cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
USE OF HUMAN IPSC-DERIVED NEURON MODEL TO STUDY SCN2A GENETIC VARIANT L1342P
Creators: name: Que, Zhefu
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Central nervous system

description: Epilepsies are the results of abnormal brain hyperactivities caused by brain injury, drug intoxication, and genetic perturbations. In the group of genetic-related epilepsies, the ion channel mutations contribute 25% of total epilepsy cases. Many studies suggest some forms of severe epilepsies can start early in patients’ lives, with epilepsy starting during infancy and childhood. With the wide adoption of genomic sequencing in children having seizures, an increasing number of SCN2A genetic variants have been revealed as genetic causes of epilepsy. Voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.2, encoded by gene SCN2A, is predominantly expressed in the pyramidal excitatory neurons and supports action potential (AP) firing. One recurrent SCN2A genetic variant is L1342P, which was identified in multiple patients with epileptic encephalopathy and intractable seizures. However, the mechanism underlying L1342P-mediated seizures and the pharmacogenetics of this variant in human neurons remain unknown. To probe the potential hypothesized biophysical property changes, we used a heterologous expression system expressing the Nav1.2-L1342P. We observed prominent but quite complex gating kinetics without significant changes in window current. To understand the core phenotypes of the L1342P variant in human neurons, we took advantage of a reference human-induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) line from a male donor, in which L1342P was introduced by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing. Using patch-clamping and microelectrode array (MEA) recordings, we revealed that cortical neurons derived from hiPSCs carrying heterozygous L1342P variant have significantly increased intrinsic excitability, higher sodium current density, and enhanced bursting and synchronous network firing, suggesting hyperexcitability phenotypes. Interestingly, L1342P neuronal culture displayed a degree of resistance to the anticonvulsant medication phenytoin, which recapitulated aspects of clinical observation of patients carrying the L1342P variant. In contrast, phrixotoxin-3 (PTx3), a compound showing greater specificity on Nav1.2 over other sodium channel subtypes, can potently alleviate spontaneous and chemically induced hyperexcitability of neurons carrying the L1342P variant. Our results reveal a possible pathogenic underpinning of Nav1.2-L1342P mediated epileptic seizures and demonstrate the utility of genome-edited hiPSCs as an in vitro platform to advance personalized phenotyping and drug discovery.
Uninformed Hawking Radiation
Creators: name: Sakalli, I.
name: Ovgun, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show in detail that the Parikh-Wilczek tunneling method (PWTM), which was designed for resolving the information loss problem in Hawking radiation (HR)fails whenever the radiation occurs from an isothermal process. The PWTM aims to produce a non-thermal HR which adumbrates the resolution of the problem of unitarity in quantum mechanics (QM), and consequently the entropy (or information) conservation problem. The effectiveness of the method has been satisfactorily tested on numerous black holes (BHs). However, it has been shown that the isothermal HR, which results from the emission of the uncharged particles of the linear dilaton BH (LDBH) described in the Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theory, the PWTM has vulnerability in having non-thermal radiation. In particular, we consider Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates (PGCs) and isotropic coordinates (ICs) in order to prove the aformentioned failure in the PWTM. While carrying out calculations in the ICs, we also highlight the effect of the refractive index on the null geodesics.
description: 4 pages, minor corrections, corrected typos
Carbon dynamics of organic layer in three forest stands dominated by different tree species
Creators: name: Nishigai, Ryuta
name: Yoshitake, Shinpei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The organic (O) layer on top of forest soil is important in forest carbon (C) cycling, but not many studies have investigated integrated C dynamics, including dissolved organic C (DOC) fluxes. To clarify the DOC contribution and C dynamics in the O layer, this study quantified the C stock of the O layer, C input (litter fall (LF) and throughfall DOC (TF-DOC)), and C output (CO2 emission and litter leachate DOC (LL-DOC)) over the course of a year for three forest stands in the same region (middle slopes of Mt. Asama, Nagano, Japan) dominated separately by Quercus serrata (Q), Larix kaempferi (L), and Pinus densiflora (P). The TF-DOC contribution to C input was high in the rainy season. Additionally, TF-DOC was greater in the L forest than in the Q and P forests because of relatively small LF production in the L forest. The contribution of LL-DOC to C output also tended to be high in the rainy season, but the contribution increased in winter owing to the small emission of CO2 at low temperatures. Annual contribution of LL-DOC was much higher in the P forest than in the Q and L forests, reflecting differences in litter quality. The DOC contribution rate to C flux was generally < 20%, suggesting that DOC flux is a minor but non-negligible process in C cycling in the O layer depending on season and forest type. Our comprehensive C flux data provide better understanding of C cycling in the O layer of temperate forests.
