on validity scales that supposedly measure symptom exaggeration such as the Negative Impression Scale (NIM) on the PAI, which uninformed clinicians may interpret as malingering. However, it has been shown that these elevations are mainly due to dissociative disorder patients? past history of childhood maltreatment. Additionally, it has been shown that traumatized college students experience more difficulties with depression, anxiety, paranoia, aggression, and characteristics of antisocial and borderline personality disorder compared to non-maltreated college students. No research has been conducted to determine how hospitalized maltreated DID/DDNOS patients, maltreated college students, and non-maltreated college students differ on severity of psychological symptoms. The goal of the current study was to determine how these groups differ on PAI scales. It was found that, DID/DDNOS patients had many significant elevations on PAI scales compared to both the maltreated and non-maltreated students and that maltreated students obtained significant elevations on the PAI compared to non-maltreated students. Furthermore, as it has been found in DID/DDNOS patients, it was found that childhood maltreatment and dissociation were significantly associated with NIM in maltreated students. These results add growing evidence that NIM is not a valid measure of symptom exaggeration in trauma survivors and that trauma exposure is related to elevations on many different forms of psychopathology.
description: (M.A.) -- Towson University, 2013.
Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Galactic Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8: Structure and Composition of the Oxygen-Rich Ejecta
Creators: name: Ghavamian, Parviz
name: Raymond, John C.
name: Blair, William P.
name: Long, Knox S.
name: Tappe, Achim
name: Park, Sangwook
name: Winkler, P. Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mid-infrared (5-40 micron) spectra of shocked ejecta in the Galactic oxygen-rich supernova remnant G292.0+1.8, acquired with the IRS spectrograph on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. The observations targeted two positions within the brightest oxygen-rich feature in G292.0+1.8. Emission lines of [Ne II] 12.8, [Ne III] 15.5, 36.0, [Ne V] 24.3 and [O IV] 25.9 are detected from the shocked ejecta. No discernible mid-IR emission from heavier species such as Mg, Si, S, Ar or Fe is detected in G292.0+1.8. We also detect a broad emission bump between 15 and 28 microns in spectra of the radiatively shocked O-rich ejecta in G292.0+1.8. We suggest that this feature arises from either shock-heated Mg2SiO4 (forsterite) dust in the radiatively shocked O-rich ejecta, or collisional excitation of PAHs in the blast wave of the SNR. If the former interpretation is correct, this would be the first mid-IR detection of ejecta dust in G292.0+1.8. A featureless dust continuum is also detected from non-radiative shocks in the circumstellar medium around G292.0+1.8. The mid-IR continuum from these structures is well described by a two-component dust model. The temperature of the hot dust component (mass ~ 0.002 Solar masses) is ~ 115 K, while that of the cold component (> = 3 Solar masses) is ~ 35 K. We attribute the hot component to collisionally heated dust in the circumstellar shocks in G292.0+1.8, and attribute the cold component to dust heated by the hard FUV radiation from the circumstellar shocks. Our models yield mid-IR line strengths consistent with M(O)/M(Ne) ~ 3, M(O)/M(Si) >~ 61 and M(O)/M(S) ~ 50. These ratios are difficult to reproduce with standard nucleosynthesis models of well-mixed SN ejecta (abridged).
description: ApJ, in press; 16 pages, 3 tables, 6 figures
Transmission of MERS-CoV in a transgenic human DPP4 mouse model
Creators: name: van Doremalen, Neeltje
name: Munster, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310706
subject: Virology

description: Since 2002, three major coronavirus outbreaks have occurred: SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. Understanding coronavirus transmission is critical for infection control. Our study used transgenic mice expressing human DPP4 and found that MERS-CoV could transmit through aerosols, fomites, and direct contact. Notably, exposure to varying MERS-CoV doses resulted in differing transmission rates, with 15 out of 20 and 11 out of 18 animals infected via fomites with higher and lower doses, respectively. Additionally, sentinel mice exposed to infected donor mice exhibited limited transmission: 1 out of 38 via direct contact and 4 out of 54 via airborne contact. Our model highlights limited transmission through these routes. This novel mouse model promises insights into the evolution of MERS-CoV and assessment of human-to-human transmission, pivotal for devising effective transmission models and infection control strategies.
