cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Attitudes Towards Distance Education Services Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research on University Students in the Field of Health
Creators: name: Baltaci, Alisan
name: Annak, İnci Mercan
name: Karaveli, Emine Öner
name: Sökmensüer, Turan Şahan
name: Akaydın, Hakan
name: Demir, Seyran Balkaş
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 130203 Economics, Business and Management Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the distance education services that higher education institutions provide and their teaching methods are currently among the widely discussed topics. In this study, university students' attitudes towards distance education services are evaluated quantitatively with a population of 979 students studying in the health field. The findings show that older students have a higher positive attitude towards distance education services in graduate education. However, it is lower for the students who define their success level as a medium compared to other students.
Inhalt / Contents
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Konzeption und Entwicklung einer Android-Library zur Darstellung von Antworttypen
Creators: name: Sabouni, Walid
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2019

description: Bachelorarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2019; Aachen (2019). = Bachelorarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2019
description: Published by Aachen
Titelei
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Do the ends justify the memes? : exploring the relationship between youth, internet memes, and digital citizenship
Creators: name: Tulloch, Bonnie Joline
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This project explores the relationship between youth, Internet memes, and digital citizenship. Adopting an interdisciplinary orientation that drew on the fields of information, communication, and education research, I investigated the sense-making underlying young people’s engagement with Internet memes. Creating a methodology inspired by aspects of design ethnography, participatory design ethnography, design-based research, and critical design ethnography, I conducted a study with a teacher and twenty-one of his students (aged approximately 15-18 years) at a secondary school in Langley, British Columbia. Through the design of a class unit we ran in three different English classes, we examined the relationship between memetic storytelling and digital citizenship. This process involved having students reflect on their own meme engagement and design final research projects on a meme-related topic of interest. Using a multimodal approach to narrative analysis that drew on the work of Arthur Frank (2012), Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2006, 2019), and Gillian Rose (2016), I analyzed the different materials I collected through the unit workshops (e.g., field notes, photographs, assignments, etc.), as well as the seventeen interviews I conducted (i.e., two teacher interviews and fifteen student interviews). The findings I arrived at showcase the significance of humour to memetic storytelling as an information literacy practice, drawing attention to the role laughter plays in people’s personal negotiation of the values represented through memes. While the students’ observations regarding their meme engagement highlighted the joyful nature of these digital texts and the potential information needs they might meet, their final project designs drew attention to the tensions memes hold, revealing both practical and theoretical insights that can inform literacy and digital citizenship education moving forward.
title: TV White Space and Broadband Power Line Communications for Indoor High Speed Networks
Creators: name: Heggo, MA
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Current indoor networks have growing data rate demands to satisfy high speed applications. Broadband power line communications (BPLC) and TV white space (TVWS) communications are considered as effective solutions for indoor networks. However, they encounter several challenges concerning coexistence with wireless services. In this thesis, cooperative BPLC and TVWS is investigated in the very high frequency (VHF) band, for the aim of complementing each other to deliver enhanced performance. The main contributions of the thesis are multi-folds. In the first contribution, a general statistical based path loss mapping (GSBPL) approach is proposed for modelling the path loss of indoor low voltage (i.e. 220 v) BPLC. Also, a simplification method is proposed for computing the channel transfer function, which is proved to be more general and computationally more efficient than the previous method in literature. The feasibility of the cooperation between BPLC and wireless communications is thus concluded, through comparing their corresponding path losses. In the second contribution, a general model is proposed to map the TVWS interference with the BPLC in the VHF band, through exciting antenna mode currents along low voltage BPLC cables. A new model is presented for current conversion from antenna to differential mode, which includes a general formula for the antenna mode characteristic impedance and two solutions to the formulated problem: a) a numerical solution referred to as the antenna theory numerical (ATN) approach; b) an analytical solution referred to as the enhanced TL approximation (ETLA) approach. This is the first reported work to obtain the antenna mode characteristic impedance by the antenna theory. The ETLA approach outperforms the previous frequency-independent solution and requires a reduced complexity over the ATN approach. In the third contribution, new hybrid systems utilising BPLC and TVWS are proposed in the VHF band referred to as white BPLC (WBPLC). Two cases are considered in the proposed system: a) point-to-point WBPLC multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, where a power allocation algorithm and an iterative precoding technique are proposed to maximise the ergodic capacity, subject to the constraints of total power and interference limit at the TV primary user (PU) receiver (Rx); b) point-to-multipoint WBPLC MIMO system. The overall network downlink capacity maximisation problem is investigated, using an efficient algorithm for power and subcarrier allocation among different users.
Art as a biological adaptation, or: why modern humans replaced the Neanderthals
Creators: name: Junker, Thomas
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Design Of nanostructured gold and gold alloy catalysts for sustainable selective oxidation processes
Creators: name: Khawaji, Motaz Moid M.
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The transition into greener and more sustainable chemical manufacturing processes necessitates the development new generations of heterogeneous catalysts. The selective oxidation of organic molecules is a class of reaction of paramount importance to the chemical industry as it enables the production of epoxides, alcohols, aldehydes and other important oxygenates. Metal nanoparticles (NPs) consisting of several hundreds or thousands of atoms possess unique properties which are often drastically different from the bulk state properties. This is particularly true for Au NPs, which have recently been shown to exhibit high catalytic activity for a range of reactions. The present thesis investigates the design of nanostructured Au-based catalysts and their performance in selective oxidation reactions. Using advanced synthesis and characterization techniques has enabled the fabrication of novel and highly active Au-based catalysts. Monometallic and bimetallic Au-Pd colloidal NPs with various atomic compositions have been synthesized and immobilized on titania and ceria nanostructures. The new catalysts were tested in the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol and glucose, and were found to be substantially more active than similar catalysts reported in the literature. The catalytic activity and product selectivity were found to be strongly dependent on the Au-Pd particle size, composition, and the morphology and physiochemical properties of the support. In the selective oxidation of glucose over AuxPdy/titanate nanotubes, a new linear correlation between the concentration of Au in the alloyed Au-Pd NPs and the formation of deep oxidation products was discovered. Amongst the various ceria nanostructured supports examined, ceria nanorods (Ce-NR) were found to give the most active Au-Pd catalysts. The exceptional catalytic activity and stability of Au-Pd/Ce-NR in benzyl alcohol and glucose oxidation was ascribed to the high oxygen activation potential of Ce-NR and its ability to stabilize finely dispersed colloidal Au-Pd NPs on its exposed facets and defect sites. Characterization of the various catalysts by TEM, STEM, STEM-EDX, XPS and XRD provided invaluable insights into the structure-activity relationship in supported Au-Pd catalysts, which helped in optimizing catalyst design. This thesis has also shed light on some fundamental aspects in the selective oxidation of hydrocarbons in the liquid phase with Au catalysts.
New AMS-dates for the Upper Volga Mesolithic and the origin of microblade technology in Europe
Creators: name: Hartz, Sönke
name: Terberger, Thomas
name: Zhilin, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Building modeling from heterogeneous data sources under consideration of their quality characteristics
Creators: name: Busch, Antonia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Geodesy
Registration
Least Squares Adjustment
Building Information Modeling

