cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Oreopasites Cockerell 1906
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Oreopasites

description: Genus Oreopasites Cockerell, 1906
Bees in this genus are brood parasites in the nests of Calliopsis and Perdita (Michener 2007).
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
PEMBUATAN PROFIL GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Google Scholar
Setting
Profil

description: Cara Mudah Membuat Profil Google Scholar di sampaikan pada acara RAKERNAS RELAWAN JURNAL INDONESI (RJI) di Bandung pada tanggal 24-25 Agustus 2018
An exploration of the life experiences and discursive practices of alternatively prepared beginning elementary school urban teachers
Creators: name: Digiovanni, Karen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to explore how the differing mindset of alternatively prepared beginning elementary school urban teachers, which stems in large part from greater life experience, manifests itself in their discursive practices. A group of 23 first year elementary school teachers enrolled in a two-year alternative teacher certification program located in a large mid-Atlantic urban city were selected to participate in the study. Framing this study was the overarching research question: What are the different life experiences of beginning teachers in an alternative certification program and how do these different life experiences shape their discursive practices in urban school settings? To gain insight into this question, five sub-questions pertaining to life experiences and discursive practices were asked. As the life experiences and discursive practices of members of the sample population were examined, an inductive approach predominately utilizing qualitative research methods was employed to explore the research questions. Three primary data collection tools, two qualitative (individual interviews and classroom observations) and one quantitative (modified version of the Witcher-Travers Survey of Educational Beliefs), were used to gather a preponderance of the data. A secondary data collection tool, a follow-up questionnaire, was also used to gather data relative to themes that surfaced during interviews and observations. All 23 participants completed the Witcher-Travers Survey of Educational Beliefs, a subset of 8 (of the 23) participants participated in interviews and observations and a subset of 21 (of the 23) participants completed the follow-up questionnaire. Study findings revealed that life experiences make a difference in the discursive practices of alternatively prepared teachers and that a nexus exists between life experience and teachers' discursive practices. Demographic data from this study further suggested that alternative teacher certification programs attract more teachers of color, older individuals and men than traditional teacher preparation programs. Results also offered insight into the structure of alternative certification programs indicating that it is advantageous for participants to progress through programs in cohorts and to receive instruction in the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching from university-based professors.
Immediate post-operative dressing of the genito-urinary case
Creators: name: Mason, Michael L., 1895-1963
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: Genitourinary injuries
subject: Urinary Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Wound Closure Techniques
subject: Bandages
subject: Urologic Surgical Procedures
subject: Urinary Bladder/injuries
subject: Kidney/injuries

description: Instructions on how to apply dressings to patients immediately after they have undergone urological operations.
Compact moduli of plane curves
Creators: name: Hacking, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H10, 14J10 (Primary), 14E30 (Secondary)

description: We construct a compactification M_d of the moduli space of plane curves of degree d. We regard a plane curve C as a surface-divisor pair (P^2,C) and define M_d as a moduli space of pairs (X,D) where X is a degeneration of the plane. We show that, if d is not divisible by 3, the stack M_d is smooth and the degenerate surfaces X can be described explicitly.
