cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Qualitative Study on Learning and Teaching With Learning Paths in a Learning Management System
Creators: name: De Smet, Cindy
name: Valcke, Martin
name: Schellens, Tammy
name: De Wever, Bram
name: Vanderlinde, Ruben
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: This article presents the findings of a qualitative study (carried out between 2011 and 2013) about the adoption and implementation of learning paths within a Learning Management System (LMS). Sixteen secondary school biology teachers of the GO! Network in Flanders (an urbanized region in Belgium) were involved in the study and questioned via semi-structured interviews. Two research questions are addressed: (1) what are the perceived conditions at school and at teacher level affecting the use of learning paths? (2) how are these conditions related to the expected outcomes? Research results show teachers are satisfied with learning paths as an educational tool, but reflect mixed feelings as to the impact on student learning outcomes. Clear barriers are identified at the school and teacher level, thwarting the implementation of learning paths in secondary education. The availability of a reliable and accessible ICT infrastructure, the quality of technical and pedagogical support, teacher professional development and the mastery of teacher Information and Communication Technology competencies, among others, were found to be essential. Questo articolo presenta i risultati di uno studio qualitativo sull'adozione e l'attuazione di percorsi di apprendimento all'interno del Learning Management System (LMS). Sedici insegnanti della scuola secondaria sono stati coinvolti nello studio e interrogati tramite interviste semi-strutturate. Si sono prese in considerazione due domande di ricerca: (1) quali sono le condizioni percepite nella scuola e fra gli insegnanti capaci di influenzare l'uso di percorsi di apprendimento (learning paths)? (2) come sono legate ai risultati attesi queste condizioni? I risultati della ricerca mostrano che gli insegnanti sono soddisfatti dei percorsi di apprendimento (learning paths) come strumento educativo, ma mostrano sentimenti contrastanti per quanto riguarda l'impatto sui risultati di apprendimento degli studenti. Si identificano chiari ostacoli a livello di scuola e di insegnanti, vanificando l'utilizzo dei learning paths nell’ istruzione secondaria. Si sono rivelati essenziali, fra l’altro, la disponibilità di infrastruttura ICT affidabili e accessibili, la qualità del supporto tecnico e pedagogico, lo sviluppo professionale degli insegnanti e la padronanza delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
Reduced hierarchical equations of motion in real and imaginary time: Correlated initial states and thermodynamic quantities
Creators: name: Tanimura, Yoshitaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: For a system strongly coupled to a heat bath, the quantum coherence of the system and the heat bath plays an important role in the system dynamics. This is particularly true in the case of non-Markovian noise. We rigorously investigate the influence of system-bath coherence by deriving the reduced hierarchal equations of motion (HEOM), not only in real time, but also in imaginary time, which represents an inverse temperature. It is shown that the HEOM in real time obtained when we include the system-bath coherence of the initial thermal equilibrium state possess the same form as those obtained from a factorized initial state. We find that the difference in behavior of systems treated in these two manners results from the difference in initial conditions of the HEOM elements, which are defined in path integral form. We also derive HEOM along the imaginary time path to obtain the thermal equilibrium state of a system strongly coupled to a non-Markovian bath. Then, we show that the steady state hierarchy elements calculated from the real-time HEOM can be expressed in terms of the hierarchy elements calculated from the imaginary-time HEOM. Moreover, we find that the imaginary-time HEOM allow us to evaluate a number of thermodynamic variables, including the free energy, entropy, internal energy, heat capacity, and susceptibility. The expectation values of the system energy and system-bath interaction energy in the thermal equilibrium state are also evaluated.
description: J. Chem. Phys. Accepted
Assessing two Theoretical Frameworks of Civic Engagement
Creators: name: García-Cabrero, Benilde
name: Pérez-Martínez, María Guadalupe
name: Sandoval-Hernández, Andrés
name: Caso-Niebla, Joaquín
name: Díaz, Carlos
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study was to empirically test two major theoretical models: a modified version of the social capital model (Pattie, Seyd and Whiteley, 2003), and the Informed Social Engagement Model (Barr and Selman, 2014; Selman and Kwok, 2010), to explain civic participation and civic knowledge of adolescents from Chile, Colombia and Mexico, using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2009 (Schulz, et al., 2010). The models were used to identify factors associated with different levels of knowledge and civic participation: expected participation in legal and illegal protests, and electoral participation. Data were analyzed using regression analysis. Results show that the Informed Social Engagement approach (ISEM), explains better the observed differences in civic knowledge and civic participation, than the Social Capital Model (SCM). That is, the expected values associated with the variables included in the ISEM are closer to the observed values, than those predicted by the SCM. This is true for the three outcomes (expected participation in legal protests, illegal protests, and electoral participation) and in the three countries analyzed (Chile, Colombia and Mexico).
