cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Work-Anxiety and Sickness Absence After a Short Inpatient Cognitive Behavioral Group Intervention in Comparison to a Recreational Group Meeting
Creators: name: Muschalla, Beate
name: Linden, Michael
name: Jöbges, Michael
Publisher: name: Wolters Kluwer Lippincott
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Workplace, mental health, anxiety, sick leave, work-oriented rehabilitation
subject: 150

description: Objective
To study the effects of a short term cognitive behavior therapy on work-anxiety and sickness-absence in patients with work-anxiety.
Methods
Three-hundred-forty-five inpatients who suffered from cardiologic, neurological or orthopaedic problems and additionally work-anxiety were randomly assigned into two different group-interventions. Patients got four sessions of a group intervention, which either focussed on cognitive behaviour-therapy anxiety-management (work-anxiety-coping-group, WAG), or unspecific recreational activities (RG).
Results
No differences were found between WAG and RG for work-anxiety and subjective work ability. When looking at patients who were suffering only from work-anxiety, and no additional mental disorder, the duration of sickness absence until six-months-follow-up was shorter in the WAG (WAG: 11 weeks, RG: 16 weeks, p=.050).
Conclusion
A short term work-anxiety-coping-group may help return to work in patients with work-anxieties, as long as there is no comorbid mental disorder.
Can general-relativistic description of gravitation be considered complete?
Creators: name: Ahluwalia, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local galactic cluster, the Great attractor, embeds us in a dimensionless gravitational potential of about - 3 x 10^{-5}. In the solar system this potential is constant to about 1 part in 10^{11}. Consequently, planetary orbits, which are determined by the gradient in the gravitational potential, remain unaffected. However, this is not so for the recently introduced flavor-oscillation clocks where the new redshift-inducing phases depend on the gravitational potential itself. On these grounds, and by studying the invariance properties of the gravitational phenomenon in the weak fields, we argue that there exists an element of incompleteness in the general-relativistic description of gravitation. An incompleteness-establishing inequality is derived and an experiment is outlined to test the thesis presented.
description: Essay Awarded "Honorable Mention" by Gravity Research Foundation (1998). The answer to the question posed in the title is an experimentally verifiable "no."
Measurement of Wave Chaotic Eigenfunctions in the Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking Crossover Regime
Creators: name: Chung, Seok-Hwan
name: Gokirmak, Ali
name: Wu, Dong-Ho
name: Bridgewater, J. S. A.
name: Ott, E.
name: Antonsen, T. M.
name: Anlage, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental results on eigenfunctions of a wave chaotic system in the continuous crossover regime between time-reversal symmetric and time-reversal symmetry-broken states. The statistical properties of the eigenfunctions of a two-dimensional microwave resonator are analyzed as a function of an experimentally determined time-reversal symmetry breaking parameter. We test four theories of one-point eigenfunction statistics and introduce a new theory relating the one-point and two-point statistical properties in the crossover regime. We also find a universal correlation between the one-point and two-point statistical parameters for the crossover eigenfunctions.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters
EPN-GMAP Geology and Planetary Mapping Winter School 2024 Introduction and Logistics
Creators: name: Pozzobon, Riccardo
name: Rossi, Angelo Pio
name: Massironi, Matteo
Publisher: name: Europlanet GMAP Winter School 2024, Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Introduction to the 4th Geology and Planetary Mapping Winter School 2024 edition and logistics information
Genomic 3D-compartments emerge from unfolding mitotic chromosomes
Creators: name: Rajendra, Kumar
name: Lizana, Ludvig
name: Stenberg, Per
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The 3D organisation of the genome in interphase cells is not a randomly folded polymer. Rather, experiments show that chromosomes arrange into a network of 3D compartments that correlate with biological processes, such as transcription, chromatin modifications, and protein binding. However, these compartments do not exist during cell division when the DNA is condensed, and it is unclear how and when they emerge. In this paper, we focus on the early stages after cell-division as the chromosomes start to decondense. We use a simple polymer model to understand the types of 3D structures that emerge from local unfolding of a compact initial state. From simulations, we recover 3D compartments, such as TADs and A/B compartments, that are consistently detected in Chromosome Capture Experiments across cell types and organisms. This suggests that the large-scale 3D organisation is a result of an inflation process.
