cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Policy Levers to Strengthen Community College Transfer Student Success in Texas
Creators: name: Bailey, Thomas R.
name: Jenkins, Paul Davis
name: Fink, John
name: Cullinane, Jenna
name: Schudde, Lauren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education, Higher
College students--Transfer
Community college students--Transfer
Transfer students
Community colleges
Community college students--Education

description: This report to the Greater Texas Foundation recommends ways that state policy could help to improve outcomes for community college transfer students in Texas. It is based on three sets of analyses: (1) analysis of National Student Clearinghouse data on transfer and degree outcomes for Texas students compared to those in other states; (2) analysis of state transfer policies to better understand the policy environment and identify policies that may facilitate or inhibit transfer success in the state; and (3) interviews with over 50 persons at 36 Texas colleges (18 two-year and 18 four-year institutions) on how state policy plays out on the ground with students and institutions.

The report finds that existing transfer policy in Texas fails to help students transfer successfully and efficiently. First, students do not have clear “transfer pathways” that lead in coherent, transparent, widely accepted ways from community college enrollment, through transfer, to bachelor’s completion. Second, even if there were clearer pathways, students are not given much help in choosing, entering, and staying on transfer pathways.

The report recommends ways state policy might be enhanced to achieve three objectives that are key to improving transfer student success: (1) create stronger transfer pathways, (2) help students choose and stay on a transfer pathway, and (3) build momentum for regional community college-university collaboration to improve transfer outcomes.
title: Politiken der Innerlichkeit. Über Emma Kunz und die Möglichkeitsbedingungen einer künstlerischen Praxis des Heilens
title: Politics of Interiority. About Emma Kunz and the Conditions of Possibilities of an Artistic Practice of Healing
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kipke, Anna
Publisher: name: Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: Kunz, Emma

description: Im Trend des gewachsenen Interesses an Emma Kunz vonseiten der Institutionen und Künstlern der Gegenwart widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit der Fragestellung, in welcher Art und Weise Emma Kunz’ spirituelle, abstrakte Zeichnungen in materielle-körperliche Praktiken eingebunden sind und durch diese bedingt werden. Das ist mit dem Ziel verbunden, über eine historische Kontextualisierung der Praktiken und Räume die Möglichkeitsbedingungen der künstlerischen Praxis zu analysieren und Emma Kunz als Abstraktion im Übergang zu beschreiben, die die Dichotomien zwischen Okkultismus und Wissenschaft sowie zwischen Rationalität und Irrationalität in der Moderne unterläuft. Der Fokus auf die Materialität und Körperlichkeit der Praktiken eröffnet die Möglichkeit das Verhältnis von Innerlichkeit und Spiritualität, Materialität und Politik in der Kunstgeschichtsschreibung der modernen Kunst, insbesondere der Abstraktion, neu zu konstellieren. Die Ausgangsthese dabei ist, dass der Blick auf die Praktiken eine Perspektivierung der abstrakten Zeichnungen als wesentlich in materiell-körperliche Prozesse eingebundene spirituelle Bilder ermöglicht. Die Praktiken des Pendelns und Heilens sind nicht nur Verfahren der Umwandlung und Transformation von spirituellen und materiellen Komponenten, sondern eröffnen einen Blick auf ihre Reflexivität und Kritikalität. Zu Beginn der Arbeit ist das Arbeitszimmer von Emma Kunz Ausgangspunkt der Frage nachzugehen, wie das Verhältnis der Praktiken zu den Zeichnungen methodisch zu fassen ist. Anschließend wird der Frage nachgegangen, in welcher Art und Weise Kunz’ spirituelle, abstrakte Zeichnungen in materielle-körperliche Praktiken des Pendelns und Heilens eingebunden sind, die sich mit und gegen die Moderne konstituieren und wie sie sich in der künstlerischen Praxis von Emma Kunz ein- und fortschreiben. Anhand von Kunz’ Zeichnungsmethode wird im nächsten Abschnitt die Spannung zwischen Okkultismus und Wissenschaft aufgefaltet und Emma Kunz als ein Phänomen einer Abstraktion im Übergang beschrieben, die sich zwischen den Kosmologien unsichtbarer Kräfte und dem Drang zur Grammatologie bewegt. Abschließend wird die Frage aufgegriffen, wie der Blick auf die Praktiken des Pendelns und Heilens die in der Geschichte der Abstraktion tradierte Dichotomie zwischen Spiritualität und Materialität verändert.
Single charge sensing and transport in double quantum dots fabricated from commercially grown Si/SiGe heterostructures
Creators: name: Payette, C.
name: Wang, K.
name: Koppinen, P. J.
name: Dovzhenko, Y.
name: Sturm, J. C.
name: Petta, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform quantum Hall measurements on three types of commercially available modulation doped Si/SiGe heterostructures to determine their suitability for depletion gate defined quantum dot devices. By adjusting the growth parameters, we are able to achieve electron gases with charge densities 1-3 X 10^{11}/cm^2 and mobilities in excess of 100,000 cm^2/Vs. Double quantum dot devices fabricated on these heterostructures show clear evidence of single charge transitions as measured in dc transport and charge sensing and exhibit electron temperatures of 100 mK in the single quantum dot regime.
description: Related papers at http://pettagroup.princeton.edu
title: Gottlieb Spitzel
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Gottlieb Spitzel as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Estimating Returns to College Attainment: Comparing Survey and State Administrative Data Based Estimates
Creators: name: Scott-Clayton, Judith E.
name: Wen, Qiao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education, Higher
Academic achievement
Academic achievement--Economic aspects
Educational attainment

