cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Moving between the boundaries of physical and digital contexts: a case study about a shared project by a group of children
Creators: name: Di Rocco, Eloisa
name: Coe, Jennifer
name: Selleri, Federica
name: Cavalieri, Simona
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: Children are immersed in a world that is characterized by the continuous interplay of physical and digital dimensions, material objects and virtual realities. This article is centered on an experience with a group of 9-11 year old children where they worked on a shared project that they created together from the beginning, based on the constant flow of ideas and cooperation between individuals, small groups and the larger group, in dialogue with time, between real and virtual dimensions. The role of the adult as an attentive, participatory observer, resource and co-researcher with the children created an inclusive, child-centered atmosphere which kept the children’s relationships and collaboration with each other at the heart of the experience. The digital realm was a resource and a material that enhanced the children’s play, their ideas and allowed them to give shape to their project by broadening their range of action and the expressive possibilities. Using digital materials and tools and the effects they produced created a playful, immersive and narrative setting which inspired the children to interact with, play with, study, design and modify a hybrid reality which was both physical and digital at the same time.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
When do cosmic peaks, filaments or walls merge? A theory of critical events in a multi-scale landscape
Creators: name: Cadiou, Corentin
name: Pichon, Christophe
name: Codis, Sandrine
name: Musso, Marcello
name: Pogosyan, Dmitri
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Cardoso, Jean-François
name: Prunet, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The merging rate of cosmic structures is computed, relying on the Ansatz that they can be predicted in the initial linear density field from the coalescence of critical points with increasing smoothing scale, used here as a proxy for cosmic time. Beyond the mergers of peaks with saddle points (a proxy for halo mergers), we consider the coalescence and nucleation of all sets of critical points, including wall-saddle to filament-saddle and wall-saddle to minima (a proxy for filament and void mergers respectively), as they impact the geometry of galactic infall, and in particular filament disconnection. Analytical predictions of the one-point statistics are validated against multiscale measurements in 2D and 3D realisations of Gaussian random fields (the corresponding code being available upon request) and compared qualitatively to cosmological $N$-body simulations at early times ($z\geq 10$) and large scales ($\geq 5\, \mathrm{Mpc}/h$). The rate of filament coalescence is compared to the merger rate of haloes and the two-point clustering of these events is computed, along with their cross-correlations with critical points. These correlations are qualitatively consistent with the preservation of the connectivity of dark matter haloes, and the impact of the large scale structures on assembly bias. The destruction rate of haloes and voids as a function of mass and redshift is quantified down to $z=0$ for a $Λ$CDM cosmology. The one-point statistics in higher dimensions are also presented, together with consistency relations between critical point and critical event counts.
description: 22 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Students’ perception of e-Learning during the Covid Pandemic: a fresh evidence from United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Creators: name: Ahmed, Gouher
name: Abudaqa, Anas
name: Hilmi, Mohd Faiz
name: AlMujaini, Hasan
name: Alzahmi, Rashed A.
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: To examine the role of online learning on student’s perceptions during the recent pandemic from the 364 participating respondents’ parents and students from (Grade 1 to 12). The respondents’ data were analyzed through structural equation modelling (SEM) and the study confirm that 4 out of 4 of exogenous factors examined impacted learning positively, and 3 out of 4 impacted motivation positively. Besides, both study implications and limitations are also discussed under this study.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
Setting the global health agenda : The influence of advocates and ideas on political priority for maternal and newborn survival
Creators: name: Smith, Stephanie L.