title: Carbon use efficiency and microbial functional diversity in a temperate Luvisol and a tropical Nitisol after millet litter and N addition
Creators: name: Schröder, Julia
name: Jannoura, Ramia
name: Beuschel, René
name: Pfeiffer, Birgit
name: Dyckmans, Jens
name: Murugan, Rajasekaran
name: Chavannavar, Suvarna
name: Wachendorf, Christine
name: Jörgensen, Rainer Georg
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: microbial biomass
subject: 13C/12C ratio
subject: CO2 mineralisation
subject: particulate organic matter
subject: multi substrate-induced respiration
subject: microbial necromass
subject: N uptake
subject: 570
subject: Biomasse
subject: Mikrobieller Abbau
subject: Kohlendioxid
subject: Mineralisation
subject: Organischer Stoff

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Asymmetries in top quark pair production at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
name: Amidei, D.
name: Juste, A.
name: Perez-Victoria, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the asymmetries in top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the LHC. We summarize the experimental measurements and the interpretations of a possible excess in terms of new physics. We also review other top quark properties-emphasizing effects related to the $t \bar t$ asymmetries-as well as other collider signals.
description: RevTeX 40 pages. Final version to be published in Reviews of Modern Physics, with several additions
OILADAGI NIZOLARNI HAL ETISHNING PSIXOLOGIK USULLARI
Creators: name: Xudoyberganova, Zilola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada oiladagi nizolarni hal etishning samarali usullari haqida so‘z yuritilib, bunda psixologik bilimlar, usullar va vositalardan qanday foydalanish kerakligi qisqacha bayon etilgan.
The Role of Turkish National Holidays in Promoting Character and Citizenship Education
Creators: name: Acikalin, Mehmet
name: Kilic, Hamide
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: This article introduces the history and development of Turkish national holidays. It also describes how these holidays being celebrated overtime in Turkey. Thus, the purpose of this article is providing fundamental information regarding Turkish national holidays and discussing possible role of these holidays in promoting character and citizenship education in Turkey. Design/Methodology/Approach: The article is created based on literature review, document analysis and qualitative observations of the authors with the support of several audiovisual materials that show the celebrations of these national holidays. In order to provide the fundamental information (history, development, and etc.) regarding to the holidays, relevant literature presented and synthesized. Also relevant official documents (laws, regulations, and orders) analyzed. Finally, observations of the authors based on their experiences of these national holidays included in the article with the aid of several audiovisuals materials that provided as hyperlink in the text. Findings: After analyzing all materials described above, we concluded that national holidays in Turkey has some aspects that promote character and citizenship education while these national days may have been lost their spirits and passions comparing their early years.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2017 Character Education and Citizenship Education
Mock Elections in Civic Education: A Space for Critical Democratic Citizenship Development
Creators: name: De Groot, Isolde
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: Preparing citizens for participation in pluralist democracies also requires a type of citizenship education that fosters critical democratic citizenship (CDC). This study inquires into an educational activity with a long history in many EU-countries: mock elections. It explores the extent to which elements of CDC-literacy, competences and identity are commonly fostered in education related to mock elections in the Netherlands, and teacher rationales in this regard. Methodology: A qualitative study was conducted. Data from semi-structured interviews with teachers from eight schools were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings and implications: Data analysis revealed an emphasis on offering a participatory experience. Five elements of critical democratic citizenship were commonly advanced in mock election related education in these schools. Teacher narratives also revealed how teachers had different understandings about political identity and their role in advancing identity development. Findings suggest that there is ample opportunity to intensify attention to CDC-development in education related to mock elections in Dutch schools. Further research into students’ political identity development processes during political simulations in different political and educational contexts is required to further academic debate about desirable support by teachers and governments in high-quality political education projects
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2017 Character Education and Citizenship Education
Education to Thrive in a Heterogeneous and Democratic Society - A Task for Citizenship and Character Education? Results of Case Studies in Three Berlin Schools
Creators: name: Bacia, Ewa
name: Ittel, Angela
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: The main goal of this paper is to analyze how the schools and teachers in three high schools dealt with the challenges of heterogeneity in the classroom using methods of citizenship and character education (CCE). Approach: To achieve this goal we conducted case studies in three high schools in Berlin, using multiple methodological approaches: observation of lessons, surveys of students, focus group interviews (FGI) and workshops with students, and individual interviews with teachers and with the headmasters of the schools. For the analysis of the data we use the PRIME model developed by Berkowitz and Bier (2014). Findings: Findings: The results of the case studies provide numerous insights into the issue’s complexity and highlight the need to discuss the goals as well as different models of CCE more broadly. Since the understanding of goals and appropriate means of CCE differs strongly depending on cultural and school context, analyzing CCE in the context of heterogeneity in democratic societies implies multidimensional questions. Practical implications: Future research needs to include more members of the studied school communities in the process of participatory action research: Deeper insight into the field can be achieved by integrating multiple perspectives. At the same time more members of the school community can reflect on the study outcomes, which might facilitate their direct implementation into practice.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2017 Character Education and Citizenship Education
Exploring perceived naturalness and diverse landscape service appreciation a Q methodology study in Ansan city park
Creators: name: Kim, Do-Eun
name: Son, Yong-Hoon
name: Lee, Kyu-Chul
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: This study aimed to explore Perceived Naturalness and diverse Landscape Appreciation based on landscape theory and to explore variations in naturalness perception among 25 users of Ansan city park using Q methodology. The results of the study identified six distinct groups representing different aspects of natural landscape appreciation, indicating significant variations in preferences for natural environments. The study found that while naturalness awareness had a common Processing model from an evolutionary perspective, it could be perceived differently based on individual experience and intimacy with nature. Overall, this study identified shared patterns in landscape perception related to perceived naturalness while highlighting individual differences in naturalness preferences.