description: The increasing availability of massive administrative datasets linking postsecondary enrollees with post-college earnings records has stimulated a wealth of new research on the returns to college, and has accelerated state and federal efforts to hold institutions accountable for students’ labor market outcomes. Many of these new research and policy efforts rely on state databases limited to postsecondary enrollees who work in the same state post-college, with limited information regarding family background and pre-college ability.

In this paper, the authors use recent waves of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to provide new, nationally representative, non-experimental estimates of the returns to degrees, as well as to assess the possible limitations of single-state, administrative-data-based estimates. To do this the authors evaluate how the national estimates change, depending upon the baseline comparison group, adjustments for pre-college achievement and family background, and alternative ways of addressing interstate mobility. They conclude with a discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of survey versus administrative data for estimating returns to college, as well as implications for research and policy efforts based upon single-state administrative databases.
Item response theory analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritis
Creators: name: Mielenz, Thelma J.
name: Callahan, Leigh F.
name: Edwards, Michael C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Arthritis
Quality of life--Measurement
Quality of life--Research
Health services administration
Medical care

description: Background
Examine the feasibility of performing an item response theory (IRT) analysis on two of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) modules – the 4-item Healthy Days Core Module (HDCM) and the 5-item Healthy days Symptoms Module (HDSM). Previous principal components analyses confirm that the two scales both assess a mix of mental (CDC-MH) and physical health (CDC-PH). The purpose is to conduct item response theory (IRT) analysis on the CDC-MH and CDC-PH scales separately.

Methods
2182 patients with self-reported or physician-diagnosed arthritis completed a cross-sectional survey including HDCM and HDSM items. Besides global health, the other 8 items ask the number of days that some statement was true; we chose to recode the data into 8 categories based on observed clustering. The IRT assumptions were assessed using confirmatory factor analysis and the data could be modeled using an unidimensional IRT model. The graded response model was used for IRT analyses and CDC-MH and CDC-PH scales were analyzed separately in flexMIRT.

Results
The IRT parameter estimates for the five-item CDC-PH all appeared reasonable. The three-item CDC-MH did not have reasonable parameter estimates.

Conclusions
The CDC-PH scale is amenable to IRT analysis but the existing The CDC-MH scale is not. We suggest either using the 4-item Healthy Days Core Module (HDCM) and the 5-item Healthy days Symptoms Module (HDSM) as they currently stand or the CDC-PH scale alone if the primary goal is to measure physical health related HRQOL.
Eurodoc's Response to UKRI's "New deal for Postgraduate Research"
Creators: name: Saugmann, Pil Maria
name: Schoch, Hannah
name: Dahle, Sebastian
name: İşler, Devriş
name: Pilia, Sara
name: Lewandowska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: On the 26th of September the largest research funder in the United Kingdom, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), released a report "New deal for postgraduate research". In this document and in their "Collective Talent Funding Roadmap 2022 to 2025" UKRI outlines how they intend to continue the practice of not employing doctoral candidates.
The malpractice of refraining from employing doctoral candidates enforces and enhances the precarity which is widespread during the early stages of a researcher's career. It has further consequences on social rights, financial benefits, families, and personal relationships. Moreover, this precarity and the insecurity that it induces impairs creativity, decreases work efficiency, and reduces the individual's overall career prospects and well-being [5]. It is Eurodoc's firm opinion that all ECRs, including doctoral candidates, are professionals and should be treated as such.
Ultra Low Energy Analog Image Processing Using Spin Neurons
Creators: name: Sharad, Mrigank
name: Augustine, Charles
name: Panagopoulos, Georgios
name: Roy, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present an ultra low energy, 'on-sensor' image processing architecture, based on cellular array of spin based neurons. The 'neuron' constitutes of a lateral spin valve (LSV) with multiple input magnets, connected to an output magnet, using metal channels. The low resistance, magneto-metallic neurons operate at a small terminal voltage of ~20mV, while performing analog computation upon photo sensor inputs. The static current-flow across the device terminals is limited to small periods, corresponding to magnet switching time, and, is determined by a low duty-cycle system-clock. Thus, the energy-cost of analog-mode processing, inevitable in most image sensing applications, is reduced and made comparable to that of dynamic and leakage power consumption in peripheral CMOS units. Performance of the proposed architecture for some common image sensing and processing applications like, feature extraction, halftone compression and digitization, have been obtained through physics based device simulation framework, coupled with SPICE. Results indicate that the proposed design scheme can achieve more than two orders of magnitude reduction in computation energy, as compared to the state of art CMOS designs, that are based on conventional mixed-signal image acquisition and processing schemes. To the best of authors' knowledge, this is the first work where application of nano magnets (in LSV's) in analog signal processing has been proposed.
Open manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and collapsing volume
Creators: name: Mao, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C20, 53C21