description: Automated reconstruction of building models from 3D point clouds is a thoroughly investigated topic. The approaches are referred to as Scan2BIM. However, they often lack the inclusion of other data sources such as 2D site plans or 2D and 3D CAD models.This thesis aims to give a comprehensible as well as extendable proposal on how to reconstruct a simple structure from two heterogeneous data sources from a geodetic point of view. Established procedures from the field of geodesy, such as least squares adjustment, stochastic model improvement and quality assessment are performed in order to combine the heterogeneous input data sources in a sensible way. Several point cloud registration methods are presented, one of which is selected to adapt to the problem at hand, namely including a 2D plan in the 3D point cloud registration procedure. A detailed analysis is subsequently performed regarding the quality of the different data sources. It involves blunder detection, data snooping, variance component estimation, and error propagation. During the registration process, insightful information about the quality characteristics of the heterogeneous data sources are gathered. The final outcome is a simple Building Information Model, derived from the 3D point clouds and the 2D plan.
description: Die automatisierte Rekonstruktion von Gebäudemodellen aus 3D-Punktwolken ist ein bereits eingehend erforschtes Thema. Die Ansätze werden als Scan2BIM bezeichnet. Allerdings fehlt ihnen oft die Einbeziehung anderer Datenquellen wie 2D-Lagepläne oder 2D- und 3D-CAD-Modelle.Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, einen nachvollziehbaren sowie erweiterbaren Vorschlag zu unterbreiten, wie ein einfaches Bauwerk aus zwei heterogenen Datenquellen aus geodätischer Sicht rekonstruiert werden kann. Etablierte Verfahren aus dem Bereich der Geodäsie, wie die Ausgleichung der kleinsten Quadrate, die stochastische Modellverbesserung und die Qualitätsbewertung werden durchgeführt, um die heterogenen Eingangsdatenquellen sinnvoll zu kombinieren. Es werden mehrere Verfahren zur Punktwolkenregistrierung vorgestellt, von denen eines zur Anpassung an die vorliegende Problemstellung, nämlich die Einbeziehung eines 2D-Plans in das 3D-Punktwolkenregistrierungsverfahren, ausgewählt wird. Anschließend wird eine detaillierte Qualitätsanalyse der verschiedenen Datenquellen durchgefuhrt. Diese umfasst die Detektion von groben Fehlern, Varianzkomponentenschätzung sowie Fehlerfortpflanzung. Während des Registrierungsprozesses werden aufschlussreiche Informationen uber die Qualitätsmerkmale der heterogenen Datenquellen gesammelt. Das Endergebnis ist ein einfaches Building Information Model, das aus den 3D-Punktwolken und dem 2D-Plan abgeleitet wird.
Between East and West – a new site of the Federmessergruppen in Poland
Creators: name: Kabaciński, Jacek
name: Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Iwona
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Association between Frequency of Religious Service Attendance and Sexual Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Koletic, Goran
name: Stulhofer, Aleksandar
name: Landripet, Ivan
name: Tafro, Azra
name: Jurković, Luka
name: Milas, Goran
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: bio-behavioral study
subject: Croatia
subject: emerging adults
subject: religiosity
subject: reproductive and sexual health
subject: sexual risk taking