description: 46 pages. Final version to be published in Duke Mathematical Journal
An exploration of the life experiences and discursive practices of alternatively prepared beginning elementary school urban teachers
Creators: name: Digiovanni, Karen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to explore how the differing mindset of alternatively prepared beginning elementary school urban teachers, which stems in large part from greater life experience, manifests itself in their discursive practices. A group of 23 first year elementary school teachers enrolled in a two-year alternative teacher certification program located in a large mid-Atlantic urban city were selected to participate in the study. Framing this study was the overarching research question: What are the different life experiences of beginning teachers in an alternative certification program and how do these different life experiences shape their discursive practices in urban school settings? To gain insight into this question, five sub-questions pertaining to life experiences and discursive practices were asked. As the life experiences and discursive practices of members of the sample population were examined, an inductive approach predominately utilizing qualitative research methods was employed to explore the research questions. Three primary data collection tools, two qualitative (individual interviews and classroom observations) and one quantitative (modified version of the Witcher-Travers Survey of Educational Beliefs), were used to gather a preponderance of the data. A secondary data collection tool, a follow-up questionnaire, was also used to gather data relative to themes that surfaced during interviews and observations. All 23 participants completed the Witcher-Travers Survey of Educational Beliefs, a subset of 8 (of the 23) participants participated in interviews and observations and a subset of 21 (of the 23) participants completed the follow-up questionnaire. Study findings revealed that life experiences make a difference in the discursive practices of alternatively prepared teachers and that a nexus exists between life experience and teachers' discursive practices. Demographic data from this study further suggested that alternative teacher certification programs attract more teachers of color, older individuals and men than traditional teacher preparation programs. Results also offered insight into the structure of alternative certification programs indicating that it is advantageous for participants to progress through programs in cohorts and to receive instruction in the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching from university-based professors.
Opportunity costs: Academic and relational dilemmas experienced by urban students attending a public, college -preparatory, boarding school
Creators: name: Engle, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: This study used qualitative methods, including interview and observation, to inquire into the experiences of economically disadvantaged, racial minority students attending a public, charter, college-preparatory, boarding school in an urban area. The purpose of the study was to examine the "context of choice" (Howe, 1997) in which urban students and their parents decide to attend the school and the issues and problems they may experience---with respect to maintaining cultural identity, peer relationships, and family membership---while in attendance. Based on the findings, it is argued that the context of choice in which urban students and their parents make and exercise this decision is defined by a "comparative or dual frame of reference" (Ogbu, 1987, 2003) with the conditions of the local public schools and the social and economic circumstances in which they live, which frames this choice not merely as an opportunity, but as an obligation to succeed given that it might not otherwise be available to them. However, this onus of opportunity can create academic and relational "dilemmas related to the task of achievement" for urban students which require them to develop certain psychosocial and cultural "competencies" (Perry, 2003) or else incur "opportunity costs" (Howe, 1997). Furthermore, it is argued that students' ability to resolve these dilemmas may be aided or impeded by features of the school environment (Phelan, Davidson, & Yu, 1993). This study raises serious issues about school choice that are of particular significance in a "post-Brown" era in which choice has effectively replaced desegregation as a more popular and politically acceptable means for closing the achievement gap and providing equal educational opportunity for urban students (Kozol, 1991; Vitteriti, 1999). As the findings of this study demonstrate, however, school choice may not, by itself, confer opportunity to urban students if certain conditions are not met and students do not have the means by which to realize the intended outcomes of their decisions (Howe, 1997). Under such conditions, it could thus be argued that choice would serve merely to remove responsibility for urban student underachievement from schools and to place the burden on students and parents themselves.
Anthophorula (Anthophorula) palmarum
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Anthophorula (Anthophorula) palmarum (Timberlake, 1947)
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Andreas Canyon, near Palm Springs, California, USA; April 24, 1932]
This species inhabits xeric ecoregions of southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. We reviewed one female collected in June 1952 in Ensenada, Baja California (CASC).
