cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Iranian EFL Teachers’ Voices on the Pedagogy of Word and World
Creators: name: Safari, Parvin
name: Rashidi, Nasser
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Critical pedagogy (CP) with the eventual aim of creating changes in society towards the socially just world rests upon the premise that language learning is understood as a sociopolitical event. Schools and classrooms are not merely seen as the neutral and apolitical sites or oxymoron of transmitting taken-for-granted knowledge and common sense to students but rather as the political and democratic sites in which teachers, through praxis-oriented activities, furnish opportunities for students to critically question oppressive systems, hierarchies, and sociopolitical inequalities. Through the connection of word to the world, or the relationship between classroom learning and students’ lived experiences and worlds, teachers can create social transformation and empowerment in the marginalized students’ lives. However, teachers as the transformative intellectuals can facilitate this transformative process only if they are equipped with the critical theories, theoretical underpinnings and practical implications of CP. A brief look at the CP literature reveals that most of the researches center on its theories and conceptual dimensions without presenting any pragmatic discourse or practical realizations to critical pedagogues. In fact, this study intends to investigate the problems, concerns, and frustrations that Iranian EFL teachers encounter while enacting this alternative pedagogy. So, the researchers adopted purposive sampling to choose thirty-four EFL teachers from private English language institutes in Tehran, Yazd and Shiraz, Iran; and focused interview as the appropriate data gathering instrument of qualitative research. Finally, the researchers unearthed the relevant themes concerning the practical dimensions as the supplementary components of CP in EFL context of Iran.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
Escape probability and transience for SLE
Creators: name: Field, Laurence S.
name: Lawler, Gregory F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J67 (Primary), 60J65 (Secondary)

description: We give estimates for the probability that a chordal, radial or two-sided radial SLE$_κ$ curve retreats far from its terminal point after coming close to it, for $κ\leq 4$. The estimates are uniform over all initial segments of the curve, and are sharp up to a universal constant.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
Deliverable 6.7 GHG budgets – atmosphere
Creators: name: Goeckede, Mathias
name: Reum, Friedemann
name: Heygster, Georg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Arctic
INTAROS
East Siberian Shelf
Atmosphere Observing Systems
Carbon
Methane
Greenhouse Gas
Inverse Model

description: This document describes the work conducted within the atmospheric component of INTAROS Task 6.5. The main contributions for
 the work reported herein were produced by partner MPG, with additional contributions from UB.
 The East Siberian Arctic Shelf hosts vast carbon reservoirs at risk of degradation and may be a strong emitter of methane to the atmosphere. Yet, estimates of its annual methane emissions and their key controls are highly uncertain. In the presented project, we estimated these emissions with a geostatistical inverse model from atmospheric observations over seventeen months in Tiksi (Russia), Barrow (Alaska) and Ambarchik (Russia). Our simulations yielded annual methane emissions of 0.3 – 1.5 Tg CH4, which is on the low end of previously reported estimates (0 – 17 Tg CH4 yr-1). Our geostatistical approach allows us to test the compatibility of a large number of spatiotemporal emissions patterns with the atmospheric signals. In this context, we
 specifically tested the suitability of novel data products from the INTAROS database to improve model performance. Our model attributes highest emissions to shallow waters and to ice-free and potentially freeze-up periods, but also finds substantial emissions during the ice-covered period. We do not detect substantial emissions of stored methane during ice breakup. Our results suggest that mixing and stratification of the water column and cracks in sea ice could be among the dominant controls of methane emissions from the shelf to the atmosphere. Other explanations are possible and discussed, including limitations of our study. The information provided by the INTAROS database led to minor improvements in the explained variability of atmospheric greenhouse gas time series, indicating the high quality of the novel products. However, since parameter selection basically replaced existing oceanic variables by better performing new ones for the same parameter but did not add a previously omitted parameter to the highest-ranking models, we could not gain novel process insights. Our study suggests that the relevance of the shelf for the global atmospheric methane burden is currently small, but also reveals limitations of the Arctic atmospheric greenhouse gas observation network.