name: Shiffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates a puzzle concerning global health prioritiesdwhy do comparable issues receive differential levels of attention and resources? It considers maternal and neonatal mortality, two high- burden issues that pertain to groups at risk at birth and whose lives could be saved with effective intrapartum care. Why did maternal survival gain status as a global health priority earlier and to a greater degree than newborn survival? Higher mortality and morbidity burdens among newborns and the cost- effectiveness of interventions would seem to predict that issue's earlier and higher prioritization. Yet maternal survival emerged as a priority two decades earlier and had attracted considerably more attention and resources by the close of the Millennium Development Goals era. This study uses repli- cative process-tracing case studies to examine the emergence and growth of political priority for these two issues, probing reasons for unexpected variance. The study finds that maternal survival's grounding as a social justice issue spurred growth of a strong and diverse advocacy network and aligned the issue with powerful international norms (e.g. expectations to advance women's rights and the Millennium Development Goals), drawing attention and resources to the issue over three decades. Newborn sur- vival's disadvantage stems from its long status as an issue falling under the umbrellas of maternal and child survival but not fully adopted by these networks, and with limited appeal as a public health issue advanced by a small and technically focused network; network expansion and alignment with child survival norms have improved the issue's status in the past few years.
Additional file 14 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 14: Figure S4. Dopaminergic overexpression of parkin or PINK1 does not abrogate neurotoxicity associated with PARIS phosphomutant.
Setting the global health agenda : The influence of advocates and ideas on political priority for maternal and newborn survival
Creators: name: Smith, Stephanie L.
name: Shiffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Journal of Social Science & Medicine
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study investigates a puzzle concerning global health prioritiesdwhy do comparable issues receive differential levels of attention and resources? It considers maternal and neonatal mortality, two high- burden issues that pertain to groups at risk at birth and whose lives could be saved with effective intrapartum care. Why did maternal survival gain status as a global health priority earlier and to a greater degree than newborn survival? Higher mortality and morbidity burdens among newborns and the cost- effectiveness of interventions would seem to predict that issue's earlier and higher prioritization. Yet maternal survival emerged as a priority two decades earlier and had attracted considerably more attention and resources by the close of the Millennium Development Goals era. This study uses repli- cative process-tracing case studies to examine the emergence and growth of political priority for these two issues, probing reasons for unexpected variance. The study finds that maternal survival's grounding as a social justice issue spurred growth of a strong and diverse advocacy network and aligned the issue with powerful international norms (e.g. expectations to advance women's rights and the Millennium Development Goals), drawing attention and resources to the issue over three decades. Newborn sur- vival's disadvantage stems from its long status as an issue falling under the umbrellas of maternal and child survival but not fully adopted by these networks, and with limited appeal as a public health issue advanced by a small and technically focused network; network expansion and alignment with child survival norms have improved the issue's status in the past few years.
Hadrons Above T_c
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hadronic modes in the quark-gluon plasma and their spectral properties are discussed on the basis of the lattice QCD data.
description: Invited talk at the International Conference on "QCD and Hadronic Physics", June 16-20, 2005, Beijing, China. 6 pages, 3 fugures, typeset with ws-ijma.cls
The impact of micro-irrigation on households’ welfare in the northern part of Ethiopia: an endogenous switching regression approach
Creators: name: Gebrehiwot, Kidanemariam G.
name: Makina, Daniel
name: Woldu, Thomas
name: Gebrehiwot, Kidanemariam G.
name: Makina, Daniel
name: Woldu, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: micro-irrigation
subject: household farm income
subject: household fixed asset formation

description: The paper uses an endogenous switching regression model to measure the impact of participation in micro-irrigation development on households’ welfare. The model takes into account selection bias associated with programme participation and endogeneity problems often encountered in most programme evaluations. A total of 482 households (195 irrigation users and 287 non-users) were used to generate all the necessary variables. To capture the impact of the irrigation on household welfare, two indicators were considered, namely household farm income (Y) and household fixed asset formation (F) (evaluated at market price during the survey period). The results show a positive and significant impact of irrigation use on the two outcome variables: income by 8.8 per cent and asset formation by 186 per cent as compared to non-users. This shows how important the micro-irrigation schemes are in improving the welfare of poor farmers in the research areas. Furthermore, the empirical results show that the probability of using one of the water sources (irrigation scheme) is associated with farm experience (age as proxy), farmer-to-farmer contact (the existence of an irrigation user neighbour), family size, the state of credit constraint, the number of visits by extension agents and the cost of irrigation development. As a robustness check, different models were applied and results were found consistent, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
description: https://doi.org/10.7896/j.1707
Osirinus rutilans
Creators: name: Melo, Gabriel A. R.
name: Zanella, Fernando C. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Osirinus
Osirinus rutilans

description: Osirinus rutilans (Friese)
(figure 17)
 Osiris rutilans Friese, 1930: 123. Holotype female, Brazil: Bahia (ZMHB). Shanks (1986): 3, 5, 6, 8, 15, 44–45 (in part).