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Opportunity costs: Academic and relational dilemmas experienced by urban students attending a public, college -preparatory, boarding school
Creators: name: Engle, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study used qualitative methods, including interview and observation, to inquire into the experiences of economically disadvantaged, racial minority students attending a public, charter, college-preparatory, boarding school in an urban area. The purpose of the study was to examine the "context of choice" (Howe, 1997) in which urban students and their parents decide to attend the school and the issues and problems they may experience---with respect to maintaining cultural identity, peer relationships, and family membership---while in attendance. Based on the findings, it is argued that the context of choice in which urban students and their parents make and exercise this decision is defined by a "comparative or dual frame of reference" (Ogbu, 1987, 2003) with the conditions of the local public schools and the social and economic circumstances in which they live, which frames this choice not merely as an opportunity, but as an obligation to succeed given that it might not otherwise be available to them. However, this onus of opportunity can create academic and relational "dilemmas related to the task of achievement" for urban students which require them to develop certain psychosocial and cultural "competencies" (Perry, 2003) or else incur "opportunity costs" (Howe, 1997). Furthermore, it is argued that students' ability to resolve these dilemmas may be aided or impeded by features of the school environment (Phelan, Davidson, & Yu, 1993). This study raises serious issues about school choice that are of particular significance in a "post-Brown" era in which choice has effectively replaced desegregation as a more popular and politically acceptable means for closing the achievement gap and providing equal educational opportunity for urban students (Kozol, 1991; Vitteriti, 1999). As the findings of this study demonstrate, however, school choice may not, by itself, confer opportunity to urban students if certain conditions are not met and students do not have the means by which to realize the intended outcomes of their decisions (Howe, 1997). Under such conditions, it could thus be argued that choice would serve merely to remove responsibility for urban student underachievement from schools and to place the burden on students and parents themselves.
Zebra-like patterns in whistler wave emission spectra from nonequilibrium mirror-confined laboratory plasma
Creators: name: Viktorov, M. E.
name: Shalashov, A. G.
name: Gospodchikov, E. D.
name: Semin, N. Yu.
name: Golubev, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zebra-like patterns have been observed in the electron cyclotron emission spectra from strongly nonequilibrium plasma confined in a table-top mirror magnetic trap. The analysis of the experimental data suggests that the formation of zebra-like patterns could eventually be related to modulation of the whistler waves by the ion-acoustic waves excited during the abrupt ejection of electrons into a loss cone caused by the development of the whistler instability under the electron cyclotron resonance condition.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas
Exomalopsis (Stilbomalopsis) byersi Timberlake 1980
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Exomalopsis (Stilbomalopsis) byersi Timberlake, 1980
[Holotype: SEMC; ♀ 22.05 km North of Rio Balsas, Guerrero, México; August 5, 1963]
Timberlake (1980b) reported this species in Mexicali BC; however, this was a typographical error. The specimens he reported were collected in Mexcala, Guerrero, Mexico. The BBPT also collected three females in the southern Magdalena Plains in March 2021 (MABC). See fig. 126.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 195, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Plateau problem at infinity for horizontal ends and genus 1
Creators: name: Mazet, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10

description: In this paper, we study Alexandrov-embedded r-noids with genus 1 and horizontal ends. Such minimal surfaces are of two types and we build several examples of the first one. We prove that if a polygon bounds an immersed polygonal disk, it is the flux polygon of an r-noid with genus 1 of the first type. We also study the case of polygons which are invariant under a rotation. The construction of these surfaces is based on the resolution of the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface equation on an unbounded domain.
description: 63 pages
Hope's relationship with athletic performance anxiety: The effects of controllability, threat perception, and negative evaluation concerns
Creators: name: Gaynor, Andrea Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Hope theory states that hope is made up of goals, the pathways that will lead to them, and the agency that will propel one toward them (Snyder, 1991). Research has shown that state and trait hope are associated with decreased general anxiety and improved athletic performance. To date, however, no study has examined hope's relationship to performance anxiety among athletes. This study hypothesized that hope is inversely related to athletic performance anxiety because of its role as a protective factor against perceptions of threat cues, fear of negative evaluation by others, and feelings of uncontrollability. 80 undergraduate Division I-AA athletes completed measures of state and trait hope, fear of negative evaluation, threat perception, locus of causation, state and trait competitive sport anxiety, state anxiety, and self-efficacy. Path analysis was used to evaluate the consistency of a causal relationship between hope and performance anxiety through the aforementioned three variables. The model of trait hope leading to a reduction in trait performance anxiety through a reduction in fear of negative evaluation, a lessening of vulnerability to perceptions of stress, and a strengthening of a stable locus of causation, was supported. Similar results were found for state hope and state performance anxiety, though only the self-confidence subscale of state competitive anxiety was shown to be a significant aspect of the model. These results suggest that interventions to instill or increase trait hope might be effective in decreasing athletic performance anxiety.