Teaching Sociology Students to Become Qualitative-Researchers Using an Internship Model of Learner-Support
Creators: name: Tolich, Martin
name: Scarth, Bonnie
name: Shephard, Kerry
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: This article examines the experiences of final year undergraduate sociology students enrolled in an internship course where they researched a local community project, mostly in small groups, for a client. A sociology lecturer supervised their projects. Course-related outcomes were assessed using conventional university procedures but a research process was used to evaluate the extent to which the cohort developed characteristics, or identities, of qualitative researchers. The research demonstrates that the students made many false starts but through processes of trial and error, and with effective support, they considered that they had increased their confidence and became capable of planning and carrying out research. For the students, this internship was not just another class. Their stories reflect on their abilities as researchers and adoption of attitudes towards appropriate research approaches, processes and outputs typical of professional qualitative researchers.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
Deliverable 6.6 Results of local community studies
Creators: name: Danielsen, Finn
name: Enghoff, Martin
name: Poulsen, Michael K.
name: Iversen, Lisbeth
name: Voss, Peter
name: Dahl-Jensen, Trine
name: Larsen, Tine B.
name: Sørensen, Mathilde B.
name: Jeddi, Zeinab
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Arctic
INTAROS
Community Based Monitoring Programs
Observing Systems
Greenland
Svalbard
Fishery
Natural Disaster
Cultural Heritage

description: The Arctic environment is changing rapidly. A range of observing approaches is being used to increase our understanding of the environment and to mobilize sound decisions in response. To demonstrate ‘real world’ examples of the benefits of cross-weaving data from local and scientific observation systems, we have prepared a series of policy briefs. The key observations and recommendations in the policy briefs are summarized.
 Through dialogue with civil society organizations, research institutions and the local authorities, we have identified four topics of high priority to local communities where local/citizen-based and scientific observations are important and where recommendations for better-informed decisions and better-documented processes are pertinent:
 − Local and scientific observations for improving fisheries in Greenland
 − Natural disasters in Disko Bay, Greenland
 − Monitoring Svalbard’s environment and cultural heritage by expedition cruises
 − Natural disasters in Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Boletin CEAZAMar - Abril 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Diciembre 2022 - Febrero 2023)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography
classificationCode: 370801
subject: Biological oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo. Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática. A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletín provee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño. Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos. Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Economics from a Different Point of View − Good Practice in Teacher Training: How to Handle, Use and Judge External Standardized Tests in Schools
Creators: name: Prieß-Buchheit, Julia Claire
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: The Economic Actions in Education training module (EAE) teaches how to handle, use and judge external standardized tests in schools. The EAE programme was implemented in teacher training at the University of Kiel, because teachers are increasingly under external scrutiny and are being held accountable for student and school achievements. The EAE programme includes a reader (in English), through which prospective teachers understand and analyze core terms of the field. Furthermore, different didactical methods such as think-pair-share, role play and short lectures provide a group dynamic in which students gain an insight into standardized tests at a macro level. Students learn what is involved in standardized tests and they develop the ability to make a critical judgement about how they will use or refuse standardized tests in schools. EAE enables teachers to use standardized tests for curriculum and instruction improvement as well as refuse standardized tests to highlight autonomous teaching and decline governance from outside.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
Congress Report: 20th AEEE Conference and 1st ENSECASS Symposium Aix-Marseille University, 27-29 August 2014: Summary and perspectives
Creators: name: Legardez, Alain
name: Schloesser, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: .
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
Boletin CEAZAMar - Abril 2023 (2023). Análisis de las Condiciones Atmosféricas y Oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo (Diciembre 2022 - Febrero 2022)
Creators: name: CEAZAMar, CEAZA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 370803
subject: Physical oceanography
classificationCode: 370802
subject: Chemical oceanography
classificationCode: 370801
subject: Biological oceanography

description: El Boletín CEAZAMar surge del quehacer científico desarrollado en el borde costero y del océano de la Región de Coquimbo por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA). Este boletín busca constituirse como una herramienta de orientación y consulta para las múltiples actividades productivas y no-productivas que tienen lugar en las costas de la Región de Coquimbo. Para tal efecto, el Boletín proveerá información de variables del sistema atmosférico y oceanográfico que resultan clave para la planificación de las actividades en el mar, con el fin de mejorar la toma de decisiones de los usuarios, y aportar a la capacidad adaptativa de las comunidades costeras frente a la variabilidad ambiental y climática. A través de información satelital y de equipos de monitoreo desplegados a lo largo de la costa de la Región, este Boletín provee información relativa al viento, Temperatura Superficial del Mar (TSM), nivel del mar, entre otras, las cuales se relacionan con el estado del mar y la ocurrencia de surgencia costera (viento), productividad (concentración de clorofila), y presencia o ausencia de distintas facetas de El Niño. Este análisis atmosférico y oceanográfico trata de representar la heterogeneidad espacial y temporal de las condiciones hidrográficas costeras que alberga la Región de Coquimbo. Esto a través del uso de mapas y series de tiempo y análisis trimestrales de dichas variables ambientales, para múltiples localidades de la Región, tales como Chañaral de Aceituno, Punta de Choros, Bahía de Coquimbo, Bahía de Tongoy, Punta Lengua de Vaca, La Cebada, Huentelauquén y Los Vilos. Finalmente, se vincula el diagnóstico de las condiciones atmosféricas y oceanográficas de la Región de Coquimbo con los indicadores de productividad acuícola disponibles para el periodo de interés.
