cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Contemporary Engagement: Attitudes and Practices of College Students
Creators: name: Brady, Stephen C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and practices regarding engagement in modern America, focusing on the attitudes and evaluations of college students concerning the purpose and function of engagement. A questionairre was designed to measure the attitudes and evaluations of college students regarding engagement through the use of open-ended and Likert-type questions focusing on different aspects of the engagement process and a number of quest ions providing extensive demographic information. Respondents designated their present heterosexual relationship, allowing comparisons to be made based upon the respondents' relationship experience and exposure to the engagement process. Data were collected from 464 respondents. The results of the study show that engagement is cons idered by young college students to be a stage of commitment and a preparation period for marriage. Nearly all respondents were involved in or planned to be involved in the engagement process and believed that engagement is a necessary and viable phase towards marriage. The custom of exchanging an engagement ring, as well as other symbolic behaviors, was found not only to still have importance in the engagement process but al so to possibly provide initiation into a stage of relationship separately distinct from marriage. Several factors emerged from a factor analysis of Likert-type items identifying distinct characteristics of the engagement process. These factors provide items of measurement that should be employed in future studies concerning engagement.
title: Rezension: JÖRG ROCHE (2001), Interkulturelle Sprachdidaktik. Eine Einführung
Creators: name: Kranz, Dieter
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: "Der Diskurs des Multikulturalismus wurde historisch-gesellschaftlich von zwei Entwicklungen angestoßen – von der anhaltenden Immigrationswelle seit den 60er Jahren und von dem Prozess, der heute in aller Munde ist, der Globalisierung."1 Die rasante Entwicklung der Kommunikationsmedien, der Ausbau der Verkehrssysteme und die Internationalisierung der verschiedenen Wirtschaftssysteme ermöglichten das Zusammenrücken der Welt zu einem ‚globalen Dorf’ und schufen sanfte Berührungen und heftiges Aufeinanderprallen der unterschiedlicher Kulturen. Konflikte und Verwerfungen haben den Bedarf nach Visionen und Modellen friedlichen und lohnenden interkulturellen Zusammenlebens exponentiell steigen lassen. Es verwundert nicht, dass vor diesem Hintergrund auch der Bedarf an sachgerechten fremdsprachlichen Kenntnissen und damit verbunden auch an einem veränderten Fremdsprachenunterricht angewachsen ist. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht kann sicherlich davon lernen, wie in der Folge von Globalisierung, Mobilität, Multikulturalismus und Technisierung Sprachen zunehmend auf ‚natürliche’ Art und Weise erworben werden. Jörg Roches Buch "will all denen, die in der Sprachausbildung und interkulturellen Kommunikation als Multiplikatoren wirken (z. B. in der Sprachlehre, interkulturellem Training und Sprachplanung) und auch denen, die selbst mit oder ohne Unterricht Sprachen lernen, einen Überblick über die relevante Forschung und Methodik der Sprach- und Kulturvermittlung geben" (1). Ein hoher Anspruch, dem der Münchener Hochschullehrer – um es gleich zu sagen – voll und ganz gerecht wird. Man merkt dem Buch deutlich an, dass es aus persönlichen und beruflichen interkulturellen Kontexten entstanden ist, enthält es doch eine Fülle von konkreten ‚erlebten’ Beispielen, die die Botschaft des Autors treffend unterstreichen und einprägsam vermitteln.
title: „Meistens ich weiß nicht, wo ich muss das Verb gebrauchen“ Die Problematik des V2 Phänomens bei türkischen Lernenden der deutschen Sprache
Creators: name: Cedden, Gülay
name: Aydın, Özgür
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this paper is to examine the issue of cross-linguistic influence in Third Language Acquisition from a processing perspective. The focus is on word order, particularly on verb placement in German declarative sentences by presenting the data from Turkish learners of German. Since the participants‟ second language or third language is English, no significant evidence was found that could be referred as neither influence of syntactic properties of Turkish nor of English. Although German is a V2 lan- guage, Turkish and English are not V2 languages. On the other hand, although German and Turkish are SOV languages, English is a SVO language. Thus, if there is transfer in syntax, it should be expected that these properties are somehow transferred. In this study we have found that processing syntactic elements of a foreign language is due to cognitive procedures rather than the influence of another language
title: Lehr- und Lernprozesse fremdsprachlicher Literaturdidaktik: Eine Untersuchung mit türkischen DaF-Studierenden am Beispiel des literarischen Rollenspiels
Creators: name: Çigdem Ünal, Dalim
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Das didaktisch-pädagogische Konzept der Lernerzentrierung und Handlungsorientierung sollte in der fremdsprachlichen Literaturdidaktik und in der Auslandsgermanistik mehr Beachtung finden. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Meinungen von türkischen DaF-Studierenden hinsichtlich neuer Verfahren der fremdsprachlichen Literaturvermittlung durch die Methode der Befragung untersucht. Dabei wurde das literarische Rollen spiel als eines der produktiven Verfahren der Literaturdidaktik verwendet. Im Interesse der Untersuchung stehen zwei grundsätzliche Fragen: 1. Welche Lernprozesse lösen produktive Verfahren bei türkischen Lernergruppen aus? 2. Welche Lernziele und Schlüsselqualifikationen können durch den Einsatz von produktiven Verfahren gefördert werden? Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen, dass sowohl beim Lernprozess als auch beim Lehrprozess positive Effekte erzielt werden. Der Zugang zum Textverständnis wird ermöglicht, weil die türkischen Studierende interessiert, motiviert und aktiviert werden. Laut den Angaben der Befragten werden das Erreichen der neuen Lernziele wie z.B. Fremdverstehen, Perspektivenwechsel und die Fähigkeit zu Schlüsselkompetenzen gezielt unterstützt und gefördert. Die positiv ausfallenden Ergebnisse dienen als Beweis für den Bedarf und für die Forderung der türkischen Deutschlehrerkandidaten, dass an türkischen Universitäten moderne und offene Formen der fremdsprachlichen Literaturvermittlung in die Praxis gesetzt werden sollten.