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
QARAQALPAQSTAN RESPUBLIKASI JERGILIKLI ATQARIWSHI HÁKIMIYAT UYIMLARI ISKERLIGINIŃ HUQIQIY TIYKARLARIN JETILISTIRIW
Creators: name: Amaniyazova, Dilafruza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqalada búgingi kúnde mámleketimizde jergilikli atqarıwshı hákimiyat uyımları iskerliginiń huqıqıy tiykarları úyrenip shıǵılǵan sonday-aq, jergilikli atqarıwshı hákimiyat uyımları iskerligin jetilistiriw boyınsha alıp barılıp atırǵan reformalar analiz qılınǵan. Аtap aytqanda, jergilikli wákillikli hám jergilikli atqarıwshı hákimiyat uyımları wákilliklerin ajıratıw, olardıń huqıqıy statusın jetilistiriw boyınsha pikir hám usınıslar berilgen.
CTC Meeting 2020
Creators: name: Walkowiak, Radoslaw
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69902 Global Change Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: 50205 Environmental Management
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 50206 Environmental Monitoring
subject: 40312 Structural Geology
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services

description: Andrej Paška, Radosław Walkowiak, Peter Danko, Marek Nowicki; Nature education, challenges and prospects for tutors. CTC Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020
Zombie Vortex Instability I: A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks
Creators: name: Marcus, Philip
name: Pei, Suyang
name: Jiang, Chung-Hsiang
name: Barranco, Joseph
name: Hassanzadeh, Pedram
name: Lecoanet, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is considerable interest in hydrodynamic instabilities in dead zones of protoplanetary disks as a mechanism for driving angular momentum transport and as a source of particle-trapping vortices to mix chondrules and incubate planetesimal formation. We present simulations with a pseudo-spectral anelastic code and with the compressible code Athena, showing that stably stratified flows in a shearing, rotating box are violently unstable and produce space-filling, sustained turbulence dominated by large vortices with Rossby numbers of order 0.2-0.3. This Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) is observed in both codes and is triggered by Kolmogorov turbulence with Mach numbers less than 0.01. It is a common view that if a given constant density flow is stable, then stable vertical stratification should make the flow even more stable. Yet, we show that sufficient vertical stratification can be unstable to ZVI. ZVI is robust and requires no special tuning of boundary conditions, or initial radial entropy or vortensity gradients (though we have studied ZVI only in the limit of infinite cooling time). The resolution of this paradox is that stable stratification allows for a new avenue to instability: baroclinic critical layers. ZVI has not been seen in previous studies of flows in rotating, shearing boxes because those calculations frequently lacked vertical density stratification and/or sufficient numerical resolution. Although we do not expect appreciable angular momentum transport from ZVI in the small domains in this study, we hypothesize that ZVI in larger domains with compressible equations may lead to angular transport via spiral density waves.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 34 pages. Movies of simulations can be found at www.physics.sfsu.edu/~barranco/zombie.html . (This is a replacement. The original version was 36 pages and had a different title: "Zombie Vortex Instability I: The "Dead" Zones of Protoplanetary Disks are Not Dead." This version incorporates feedback from reviewer.)
Defining the Key Competences and Skills for Young Low Achievers’ in Lifelong Learning by the Voices of Students, Trainers and Teachers
Creators: name: Pinto, Marta
name: Caramelo, João
name: Coimbra, Susana
name: Terrasêca, Manuela
name: Agrusti, Gabriella
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Europe has stressed the importance of lifelong learning as a way for its citizens to enrol and to engage fully in day-to-day demands of work and citizenship life events. Support is more urgent for those who are at risk of social and educational exclusion. This paper presents an overview on the goals of the European project LIBE “Supporting Lifelong learning with Inquiry-Based Education”, that aims at designing, developing and trying out an innovative e-learning management system devoted to develop key information processing skills for ICT with an inquiry-based approach to learning, focused on the young adult population (16-24) that have low levels of competences regarding literacy, numeracy and ICT skills. Additionally, it presents the results of a content analysis of focus groups sessions, carried out with Portuguese teachers, trainers and students, aiming to identify the key competences and skills most needed by young low achievers. The Portuguese results integrate the alignment of the proposal of the LIBE framework for the learning outcomes, instructional objectives and ICT key information processing competencies. Results highlight literacy skills and social competence as the most relevant for the target audience, adding ICT competences as very important in developing literacy skills and self-efficacy. Pedagogical support is considered a significant part of the students’ successful learning, both in face-to-face or e-learning environments.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2016 Digital Tools and Social Science Education
Bound states of three fermions forming symmetry-protected topological phases
Creators: name: Wang, Chong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple theoretical construction of certain short-range entangled phases of interacting fermions, by putting the bound states of three fermions (which we refer to as clustons) into topological bands. We give examples in two and three dimensions, and show that they are distinct from any free fermion state. We further argue that these states can be viewed as combinations of certain free fermion topological states and bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) states. This provides a conceptually simple understanding of various SPT phases, and the possibility of realizing them in cold atom systems. New parton constructions of these SPT phases in purely bosonic systems are proposed. We also discuss a related anomaly in two dimensional Dirac theories, which is the gravitational analogue of the parity anomaly.