description: In this paper, an n-dimensional complete open manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and collapsing volume has been investigated. If its radial sectional curvature bounded from below, it shows that such a manifold is of finite topological type under some restrictions shown below.
description: 8 pages. Accepted for publication in the Kyushu Journal of Mathematics. I have made slight changes to the previous versions so that people could see the mathematical expressions in this paper clealy
Thermodynamics of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories in 2+1 dimensions II - The deconfined phase
Creators: name: Caselle, Michele
name: Castagnini, Luca
name: Feo, Alessandra
name: Gliozzi, Ferdinando
name: Gürsoy, Umut
name: Panero, Marco
name: Schäfer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a non-perturbative study of the equation of state in the deconfined phase of Yang-Mills theories in D=2+1 dimensions. We introduce a holographic model, based on the improved holographic QCD model, from which we derive a non-trivial relation between the order of the deconfinement phase transition and the behavior of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor as a function of the temperature T. We compare the theoretical predictions of this holographic model with a new set of high-precision numerical results from lattice simulations of SU(N) theories with N=2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 colors. The latter reveal that, similarly to the D=3+1 case, the bulk equilibrium thermodynamic quantities (pressure, trace of the energy-momentum tensor, energy density and entropy density) exhibit nearly perfect proportionality to the number of gluons, and can be successfully compared with the holographic predictions in a broad range of temperatures. Finally, we also show that, again similarly to the D=3+1 case, the trace of the energy-momentum tensor appears to be proportional to T^2 in a wide temperature range, starting from approximately 1.2 T_c, where T_c denotes the critical deconfinement temperature.
description: 2+36 pages, 10 figures; v2: comments added, curves showing the holographic predictions included in the plots of the pressure and energy and entropy densities, typos corrected: version published in JHEP
Reheating constraints in inflationary magnetogenesis
Creators: name: Demozzi, Vittoria
name: Ringeval, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among primordial magnetogenesis models, inflation is a prime candidate to explain the current existence of cosmological magnetic fields. Assuming conformal invariance to be restored after inflation, their energy density decreases as radiation during the decelerating eras of the universe, and in particular during reheating. Without making any assumptions on inflation, on the magnetogenesis mechanism and on how the reheating proceeded, we show that requiring large scale magnetic fields to remain subdominant after inflation gives non-trivial constraints on both the reheating equation of state parameter and the reheating energy scale. In terms of the so-called reheating parameter, we find that ln(Rrad) > -10.1 for large scale magnetic fields of the order 5 x 10^(-15) Gauss today. This bound is then compared to those already derived from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data by assuming a specific inflationary model. Avoiding magnetic field backreaction is always complementary to CMB and can give more stringent limits on reheating for all high energy models of inflation. For instance, a large field matter dominated reheating cannot take place at an energy scale lower than typically 500 GeV if the magnetic field strength today is Bo = 5 x 10^(-15) G, this scale going up to 10^(10) GeV if Bo = 10^(-9) G.
description: 10 pages, uses jcappub. References added, matches published version
En-Gendering Economic Inequality
Creators: name: Gilman, Michele E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Equality--Economic aspects
subject: Poor women
subject: Income
subject: Law and economics
subject: Sex discrimination in employment
subject: Feminist theory--Economic aspects
subject: Work environment
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these important discussions is the reality that economic inequality is not a uniform experience; rather, its effects fall more harshly on women and minorities. With regard to gender, American women have higher rates of poverty and get paid less than comparable men, and their workplace participation rates are falling. Yet economic inequality is neither inevitable nor intractable. Given that the government creates the rules of the market, it is essential to analyze the government’s role in perpetuating economic inequality.
This Article specifically examines the role of the Supreme Court in contributing to gender- based economic inequality. The thesis is that the Supreme Court applies oversimplified economic assumptions about the market in its decision-making, thereby perpetuating economic inequality on the basis of gender. Applying insights of feminist economic theory, the Article analyzes recent Supreme Court jurisprudence about women workers, including Wal-Mart v. Dukes (denying class certi cation to female employees who were paid and promoted less than men), Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (granting business owners the right to deny contraception coverage to female employees on religious grounds), and Harris v. Quinn (limiting the ability of home health care workers to unionize and thereby improve their working conditions). In these cases, the Court elevates its narrow view of efficiency over more comprehensive understandings, devalues care work, upholds harmful power imbalances, and ignores the intersectional reality of the lives of low-wage women workers. The Article concludes that the Court is eroding collective efforts by women to improve their working conditions and economic standing. It suggests advocacy strategies for reforming law to obtain economic justice for women and their families.
Nonpecuniary Returns to Postsecondary Education: Examining Early Non-Wage Labor Market Outcomes Among College-Goers in the United States
Creators: name: Schudde, Lauren
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Education, Higher
Academic achievement
Academic achievement--Economic aspects
Educational attainment