Tuomas Heikkilä, Das Kloster Fulda und der Goslarer Rangstreit
Creators: name: Kruppa, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Concilium medii aevi
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Tuomas Heikkilä, Das Kloster Fulda und der Goslarer Rangstreit, Saarijärvi 1998 (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Sarjaser. Humaniora nidetom 298). 222 Seiten. ISSN: 1239-6982; ISBN: 951-41-0856-6
description: Concilium medii aevi, Bd. 2 (1999): Concilium medii aevi
A Trouble with Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity
Creators: name: Li, Miao
name: Pang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structure of the phase space in Hořava-Lifshitz theory. With the constraints derived from the action, the phase space is described by five fields, thus there is a lack of canonical structure. The Poisson brackets of the Hamiltonian density do not form a closed structure, resulting in many new constraints. Taking these new constraints into account, it appears that there is no degree of freedom left, or the phase space is reduced to one with an odd number of fields.
description: 12 pages, some discussions, comments and references added, JHEP style
Planning on the Grid: a Status Report
Creators: name: Garzoglio, Gabriele
name: Giacomini, Francesco
name: Prelz, Francesco
name: Sgaravatto, Massimo
name: Tannenbaum, Todd
name: Terekhov, Igor
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2002

description: Traditional batch job schedulers are a poor fit for a grid computing environment. In order to respond to the grid scheduling challenges, the client must perform planning. In this paper, we expound upon the differences between planning versus scheduling, and present two grid projects which utilize a ClassAd matchmaking framework to enable planning on the grid. Planning for purposes of job placement within the EU DataGrid and DZero SAMGrid projects will be explored.
A polycrystalline graphite model for the 2175 Angstrom interstellar extinction band
Creators: name: Papoular, Robert J.
name: Papoular, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A random, hydrogen-free, assembly of microscopic sp2 carbon chips, forming a macroscopically homogeneous and isotropic solid, is proposed as a model carrier for the UV interstellar extinction band . The validity of this model is based on the calculation of the Bruggeman average dielectric function of a mixture of the known parallel and perpendicular dielectric functions of graphite. The pi absorption feature of Rayleigh-sized spheres of this mixture falls near 4.6 mu-1 (2175 Angstroms), but its width is 1.5 mu-1, somewhat larger than the astronomically observed average, 1 mu-1. This is confirmed by measurements of the reflectance of an industrial material, polycrystalline graphite. A better fit to the IS feature position and width is obtained with a hypothetical material, having the same dielectric functions as natural graphite, except for less extended wings of the pi resonance. Physically, this could result from changes in the electronic band structure due to previous thermal histories. On this model, the Frolich feature central wavelength depends only on the pi resonance frequency, while its width depends only on the damping constant of the same resonance. This explains the range of observed feature widths at constant feature wavelength.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Select Experimental Trends in Astro-Particle Physics in Space
Creators: name: D. Babusci
name: C. Curceanu(Petrascu)
name: S. Dell'Agnello
name: G. Delle Monache
name: M.A. Franceschi
name: M. Ricci
name: R. Vittori
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2004

description: This report is in part based on the contribution to the Detector Working Group presented at the meeting on LNF long term planning, held on May 7, 2004, at INFN-LNF (Frascati, Italy). The initial work has been expanded, in some case evolving into experimental R&D work on new activities (LAZIO-SiRad and LARES). We will describe: (i) satellites with magnetic spectrometers for particle physics in low earth orbits (LEO, ~ 400 Km), (ii) the idea of networks of μ-satellites (for example to monitor the short term instability of the Van Allen belts); (iii) stratospheric balloon-based experiments; (iv) satellite laser-ranging experiments for testing the frame-dragging effects predicted by general relativity (GR), the equivalence principle and, possibly, forsetting bounds on string-inspired brane theoretical models. We think that this document can be the starting point for future and further work in astro-particle physics in space at LNF.