Derivative Polynomials and Closed-Form Higher Derivative Formulae
Creators: name: Cvijović, Djurdje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33B10; 33E20; 11B68; 26A06; 26A09

description: In a recent paper, Adamchik [V.S. Adamchik, On the Hurwitz function for rational arguments, Appl. Math. Comp. 187 (2007) 3--12] expressed in a closed form symbolic derivatives of four functions belonging to the class of functions whose derivatives are polynomials in terms of the same functions. In this sequel, simple closed-form higher derivative formulae which involve the Carlitz-Scoville higher order tangent and secant numbers are derived for eight trigonometric and hyperbolic functions.
description: 7 pages
title: Von Strukturwissen und Edutainment zum Interaktionstraining: Was kann Sprachlernsoftware leisten? Ergebnisse einer Feedback-Analyse
Creators: name: Ylönen, Sabine
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Die Leistungen von Sprachlernsoftware werden bislang häufig als auf die Entwicklung strukturzentrierter Fertigkeiten mit bestenfalls unterhaltender Funktion (Edutainment) beschränkt betrachtet. Am Beispiel eines hybriden, multimodalen Programms für Austauschstudierende, das mit Hilfe der Europäischen Kommission zur Förderung studentischer Mobilität und mit Fokus auf das Training mündlicher Hochschulkommunikation produziert wurde, sollte untersucht werden, ob und wie textsorten- und interaktionsorientierte Sprachlernsoftware den Lernerfolg beeinflussen kann. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine Online-Umfrage untern Nutzern des Programms durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass zielgruppenspezifische, auf authentischem, situiertem Sprachmaterial basierende Sprachlernsoftware von den Nutzern begrüßt wird, weil sie den Lernenden erlaubt, sprachliches Handeln als kontextgebundene Interaktion in der Zielkultur zu erleben und somit den Lernerfolg im Bereich des Zielsprachengebrauchs, speziell das Hörsehverstehen, fördert.
Disordered Electrical Potential Observed on the Surface of SiO$_2$ by Electric Field Microscopy
Creators: name: García, N.
name: Yan, Zang
name: Ballestar, A.
name: Barzola-Quiquia, J.
name: Bern, F.
name: Esquinazi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electrical potential on the surface of $\sim 300$ nm thick SiO$_2$ grown on single crystalline Si substrates has been characterized at ambient conditions using electric field microscopy. Our results show an inhomogeneous potential distribution with fluctuations up to $\sim 0.4 $V within regions of $1 μ$m. The potential fluctuations observed at the surface of these usual dielectric holders of graphene sheets should induce strong variations in the graphene charge densities and provide a simple explanation for some of the anomalous behaviors of the transport properties of graphene.
description: 4 pages and 4 figures
title: The motivation for learning German in Taiwan. A pilot study on the foreign language-specific motivation of Taiwanese learners of German
Creators: name: Lay, Tristan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In the context of teaching and learning foreign languages, a multiplicity of internal and external variables, interacting with each other and individualizing the learning process, plays a significant role. The motivational construct represents a substantial factor in the foreign language-specific learning process because motivation is responsible for persevering in the often laborious process of learning a foreign language. It is therefore assumed that motivation plays a crucial part for achieving success in language learning. In the present pilot study, Taiwanese students of German with Chinese as their first language were asked about their motivation to learn German. A quantitative approach was employed by administering a questionnaire to students learning German as their minor field or as a second or further foreign language at National Chengchi University in Taipei. In this research, both internal personality factors and external factors were taken into account.
The Unruh thermal spectrum through scalar and fermion tunneling
Creators: name: Roy, Debraj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal spectrum seen by accelerated observers in Minkowski space - known as the Unruh effect - is derived within the tunneling mechanism. This is a new result in this mechanism and it completes the treatment of Unruh effect via tunneling. Both Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac spectrum is derived by considering tunneling of scalar and spin half particles respectively, across the accelerated Rindler horizon. Full solutions of Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in the Rindler metric are employed to achieve this, instead of approximate solutions.
description: pdftex 1.40.9, 7 pages, 1 pdf figure; Journal version - Some typos fixed and explanatory remarks added
title: The role of intercultural contact in learning German in Hungary: a structural equation modelling approach
Creators: name: Csizer, Kata
name: Kormos, Judit
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates how contact with the German language and its speakers affects language-related attitudes and motivated behaviour in a foreign language context, namely Hungary, by means of structural equation modelling. Questionnaire data were collected from 189 students of German, who were all between 13 and 14 years old and attended the final, eighth, grade of the primary school system. Our results revealed that students’ motivated learning behaviour was not only shaped by their attitudes towards the target language and its speakers, but also by the students’ experiences about speaking German with visitors to Hungary as well as the perceived importance of these contact situations. Students’ experience of direct contact with speakers of German was affected by their linguistic self-confidence whereas all the other contact- and attitude-related dimensions were socially constructed through the influence of the students’ immediate learning environment
Additional file 2 of An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries: associations with crop and heat
Creators: name: Hansson, Erik
name: Mansourian, Ali
name: Farnaghi, Mahdi
name: Petzold, Max
name: Jakobsson, Kristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplement B. Spatial regression modelling.
