cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Vacuum Stability - Constraining BSM Scalar Sectors
Creators: name: Wittbrodt, Jonas
name: Hollik, Wolfgang
name: Weiglein, Georg
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: DPG Frühjahrstagung Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 19 Mar 2018 - 23 Mar 2018
description: Since the LHC has not provided us with any hints towards new physics, it is ever more interesting to constrain BSM theories from purely theoretical considerations. Requiring that the electroweak vacuum in any BSM model is at least metastable, can lead to stringent constraints on the parameter space of the model. Many popular extensions of the SM, such as supersymmetry, feature greatly extended scalar sectors. In the resulting high dimensional scalar potential, vacuum decay can happen in many different field directions. Constraints from vacuum decay thus rely on finding all minima of multidimensional scalar potentials which is a nontrivial task even at tree-level. We present results on the vacuum stability in supersymmetric models from a new code aiming to provide an efficient and reliable check of vacuum stability for use in BSM parameter scans.
Moments of Nucleon Unpolarized, Polarized, and Transversity Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point
Creators: name: Rodekamp, Marcel
name: Engelhardt, Michael
name: Green, Jeremy R.
name: Krieg, Stefan
name: Liuti, Simonetta
name: Meinel, Stefan
name: Negele, John W.
name: Pochinsky, Andrew
name: Syritsyn, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The second Mellin moments $\langle x\rangle$ of the nucleon's unpolarized, polarized, and transversity parton distribution functions (PDFs) are computed. Two lattice QCD ensembles at the physical pion mass are used: these were generated using a tree-level Symanzik-improved gauge action and 2+1 flavour tree-level improved Wilson Clover fermions coupling via 2-level HEX-smearing. The moments are extracted from forward matrix elements of local leading twist operators. We determine renomalization factors in RI-(S)MOM and match to $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$ at scale $2\,\mathrm{GeV}$. Our findings show that operators that exhibit vanishing kinematics at zero momentum can have significantly reduced excited-state contamination. The resulting polarized moment is used to quantify the longitudinal contribution to the quark spin-orbit correlation. All our results agree within two sigma with previous lattice results.
CP-violating Yukawa Couplings of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson
Creators: name: Wittbrodt, Jonas
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: DPG Frühjahrstagung Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 19 Mar 2018 - 23 Mar 2018
description: While precision studies of the 125 GeV Higgs boson get underway, little is still known about a possible CP-violating pseudoscalar admixture to this state. We performed a parameter scan in one of the simplest models with a CP-violating scalar sector, the Complex 2HDM (C2HDM), including the important constraint from the electric dipole moment of the electron. We show that there are still viable scenarios where the Yukawa couplings of the 125 GeV display near maximal CP-violation. Depending on the 2HDM Yukawa type, two intriguing configurations are possible. First, the CP-even and CP-odd Yukawa couplings to a given fermion can be of similar size.Second, the Higgs boson can couple as a scalar to certain fermions and as a pseudoscalar to others. These possibilities can lead to interesting observable consequences.
Flow rate-pressure drop relations for shear-thinning fluids in deformable configurations: theory and experiments
Creators: name: Chun, SungGyu
name: Boyko, Evgeniy
name: Christov, Ivan C.
name: Feng, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an experimental framework to measure the flow rate--pressure drop relation for Newtonian and shear-thinning fluids in two common deformable configurations: (\textit{i}) a rectangular channel and (\textit{ii}) an axisymmetric tube. Using the Carreau model to describe the shear-dependent viscosity, we identify the key dimensionless rheological number, $Cu$, which characterizes shear thinning, and we show that our experiments lie within the power-law regime of shear rates. To rationalize the experimental data, we derive the flow rate-pressure drop relation taking into account the two-way-coupled fluid-structure interaction between the flow and its compliant confining boundaries. We thus identify the second key dimensionless number, $α$, which characterizes the compliance of the conduit. We then compare the theoretical flow rate-pressure drop relation to our experimental measurements, finding excellent agreement between the two. We further contrast our results for shear-thinning and Newtonian fluids to highlight the influence of $Cu$ on the flow rate-pressure drop relation. Finally, we delineate four distinct physical regimes of flow and deformation by mapping our experimental flow rate-pressure drop data for Newtonian and shear-thinning fluids into a $Cu-α$ plane.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; v2 accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids
The Importance of Being Disconnected, A Principal Extension for Serious Groups
Creators: name: Bourget, Antoine
name: Pini, Alessandro
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Diego
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2018