title: A study of the finite element in L3 German by Turkish learners
Creators: name: Sağın Şimşek, Çiğdem
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: The main purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of a particular language learning problem encountered by Turkish students learning German as a third language after English. More specifically, this study aims to investigate the difficulties that Turkish learners of German experience in positioning the finite element in subordinate clauses. To this end, data have been collected from both pre-intermediate and upper-intermediate level learners studying German as their third language in a Turkish educational setting. In order to study the acquisition patterns of the finite elements, data were gathered in the form of free writings. The findings indicate that the major difficulties that the students face concerns positioning the finite element in the sentence-final position in subordinate clauses. Regarding this finding, this present study intends to provide an explanation for learner mistakes within the Functional Pragmatic framework.
Stefan Pätzold, Die frühen Wettiner. Adelsfamilie und Hausüberlieferung bis 1221
Creators: name: Kirsch, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Concilium medii aevi
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: Stefan Pätzold, Die frühen Wettiner. Adelsfamilie und Hausüberlieferung bis 1221 (Geschichte und Politik in Sachsen, Bd. 6) Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau 1997, IX und 427 S. und Karten. ISBN 3-412-08697-5. DM 108.-
description: Concilium medii aevi, Bd. 2 (1999): Concilium medii aevi
Neutrino Hierarchy from CP-Blind Observables with High Density Magnetized Detectors
Creators: name: A. Donini
name: E. Fernandez-Martinez
name: P. Migliozzi
name: S. Rigolin
name: L. Scotto Lavina
name: M. Selvi
name: T. Tabarelli De Fatis
name: F. Terranova
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2007

description: High density magnetized detectors are well suited to exploit the outstanding purity and intensities of novel neutrino sources like Neutrino Factories and Beta Beams. They can also provide independent measurements of leptonic mixing parameters through the observation of atmospheric muon-neutrinos. In this paper, we discuss the combination of these observables from a multi-kton iron detector and a high energy Beta Beam; in particular, we demonstrate that even with moderate detector granularities the neutrino mass hierarchy can be determined for $\\theta_{13}$ values greater than 4$^\\circ$.
title: Messages to Homemakers as Consumers Regarding Food Preparation as Conveyed by Women's Magazines 1947-1986
Creators: name: Steggell, Carmen Dobson
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of this study was to define the messages related to food preparation that are conveyed by women's magazines to homemakers as consumers during the post-World War II period, and to analyze any changes of those messages over time. A content analysis of food related articles and advertisements in representative issues of Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping magazines from 1947 to 1986 was conducted. Both manifest and latent content were coded and agreement between the two measures was analyzed.
Of eighteen messages defined, five were found to account for 78.9 percent of the messages conveyed,. The five messages, listed in descending order, were (1) taste and visual appeal, (2) convenience and versatility, (3) nutrition, (4) quality, and (5) expertise in homemaking and hostessing skills. Using a test of chi-square, no significant difference in the distribution of the messages conveyed from year to year was found. Nevertheless, changes in presentation of the messages were found. Changes were geared to changing technological orientations, economic conditions, and gender roles.
Optical Far Field Diffraction Pattern Test of Laser Retroreflectors for Space Applications in Air and Isothermal Conditions at INFN-LNF
Creators: name: A. Boni
name: C. Cantone
name: S. Dellâ'Agnello
name: G. O. Delle Monache
name: M. Garattini
name: N. Intaglietta
name: C. Lops
name: M. Martini
name: L. Porcelli
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: We describe the INFN-LNF standard procedure for the optical Far Field Diffraction Pattern (FFDP) test of cube corner laser retroreflectors (CCRs) for space applications, when these CCRs are in air and in isothermal conditions around (22 ± 2)°C. This procedure was developed in 2007 and 2008, using prototype GLONASS CCRs lent to LNF by IPIE of Moscow and a GPS-2 flight model CCR array lent to LNF by the University of Maryland at College Park (all using Al-coated fused silica retroreflectors of 27 mm diameter). This was done in the context of the INFN experiment ETRUSCO2. The modeling of FFDP measurements is performed with a commercial software, CodeV by O.R.A. Inc., and it has been cross-checked against two independent software programs developed by other two members of the ILRS �??Signal Processing Working Group�?�, D. Arnold and T. Otsubo, finding very good agreement among the three. In summer 2008 this procedure has been validated by performing the FFDP test of the LAGEOS �??Sector�?�, an engineering prototype on loan from NASA-GSFC, equipped with 37 uncoated, fused silica retroreflectors of 38 mm diameter. We report test results for the GLONASS and LAGEOS CCRs. Details of the test procedure and CodeV simulations are given for the particular case of the LAGEOS Sector.