A critical review of "recidivism" : its implications in social policy concerning the treatment of offenders
Creators: name: Fornataro, John Valdo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The treatment of the offender has assumed increasing importance in Canada, as well as in other countries of the Western hemisphere, both because of the statistical rise in the incidence of law violations and because of persistent expressions of dissatisfaction over the results of current penal practices. The recidivistic offender has tended to become the focal point of attention. He symbolizes the failure of official actions to terminate the criminal career, and his persistence in law violation has more recently become a matter of economic interest. At the same time, the impression has become general that the recidivist is likely to be especially dangerous to the community. Consequently, a substantial amount of policy and practice has been developed with special reference to the recidivist. This study is concerned to inquire into the soundness of the rationale which adopts recidivism as an index of criminal personality, a criterion for evaluating specific institutional dispositions, and as a valid basis for developing social policy with reference to the treatment of a very substantial proportion of offenders. Prevailing policies concerning the recidivist have the effect of adding very considerably to the gravity and the duration of the penalties and limitations placed upon the offender. In some instances, the record of recidivism makes it possible for a person to be declared an "habitual criminal", thus making him liable to a sentence which is indeterminate. Despite his possible eligibility for parole, the "habitual criminal" is under a virtual life sentence. Professional disciplines having an interest in the well-being of the individual and of the consequence of official sanctions imposed upon deviants should recognize in the phenomena associated with the disposition of recidivists many critical issues, social, clinical, economic and ethical. The study has been predominantly focussed upon the adult recidivist in Canada, although experience and observations of a relevant nature have been derived from other jurisdictions. This is not a "case study" but is based upon an examination of the main literature in the field of criminology and of penology. Both theoretical and empirically derived sources have been consulted. In consequence of this examination the inescapable conclusion is that recidivism, essentially a statistical concept, should be treated as totally irrelevant to the formulation of social policy. Moreover, there are strong indications that much official behaviour in the treatment of the offender contributes directly and powerfully to recidivistic patterns. Present policy appears to owe much to the unreasoned emotions felt concerning the offender. With so much at stake, it becomes increasingly important that social policy must rest upon rational grounds.
An Efficient Environment Encoding for Trajectory Feasibility and Cost Predictions
Creators: name: Zou, Sarah Jin
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2022
Subjects: trajectory optimization
Electrical Engineering
Information and Data Sciences
embedding methods
machine learning

description: An efficient method to encoding a robot’s surrounding is important for the safety and scalability of path planning problems. I present a method for encoding occupied spaces in an environment via parametric geometry (e.g. circles). This encoding is utilized to train a cost and feasibility predicting neural network for path planning between two states. The circle encoding method uses either bounding circles or set cover to provide a lower dimension input of environments for neural network. The lower input dimension of the models allows for a smaller and faster model of similar performance. Feasibility and cost prediction neural networks enable lazy planning for trajectory calculation. While there are no safety-guarantees, the model I present can act as an heuristic to identify the best paths, amortizing a robot’s onboard computation. To train a cost and feasibility predicting model, I first generate multiple environments and calculate encoding circles for obstacle-occupied spaces. For each environment, I use planners to calculate multiple trajectories and store their feasibility and cost. I then train the feasibility and cost prediction models from this data . The feasibility model has 90% accuracy on train and test environments. The circle encoding method was compared with occupancy grid encoding method. When encoding methods were compared to predict occupied space, models with circle encoding generalized to unseen environments better than occupancy grid input models. The method of circle encoding I introduce can be utilized in other learning problems that use environment as input. The feasibility and cost predictions done in this work can be applied to bias tree growth or to other global planning methods.
Additional file 1 of An ecological study of chronic kidney disease in five Mesoamerican countries: associations with crop and heat
Creators: name: Hansson, Erik
name: Mansourian, Ali
name: Farnaghi, Mahdi
name: Petzold, Max
name: Jakobsson, Kristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplement A. Handling exposure variables in ArcGIS.