 Osirinus rutilans, Roig-Alsina (1989): 17, 18, 20 (in part).
 Comments
 This species is known only from the female type specimen. We examined one of the two additional specimens that Shanks attributed with reservation to rutilans and it corresponds to Almeida’s santiagoi. The other specimen from Jataí (Goiás, Brazil) probably also belongs to santiagoi. Shanks had already mentioned that those two specimens could represent a new species.
 It is not possible to know whether rutilans came from an area covered by rain forest, cerrado or caatinga, since the original label associated with the type gives only Bahia as locality data. This species is very similar to parvicollis (see ‘Comments’ for that species).
 Material examined
Brazil, Bahia: Holotype female, ‘ Bahia. Gom. ’, ‘ Rutila N. ’, ‘654’ (plus three additional labels).
description: Published as part of Melo, Gabriel A. R. & Zanella, Fernando C. V., 2003, The species of the parasitic bee genus Osirinus (Hymenoptera, Apidae), pp. 2919-2929 in Journal of Natural History 37 (24) on page 2926, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007516, http://zenodo.org/record/4675337
Child Mediation: effective education or conflict stimulation? Adolescents’ child mediation strategies in the context of sharenting and family conflict
Creators: name: Ouvrein, Gaëlle
name: Verswijvel, Karen
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: This study increased the insights on child mediation by investigating whether and how adolescents use child mediation strategies in the context of their parents’ sharenting behavior and how this is related with family conflict. The results of a survey among adolescents confirmed their use of active, restrictive, and supervising child mediation strategies in the context of sharenting. Sharenting frequency of both mothers and fathers was associated with increased use of restrictive strategies. For mothers, it appeared that sharenting frequency directly and indirectly predicted more family conflict about sharenting via restrictive child mediation. For fathers, no significant effects were found from sharenting frequency on conflict about sharenting.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
title: Aktywizacja i usprawnianie osób niepełnosprawnych na przykładzie mieszkań treningowych w Koninie
Creators: name: Ośmielak-Stankiewicz, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 1, 93-106
Adaptive gamification framework to promote computational thinking in 8-13 year olds
Creators: name: Altaie, Mayyadah. A.
name: Norhayati. Abang Jawawi, Dayang
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: Gamification has been extensively used in educational environments and instructional practices to enhance students’ engagement and motivation through the employment of game elements. However, delivering CT to students through Gamification is a challenge. There is a lack of studies on integrating Gamification into CT especially when it comes to considering student preferences such as learning styles. Besides, according to the review, the existing adaptive framework work does not directly incorporate Gamification and CT into education. Therefore, this study proposes an adaptive gamified framework that supports adaptive features based on students dimensions (verbal, visual) using the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) to foster CT skills and enhance students’ motivation and performance through the use of a modified version of the Moodle platform that supports adaptive learning features. The proposed framework integrates an "adaptive gamification framework" with the "student-centered framework" by adopting the available gamification elements in the "student-centered framework". Additionally, it matches the results with the proposed conceptual model that investigates the relationship between gamification and CT in the field of education to provide adaptive gamification and adaptive learning features. Furthermore, the results of the work indicated that students had a positive impact on the use of gamification in learning in terms of motivation and performance, as the game elements contributed to an increase in the desire of children to retake the tests and thus improved the performance of students.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
Adoption of social robots as pedagogical aids for efficient learning of second language vocabulary to children
Creators: name: Arar, Chafik
name: Belazoui, Abdelouahab
name: Telli, Abdelmoutia
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: In this digital age embracing robotics across various areas of life, especially intellectual ones, have reaped great benefits owing to this modern technology. Therefore, the learning field has not remained unchanged given current evolutions as the schooling conditions have been improved through these smart devices. However, teachers still face some difficulties when choosing pedagogical methods and means for effective language learning for children. Thus, this paper aims to measure the effectiveness of social robots in facilitating children’s learning of a second language (L2). For this purpose, the term L2 learning and its subordinate concepts have been distinguished, and then the different methods of language learning were discussed. The latest research regarding social robots in the educational context was also discussed when reviewing the literature. An experimental study conducted on a sample of children illustrated that the use of the social robot significantly helped them in the L2 learning regarding the assimilation fast, retention, and correct pronunciation of its vocabulary. Finally, this study concludes that the social robot would be a good solution and recommends their widespread use in education given its role in improving the schooling conditions of children.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
Advancing the newborn and stillbirth global agenda : priorities for the next decade
Creators: name: Darmstadt, Gary L.