title: The Role of Sibling Authority in the Occurrence of Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior in Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Sibling Dyads
Creators: name: Braeger, Todd J
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: The effects that each sibling's relative cognitive and physical abilities may have on the quality of sibling interaction are not clearly understood in either nonhandicapped or handicapped sibling dyads. A measure of sibling authority based on behavioral observations of sibling interaction was developed that represents how sibling abilities are translated into sibling power within handicapped and nonhandicapped sibling dyads. This measure of sibling authority was related to the occurrence of prosocial and aggressive behaviors in sibling dyads with and without a child with handicaps. Ninety-three sibling dyads participated. Included were 34 nonhandicapped sibling dyads, 12 sibling dyads in which the older sibling had a handicapping condition,  and 47 sibling dyads in which the younger sibling had a handicapping condition. The handicapping conditions were Down Syndrome, mental retardation, or severe hearing impairment. Results indicate that although the older sibling had greater authority overall, younger siblings had greater authority in over half of all sibling dyads. Sibling authority was not found to be dependent specifically on the presence of the handicapping conditions represented in this study nor upon the gender composition of the sibling dyads. Small differences in authority scores between siblings were associated with a greater frequency of prosocial behavior in both siblings. However, there were no significant differences between groups or siblings on the occurrence of either prosocial or aggressive behaviors. Both siblings contributed equally to the positive or negative nature of their interaction regardless of handicapping condition.
Modelling the broad-band spectra of X-ray emitting GPS galaxies
Creators: name: Ostorero, L.
name: Moderski, R.
name: Stawarz, L.
name: Begelman, M. C.
name: Diaferio, A.
name: Kowalska, I.
name: Kataoka, J.
name: Wagner, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of the broad-band emission of GHz-Peaked-Spectrum (GPS) radio galaxies is a powerful tool to investigate the physical processes taking place in the central, kpc-sized region of their active hosts, where the jets propagate and the lobes expand, interacting with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). We recently developed a new dynamical-radiative model to describe the evolution of the GPS phenomenon (Stawarz et al. 2008): as the relativistic jets propagate through the ISM, gradually engulfing narrow-line emitting gas clouds along their way, the electron population of the expanding lobes evolves, emitting synchrotron light, as well as inverse-Compton radiation via up-scattering of the photon fields from the host galaxy and its active nucleus. The model, which successfully reproduces the key features of the GPS radio sources as a class, provides a description of the evolution of their spectral energy distribution (SED) with the lobes' expansion, predicting significant and complex X-ray to gamma-ray emission. We apply here the model to the broad-band SED's of a sample of known, X-ray emitting GPS galaxies, and show that: (i) the free-free absorption mechanism enables us to reproduce the radio continuum at frequencies below the turnover; (ii) the lobes' non-thermal, inverse-Compton emission can account for the observed X-ray spectra, providing a viable alternative to the thermal, accretion-dominated scenario. We also show that, in our sample, the relationship between the X-ray and radio hydrogen column densitities, N_H and N_HI, is suggestive of a positive correlation, which, if confirmed, would support the scenario of high-energy emitting lobes.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten (issue dedicated to the Proceedings of "The Fourth Workshop on Compact Steep Spectrum and GHz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources")
Studying the leptonic structure of galaxy cluster atmospheres from the spectral properties of the SZ effect
Creators: name: Colafrancesco, S.
name: Prokhorov, D.
name: Dogiel, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energetics of galaxy cluster atmospheres by analyzing the SZ effect spectra around the crossover frequency. We calculated analytically the expressions of both the crossover frequency and the spectral slope of the SZE around the crossover frequency in various cases: a thermal electron population; a power-law, non-thermal electron population; and a population of electrons experiencing a stochastic acceleration. We find that the value of the crossover frequency X_0 of the SZE depends significantly on the cluster peculiar velocity V_r (which determines the amplitude of the kinematic SZE), while the value of the slope of the SZE does not depend on the kinematic SZE spectrum in the optimal frequency range around the crossover frequency of the thermal SZE, i.e. in the (a-dimensional) frequency range x = 3.5 - 4.5. Thus, while the amplitude of the kinematic SZE produces a systematic bias in the position of the crossover frequency, it does not affect significantly the spectral slope of the SZE. We therefore propose to use measurements of the spectral slope of the SZE to obtain unbiased information about the specific properties of various electron distributions in galaxy clusters as well as in other cosmic structures in which a SZE can be produced.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, published in A&A
title: The Content of Preschool Children's Original Stories
Creators: name: Dana, Danae Elaine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1966

description: The early years of childhood are characterize d by new ideas; experimentation; the building of relationships; fears, both real and imagined; and play, through which the child tries to assemble these experiences into a meaningful whole. The early years are an exciting, complex and vibrant time of learning while the child grows in his understanding of himself and the world around him.
