cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Introduction: Failed! The Sociological Analysis of Failure
Creators: name: Barbera, Filippo
name: Rees Jones, Ian
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: In recent years the social sciences have been paying closer attention to failure, to its manifestations in the contemporary world and to the modalities of dealing with it both in theory and in practice. An emergent and interdisciplinary field of analysis has been consolidating under the label of failure studies reflecting a number of social trends. These include the instability of winner-take-all systems, the ubiquity of the new spirit of capitalism, metric-based forms of governmentality, platformization, and changes in cultural attitudes to failure. We argue that the normality of failure calls for a better conceptualization of it. What is needed is a clearer thinking about what failure really means, a better understanding of the mechanisms that generate, reproduce, and terminate it as a normal part of life. The essays collected for this symposium offer fresh insights on the analysis of failure. Taking different areas of social life as a focus, they critically examine the failures of large complex socio-technical systems; the purposefully agency of players in systems failure; the failures of governance and metagovernance; new meanings of policy failures; kaleidoscopic failure; network failure and the moral economy of failure. In doing so they we suggest that a sociology of failure needs to be built on socio-historical understandings of failure in different contexts, cultures, and environments.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
From Stigma to Strength: A Case of ESL Program Transformation in a Greater Vancouver High School
Creators: name: Li, Guofang
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: The rapid increase of Asian immigrant students in Canadian classrooms demands more systematic and increased language support to ensure all English language learners (ELLs) achieve success in school. However, research has found mixed results on the usefulness of current English as a Second Language (ESL) support programs and a growing dissatisfaction among students and parents about ESL, suggesting further investigation is needed to improve the provision of ESL in the schools. This paper details how one school and one ESL teacher responded to the needs of newly arrived Asian (i.e., Chinese) ELL students by documenting the school’s and teacher’s journey in revamping the pull-out ESL program into a culturally responsive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program with a focus on immersion, community engagement, and a pedagogy of cultural reciprocity. The case has important implications for redesigning current ESL programs in the context of changing immigration.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
A Response to Critics
Creators: name: Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: In this short response to the comments by Étienne Ollion and Andrea Saltelli on The Quantified Scholar (CUP, 2022), the author Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra explores some of the methodological and ethical dimensions of the valuation of research in the present.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Data science is science's second chance to get causal inference right: A classification of data science tasks
Creators: name: Hernán, Miguel A.
name: Hsu, John
name: Healy, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Causal inference from observational data is the goal of many data analyses in the health and social sciences. However, academic statistics has often frowned upon data analyses with a causal objective. The introduction of the term "data science" provides a historic opportunity to redefine data analysis in such a way that it naturally accommodates causal inference from observational data. Like others before, we organize the scientific contributions of data science into three classes of tasks: Description, prediction, and counterfactual prediction (which includes causal inference). An explicit classification of data science tasks is necessary to discuss the data, assumptions, and analytics required to successfully accomplish each task. We argue that a failure to adequately describe the role of subject-matter expert knowledge in data analysis is a source of widespread misunderstandings about data science. Specifically, causal analyses typically require not only good data and algorithms, but also domain expert knowledge. We discuss the implications for the use of data science to guide decision-making in the real world and to train data scientists.
Excitations and phase ordering of the spin-stripe phase of a binary dipolar condensate
Creators: name: Lee, Au-Chen
name: Baillie, D.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ground states, excitations and dynamics of a quasi-two-dimensional binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. Our focus is on the transition to a spin-stripe ground state in which the translational invariance is spontaneously broken by a striped immiscible pattern of the alternating components. We develop a ground state phase diagram showing the parameter regime where the spin-stripe state occurs. Using Bogoliubov theory we calculate the excitation spectrum and structure factors. We identify a balanced regime where the system has a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, and in the spin-stripe state this yields a nonsymmorphic symmetry. We consider the evolution of the system following a quench from the uniform to spin-stripe state, revealing novel ordering dynamics involving defects of the stripe order. Using an order parameter to characterize the orientational order of the stripes, we show that the phase ordering exhibits dynamic scaling.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Measurements of the top quark properties at decay with CMS
Creators: name: Castro, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CMS measurements of properties related to top quark decays are discussed. The results presented regard the measurement of the W boson helicity, the investigation of anomalous couplings in the Wtb vertex, and the search for very rare decays, such as t -> Zq and t -> Hq, which are associated to flavor-changing neutral currents.