description: 4+4 pages, 3 figures
Deliverable 4.4 Community-based observations from two focal communities
Creators: name: Danielsen, Finn
name: Poulsen, Michael K.
name: Enghoff, Martin
name: Iversen, Lisbeth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Community Based Monitoring Programs
INTAROS
Arctic
Observing Systems
Disko Bay
Svalbard
Data Collection

description: Community-based and citizen science observations in the Arctic do not only have the potential to inform management decisions at local or provincial and national levels. The observations can also shed light on changes in the environment on a national and even international scale. This will, however, often require that the community-based and citizen science observations are connected with scientist-based datasets. This document contains the description of a model for connecting community-based and citizen science knowledge systems with scientist-based knowledge systems, and of the effort done in INTAROS to make selected Arctic community-based and citizen science data collections connected with the INTAROS data catalogue.
 The model for connecting community-based and citizen science knowledge systems with scientist-based knowledge systems is based on collaborative work with multiple partners, led by Dr Maria Tengö, Stockholm Resilience Centre. The model is primarily for use in situations where management decisions about a specific area or specific natural resources require establishment of a knowledge base. The model depicts graphically the notion of ‘science and other knowledge’ being worked together to build a more comprehensive knowledge base than could be achieved by any one knowledge system alone (Tengö et al. 2014, 2017, and in review). This “Multiple Evidence Base” model positions Indigenous and Local (ILK) and scientific knowledge systems as different manifestations of valid and useful knowledge that generates complementary evidence for sustainable use of land and resources. We demonstrate the use of the model on the case of coastal fisheries management in Disko Bay, Greenland.
 The model cannot directly be used for connecting data collections from community-based, citizen science and scientific knowledge systems, but it provides a good background for later applying specific examples of cross-weaving of knowledge. The INTAROS has established a data catalogue (https://catalog-intaros.nersc.no/). The data catalogue comprises brief descriptions of the data collections (meta-data) and links to each dataset. In less than two years, the data catalogue has become an internationally recognized data catalogue for the Arctic environment. As of November 2020, this data catalogue comprises more than 100 data collections. We entered meta-data on a total of 15 Arctic community-based monitoring and citizen science data collections into the data catalogue. Seven of the data collections comprised data from Disko Bay and five from Svalbard. In this report, we describe each of the data collections, the tags and the parameter names used, the links to the datasets, and the potential uses of the data.
Three stage decoherence dynamics of electron spin qubits in an optically active quantum dot
Creators: name: Bechtold, A.
name: Rauch, D.
name: Li, F.
name: Simmet, T.
name: Ardelt, P. -L.
name: Regler, A.
name: Müller, K.
name: Sinitsyn, N. A.
name: Finley, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The control of discrete quantum states in solids and their use for quantum information processing is complicated by the lack of a detailed understanding of the mechanisms responsible for qubit decoherences. For spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, phenomenological models of decoherence currently recognize two Basic stages; fast ensemble dephasing due to the coherent precession of spin qubits around nearly static but randomly distributed hyperfine fields and a much slower process of irreversible relaxation of spin qubit polarization due to dynamics of the nuclear spin bath induced by complex many-body interaction effects. We unambiguosly demonstrate that such a view on decoherence is greatly oversimplified; the relaxation of a spin qubit state is determined by three rather than two basic stages. The additional stage corresponds to the effect of coherent dephasing processes that occur in the nuclear spin bath that manifests itself by a relatively fast but incomplete non-monotonous relaxation of the central spin polarization at intermediate timescales. This observation changes our understanding of the electron spin qubit decoherence mechanisms in solid state systems.