description: Chromosoma (2018)
New Technologies, Training Initiatives and the Future of Manuscript Studies
Creators: name: Poleg, Eyal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are standing at the edge of a major transformation in manuscript studies. Digital surrogates, Digital Humanities analyses and the rise of new scientific analytical technologies proliferate across universities, libraries and museums. They change the way we consult, research and disseminate historical manuscripts to reveal hitherto unknown, and unknowable, information. This article looks at how the field can best integrate these transformations. Concentrating on training programmes for advanced students as a way of reimagining the field, it provides concrete advice for the future of manuscript studies, arguing that the existence of manuscript studies as removed from Digital Humanities and heritage science is becoming more and more artificial and detrimental to the future of the field.
description: 5 figures
Localization in a rough billiard: A sigma model formulation
Creators: name: Frahm, Klaus M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum dynamics of a particle in a weakly rough billiard. The Floquet operator for reflection at the boundary is obtained as a unitary band matrix. The resulting dynamics in angular momentum space can be treated in the framework of the one-dimensional supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model. We find analytically localization and the corresponding localization length $ξ=D_{cl}$ where $D_{cl}$ is the classical diffusion constant due to boundary scattering.
description: 4 pages, Revtex, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communications
On Electrogravity Duality
Creators: name: Dadhich, Naresh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By resolving the gravitational field into electric and magnetic parts, we define an electrogravity duality transformation and discover an interesting property of the field. Under the duality transformation a vacuum/flat spacetime maps into the original spacetime with a topological defect of global monopole/texture. The elctrogravity-duality is thus a topological defect generating process. It turns out that all black hole solutions possess dual solutions that imbibe a global monopole.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX version
Le point de vue des enseignants sur la place des niveaux de savoir dans le programme de chimie au Cameroun
Creators: name: MOLVINGER-VERGER, KARINE
name: NGUETCHO, ERIC MARTIAL
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: Conception, level of knowledge, teachers, program, learning of chemistry

description: This article explores the conceptions of ten Cameroonian teachers on the place of knowledge levels both in the chemistry curriculum in Cameroon and in their practices. We use the theoretical framework of levels of knowledge for the identification of conceptions. The methodological approach is based on a questionnaire addressed to high school chemistry teachers. We show that the levels of knowledge are partially controlled by the teachers, and that not all of them are aware of their importance in learning chemistry.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 3, N. 1 (2023)
An expansion of the Jones representation of genus 2 and the Torelli group
Creators: name: Kasahara, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N05, 20F38, 20C08, 20F40

description: We study the algebraic property of the representation of the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface of genus 2 constructed by VFR Jones [Annals of Math. 126 (1987) 335-388]. It arises from the Iwahori-Hecke algebra representations of Artin's braid group of 6 strings, and is defined over integral Laurent polynomials Z[t, t^{-1}]. We substitute the parameter t with -e^{h}, and then expand the powers e^h in their Taylor series. This expansion naturally induces a filtration on the Torelli group which is coarser than its lower central series. We present some results on the structure of the associated graded quotients, which include that the second Johnson homomorphism factors through the representation. As an application, we also discuss the relation with the Casson invariant of homology 3-spheres.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol1/agt-1-3.abs.html
Unstable dimension variability and synchronization of chaotic systems
Creators: name: Viana, Ricardo L.
name: Grebogi, Celso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An aspect of the synchronization dynamics is investigated in this work. We argue analytically and confirm numerically that the chaotic dynamics on the synchronization manifold exhibits unstable dimension variability. Unstable dimension variability is a cause of severe modeling difficulty for physical phenomena, since trajectories obtained from the mathematical model may not be related to trajectories of the actual system. We present and example of unstable dimension variability occurring in a system of two coupled chaotic maps, considering the dynamics in the synchronization manifold and its corresponding transversal direction, where a tongue-like structure is formed. The unstable dimension variability is revealed in the statistical distribution of the finite-time transversal Lyapunov exponent, having both negative and positive values.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, RevTex format
title: Different work capacity impairments in patients with different work-anxieties
Creators: name: Muschalla, Beate
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Work ability, work-anxiety, sick leave, impairment, mental disorders, ICF
subject: 150

description: Purpose: Persons with work-anxieties are especially endangered for work-impairment and sick-leave. Work-impairment is not directly due to symptoms but due to illness-related capacity impairments. Work capacity impairments can be described on different dimensions (e.g. social interaction, decision making and judgment, endurance, mobility). Understanding the type of work capacity impairment is important for reintegration interventions This is the first study to investigate work capacity impairment in risk-patients with different work-anxieties.