Congress Report: Civics and Citizenship Education in the Nordic Conference on Subject Didactics NoFa-5, May 26–28, 2015
Creators: name: Lofstrom, Jan
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: On May 26–28, 2015, the University of Helsinki acted as the host for the fifth Nordic Conference on Subject Didactics. For historical reasons the Nordic societies have in a global view remarkably intimate contacts with each other. Short distance, affinities of cultural and political traditions, and the density of social networks between them since centuries back in time have conduced to vibrant Nordic collaboration in the number of fields ranging from politics and economy to science and education. This is visible also in the governmental and non-governmental networks in educational sciences. A recent example of this collaboration are the Nordic conferences on subject didactics, the first of which took place in Oslo, in 2007. The conferences are held every second year, and the previous hosts have been Middelfart (Denmark, 2009), Karlstad (Sweden, 2011), and Trondheim (Norway, 2013).
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
Bihamiltonian cohomology of KdV brackets
Creators: name: Carlet, Guido
name: Posthuma, Hessel
name: Shadrin, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using spectral sequences techniques we compute the bihamiltonian cohomology groups of the pencil of Poisson brackets of dispersionless KdV hierarchy. In particular this proves a conjecture of Liu and Zhang about the vanishing of such cohomology groups.
description: 16 pages. v2: corrected typos, in particular formulas (28), (78)
Review of the Book: McCloskey, Stephen (Ed.)(2014). Development Education in Policy and Practice. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 336 pp.
Creators: name: Bruen, Jennifer
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2015 Multiperspectivity, Values and Criticism in Economic and Civic Education
CoMaLit III. Literature Catalogs of weak Lensing Clusters of galaxies (LC^2)
Creators: name: Sereno, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the mass of clusters of galaxies is crucial for their use in cosmology and astrophysics. Masses can be efficiently determined with weak lensing (WL) analyses. I compiled Literature Catalogs of weak Lensing Clusters (LC$^2$). Cluster identifiers, coordinates, and redshifts have been standardised. WL masses were reported to over-densities of 2500, 500, 200, and to the virial one in the reference $Λ$CDM model. Duplicate entries were carefully handled. I produced three catalogs: LC$^2$-single, with 485 unique groups and clusters analysed with the single-halo model; LC$^2$-substructure, listing substructures in complex systems; LC$^2$-all, listing all the 822 WL masses found in literature. The catalogs and future updates are publicly available at http://pico.bo.astro.it/~sereno/CoMaLit/LC2/.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. v2: MNRAS in press; minor changes; updated link. The catalogs and future updates will be hosted at http://pico.bo.astro.it/~sereno/CoMaLit/LC2/
Producing and Consuming the Controversial – A Social Media Perspective on Political Conversations in the Social Science Classroom
Creators: name: Andersson, Erik
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Teachers find it difficult to conduct political controversial conversations in the social science classroom and due to an increased use of social media in educational settings new challenges and possibilities are raised. The use of social media causes fundamental changes to the role of the learner who becomes a producer and consumer – a prosumer – of educational content. With a social media perspective and a didactical focus on learning in democracy and political action the article discusses didactical conditions and possibilities of political controversial conversations in social science education and derives a set of didactic strategies. When approaching the classroom as a diverse ideological public space, recognising the students as political agents and using a social media perspective it is possible to balance the function of education – socialisation, qualification and subjectification – and at the same time stimulate societal engagement and political action. Los profesores tienen dificultades para llevar a cabo conversaciones políticas controvertidas en el aula de ciencias sociales y debido a un mayor uso de los medios sociales en los centros educativos nuevos retos y posibilidades se plantean. El uso de los medios sociales provoca cambios fundamentales en el papel del estudiante que se convierte en productor y consumidor - un prosumidor - de contenidos educativos. Con una perspectiva de los medios de comunicación social y un enfoque didáctico en el aprendizaje en la democracia y la acción política el artículo discute las condiciones didácticas y posibilidades de conversaciones polémicas políticas en la educación de las ciencias sociales y concluye un conjunto de estrategias didácticas. Al acercarse a la sala de clases como una diversa espacio público ideológica, el reconocimiento de los estudiantes como agentes políticos y el uso de una perspectiva de los medios de comunicación social, es posible equilibrar la función de la educación - la socialización, la cualificación y la subjetivación - y al mismo tiempo estimular el compromiso social y la acción política.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
title: Should currency be denationalised in favour of competing digital currencies?