Uniqueness and Stability of Higher-Dimensional Black Holes
Creators: name: Kodama, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present status of the uniqueness and stability issue of black holes in four and higher dimensions is overviewed with focus on the perturbative analysis of this issue for static black holes in higher dimensions as well as for those in four dimensions with cosmological constant.
description: 9 pages in the RevTeX4 style with 6 figures. Minor corrections and addition of references. To appear in the proceeding of the ICGA6(APCTP)
Hope's relationship with athletic performance anxiety: The effects of controllability, threat perception, and negative evaluation concerns
Creators: name: Gaynor, Andrea Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Hope theory states that hope is made up of goals, the pathways that will lead to them, and the agency that will propel one toward them (Snyder, 1991). Research has shown that state and trait hope are associated with decreased general anxiety and improved athletic performance. To date, however, no study has examined hope's relationship to performance anxiety among athletes. This study hypothesized that hope is inversely related to athletic performance anxiety because of its role as a protective factor against perceptions of threat cues, fear of negative evaluation by others, and feelings of uncontrollability. 80 undergraduate Division I-AA athletes completed measures of state and trait hope, fear of negative evaluation, threat perception, locus of causation, state and trait competitive sport anxiety, state anxiety, and self-efficacy. Path analysis was used to evaluate the consistency of a causal relationship between hope and performance anxiety through the aforementioned three variables. The model of trait hope leading to a reduction in trait performance anxiety through a reduction in fear of negative evaluation, a lessening of vulnerability to perceptions of stress, and a strengthening of a stable locus of causation, was supported. Similar results were found for state hope and state performance anxiety, though only the self-confidence subscale of state competitive anxiety was shown to be a significant aspect of the model. These results suggest that interventions to instill or increase trait hope might be effective in decreasing athletic performance anxiety.
Autonomous Cave Surveying with an Aerial Robot
Creators: name: Tabib, Wennie
name: Goel, Kshitij
name: Yao, John
name: Boirum, Curtis
name: Michael, Nathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a method for cave surveying in total darkness using an autonomous aerial vehicle equipped with a depth camera for mapping, downward-facing camera for state estimation, and forward and downward lights. Traditional methods of cave surveying are labor-intensive and dangerous due to the risk of hypothermia when collecting data over extended periods of time in cold and damp environments, the risk of injury when operating in darkness in rocky or muddy environments, and the potential structural instability of the subterranean environment. Although these dangers can be mitigated by deploying robots to map dangerous passages and voids, real-time feedback is often needed to operate robots safely and efficiently. Few state-of-the-art, high-resolution perceptual modeling techniques attempt to reduce their high bandwidth requirements to work well with low bandwidth communication channels. To bridge this gap in the state of the art, this work compactly represents sensor observations as Gaussian mixture models and maintains a local occupancy grid map for a motion planner that greedily maximizes an information-theoretic objective function. The approach accommodates both limited field of view depth cameras and larger field of view LiDAR sensors and is extensively evaluated in long duration simulations on an embedded PC. An aerial system is leveraged to demonstrate the repeatability of the approach in a flight arena as well as the effects of communication dropouts. Finally, the system is deployed in Laurel Caverns, a commercially owned and operated cave in southwestern Pennsylvania, USA, and a wild cave in West Virginia, USA.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures; accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO 2021) and adds additional experimental results
Oreopasites (Oreopasites) collegarum Rozen 1992
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Oreopasites (Oreopasites) collegarum Rozen, 1992
Endemic
[Holotype: AMNH; ♀ 57 km southeast Guerrero Negro 135 mts elev., Baja California Sur, Mexico; 8 Sep 1977] Oreopasites collegarum is an endemic species to the BCP (Rozen 1992). It was previously known to occur only in the Vizcaíno Desert of BCS, but our visits to museums to examine undetermined material has expanded the known range. We examined 15 paratypes, 14 (10 ♂, 3♀) from the Vizcaíno Desert collected at the same sampling event as holotype and one female collected in Rancho Guadalupe, 24 mi. NW San Ignacio in September 1983 (LACM). Additionally, we examined a female collected in the Central Desert, BC in March 2014 (CNIN). See fig. 127.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Women's employment in mass vs. alternative tourism in Belize: A sentence to wage labor or opportunities for entrepreneurs?