Methods: Two hundred forty four patients in inpatient rehabilitation suffering from work-anxieties were investigated concerning degree of work capacity impairment. Capacity impairment was described on 13 capacity dimensions according to the internationally evaluated observer-rating Mini-ICF-APP (impairment grades 0-4, grade 2 and higher indicating clinically relevant observable impairment). A physician´s rating on global work ability prognosis was obtained, and sick-leave duration during six months after assessment. Patients with different work-anxieties were compared concerning capacity impairments.
Results: Patients with different work-anxieties were impaired in different capacity dimensions: work-related social anxiety went along with clinically relevant impairment in capacity of assertiveness (M=2.40), anxiety of insufficiency went along with impaired capacity of endurance (M=2.20), work-related generalized worrying was accompanied by impairment in the capacity for decision making (M=1.82). Specific capacity impairment dimensions were related with sick-leave duration, while a global work ability prognosis was not.
Conclusions: The capacity approach is useful to describe work-impairment more precisely and beyond symptoms. On this basis reintegration-focusing interventions such as capacity training (e.g. social interaction training) or work adjustment (e.g. reducing exposure with interactional work tasks) can be initiated.
Nutrient Trading in Lake Rotorua: Goals and Trading Caps
Creators: name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Rutherford, Kit
name: Lock, Kelly
name: Kerr, Suzi
name: Rutherford, Kit
name: Lock, Kelly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: water quality
subject: nutrients
subject: Lake Rotorua

description: For a nutrient trading system to achieve the desired environmental outcome, or goal, this outcome needs to be translated into nutrient flows and allowances. To connect the nutrient loss provided for under the allowances with the environmental goal, a number of decisions need to be made. These decisions will shape the nutrient trading system. This paper looks at the information and analysis needed to ultimately define allowances and set trading caps for a nutrient trading system.
Real Space Renormalization of the Chalker-Coddington Model
Creators: name: Arovas, Daniel P.
name: Janssen, Martin
name: Shapiro, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a number of hierarchical network models related to the Chalker-Coddington model of quantum percolation. Our aim is to describe the physics of the quantum Hall transition. The hierarchical network models are constructed by combining series and parallel composition of quantum resistors. The localization-delocalization transition occurring in these models is treated by real space renormalization techniques. Essentially, the localization-delocalization transition is due to a competition between two one-dimensional localization mechanisms.
description: 10 pages, REVTeX, 15 figures included, few lines addressing the work of Galstyan and Raikh added to secs.I,VII
title: Is it a case of “work-anxiety” when patients report bad workplace characteristics and low work ability?
Creators: name: Muschalla, Beate
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Work anxiety, work ability, workplace, sick leave, work characteristics
subject: 150

description: Aims: Work-anxiety may come along with a negative view of the workplace and is therefore an important factor of influence in work ability assessment. Work ability assessment requires to distinguish between descriptive workplace characteristics, work ability, and work-anxiety. This study explores the empirical relationships between patient-reported workplace characteristics, work-anxiety, and subjective and objective work ability measures.
Methods: 125 patients in medical rehabilitation before vocational reintegration were interviewed concerning their vocational situation, and filled in a questionnaire on work-anxiety (WPS), subjective mental work ability (WAI) and perceived workplace characteristics (KFZA, JATS). Treating physicians gave independent socio-medical judgments concerning the patients´ work ability and impairment, and need for supportive means for vocational reintegration.
Results: Patients with high work-anxiety reported workplace characteristics systematically more negative. Also low subjective work ability went along with reports of problematic workplace characteristics. When controlled for work-anxiety, subjective work ability remained related only with social workplace characteristics and with work achievement demands, but independent from situational or task characteristics.
Sick leave duration and physicians´ judgment of work ability are not systematically related with patient-reported workplace characteristics.
Conclusions: In socio-medical work ability assessment, patients with high work-anxiety must be expected to report more problematic workplace characteristics and lower work ability. For detecting potentially biased patient´s view on work characteristics and work ability, the patient must be explored concerning work-anxiety. Detecting work-anxiety is important in order to initiate early work-directed treatment, and avoid long-term sick leaves.
An Italian's story (part I)
Creators: name: Lepori, Giulia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This piece of creative prose is the first sequence of a triptych on Italian stories of social and environmental sustainability, recollected through the point of view of my intra-connection with other humans and non-humans. The intention is to represent the entangled chaos of the ecological system that is a human being, where each discursive and material moment of her/his story is the continuation, the end and the beginning of another one. For this purpose, the narration appears like a coiling composition of memories that does not strictly follow chronological order, nor does it claim a definite first-person narrator. The deliberate sense of confusion aims to provoke the feeling that a human life is a woven circularity created by multiple agencies. 'An Italian Story' is an affective glance at an evolving practice of environmental humanist investigation as a form of poetical activism. In this subjective dimension, life writing can become a creative autoethnographic action to tell different stories that narrate back this age of ecological disruption.
PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, No. 14, Dec 2018: 67-72
Key principles of inclusive education and main challenges of implementing inclusive practice at preschool level in Greece
Creators: name: KYRIAZOPOULOU, MARIA
name: KARALIS, THANASSIS
name: MAGOS, KONSTANTINOS
name: ARVANITIS, EUGENIA
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: Inclusive education, early childhood education and care, pre-school inclusive education, pre-school teachers’ training needs

description: Participation in high quality preschool education has long-term positive effects on children's development and the benefits are greater for children at risk of exclusion and from vulnerable environments. Modern and inclusive societies respond with equity and social justice to the diverse needs of the population. In this context, inclusive pre-school education aims at quality education for all learners, with equal opportunities for access, learning and achievement. Inclusion requires a significant change of mindset and a process of systemic reform and coordinated action at various levels, such as legal, political, organizational, pedagogical, educational, etc. Actions to transform the education system to meet the academic and social learning needs of all learners. In this article we report a study on investigation of the training needs, knowledge and skills of preschool teachers in Greece, for the implementation of inclusive education. Quantitative data obtained through a questionnaire were supplemented by preschool teacher interviews. In particular, the survey captured the thoughts, experiences, and priorities of policy makers on inclusive pre-school education at European and national level. It also included questionnaires and interviews with key people in the education process in Greece about their thoughts and experiences on "what, how and why" different factors and conditions could facilitate effective inclusive practices. The findings can contribute to the improvement of inclusive practices at preschool education and influence the policy and practice of inclusive education in Greece.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 3, N. 1 (2023)
Determination of spin Hall angle in heavy metal/CoFeB-based heterostructures with interfacial spin-orbit fields
Creators: name: Skowroński, Witold
name: Karwacki, Łukasz
name: Ziętek, Sławomir
name: Kanak, Jarosław
name: Łazarski, Stanisław
name: Grochot, Krzysztof
name: Stobiecki, Tomasz
name: Kuświk, Piotr
name: Stobiecki, Feliks
name: Barnaś, Józef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization dynamics in W/CoFeB, CoFeB/Pt and W/CoFeB/Pt multilayers was investigated using spin-orbit-torque ferromagnetic resonance (SOT-FMR) technique. An analytical model based on magnetization dynamics due to SOT was used to fit heavy metal (HM) thickness dependence of symmetric and antisymmetric components of the SOT-FMR signal. The analysis resulted in a determination of the properties of HM layers, such as spin Hall angle and spin diffusion length. The spin Hall angle of -0.36 and 0.09 has been found in the W/CoFeB and CoFeB/Pt bilayers, respectively, which add up in the case of W/CoFeB/Pt trilayer. More importantly, we have determined effective interfacial spin-orbit fields at both W/CoFeB and CoFeB/Pt interfaces, which are shown to cancel Oersted field for particular thicknesses of the heavy metal layers, leading to pure spin-current-induced dynamics and indicating the possibility for a more efficient magnetization switching.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review Applied
Impure Simplicial Complexes: Complete Axiomatization
Creators: name: Randrianomentsoa, Rojo
name: van Ditmarsch, Hans
name: Kuznets, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combinatorial topology is used in distributed computing to model concurrency and asynchrony. The basic structure in combinatorial topology is the simplicial complex, a collection of subsets called simplices of a set of vertices, closed under containment. Pure simplicial complexes describe message passing in asynchronous systems where all processes (agents) are alive, whereas impure simplicial complexes describe message passing in synchronous systems where processes may be dead (have crashed). Properties of impure simplicial complexes can be described in a three-valued multi-agent epistemic logic where the third value represents formulae that are undefined, e.g., the knowledge and local propositions of dead agents. In this work we present an axiomatization for the logic of the class of impure complexes and show soundness and completeness. The completeness proof involves the novel construction of the canonical simplicial model and requires a careful manipulation of undefined formulae.