ДИЕТА И ОБРАЗ ЖИЗНИ ДО И ВО ВРЕМЯ БЕРЕМЕННОСТИ
Creators: name: Олимжонова, Фарахноза
name: Шохинова, Анахита
name: Рахматова, Дильноза
name: Садриддинова, Мадина
name: Худоярова, Дильдора
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Диета и физические упражнения до и во время беременности влияют на течение беременности, развитие ребенка, а также на краткосрочное и долгосрочное здоровье матери и ребенка. Именно поэтому акушер гинекологи призывают молодых будущих матерей соблюдать здоровый образ жизни и, таким образом, способствовать укреплению здоровья не только себя, но и детей и предотвращению длительного избыточного веса и связанных с ним заболеваний.
Unstable disks at high redshift: Evidence for smooth accretion in galaxy formation
Creators: name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxies above redshift 1 can be very clumpy, with irregular morphologies dominated by star complexes as large as 2 kpc and as massive as a few 10^8 or 10^9 Mo. Their co-moving densities and rapid evolution suggest that most present-day spirals could have formed through a clumpy phase. The clumps may form by gravitational instabilities in gas-rich turbulent disks; they do not appear to be separate galaxies merging together. We show here that the formation of the observed clumps requires initial disks of gas and stars with almost no stabilizing bulge or stellar halo. This cannot be achieved in models where disk galaxies grow by mergers. Mergers tend to make stellar spheroids even when the gas fraction is high, and then the disk is too stable to make giant clumps. The morphology of high-redshift galaxies thus suggests that inner disks assemble mostly by smooth gas accretion, either from cosmological flows or from the outer disk during a grazing interaction.
description: ApJ Letters, accepted
title: Das deutsche Progressiv: neue Struktur in altem Kontext
Creators: name: Thiel, Barbara
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Sätze wie Ich bin am verdursten oder Wir sind immer noch am rumsuchen gehören zum sprachlichen Alltag eines jeden Deutschsprechers, ganz bestimmt im passiven, meist aber auch im aktiven Sprachgebrauch. Die Überzeugung, dass es sich bei diesen Progressivkonstruktionen um korrekte Sprachverwendung handelt und nicht um umgangsprachliche Normabweichungen, setzt sich jedoch nur langsam durch. Mit diesem Artikel sollen alte und neue Argumente zusammengeführt werden, um zu zeigen, dass das Progressiv fester Bestandteil der deutschen Standardsprache ist. Daraus ergibt sich zwangsläufig, dass die Konstruktion auch in den fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterricht aufgenommen werden sollte. Dass an die Progressiv Verwendung in anderen Sprachen jedoch nur bedingt angeknüpft werden kann, zeigt sich im zweiten Teil des Artikels.
Many-body theory calculations of positron binding to negative ions
Creators: name: Ludlow, J. A.
name: Gribakin, G. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A many-body theory approach developed by the authors [Phys. Rev. A 70, 032720 (2004)] is applied to positron bound states and annihilation rates in atomic systems. Within the formalism, full account of virtual positronium (Ps) formation is made by summing the electron-positron ladder diagram series, thus enabling the theory to include all important many-body correlation effects in the positron problem. Numerical calculations have been performed for positron bound states with the hydrogen and halogen negative ions, also known as Ps hydride and Ps halides. The Ps binding energies of 1.118, 2.718, 2.245, 1.873 and 1.393 eV and annihilation rates of 2.544, 2.482, 1.984, 1.913 and 1.809 ns$^{-1}$, have been obtained for PsH, PsF, PsCl, PsBr and PsI, respectively.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, submitted to International Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics
title: Instruktionale Designmaßnahmen beim Lesen in der Fremdsprache: Die Rolle der Visualisierungen beim Lesen von Hypertexten
Creators: name: Suner, Ferran
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Über die textlinguistische Diskussion um den (Hyper)Textbegriff hinaus scheint für die Sprachlern- und - lehrforschung viel relevanter zu sein, wie Hypertexte im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Texten kognitiv verarbeitet werden und welchen Mehrwert sie für das Textverstehen in der Fremdsprache haben können. Diese Erkenntnisse können hauptsächlich in zweierlei Anwendungsfeldern von Nutzen sein: erstens beim Einsatz von Hypertexten im Fremdsprachenunterricht (zum Beispiel Didaktisierung, Vermittlung von Lesestrategien etc.) und zweitens bei der Entwicklung von Hypertexten, die den kognitiven Prozessen der Textverarbeitung gerecht werden. Mit diesem letzten Punkt beschäftigt sich der vorliegende Artikel unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Ansätzen, die auf der Basis kognitiv-psychologischer Erkenntnisse wichtige Gestaltungsprinzipien zum Einsatz von Visualisierungen in multimedialen Sprachlernumgebungen zu Grunde legen, wie zum Beispiel die Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning von Mayer (2001).