description: We introduce gauge theories based on a class of disconnected gauge groups, called principal extensions. Although in this work we focus on 4d theories with N=2 SUSY, such construction is independent of spacetime dimensions and supersymmetry. These groups implement in a consistent way the discrete gauging of charge conjugation, for arbitrary rank. Focusing on the principal extension of SU(N), we explain how many of the exact methods for theories with 8 supercharges can be put into practice in that context. We then explore the physical consequences of having a disconnected gauge group: we find that the Coulomb branch is generically non-freely generated, and the global symmetry of the Higgs branch is modified in a non-trivial way.
Relativistic modeling of cosmological structures with Bianchi IX spacetimes
Creators: name: Malkiewicz, Przemyslaw
name: Ostrowski, Jan J.
name: Gaspar, Ismael Delgado
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a relativistic framework to investigate the evolution of cosmological structures from the initial density perturbations to the highly nonlinear regime. Our approach involves proposing a procedure to match ``best-fit", exact Bianchi IX (BIX) spacetimes to finite regions within the perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe characterized by a positive averaged spatial curvature. This method enables us to approximately track the nonlinear evolution of the initial perturbation using an exact solution. Unlike standard perturbation theory and exact solutions with a high degree of symmetry (such as spherical symmetry), our approach is applicable to generic initial data, with the only requirement being positive spatial curvature. By employing the BIX symmetries, we can systematically incorporate the approximate effects of shear and curvature into the process of collapse. Our approach addresses the limitations of both standard perturbation theory and highly symmetric exact solutions, providing valuable insights into the nonlinear evolution of cosmological structures.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Atractus tartarus Passos 2016
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus tartarus

description: Atractus tartarus Passos et al., 2016
Type locality. Vila Palestina, Rondon do Pará, state of Pará, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 184A), restricted to eastern Amazonia and its contact with the Cerrado (Plt. 184A) at low elevations (Plt. 184B). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest (Passos et al., 2016).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Additional file 1 of Worse pulmonary function in association with cumulative exposure to nanomaterials. Hints of a mediation effect via pulmonary inflammation
Creators: name: Squillacioti, Giulia
name: Charreau, Thomas
name: Wild, Pascal
name: Bellisario, Valeria
name: Ghelli, Federica
name: Bono, Roberto
name: Bergamaschi, Enrico
name: Garzaro, Giacomo
name: Guseva Canu, Irina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 1 of Determining the extent and frequency of on-site monitoring: a bayesian risk-based approach
Creators: name: Xie, Longshen
name: Liu, Lin
name: Chow, Shein-Chung
name: Lu, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans
Creators: name: Lee, Messi H. J.
name: Montgomery, Jacob M.
name: Lai, Calvin K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models (LLMs) are becoming pervasive in everyday life, yet their propensity to reproduce biases inherited from training data remains a pressing concern. Prior investigations into bias in LLMs have focused on the association of social groups with stereotypical attributes. However, this is only one form of human bias such systems may reproduce. We investigate a new form of bias in LLMs that resembles a social psychological phenomenon where socially subordinate groups are perceived as more homogeneous than socially dominant groups. We had ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art LLM, generate texts about intersectional group identities and compared those texts on measures of homogeneity. We consistently found that ChatGPT portrayed African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans as more homogeneous than White Americans, indicating that the model described racial minority groups with a narrower range of human experience. ChatGPT also portrayed women as more homogeneous than men, but these differences were small. Finally, we found that the effect of gender differed across racial/ethnic groups such that the effect of gender was consistent within African and Hispanic Americans but not within Asian and White Americans. We argue that the tendency of LLMs to describe groups as less diverse risks perpetuating stereotypes and discriminatory behavior.
description: Forthcoming at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2024
Atractus thalesdelemai Passos 2005
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus thalesdelemai