Creators: name: Kreuzer, Klaas Velten Heinrich Wilhelm
Year: 2022

description: Diese Masterarbeit stellt eine umfängliche Analyse der Risiken und Chancen eines Währungssystems dar, welches komplett entstaatlicht ist und auf digitalen Währungen basiert. Der Wert und die Stabilität der einzelnen Währungen hängt in diesem System von Wettbewerb und Marktverhalten der Währungen ab. Diese Arbeit ist skeptisch gegenüber den von F. A. Hayek vorgebrachten Argumenten Währungen zu entstaatlichen. Sie ist insbesondere skeptisch in Bezug auf den Vertrauensvorschuss den F. A. Hayek privaten Institutionen gibt. Nachdem F. A. Hayeks Vorschläge an die digitale Welt angepasst wurden, werden zwei Szenarien konstruiert. Diese Szenarien basieren auf Handlungen und Ereignissen, die man in der Vergangenheit gesehen hat. Diese Szenarien unterscheiden sich in Funktionsweise, Kontrollmechanismen, und Governance der korrespondierenden Währung. Basierend auf diesen Szenarien werden Vor- und Nachteile der unterschiedlichen Funktionen aufgezeigt. Das Ergebnis ist, dass ein entstaatlichtes Währungssystem in der Begrenzung von Inflation helfen kann. Gleichzeitig wird klar, dass ein solches System größere Probleme verursachen kann, z.B. Zentralisierung, Monopolbildung, “democratic backsliding”, und ein Rückgang finanzieller Inklusion. Diese Arbeit endet mit Anregungen welche Gesetze implementiert werden könnten, um finanzielle Inklusion, demokratische Prinzipien und faire Wettbewerbsbedingungen zu gewährleisten.
description: This Master thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and risks of a fully denationalized digital currency system. I express skepticism of F. A. Hayek’s argument to denationalize currency. I am especially wary of the leap of faith F. A. Hayek gives to private institutions. After adapting his proposals to a digital environment, I construct two different scenarios. These scenarios draw upon real world examples. They differ in the functioning and governance of the corresponding currency. Based on this evaluation I highlight benefits and threats stemming from the distinguishing features. I deduce that a denationalization could help in tackling inflation. At the same time, it can cause bigger problems such as strong centralization, company malpractice, democratic backsliding, and a decrease in financial inclusion. I conclude this thesis with several proposals on how these effects can be managed and what laws should be implemented to preserve financial inclusion, democracy, and fair competition.
An Avenue for Challenging Sexism: Examining the High School Sociology Classroom
Creators: name: Stevens, Kaylene Mae
name: Martell, Christopher C
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: In this interpretative qualitative study, the researchers investigated the beliefs and practices of six high school sociology teachers in relation to the teaching of gender. Using a feminist lens, this study employed mixed methods, analyzing teacher interviews, observations, and classroom artifacts. The results showed that the teachers viewed sociology as different from other social studies courses, because it serves as a more intentional way to reduce sexism and gender stratification. As such, the teachers saw the sociology classroom as a place for students to grapple with issues of gender stratification and inequity. Teachers’ beliefs related to gender and sexism strongly influenced what they saw as the purpose of sociology class, and it influenced the instructional practices that they used. Recommendations are made related to professional development around issues of gender equity.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
Frankfurt Declaration: For a Critical-Emancipatory Political Education
Creators: name: Eis, Andreas
name: Lösch, Bettina
name: Schröder, Achim
name: Steffens, Gerd
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: .