description: While research consistently finds positive earnings returns to educational attainment, there is little evidence on postsecondary education’s impact on other employment-related outcomes. Yet nonpecuniary returns to schooling are particularly important in the United States, where fringe benefits are typically tied to employment and there is a great degree of variation in job quality. Using longitudinal data following a nationally representative sample of young persons who enrolled in at least some college education, this paper examines nonpecuniary labor market outcomes associated with different levels of postsecondary educational attainment. Overall, the results indicate that increasing levels of postsecondary educational attainment positively predict a number of beneficial employment outcomes. This is particularly the case for fringe benefits. After controlling for participants’ backgrounds and educational experiences, attainment positively predicts access to employer-provided health and dental insurance, retirement, and paid leave. Results concerning job satisfaction and flexibility are weaker and more complex.
Explicit and spontaneous breaking of SU(3) into its finite subgroups
Creators: name: Merle, Alexander
name: Zwicky, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the breaking of SU(3) into its subgroups from the viewpoints of explicit and spontaneous breaking. A one-to-one link between these two approaches is given by the complex spherical harmonics, which form a complete set of SU(3)-representation functions. An invariant of degrees p and q in complex conjugate variables corresponds to a singlet, or vacuum expectation value, in a (p,q)-representation of SU(3). We review the formalism of the Molien function, which contains information on primary and secondary invariants. Generalizations of the Molien function to the tensor generating functions are discussed. The latter allows all branching rules to be deduced. We have computed all primary and secondary invariants for all proper finite subgroups of order smaller than 512, for the entire series of groups Δ(3n^2), Δ(6n^2), and for all crystallographic groups. Examples of sufficient conditions for breaking into a subgroup are worked out for the entire T_{n[a]}-, Δ(3n^2)-, Δ(6n^2)-series and for all crystallographic groups Σ(X). The corresponding invariants provide an alternative definition of these groups. A Mathematica package, SUtree, is provided which allows the extraction of the invariants, Molien and generating functions, syzygies, VEVs, branching rules, character tables, matrix (p,q)_{SU(3)}-representations, Kronecker products, etc. for the groups discussed above.
description: 62 pages, 5 figures; the corresponding software package SUtree can be downloaded from http://theophys.kth.se/~amerle/SUtree/SUtree.html New in v2: Nice figure added, references added, explicit transformation matrices between different embeddings calculated, software package updated
On the true nature of renormalizability in Horava-Lifshitz gravity
Creators: name: Briscese, Fabio
name: Rodriguez, Yeinzon
name: Gonzalez, Guillermo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the true nature of the renormalizability of Horava-Lifshitz gravity lies in the presence of higher order spatial derivatives and not in the anisotropic Lifshitz scaling of space and time. We discuss the possibility of constructing a higher order spatial derivatives model that has the same renormalization properties of Horava-Lifshitz gravity but that does not make use of the Lifshitz scaling. In addition, the state-of-the-art of the Lorentz symmetry restoration in Horava-Lifshitz-type theories of gravitation is reviewed.
description: Latex file in Revtex style, 5 pages, no figures. v2: references added, version accepted for publication in Foundations of Physics
A qualitative analysis of the effect of a community-based primary health care programme on reproductive preferences and contraceptive use among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana
Creators: name: Dalaba, Maxwell Ayindenaba
name: Stone, Allison E.
name: Krumholz, Abigail R.
name: Oduro, Abraham R.
name: Phillips, James F.
name: Adongo, Philip B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Contraceptives
Children--Mortality
Health services administration
Public health