Glial Scar Formation in CNS injury: A sub-map
Creators: name: Ramadan, Salma
name: Ibrahim, Mohammed
name: Sarhan, Mohammed
name: Awad, Bassem
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mapping, Glial scar, CNS injury, Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs)

description: Injury of body organs is usually accompanied by fibrosis that substantially affects regeneration of damaged tissue. Central nervous system (CNS) injuries including spinal cord injury (SCI) involve reactive gliosis and scarring. SCI results in severe and irreversible loss of function. The role of the glial scar in CNS injuries remain complex. This is due to the dual contradictory beneficial and inhibitory roles on the axonal recovery and the various responses in different timings after the injury. For decades, the glial scar has been regarded as a physical and molecular barrier inhibiting axonal regrowth. This is supported by the production of scar forming-cells to the chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) which are well-known extra-cellular components that inhibit axonal regeneration. More recently, the inhibition of glial scar formation in the acute and subacute stages after injury was found to prevent spontaneous recovery. This is due to the capability of the glial scar to limit the inflammatory mediators, thus prohibiting the spread of the debris to the healthy neural tissue. Extensive research is directed toward the manipulation of biomarkers and cells in the glial scars. Mapping is a useful tool for data integration which allows researchers to visualize all the relative signaling, metabolic and omics pathways to the multi-etiological diseases. This helps generate ideas about gaps in knowledge and potential therapies. We designed a map illustrating pathophysiology of the glial scar formation in the CNS injury using CellDesigner 4.4.2 (Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan), as a part of a bigger SCI map. In the current map, we curated 129 reactions among 162 species with annotating of 85 PubMed-indexed references. We used HGNC, MeSH, Gene Ontology, InterPro, Ensembl and ChEBI for annotating different species. Further, our map highlights the role of reactive astrocytes, scar-forming astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocyte, ependymal cells pericytes, endothelial cells, macrophages, neutrophils, fibroblasts, stem cells in early endogenous repair, however later they form a glial scar that potentiates more damage. The map also shows the molecular pathways behind the cellular activation, including the role of STAT-3 signaling which is an essential modulator of reactive astrogliosis and scar-forming astrocytes. Acknowledgement: We thank Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) for training us on cellDesigner software.
Power sum expansion of chromatic quasisymmetric functions
Creators: name: Athanasiadis, Christos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05

description: The chromatic quasisymmetric function of a graph was introduced by Shareshian and Wachs as a refinement of Stanley's chromatic symmetric function. An explicit combinatorial formula, conjectured by Shareshian and Wachs, expressing the chromatic quasisymmetric function of the incomparability graph of a natural unit interval order in terms of power sum symmetric functions, is proven. The proof uses a formula of Roichman for the irreducible characters of the symmetric group.
description: Final version, 9 pages; comments by a referee incorporated
Games and elementary equivalence of $\rm II_1$ factors
Creators: name: Goldbring, Isaac
name: Sinclair, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé games to give a local geometric criterion for elementary equivalence of II$_1$ factors. We obtain as a corollary that two II$_1$ factors are elementarily equivalent if and only their unitary groups are elementarily equivalent as $\mathbb Z_4$-metric spaces.
description: 13 pages; final version to appear in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics
The Smoking Gun: Still no LGBT+ Safety in Kakuma
Creators: name: Graham, Jones
name: Mubiru, Isa
name: Keogh, Peter
name: Hintjens, Helen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: This is one of two blogs that were put together in late February 2022, and draw on Facebook messages from Jones Graham and Isa Mubiru. Peter Keogh’s name has been included as co-author. The blog is written with first names only to protect the LGBT+ people still living in Kakuma Block 13. Read their other blog here.