description: Atractus thalesdelemai Passos et al., 2005
Type locality. Fazenda da Brigada Militar, Passo Fundo, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Distribution. Known from two records, in Brazil and Paraguay (Plt. 185A). In Brazil, restricted to the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest, near its contact with the Araucaria Forest (Plt. 185A), at low to intermediate elevations (Plt. 185B). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Resources designed and used in statistics education in Bachelor of Technology courses in France
Creators: name: Khaneboubi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2024

description: The French education system has numerous higher education institutions with various specializations. IUTs, established in the late 1960s, provide specific training. These schools offer three-year, practice-oriented education that enables students to work or pursue a master's degree. They are widely accessible and popular, even in small towns, and offer 24 nationally defined curricula in two areas: science and management.

The teaching of statistics in IUTs is unique since it is present in almost all specialties. Studying the teaching and learning of statistics in IUTs enables us to comprehend didactic phenomena in a teaching system that has been established for a long time throughout the country and is a privileged field for meeting teachers whose activity has been tried and tested and is part of a continuum. This research explores the factors that influence the format and nature of the resources designed and utilized in these lessons, how they are integrated into teaching, and what functions they serve.

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven mathematics teachers responsible for statistics courses. Often coming from secondary education, these teachers had to adjust the content taught to the objectives and teaching situations typical of French higher education.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023)
Teachers’ judgement, learning materials and curriculum
Creators: name: Christensen, Anders Stig
name: Mortensen-Buan, Anne-Beathe
name: Nordberg, Kari
name: Roos, Merethe
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2023

description: Teachers’ choices of learning materials are made under conditions of a changing educational landscape. This small-scale qualitative study investigates how teachers reflect on their choice and use of learning materials in light of changes in the curriculum in Norway and the development of digital and analogue learning materials. It is based on focus group interviews with two groups of experienced teachers. The focus is on the subjects L1 (Norwegian), English and social studies. Our hypothesis is that there is often a tension between the teachers’ professional judgement, the demands of the curriculum, and the available learning materials. The analysis of the interviews shows that the changes in the Norwegian curriculum pose challenges for the teachers, but also that the interviewed teachers are ready for these challenges. With the development of digital learning materials, the teachers do not see the analogue textbook as obsolete, but they have an intention to be able to combine analogue and digital learning materials. The study shows the need for supporting the teachers’ professional judgement in light of the changes in the curriculum and the development of learning materials, both digital and analogue.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023)
Appalachian Research and Value for the Greater Good
Creators: name: Ruggaber, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Research
Transparency
Sustainability
Community
OR2024

description: The University of Virginia at Wise (UVA Wise) is located on 396 acres in central Appalachia, rich in mixed land use, and biodiversity. The Appalachian economy continues to struggle due to the environmental impact of coal mining, the decline of the coal industry, the opioid crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, and now climate change. UVA Wise conducts valuable research pertinent to the problems facing the region and underrepresented communities but has no repository infrastructure or scholarly communication services. In the fall of 2023, librarians, and researchers of the University of Virginia (UVA) and UVA Wise began collaborating to preserve and provide public access to UVA Wise's federally funded research by leveraging UVA's repository infrastructure. A second phase involves building a UVA Wise research portal to showcase the research, its value, and scholarly communication services, providing library resources (employing students, funding digitization equipment), hosting a research showcase event, conducting student research advocacy, and assessing data to measure impact. The presentation will focus on the problems facing the region, specific UVA Wise research relating to those problems, explore the value of this research to disproportionately impacted communities, and explore the value of elevating the visibility of research at the smaller institution.
Representation of Culture and National Identity in Pakistani ESL Textbooks
Creators: name: Hussain, Sajid
name: Sandaran, Shanti C.
name: Saeed, Abdul
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2023