Inferring the dynamics of stellar streams via distance gradients
Creators: name: Jin, Shoko
name: Martin, Nicolas F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple result in which the distance gradient along a stream can be used to derive the transverse velocity (i.e. proper motion) along it, if the line-of-sight velocity is also known. We show its application to a mock orbit to illustrate its validity and usage. For less extended objects, such as globular clusters and satellite galaxies being tidally disrupted, the same result can be applied in its small-angle approximation. The procedure does not rely on energy or angular momentum conservation and hence does not require a Galactic model in order to deduce the local velocity vector of the stream.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; MNRAS Letters in press; updated to match accepted version
title: Attitudes towards German language and culture: Reflections from Turkey
Creators: name: Sağın Şimşek, Çiğdem
name: Fuad Selvi, Ali
name: Üzüm, Babürhan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates the language attitudes of students enrolled in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. In particular, the study aims to shed light on the status of German as a foreign language and attitudes attributed to German language and culture. The research findings gathered through a questionnaire, in general, pointed that the attitudes toward German language and culture are instrumentally positive in the sense that German language serves for the participants‟ personal development regarding inter- and cross-cultural and linguistic competence of the learners.
title: Pubertal Development, Parent-Teen Communication, and Sexual Values as Predictors of Adolescent Sexual Intentions and Sexually Related Behaviors
Creators: name: Christopherson, Cynthia R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1993

description: Adolescent sexual intercourse can be viewed as a normal developmental experience, but intercourse also is linked to unplanned pregnancies, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Consequently, there continues to be a high level of scientific interest in understanding antecedents of adolescent sexual behavior, especially early and more risky sexual intercourse. This study examined several key antecedents of adolescent sexual intentions and behavior, including pubertal development (pubertal status, change over time, and pubertal timing). parent/teen communication, and teen sexual values. Analyses were based on longitudinal data collected in 1991, 1992, and 1993 from parents and teens during the FACTS & feelings project conducted within three areas in northern Utah.
Regression and path analyses were used to test the direct and indirect effects among the variables. Parent/teen communication quality had a significant positive effect on teen sexual abstinent values for both males and females. Sexual abstinent values had a strong negative effect on sexual intentions for both males and females. Sexual values were more strongly related to sexual behavior for females than for males. Sexual intentions had a significant effect on sexual behaviors for both males and females, although this effect was stronger for males than for females. Pubertal timing had a significant effect on behaviors for males and a smaller although significant effect for females Age also had a significant positive effect for both male and female adolescents. Overall, within these analyses, females were more influenced by values which directly and indirectly affect sexual behaviors. Males were more influenced by the FACTS & feelings treatment, pubertal timing, and sexual intentions.
MOESM4 of Transcriptomic analysis of Verbena bonariensis roots in response to cadmium stress
Creators: name: Wang, Meng-qi
name: Bai, Zhen-yu
name: Xiao, Ya-fang
name: Li, Yan
name: Liu, Qing-lin
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Pan, Yuan-zhi
name: Jiang, Bei-bei
name: Zhang, Fan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Unigenes notes success statistics in each database.
Die theologisch-politische Bedeutung des Allerheiligenbildes im panegyrischen Lobgedicht an Robert von Neapel. Ein Beitrag zur spätmittelalterlichen Herrscherikonographie.
Creators: name: Bruderer Eichberg, Barbara
Publisher: name: Concilium medii aevi
Year: 2021

description: Concilium medii aevi, Bd. 2 (1999): Concilium medii aevi
title: The Relationships of Parental Marital Status, Quality of Family Interaction and Gender to Adolescent Tobacco, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use
Creators: name: Hunsaker, Stephen K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: The tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use of adolescents was examined to see if any differences existed in the marital status of the adolescent's parents, the quality of family interaction for the adolescent, and the gender of the adolescent. Marital status was defined as intact families where adolescents were living with both biological parents, and nonintact families where adolescents had parents who were single, divorced, widowed, never married, and remarried. Data were from a survey that examined youth issues of 500 adolescents from a rural Utah county. It was hypothesized that marital type and quality of family interaction (family kindness, family hurtfulness, and family communication) would have an effect on adolescent tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use.
Adolescents from intact families differed significantly from those in nonintact families in terms of substance use. This study also illustrated that being from an intact family is not enough to prevent adolescent substance use. Rather, the combination of having an intact family and perceiving family kindness had the greatest deterring effect on substance use among adolescents.