Creators: name: Gentry, Kristine McKenzie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Tourism is said to be the world's fastest growing industry and leading employer; however, many studies have documented numerous negative impacts associated with tourism. This dissertation examines the criticisms associated with working in mass tourism, specifically for women. Since alternative tourism is promoted as a strategy to alleviate some of the problems associated with mass tourism, women's experiences in mass tourism and alternative tourism employment in Belize are compared to determine whether alternative tourism addresses the criticisms aimed at mass tourism employment. Three main questions are addressed in this dissertation. First, does alternative tourism in Belize result in better employment opportunities for Belizean women than mass tourism? Second, does a woman's class status impact the extent to which she receives benefits through employment in alternative tourism? Third, does working outside of the home lead to changes in beliefs regarding gender roles for Belizean women, particularly in the alternative tourism sector?; In this dissertation the complexity of the experiences of Belizean women working in mass tourism, Belizean-owned alternative tourism, foreign-owned alternative tourism, and mass tourism are examined and illustrated. These women were not homogeneous, and neither were their employment experiences. Some women flourished in tourism employment, while others floundered. Often women received benefits from their experiences in tourism while simultaneously confronting difficulties in this industry. The extent to which some women were able to thrive in the tourism industry, while others were relegated to entry-level positions with few benefits, depended on various characteristics of the woman, the type of tourism in which she was employed, her family and other social connections, and her economic status before entering the tourism workforce. The goal of this project was to examine the nuances among these relationships to determine which women received the greatest benefits from tourism employment and what those benefits were while concurrently examining the negative impacts of employment in this industry.
Let’s Get Physical : Investigative Research on Women’s motivation for Physical Activity
Creators: name: Cristina, Trejo
name: Littlefair, Jane
name: Porras, Rayla
name: Greene, Serina Spain
name: Lu, Rui
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The basis of the research was founded upon with relevance to this main question: What are the main features, besides time and cost that would encourage more participation from UBC female students in physical activity programmes or events at UBC? To guide the research, three specific hypotheses were assessed in regards to this research question by looking at differences between two conditions: those who currently participate in UBC recreation activities and those who are not. Firstly, analysis of differences in perception towards UBC Recreation was done. Secondly, factors that motivate students to get involved and to stay involved were assessed. Thirdly, possible changes that UBC recreation could make in order to enhance appeal were more specifically derived. According to the results, there was significance pertaining to the difference between the boring/fun measures of perception. In regards to initial involvement, health was a determining factor and in regards to continuity of involvement, body goal achievement and the creation of a socially conducive environment were determining factors of this measure. As for areas in need of enhancement, the change that was most requested was increasing activities offered followed by improvements of facilities. Finally, the study’s limitations along with recommendations for future studies are discussed. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Women's employment in mass vs. alternative tourism in Belize: A sentence to wage labor or opportunities for entrepreneurs?