description: The present study examined the spectrum of cultures, specifically the representation of source culture in relation to Pakistan’s national identity construction in English textbooks. Six locally developed textbooks in Pakistan were analysed qualitatively. Moreover, Cortazzi’s & Jin’s categorisation of culture plus Kachru’s (1992) Concentric circles and Shahsani’s taxonomy of culture categorisation were employed as an analytical framework to look at the contents of the textbooks. The contents of each unit/lesson were thoroughly examined to expose the representation of cultures that help form the students' national identity. Resultantly, the study's findings divulge the disproportionate representation of source, target, and international cultures; however, the representation of source culture outweighs the other two cultures. It further reveals the incorporation of source cultural values, norms, and roles that disseminate information about Pakistan, its history, geography, national heroes, Islam; Islamic teaching, beliefs, traditions, manners, ethics, morality, gender’s roles, and national cultural heritage that contribute to the construction of Islamic based national identity of Pakistan. To sum up, the writers of the textbooks construct students’ national identity by representing source culture materials in the English textbooks that also pave the way to the formation of Pakistani English.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023)
How well do materials evaluation schemes empower users to detect problematic social group portrayals within ELT materials?
Creators: name: Brown, Charles
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2023

description: This research sought to determine how well schemes for evaluating English language teaching (ELT) materials provide guidance in detecting problematic social group portrayals. I collected 107 frameworks for ELT materials evaluation, assessing the guidance provided for detecting social group portrayals problematic in ELT materials. Specifically, I considered how well these frameworks instructed users in detecting ableism, ageism, lookism, racial bias, religious bias, cultural bias, undue UK/US focus, undue English native speaker focus, gender bias, heteronormativity, and urbanormativity. While results revealed some attention to these social group issues, this attention was limited and guidance to users was poor, especially when compared with more traditional areas of ELT materials evaluation such as that afforded to assessing presentations of grammar and vocabulary. This suggests a troubling blind spot in materials evaluation, one that could allow ELT pedagogy to promote social injustice given that problematic social group portrayals can form a potent hidden curriculum.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2023)
Stellar Populations With Optical Spectra: Deep Learning vs. Popular Spectrum Fitting Codes
Creators: name: Woo, Joanna
name: Walters, Dan
name: Archinuk, Finn
name: Faber, S. M.
name: Ellison, Sara L.
name: Teimoorinia, Hossen
name: Iyer, Kartheik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the performance of several popular spectrum fitting codes (Firefly, starlight, pyPipe3D and pPXF), and a deep-learning convolutional neural network (StarNet), in recovering known stellar population properties (mean stellar age, stellar metallicity, stellar mass-to-light ratio M*/L_r and the internal E(B-V)) of simulated galaxy spectra in optical wavelengths. Our mock spectra are constructed from star-formation histories from the IllustrisTNG100-1 simulation. These spectra mimic the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) through a novel method of including the noise, sky residuals and emission lines taken directly from SDSS. We find that StarNet vastly outperforms all conventional codes in both speed and recovery of stellar population properties (error scatter < 0.08 dex, average biases < 0.02 dex for all tested quantities), but it requires an appropriate training set. Of the non-machine-learning codes, pPXF was a factor of 3-4 times faster than the other codes, and was the best in recovering stellar population properties (error scatter of < 0.11 dex, average biases < 0.08 dex). However, the errors and biases are strongly dependent on both true and predicted values of stellar age and metallicity, and signal-to-noise ratio. The biases of all codes can approach 0.15 dex in stellar ages, metallicities and log M*/L_r , but remain < 0.05 for E(B-V). Using unrealistic Gaussian noise in the construction of mock spectra will underestimate the errors in the metallicities by a factor of two or more, and mocks without emission lines will underestimate the errors in stellar age and M*/L_r by a factor of two.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Developing a Corequisite Writing Textbook
Creators: name: Atkinson, Dawn
name: Corbitt, Stacey