name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that for maternal mortality and for children aged 1-59 months. To accelerate progress, greater focus is needed on improving coverage, quality and equity of care at birth-particularly obstetric care during labour and childbirth, and care for small and sick newborns, which gives a triple return on investment, reducing maternal and newborn lives as well as stillbirths. Securing national-level political priority for newborn health and survival and stillbirths, and implementation of the Every Newborn Action Plan are critical to accomplishing the unfinished global agenda for newborns and stillbirths beyond 2015.
Additional file 5 of Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis- development and evaluation of the QUIPA tool
Creators: name: Pek Ling Teo
name: Hinman, Rana S.
name: Thorlene Egerton
name: Krysia S. Dziedzic
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Bennell, Kim L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 5. Characteristics of physiotherapists in the validation study.
Impact of online simulators on primary school children’s visual memory development
Creators: name: Valeeva, Roza
name: Sabirova, Elvira
name: Latypova, Liliia
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: Modern society needs thoroughly developed individuals ready to enrich material and spiritual culture of community. Therefore, the creation of favorable conditions for maximal revealing and development of learner’s abilities, growth of one’s individuality and prospects for self-realization is increasingly becoming of great importance. It is memory that plays the leading role in this process. Memory is a very complex process that includes getting, keeping and repetitive using of information. Memory lies at the heart of human abilities and it preconditions learning, acquiring of knowledge, formation of skills and abilities. Development of visual memory is one of the most actual problems considering the fact that the students at school are given a great amount of new information and not much attention is paid to the development of ability to memorize information. Organizing purposeful work on memory development is a crucial task. The basic task of memory development is the development of school children’s visual memory. It considerably helps to increase education quality to fulfill the main tasks of education. In this regard there is a need to look for effective means for visual memory development. The purpose of this study is to reveal effectiveness of online simulators in the process of primary school children’s visual memory development. In the course of the study the following methods were used: theoretical analysis of pedagogical and methodological literature; methods of checking and diagnostics (tests, observation); pedagogical experiment that helped to show effectiveness of online simulators in the development of primary school children’s visual memory.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
Advancing the newborn and stillbirth global agenda : priorities for the next decade
Creators: name: Darmstadt, Gary L.
name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Remarkable advances have been made over the past decade in defining the burden of newborn mortality and morbidity and stillbirths, and in identifying interventions to address the major risk factors and causes of deaths. However, progress in saving newborn lives and preventing stillbirths in countries lags behind that for maternal mortality and for children aged 1-59 months. To accelerate progress, greater focus is needed on improving coverage, quality and equity of care at birth-particularly obstetric care during labour and childbirth, and care for small and sick newborns, which gives a triple return on investment, reducing maternal and newborn lives as well as stillbirths. Securing national-level political priority for newborn health and survival and stillbirths, and implementation of the Every Newborn Action Plan are critical to accomplishing the unfinished global agenda for newborns and stillbirths beyond 2015.