Creators: name: Gentry, Kristine McKenzie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Tourism is said to be the world's fastest growing industry and leading employer; however, many studies have documented numerous negative impacts associated with tourism. This dissertation examines the criticisms associated with working in mass tourism, specifically for women. Since alternative tourism is promoted as a strategy to alleviate some of the problems associated with mass tourism, women's experiences in mass tourism and alternative tourism employment in Belize are compared to determine whether alternative tourism addresses the criticisms aimed at mass tourism employment. Three main questions are addressed in this dissertation. First, does alternative tourism in Belize result in better employment opportunities for Belizean women than mass tourism? Second, does a woman's class status impact the extent to which she receives benefits through employment in alternative tourism? Third, does working outside of the home lead to changes in beliefs regarding gender roles for Belizean women, particularly in the alternative tourism sector?; In this dissertation the complexity of the experiences of Belizean women working in mass tourism, Belizean-owned alternative tourism, foreign-owned alternative tourism, and mass tourism are examined and illustrated. These women were not homogeneous, and neither were their employment experiences. Some women flourished in tourism employment, while others floundered. Often women received benefits from their experiences in tourism while simultaneously confronting difficulties in this industry. The extent to which some women were able to thrive in the tourism industry, while others were relegated to entry-level positions with few benefits, depended on various characteristics of the woman, the type of tourism in which she was employed, her family and other social connections, and her economic status before entering the tourism workforce. The goal of this project was to examine the nuances among these relationships to determine which women received the greatest benefits from tourism employment and what those benefits were while concurrently examining the negative impacts of employment in this industry.
A pulsed, compact, low-background X-ray generator
Creators: name: Giomataris, I.
name: Belloni, F.
name: Iguaz, F. J.
name: Mols, J. P.
name: Papaevangelou, T.
name: Segui, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel type of pulsed X-ray generator especially suitable for rare event searches, as dark matter and neutrino experiments, has been developed. Being compact and built with selected radio-pure materials, it is appropriate for low-background experiments. UV light generated by a pulsed lamp produces photoelectrons on a metallic cathode, which are subsequently accelerated to produce X-rays. The X-rays are emitted in bunches with a time resolution better than 1 ns and the system provides a fast trigger for event tagging. We present the idea of the new X-ray generator as well as experimental results showing the proof of concept of the device. Data are in good agreement with simulation results and future optimisations of the system are also discussed.
description: 16 pages. Preprint to be soon submitted to a Journal
Embaphion contusum LeConte 1858
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Embaphion
Embaphion contusum

description: Embaphion contusum LeConte, 1858
(Fig. 1D)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate, lateral margins of pronotum and elytra explanate and foliaceous (laminar and curled upward). Elytra asperately punctured, clothed with conspicuous short, dark setae. Elytral carina clearly reaching posterior apex, apex tending to be somewhat caudate in males.
 Distribution. Gila, Pinal, Pima, and Cochise Counties, Arizona. New Mexico to Wyoming and east to Kansas.
 Remarks. The elytral vestiture and asperate punctures serve well to separate this species from E. glabrum, though in dirty or worn specimens the elytral margins are the best way to diagnose the species.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 51, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Woodville Proclamation for Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Creators: name: Barnes, Roscoe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210304 Biography
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: History
subject: 160803 Race and Ethnic Relations
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This Proclamation was presented to Joan Trumpauer Mulholland by the Town of Woodville, Miss.On Tuesday, September 17, 2019, Mayor Keshia Stewart Ford presented Joan Trumpauer Mulholland the "Key to the City" on behalf of the Town of Woodville. The presentation was made at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility (WCCF), a prison that is privately run by MTC of Utah. Mulholland, a former Freedom Rider and civil rights pioneer, spoke at the prison and at Wilkinson County High School during her visit, which was sponsored by MTC/WCCF. She participated in three programs, all held in honor of Anne Moody, whose birthday was September 15. Moody, who was a friend of Mulholland, was also a civil rights pioneer. She wrote the classic memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi.