description: Presented at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics, Venice, Italy, 5-12 July 2017
The Resource Bind: System Failure and Legitimacy Threats in Sociotechnical Organizations
Creators: name: Vertesi, Janet A.
name: Boyd, Danah
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: This paper decouples legitimacy crises from technical failure, observing what happens when sociotechnical organizations confront a legitimacy crisis that does not stem from a technical failure. We draw on two parallel ethnographic studies within U.S. governmental agencies which administer complex sociotechnical systems: NASA and the Census Bureau. We show how time and money have dual, contested symbolic meanings that effect both the organizations’ legitimacy and the technical viability of their missions. This duality places public-sector technical organizations in a bind, and enables hostile actors to push these organizations to the brink, triggering legitimacy crises by pressuring their systems toward technical failure. Efforts on the ground may enable these projects to survive technically, but at the loss of individual and institutional reputations that reconfigure institutional fields along politically expedient lines. We demonstrate the advantage of bringing an institutional perspective to technical system threat and failure by addressing broader questions of legitimacy in high-risk organizations and sociotechnical systems.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Academic Dishonesty in a Post-Secondary Multilingual Institution
Creators: name: Chang, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: While plagiarism is a continuing educational writing issue in many post-secondary institutions, instances of contract cheating are also rising. Plagiarism is usually conceptualized as a type of writing misconduct or violation of existing institutional academic standards, but very little attention has been paid to contract cheating—when students seek paid tutors to write their course assignments. The present paper focuses on one multilingual undergraduate student’s contract cheating experience, demonstrating her views on academic dishonesty and help seeking, and how she witnessed her multilingual peers engaging in contract cheating activities. Findings reveal that the participant’s learning might be driven by her attempts to maintain her academic status. Her participation in several paid tutorial services might be due to her bringing her own cultural values to post-secondary learning and trying to maximize her GPA as well as fulfil the learning needs of the courses she was taking. Important implications related to the present research encourage educators to revisit multilingual students’ learning needs related to academic misconduct and academic integrity in post-secondary education.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
Chiral tensor fields and spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry
Creators: name: Schwindt, Jan-Markus
name: Wetterich, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Antisymmetric tensor fields interacting with quarks and leptons have been proposed as a possible solution to the gauge hierarchy problem. We compute the one-loop beta function for a quartic self-interaction of the chiral antisymmetric tensor fields. Fluctuations of the top quark drive the corresponding running coupling to a negative value as the renormalization scale is lowered. This may indicate a non-vanishing expectation value of the tensor field, and thus a spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance. Settling this issue will need the inclusion of tensor loops.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Using Hypermedia and Reconfigurable Software Assembly to Support Virtual Laboratories and Factories
Creators: name: Gertz, Matthew W.
name: Stewart, David B.
name: Nelson, Bradley J.
name: Khosla, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in reusable and reconfigurable real-time software make it possible to create virtual laboratories wherein applications for a sensor-based system located at a particular location can be created by assembling software modules designed at other sites, and executed in combination upon a robotic system at yet another site. Ultimately, such systems will lead to the development of virtual factories, wherein assembly can be performed remotely, using network-accessible time-shared facilities, from sites which otherwise would lack the necessary resources to accomplish such tasks. The benefits of these virtual laboratories and factories can be greatly enhanced by using hypermedia mechanisms. We have developed Onika, an iconically programmed human-machine interface with hypermedia capabilities, which interacts with reconfigurable software to assemble reusable code into applications. Onika can retrieve and use software modules created at other sites viahyperlinks, integrating them with modules created locally. Onika has been fully integrated with the Chimera real-time operating system in order to control several different robotic systems at Carnegie Mellon University, both locally and remotely.