El padre J. Brown y James Bond: construcción estereotipada del espía británico en colisión
Creators: name: Delgado Del Aguila, Jesús Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470526
subject: Other literatures in English

description: Delgado Del Aguila, Jesús Miguel (2024). «El padre J. Brown y James Bond: construcción estereotipada del espía británico en colisión», en: Olho d’água. Revista indexada en Web of Science (WOS). São Paulo, Brasil: Universidade Estadual Paulista. Vol. 16, n.° 2, julio-diciembre, pp. 102-119. Disponible en http://www.olhodagua.ibilce.unesp.br/index.php/Olhodagua/article/view/1042
House Prices and Rents: Socio-Economic Impacts and Prospects
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Aitken, Andrew
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Aitken, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: high prices
subject: house rents
subject: rental yields
subject: capital gains
subject: community prospects

description: We use New Zealand property data at the area unit (suburb) level to examine implied prospects for communities over time, and test whether these derived prospects have explanatory power relating to actual future outcomes. We also use the data to analyse whether disadvantaged communities face particular problems in relation to rental markets. Our results indicate that: capital gains and rental growth expectations historically have appeared reasonable in that they have not been suggestive of asset bubbles or other fad behaviour; derived capital gains and rental growth expectations have explanatory power both over actual future capital gains and actual future rental growth; and lower socio-economic areas face higher rental yields even after controlling for non-socio-economic factors than do high socio-economic areas.
A lognormal luminosity function for SWIRE in flat cosmology
Creators: name: Zaninetti, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evaluation of the physical parameters or effects such as the luminosity function (LF) or the photometric maximum (PM) for galaxies is routinely modeled by their spectroscopic redshift. Here, we model LF and PM for galaxies by the photometric redshift as given by the Spitzer Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic (SWIRE) catalog in the framework of a lognormal LF. In addition, we compare our model with the Schechter LF for galaxies. The adopted cosmological framework is that of the flat cosmology.
description: 11 pages 9 Figures
Fixed points, stability and intermittency in a shell model for advection of passive scalars
Creators: name: Kockelkoren, Julien
name: Jensen, Mogens H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the fixed points of a shell model for the turbulent advection of passive scalars introduced Jensen, Paladin and Vulpiani. The passive scalar field is driven by the velocity field of the popular GOY shell model. The scaling behavior of the static solutions is found to differ significantly from Obukhov-Corrsin scaling theta_n ~ k_n^(-1/3) which is only recovered in the limit where the diffusivity vanishes, D -> 0. From the eigenvalue spectrum we show that any perturbation in the scalar will always damp out, i.e. the eigenvalues of the scalar are negative and are decoupled from the eigenvalues of the velocity. Furthermore we estimate Lyapunov exponents and the intermittency parameters using a definition proposed by Benzi et al. The full model is as chaotic as the GOY model, measured by the maximal Lyapunov exponent, but is more intermittent.
description: 6 pages, REVTex, 4 figures
Quality Differences in Alfalfa Seed Marketed in the West
Creators: name: Schlegel, Woodrow A.
name: Samson, Glenn R.
name: Schlegel, Woodrow A.
name: Samson, Glenn R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1960
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: The production and use of alfalfa seed have more than doubled since 1943. Total alfalfa seed production increased from 64.3 million pounds in 1943 to 152.1 million pounds in 1958. The production of certified alfalfa seed also increased during this period from a negligible 31,400 pounds to 60.2 million pounds, a tremendous increase. With the growing interest in specific varieties for planting in specific areas, the average purchaser is becoming increasingly concerned about the variations in quality of certified and noncertified alfalfa seed entering the marketing channels. This publication will attempt to provide a better understanding of the quality differences which are present in all certified and noncertified alfalfa seed sold in the normal marketing channels and to determine which factors are most influential in explaining seed price differences of as much as $15.00 per hundredweight.
Implementing agroforestry systems in cocoa production as climate change adaptation methods - -Case study from Ivory Coast
Creators: name: Brunelle, R.
name: M'Bo, K.A.A.
name: OkouAbi, A.K.
name: Tchéma, R.
name: Levasseur, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Cocoa production in Ivory Coast plays an important role in the country's economy and farmer's livelihood. Traditionally their cocoa plants are cultivated under direct sun. In the last decades, aging of the plantations, climate change, and attacks from pests and disease, have triggered a series of challenges for the Ivorian cocoa production. In 2019, the International Development Research Center (IDRC) funded AdaptCoop, an applied research project whose main objective is to sustainably increase the resilience of cocoa cooperatives and member families when dealing with the impacts of climate change. To alleviate the impact of climate change on Ivorian cocoa production, there is a need to identify the most promising agroecological adaptation practices, for both men and women producers. Therefore, a gender-based analysis was performed interviewing 69 women and 288 men to identify whether there are different tendencies between women and men cocoa farmers, especially with respect to these practices, and the elements that could explain such tendencies. In other words, why women specifically adopt, or not, certain practices and if this is different for men. The results of the gender-based analysis underline very low literacy rates, which are even more pronounced among women, and can limit access to and understanding of information and training. Also, less than half of the women feel they can act on the negative effect of climate change compared to almost three-quarters of men. Such results were then integrated in a multicriteria analysis to identify the most promising agroecological adaptation practices to be supported for implementation by targeted women and men cocoa farmers. The practices that are currently tested include diversifying the plantation by adding shade trees, perennial legumes, bananas, and other edible plants; implement vegetative barrier; use mulching, herb swaths; composting using cocoa residue; scout for disease and pest; use mechanical methods such as pruning or manual removal of insects; use of natural or biological repellent; and store cocoa beans in a weather protected area. Finally, on top of identifying the constraints faced by cocoa producers in Ivory Coast and its gender-differentiation, this applied research gave us the opportunity to identify and support the implementation of adaptation practices at the cooperatives' level and provide an appreciation of their impact.