Coarse-grained cosmological perturbation theory: stirring up the dust model
Creators: name: Uhlemann, Cora
name: Kopp, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of coarse-graining the dynamics of a pressureless selfgravitating fluid (coarse-grained dust) in the context of cosmological perturbation theory, both in the Eulerian und Lagrangian framework. We obtain recursion relations for the Eulerian perturbation kernels of the coarse-grained dust model by relating them to those of the standard pressureless fluid model. The effect of the coarse-graining is illustrated by means of power and cross spectra for density and velocity that are computed up to 1-loop order. In particular, the large scale vorticity power spectrum that arises naturally from a mass-weighted velocity is derived from first principles. We find qualitatively good agreement of the magnitude, shape and spectral index of the vorticity power spectrum with recent measurements from N-body simulations and results from the effective field theory of large scale structure. To lay the ground for applications in the context of Lagrangian perturbation theory we finally describe how the kernels obtained in Eulerian space can be mapped to Lagrangian ones.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
title: Die Entstehung des sowjetischen Shoah-Zeugnisses Черная книга von Vasilij Grossman und Il’ja Ėrenburg
Creators: name: Parzer, Rosmarie
Year: 2022

description: Das Schwarzbuch / Черная книга stellt ein Shoah-Zeugnis anhand einer Sammlung an Dokumentationen über die Verbrechen der Nationalsozialisten gegen die sowjetische jüdische Bevölkerung dar. Die Arbeit hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, die gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Voraussetzungen für das Zustandekommen des Schwarzbuches / Черная книга durch die bedeutenden Repräsentanten der sowjetischen Literatur und Kultur jüdischer Abstammung zu untersuchen. Der erste Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem historischen Hintergrund sowie den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Begebenheiten. Im zweiten Teil wird sodann auf die Institution, welche hinter dem Projekt des des Schwarzbuches / Черная книга stand, näher eingegangen. Im dritten und letzten Teil werden die Entstehung sowie der Inhalt des Zeungisses anaylsiert und die Ergebnisse in Bezug auf die Forschungsfrage interpretiert.
The Beutelsbach Consensus
Creators: name: Reinhardt, Sibylle
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: In 2016 there is an important anniversary coming up: The Beutelsbach consensus will have its 40th birthday. This consensus is of vital significance for the German dispute and discussion on teaching civics. Therefore we want to comment on how it was generated and how big its importance still is.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
Report on the Present Trainer Training Course of the Pestalozzi Programme (Council of Europe) “Evaluation of Transversal Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge” (Module A)
Creators: name: Gebauer, Bernt
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

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description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
Two Perspectives on the Book: Reinhardt, Sibylle. 2015. Teaching Civics. A Manual for Secondary Education Teachers, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Publishers
Creators: name: Lalor, John
name: Christensen, Anders Stig
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
Non-resonant Higgs pair production in the $b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ final state at the LHC
Creators: name: Wardrope, David
name: Jansen, Eric
name: Konstantinidis, Nikos
name: Cooper, Ben
name: Falla, Rebecca
name: Norjoharuddeen, Nurfikri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a particle-level study of the Standard Model non-resonant Higgs-pair production process in the $b\bar{b}b\bar{b}$ final state, at the Large Hadron Collider at $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. Each Higgs boson is reconstructed from a pair of close-by jets formed with the anti-$k_t$ jet clustering algorithm, with radius parameter $R=0.4$. Given the kinematic properties of the produced Higgs bosons, this Higgs reconstruction approach appears to be more suitable than the use of large-radius jets that was previously proposed in the literature. We find that the sensitivity for observing this final state can be improved significantly when the full set of uncorrelated angular and kinematic variables of the $4b$ system is exploited, leading to a statistical significance of 1.8 per experiment with an integrated luminosity of 3 ab$^{-1}$.