Imaging of Fiber-Like Structures in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Creators: name: Rose, Sean D.
name: Sidky, Emil Y.
name: Reiser, Ingrid
name: Pan, Xiaochuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fiber-like features are an important aspect of breast imaging. Vessels and ducts are present in all breast images, and spiculations radiating from a mass can indicate malignancy. Accordingly, fiber objects are one of the three types of signals used in the American College of Radiology digital mammography (ACR-DM) accreditation phantom. This work focuses on the image properties of fiber-like structures in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and how image reconstruction can affect their appearance. The impact of DBT image reconstruction algorithm and regularization strength on the conspicuity of fiber-like signals of various orientations is investigated in simulation. A metric is developed to characterize this orientation dependence and allow for quantitative comparison of algorithms and associated parameters in the context of imaging fiber signals. The imaging properties of fibers, characterized in simulation, are then demonstrated in detail with physical DBT data of the ACR-DM phantom. The characterization of imaging of fiber signals is used to explain features of an actual clinical DBT case. For the algorithms investigated, at low regularization setting, the results show a striking variation in conspicuity as a function of orientation in the viewing plane. In particular, the conspicuity of fibers nearly aligned with the plane of the X-ray source trajectory is decreased relative to more obliquely oriented fibers. Increasing regularization strength mitigates this orientation dependence at the cost of increasing depth blur of these structures.
description: This version has been updated with changes made during the peer-review process. The manuscript has now been published in the SPIE Journal of Medical Imaging
Fostering Success: Belongingness Pedagogy for English Language Learners
Creators: name: Finley, Angela M.
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: Research in psychology has found that belongingness is an essential human need and motivation. However, in education, particularly in the field of additional language teaching and learning, the impacts of belongingness on academic success are often overlooked. With universities becoming increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse, knowing how to support students from non-English speaking backgrounds is integral for institutions and educators. This article explores the relationship between belongingness and academic success for additional language learners by examining four elements: positive peer relationships; meaningful student-faculty interaction; learner identity and academic success; and relevant experiences that meet academic goals. Pedagogical approaches that help increase belongingness for language learners are provided to support English as an additional language professionals in creating more welcoming and productive environments at universities and colleges in British Columbia. These approaches may also support other student populations, such as Indigenous students, at-risk students, and even students from traditional or mainstream backgrounds.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
The Moral Economy of Failure
Creators: name: Barbera, Filippo
name: Rees Jones, Ian
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: This paper attempts to place contemporary market and state-based surveillance and monitoring regimes within a moral economy framework with the aim of developing a sociological approach to the moral economy of failure. The paper begins by reviewing different understandings of moral economy and their applications, both historical and contemporary, across different political, economic, and cultural contexts. It then sets out an approach to moral economy that focuses both on the norms and sentiments that frame economic and social relations and their associated practices as well as the ways in which these practices are legitimated. Following this the paper examines the literature on failure in different spaces including failure of markets, valuation regimes, and innovations. We focus on organisational and professional failures, market failures, failures of governance and policy and failures in innovation and experimentalism. In each case the discussion relates the scholarship on failure to the moral economy highlighting the interrelationships between the two and how practices related to failure are reframed and legitimated. Our discussion highlights a double standard with respect to failure. For some, generally the wealthy and powerful, it is possible to embrace failure; to hold it up as an example of ones capacity to adapt, to survive to embrace new ideas and through individual resilience, to learn and grow from the experience. But in other circumstances particularly for those living in poverty, for marginal groups and for the racially profiled, failure attracts shame, stigma, and punishment. We conclude by arguing that a research agenda addressing the moral economy of failure needs to be built on socio-historical understandings of failure in different contexts, cultures, and environments. We suggest this offers a way of identifying progressive futures and acts as an antidote to much of the hype that underpins contemporary accounts of success and innovation.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Unmasking the Early Language and Literacy Needs of ELLs: What K–3 Practitioners Need to Know and Do