Keywords: Agroforestry; Climate Change Adaptation Practices; Gender-based analysis
Flexible Correct-by-Construction Programming
Creators: name: Runge, Tobias
name: Bordis, Tabea
name: Potanin, Alex
name: Thüm, Thomas
name: Schaefer, Ina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Correctness-by-Construction (CbC) is an incremental program construction process to construct functionally correct programs. The programs are constructed stepwise along with a specification that is inherently guaranteed to be satisfied. CbC is complex to use without specialized tool support, since it needs a set of predefined refinement rules of fixed granularity which are additional rules on top of the programming language. Each refinement rule introduces a specific programming statement and developers cannot depart from these rules to construct programs. CbC allows to develop software in a structured and incremental way to ensure correctness, but the limited flexibility is a disadvantage of CbC. In this work, we compare classic CbC with CbC-Block and TraitCbC. Both approaches CbC-Block and TraitCbC, are related to CbC, but they have new language constructs that enable a more flexible software construction approach. We provide for both approaches a programming guideline, which similar to CbC, leads to well-structured programs. CbC-Block extends CbC by adding a refinement rule to insert any block of statements. Therefore, we introduce CbC-Block as an extension of CbC. TraitCbC implements correctness-by-construction on the basis of traits with specified methods. We formally introduce TraitCbC and prove soundness of the construction strategy. All three development approaches are qualitatively compared regarding their programming constructs, tool support, and usability to assess which is best suited for certain tasks and developers.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.05644
The high-energy gamma-ray fluence and energy spectrum of GRB 970417a from observations with Milagrito
Creators: name: Atkins, R.
name: Benbow, W.
name: Berley, D.
name: Chen, M. L.
name: Coyne, D. G.
name: Dingus, B. L.
name: Dorfan, D. E.
name: Ellsworth, R. W.
name: Evans, D.
name: Falcone, A.
name: Fleysher, L.
name: Fleysher, R.
name: Gisler, G.
name: Sanchez, M. M. Gonzalez
name: Goodman, J. A.
name: Haines, T. J.
name: Hoffman, C. M.
name: Hugenberger, S.
name: Kelley, L. A.
name: Klein, S.
name: Leonor, I.
name: McCullough, J. F.
name: McEnery, J. E.
name: Miller, R. S.
name: Mincer, A. I.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Nemethy, P.
name: Ryan, J. M.
name: Samuelson, F. W.
name: Shen, B.
name: Shoup, A.
name: Sinnis, C.
name: Smith, A. J.
name: Sullivan, G. W.
name: Tumer, T.
name: Wang, K.
name: Wascko, M. O.
name: Westerhoff, S.
name: Williams, D. A.
name: Yang, T.
name: Yodh, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence of TeV emission from GRB970417a has been previously reported using data from the Milagrito detector. Constraints on the TeV fluence and the energy spectrum are now derived using additional data from a scaler system that recorded the rate of signals from the Milagrito photomultipliers. This analysis shows that if emission from GRB970417a has been observed, it must contain photons with energies above 650 GeV. Some consequences of this observation are discussed.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Swimming in the dark
Creators: name: Coralie, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the early summer of 2014, during a record breaking period of heat and suffocating winds in Melbourne, Australia, I lay on a couch on one of those hot nights after swimming in the shared pool of the inner city gated community where I was renting.

PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, No. 14, Dec 2018: 59-66
Tuwa: Growing and listening out of enclosure
Creators: name: Louisson, Amalia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article assesses the potential of a new materialist approach for those of colonial descent in Aotearoa New Zealand (Pakeha) to face environmental harms in a more accountable manner. Resisting a compartmentalised ethics, new materialism(s) puts forward an environmentalism that unravels nature-culture dualisms so that we can properly listen to the needs of other species. While it holds much promise, especially in the way that it shares more conceptual common ground with matauranga 'Maori (Maori worldview'), facilitating a better understanding of colonial accountability and providing richer ground for dialogue, thinking through its practice in Aotearoa New Zealand illustrates that new materialism could work as a colonising force; it all depends on how we interpret posthuman care.
PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, No. 14, Dec 2018: 45-58
Open Educational Resources (OERs) to Promote Academic Integrity
Creators: name: Sadiq, Rehan
name: Chaudhuri, Anita
name: Charnley, Kerrie
name: Eaton, Sarah
name: Kumar, Rahul
name: Razi, Salim
name: Stouck, Jordan
name: Langille, Donna
name: Saatchi, Tina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: This recording and accompanying report of an interactive panel discussion on Open Educational Resources (OERs) to Promote Academic Integrity explored and responded to questions such as: What are some of the best practices, approaches or strategies to teach academic integrity? What kind of OERs are available for a post-secondary audience and how do they respond to research in this area? How can Indigenous pedagogy inform academic integrity conversations and promote a culturally relevant way of learning? The panelists offered direction on discussing academic integrity and designing assignments that cultivate a disciplinary and institutional understanding. The session included a Q&A. The report is based on student observation of the panel and their understanding of academic integrity. Instead of transcribing every aspect of the presentation, the report summarizes and highlights different ways in which academic integrity is viewed and researched. It discusses the usefulness of open educational resources, shared during the presentations, to facilitate teaching and learning.
'Making the darkness conscious': Elegiac temporality in Seamus Heaney's 'North' (1975)
Creators: name: Bristow, Tom
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The intention of this article is to introduce the 'PAN' reader to a new conversation on elegy, inspired by the particular fusion of philosophy and environmentalism found in this journal that can travel more frequently to literary criticism.
PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, No. 14, Dec 2018: 30-44
Sciences Physiques et Technologie dans les programmes scolaires de l’enseignement secondaire de 3 pays méditerranéens : le cas de l’Algérie, du Maroc et de la Grèce
Creators: name: OUARZEDDINE, AMMAR
name: OUASRI, ALI
name: GOMATOS, LEONIDAS
name: RAVANIS, KONSTANTINOS
Publisher: name: Mediterranean Journal of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: Physical Sciences, Technology, secondary education, curriculum, Algeria, Morocco, Greece

description: This article presents the integration of science and technology in the secondary school curricula of three Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Morocco, Greece). The perspective of the analysis attempted is on the one hand descriptive and on the other hand comparative. Therefore, after explaining the methodological approach, a brief reference is first made to the structure of the educational systems of the three countries, with emphasis on the general presentation of the educational cycles. In what follows, detailed data on the presence of physical sciences and technology in the curricula are presented and, finally, a comparative reference is made to the elements of the curricula.
description: Mediterranean Journal of Education, Vol. 3, N. 1 (2023)
title: Iniciativas de gobierno abierto en municipios de Argentina
Creators: name: Aranda, Estefanía
Publisher: name: National University of Rosario
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02tphfq59
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: El PoliLab UNR investiga los Gobiernos Locales, la utilización de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación tanto en sus procesos administrativos como en su vinculación con la ciudadanía desde la perspectiva de Gobierno Abierto.
Maser and other instabilities in a weakly magnetized relativistic plasma: Theory and the astrophysical relevance of the maser
Creators: name: Gruzinov, Andrei
name: Waxman, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sufficient condition for maser instability in a weakly magnetized relativistic plasma with an isotropic particle distribution function is given. The maser growth rates and polarizations are computed starting from the exact dielectric permittivity tensor of a magnetized plasma. For very weak magnetic fields, our results confirm the approximate validity of the 'standard maser theory', which is based on the Einstein coefficients method, with one significant exception. For inclined propagation and realistic (small but finite) field, the growth rates of the two (nearly circular) polarizations differ significantly, while the standard theory predicts two (nearly circular) polarizations with similar growth rates. We show that this deviation is due to circularly polarized synchrotron emission, which is neglected in the standard theory. The maser is shown to grow slower than Langmuir waves. Nevertheless, significant generation of EM waves is seen in (highly simplified) direct numerical simulations. We study the nonlinear saturation of the maser instability and find that it offers a mechanism for the conversion of a significant fraction of the plasma energy into radio waves. We briefly discuss the conditions under which the maser instability may operate in astrophysical sources, and provide rough estimates that may be used as a guidance when studying particular astrophysical sources/phenomena.
title: Work-anxiety coping intervention improves work-coping perception while a recreational intervention leads to deterioration: Results from a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Muschalla, Beate
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Work-anxiety, work-coping, return to work, intervention, mental health
subject: 150

description: Work-anxieties are costly and need early intervention. The perception of being able to cope with work is a basic requirement for work ability. This randomized controlled trial investigates whether a cognitive behavioural, work-anxiety coping group intervention leads to better work-coping perception than an unspecific recreational group.