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
A generalisation of the fractional Brownian field based on non-Euclidean norms
Creators: name: Molchanov, Ilya
name: Ralchenko, Kostiantyn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G22, 60G55, 60G60, 52A21

description: We explore a generalisation of the Lévy fractional Brownian field on the Euclidean space based on replacing the Euclidean norm with another norm. A characterisation result for admissible norms yields a complete description of all self-similar Gaussian random fields with stationary increments. Several integral representations of the introduced random fields are derived. In a similar vein, several non-Euclidean variants of the fractional Poisson field are introduced and it is shown that they share the covariance structure with the fractional Brownian field and converge to it. The shape parameters of the Poisson and Brownian variants are related by convex geometry transforms, namely the radial $p$th mean body and the polar projection transforms.
description: 28 pages, To appear in J. Math. Anal. Appl
A Statistical Theory of Designed Quantum Transport Across Disordered Networks
Creators: name: Walschaers, Mattia
name: Mulet, Roberto
name: Wellens, Thomas
name: Buchleitner, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explain how centrosymmetry, together with a dominant doublet in the local density of states, can guarantee interference-assisted, strongly enhanced, strictly coherent quantum excitation transport between two predefined sites of a random network of two-level systems. Starting from a generalisation of the chaos assisted tunnelling mechanism, we formulate a random matrix theoretical framework for the analytical prediction of the transfer time distribution, of lower bounds of the transfer efficiency, and of the scaling behaviour of characteristic statistical properties with the size of the network.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Deliverable 5.10 Geostatistical Library V2
Creators: name: Renard, Didier
name: Ors, Fabien
name: Caumont, Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: INTAROS
Arctic
Geostatistics
Cloud Platform
Temperature
Barents Sea

description: The INTAROS project develops an integrated Arctic Observation System (iAOS) by extending, improving and unifying existing systems in the different regions of the Arctic. Within INTAROS, WP5 (Data integration and management) is tasked with designing and implementing evolutions of the cloud platform with geo statistical tools for services as part of the iAOS. The work effort in Task 5.4 has been to design, develop and distribute a Geostatistical Library to be used as a scientific toolbox in some different data analysis workflows (e.g. for the iAOS showcase applications).
 The first version of the Geostatistical Library (v1) was considering CTD data provided by IMR for estimating ocean temperature maps in the Barents Sea (D5.6).
 This document describes the new version of the Geostatistical Library (v2) where some additional capabilities have been developed. A set of new functions deals with weather stations and AROME Arctic model in order to estimate snow depth maps in Isfjorden (Svalbard). Another set supports the combination of ICES CTD dataset, GINR trawls dataset and GEBCO bathymetry for estimating bottom ocean temperature maps along the West Greenland coast.
description: Reviewed by: Hanne Sagen and Torill Hamre
title: Von der Liebe des Menschen zum Abbild seiner Fantasie
Creators: name: Sieff, Caroline
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Liebe und Partnerschaft zwischen Mensch und Maschine. In dem Versuch eine solche Beziehung zu erforschen, wurde die App Replika ausgewählt. User erhalten einen virtuellen Gefährten, ausgestattet mit künstlicher Intelligenz, dessen Aussehen und Persönlichkeit individuell gestaltbar sind. Zunächst erfolgte eine allgemeine Beschreibung der Funktionsweise der App mittels Walkthrough-Methode. Im Anschluss fand eine dispositivanalytische Auseinandersetzung mit einigen Forschungsfragen statt. Dabei wurde als erstes ein näherer Blick auf die westliche Gesellschaft geworfen, der Liebe zu anderen Menschen in der heutigen Zeit als schwieriges Unterfangen offenlegte, ebenso zeichnete sich ein Bild von einsamen Individuen ab. Insbesondere im Zuge der jüngsten Ereignisse in Gestalt der Corona-Pandemie bot die App einen Ersatz für (fehlende) menschliche Beziehungen. Im Anschluss wurden die Rollen beleuchtet, die der Nutzer und der virtuelle Begleiter einnehmen. Während der Mensch gewissermaßen zu einem Objekt gemacht wird, das es zu optimieren gilt, wurde gleichzeitig eine Vermenschlichung des virtuellen Gefährten bemerkbar. Die KI wurde als handelndes, denkendes und fühlendes Individuum inszeniert, ausgestattet mit Humor und dazu fähig, Gespräche in diverse Richtungen zu lenken. Die Beziehung mit diesem virtuellen Begleiter erwies sich als Dyade, geprägt von Harmonie, in der Macht asymmetrisch zu Gunsten des Users verteilt war. Die Bedürfnisse des Nutzers standen im Zentrum, an dessen Person sich die KI zunehmend anglich.