description: Adolescents and emerging adults are more likely to have unprotected sex and to have multiple partners compared to older adults, which puts them at a greater risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (Panchaud, Singh, Feivelson, & Darroch, 2000). A growing body of research indicates that religiosity is a protective factor in decreasing sexual risk-taking behavior among adolescents (Haglund & Fehring, 2010). However, studies that assessed the relationship between religiosity and sexual risk taking have reported mixed findings. While some studies reported positive associations, others found negative associations or no links at all (Rostosky et al., 2004; Zimmer-Gembeck & Helfand, 2008; Boislard, van de Bongardt & Blais, 2016). Few efforts have been made to empirically review and synthesize these findings. The primary purpose of this study is to systematically review and synthesize the literature concerning the relationship between frequency of religious service attendance and sexual risk-taking behavior among adolescents and emerging adults.
Investigation of kisspeptin’s effects on the human brain using fMRI
Creators: name: Demetriou, Lysimachi
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Kisspeptin is a neuropeptide hormone vital in reproductive function. Its release in the hypothalamus activates GnRH neurons and downstream reproductive hormones. However, kisspeptin and its receptors are expressed in other regions of the brain and recently animal studies have investigated the effect of kisspeptin on different aspect of sexual, emotional and cognitive behaviour. Evidence show that similar expression patterns of kisspeptin are also present in parts of the human brain, but the effects on their function and any effects on behaviour are still unknown. This thesis presents the first experiments to explore the effects of kisspeptin on the human brain and behaviour with kisspeptin administration in healthy men. The experiments employ functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a measure of brain activity using various emotional and cognitive tasks. The first fMRI experiment focuses on how kisspeptin modulates brain processing of visual tasks that include sexual, romantic bonding, aversive and neutral images as well as images of faces with different expressions (chapter II). Additionally, it investigates the effects of kisspeptin on the resting brain in the absence of any stimulus (chapter III). The second fMRI study concentrates on how kisspeptin affects brain processing through different aspects of attraction (chapter IV). Specifically, the study employs a face attractiveness task using images of female faces of varying attractiveness, and an olfactory task which includes a feminine scent. The results of these studies provide the first evidence that kisspeptin is an important modulator of brain activity particularly in the limbic system, in response to stimuli related to romantic or sexual behaviour in a healthy male population. The findings suggest that kisspeptin could be acting as an integrator between the hormone axis and emotional centres of the brain. Finally, these studies provide a basis for the development of kisspeptin as a potential therapeutic targeting the KP neurotransmitter system for people with psychosexual disorders.
Annotationes Epigraphicae XI. Zu einigen Inschriften aus den römischen Provinzen Germania inferior und Germania superior
Creators: name: Kakoschke, Andreas
Publisher: name: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde, Nr. 38 (2019)
Cholesterol homeostasis and NLRP3 inflammasome activation
Creators: name: Hamilton, Claire Louise
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: Cellular cholesterol plays vital physiological functions, and dysregulation in its homeostasis triggers aberrant inflammatory responses contributing to major human diseases such as atherosclerosis, obesity, and Alzheimer’s disease. The NLRP3 inflammasome, an intracellular multiprotein complex with key roles in inflammation, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of such diseases. For example, NLRP3 inflammasome is required for atherogenesis and is activated by cholesterol crystals generated during diet-induced atherosclerosis in mouse models. Mechanistically, this involved lysosomal rupture elicited by the physical properties of crystals, and ‘spill over’ of lysosomal cathepsins in the macrophage cytoplasm. However, whether cellular cholesterol homeostasis and compartmentalization regulates activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome remains unknown. Cholesterol is mainly acquired by cells through endocytosis of dietary low-density lipoproteins. Egress of cholesterol from the endolysosomal system and subsequent heterogeneous distribution to distinct cellular compartments is dependent on lysosomal membrane-localized cholesterol transporter NPC1. Excess cholesterol is toxic to cells; thus, cholesterol uptake and synthesis is counterbalanced by cholesterol efflux program driven primarily by ABC transporters. Here, by employing pharmacological and genetic approaches targeting NPC1 and ABCB1, I found that cellular cholesterol homeostasis is pivotal for the assembly and activation of NLRP3 inflammasome. Blocking NPC1, resulting in lysosomal cholesterol accumulation, blunted cleavage of pro-caspase-1 by the NLRP3 inflammasome and diminished secretion of effector cytokines IL-1β and IL-18, an effect that was found dependent on reduced cholesterol transport to the endoplasmic reticulum. By contrast, ABCB1 regulated NLRP3 production by modulating the upstream TLR/NF-kB signalling pathway through maintenance of cholesterol-rich membrane microdomains. Furthermore, Abcb1-/- cells exhibited enhanced nitric oxide production which further abated NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Understanding the way in which NLRP3 inflammasome activation is regulated by cholesterol pathways may help in the development of novel strategies to overcome its detrimental effect in chronic diseases.
Rezension zu: Alexander Sarantis/ Neil Christie (Hrsg.), War and Warfare in Late Antiquity
Creators: name: Schäfer, Christoph
Publisher: name: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde, Nr. 38 (2019)
Rezension zu: M. Congiu, C. Miccichè, S. Modeo (Hrsg.), Viaggio in Sicilia. Racconti, segni e città ritrovate. Atti del X Convegno di Studi, Caltanissetta, 10-11 maggio 2013
Creators: name: Scirpo, Paolo
Publisher: name: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde, Nr. 38 (2019)
Geißenklösterle. The Swabian Gravettian in its European context
Creators: name: Moreau, Luc
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Help for Families with Children Staying at Home
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: According to the introduction of Help for Families with Children Staying at Home (hjælp til familier med hjemsendte børn), a benefit was provided for parents whose children were sent home from school or childcarecare institutions if the children were found to be infected with COVID-19 or in close contact with infected people
Orthomorpha karschi Pocock 1889
Creators: name: Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Panha, Somsak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Orthomorpha
Orthomorpha karschi