description: Background
In 2000, Ghana launched the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative to improve access to health and family planning services. This initiative was based in part on research, known as the Navrongo Project, conducted in the Kassena-Nankana district (KND) between 1994 to 2003 which demonstrated significant impact on fertility and child mortality. This paper examines current contraceptive perceptions in communities that were exposed to the Project’s service models over the 1994 to 2003 period, and the post-experimental policies of the CHPS era.

Methods
Qualitative study was conducted in the KND of Ghana from June to September, 2012, by convening 8 male and 8 female FGD panels as well as 8 in-depth interviews of community leaders. Data collection was stratified by original experimental cell of the Navrongo Project to permit appraisal of social effects of contrasting experimental conditions. Inductive content analysis was performed with QSR Nvivo 10 to identify predominant themes.

Results
While findings show that exposure to community-based services was associated with enhanced approval of birth spacing and limitation, this view is grounded in perceptions that childhood survival has improved. Nonetheless, concerns were expressed about contraceptive side effects, prominently permanent sterility. Strategies for male outreach and community engagement originally introduced during the Navrongo Project have not been sustained with CHPS scale-up. The apparent atrophy of attention to the needs of men may explain the resistance of some males to the notion of female reproductive autonomy and the practice of some women to adopt contraception in secret. Despite this apparent programmatic dearth of male engagement, there is evidence to suggest that social impact of the original male engagement strategy persists in communities where male mobilization was combined with doorstep provision of family planning care during the Navrongo Project.

Conclusion
Community-based services fostered attitudinal change towards family planning in a traditional sub-Saharan African setting. Sustained exposure to primary health care that have improved the survival of children has made the use of contraception more acceptable. Efforts should be embedded in primary health care programmes that address concerns about child survival while also consigning sustained priority to the information needs of men.
On the periodicity of a class of arithmetic functions associated with multiplicative functions
Creators: name: Qian, Guoyou
name: Tan, Qianrong
name: Hong, Shaofang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $k\ge 1,a\ge 1,b\ge 0$ and $ c\ge 1$ be integers. Let $f$ be a multiplicative function with $f(n)\ne 0$ for all positive integers $n$. We define the arithmetic function $g_{k,f}$ for any positive integer $n$ by $g_{k,f}(n):=\frac{\prod_{i=0}^k f(b+a(n+ic))} {f({\rm lcm}_{0\le i\le k} \{b+a(n+ic)\})}$. We first show that $g_{k,f}$ is periodic and $c {\rm lcm}(1,...,k)$ is its period. Consequently, we provide a detailed local analysis to the periodic function $g_{k,φ}$, and determine the smallest period of $g_{k,φ}$, where $φ$ is the Euler phi function.
description: 16 pages. To appear in Journal of Number Theory
Bottom-up educational leadership and policy-making through storytelling : language policy in practice at a Canadian institute
Creators: name: Sackville, Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This research focuses on storytelling as bottom-up educational leadership and policy making. The researcher examines language policy in practice at a Canadian post-secondary institute, following an institutional ethnographic approach and using discourse analysis tools. Stories about everyday experiences with English language placement testing, communication course marks reassessments, plagiarism, and prior learning assessment and review (PLAR) of communication skills are collected from 9 students, 6 instructors, 5 program heads, and the researcher herself as an associate dean. The researcher’s own identity negotiation as an insider at the institute is explored through discussion of tensions around the handling of people’s stories and the role of reflexivity in shaping the research. The research links the personal to the institutional while exploring connections between everyday experiences and processes of administration and governance. Exploration of policy moments in participants’ stories uncovers a discourse of control and homogeneity where difference is constructed negatively, several language myths operate as forms of domination, and storylines suppress conflict. Exercises highlighting dilemmas that people face at the institute are presented to enable dialogic politics. It is argued that storytelling proved to be a powerful method for surfacing everyday struggles, and the sharing of stories led to a new awareness for participants. Storytelling proved to be a generative form of talking back to policy and policy making as it repositioned policy review as a bottom-up exercise and captured moments of policy as struggle and change. Dialogic exercises are presented as tools for reconstruction of language practices that are more equitable and humane.
MAMLAKATIMIZDA ISHLAB CHIQARISH SOHASIDA MEHNAT RESURSLARI
Creators: name: Mardiev, Bunyod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada mamlakatimizda ishlab chiqarish sohasi, undagi mehnat resurslarining tarkibi, ishlab chiqarish sohasida mehnat resurslarini bandligi ko`lami, ahamiyati haqida ma’lumotlar, fikrlar va takliflar beriladi.
Intracerebroventricular administration of chondroitinase ABC reduces acute edema after traumatic brain injury in mice
Creators: name: Finan, John D.
name: Cho, Frances S.
name: Kernie, Steven G.
name: Morrison III, Barclay
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mice
Edema
Brain--Wounds and injuries
Biochemistry