 ----- This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.
 This item can also be found on the Covid Chronicles website.
Aboveground biomass and structural characteristics of poisonous Pieris japonica shrub stands dominating under deer pressure
Creators: name: Ichihashi, Ryuji
name: Katayama, Ayumi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Canopy tree seedlings rarely grow in regions with overabundant deer in Japan, whereas Pieris japonica, a shrub species that is unpalatable to deer, has been expanding its habitat and occasionally forms dense pure stands in disturbed locations. Although this species could be the key to understanding vegetation structure and function under intense deer pressure, little information is available regarding the structural and functional aspects of P. japonica stands. Here, we examined aboveground mass (MA) and several structural parameters for 13 P. japonica stands of various developmental stages (3–64 years old as estimated from the number of growth rings of component plants); the stand MA and leaf area were estimated by developing relevant allometric equations for individual plants. The MA of P. japonica stands (≤50 Mg ha−1) were less than a fifth of that recorded for neighboring forests consisting of deciduous broad-leaved trees and conifers. Leaf area index (≤4.9 m2 m−2) and basal stem area (≤62 m2 ha−1, determined at 5 cm from the ground) of the stands reached the level comparable to tree forests, whereas canopy height (≤4.4 m) was much shorter and plant density (≥7,300 stems ha−1) was fairly high compared with those of average tree forests in neighboring regions. The stand structure lacked thick and long boles, resulting in low biomass accumulation in P. japonica stands. Thus, one possible consequence of the long-lasting deer pressure is the reduction of the carbon sequestration capacity to a fraction of that of the present forests.
Impact of Event Encoding and Dissimilarity Measures on Traffic Crash Characterization Based on Sequence of Events
Creators: name: Song, Yu
name: Chitturi, Madhav V.
name: Noyce, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crash sequence analysis has been shown in prior studies to be useful for characterizing crashes and identifying safety countermeasures. Sequence analysis is highly domain-specific, but its various techniques have not been evaluated for adaptation to crash sequences. This paper evaluates the impact of encoding and dissimilarity measures on crash sequence analysis and clustering. Sequence data of interstate highway, single-vehicle crashes in the United States, from 2016-2018, were studied. Two encoding schemes and five optimal matching based dissimilarity measures were compared by evaluating the sequence clustering results. The five dissimilarity measures were categorized into two groups based on correlations between dissimilarity matrices. The optimal dissimilarity measure and encoding scheme were identified based on the agreements with a benchmark crash categorization. The transition-rate-based, localized optimal matching dissimilarity and consolidated encoding scheme had the highest agreement with the benchmark. Evaluation results indicate that the selection of dissimilarity measure and encoding scheme determines the results of sequence clustering and crash characterization. A dissimilarity measure that considers the relationships between events and domain context tends to perform well in crash sequence clustering. An encoding scheme that consolidates similar events naturally takes domain context into consideration.
The Transformation of Civic and Citizenship Education: Challenges to Educational Governance, Agency and Research - An Introduction
Creators: name: Hedtke, Reinhold
name: Proeschel, Claude
name: Szukala, Andrea
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2017 Constructing the Legitimate Knowledge
Description of Collective Motion in Two-Dimensional Nuclei; Tomonaga's Method Revisited
Creators: name: Nishiyama, Seiya
name: da Providencia, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four decades ago, Tomonaga proposed the elementary theory of quantum mechanical collective motion of two-dimensional nuclei of N nucleons. The theory is based essentially on the neglect of 1/sqrtN against unity. Very recently we have given exact canonically conjugate momenta to quadrupole-type collective coordinates under some subsidiary conditions and have derived nuclear quadrupole-type collective Hamiltonian. Even in the case of simple two-dimensional nuclei, we have a subsidiary condition to obtain exact canonical variables. Particularly the structure of the collective subspace satisfying the subsidiary condition is studied in detail. This subsidiary condition is important to investigate what is a structure of the collective subspace.
description: Published version, 16 pages
Finance-Informed Citizens, Citizen-Informed Finance: An Essay Occasioned by the International Handbook of Financial Literacy
Creators: name: Willis, Lauren E.