#AnneMoody #JoanTrumpauerMulholland #FreedomRider
A Linear Algebra Approach for Detecting Binomiality of Steady State Ideals of Reversible Chemical Reaction Networks
Creators: name: Rahkooy, Hamid
name: Radulescu, Ovidiu
name: Sturm, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by problems from Chemical Reaction Network Theory, we investigate whether steady state ideals of reversible reaction networks are generated by binomials. We take an algebraic approach considering, besides concentrations of species, also rate constants as indeterminates. This leads us to the concept of unconditional binomiality, meaning binomiality for all values of the rate constants. This concept is different from conditional binomiality that applies when rate constant values or relations among rate constants are given. We start by representing the generators of a steady state ideal as sums of binomials, which yields a corresponding coefficient matrix. On these grounds we propose an efficient algorithm for detecting unconditional binomiality. That algorithm uses exclusively elementary column and row operations on the coefficient matrix. We prove asymptotic worst case upper bounds on the time complexity of our algorithm. Furthermore, we experimentally compare its performance with other existing methods.
Intercultural work relationships between Japanese language teachers and foreign assistant teachers in Japan: The JET Program
Creators: name: Otani, Midori
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: If a teacher in a public school is asked to work with a foreign assistant teacher who has a quite different cultural and educational background, how will they work out these differences? Furthermore, what will happen when this occurs in a relatively homogenous society, like Japan? This study analyzes how Japanese teachers of language (JTLs) and assistant language teacher (ALTs) work together in the public schools, major institutions involved in passing on and maintaining a culture. More specifically, this study focuses on intercultural work relationships between JTLs and ALTs who come to Japan through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program under the government policy of internationalization. This research takes a holistic anthropological approach to explore various concerns and problems for JTLs and ALTs in a broader context of culture, since there has been little research on the JET program from a cultural perspective. I employ semi-structured interviewing, descriptive surveys participant observation, and archival research. These methods provide complementary data, creating multi-layered information to understand the contexts of the problem. Two research sites are the foundation of this research: a prefecture in Japan, and Washington D.C. metropolitan area in the United States. I conducted interviews and surveys with the ALTs in Japan. In order to compare and generalize their concerns across prefecture, I interviewed former JET participants in Washington D.C. as well as the Japanese teachers who visited the United States through the government study program. The research data demonstrates that JTLs and ALTs have various concerns in different areas, such as educational system, different customs, and communication styles. The research data also revealed a great amount of cross-cultural misunderstanding, misperception, miscommunication, and the lack of recognition about each side's cultural and educational backgrounds. Beyond these issues, the gap between the Japanese government policy of internationalization and reality at the school level becomes clear. The concluding chapter presents practical suggestions to this cross-cultural work relationship and the JET Program.
Higher harmonic non-linear flow modes of charged hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropic flow coefficients, $v_n$, non-linear flow mode coefficients, $χ_{n,mk}$, and correlations among different symmetry planes, $ρ_{n,mk}$ are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\rm{NN}}=5.02$ TeV. Results obtained with multi-particle correlations are reported for the transverse momentum interval $0.2
description: 30 pages, 7 captioned figures, 5 tables, authors from page 25, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/6093
Intercultural work relationships between Japanese language teachers and foreign assistant teachers in Japan: The JET Program
Creators: name: Otani, Midori
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: If a teacher in a public school is asked to work with a foreign assistant teacher who has a quite different cultural and educational background, how will they work out these differences? Furthermore, what will happen when this occurs in a relatively homogenous society, like Japan? This study analyzes how Japanese teachers of language (JTLs) and assistant language teacher (ALTs) work together in the public schools, major institutions involved in passing on and maintaining a culture. More specifically, this study focuses on intercultural work relationships between JTLs and ALTs who come to Japan through the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program under the government policy of internationalization. This research takes a holistic anthropological approach to explore various concerns and problems for JTLs and ALTs in a broader context of culture, since there has been little research on the JET program from a cultural perspective. I employ semi-structured interviewing, descriptive surveys participant observation, and archival research. These methods provide complementary data, creating multi-layered information to understand the contexts of the problem. Two research sites are the foundation of this research: a prefecture in Japan, and Washington D.C. metropolitan area in the United States. I conducted interviews and surveys with the ALTs in Japan. In order to compare and generalize their concerns across prefecture, I interviewed former JET participants in Washington D.C. as well as the Japanese teachers who visited the United States through the government study program. The research data demonstrates that JTLs and ALTs have various concerns in different areas, such as educational system, different customs, and communication styles. The research data also revealed a great amount of cross-cultural misunderstanding, misperception, miscommunication, and the lack of recognition about each side's cultural and educational backgrounds. Beyond these issues, the gap between the Japanese government policy of internationalization and reality at the school level becomes clear. The concluding chapter presents practical suggestions to this cross-cultural work relationship and the JET Program.