Creators: name: Roessingh, Hetty
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: The key underlying developmental concepts and skills requisite for early literacy learning appear to be easily achieved among most young English language learners (ELLs). These strengths, however, may merely mask the need for enhanced vocabulary development, the key variable in successful transitioning from early to academic literacy development in Grades 3–4 and in the longitudinal academic outcomes to Grade 12 that is over-looked by many elementary practitioners. Using illustrative samples of vocabulary profiles generated from children’s early written literacy development, this article highlights the need for elementary practitioners to continue to place a strong instructional focus on developing academic vocabulary, starting in the early grades and sustaining this focus through elementary school. At the same time, young learners need to continue to work on printing and spelling: the keys to unlocking vocabulary knowledge. Ideas for high impact teaching strategies are included.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
The Portfolio-based Language Assessment Model: Perceptions of Adult Immigrant English Language Learners
Creators: name: Drew, Ryan
name: Mudzingwa, Calisto
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2018

description: This research investigated students’ perceptions of the Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA) model used in the government-funded Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program. A mixed methods approach was used in order to obtain results with a broader perspective of the students’ perceptions of PBLA. Data were collected from 70 participants, using self-administered questionnaires with room for extensive comments. The participants were adult immigrants attending LINC classes at a non-profit organization in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Participants responded to questions on the usefulness of different features of PBLA and the PBLA model as a whole. Overall, the participants had positive perceptions of PBLA and indicated that it was helpful in their English language learning journey. It is hoped that this study will generate discussion amongst learners, educators, government officials, and scholars regarding the value of PBLA in the LINC program and how to improve its implementation.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)
Using HCI Techniques to Design a More Usable Programming System
Creators: name: Pane, John
name: Myers, Brad
name: Miller, Leah
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A programming system is the user interface between the programmer and the computer. Programming is a notoriously difficult activity, and some of this difficulty can be attributed to the user interface as opposed to other factors. Historically, the designs of programming languages and tools have not emphasized usability. This paper describes the process we used to design HANDS, a new programming system for children that focuses on usability, where HCI knowledge, principles, and methods guided all design decisions. The features of HANDS are presented along with their motivations from prior empirical research on programmers and new studies conducted by the authors. HANDS is an event-based language that features a concrete model for computation, provides operators that match the way non-programmers express problem solutions, and includes domain-specific features for the creation of interactive animations and simulations. In user tests, children using HANDS performed significantly better than children using a reduced-feature version of the system where more traditional methods were required to solve tasks.
Projective manifolds containing a large linear subspace with nef normal bundle
Creators: name: Novelli, Carla
name: Occhetta, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E30 (Primary), 14J40, 14J45, 14M15 (Secondary)

description: We classify smooth complex projective varieties $X \subset \proj^N$ of dimension $2s+1$ containing a linear subspace $Λ$ of dimension $s$ whose normal bundle $N_{Λ/X}$ is numerically effective.
description: Minor revision. Some changes in the exposition. To appear in Michigan Mathematical Journal
title: Spitzer Observations of the Lambda Orionis cluster I: the frequency of young debris disks at 5 Myr
Creators: name: Hernandez, Jesus
name: Calvet, Nuria
name: Hartmann, L.
name: Muzerolle, J.
name: Gutermuth, R.
name: Stauffer, J.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics and Astronomy

description: This is the pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/707/1/705