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: Throughout the world, the dominant discourse treats “financial literacy” as both necessary and sufficient to improve the well-being of individuals and society. Findings: This essay argues that financial literacy is neither, and that promoting financial literacy is a perverse way to address the inadequate retirement funding, overindebtedness, financial crises, and other social ills that have inspired governments and educators to pursue it. In its place, this essay suggests that the aim of financial education ought to be to foster finance-informed citizens, who have the capacity for civic engagement that can create citizen-informed economic policies and financial regulation.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2017 Constructing the Legitimate Knowledge
Cache Serializability: Reducing Inconsistency in Edge Transactions
Creators: name: Eyal, Ittay
name: Birman, Ken
name: van Renesse, Robbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Read-only caches are widely used in cloud infrastructures to reduce access latency and load on backend databases. Operators view coherent caches as impractical at genuinely large scale and many client-facing caches are updated in an asynchronous manner with best-effort pipelines. Existing solutions that support cache consistency are inapplicable to this scenario since they require a round trip to the database on every cache transaction. Existing incoherent cache technologies are oblivious to transactional data access, even if the backend database supports transactions. We propose T-Cache, a novel caching policy for read-only transactions in which inconsistency is tolerable (won't cause safety violations) but undesirable (has a cost). T-Cache improves cache consistency despite asynchronous and unreliable communication between the cache and the database. We define cache-serializability, a variant of serializability that is suitable for incoherent caches, and prove that with unbounded resources T-Cache implements this new specification. With limited resources, T-Cache allows the system manager to choose a trade-off between performance and consistency. Our evaluation shows that T-Cache detects many inconsistencies with only nominal overhead. We use synthetic workloads to demonstrate the efficacy of T-Cache when data accesses are clustered and its adaptive reaction to workload changes. With workloads based on the real-world topologies, T-Cache detects 43-70% of the inconsistencies and increases the rate of consistent transactions by 33-58%.
description: Ittay Eyal, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, "Cache Serializability: Reducing Inconsistency in Edge Transactions," Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), IEEE 35th International Conference on, June~29 2015--July~2 2015
LGBT+ in Kakuma: The Fire This Time
Creators: name: Graham, Jones
name: Mubiru, Isa
name: Keogh, Peter
name: Hintjens, Helen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism

description: This is one of two blogs that were put together in late February 2022, and draw on Facebook messages from Jones Graham and Isa Mubiru. Peter Keogh’s name has been included as co-author. The blog is written with first names only to protect the LGBT+ people still living in Kakuma Block 13. Read their other blog here.
 ----- This material is part of the Covid Chronicles from the Margins project, funded by The Open University and The Hague. The project aims to highlight the impact of the pandemic on refugees, asylum seekers & undocumented migrants.
 This item can also be found on the Covid Chronicles website.
The Rise and Fall of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Turkey
Creators: name: Sen, Abdulkerim
name: Starkey, Hugh
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: This article shows the effects of competing political forces on citizenship education in Turkey during the period of commitment to European Union (EU) accession (1999-2005). Methodology: It draws on textbooks, archival documents and interviews. Whilst Turkey had a history of civic education to promote a secular national ethos and identity, the post-Cold War democratisation movement encouraged the Turkish government in 1995 to attempt to internationalise civics by adding human rights themes. Findings: This effort occurred at a time when the hegemony of the secular nationalist establishment was challenged by the electoral rise of an Islamist party. Although Citizenship and Human Rights course suited the purposes of the secular nationalist establishment, after the EU recognised Turkey as a candidate in 1999, a new political Islamist government, elected in 2002, chose first to align the course with its ideology and later decided to repeal it. By exploring the evolution of the curriculum in a crucial period in which political power was switching from the ideology of secular nationalism to that of religious (Islamist) nationalism, the present study illustrates ways in which external and internal influences may affect citizenship education. In particular, it contributes to debates over the role of international agencies in curriculum change in citizenship education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2017 Constructing the Legitimate Knowledge
The Bullet Cluster is not a Cosmological Anomaly
Creators: name: Lage, Craig
name: Farrar, Glennys R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bullet Cluster (1E0657-56) merger is of exceptional interest for testing the standard cold-dark-matter plus cosmological constant cosmological model, and for investigating the possible existence of a long- or short-range "fifth-force" in the dark sector and possible need for modifications of general relativity or even of Newtonian gravity. The most recent previous simulations of the Bullet Cluster merger required an initial infall velocity far in excess of what would be expected within the standard cosmological model, at least in the absence of additional forces or modifications to gravity. We have carried out much more detailed simulations, making pixel-by-pixel fits to 2D data-maps of the mass distribution and X-ray emission, allowing for triaxial initial configurations and including MHD and cooling. Here, we compare the initial conditions of the Bullet Cluster merger to those in similar-mass merging clusters in the Horizon cosmological simulation. We conclude that the observed properties of the Bullet Cluster are completely consistent with Lambda-CDM.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
DeepCPG Policies for Robot Locomotion
Creators: name: Deshpande, Aditya M.