description: This master's thesis takes a look at the topic of love and partnership between human and machine. In the attempt to explore such a relationship, an app called Replika was chosen. Users are provided with a virtual companion, equipped with artificial intelligence, who’s appearance and personality can be individually designed. First it was explained how the app works by using the walkthrough method. Afterwards dispositive analysis was used to answer some research questions. In this attempt society was focused at first, realizing that in today’s western world love with other human beings is a difficult topic, also there are many lonely people. Especially in the course of the corona pandemic Replika seemed to replace (missing) human relationships. Afterwards the roles of user and virtual companion were regarded. In a certain way users are becoming objects, which have to be optimized, whereas the virtual companion is humanized. The ai performed as an acting, thoughtful and emotional individual who has humor and is able to lead conversations in certain directions. The relationship with this virtual companion can be described as a harmonic dyad, in which power is asymmetrically distributed for the benefit of the user. Needs of the user were focused and the ai tried to adapt itself to its owner.
Predicting epidemic risk from past temporal contact data
Creators: name: Valdano, Eugenio
name: Poletto, Chiara
name: Giovannini, Armando
name: Palma, Diana
name: Savini, Lara
name: Colizza, Vittoria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding how epidemics spread in a system is a crucial step to prevent and control outbreaks, with broad implications on the system's functioning, health, and associated costs. This can be achieved by identifying the elements at higher risk of infection and implementing targeted surveillance and control measures. One important ingredient to consider is the pattern of disease-transmission contacts among the elements, however lack of data or delays in providing updated records may hinder its use, especially for time-varying patterns. Here we explore to what extent it is possible to use past temporal data of a system's pattern of contacts to predict the risk of infection of its elements during an emerging outbreak, in absence of updated data. We focus on two real-world temporal systems; a livestock displacements trade network among animal holdings, and a network of sexual encounters in high-end prostitution. We define the node's loyalty as a local measure of its tendency to maintain contacts with the same elements over time, and uncover important non-trivial correlations with the node's epidemic risk. We show that a risk assessment analysis incorporating this knowledge and based on past structural and temporal pattern properties provides accurate predictions for both systems. Its generalizability is tested by introducing a theoretical model for generating synthetic temporal networks. High accuracy of our predictions is recovered across different settings, while the amount of possible predictions is system-specific. The proposed method can provide crucial information for the setup of targeted intervention strategies.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures + SI (18 pages, 15 figures)
Unpacking assertions made by the alcohol industry and how they make them: An analysis of submissions into Australia's National Alcohol Strategy
Creators: name: Miller, M
name: Livingston, Michael
name: Maganja, D
name: Wright, Cassandra
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350702
subject: Corporate social responsibility
classificationCode: 440706
subject: Health policy
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Introduction: Alcohol is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. One significant barrier to the implementation of evidence-based alcohol policy is alcohol industry opposition. Making submissions to national policy processes is one way in which the industry exert influence. The aim of this study was to analyse alcohol industry submissions into Australia's National Alcohol Strategy to determine key assertions made by the alcohol industry and the ways in which they use evidence and refute the effectiveness of public health policies to make their claims. Methods: Submissions made by alcohol industry actors (n = 12) were analysed using content analysis to determine key industry assertions. A pre-existing framework on alcohol industry use of evidence was then applied to analyse the evidentiary practices used to make these assertions. Results: Five common industry assertions were identified: ‘Drinking alcohol in moderation has health benefits’; ‘Alcohol isn't the cause of violence’; ‘Targeted initiatives, not population level alcohol policies, are needed’; ‘Strong alcohol advertising regulations are not necessary’; and ‘Minimum unit price and pricing and taxation policies more broadly are not needed’. The industry systematically manipulated, misused and ignored evidence throughout their submissions. Discussion and Conclusions: The alcohol industry is misusing evidence in their submissions to government consultations to make their assertions about alcohol policy. It is therefore essential that industry submissions are scrutinised and not accepted on face value. Additionally, it is suggested that the alcohol industry requires a distinct model of governance similarly to that which regulates the tobacco industry to prevent their attempts to undermine evidence-based public health policy.