description: We present IRAC/MIPS Spitzer observations of intermediate-mass stars in the 5 Myr old Lambda Orionis cluster. In a representative sample of stars earlier than F5 (29 stars), we find a population of 9 stars with a varying degree of moderate 24um excess comparable to those produced by debris disks in older stellar groups. As expected in debris disks systems, those stars do not exhibit emission lines in their optical spectra. We also include in our study the star HD 245185, a known Herbig Ae object which displays excesses in all Spitzer bands and shows emission lines in its spectrum. We compare the disk population in the Lambda Orionis cluster with the disk census in other stellar groups studied using similar methods to detect and characterize their disks and spanning a range of ages from 3 Myr to 10 Myr. We find that for stellar groups of 5 Myr or older the observed disk frequency in intermediate mass stars (with spectral types from late B to early F) is higher than in low mass stars (with spectral types K and M). This is in contradiction with the observed trend for primordial disks evolution, in which stars with higher stellar masses dissipate their primordial disks faster. At 3 Myr the observed disk frequency in intermediate mass stars is still lower than for low mass stars indicating that second generation dusty disks start to dominate the disk population at 5 Myr for intermediate mass stars. This result agrees with recent models of evolution of solids in the region of the disk where icy objects form (>30 AU), which suggest that at 5-10 Myr collisions start to produce large amount of dust during the transition from runaway to oligarchic growth (reaching sizes of ~500 km) and then dust production peaks at 10-30 Myr, when objects reach their maximum sizes (>1000 km)
System Effects, Failure, and Repair: Two Cases
Creators: name: Vaughan, Diane
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: This paper argues for the importance of studying the systemic causes of organization failures. Taking a systems approach calls for both a theoretical and methodological framing that examines system effects: the relation between conditions, actors, and actions in the institutional environment, as they affect organizations, changing them, and consequently changing the workplace, technology, tasks, and the actions and reactions of the people who work there. All organizations are vulnerable to system effects — competition for scarce resources necessary to achieving organization goals, including survival, status, and legitimacy in their organization field. Consequently, this research aims to fill gaps in what is known about failure by asking how and why, of two organizations with similar operations and under the same constraints, one is subject to repeat catastrophic failures, while the other has been able to maintain safety. To this end, this research is a cross-case comparative analysis based on historical ethnographies of two crises in large socio-technical systems, looking for analogies and differences. Both cases reveal the institutional constraints and internal responses to the liabilities of technological and organizational innovation: NASA’s decision to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger, and Air Traffic Control response to the intersection of a staffing shortage and automation. The conclusions have implications for both policy and for our understanding of institutional persistence, change, and agency.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Effect of FePd alloy composition on the dynamics of artificial spin ice
Creators: name: Morley, Sophie A.
name: Riley, Susan T.
name: Porro, Jose-Maria
name: Rosamond, Mark C.
name: Linfield, Edmund H.
name: Cunningham, John E.
name: Langridge, Sean
name: Marrows, Christopher H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Artificial spin ices (ASI) are arrays of single domain nano-magnetic islands, arranged in geometries that give rise to frustrated magnetostatic interactions. It is possible to reach their ground state via thermal annealing. We have made square ASI using different FePd alloys to vary the magnetization via co-sputtering. From a polarized state the samples were incrementally heated and we measured the vertex population as a function of temperature using magnetic force microscopy. For the higher magnetization FePd sample, we report an onset of dynamics at $T = 493$ K, with a rapid collapse into $>90\%$ ground state vertices. In contrast, the low magnetization sample started to fluctuate at lower temperatures, $T = 393$ K and over a wider temperature range but only reached a maximum of $25\%$ of ground state vertices. These results indicate that the interaction strength, dynamic temperature range and pathways can be finely tuned using a simple co-sputtering process. In addition we have compared our experimental values of the blocking temperature to those predicted using the simple Néel-Brown two-state model and find a large discrepancy which we attribute to activation volumes much smaller than the island volume.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402) (11 H 1160), f. 00111
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2017
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160), f. 00111, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Effects of the equation of state on the core-crust interface of slowly rotating neutron stars
Creators: name: Tsaloukidis, L.
name: Margaritis, Ch.