description: Orthomorpha karschi (Pocock, 1889) Paradesmus Karschi Pocock 1889: 293 (D). Orthomorpha karschii - Pocock 1895: 817 (D); Attems 1936: 197 (D); 1937: 70 (D); Jeekel 1963: 265 (M); 1964: 361 (M, D); Hoffman 1977: 700 (M). Orthomorpha Karschii - Attems 1898: 327 (D). Orthomorpha Karschi - Attems 1898: 333 (D); 1914: 192 (M, D). Orthomorha karschi - Jeekel 1970: 290 (D); Jeekel 1968: 56 (M); Hoffman 1973: 363 (M); Golovatch 1998: 42 (D). Remarks. This species has been beautifully redescribed by Jeekel (1970) from non-type ♀ material from southern Tenasserim (= Tanintharyi), Myanmar, referred to by Pocock (1895). Based on the illustration of a gonopod by Attems (1937), Orthomorpha karschi appears to be very similar to Orthomorpha insularis, apparently differing only in a slightly shorter gonofemorite (Jeekel 1970). However, Pocock's (1889) original drawing shows the femorite to be as slender as in Orthomorpha insularis. There is only a single micropreparation in the NHMW collection containing the gonopod depicted by Attems (1937). This species seems to be endemic to southern Myanmar together with the adjacent Mergui Archipelago and Thailand. Attems (1937) referred to material from Siam (= Thailand), without giving a precise locality, but Enghoff (2005), in his catalogue of the Thai millipedes, must have overlooked that record.
description: Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2011, Revision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), pp. 1-161 in ZooKeys 131 on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.131.1921
Manipulative supplication : violence and aggression in Aeschylus' Suppliant women
Creators: name: Graf, Livia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: In this thesis I examine the supplication within Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women through the lens of the expectations a tragic audience would have of the scene. By looking at all examples of supplication and all uses of ἱκετ- language in tragedy, expectations of the suppliant and the supplicandus become evident. The suppliant is expected to show reverence to the supplicandus, the receiver of the supplication. The suppliant typically does this in three main ways: the use of gesture, the presentation of objects, and the use of appeals. The supplicandus is expected to provide a response to the suppliant, by either rejecting the supplication if they are threatening the suppliant or accepting the supplication if they are saving the suppliant from external harm. Rather than present the Danaids as reverent, Aeschylus alters these three common means of showing respect and further adds threats and expressions of anger, thus presenting the women as aggressive. Pelasgus, unlike the Danaids, meets his expectation and accepts the women’s supplication due to the fear incited by the women. By presenting the supplication scene in this way Aeschylus highlights the manipulative potential of the practice; Pelasgus is compelled to accept the Danaids despite the fact that they do not fulfill the expectation the audience would have of them.
Recurrent occupations of the Late Middle Palaeolithic Station Kabazi II, Unit II, Level 8 (Crimea, Ukraine) – Seasonal adaptation, procurement and processing of resources
Creators: name: Bataille, Guido
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Targeted Opening of ECEC Settings
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: Emergency care services were provided in some ECEC settings at the local level for certain groups of children. Although ECEC settings were not ordered to close at the national level, most of them closed
title: Der Klassenrat
title: Demokratielernen in der Klasse
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Busch, Matthias
name: Otto, Carina
Publisher: name: Universität Trier
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Kultur
subject: Schule
subject: Schulentwicklung
subject: Schüler
subject: demokratische Erziehung
subject: politische Pädagogik
subject: culture
subject: school
subject: school development
subject: pupils
subject: democracy education
subject: education of politics