description: Background
Brain edema is a significant challenge facing clinicians managing severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the acute period. If edema reaches a critical point, it leads to runaway intracranial hypertension that, in turn, leads to severe morbidity or death if left untreated. Clinical data on the efficacy of standard interventions is mixed. The goal of this study was to validate a novel therapeutic strategy for reducing post-traumatic brain edema in a mouse model. Prior in vitro work reported that the brain swells due to coupled electrostatic and osmotic forces generated by large, negatively charged, immobile molecules in the matrix that comprises brain tissue. Chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) digests chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan, a molecule that contributes to this negative charge. Therefore, we administered ChABC by intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection after controlled cortical impact TBI in the mouse and measured associated changes in edema.

Results
Almost half of the edema induced by injury was eliminated by ChABC treatment.

Conclusions
ICV administration of ChABC may be a novel and effective method of treating post-traumatic brain edema in the acute period.
On-site bundled rapid HIV/HCV testing in substance use disorder treatment programs: study protocol for a hybrid design randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Frimpong, Jemima A.
name: Perlman, David C.
name: D’Aunno, Thomas
name: Strauss, Shiela M.
name: Mallow, Alissa
name: Hernandez, Diana
name: Schackman, Bruce R.
name: Feaster, Daniel J.
name: Metsch, Lisa R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Diagnosis
Hepatitis C virus
HIV (Viruses)--Testing
Public health

description: Background
More than 1.2 million people in the United States are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and 3.2 million are living with hepatitis C virus (HCV). An estimated 25 % of persons living with HIV also have HCV. It is therefore of great public health importance to ensure the prompt diagnosis of both HIV and HCV in populations that have the highest prevalence of both infections, including individuals with substance use disorders (SUD).

Methods/design
In this theory-driven, efficacy-effectiveness-implementation hybrid study, we will develop and test an on-site bundled rapid HIV/HCV testing intervention for SUD treatment programs. Its aim is to increase the receipt of HIV and HCV test results among SUD treatment patients. Using a rigorous process involving patients, providers, and program managers, we will incorporate rapid HCV testing into evidence-based HIV testing and linkage to care interventions. We will then test, in a randomized controlled trial, the extent to which this bundled rapid HIV/HCV testing approach increases receipt of HIV and HCV test results. Lastly, we will conduct formative research to understand the barriers to, and facilitators of, the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of the bundled rapid testing strategy in SUD treatment programs.

Discussion
Novel approaches that effectively integrate on-site rapid HIV and rapid HCV testing are needed to address both the HIV and HCV epidemics. If feasible and efficacious, bundled rapid HIV/HCV testing may offer a scalable, potentially cost-effective approach to testing high-risk populations, such as patients of SUD treatment programs. It may ultimately lead to improved linkage to care and progress through the HIV and HCV care and treatment cascades.

Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02355080. (30 January 2015)
Primary thermometry in the intermediate Coulomb blockade regime
Creators: name: Feshchenko, A. V.
name: Meschke, M.
name: Gunnarsson, D.
name: Prunnila, M.
name: Roschier, L.
name: Penttilä, J. S.
name: Pekola, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Coulomb blockade thermometers (CBT) in an intermediate temperature regime, where measurements with enhanced accuracy are possible due to the increased magnitude of the differential conductance dip. Previous theoretical results show that corrections to the half width and to the depth of the measured conductance dip of a sensor are needed, when leaving the regime of weak Coulomb blockade towards lower temperatures. In the present work, we demonstrate experimentally that the temperature range of a CBT sensor can be extended by employing these corrections without compromising the primary nature or the accuracy of the thermometer.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Predictors of activity level and retention among African American lay health advisors (LHAs) from The National Witness Project: ...
Creators: name: Shelton, Rachel C.
name: Dunston, Sheba King
name: Leoce, Nicole M.
name: Jandorf, Lina
name: Thompson, Hayley S.
name: Crookes, Danielle M.
name: Erwin, Deborah O.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cancer--Diagnosis
Health services administration
African Americans
Public health