name: Moustakidis, Ch. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically study the symmetry energy effects of the transition density $n_{\rm t}$ and the transition pressure $P_{\rm t}$ around the crust-core interface of a neutron star in the framework of the dynamical and the thermodynamical method respectively. We employ both the parabolic approximation and the full expansion, for the definition of the symmetry energy. We use various theoretical nuclear models, which are suitable for reproducing the bulk properties of nuclear matter at low densities, close to saturation density as well as the maximum observational neutron star mass. Firstly we derive and present an approximation for the transition pressure $P_{\rm t}$ and crustal mass $M_{\rm crust}$. Secondly, we explore the effects of the Equation of State (EoS) on a few astrophysical applications which are sensitive to the values of $n_{\rm t}$ and $P_{\rm t}$ including neutron star oscillation frequencies, thermal relaxation of the crust, crustal fraction of the moment of inertia and the r-mode instability window of a rotating neutron star. We found that the above quantities are sensitive mainly on the applied approximation for the symmetry energy (confirming previous results). Furthermore, an additional sensitivity also exists, depending on the used method (dynamical or thermodynamical). The above findings lead us to claim that the determination of the $n_{\rm t}$ and $P_{\rm t}$ must be reliable and accurate before they are used to constrain relevant neutron star properties.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables
Free and Open Access: How English Language Teaching Associations Can Foster the Dissemination of Knowledge Through Scholarly Journals
Creators: name: Douglas, Scott Roy
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2017

description: This editorial defines the concept of free and open access to scholarly knowledge and how the BC TEAL Journal embodies that definition. It further relates the role of a provincial English language teaching organization and its role in supporting local knowledge creation and dissemination. Finally, the editorial introduces the articles and book reviews in the 2017 issue and encourages readers to support the journal through volunteering as a peer reviewer or submitting an article for publication.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)
Review of García, O. & Wei, L. (2014). Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
Creators: name: James, Connie Lam
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2017

description: Book Review
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)
Using Handhelds to Help People with Motor Impairments
Creators: name: Myers, Brad
name: Wobbrock, Jacob
name: Yang, Sunny
name: Yeung, Brian
name: Nichols, Jeffrey
name: Miller, Robert
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80399 Computer Software not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: People with Muscular Dystrophy (MD) and certain other muscular and nervous system disorders lose their gross motor control while retaining fine motor control. The result is that they lose the ability to move their wrists and arms, and therefore their ability to operate a mouse and keyboard. However, they can often still use their fingers to control a pencil or stylus, and thus can use a handheld computer such as a Palm. We have developed software that allows the handheld to substitute for the mouse and keyboard of a PC, and tested it with four people (ages 10, 12, 27 and 53) with MD. The 12-year old had lost the ability to use a mouse and keyboard, but with our software, he was able to use the Palm to access email, the web and computer games. The 27-year-old reported that he found the Palm so much better that he was using it full-time instead of a keyboard and mouse. The other two subjects said that our software was much less tiring than using the conventional input devices, and enabled them to use computers for longer periods. We report the results of these case studies, and the adaptations made to our software for people with disabilities.
Intellectuals, Pragmatism, and the Craft of Sociology: Matteo Bortolini in Conversation with Neil Gross
Creators: name: Bortolini, Matteo
name: Gross, Neil
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: In this interview with Matteo Bortolini, Neil Gross talks about pragmatism in sociology, the sociology of intellectuals, and his work on the police. The interview also addresses some points of a sociologist’s professional life and its different stages, starting from the hypothesis that sociologists of ideas and intellectuals should be particularly exposed to continuous moments of reflexivity.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Gromov-Witten invariants of blow-ups along submanifolds with convex normal bundles
Creators: name: Lai, Hsin-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a submanifold Z inside X, let Y be the blow-up of X along Z. When the normal bundle of Z in X is convex with a minor assumption, we prove that genus-zero GW-invariants of Y with cohomology insertions from X, are identical to GW-invariants of X. Under the same hypothesis, a vanishing theorem is also proved. An example to which these two theorems apply is when the normal bundle is generated by global sections. These two main theorems do not hold for arbitrary blow-ups, and counter-examples are included.