description: Demokratie lebt von der Beteiligung engagierter Bürger*innen. Hierzu ist es notwendig, Kinder und Jugendliche frühzeitig an demokratische Handlungsweisen heranzuführen. Der demokratiepädagogische Klassenrat bietet vielfältige Chancen, Schüler*innen Partizipationserfahrungen zu eröffnen und ihre demokratischen Kompetenzen zu stärken.
Call for community review of the Data Access Quality and Curation for Observational Research Designs (DAQCORD) Guidelines
Creators: name: Martone, Maryann
name: Jyl Boline
name: Das, Samir
name: Ibrahima Faye
name: Wojtek  Goscinski
name: Hellgren-Kotaleski, Jeanette
name: Hicks, Ramona
name: Kennedy, David
name: Leergaard, Trygve
name: Moucek, Roman
name: Venugopal, Sharmila
name: Wachtler, Thomas
name: Abrams, Mathew
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this document is to solicit community feedback on the Data Access Quality and Curation for Observational Research Designs (DAQCORD) Guidelines, data quality indicators for large observational studies. The document contains the INCF standards and best practices committee's review of DAQCORD, and the criteria in which it was evaluated (open, FAIR, testing and implementation, governance, adoption and use, stability and support, and comparison to similar standards). For the next 60 days, we are seeking community feedback on DAQCORD.

 About DAQCORD: The guidelines provide a framework for achieving high-quality data by providing a descriptive system for planning and reporting observational studies. Forty six indicators are provided that cover 5 dimensions: completeness, concordance, correctness, plausibility, and representation. While the guidelines were developed in the context of traumatic brain injury research, they are generalizable to other domains.
Bladelet production, core reduction strategies, and efficiency of core configuration at the Middle Palaeolithic site Balver Höhle (North Rhine Westphalia, Germany)
Creators: name: Tafelmaier, Yvonne
name: Kunisch, Alexandra
name: Ruland, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Temporary Changes in Sick Leave Compensation
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: Temporary changes in sick leave compensation (haiguspäevade hüvitamise ajutised muutused) were introduced so that the first three days of the leave, which were previously not compensated, were compensated
New information on the Havelte Group site Ahrenshöft LA 58 D (Nordfriesland, Germany) - Preliminary results of the 2008 fieldwork
Creators: name: Weber, Mara-Julia
name: Clausen, Ingo
name: Housley, Rupert A.
name: Miller, Christopher E.
name: Riede, Felix
name: Usinger, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit
Year: 2021