Online learning in the Jordanian kindergartens during Covid-19 ‏pandemic
Creators: name: Abu-Rabba', Maha Yousef
name: Al-Mughrabib, Ayat Mohaamed
name: Al-Awidi, Hamed Mubarak
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: This study aims to investigate the level of utilization of online learning in kindergartens in Jordan during the covid-19 pandemic from the teachers’ point of view. The study sample consists of 225 female teachers from both public and private schools in Jordan. To collect data, a survey was developed and implemented to the study sample after obtaining its validity and reliability. The survey intended to measure three dimensions (teaching, communication, and technological competencies). The results have shown that the mean scores of the level of utilization of online learning in kindergartens during the covid-19 pandemic from a teachers’ point of view were moderate and it also showed statistical differences in the level of utilization of online learning attributed to the type of school in favor of private schools. A correlation between the number of years of expertise and both academic qualification and private education was also noticed.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
An investigation into the implementation of Pavegen tiles in the Student Union Building
Creators: name: Streifel, Ryan
name: Alyward, Steve
name: Meyer, Evan
name: Shah, Kush
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this report is to provide the details of a feasibility study regarding the installation of Pavegen tiles in the new Student Union Building at UBC. The study was conducted based on a triple bottom line analysis, considering economic, social and environmental factors of the manufacture, transport, installation, service life and disposal of the product. There is limited information available regarding the manufacturing process of the product as this is considered a trade secret, however a reasonable qualitative/comparative analysis was performed. A qualitative description of the emissions associated with transport and disposal is presented, as well as a quantitative cost analysis of the product through its service life. It is difficult to quantitatively analyze the potential social effects of the project, but by utilizing survey data collected from previous SEEDS project reports on similar topics, a justifiable projection was attained. The report concludes with a summary and analysis of the findings in the form of recommendations as to how the project should move forward. Briefly put, we have determined that the current proposal for an installation of Pavegen tiles is not desirable or in line with the goal of sustainability and increased environmental awareness held by the new SUB. Instead, we suggest an alternative implementation scheme using a smaller number of tiles in conjunction with other innovative green technologies in a space we have tentatively dubbed the "Green Corner." 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.”
Reheating After Quintessential Inflation and Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Tashiro, Hiroyuki
name: Chiba, Takeshi
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dependence of the gravitational wave spectrum from quintessential inflation on the reheating process. We consider two extreme reheating processes. One is the gravitational reheating by particle creation in the expanding universe in which the beginning of the radiation dominated epoch is delayed due to the presence of the epoch of domination of the kinetic energy of the inflaton (kination). The other is the instant preheating considered by Felder et al. in which the Universe becomes radiation dominated soon after the end of inflation. We find that the spectrum of the gravitational waves at $\sim 100$ MHz is quite sensitive to the reheating process. This result is not limited to quintessential inflation but applicable to various inflation models. Conversely, the detection or non-detection of primordial gravitational waves at $\sim$100 MHz would provide useful information regarding the reheating process in inflation.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, to be published in CQG
Improved Measurement of the Partial-Rate CP Asymmetry in B+ -> K0pi+ and B- -> K0bar pi- Decays
Creators: name: Unno, Y.
name: Suzuki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an improved measurement of the partial-rate CP asymmetry in B+ => K0pi+ and B- => K0bar pi- decays. The analysis is based on a data sample of 85 million BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+ e- storage ring. We measure Acp(K0pi+-) = 0.07^{+0.09 +0.01}_{-0.08 -0.03}, where the first and second errors are statistical and systematic, respectively; the corresponding 90% confidence-level interval is -0.10 < Acp(K0pi+-) < 0.22 .
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
International norms and the politics of sexuality education in Nigeria
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Kunnuji, Michael
name: Shawar, Yusra R.
name: Robinson, Rachel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Background Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria represents an exception. Despite social opposition, the government in 1999 unexpectedly approved sexuality education policy. Since then, implementation has advanced, although efficacy has differed across states. We draw on theory concerning international norm diffusion to understand Nigerian policy development. Results We find that a confluence of international and national norms and interests shaped policy outcomes, including concern over HIV/AIDS. A central dynamic was an alliance of domestic NGOs and international donors pressing the Nigerian government to act. Conclusions We argue that theory on international norms can be applied to understand policy dynamics across a variety of health and population areas, finding value in approaches that integrate rather than juxtapose consideration of (1) international and national influences; (2) long and short-term perspectives on policy change; and (3) norms and interests.