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: Despite the growing body of scholarship focused on Open Educational Resources (OERs), studies tracking open textbook production are exceedingly rare. To gain insight into the complexities associated with open textbook development, this article’s authors used concurrent verbalization and pre- and post-concurrent verbalization interviews to document writing episodes while composing their first coursebook, an open-source text designed for corequisite course pairings of writing fundamentals and introduction to technical writing. Corequisite classes combine content-area instruction with explicit skill-building opportunities, and although commercial publishing houses do produce corequisite textbooks for traditional general education courses, the authors were impelled by the need to create a specialized coursebook for a STEM-focused writing corequisite. Qualitative content analysis of the data collected during ongoing coursebook development revealed how the novice textbook authors navigated complexities when sourcing material for the book, formatting content, and embedding hyperlinks into chapters. Open textbook development offers a variety of professional development opportunities, and the details provided herein could be instructive to others embarking on open coursebook projects and inspire further inquiry into ongoing open textbook production. This paper also exposes the dynamic interaction between textbook content as designed and operationalized, offering implications for the research field of materials development.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)
Additional file 1 of Sudden unexpected death after initial infusion of rituximab for Waldenström macroglobulinemia/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma: an autopsy case
Creators: name: Ichimata, Shojiro
name: Hata, Yukiko
name: Nomoto, Kazuhiro
name: Sato, Tsutomu
name: Nishida, Naoki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Criteria in English language textbook evaluation checklists
Creators: name: Shak, Mohamad Syafiq Ya
name: Albakri, Intan Safinas Mohd Arif
name: Shukor, Siti Shuhaida
name: Tahir, Mohd Haniff Mohd
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: The systematic review was carried out to examine evaluation criteria in textbook evaluation checklists used to evaluate ESL/EFL textbooks around the world and to identify gaps and additional criteria that could be included in future textbook evaluation checklists to meet the demand of current teaching and learning situations. Two databases - Scopus and the Web of Science - were explored to collect data. Primary searches between 2011 and 2021 revealed 92 studies dealing with the topic under investigation. After scrutinizing abstracts and removing duplicates, 36 studies were retained for further analysis. A thematic analysis was conducted to derive themes for the criteria enlisted in these studies. The themes of criteria that emerged were: (1) practical considerations; (2) layout and design; (3) language skills; (4) language activities and tasks; (5) topic/subject of the content; (6) appropriateness for students; (7) cultural considerations; (8) supplementary materials; and (9) fitness with the language program aims and objectives. It is recommended that future textbook evaluation checklists could focus on criteria that relate to an ESL/EFL textbook’s relatability to its users, especially in terms of its culture representation, its ability to enable self-study, and a wider integration of technology, especially in the era of online distance learning which is expected to stay even if the COVID-19 pandemic subsides later.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)
Update From Hfz Meeting And Nffa Metadata
Creators: name: Bunakov, Vasily
name: Matthews, Brian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Presentation given in the RDA 11th Plenary joint meeting of IG RDA/CODATA Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability, WG International Materials Resource Registries, IG Research data needs of the Photon and Neutron Science community. Berlin, 23 March 2018
Resources and textbooks for computer science education in French primary schools
Creators: name: Vandevelde, Isabelle
name: Fluckiger, Cédric
name: Nogry, Sandra
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: This article examines a corpus of texts that define the scope and objectives of computer science (CS) education at primary school level in France, including textbooks, curricula, and institutional documents. Faced with these new programs, and in the absence of any specific training on methods for teaching computer science, teachers have had to make do by relying on a disparate set of documents ranging from prescriptive and guidance texts, official directives and curricula, institutional documents, text­books, and other books. This article provides an analysis of these documents from a computer science pedagogy perspective with the aim of exploring how they change and evolve through the grades of education. We begin with a transversal analysis to highlight changes in the content taught from one cycle to the next. Then, we focus on how a specific notion, the notion of loop, is introduced to students, in order to characterise how the same notion is formulated and evolves across the different textbooks. In this way, we show that loops are defined differently across textbooks, using vocabulary that is increasingly precise and connected to other areas of knowledge, without being always connected to the digital field.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)
Atractus torquatus
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus torquatus