On characterising the variability properties of X-ray light curves from active galaxies
Creators: name: Vaughan, S.
name: Edelson, R.
name: Warwick, R. S.
name: Uttley, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some practical aspects of measuring the amplitude of variability in `red noise' light curves typical of those from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The quantities commonly used to estimate the variability amplitude in AGN light curves, such as the fractional rms variability amplitude, F_var, and excess variance, sigma_XS^2, are examined. Their statistical properties, relationship to the power spectrum, and uses for investigating the nature of the variability processes are discussed. We demonstrate that sigma_XS^2 (or similarly F_var) shows large changes from one part of the light curve to the next, even when the variability is produced by a stationary process. This limits the usefulness of these estimators for quantifying differences in variability amplitude between different sources or from epoch to epoch in one source. Some examples of the expected scatter in the variance are tabulated for various typical power spectral shapes, based on Monte Carlo simulations. The excess variance can be useful for comparing the variability amplitudes of light curves in different energy bands from the same observation. Monte Carlo simulations are used to derive a description of the uncertainty in the amplitude expected between different energy bands (due to measurement errors). Finally, these estimators are used to demonstrate some variability properties of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy Markarian 766. The source is found to show a strong, linear correlation between rms amplitude and flux, and to show significant spectral variability.
description: 14 pages. 12 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Autonomy "entre comillas": Teachers state, and empire in neoliberal education reform in Puerto Rico
Creators: name: Silver, Patricia L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation examines the impact of everyday relations and activities of public school teachers in Puerto Rico on Puerto Rican state formation. I bring both historic attention to public school teachers and Puerto Rican state formation across the twentieth century and particular ethnographic attention to the neoliberal reconfigurations of schooling and state in Puerto Rico in the 1990s. I look historically at state use of race, gender and class ideologies to construct claims and expectations toward teachers under both official U.S. colonialism and by the current Commonwealth government under pressures from the U.S. Department of Education. I trace the diversity of teachers' historically constructed social relations and examine how different teachers have used these, collectively and individually, to both confound and confirm state-based mandates for school reform. My analysis is based on seventeen months of fieldwork in Puerto Rican public schools in 1999 and 2000, as well as primary research in the Puerto Rican state archives and the Puerto Rican Department of Education. My fieldwork included eight months of participant observation in schools, teacher surveys in four schools, two focus group interviews with teachers and one with mothers, and fifty-seven individual interviews with teachers, administrators, state officials, and parents and community members. Through cycles of "crisis" and reform that have historically marked shifts in Puerto Rican state formation and corresponding public education policies, public school teachers in Puerto Rico have been charged with the responsibility of forming the particular kind of person needed to facilitate each of these dominant modes of Puerto Rican state relations. Viewed from the lives and experiences of public school teachers in Puerto Rico, these historical processes of Puerto Rican state formation point to ongoing tensions in teachers' daily lives between autonomy and control and coercion and consent. Such tensions have also marked the historical relations between the U.S. and Puerto Rican states. As teachers oppose, appropriate, and accommodate state directives concerning policies, structures, and curricula, their actions and inactions leave their mark on Puerto Rican state formation and U.S.-Puerto Rican state relations.
PENERBITAN ISSN DAN PEMILIHAN NAMA, FOKUS DAN RUANG LINGKUP JURNAL ILMIAH
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Rakernas
Penerbitan
ISSN

description: Materi ini di presentasikan saat acara RAKERNAS Relawan Jurnal Indonesia di Bandung pada Tanggal 24-25 Agustus 2018