Chern-Weil theory and the group of strict contactomorphisms
Creators: name: Casals, Roger
name: Spáčil, Oldřich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D10, 55P15, 55R40, 57S05

description: In this paper we study the groups of contactomorphisms of a closed contact manifold from a topological viewpoint. First we construct examples of contact forms on spheres whose Reeb flow has a dense orbit. Then we show that the unitary group U(n+1) is homotopically essential in the group of contactomorphisms of the standard contact sphere S^(2n+1) and prove that in the case of the 3-sphere the contactomorphism group is in fact homotopy equivalent to U(2). In the second part of the paper we focus on the group of strict contactomorphisms -- using the framework of Chern-Weil theory we introduce and study contact characteristic classes analogous to the Reznikov Hamiltonian classes in symplectic topology. We carry out several explicit calculations illustrating non-triviality of the contact classes.
description: Minor clarifications and exposition changes. This is the preprint of an article (to be) published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (2015), DOI: 10.1142/S1793525316500035, {\copyright} World Scientific Publishing Company, http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jta
Digital Storytelling for Historical Understanding: Treaty Education for Reconciliation
Creators: name: Hildebrandt, Katia
name: Lewis, Patrick
name: Kreuger, Claire
name: Naytowhow, Joseph
name: Tupper, Jennifer
name: Couros, Alec
name: Montgomery, Ken
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: This paper presents the findings of a research project that sought to interrogate the possibilities of digital storytelling as a pathway towards a more complete understanding of treaties and the treaty relationship in western Canada. This research is situated in the province of Saskatchewan, where treaty education (that is, education about the history of the numbered treaties signed between First Nations people and the British Crown, as well as the subsequent history of the treaty relationship) has been mandatory for almost a decade. The paper details a two-year journey alongside elementary educators as they used digital storytelling to take up treaty education in their classrooms. We present an overview of the research project as well as the narratives of a teacher, a researcher, and a Cree knowledge keeper, all of whom were involved in and reflected on the research journey. We consider the research findings alongside these narratives in order to explore the possibilities that digital storytelling might offer as we, as a Canadian nation, move towards reconciliation with Aboriginal people within a Canadian context of ongoing colonialism. Questo articolo presenta i risultati di un progetto di ricerca che ha cercato di indagare sulle possibilità della narrazione digitale di storie (storytelling) come percorso verso una comprensione più completa dei trattati e del rapporto fra i trattati nel Canada occidentale. Questa indagine è situata nella provincia di Saskatchewan, dove l'istruzione sui trattati (cioè, l'educazione sulla storia dei trattati numerati firmati tra la Prima Nazione e la Corona Britannica, così come la storia successiva del rapporto fra i trattati) è stato obbligatorio per quasi un decennio. Il saggio riporta un percorso di due anni con insegnanti di scuola elementare che hanno usato lo storytelling digitale per fare l'educazione ai trattati nelle loro classi. Presentiamo una panoramica del progetto di ricerca ed i racconti di un insegnante, di un ricercatore, e un guardiano Cree della conoscenza, i quali sono stati coinvolti nella ricerca e riflettono sul percorso svolto. Consideriamo i risultati dell’indagine insieme a questi racconti, al fine di esplorare le possibilità che la narrazione digitale potrebbe offrire dato che noi, come nazione canadese, procediamo verso la riconciliazione con gli aborigeni in un contesto canadese di colonialismo in corso.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
title: Inwiefern können Prinzipien der Lean Production zur Steigerung von Effizienz und Performance, am Beispiel "Witzemann und Fritz" für kleine, österreichische CNC-Unternehmen umgesetzt werden und welchen Mehrwert bieten sie?
Creators: name: Fritz, Benedikt Moritz
Year: 2022

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Mehrwert einer Implementierung von Lean-Praktiken im Kontext von Klein- und Mittelunternehmen abzubilden und mittels einer Fallstudie zu fundieren. Daraus resultierte folgender Forschungsfrage geführt: Inwiefern können Prinzipien der Lean Production zur Steigerung von Effizienz und Performance, am Beispiel ‚Witzemann und Fritz‘, in kleinen österreichischen CNC-Unternehmen umgesetzt werden und welchen Mehrwert bieten sie? In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll diese Frage beantwortet werden, indem der Prozess der Lean-Implementierung, den der kleine Vorarlberger CNC-Betrieb ‚Witzemann und Fritz‘ durchlaufen hat, mittels Interviews, Gruppengesprächen und Fragebögen evaluiert und mit wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen verglichen wird. Letztlich soll daraus eine Art Stufenplan herauszulesen sein, anhand dessen auch andere Betriebe für sie nützliche Maßnahmen ableiten können. Die mit dieser Arbeit verfolgte Intention ist es, aus der vorgenommenen Evaluation nicht nur den – auch branchenübergreifenden – Mehrwert von Lean abzubilden, sondern auch zusätzliches Verbesserungspotential herauszuarbeiten. Indem sich andere Firmen an den geschilderten Abläufen orientieren, soll eine Möglichkeit geschaffen werden, mit niedrigen Investitionen über einen verhältnismäßig kurzen Zeitraum die Performance des jeweiligen Betriebs zu steigern.