Electroweak baryogenesis and electron EDM in the B-LSSM
Creators: name: Yang, Jin-Lei
name: Feng, Tai-Fu
name: Zhang, Hai-Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electroweak baryogenesis (EWB) and electric dipole moment (EDM) have close relation with the new physics beyond the standard model (SM), because the SM CP-violating (CPV) interactions are not sufficient to provide the baryon asymmetry of the universe by many orders of magnitude, and the theoretical predictions for the EDM of electron ($d_e$) in the SM are too tiny to be detected in near future. In this work, we explore the CPV effects on EWB and the electron EDM in the minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM) of the SM with local $B-L$ gauge symmetry (B-LSSM). And the two-step transition via tree-effects in this model is discussed. Including two-loop corrections to $d_e$ and considering the constrains from updated experimental data, the numerical results show that the B-LSSM can account for the observed baryon asymmetry. In addition, when the cancellation between different contributions to $d_e$ takes place, the region favored by EWB can be compatible with the corresponding EDM bound.
description: 20 pages,7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.05868
Assessing students’ learning of abstract mathematical concepts in a blended learning environment enhanced with a web-based virtual laboratory
Creators: name: Aboraya, Walid
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: The purpose of this study was to assess fifth-grade students’ learning of abstract mathematical concepts in a blended learning environment enhanced with a web-based virtual laboratory. The “PhET” simulations site was taken as a web-based tool since it introduces a research-based mathematics interactive simulation. The study aimed to identify the extent of differences in academic progress between the experimental group taught about “Fractions” through a flexible blended learning pedagogical model, and the control group taught the same concepts through the conventional method. Thirty students were targeted and randomly selected from a private school in Muscat. To answer the research questions, both the control and experimental groups were pre-post tested on learning the targeted abstract mathematical concepts. The results showed that there is a clear positive effect on raising the level of achievement of students in abstract mathematical concepts in favor of the experimental group. Also, the experimental group were interviewed to gain more understanding about their perceptions regarding the method used in learning abstract mathematical concepts. Students were found to highly favor using the simulation website.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
The impact of e-Learning during COVID-19 on teaching daily living skills for children with disabilities
Creators: name: Al-Mamari, Khawla
name: Al-ZOUBI, Suhail
name: Bakkar, Bakkar
name: Al-Shorman, Abedalbasit
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: The aim of this descriptive research was to identify the impact of e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in teaching daily living skills (DLSs) for children with disabilities (CDs). The sample consisted of 84 CDs enrolled at the Arab Village Center for Special Challenges in Jordan. The DLSs scale developed to assess living skills consisted of 40 items representing three subdomains: personal skills, home activity skills, and environmental-societal skills. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the scale, in the form of a questionnaire, was hosted on Google Drive and sent to parents of CDs by WhatsApp. The results indicated that the impact of e-learning in teaching DLSs for CDs was low. Additionally, the results also indicated that there were no significant differences due to gender, age, nationality, and type of disability. Accordingly, as a result of the research, the investigator recommends activating e-learning methods in Jordanian special education institutions and conducting e-learning-based workshops for employees in these institutions.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"
Radiative transfer models of non-spherical prestellar cores
Creators: name: Stamatellos, D.
name: Whitworth, A. P.
name: Andre, P.