description: 7 pages
Distinct trivial phases protected by a point-group symmetry in quantum spin chains
Creators: name: Fuji, Yohei
name: Pollmann, Frank
name: Oshikawa, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state of the $S=1$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain belongs to the Haldane phase -- a well known example of symmetry-protected topological phase. A staggered field applied to the $S=1$ antiferromagnetic chain breaks all the symmetries that protect the Haldane phase as a topological phase, reducing it to a trivial phase. That is, the Haldane phase is then connected adiabatically to an antiferromagnetic product state. Nevertheless, as long as the symmetry under site-centered inversion combined with a spin rotation is preserved, the phase is still distinct from another trivial phase. We demonstrate the existence of such distinct symmetry-protected trivial phases using a field-theoretical approach and numerical calculations. Furthermore, a general proof and a non-local order parameter are given in terms of an matrix-product state formulation.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, with 3 pages supplemental material
“...not simply say that they are all Nazis.” Controversy in Discussions of Current Topics in German Civics Classes
Creators: name: Jahr, David
name: Hempel, Christopher
name: Heinz, Marcus
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Studies have shown that the Requirement of Controversy defined in the German Beutelsbach Consensus is repeatedly violated in the practice of teaching Civic Education. However, little is known about the impact that different teaching settings have on the quality of controversy in the classroom. In this article, two scenes of classroom discussions that deal with current topics are analysed and compared by using reconstructive research methods: the ‘Numbers of the Day’ [Zahlen des Tages] as a teacher-centred classroom discussion and the ‘Weekly Newsreel’ [Wochenschau] as a student-led classroom discussion. We could reconstruct an active prevention of controversy in the ‘Numbers of the Day’. In contrary, the discussion in the ‘Weekly Newsreel’ is developing in a modus of disagreement. By analysing the discussion with the documentary method, we show that this controversy is based on homogeneous (and so non-controversial) shared orientations among the students. This leads to the result that the foreground of a discussion should be distinguished from its background of milieu-based orientations. This outcome raises new questions regarding controversy in Civic Education classrooms. Empirische Studien haben gezeigt, dass es im Politikunterricht regelmäßig zu Verletzungen des im Beutelsbacher Konsens verankerten Kontroversitätsgebots kommt. Wenig ist hingegen darüber bekannt, wie sich bestimmte didaktisch-methodische Settings auf Ausmaß und Formen der Kontroversität im Unterricht auswirken. Im vorliegenden Artikel werden zwei solcher Settings, in denen aktuelle gesellschaftliche Themen verhandelt werden (die ‚Zahlen des Tages‘ als lehrerzentrierte Klassendiskussion und die ‚Wochenschau‘ als schülergeleitete Klassen-diskussion), hinsichtlich ihrer Auswirkung auf Kontroversität im Klassenzimmer qualitativ analysiert. Rekonstruiert werden konnte einerseits ein weitgehendes Verhindern von Kontroversität bei den ‚Zahlen des Tages‘. In der ‚Wochenschau‘ hingegen entfaltet sich durchaus eine Kontroversität im Klassenzimmer. Mit Hilfe der Dokumentarischen Methode kann dabei aber gezeigt werden, dass auf der Ebene des impliziten Wissens mehrere, teilweise problematische geteilte Orientierungen in der untersuchten Klasse vorliegen. Dies führt zur Feststellung, dass man Lerngruppen hinsichtlich ihrer Kontroversität auf zwei Ebenen unterschieden muss: auf einer schneller kontrovers erscheinenden, vordergründigen Ebene und einer tieferliegenden Ebene des milieu-basierten Hintergrunds kollektiver Orientierungen. Diese Diagnose stellt neue Fragen bezüglich Kontroversität im Politikunterricht
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
title: Bankiers, Schweizer, Handschuhmacher
Creators: name: Potyka, Leopold
Year: 2022

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit behandelt die Geschichte der Reformierten Kirche in Wien (evangelisch H. B.) im 19. Jahrhundert. Dafür wurden zwei verschiedene Zugänge gewählt: In einem ersten Teil, der auf der vorhandenen Literatur basiert, wird die Geschichte der Reformierten in Wien, ausgehend von Ulrich Zwinglis Studienaufenthalt über die vereinzelten Reformierten späterer Zeiten, der Holländischen Gesandtschaftskapelle, bis zur Gründung einer eigenen Gemeinde nach dem Toleranzpatent Kaiser Josephs II. dargestellt. Die Gründungszeit ist dabei umfassend nachvollzogen; neben grundsätzlichen rechtlichen Aspekten sind die Finanzierung, der Bau eines eigenen Bethauses und die Geschichte des Baugrundes und der Ausstattung des neu errichteten Raumes, die Schaffung reformierter kirchlicher Strukturen im Habsburgerreich, die innere Organisation der neuen Gemeinde und das gottesdienstliche Leben Gegenstand der Darstellung. An diesen Abschnitt, der die geschichtliche Grundlage darstellt, schließt sich ein methodisch differierender Zugang an. Über das Auslesen von Matrikeln, Tauf- und Sterbebücher, wird die soziale Zusammensetzung der reformierten Gemeinde dargestellt. Anhand der Befragung der Kirchenbücher einzelner ausgewählter Jahre auf verschiedene Informationen wie Wohnorte, Berufe oder Herkunft, erfolgt eine Darstellung der sozialen Gestalt der Gemeinde in den jeweiligen Jahren es 19. Jahrhunderts, sowie der Nachvollzug von Veränderungen in diesen Kategorien. Die Arbeit zeigte eine anhand der Matrikeln eine deutlich erkennbare Entwicklung in praktisch allen ausgelesenen Bereichen. Diese stellte sich in der Regel als Diversifizierung einer ursprünglich in Hinblick auf die Herkunft, die Wohnorte, die Berufe und das Heiratsverhalten sehr homogenen Gemeinde, hin zu einer größeren Vielfalt in all diesen Aspekten dar. Gleichzeitig zeigt sich in den Kirchenbüchern auch das bewahrte distinkte Profil der Wiener reformierten Gemeinde, der von ihrer Gründung bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts durchgehend zahlreiche namhafte und bedeutende Personen angehörten, unter denen besonders die Bankiersfamilien und Fabrikanten hervorstechen.