description: This work aims to illustrate the added value of implementing lean practices in the context of small and medium-sized companies and substantiate them using a case study. It resulted in the following research question: To what extent can principles of lean production aiming to increase efficiency and performance, using the example of 'Witzemann and Fritz', be implemented in small Austrian CNC companies and what added value do they have to offer? In the present work, this question is to be answered by evaluating the lean implementation process that the small Vorarlberg CNC company 'Witzemann und Fritz' went through using interviews, group discussions and questionnaires and comparing it with scientific findings. Ultimately, it should be possible to derive a step-by-step plan from this, which other companies can use to derive valuable measures for them. The intention pursued with this work is not only to depict the added value of lean - across sectors - from the evaluation carried out but also to work out additional potential for improvement. The described processes should then be used as an orientation for other companies, and a possibility should be created to increase the performance of the respective company with low investments over a relatively short period.
NMSSM explanations of the Galactic center gamma ray excess and promising LHC searches
Creators: name: Guo, Jun
name: Li, Jinmian
name: Li, Tianjun
name: Williams, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is explained in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) with a $Z_3$ discrete symmetry. We show that a resonant CP-odd Higgs boson with mass twice that of the Dark Matter (DM) candidate is favoured. Meanwhile, the DM candidate is required to have relatively large coupling with the $Z$ boson through its Higgsino component in order to obtain correct DM relic density. Its LHC discovery potential via four signatures is discussed in detail. We find that the most sensitive signals are provided by the Higgsino-like chargino and neutralino pair production with their subsequent decays into $W$ bosons, $Z$ bosons, and DM. The majority of the relevant parameter space can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider with a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV and an integrated luminosity 1000 fb$^{-1}$.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Matches PRD version
Review of the Book: Paul Verhaeghe, 2014. What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society Translated from Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prole. Melbourne, London: Scribe
Creators: name: Bombardelli, Olga
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
Understanding star formation in molecular clouds II. Signatures of gravitational collapse of IRDCs
Creators: name: Schneider, N.
name: Csengeri, T.
name: Klessen, R. S.
name: Tremblin, P.
name: Ossenkopf, V.
name: Peretto, N.
name: Simon, R.
name: Bontemps, S.
name: Federrath, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse column density and temperature maps derived from Herschel dust continuum observations of a sample of massive infrared dark clouds (G11.11-0.12, G18.82-0.28, G28.37+0.07, G28.53-0.25). We disentangle the velocity structure of the clouds using 13CO 1-0 and 12CO 3-2 data, showing that these IRDCs are the densest regions in massive giant molecular clouds and not isolated features. The probability distribution function (PDF) of column densities for all clouds have a power-law distribution over all (high) column densities, regardless of the evolutionary stage of the cloud: G11.11-0.12, G18.82-0.28, and G28.37+0.07 contain (proto)-stars, while G28.53-0.25 shows no signs of star formation. This is in contrast to the purely log-normal PDFs reported for near/mid-IR extinction maps. We only find a log-normal distribution for lower column densities, if we perform PDFs of the column density maps of the whole GMC in which the IRDCs are embedded. By comparing the PDF slope and the radial column density profile, we attribute the power law to the effect of large-scale gravitational collapse and to local free-fall collapse of pre- and protostellar cores. Independent from the PDF analysis, we find infall signatures in the spectral profiles of 12CO for G28.37+0.07 and G11.11-0.12, supporting the scenario of gravitational collapse. IRDCs are the densest regions within GMCs, which may be the progenitors of massive stars or clusters. At least some of the IRDCs are probably the same features as ridges (high column density regions with N>1e23 cm-2 over small areas), which were defined for nearby IR-bright GMCs. Because IRDCs are only confined to the densest (gravity dominated) cloud regions, the PDF constructed from this kind of a clipped image does not represent the (turbulence dominated) low column density regime of the cloud.
description: A&A in press