Family kindness had the greatest impact in deterring tobacco and alcohol use. Family hurtfulness, on the other hand, was the strongest indicator of marijuana use. Gender was a factor in only one of the dependent variables, tobacco, with males using more than females.
Quantum Phases of Ultracold Bosonic Atoms in two Bands of an Optical-Lattice coupled by a Cavity Field
Creators: name: Zoubi, Hashem
name: Ritsch, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum phase transitions between superfluid and Mott insulator states for ultracold bosons occupying two bands of an optical lattice. The two atomic states are resonantly coupled by a single cavity mode which mediates transitions between the two bosonic particle modes via absorption or emission of a cavity photon. This coupling between the bands shifts the appearance of the Mott insulator phase towards deeper optical lattice potentials and stronger on-site interaction strength, as atomic coherence can build up via photon assisted tunneling in both bands. Varying the intra and interband on-site interactions leads to several different atomic phase configurations. There are even parameter regions where a mean field approach predicts concurrence of a Mott insulator state in one band, while atoms in the second band stay superfluid.
description: 12 pages, 18 figures
title: Crisis Intervention: An Evaluation of Services Provided to Families of Sexually Abused Children in Davis County, Utah
Creators: name: Letts, Karen Louise
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1992

description: This study assessed the extent to which victim families are or are not helped by the support services in Davis County, Utah. A sample of 29 mothers of sexually abused children indicated that existing intervention services were greatly underutilized and hard to locate. Seventeen of these mothers reported that they were either ignored by their caseworkers or, conversely, told not to get counseling until their case was adjudicated because of the investigator's belief that any exposure to therapy might erode the child's credibility as a witness. Only 48% of the families were informed of their Victim Rights as required by Utah state law. When asked to state how the incident impacted the family, 41% of the mothers reported that they felt they were still functioning in an elevated state of stress and tension six months or more after the disclosure of the incident. Fully 72% of the mothers reported that the child abuse disclosure had created major changes in the family system. Results of the Moos & Moos Family Environmental Subscale testing indicated that the d i stressed sample families scored significantly higher on the conflict and control subscales as hypothesized. An unexpected finding was the sample's high score on the moral religious emphasis (MRE) subscale. The MRE finding may have some influence on the process by which victim families seek help in child abuse incidents.
The results of this study suggest the need for a uniform county-wide victim support and information program and improved training for professional investigators and public agencies charged with the implementation of the Victim's Bill of Rights as outlined in the Utah Code of Criminal Procedures, 77-37-1-5.
title: The Relations Between Parenting Stress, Father Involvement, and Leisure, Among Fathers of Preschool-Age Children
Creators: name: Brown, Patricia Mehl
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: This study examined relations between fathers' parenting stress, father involvement in child care giving, and family leisure activity among 46 fathers of preschool age children. Results indicate that the relations between parenting stress and father involvement depend on child gender. A negative association was found between parenting stress and father involvement in caregiving among fathers of boys but a positive association was found between these two variables among fathers of girls. furthermore, higher levels of family play are associated with lower levels of parenting stress among fathers of boys. Results also indicated a negative association between father involvement and mothers' play alone. There was little evidence that leisure functions as a moderating variable between parenting stress and father involvement. Variables such as parental employment, family stage, and religious activity were also examined in relation to parenting stress, caregiving, and leisure.
A new geometric approach to problems in birational geometry
Creators: name: Chi, Chen-Yu
name: Yau, Shing-Tung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A classical set of birational invariants of a variety are its spaces of pluricanonical forms and some of their canonically defined subspaces. Each of these vector spaces admits a typical metric structure which is also birationally invariant. These vector spaces so metrized will be referred to as the pseudonormed spaces of the original varieties. A fundamental question is the following: given two mildly singular projective varieties with some of the first variety's pseudonormed spaces being isometric to the corresponding ones of the second variety's, can one construct a birational map between them which induces these isometries? In this work a positive answer to this question is given for varieties of general type. This can be thought of as a theorem of Torelli type for birational equivalence.