name: Hurd, Eric
name: Minai, Ali A.
name: Kumar, Manish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) form the neural basis of the observed rhythmic behaviors for locomotion in legged animals. The CPG dynamics organized into networks allow the emergence of complex locomotor behaviors. In this work, we take this inspiration for developing walking behaviors in multi-legged robots. We present novel DeepCPG policies that embed CPGs as a layer in a larger neural network and facilitate end-to-end learning of locomotion behaviors in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) setup. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on physics engine-based insectoid robots. We show that, compared to traditional approaches, DeepCPG policies allow sample-efficient end-to-end learning of effective locomotion strategies even in the case of high-dimensional sensor spaces (vision). We scale the DeepCPG policies using a modular robot configuration and multi-agent DRL. Our results suggest that gradual complexification with embedded priors of these policies in a modular fashion could achieve non-trivial sensor and motor integration on a robot platform. These results also indicate the efficacy of bootstrapping more complex intelligent systems from simpler ones based on biological principles. Finally, we present the experimental results for a proof-of-concept insectoid robot system for which DeepCPG learned policies initially using the simulation engine and these were afterwards transferred to real-world robots without any additional fine-tuning.
description: Preprint of paper accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction On Cognitive and Developmental Systems
title: Terminologie und SEO
Creators: name: Nikolic, Danka
Year: 2022

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit war es herauszufinden, inwieweit Keywords und Terminologie die Positionierung einer Website in der Suchmaschine beeinflussen und wie sich Termini von Keywords aufgrund terminologischer Strategien unterscheiden. Es wurde davon ausgegangen, dass jede Website eine individuelle Terminologieliste benötigt, die in der jeweiligen Sprache recherchiert und nicht durch einen Übersetzungsprozess erstellt wird, und dass Faktoren wie die meistgesuchten Keywords die Terminologie und die Position in der Suchmaschine stark beeinflussen.
Additional file 1 of Probing SARS-CoV-2-positive plasma to identify potential factors correlating with mild COVID-19 in Ghana, West Africa
Creators: name: Tapela, Kesego
name: Oyawoye, Fatima O.
name: Olwal, Charles Ochieng’
name: Opurum, Precious C.
name: Amponsah, Jones Amo
name: Segbedzi, Kekeli Aku Lumor
name: Tetteh, Becky
name: Kumi-Ansah, Frederick
name: Mutungi, Joe K.
name: Obodai, Evangeline
name: Amoako, Emmanuella
name: Agyemang, Seth
name: Ndam, Nicaise Tuikue
name: Ampofo, William Kwabena
name: Rayner, Julian C.
name: Awandare, Gordon A.
name: Paemka, Lily
name: Bediako, Yaw
name: Quashie, Peter Kojo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Cytokine concentration levels in COVID-19 patients. A: Comparison of cytokine concentration levels between COVID-19 symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. The median quantity of the cytokines is shown by a horizontal line across the violin plots while the lower and upper dotted lines represent the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. B: Change on cytokine concentration levels over time in COVID-19 positive individuals. The cytokine concentration levels were measured from plasma of COVID-19 symptomatic (n = 29) and asymptomatic (n = 29) individuals. Statistical significance between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients were determined by a two-tailed Mann-Whitney U test. (*: p <0.05, **: p < 0.01, ****: p < 0.0001, ns: p >0.05).
Predicting Employee Performance in Business Environments Using Effective Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Himanshu Sinha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: —The management of companies places great emphasison human resources, seeking to choose highly skilled employeeswho can perform above and beyond expectations. As managersand decision-makers attempt to devise plans for locating anddeveloping exceptional talent, human resources management(HRM) has become a crucial area of interest. A key concern liesin enhancing the performance of employees through professionalskill development programs. The goal of employee performancereviews is to gauge each employee's level of dedication to thebusiness. A company's ability to forecast employee performance iscritical to its success. This study's objective was to investigate thefactors influencing employee performance prediction in theworkplace using ML techniques. This project aims to provideimproved employee performance forecast accuracy andperformance via the use of state-of-the-art ML techniques.Utilising a Human Resources dataset from Kaggle, the researchinvolves meticulous data preprocessing steps, including balancingis conducted using SMOTE. Two machine learning models—Gradient Boosting and Extra Trees—are implemented andevaluated with hyperparameter optimisation techniques such asOptuna, Bayesian optimisation, and Randomized Search. Thecomparative analysis reveals that both models achieve highperformance metrics, with Gradient Boosting slightlyoutperforming with an accuracy0.962, precision0.955,recall0.967, and F1-score0.961. This study offers significantinsights for future research, demonstrating an effectiveness ofusing sophisticated ML algorithms for optimising and forecastingemployee performance in human resource management.