description: Atractus torquatus (Duméril et al., 1854)
Type locality. Paramaribo, Suriname.
Distribution. Known from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela (Plt. 186A). In Brazil, widespread in northern Amazonia and in its contact with Guianan savanna (Plt. 186A) at low elevations (Plt. 186B). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest, and savanna (Dixon and Soini, 1977, 1986, Hoogmoed, 1980, Martins and Oliveira, 1993).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Choosing from a range of e-resources when planning lessons
Creators: name: Stara, Jana
name: Vodrážková, Alžbeta
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: In this article we report on a qualitative survey in a primary school based on observation in the classrooms and interviews with teachers. The aim was to find out what e-sources teachers were using during the mandated distance learning in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and immediately after students returned to school, and how and why they were using them. The results show that teachers are not very familiar with the range of complex e-textbooks and their additional digital support offered by publishing houses. They believe they can find fun and interactive exercises on the internet on their own and in practice they do so, often unsystematically. The teachers’ main criteria for selecting sources are attractiveness, fun and interactivity. The research shows that in the flood of different e-resources that teachers can use, it is more crucial that the textbook plays a coordinating role. Within it, it is important to offer teachers high quality and goal-oriented resources that they can adapt, combine, and compile according to their own discretion and the needs of their classroom. At the same time, there is a need to focus teacher training on developing competences to work with diverse and fragmented resources.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)
Teaching by the Book
Creators: name: Sitabkhan, Yasmin
name: Harden, Karon
name: Slade, Timothy
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for understanding materials usage in primary classrooms in Sub-Saharan Africa that centers teachers’ actions and voices. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 focuses on improved primary education around the world. To meet this goal, many large, donor-funded interventions aim to improve education through provision of teacher’s guides and student textbooks.  However, what many of these interventions lack is a systematic way to understand how and why teachers are making pedagogical decisions while using materials.  There is a large body of work that seeks to understand how teachers make decisions as they teach, and the ways these decisions are influenced by their knowledge and beliefs. Drawing from this work, we describe a methodology and set of tools that uses observations and interviews to identify key decisions that teachers make in the classroom and why teachers made those decisions. We piloted and iteratively refined this methodology over the course of three studies and use examples from these studies to illustrate the methodology. By closely observing and listening to teachers, we gain insights that allow us to continually refine and improve materials to ultimately improve the quality of classroom instruction.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)
Textbooks and educational resources
Creators: name: Bruillard, Eric
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2022

description: The text presents an overview of textbooks and educational resources, from inert text to reactive text to augmented reality, taking up the notion of pedagogical text. Then, it presents what can be learned from the cycle described by Larry Cuban of educational technologies in school systems (1986), which is still relevant today. The last part proposes current and future research paths related to the notion of educational resource, taking into account digital technologies and platforms.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021)
Teachers' guides: isn't that what they should be?
Creators: name: Smart, Andy
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2021

description: This essay reflects on recent research and pedagogical interventions by international organisations working in low and middle income countries (LMICs), in relation to preparing teacher’s guides. In particular, it examines the rationales and implications of decisions made by some agencies and programmes that have sought to improve early grade learning in LMICs. At the heart of the essay is the wider question of how change happens within centralised education systems, which are typical in LMICs, and how external interventions might contribute better to the process of change.

The stimulus for writing this essay was in part the publication by the World Bank of a document advocating certain ways of preparing and evaluating teacher’s guides, and the Bank’s request for feedback1. At the same time, the experience of participating in several webinars during the pandemic made me more aware of widely different understandings of notions such as scripting for teachers. One presentation included a statement that ‘I prepared for this presentation by writing a script, so what’s wrong with providing scripts for teachers?’ On another occasion, a commentator referred to the need to provide scripts for teachers who are new to the idea of competency-based teaching, to which my instinctive response was: scripting for competency-based teaching would seem to be a contradiction in terms.