description: 13 pages, to appear in PNAS
title: Risk Factors Associated with Early Adolescent Sexual Values and Behaviors
Creators: name: Macbeth, David
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: adolescent sexual activity and subsequent pregnancy are ii an increasing dilemma facing American society . There appears to be an increase in the incidence of casual sexual activity among adolescents that leads to over 50% of students between grades 9 and 12 having been involved in sexual intercourse. This study examines changes in adolescent sexual attitudes, behaviors, and values in a select population over a 2-year time span. A survey of 548 families with adolescents was used to determine the impact of the Facts and Feelings home-based sexual abstinence program on mean scores for academic aspirations, academic achievement , sexual knowledge, the intention to have intercourse, sexual behavior, religiosity, mother approachability, father approachability, frequency of parental communication, sexual abstinence skills, friends' approval of premarital sex, value against sex prior to marriage, risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, sex being acceptable in relationships, adolescent's values match parent's values, parents approve of premarital sex, and adolescent's rating of physical maturity. The sample was randomly split into equal size experimental and control groups . The treatment materials were given to the experimental group following a baseline measurement, and the control group received the materials after the study was completed 2 years later. Data were collected at four time intervals: pretest, 3-month posttest, 1-year posttest, and 2-year posttest . Dependent variables were identified from previous research as possible antecedents to early sexual activity The youth studied were in the sixth and seventh grades, and were generally sexually abstinent throughout the study. Hypotheses were related to gender, group membership, and the interaction of these variables over time. A majority of the significant findings carne in the hypotheses regarding gender. There were limited findings in the hypothesis that dealt with group membership, group membership by gender, and the interaction effects of gender by group over time . Most of the treatment effects were time limited and not maintained for long periods of time following the treatment. There was evidence that the Facts and Feeling materials used in the study were beneficial in changing behavior, values, and attitudes regarding teenage abstinence for a short time immediately following the treatment period.
title: Die Verarbeitung von Relativsätzen im L2-Deutsch von L1-Sprechern des Türkischen
Creators: name: König, Wolf
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In Anlehnung an die Hypothese der flachen Strukturen in der Sprachverarbeitung von L2-Lernern, dargelegt in Clahsen & Felser (2006a) und Clahsen & Felser (2006b) werden Hypothesen zur Sprachproduktion von deutschen und englischen Relativsätzen von L1-Sprechern des türkischen entwickelt. Es wird die Hypothese aufgestellt, dass auch syntaktische L2-Derivationen von flachen Strukturen bestimmt sind, die bei der Derivation von Sätzen, die tiefere Strukturen erfordern, zu einem Holzweg führen. Die Derivation flacher Strukturen ist dabei eine sprachunabhängige Derivationsstrategie; anch ihrem Scheitern wird auf L1-Wissen zurückgegriffen und neu deriviert. Das Ergebnis sind Derivationen, in denen jegliche Extraposition ausgeschlossen wird und die zu L2-Ableitungen führen, die zwar verständlich, aber ungrammatisch in L1 sind.
title: Einsatz von Wahlplakaten im landeskundlichen DaF-Unterricht
Creators: name: Alyaz, Yunus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gibt es ungefähr 50 politische Parteien (s. Parteien-Online), wobei ihre Anzahl von Wahl zu Wahl leicht variiert. So wie überall auf der Welt setzen diese Parteien vor den Wahlen Plakate, Broschüren, Zeitungsanzeigen, TV-Werbungen u.a. als bi- bzw. multimediale Werbematerialien ein, um die Parteipolitik zu propagieren, die Wähler zu informieren und dadurch deren Wahlentscheidung in die gewünschte Richtung zu lenken.
title: Fulfillment of Marital Expectations in Relation to Communication Style and Parents' Marital Interactions
Creators: name: Edgington, Shawn Corey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of communication variables and parent marital variables with the fulfillment of marital expectations among newlyweds. Little research has been done on newlywed expectations and communication. This is an exploratory study conducted to determine how newlyweds' exposure to parents' marital interactions and communication styles correlated with newlyweds' fulfillment of marital expectations. Fifty newlywed couples (married 3-6 months) filled out the Marital Comparison Level Index (MCLI) questionnaire about their level of fulfillment of expectations. Couples were then videotaped talking to one another about the strengths of their marriage followed by a discussion of the potential weaknesses of their relationship. Those videotapes were then coded using the Marital Interaction Coding System--Global. The results indicate that parental marital variables had no significant association with newlywed children's level of fulfillment of expectations. The that was correlated with fulfillment of expectations was the wife's "withdrawal" behavior during the conversation about dissimilarities and weaknesses. The lack of relation with the other variables may have been masked by high levels of satisfaction in the first year of marriage and the homogeneous sample (age and religion).
title: Ausdruck, Analyse und Förderung der schriftlichen Kommunikations- und Kooperationsfähigkeit in E-Mail-Projekten der Sekundarstufe I
Creators: name: Massler, Ute
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: Der Artikel erörtert zunächst, wie Schüler/innen die Entwicklung schriftlicher und mündlicher Kommunikationsfähigkeit im heutigen Fremdsprachenunterricht erfahren und welche Chancen die Forschung sieht, diese Kompetenzen durch computervermittelte Kommunikation wie z.B. im Rahmen von E-Mail-Projekten zu fördern. Im Anschluss daran werden ein Internetrechercheprojekt und zwei E-Mail-Projekte zwischen einer bzw. zwei deutschen und einer kanadischen Klasse vorgestellt, innerhalb dessen die in diesem Artikel diskutierten Daten erhoben wurden1 . Zusätzlich zur Perspektive der Lernenden auf die Kommunikation und Kooperation in den E-Mail-Projekten wird die Analyse der E-Mails und der im Projekt entstandenen themenorientierten Internettexte präsentiert. Die Texte wurden mit Hilfe von zwei Kategoriensystemen ausgewertet, die das Maß der schriftlichen Kommunikations- und Kooperationskompetenz ermittelten. Der Artikel schließt mit Hinweisen zur Förderung der schriftlichen Kommunikations- und Kooperationskompetenz in Telekollaborationsprojekten und im Fremdsprachenunterricht.