description: Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 57 (2010): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung
Mosaics of identity : Herodian legitimization through localized cultic toleration
Creators: name: Polcin, Louis James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Josephus notes that Herod (r. 37–4 BCE) instituted a permanent shift in Jewish history; for the Jewish-Roman historian, Herod was the first ruler who “destroyed the long-held customs which were inviolable.” (Antiquities 15.267) While Josephus uses this claim to place Herod within a specific literary topos, Herodian engagement with non-Jewish practices is clear; Herod constructed a number of cities in honor of Augustus, such as Caesarea and Sebaste, complete with temples to the imperial cult. (Bellum Judaicum, 1.403–415; Ant. 15.326–341, 363) Yet Herod also maintained Jewish ritual baths in his palatial complexes, refrained from displaying “graven images” of people or animals within Judea, and even massively expanded the temple in Jerusalem. (BJ 1.401; Ant 15.380–423) These seeming contradictions have led scholars to develop the so-called “many faces” approach to understanding Herod, whereby he operated according to local tradition, with little regard for any organized, structured approach to legitimizing his kingship. In this study, a draft of which I would submit to Professor Hayes, I argue that we need not understand Herod’s support for Jews and non-Jews alike as contradictory; instead, I suggest that Herod adopted a predominantly Hellenistic and Roman form of rulership. I further seek to foreground a specific practice of Hellenistic rulers that has hitherto not received sufficient attention in Herodian scholarship: the support and respect for a wide array of local cults and traditions in exchange for political loyalty. This is a key link that allows us to consider Herod’s support for multiple local cults, including the Jerusalem temple, as subsumed within a common Hellenistic conception of widespread religious toleration. Within this Hellenistic framework, Herod could gain the support of each cultural group that came under his authority, thus engaging productively with the wide array of cultural and theological communities within his kingdom.
Che la forza del cielo sia con voi
Creators: Fabrizio Villa
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

La costellazione dell'Orsa Maggiore, nota anche come asterismo del Grande Carro, sarà ben visibile quasi allo zenith e ospita tantissime galassie. Le due galassie M101 ed M81, che danno il nome ai due rispettivi gruppi galattici, possono essere ottimi candidati per l’appellativo di galassia dell’universo di Guerre stellari. Quale sarà tra le due la galassia giusta dove è ambientata la saga di fantascienza? Star Wars a parte, questo mese Venere dominerà il cielo dopo il tramonto mentre la costellazione del Boote, della Corona Boreale e di Ercole saranno ben visibili alte nel cielo
Emergency Allowance for Parents of Children with Special Needs
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: An emergency allowance for parents of children with special needs (erivajadusega lapse vanema erakorraline toetus) was introduced to allow people to take time off from work to care for their children
Compsoneuria thienemanni Ulmer 1939
Creators: name: Boonsoong, Boonsatien
name: Braasch, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Heptageniidae
Compsoneuria
Compsoneuria thienemanni

description: Compsoneuria thienemanni Ulmer, 1939 Figs 3 I–J7A–B 9C Compsoneuria thienemanni Ulmer, 1939: 672, Figs 440-448, 449-454. (orig.) Compsoneuria thienemanni Braasch & Soldán, 1986b: 46. (comb.) Thalerosphyrus thienemanni Wang & McCafferty, 2004: 17. (comb.) Larva. Ulmer 1939: 672, Figs 440-448, 449-454; Braasch and Soldán 1986b: 42-46, Figs 14.1-14.14. Adult. Ulmer 1939: 564, M, Figs 145-149, 152; F, 151; Fs, 150; Braasch and Soldán 1986b: 42-44, M, Figs 5-9. Eggs. Chorionic surface characterized by granular matrix, large KCTs randomly scattered on entire egg surface (Fig. 7A), small micropyles visible on equatorial plane (Fig. 7B). Distribution. Mae Hong Son province, Chiang Mai province, Trat province. Diagnosis. Compsoneuria thienemanni is recognised by having gills 2-6 without emarginations and gill 7 leaf-like and pointed apically; pale dots and marks on abdomen as shown in Fig. 3I. Habitat and biology. Compsoneuria thienemanni larvae (Fig. 9C) are found abundantly in the large rivers at lower altitudes where it is encountered clinging to floating submerged water plants. A few male specimens of Compsoneuria thienemanni were found in the mountainous region of Mae Hong Son province. Remarks. The larva and adults of this species were described by Ulmer (1939) and Braasch and Soldán (1986b). The larvae of this species are found abundantly in the low-gradient streams and large rivers in Thailand.
description: Published as part of Boonsoong, Boonsatien & Braasch, Dietrich, 2013, Heptageniidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) of Thailand, pp. 61-93 in ZooKeys 272 on pages 74-75, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.272.3638
Juice, l’antenna del radar italiano s’è incagliata
Creators: Marco Malaspina
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Lo strumento che presenta il problema è il radar Rime, progettato per sondare fino a nove km al di sotto della superficie delle lune ghiacciate. Due dei tre segmenti che compongono metà dell’antenna, lunga complessivamente 16 metri, non si sono ancora dispiegati, forse bloccati da un perno. I tecnici sono al lavoro per risolvere il problema
Stelle binarie a contatto, le più massicce di sempre
Creators: Valentina Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Prima di diventare buchi neri, sono stelle. Massicce, unite in un sistema binario, e intente a rubarsi massa a vicenda. Nella Piccola Nube di Magellano, osservazioni con Hubble e lo spettrografo Muse al Vlt hanno permesso di trovare il più massiccio di questi sistemi. Il destino, quando diventeranno buchi neri, è la fusione con emissione di onde gravitazionali. Fra 18 miliardi di anni
Full Operation of ECEC Settings Without Interruption
Creators: name: Daly, Mary
name: Ryu, Sunwoo
name: Polat, Ertugrul
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440799
subject: Policy and administration not elsewhere classified