Heterogeneous people in medical rehabilitation, who were due to return to work, were interviewed concerning their work-anxieties, and either randomly assigned to a work-anxiety coping group (n=85) or a recreational group (n=95). The participants (with an average of 50 years old (range 23-64); 51% women; 70% workers or employees, 25% academics, 5% unskilled) followed the group intervention for four or six sessions. The perceived work-coping was assessed by self-rating (Inventory for Job-Coping and Return Intention JoCoRi) after each group session.
Although participants had a slight temporary decrease in work-coping after group session two (from M1=2.47 to M2 =2.28, dCohen=-0.22), the work-anxiety coping group led to the improvement of perceived work-coping over the intervention course (from M1=2.47 to M6=2.65, dCohen=0.18). In contrast, participants from the recreational group reported lower work-coping after six group sessions (from M1=2.26 to M6=2.02, dCohen=-0.18).
It is considered that people with work-anxieties need training in work-coping. By focusing on recreation only, this may lead to deterioration of work-coping. Indeed, intervention designers should be aware of temporary deterioration (side-effects) when confronting participants with work-coping.
title: A concept of psychological work capacity demands – first evaluation in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders.
Creators: name: Muschalla, Beate
Publisher: name: IOS Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mental disorders, Mental health, Sick leave, Work ability, Work demands
subject: 150

description: BACKGROUND: Work capacity demands are a concept to describe which psychological capacities are required in a job. Assessing psychological work capacity demands is of specific importance when mental health problems at work endanger work ability. Exploring psychological work capacity demands is the basis for mental hazard analysis or rehabilitative action, e.g. in terms of work adjustment.
OBJECTIVE: This is the first study investigating psychological work capacity demands in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders.
METHODS: A structured interview on psychological work capacity demands (Mini-ICF-Work; Muschalla, 2015; Linden et al., 2015) was done with 166 rehabilitation patients of working age. All interviews were done by a state-licensed socio-medically trained psychotherapist. Inter-rater-reliability was assessed by determining agreement in independent co-rating in 65 interviews. For discriminant validity purposes, participants filled in the Short Questionnaire for Work Analysis (KFZA, Prümper et al.,1994).
RESULTS: In different professional fields, different psychological work capacity demands were of importance. The Mini-ICF-Work capacity dimensions reflect different aspects than the KFZA. Patients with mental disorders were longer on sick leave and had worse work ability prognosis than patients without mental disorders, although both groups reported similar work capacity demands.
CONCLUSIONS: Psychological work demands - which are highly relevant for work ability prognosis and work adjustment processes - can be explored and differentiated in terms of psychological capacity demands.
Proximity superconductivity in atom-by-atom crafted quantum dots
Creators: name: Schneider, Lucas
name: Ton, Khai That
name: Ioannidis, Ioannis
name: Neuhaus-Steinmetz, Jannis
name: Posske, Thore
name: Wiesendanger, Roland
name: Wiebe, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gapless materials in electronic contact with superconductors acquire proximity-induced superconductivity in a region near the interface. Numerous proposals build on this addition of electron pairing to originally non-superconducting systems like ferromagnets and predict intriguing quantum phases of matter, including topological-, odd-frequency-, or nodal-point superconductivity. However, atomic-scale experimental investigations of the microscopic mechanisms leading to proximity-induced Cooper pairing in surface or interface states are missing. Here, we investigate the most miniature example of the proximity effect on only a single quantum level of a surface state confined in a quantum corral on a superconducting substrate, built atom-by-atom by a scanning tunneling microscope. Whenever an eigenmode of the corral is pitched close to the Fermi energy by adjusting the corral's size, a pair of particle-hole symmetric states enters the superconductor's gap. We identify the in-gap states as scattering resonances theoretically predicted 50 years ago by Machida and Shibata, which had so far eluded detection. We further show that the observed anticrossings of the in-gap states indicate proximity-induced pairing in the quantum corral's eigenmodes. Our results have direct consequences on the interpretation of in-gap states in unconventional or topological superconductors, corroborate concepts to induce superconductivity into a single quantum level and further pave the way towards superconducting artificial lattices.