Effect of traumatic upper-limb injury on cognitive functions: A cross-sectional observational study
Creators: name: Zhang, Xue
name: Tse, Tamara
name: Chen, SZ
name: Qiu, KY
name: Li, Xia
name: Zoghi, Maryam
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420106
subject: Physiotherapy
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Objectives: There is growing evidence of cognitive impairment after traumatic peripheral lesions. The purpose of this study was to explore the association between cognitive function and traumatic upper-limb injury. We assessed difference in cognitive function between participants with and without upper-limb injury, and explored the association between cognitive function and certain variables in injured individuals: gender, age, body mass index (BMI), educational level, and occupation. We sought to identify the factors associated with cognitive function in injured subjects: time since injury, injury side, nerve injury, hand function, pain, and finger sensation. Material and methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted, with 2 groups: observational group (with traumatic upper-limb injury) and control group (uninjured). The 2 groups were matched for age, gender, BMI, educational level and occupation. Short-term memory and executive functions were assessed using the Rey Auditory and Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT), respectively. Results: 104 participants with traumatic upper-limb injury and 104 uninjured control subjects were included. There was a significant inter-group difference only in RAVLT (p < 0.01; Cohen d, of 0.38). Regression analysis demonstrated an association of pain on VAS (beta = −0.16, p < 0.01) and touch-test (beta = 1.09, p < 0.05) with total RAVLT score (short-term memory) in injured subjects (R2 = 0.19, F (2, 82) = 9.54, p < 0.001). Conclusion: Traumatic upper-limb injury can impact short-term memory, which should be kept in mind during rehabilitation.
The Assouad dimension of randomly generated fractals
Creators: name: Fraser, Jonathan M.
name: Miao, Jun Jie
name: Troscheit, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80, 60J80, 37C45, 54E52, 82B43

description: We consider several different models for generating random fractals including random self-similar sets, random self-affine carpets, and fractal percolation. In each setting we compute either the \emph{almost sure} or the \emph{Baire typical} Assouad dimension and consider some illustrative examples. Our results reveal a common phenomenon in all of our models: the Assouad dimension of a randomly generated fractal is generically as big as possible and does not depend on the measure theoretic or topological structure of the sample space. This is in stark contrast to the other commonly studied notions of dimension like the Hausdorff or packing dimension.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures, v3 corrected error in the proof of Theorem 3.2 and sharpened results on exceptional sets
Real-World Engagement with Controversial Issues in History and Social Studies: Teaching for Transformative Experiences and Conceptual Change
Creators: name: Alongi, Marc D
name: Heddy, Benjamin C
name: Sinatra, Gale M
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Controversial issues have been established within the larger framework of civic education as an effective pedagogical approach to developing critical thinking in the classroom, preparing students with intellectual habits necessary for participation in scholarship, civic life and democracy. In this study, we found that a pedagogical intervention, Teaching for Transformative Experience in History, in some cases led to significantly higher engagement with political concepts beyond the classroom, and in other cases, the intervention led to significantly improved conceptual change. The study addresses some of the challenges presented by the research on civic education, providing a potential framework for developing pedagogical practice in history and social studies education that grounds a participatory, meaning-making process in curriculum design and assessment framed by controversial issues.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
Argument, Counterargument, and Integration? Patterns of Argument Reappraisal in Controversial Classroom Discussions
Creators: name: Gronostay, Dorothee
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: Being challenged by opposing views in a controversial discussion can stimulate the production of more elaborate and sophisticated argumentations. According to the model of argument reappraisal (Leitão, 2000), such processes require transactivity, meaning that students do not only give reasons to support their own position (e.g., pro/contra argument) but also try to refute the opponent’s claims (e.g., counterargument) and respond to critique (e.g., integration). However, there is little research in the field of political education that systematically examines how processes of argument reappraisal unfold in student-centered classroom discussions when students were asked to defend (randomly) assigned positions (pro/contra). In this study, four civic education classes (8th/9th grade) in Germany received the same standardized political learning unit and conducted a controversial fishbowl discussion. A total of 452 argumentative moves were coded for argumentative transactivity. The characteristics of this type of discourse will be described regarding the use of argumentative moves and the complexity of argumentations. Explorative sequential analyses revealed five patterns of argument reappraisal that will be illustrated by transcript excerpts.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
Light-Front Holographic QCD and Emerging Confinement
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: de Teramond, Guy F.