description: Background
Lay health advisor (LHA) programs are increasingly being implemented in the USA and globally in the context of health promotion and disease prevention. LHAs are effective in addressing health disparities when used to reach medically underserved populations, with strong evidence among African American and Hispanic women. Despite their success and the evidence supporting implementation of LHA programs in community settings, there are tremendous barriers to sustaining LHA programs and little is understood about their implementation and sustainability in “real-world” settings. The purpose of this study was to (1) propose a conceptual framework to investigate factors at individual, social, and organizational levels that impact LHA activity and retention; and (2) use prospective data to investigate the individual, social, and organizational factors that predict activity level and retention among a community-based sample of African American LHAs participating in an effective, evidence-based LHA program (National Witness Project; NWP).

Methods
Seventy-six LHAs were recruited from eight NWP sites across the USA. Baseline predictor data was collected from LHAs during a telephone questionnaire administered between 2010 and 2011. Outcome data on LHA participation and program activity levels were collected in the fall of 2012 from NWP program directors. Chi-square and ANOVA tests were used to identify differences between retained and completely inactive LHAs, and LHAs with high/moderate vs. low/no activity levels. Multivariable logistic regression models were conducted to identify variables that predicted LHA retention and activity levels.

Results
In multivariable models, LHAs based at sites with academic partnerships had increased odds of retention and high/moderate activity levels, even after adjusting for baseline LHA activity level. Higher religiosity among LHAs was associated with decreased odds of being highly/moderately active. LHA role clarity and self-efficacy were associated with retention and high/moderate activity in multivariable models unadjusted for baseline LHA activity level.

Conclusions
Organizational and role-related factors are critical in influencing the retention and activity levels of LHAs. Developing and fostering partnerships with academic institutions will be important strategies to promote successful implementation and sustainability of LHA programs. Clarifying role expectations and building self-efficacy during LHA recruitment and training should be further explored to promote LHA retention and participation.
MPEC 2025-F209 : 2025 FS12
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FS12