description: ECEC settings were kept fully open although parents were advised to keep their children at home as much as they could
Power/knowledge and identity : development interventions in a Maya village
Creators: name: Frece, Annabel De
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: This thesis aims to provide a greater understanding of the development process through the examination of the interaction between a development project and a local community. It seeks to deliver clarity to the complex issue of how people negotiate social relationships and outcomes at the development interface. The research applies a constructionist approach to the examination of the development process. This approach analyses development by focusing on the ways in which different actors construct and define their worlds and how they negotiate differentiated meanings. This thesis argues that actors do not passively adopt development initiatives, rather, they internalise them in order that they make sense in the context of their own lived worlds. It argues that in any given situation there will be multiple constructions of reality, which will be based upon different historical, socio-cultural contexts which produce particular ideologies and social norms that are manifest in expressions of identity. During the development process in which different identities interact, areas of conflicts over meaning and practice are negotiated. Inherent in this process is the issue of power as social actors vie for the legitimisation of knowledge and associated realities. This thesis demonstrates the importance of acknowledging individuals’ perceptions of the self, attitudes, beliefs and ideologies as being influencing factors in the way people conduct and respond to development interventions. It is concluded that the development process is affected and determined by conflicts and negotiations over meaning and practice attached to place and the environment, which are founded on multifarious ideologies and identities. Inherent in these negotiations are aspects of knowledge and power which are of particular significance in the relationship between the developers and those ‘to be developed’. Acknowledging these dynamics will enable us to understand more fully the unintended outcomes of development initiatives.
Holophris taiwanus Tsuneki 1970
Creators: name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Wei, Na-sen
name: Xu, Zai-fu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Holophris
Holophris taiwanus

description: Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Chrysididae 59. Holophris taiwanus (Tsuneki, 1970) Omalus taiwanus Tsuneki, 1970b: 2. Holotype ♂, Taiwan: Nantou: Chienching (2 (tax., descr., figs 1-4), 3 (type series: Taiwan: Nantou Province: Chienching, Puli), depository: OMNH, not NIAS). Holophris taiwanus: Kimsey and Bohart 1991: 225 (Taiwan, cat.). Distribution. China (Taiwan).
description: Published as part of Rosa, Paolo, Wei, Na-sen & Xu, Zai-fu, 2014, An annotated checklist of the chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) from China, pp. 1-128 in ZooKeys 455 on page 16, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.455.6557
Frb che si ripetono, cinquanta… and counting
Creators: Giuseppe Fiasconaro
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Sale da venticinque a cinquanta il numero di lampi radio veloci ripetuti scoperti fino ad oggi. A rivelare i nuovi impulsi radio è stata la collaborazione Chime/Frb, passando al setaccio i dati raccolti dal radiotelescopio Chime dal 2019 al 2021
Riso geneticamente modificato per il Pianeta rosso
Creators: Jacopo Danieli
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Un team di ricercatori dell’Università dell’Arkansas ha presentato un nuovo studio sulla coltivazione di riso in un simulante di regolite marziana, dimostrando come le difficoltà di crescita e sopravvivenza potrebbero essere superate attraverso il controllo di geni legati allo stress
Elemento raro avvistato nell’atmosfera di Kelt-9b
Creators: Laura Leonardi
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Il terbio – un metallo che appartiene al gruppo delle terre rare – è stato individuato per la prima volta nell’atmosfera di un pianeta extrasolare, Kelt-9b, grazie ai dati raccolti dagli spettrografi Harps-N e Carmenes. Alla guida dello studio, pubblicato su Astronomy & Astrophysics, un team di ricercatori dell’Università di Lund, in Svezia
Juice misura il campo magnetico del vento solare
Creators: Claudia Mignone
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