name: Dosch, Hans Gunter
name: Erlich, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this report we explore the remarkable connections between light-front dynamics, its holographic mapping to gravity in a higher-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, and conformal quantum mechanics. This approach provides new insights into the origin of a fundamental mass scale and the physics underlying confinement dynamics in QCD in the limit of massless quarks. The result is a relativistic light-front wave equation for arbitrary spin with an effective confinement potential derived from a conformal action and its embedding in AdS space. This equation allows for the computation of essential features of hadron spectra in terms of a single scale. The light-front holographic methods described here gives a precise interpretation of holographic variables and quantities in AdS in terms of light-front variables and quantum numbers. This leads to a relation between the AdS wave functions and the boost-invariant light-front wave functions describing the internal structure of hadronic bound states in physical space-time. The pion is massless in the chiral limit and the excitation spectra of relativistic light-quark meson and baryon bound states lie on linear Regge trajectories with identical slopes in the radial and orbital quantum numbers. In the light-front holographic approach described here currents are expressed as an infinite sum of poles, and form factors as a product of poles. At large $q^2$ the form factor incorporates the correct power-law fall-off for hard scattering independent of the specific dynamics and is dictated by the twist. At low $q^2$ the form factor leads to vector dominance. The approach is also extended to include small quark masses. We briefly review in this report other holographic approaches to QCD, in particular top-down and bottom-up models based on chiral symmetry breaking. We also include a discussion of open problems and future applications.
description: Invited review article to appear in Physics Reports: 239 pages, 17 figures. Added: new appendix, figure and references. Also included addendum with new developments
Inter-band Coulomb coupling in narrow gap semiconductor nanocrystals: $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theory
Creators: name: Azizi, Maryam
name: Machnikowski, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the matrix elements of Coulomb interaction between states with different number of electrons and holes in a semiconductor nanocrystal within the 8-band $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theory. These matrix elements are responsible for multiple exciton generation which may contribute to the enhancement of the efficiency of solar cells. Our calculations are performed within the multi band envelope function formalism based on the states resulting from diagonalization of the 8-band $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ Hamiltonian. We study in detail and compare two contributions to the inter-band Coulomb coupling: the mesoscopic one, which involves only the envelope functions and relies on band mixing, and the microscopic one, that relies on the Bloch parts of the wave functions and is non-zero even between single- band states. We show that these two contributions are of a similar order of magnitude. We study also the statistical distribution of the magnitudes of the inter-band Coulomb matrix elements and show that the overall coupling to remote states decays according to a power law favorable for the convergence of numerical computations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; minor corrections with respect to v2
Deliverable 4.2 Library with tools for cross-fertilizing knowledge
Creators: name: Poulsen, Michael K.
name: Danielsen, Finn
name: Ashthorne, Heather
name: Fidel, Maryann
name: Guy, Lisa Sheffield
name: Lee, Olivia
name: Mulder, Christa
name: Mutter, Edda
name: Spellman, Katie
name: Johnson, Noor
name: Pulsifer, Peter L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community Based Monitoring Programs
INTAROS
Arctic
Observing Systems
Indigenous Knowledge

description: Community based environment monitoring has considerable potential for improving the understanding of environmental changes as well as for improving the management of natural resources. Together with the organizers of six community based environment monitoring programs, the INTAROS project has developed a library of ‘good practice’ manuals in community based monitoring that could serve as tools for cross-fertilizing indigenous and local knowledge with scientific knowledge in the Arctic. This Community Based Monitoring Library is available at a website. The library is intended to enable community members and organizers of community based monitoring programs to access one another’s experience and gain advice on how to collect and use data. In the library, each manual is accompanied by a summary describing what worked, what didn’t work and why, written by the organizers of the community based monitoring program. The manuals in the library have been selected on the basis of the following criteria:
 • They have already been pilot tested on-the-ground in community-based monitoring programs in the Arctic,
 • They have in the view of the program organizers led to salient, credible, and legitimate knowledge products and are used by decision-makers,
 • They could contribute to both local and global repositories,
 • They are of a sufficient generic nature so they may be used in other communities and areas of the Arctic. It is proposed that over time there will be secondary copies of the library of community based monitoring programs in the Arctic at (or links from) the web-sites of the Atlas of Community Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in the Arctic (www.arcticcbm.org), and the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (www.arcticobserving.org).
VI-RADS, nuestra pequeña experiencia
Creators: name: López-Abad, Alicia
name: Cao-Avellaneda, Enrique
name: López-Cubillana, Pedro
name: Alonso-Ruiz, Jose
name: Franco-Reverte, Juan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: En esta revisión exponemos la experiencia de nuestro centro con VI-RADs, los resultados obtenidos y las expectativas según lo conocido y la evidencia científica.