The essay discusses the role of scripting in lesson plans and teacher’s guides and suggests that the terms direct instruction, structured pedagogy and scripted lessons have – for some people – become almost synonymous, and that more precise language would be beneficial. The essay does not reject these terms or approaches, but argues for a more considered, consistent and nuanced use of the cited research and of the terms themselves.

At the end of the essay, some suggestions are proposed for an approach that recognises the need for teachers to contribute to the design of any educational intervention, and that teachers’ own decision-making should be provided for within any pedagogical intervention, as contrasted with approaches that assume that controlled inputs lead to controlled outcomes.

 
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021)
Atractus trefauti Melo-Sampaio 2019
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus trefauti

description: Atractus trefauti Melo-Sampaio et al., 2019
Type locality. Route del’Est N2, Roura, French Guiana.
Distribution. Known from Brazil and French Guiana (Plt. 187A). In Brazil, restricted to northeastern Amazonia (Plt. 187A) at low elevations (Plt. 187B). No detailed field data on habitat use are available for this species.
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Global Business Textbook Evaluation: Task Types in the Spotlight
Creators: name: Alemi, Minoo
name: Ensafi, Amir
name: Rezanejad, Atefeh
Publisher: name: IARTEM e-journal
Year: 2021

description: Textbook evaluation, with the aim of assisting the choice of the most suitable book for a specific context, has become a needed practice in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). During recent years, with the rapid spread of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and its concern for tasks and activities that enhance learners’ interaction, more researchers have become interested in exploring the different task types in textbooks in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT). The present study sought to evaluate the two most popular global business English textbook series (English Business Result and Market Leader) that are taught in Iranian institutes, in terms of their task types according to Nunan’s (1999) classification of tasks. The results revealed that linguistic tasks and creative tasks were respectively the most and the least common task types presented in these textbooks. The results also indicated a significant difference among the frequency of task types in the textbooks. It was evident that these ESP textbooks covered all of the macro tasks and most of the micro tasks specified by Nunan (1999), but some of them significantly focused on specific types of tasks.
description: IARTEM e-journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021)
Atractus trihedurus Amaral 1926
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus trihedurus

description: Atractus trihedurus Amaral, 1926
Type locality. São Bento do Sul, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Distribution. Endemic to Brazil (Plt. 188A), restricted to southeastern Atlantic Forest (Plt. 188A) at intermediate to high elevations (Plt. 188B). Observed in the field in forest (Passos et al., 2010).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686
Atractus trilineatus Wagler 1828
Creators: name: Nogueira, Cristiano C.
name: Argôlo, Antonio J. S.
name: Arzamendia, Vanesa
name: Azevedo, Josué A.
name: Barbo, Fausto E.
name: Bérnils, Renato S.
name: Bolochio, Bruna E.
name: Borges-Martins, Marcio
name: Brasil-Godinho, Marcela
name: Braz, Henrique
name: Buononato, Marcus A.
name: Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
name: Colli, Guarino R.
name: Costa, Henrique C.
name: Franco, Francisco L.
name: Giraudo, Alejandro
name: Gonzalez, Rodrigo C.
name: Guedes, Thaís
name: Hoogmoed, Marinus S.
name: Marques, Otavio A. V.
name: Montingelli, Giovanna G.
name: Passos, Paulo
name: Prudente, Ana L. C.
name: Rivas, Gilson A.
name: Sanchez, Paola M.
name: Serrano, Filipe C.
name: Silva Jr., Nelson J.
name: Strüssmann, Christine
name: Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S.
name: Zaher, Hussam
name: Sawaya, Ricardo J.
name: Martins, Marcio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Atractus
Atractus trilineatus

description: Atractus trilineatus Wagler, 1828
Type locality. Unknown.
Distribution. Known from Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela on the Guiana Shield (Plt. 189A). In Brazil, restricted to Amazonia, north of the Amazon River (Plt. 189A), at low elevations (Plt. 189B). Observed in the field in forest (Cunha and Nascimento, 1980; Hoogmoed, 1980; Martins and Oliveira, 1993).
description: Published as part of Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, pp. 1-274 in South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1) on page 24, DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10061686