description: 34 pages
Expectations of Failure: Political Risks in the Moral Economy of Ignorance and Social Injustice
Creators: name: Mica, Adriana
name: Pawlak, Mikołaj
name: Kubicki, Paweł
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: We are observing how contemporary failure regimes increasingly challenge ignorance and social injustice, and how this opens expectations for public policy to move beyond effectiveness and to pursue more emancipatory and progressive aims. Policy reinterpretations and expectations of failure however, are not coming solely from critical and alternative groups in the society. They are first and foremost political, which raises the question how does the moral economy and epistemology of just futures unfold? What are the effects of political exploitation and contamination? Our answer is to review political risks of emancipatory activism in abortion debates, which manifest high levels of polarization and contestation in relation to reproductive justice and human rights. We map out various hazards, showing how they produce what we term post-failure, and sustain emancipation fantasies and alternative policy futures that are linked with oppression effects. With this exploration we see that addressing ignorance and social injustice in policymaking has never been more essential, yet also unpredictable and convoluted in the political risks that it poses.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
Trauma-informed Teaching Practice and Refugee Children: A Hopeful Reflection on Welcoming Our New Neighbours to Canadian Schools
Creators: name: Tweedie, M. Gregory
name: Belanger, Carla
name: Rezazadeh, Kimberley
name: Vogel, Karen
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2017

description: Given the Canadian government’s focus on refugee resettlement in light of global crises, many schools are receiving increased enrolment of students who have experienced the trauma associated with living in, and fleeing from, regions experiencing armed conflict. As well as the effects of complex trauma, children from these backgrounds will likely have experienced disrupted schooling during the migration process (e.g. in refugee camps), and as a consequence lack literacy in their first language. The authors assert that given the numbers of such students entering Canadian classrooms, it is important that educators have at least some knowledge of trauma-informed teaching practice. Illustrated through the journal entries of a student teacher, the implementation of Blaustein & Kinniburgh’s (2010) ARC Framework is described, as applied in one Canadian high school, in a classroom of newly-arrived refugees from war-torn countries. The effect of trauma on key areas of attachment, self-regulation, and developmental competence are considered, alongside illustrations of classroom intervention strategies. While acknowledging the challenges inherent in trauma-informed teaching practice, the article encourages a move away from a deficit perspective on children from refugee backgrounds, toward one of hope, befitting the resiliency such children bring to their new country.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)
Kaleidoscopic Failure: The Regularity, Repetition, and Patterning of Failure in the Arts
Creators: name: Skaggs, Rachel
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: This essay presents the argument that failure in the arts is kaleidoscopic, presenting myriad points and types of regular, repeated, patterned failures that are concealed by focusing on financial earnings as the primary way that failure is experienced by artists. This framework is useful as a way to examine and review knowledge about the arts through outlining how individuals, groups, artistic products, and ideas can fail to accumulate economic, human, social, and cultural capital.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
A Channel-Aware Combinatorial Approach to Design High Performance Spatially-Coupled Codes for Magnetic Recording Systems
Creators: name: Hareedy, Ahmed
name: Wu, Ruiyi
name: Dolecek, Lara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Because of their capacity-approaching performance and their complexity/latency advantages, spatially-coupled (SC) codes are among the most attractive error-correcting codes for use in modern dense data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an underlying block code and coupling the partitioned components. Here, we focus on circulant-based SC codes. Recently, the optimal overlap (OO), circulant power optimizer (CPO) approach was introduced to construct high performance SC codes for additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and Flash channels. The OO stage operates on the protograph of the SC code to derive the optimal partitioning that minimizes the number of graphical objects that undermine the performance of SC codes under iterative decoding. Then, the CPO optimizes the circulant powers to further reduce this number. Since the nature of detrimental objects in the graph of a code critically depends on the characteristics of the channel of interest, extending the OO-CPO approach to construct SC codes for channels with intrinsic memory is not a straightforward task. In this paper, we tackle one relevant extension; we construct high performance SC codes for practical 1-D magnetic recording channels, i.e., partial-response (PR) channels. Via combinatorial techniques, we carefully build and solve the optimization problem of the OO partitioning, focusing on the objects of interest in the case of PR channels. Then, we customize the CPO to further reduce the number of these objects in the graph of the code. SC codes designed using the proposed OO-CPO approach for PR channels outperform prior state-of-the-art SC codes by up to around 3 orders of magnitude in frame error rate (FER) and 1.1 dB in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). More intriguingly, our SC codes outperform structured block codes of the same length and rate by up to around 1.8 orders of magnitude in FER and 0.4 dB in SNR.
description: 35 pages (single column), 19 figures, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The Critical Exponent of the Fractional Langevin Equation is $α_c\approx 0.402$
Creators: name: Burov, S.