Nativistic movements in three culture areas : a test of Slotkin's theory of nationalism
Creators: name: Luth, Dietrich
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Nationalism among subject peoples in territories which are or have been at one time colonized by Europeans has generally been associated with political activity and the formation of parties. Slotkin, however has advanced a theory in 1956 which postulates nativistic movements as being the media of nationalism among non-literate peoples, consequently a form of nationalism may be present among a people who possess no formal political power over their affairs. Further, in the light of Slotkin's theory, the absence of formal political activity among subject peoples does not presuppose the absence of nationalism. Slotkin’s theory postulates the existence of a dominance-subordination relation between Europeans and Natives in colonial and other contexts of acculturation where two ethnic groups live in face-to-face contact with each other and where one of these groups is the dominant groupe. The dominance-subordination relation is believed to generate nationalism in the subordinate group, which exercising no effective political power over its affairs, expresses its feelings through nativistic movements which heretofore had been considered as purely "religious'* phenomena. The data required to test the theory are drawn from the three culture areas of Africa, North America and Oceania in each of which nativistic movements have occurred. The findings from the three areas are incorporated into a general theory of movement-based nationalism. The limits of Slotkin’s theory are established within the general theory above. Subject to qualifications concerning scale, Slotkin’s theory was found to be valid as regards the North American culture area and inadequate to cope with the data when extended further. This is due to the fact that the nationalism of North American Indians was based solely on nativistic movements and that of Africans and Oceanians had other bases besides nativism. Steps towards a modification of Slotkin’s theory, as well as the problems attendant to the formulation of an adequate theory of nationalism, are pointed out.
title: Gemeinsames Schreiben im Wiki-Web - Aktivitäten in einer untutorierten Schreibwerkstatt für fortgeschrittene Deutschlernende
Creators: name: Platten, Eva
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: In Wiki-Webs können Internetnutzer/-innen den Inhalt der Seiten per Mausklick verändern. Sie bieten durch dieses Merkmal zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, kooperatives Online-Lernen umzusetzen und vor allem kooperative Schreibprozesse zu initiieren. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht Aktivitäten in der für DaF-Lernende eingerichteten Interaktiven Schreibwerkstatt im Wiki-Web, ein Angebot der webbasierten Lernumgebung JETZT Deutsch lernen. Schreibaufgaben werden von den Autoren der Lernumgebung innerhalb der Schreibwerkstatt als Schreibimpulse bereitgestellt, eine Tutorierung findet jedoch nicht statt. Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung ist, ob das Medium von Online-Lernenden genutzt wird und welche Schreibprozesse beobachtbar sind. Dabei sind folgende Fragen zentral: Ob und wie realisieren die Lernenden kooperatives Schreiben im Wiki-Web, welche Rolle spielen dabei die Aufgaben und welche Aussagen können im Rahmen dieser Studie bezüglich der Auswirkungen der Aktivitäten auf den Lernprozess der Lernenden gemacht werden?
title: Schreiben lernen mit dem Hypertext? Hypertextualität und generische Kohärenz in der Schreiberziehung
Creators: name: Hallet, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Year: 2023

description: This essay argues that although the complexity, non-linearity and multimediality of the hypertext, on the one hand, and the coherence and linearity of the conventional written text, on the other, appear to contradict and exclude each other, the production of a coherent and unifying written text is a requirement in understanding a hypertext. Reading a hypertext is regarded as constructing a meaningful, unified and whole text which is best represented in the form of a conventional text. The latter can exist in mental form only, but if externalized this is in the form of a written text in various genres, depending on the communicative interests and purposes of the interlocutor. Thus, the essay argues, writing coherent texts is a prerequisite of hypertext literacy
title: Infant Physical Attractiveness, Affect, Temperament, and Gender in Relation to Tester Behavior
Creators: name: Hart, Andrea D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Easily observable infant characteristics have been shown to influence others; perceptions of infant competence. This study examined the relation between infant characteristics and a tester's willingness to repeat opportunities for the infant to pass items during administration of a cognitive test. Results showed that infant physical attractiveness was related to lower elicited infant performance (the ratio of items initially failed). Positive affect was related to higher test scores. Because first impressions are likely to contribute to future relationships, it may be important to educate adults who interact with infants about the effects of stereotyping infants based on first impressions.