Relaxation dynamics of the Lieb-Liniger gas following an interaction quench: A coordinate Bethe-ansatz analysis
Creators: name: Zill, Jan C.
name: Wright, Tod M.
name: Kheruntsyan, Karen V.
name: Gasenzer, Thomas
name: Davis, Matthew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relaxation dynamics of the integrable Lieb-Liniger model of contact-interacting bosons in one dimension following a sudden quench of the collisional interaction strength. The system is initially prepared in its noninteracting ground state and the interaction strength is then abruptly switched to a positive value, corresponding to repulsive interactions between the bosons. We calculate equal-time correlation functions of the nonequilibrium Bose field for small systems of up to five particles via symbolic evaluation of coordinate Bethe-ansatz expressions for operator matrix elements between Lieb-Liniger eigenstates. We characterize the relaxation of the system by comparing the time-evolving correlation functions following the quench to the equilibrium correlations predicted by the diagonal ensemble and relate the behavior of these correlations to that of the quantum fidelity between the many-body wave function and the initial state of the system. Our results for the asymptotic scaling of local second-order correlations with increasing interaction strength agree with the predictions of recent generalized thermodynamic Bethe-ansatz calculations. By contrast, third-order correlations obtained within our approach exhibit a markedly different power-law dependence on the interaction strength as the Tonks-Girardeau limit of infinitely strong interactions is approached.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures. v3: Final version. Typos fixed, and other minor changes
Turkish Social Studies Teachers’ Thoughts About the Teaching of Controversial Issues
Creators: name: Copur, Ahmet
name: Demirel, Muammer
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2016

description: In today’s world, one of the primary goals of education is to raise individuals as citizens equipped with the skills of communication, high-level thinking, problem solving and questioning as well as with a global viewpoint. Introducing controversial issues into the classroom environment may be among the steps to be taken to achieve these goals. In this context, this study has the primary goal of revealing Social Studies teachers’ thoughts about the teaching of controversial issues in the classroom environment. This study adopted mixed methods. The study participants consisted of Social Studies teachers working in Bursa, which is a large-scale province of Turkey, in the 2014-2015 school year. According to the study findings, while terror was the most controversial issue, faith in creation was the least controversial issue. In addition, teachers mainly preferred to introduce issues related to the Social Studies curriculum and that were appropriate for the students’ preparedness. However, another result is that controversial issues contributed to students’ acquisition of personal critical skills such as high-level thinking and communication. It was also observed that the teaching of controversial issues was related to the Social Studies lesson and was important for the achievement of the goals of the lesson.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2016 Controversial Issues in the Political Classroom
title: Erhebung der bestehenden Green Economy in Niederösterreich und der damit verbundenen Maßnahmen für eine nachhaltigere Gesellschaft und Wirtschaf
Creators: name: Halbmayr, Marco
Year: 2022

description: In der folgenden Arbeit werden der Klima- und Energiefahrplan 2030, das Klima- und Energieprogramm 2021-2025 und die bestehende Green Economy in Niederösterreich thematisiert. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden weltweit immer wieder neue Vereinbarungen getroffen, um gegen den Klimawandel vorzugehen und die Umwelt zu schonen. In Niederösterreich wird aktiv in verschiedenen Teilbereichen der Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik daran gearbeitet, eine nachhaltigere Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft für die Zukunft zu gestalten. Die ausgegeben Ziele von Niederösterreich können erreicht werden, wenn die Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen werden. Es sind vor allem gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen und Maßnahmen die von Seiten der Politik geändert oder angepasst werden müssen, die die Bevölkerung und Unternehmen in die gewünschte Richtung lenken. Zudem muss auch das Bewusstsein in sämtlichen Lebensbereich geschaffen werden, um die Nachhaltigkeit über Jahre hinweg weiter zu entwickeln. Damit kann eine nachhaltigere Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft entstehen und die ausgegebenen Ziele erreicht werden.
description: In the following dissertation the Klima- und Energiefahrplan 2030, Klima- und Energieprogramm 2021-2025 and the consisting Green Economy in Lower Austria will be discussed. In the last couple centuries worldwide agreements have been made to take action on climate change and to protect the environment. In Lower Austria different subdivisions of economy, society, and politics have been working on a sustainable solution for the future in society and economy. Lower Austria's aims can be achieved if the necessary requirements are made. In particular, it is necessary that politics adjust legal conditions and actions to lead population and businesses in the right direction. Additionally, awareness in all areas of life have to be made to develop sustainability to evolve a more sustainable society and economy and that the issued goals can be reached.