name: Barkai, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamical phase diagram of the fractional Langevin equation and show that critical exponents mark dynamical transitions in the behavior of the system. For a free and harmonically bound particle the critical exponent $α_c= 0.402\pm 0.002$ marks a transition to a non-monotonic under-damped phase. The critical exponent $α_{R}=0.441...$ marks a transition to a resonance phase, when an external oscillating field drives the system. Physically, we explain these behaviors using a cage effect, where the medium induces an elastic type of friction. Phase diagrams describing the under-damped, the over-damped and critical frequencies of the fractional oscillator, recently used to model single protein experiments, show behaviors vastly different from normal.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
“I’m Happy for People to Collaborate, but I Don’t Want to Join in”. Addressing Failure in Community-supported Agriculture Networks
Creators: name: Bonfert, Bernd
Publisher: name: Sociologica
Year: 2024

description: Strategies for transforming capitalist economies often struggle with scaling up more socially just and ecologically sustainable alternatives. To avoid being stuck in a “local trap”, many prefigurative initiatives form larger networks and coalitions. Agroecological practices, such as community-supported agriculture (CSA), have been especially expansive in recent years. However, since most scholarship on the growing CSA networks focuses primarily on their development and positive achievements, we learn little about their encountered challenges and their strategies for overcoming them. This article therefore investigates the causes and extent of “network failure”, including barriers to collaboration and potential responses, among CSA networks in the UK and Germany. It draws on qualitative case studies, based on interviews, observation and document analysis. The article finds that CSA networks operate well at national and local level, but have experienced relative network failure at regional level, and encounter regular barriers to collaboration due to capacity limitations, differences and competition between members, all of which they are trying to address.
description: Sociologica, Vol. 17 No. 3 (2023)
3-D non-linear evolution of a magnetic flux tube in a spherical shell: the isentropic case
Creators: name: Jouve, L.
name: Brun, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent 3-D MHD numerical simulations of the non-linear dynamical evolution of magnetic flux tubes in an adiabatically stratified convection zone in spherical geometry, using the anelastic spherical harmonic (ASH) code. We seek to understand the mechanism of emergence of strong toroidal fields from the base of the solar convection zone to the solar surface as active regions. We confirm the results obtained in cartesian geometry that flux tubes that are not twisted split into two counter vortices before reaching the top of the convection zone. Moreover, we find that twisted tubes undergo the poleward-slip instability due to an unbalanced magnetic curvature force which gives the tube a poleward motion both in the non-rotating and in the rotating case. This poleward drift is found to be more pronounced on tubes originally located at high latitudes. Finally, rotation is found to decrease the rise velocity of the flux tubes through the convection zone, especially when the tube is introduced at low latitudes.
description: 4 pages, 6 ps figures
Making Sense of Theory: A Doctoral Student’s Narrative of Conceptualizing a Theoretical Framework
Creators: name: Burri, Michael
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2017

description: Making sense of theory plays an essential role in the life of a doctoral student. This autoethnographic study explores how I made sense of educational theory while conceptualizing the theoretical framework for my PhD proposal. A diary that I kept while designing the proposal serves as the data source to examine how my thinking about theory evolved. Findings demonstrate that the development of my thinking was a complex and circular process that progressed through nine phases. A particular challenge of conceptualizing a theoretical framework was the tight timeframe in which the proposal needed to be completed in order to start collecting data for my doctoral research. The paper concludes with a discussion about implications for language teacher educators and PhD supervisors.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)
The Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA): Suitable for Adult Learners?
Creators: name: Mudzingwa, Calisto
Publisher: name: BC TEAL Journal
Year: 2017

description: The Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA) literature explicitly states the suitability of using PBLA in English as an additional language (EAL) learning contexts. An underlying assumption is that it is also suitable for adult learners. This paper tests this assumption by comparing PBLA against the assumptions and principles of andragogy—a theory of adult learning. Andragogy was chosen as the yardstick because it created a portrait of adult learners and adult learning that is still considered a cornerstone of the best practices in adult education (Merriam, 2001). Akin to andragogy, which states how adults need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction, PBLA involves participants in the planning and evaluation of their learning via needs assessments, peer- and self-assessments, goal-setting, and student-teacher progress conferences. Furthermore, like andragogy, which highlights how adult learners want to learn things that have immediate application, PBLA assesses participants on content that is of immediate relevance to their personal lives. Finally, similar to andragogy, PBLA allows participants to draw from their life experiences during the learning process. After comparing PBLA and andragogy, the conclusion is that in its totality, PBLA is consistent with andragogy—and therefore suitable for adult learners.
description: BC TEAL Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)