title: Das Menschenrecht auf Bildung
Creators: name: Gratzl, Norbert
Year: 2022

description: Bildung betrifft jeden Menschen und Bildung ist ein Menschenrecht. Dieses Menschenrecht ist einerseits universalistisch: d.h. es gilt für alle Menschen, es ist aber auch individualistisch, denn es wird nicht von allen Menschen akzeptiert. In der vorliegenden Master Arbeit wird sowohl die Frage nach dem Wesen eines Menschenrechts, seinen Chancen und Grenzen erläutert, als auch die Verankerung des Menschenrechts auf Bildung, inklusive des Rechts auf Weiterbildung erörtert. Das Phänomen Bildung ist konzeptionell immer multi- bzw. transdisziplinär und im Kontext de jeweiligen Fragestellung zu betrachten. Sozialpsychologisch gibt es einen klaren Bezug zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Bildungsweg bzw. Bildungszugang: Welche Rolle psychosoziale Aspekte beim Bildungserwerb spielen, und warum lebenslanges Lernen sowohl ein Recht als auch eine Pflicht darstellen, wird ebenfalls in der vorliegenden Arbeit beleuchtet. Als Beispiel für ein gelungenes lebenslanges Lernen wird kurz auf das "Studium Generale" am Postgraduate Center der Universität Wien eingegangen.
description: Education affects everyone and education is a human right. On the one hand, this human right is universalistic: i.e., it applies to all people, but it is also individualistic, because not all people accept it. In this Master Thesis, the question of the nature oft a human right, its opportunities and limits are explained and the anchoring of the human right to education, including the right to further education, is discussed. Conceptually, the phenomenon of education is always multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary and should be viewed in the context of the respective question. From a socio-psychological point of view, there is a clear connection between social background and educational path or access to education: the role played by psychlogical aspects in the acquisition of education and why lifelong learning represents both rights and opportunities is examined in this work, too. The 'Studium Generale' at the Postgraduate Center of the University of Vienna as a successful example lifelong learning is briefly presented.
SO(2N)/U(N) Riccati-Hartree-Bogoliubov Equation Based on the SO(2N) Lie Algebra of the Fermion Operators
Creators: name: Nishiyama, Seiya
name: da Providencia, Joao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the induced representation of SO(2N) canonical transformation group and introduce SO(2N)/U(N) coset variables. We give a derivation of the time dependent Hartree-Bogoliubov (TDHB) equation on the Kaehler coset space G/H=SO(2N)/U(N) from the Euler-Lagrange equation of motion for the coset variables. The TDHB wave function represents the TD behavior of Bose condensate of fermion pairs. It is a good approximation for the ground state of the fermion system with a pairing interaction, producing the spontaneous Bose condensation. To describe the classical motion on the coset manifold, we start from the local equation of motion. This equation becomes a Riccati-type equation. After giving a simple two-level model and a solution for a coset variable, we can get successfully a general solution of TDRHB equation for the coset variables. We obtain the Harish-Chandra decomposition for the SO(2N) matrix based on the nonlinear Moebius transformation together with the geodesic flow on the manifold.
description: Published version, 19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0712.4208
Inspecting School Social Quality: Assessing and Improving School Effectiveness in the Social Domain
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Anne Bert
name: Daas, Remmert
name: De La Motte, Per Ingvar
name: Ehren, Melanie
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: School inspection of school social quality is, in contrast to inspection in the cognitive domain, still in its early phase of development. While schools are shown to affect social outcomes, the interplay of mechanisms makes it difficult to isolate the effect of the school. This paper aims to evaluate different approaches to inspecting school social quality. Methodology: Based on a school effectiveness model, we consider what aspects could be taken into consideration to evaluate school social quality. Findings and implications: Using insights from inspection of cognitive outcomes, we present three ideal-type models of inspection, focusing on outcomes, school improvement, or process. There is as of yet no clear best approach to inspecting school social quality, as inspection of school quality can influence school performance in a range of ways. Implications of the described models and possible strengths and weaknesses are discussed.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2017 Constructing the Legitimate Knowledge
O'TA YUQORI CHASTOTALI NURLAR TA'SIRIDA IPAK FIBROIN TOLASIDAN ISHQORIY MUHITDA KUKUNSIMON GIDROLIZLANGAN FIBROIN OLISH
Creators: name: Shigabutdinov, A.A.
name: Baltayeva, M.M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O`zbekiston ipak yetishtirish bo`yicha yetakchilardan biri bo`lib, mamlakatimizda ipakning Bombyx mori tolasini olish yildan-yilga oshib bormoqda. Bunda sanoat uchun yaroqsiz bo`lgan ipak tolalari ham hosil bo`ladi. Chiqindi tolalari ikki xil oqsildan iborat bo`lib, ustki qismi seritsin va ichki qismi fibroin tolasidan tashkil topgan. Ushbu fibroin oqsilini ipak chiqindisidan ajratib olish uchun uni dastlab seritsindan tozalaymiz va olingan ipak fibroin tolasini o`ta yuqori chastotali nurlar tasirida ishqoriy muhitda gidrolizlab ipakdan gidrolizlangan fibroin olinadi.