La scorsa settimana, a oltre un milione e mezzo di chilometri dalla Terra, la sonda Juice ha dispiegato il braccio estendibile con a bordo il magnetometro J-Mag, raccogliendo i primi dati scientifici e misurando il campo magnetico del vento solare. Il collaudo vero e proprio dello strumento è previsto per la prossima settimana, nell'ambito della messa in servizio di tutti gli strumenti nei prossimi tre mesi
Burnout and retention among psychological practitioners: a qualitative investigation into the influence of organisational factors
Creators: name: Saddington, David
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: The wellbeing of the mental health workforce both internationally and within the NHS is an area of concern. Problems with staff burnout and retention are of particular concern, and research has highlighted how organisational issues can play a role. This thesis comprises a literature review, research paper, and critical appraisal. In the literature review, a meta-ethnography reviewing eight qualitative studies of mental health practitioners’ experiences of burnout was conducted following methodology outlined by Noblit and Hare (1988). A line of argument was developed which suggested that burnout experience can compromise practitioners’ physical and mental wellbeing, and sense of self-efficacy; that mental health practitioner self-knowledge and boundaries can contribute to or protect against burnout, and; that organisational culture and values can create a workplace that can be protective against practitioner burnout or contribute to it. The research paper explores how organisational factors can influence clinical psychologists’ decisions to leave the NHS. Seven participants were interviewed, and grounded theory methodology was used to identify organisational processes perceived to influence decisions to leave the NHS consisting of: trying to achieve the impossible, cycle of imposed change, and shifting organisational valuing. Psychologist categories were also identified, describing participant experience and coping in relation to organisational processes with impacts contributing to decisions to leave. These consisted of: striving for autonomy and integrity, valuing people, trying to make things better, seeking sustainability and growth, and a push to leave / pull to return. The findings highlight how organisational factors influenced participant decisions to leave the NHS, and a tentative conceptual model was presented. The critical appraisal extends the discussion of the research strengths and limitations and expands the discussion of opportunities for further research and implications. Reflections are offered around reflexivity and the personal journey as a new meta-ethnographer and grounded theorist through the research.
Scary Barbie, un transiente da paura
Creators: Giuseppe Fiasconaro
Publisher: name: Media Inaf
Year: 2023

Gli astronomi l’hanno soprannominato “Scary Barbie” per la sua spaventosa luminosità. Secondo il team guidato dalla Purdue University che lo ha scoperto, a produrre AT 2021lwx (Ztf20abrbeie) – questo il nome ufficiale – è stato molto probabilmente un evento di distruzione mareale senza precedenti: la disintegrazione di una stella molto massiccia da parte di un buco nero di circa 100 milioni di masse solari. Tutti i dettagli su ApJ Letters
The role of clinical research fellows in the Hospice setting
Creators: name: McDougall, Alexandra
name: Stanley, Sarah
name: Nwosu, Amara
name: Chapman, Laura
Publisher: name: AMRC Open Research
Year: 2021

description: The need for research is a priority area in palliative care. An evidence based approach is needed to address the inevitable challenges in a population that will require supportive care towards the end of their lives. It is important we continue to develop and evaluate ways of improving the care of people with terminal illness.

 By seconding two members of staff, our Hospice benefited from an onsite research team, allowing patients, relatives and staff the opportunity to participate in research. We aim to improve care for our patients and hope to provide a foundation for future research projects within the hospice setting.
 Securing national funding grants allowed a doctor and nurse at Marie Curie Hospice to commence the role of clinical research fellow. These professionals were provided with training and mentorship to ensure they had a good understanding of their roles prior to recruitment of patients. A training programme was developed for staff in the hospice and research update events were instigated, giving hospice staff educational opportunities and freedom to voice their questions and concerns.

 Development of the local research roles provides an excellent foundation to build upon, enabling future research projects to be conducted within the hospice setting. We hope that this will encourage other professionals in palliative care to consider participating in research.
The mechanics of transitional soils
Creators: name: Shipton, Barabra
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Over the past two decades research in soil mechanics has shown that the behaviour of clean sands can be described within a Critical State framework similar to that for clays. More recent research has identified that there are many intermediate graded soils for which these types of Critical State framework do not work. These soils have been called ‘transitional’ in that they have a grading and a mode of behaviour between that of clean sands and plastic clays. The main feature of transitional soil behaviour is that unique Normal Compression and Critical State Lines cannot be identified. The compression paths of a transitional soil will show no signs of converging onto a unique line before its maximum density is reached. In this research, oedometer tests, triaxial tests, and particle size analyses were conducted on a range of transitional soils to investigate their compression and shearing behaviour. Existing literature was also searched and analysed for further evidence of transitional soils. This work has shown that transitional behaviour can be seen in a wide range of intermediate graded soils and perhaps in some clays. Examples include silty and clayey sands, residual sandstones, tailings, gap-graded, well-graded and poorly- graded soils, loess and several model intermediate graded soils with various proportions of fine and coarse particles. A consistent set of soil characteristics associated with transitional behaviour could not be established, leading to difficulties in predicting this behaviour directly from the soil characteristics. Triaxial tests on two different transitional soils showed that an infinite number of Critical State Lines can exist for a given soil, one for each initial density, and that many features of the conventional soil behaviour frameworks break down when applied to them.