name: Ward-Thompson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 2D Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations of prestellar cores. We consider two types of asymmetry: disk-like asymmetry, in which the core is denser towards the equatorial plane than towards the poles; and axial asymmetry, in which the core is denser towards the south pole than the north pole. We limit our treatment to cores with mild asymmetries, which are exposed directly to the interstellar radiation field or are embedded inside molecular clouds. The isophotal maps of a core depend strongly on the viewing angle. Maps at wavelengths longer than the peak of the SED (e.g. 850 micron) essentially trace the column-density. Thus, for instance, cores with disk-like asymmetry appear elongated when mapped at 850 micron from close to the equatorial plane. However, at wavelengths near the peak of the SED (e.g. 200 micron), the emissivity is more strongly dependent on the temperature, and therefore, at particular viewing angles, there are characteristic features which reflect a more complicated convolution of the density and temperature fields within the core. These characteristic features are on scales 1/5 to 1/3 of the overall core size, and so high resolution observations are needed to observe them. They are also weaker if the core is embedded in a molecular cloud (because the range of temperature within the core is then smaller), and so high sensitivity is needed to detect them. Herschel, to be launched in 2007, will in principle provide the necessary resolution and sensitivity at 170 to 250 micron.
description: 16 pages, 22 figures, accepted by A&A, also available (with high resolution figures) at http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/pub/Dimitrios.Stamatellos/publications/
Additional file 13 of PARIS induced defects in mitochondrial biogenesis drive dopamine neuron loss under conditions of parkin or PINK1 deficiency
Creators: name: Pirooznia, Sheila K.
name: Changqing Yuan
name: Khan, Mohammed Repon
name: Senthilkumar S. Karuppagounder
name: Wang, Luan
name: Yulan Xiong
name: Kang, Sung Ung
name: Yunjong Lee
name: Valina L. Dawson
name: Dawson, Ted M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13 Figure S3. Specific expression of PARIS in Drosophila 5-HT or cholinergic neurons does not cause neuron loss and climbing defects.
The construction of community participation : village family planning groups and the Indonesian state
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Indonesia's family planning program has been one of the most effective in the developing world in promoting contraceptive use and contributing to fertility transition. In evaluating why the program has worked, analysts have given much credit to a network of village family planning groups that developed from the 1970s to the 1990s and that blanketed the archipelago. These groups, composed primarily of female volunteers, made contraception available to women in even the most remote parts of the country, and acted as agents of family planning motivation. They have been labeled by the Indonesian state family planning agency as an example of effective community participation on a national scale. In this paper, I investigate this claim and find it to be simplistic. I provide extensive evidence that the creation of this network was orchestrated by the Indonesian state. On the other hand, I show that these groups are not fully state entities, as they have several characteristics that mark them as socially embedded institutions. They are best labeled as unusual state-society hybrids. In my investigation I draw on one of the newest paradigms in the discipline of political science--the state-society approach--to uncover the odd nature of this family planning network. More deeply, I argue that the state-society approach ought to be adopted in family planning analysis on a comprehensive basis. The traditional organizational and social-demographic approaches that have dominated the field offer only limited understanding of the nature of family planning programs in developing countries. The state-society approach is ideally suited to identifying how family planning programs are institutions of a political nature, embedded in states and societies, and transformed by and transformative of each.
Heavy Pentaquarks
Creators: name: Huang, P. -Z.
name: Liu, Y. -R.
name: Deng, W. -Z.
name: Chen, X. -L.
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the spin-flavor wave functions of the possible heavy pentaquarks containing an anti-charm or anti-bottom quark using various clustered quark models. Then we estimate the masses and magnetic moments of the $J^P={1\over 2}^+$ or ${3\over 2}^+$ heavy pentaquarks. We emphasize the difference in the predictions of these models. Future experimental searches at BESIII, CLEOc, BELLE, and LEP may find these interesting states.
Additional file 4 of Patient-reported quality indicators to evaluate physiotherapy care for hip and/or knee osteoarthritis- development and evaluation of the QUIPA tool
Creators: name: Pek Ling Teo
name: Hinman, Rana S.
name: Thorlene Egerton
name: Krysia S. Dziedzic
name: Kasza, Jessica
name: Bennell, Kim L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Characteristics of participants in the validation study.