Spectroscopic evidence for negative electronic compressibility in a quasi-three-dimensional spin-orbit correlated metal
Creators: name: He, Junfeng
name: Hogan, T.
name: Mion, Thomas R.
name: Hafiz, H.
name: He, Y.
name: Denlinger, J. D.
name: Mo, S. -K.
name: Dhital, C.
name: Chen, X.
name: Lin, Qisen
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Hashimoto, M.
name: Pan, H.
name: Lu, D. H.
name: Arita, M.
name: Shimada, K.
name: Markiewicz, R. S.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Kempa, K.
name: Naughton, M. J.
name: Bansil, A.
name: Wilson, S. D.
name: He, Rui-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Negative compressibility is a sign of thermodynamic instability of open or non-equilibrium systems. In quantum materials consisting of multiple mutually coupled subsystems, the compressibility of one subsystem can be negative if it is countered by positive compressibility of the others. Manifestations of this effect have so far been limited to low-dimensional dilute electron systems. Here we present evidence from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) for negative electronic compressibility (NEC) in the quasi-three-dimensional (3D) spin-orbit correlated metal (Sr1-xLax)3Ir2O7. Increased electron filling accompanies an anomalous decrease of the chemical potential, as indicated by the overall movement of the deep valence bands. Such anomaly, suggestive of NEC, is shown to be primarily driven by the lowering in energy of the conduction band as the correlated bandgap reduces. Our finding points to a distinct pathway towards an uncharted territory of NEC featuring bulk correlated metals with unique potential for applications in low-power nanoelectronics and novel metamaterials.
description: Advance online publication in Nature Materials; see the journal website for free download of Supplementary Information
Additional file 2 of Probing SARS-CoV-2-positive plasma to identify potential factors correlating with mild COVID-19 in Ghana, West Africa
Creators: name: Tapela, Kesego
name: Oyawoye, Fatima O.
name: Olwal, Charles Ochieng’
name: Opurum, Precious C.
name: Amponsah, Jones Amo
name: Segbedzi, Kekeli Aku Lumor
name: Tetteh, Becky
name: Kumi-Ansah, Frederick
name: Mutungi, Joe K.
name: Obodai, Evangeline
name: Amoako, Emmanuella
name: Agyemang, Seth
name: Ndam, Nicaise Tuikue
name: Ampofo, William Kwabena
name: Rayner, Julian C.
name: Awandare, Gordon A.
name: Paemka, Lily
name: Bediako, Yaw
name: Quashie, Peter Kojo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. Change on cytokine concentration levels over time in COVID-19 positive individuals. The cytokine concentration levels analysed from plasma of COVID-19 asymptomatic (n = 3), monthly for four months. The quantity of the cytokines for each sampling month is shown by the line graph.
Asset Master Data Management: Ensuring Accuracy and Consistency in Industrial Operations
Creators: name: Abhinav Parashar A Singh
name: Neepakumari Gameti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The problems of data quality are topicalnowadays, and the tendencies of growing amounts of data bringcertain challenges to data management strategies. Also,technical tools of today allow for data that is more than mostfirms can administrate and different business solutions canresult in increased data density. Master data management istruly experiencing globalisation at an exponential rate becauseits relevance or a link to the results or income does not have adirect connection to the operation of an organisation. In thecontemporary world that is characterised by stiff economycompetition, proper management of master data is crucial tomaking right strategic decisions and management of anorganisation for efficient functioning. This paper aims atstudying the topic of Master Data Management (MDM) takinginto account the enhancement of dependability, consistency andquality of numerous fields of activity. Focusing on a singlescheme of Master Data Management and the integration ofvarious data sources, it describes MDM frameworks andimplementation methods. The study reviews different types ofMDM solutions—operational, analytic, and enterprise—anddiscusses key phases and approaches for successful MDMimplementation. Furthermore, it investigates current researchtrends and gaps in MDM literature, highlighting the need foradaptive and scalable MDM architectures tailored to evolvingorganizational needs