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Families Are More Popular Than Feminism: Exploring the Greater Judicial Success of Family and Medical Leave Laws
Creators: name: Webber, Kate
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Feminism
subject: Domestic relations
subject: Judicial process
subject: Women employees
subject: Discrimination in employment
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Two federal employment laws advance women’s position in the workplace, but one has been much more successful than the other when employee plaintiffs seek to enforce their rights in court. First, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”) prohibits sex discrimination in the workforce. Plaintiffs seeking to enforce this statute experience one of the lowest success rates of any civil cause of action. On the other hand, the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”) provides employees the right to take leave for the birth of a child, medical or family care, and prohibits discrimination against those who use their leave rights. Employees who bring cases under the FMLA have nearly double the chance of winning in court compared with anti-discrimination statutes such as Title VII. The FMLA is more successful despite the fact that, like Title VII’s sex discrimination prohibitions, the FMLA benefits women in particular, providing a key support to their workplace advancement. This Article examines the potential causes of the different litigation success rates of Title VII and the FMLA. In doing so, the Article sheds light on judicial decision-making in employment law and suggests avenues for advocates seeking to change women’s work life for the better.
Instanton moduli spaces and bases in coset conformal field theory
Creators: name: Belavin, A. A.
name: Bershtein, M. A.
name: Feigin, B. L.
name: Litvinov, A. V.
name: Tarnopolsky, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently proposed relation between conformal field theories in two dimensions and supersymmetric gauge theories in four dimensions predicts the existence of the distinguished basis in the space of local fields in CFT. This basis has a number of remarkable properties, one of them is the complete factorization of the coefficients of the operator product expansion. We consider a particular case of the U(r) gauge theory on C^2/Z_p which corresponds to a certain coset conformal field theory and describe the properties of this basis. We argue that in the case p=2, r=2 there exist different bases. We give an explicit construction of one of them. For another basis we propose the formula for matrix elements.
description: 31 pages, 3 figures
Aboriginal post-secondary education in British Columbia : Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
Creators: name: Billy Minnabarriet, Verna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Indigenous teachings of my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and the Elders of my community have inspired my passion for education. My professional educational journey has taken me to many Indigenous communities throughout Canada, the United States and abroad. Through these experiences, I realized that not all Indigenous post-secondary institutions were in fact Indigenous. Many were named Indigenous but their systems and curricula mainly reflected those of mainstream society. Working at an Indigenous post-secondary institution that is based on Indigenous values and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), I knew there was a difference; it is that difference that this thesis addresses. This thesis examines the governance structure, educational policies, programs, and student services offered by the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT), which has become a leader in Aboriginal public post-secondary education in Canada. NVIT has two campuses in British Columbia, with its main campus located at Merritt and the other at Burnaby. Framed within an Eagle’s Perch metaphor, and an Indigenous Knowledge system, the NVIT story is told about how it achieves self-determination through its Indigenization processes, and how its leadership takes an anti-hegemonic stance to confront forms of hegemonic control. A mixed methods case study is used to understand how the principle of self-determination is enacted within an Aboriginal public post-secondary institution. The study’s theoretical framework draws on Indigenous Knowledge and critical theory. Data from student and alumni surveys; interviews with Elders, Board of Governors and management; institutional documents; and reflections on my professional experience at NVIT indicate that community-based partnerships, IK educational approaches, the multi-faceted Elders’ roles, and the family cohort approach to learning contribute substantially to NVIT students’ post-secondary access, retention, and success. The Eagle’s Perch at NVIT guides and challenges its leaders, students, faculty, Elders, and staff to create a learning and gathering place where the transformative power of the Eagle’s Indigenous teachings are sustained and shared with others. Drawing on the literature, research findings, and my reflections, I developed a Transformational Framework for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education that includes seven principles of Indigenization, self-determination, anti-hegemony, good governance, educational values, program relevancy, and extended family.
title: Günther (Mechanicus)
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Günther (Mechanicus) as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
Transparent: When Legal Fictions and Judicial Imagination Make Facts Disappear, They Enforce Transphobic Discrimination
Creators: name: Hammer, Gail Anne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrimination in employment
subject: Sex and law
subject: Courts
subject: Domestic relations
subject: Judicial process
subject: Transgender people
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This Article gives an example of this disproportionate impact and recommends that courts consider discrimination in hiring as relevant to whether a parent is voluntarily unemployed for the purposes of imputing income for child support determinations. Part I demonstrates how multiple judicial officers’ distraction, imagination, and misguided reliance on legal fictions, rather than on the facts of the individual’s life, made injustice real in Kim’s life. It attempts to understand judges’ unarticulated reasoning through a re-created conversation. Part II discusses legal treatment of transgender people in general. Part III suggests legal recommendations to promote clearer thinking and more rational decisions within the courts regarding the distracting and emotionally charged issues surrounding transgender individuals. Specifically, I suggest that the legal fiction that permits courts to impute income to unemployed parents should change to explicitly recognize discrimination in hiring. Courts should adopt an evidentiary rule accepting self-reports of gender identity. To facilitate legal thinking that transcends simplistic binary models of human experience, judges should make an effort to understand more about trans people. Judges should also adopt a simple schema for understanding the distinct categories of sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. Judges should be evaluated according to their ability to prioritize facts (here, discrimination against transgender people in hiring, which leads to unemployment) over legal fictions (here, a parent able to work but not working is voluntarily unemployed, rather than the target of discrimination in hiring). Finally, judges should be evaluated for their ability to prioritize facts over their own fears.
title: Rowland Gwynne
title: An entry in the LCA Online Dictionary of Leibniz’s Correspondents and Acquaintances
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Tba)
Publisher: name: LCA Project
Year: 2018

description: Rowland Gwynne as a personal relation of Leibniz’s: The resource presents biographical information on a correspondent of Leibniz's
The Lost Movements of Ernst Toch’s Gesprochene Musik
Creators: name: Raz, Carmel A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Electronic music
Avant-garde (Music)
Music

description: Gesprochene Musik, by Ernst Toch (1887–1964), is a forgotten milestone in the history of electronic music.1 A three–movement suite consisting of spoken music for choir, it is one of the few paradigmatic representatives of the genre of Gramophonmusik, which made use of prerecorded gramophone discs in a concert setting. The work was premiered in 1930 at a Berlin festival devoted to new music, in a concert featuring original works for gramophone playback by two rising stars of the German contemporary music scene, Toch and Paul Hindemith. The pieces were performed only once, yet through the intervention of a young John Cage, the score of the third movement of Gesprochene Musik, the “Geographical Fugue,” appeared in Henry Cowell’s journal, New Music, five years later. Although Cage published the piece in the context of a collection of music written expressly for gramophone, his version led the “Geographical Fugue” to receive a new lease of life as a purely acoustic choral showpiece performed live, which would, ironically, become Toch’s most famous work.