International norms and the politics of sexuality education in Nigeria
Creators: name: Shiffman, Jeremy
name: Kunnuji, Michael
name: Shawar, Yusra R.
name: Robinson, Rachel
Publisher: name: Journal of Globalization and Health
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria represents an exception. Despite social opposition, the government in 1999 unexpectedly approved sexuality education policy. Since then, implementation has advanced, although efficacy has differed across states. We draw on theory concerning international norm diffusion to understand Nigerian policy development. Results We find that a confluence of international and national norms and interests shaped policy outcomes, including concern over HIV/AIDS. A central dynamic was an alliance of domestic NGOs and international donors pressing the Nigerian government to act. Conclusions We argue that theory on international norms can be applied to understand policy dynamics across a variety of health and population areas, finding value in approaches that integrate rather than juxtapose consideration of (1) international and national influences; (2) long and short-term perspectives on policy change; and (3) norms and interests.
title: Seniorzy w przestrzeniach sztuki. Studium przypadku – Berlin. Esej ilustracyjny
Creators: name: Janowski, Maciej
name: Janowska, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2020

description: Zeszyty Naukowe Politechniki Poznańskiej. Architektura, Urbanistyka, Architektura wnętrz, 1, 107-120
Probing disk properties with open clusters
Creators: name: Bonatto, C.
name: Kerber, L. O.
name: Bica, E.
name: Santiago, B. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the open clusters (OCs) with known parameters available in the WEBDA database and in recently published papers to derive properties related to the disk structure. The sample totals 654 OCs, consisting basically of Trumpler types I to III clusters. Because of the completeness effects, the observed radial distribution of OCs with respect to Galactocentric distance does not follow the expected exponential profile. We simulate the effects of completeness assuming that the observed distribution of the number of OCs with a given number of stars above the background, measured in a restricted zone outside the Solar circle, is representative of the intrinsic distribution of OCs throughout the Galaxy. As a result we derive completeness-corrected radial distributions which agree with exponential disks throughout the observed Galactocentric distance range 5--14\,kpc, with scale lengths in the range $1.5 - 1.9\,kpc$. In particular we retrieve the expected exponential-disk radial profile for the highly depleted regions internal to the Solar circle. Extrapolation of the completeness-corrected radial distributions down to the Galactic center indicates a total number of OCs in the range $\rm(1.8 - 3.7)\times10^5$. These estimates are upper-limits because they do not take into account depletion in the number of OCs by dynamical effects in the inner parts of the Galaxy. The observed and completeness-corrected age-distributions of the OCs can be fitted by a combination of two exponential-decay profiles characterized by age scales of $\rm\sim100\,Myr$ and $\rm\sim1.9\,Gyr$, respectively. This rules out evolutionary scenarios based on constant star-formation and OC-disruption rates. We estimate that 3.4--8\% of the embedded clusters do actually emerge from the parent molecular clouds as OCs.
description: 17 pages and 17 figures
Maintaining bilingualism through technologies: the case of young Russian heritage learners
Creators: name: Khalitova, Liliia
name: Sadykova, Gulnara
name: Kayumova, Albina
Publisher: name: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society
Year: 2021

description: The multicultural realities of modern society require an effective system to support the development and preservation of the heritage language of children growing and developing outside of their heritage culture. Digital technologies may come at hand to parents and educators who strive to create such a system for their bi/multilingual children. This paper reports on the mixed methods research study that documented and analyzed attitude to and the usage of digital technologies by Russian-speaking parents raising bi-/multilingual children outside of Russia. Thirty-four participants from 12 countries completed an online questionnaire. Three native Russian mothers raising young Russian heritage language learners were also engaged into a case study. The study revealed that parenting efforts could include speech development learning activities with traditional and digital learning tools. Participants expressed their favorable view on the educational value of digital (computer, mobile, online) technologies. In practice, parents’ usage of these tools was very limited as most of them preferred a printed book and live communication for maintaining Russian. It was obvious that many parents are not well informed about the availability of high-quality digital resources for the development of Russian speech in preschoolers and/or don't see their advantages. The results of the research confirmed studies that indicated the importance of creating the “child-digital resource-teacher” interaction and the need for mediation by an adult in a situation where a child interacts with a computer or tablet. These results are of practical significance for formal/informal bilingual educators, teacher training institutions and parents of bi/multilingual children.
description: Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol 17 No 3 (2021): Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society - Special Issue on "Children and the Digital"