cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Historic Landscapes of the Severn Estuary Levels
Creators: name: Rippon, Stephen J
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 119-135
description: The deep alluvial sequences that make up the Severn Estuary Levels comprise a series of stratified landscapes dating from early prehistory through to the present day. Most of these landscapes are deeply buried, and, whilst exceptionally well-preserved, are largely inaccessible and so ill-understood. It is only with the 'historic landscape', that lies on the surface of the Levels, that we can really start to reconstruct and analyse what these past landscapes were like. However; although the enormously diverse historic landscape is itself an important source of information, its full potential is only achieved through its integration with associated archaeological and documentary evidence. This presents many challenges and whilst much has been achieved in the last ten years, there is a long way to go before we can write a comprehensive history of the Severn Levels. Two techniques are vital. Historic landscape characterisation focuses on the key character defining features of different landscapes and can suggest the processes that may have led to their creation. This is almost invariably a complex story as most landscapes combine features from a number of different periods, though retrogressive analysis can disentangle this palimpsest. In the past ten years, both techniques have been successfully applied to various of the Severn wetlands, although attention has focused upon the wholly cultural process of reclamation: the potentially significant role played by certain features of the natural environment, including the belt of sand dunes that fringe much of the Somerset coast, has been neglected. Elaborate models have also been constructed, based largely on landscape morphology, and there is a desperate need to test these hypotheses through fieldwork. Above all there is a need to move beyond simple landscape charcterisation towards more detailed palaeogeographies.
Reconstructing Past Wetland Landscapes Two Case Studies from the Humber Wetlands
Creators: name: Van De Noort, Robert
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 11, 163-174
description: This paper considers the process of producing reconstruction drawings of two past wetland landscapes: the Ancholme valley at Brigg around 1000 cal BC and the Humber foreshore at Melton at c. 1400 cal BC. Despite the problems of integrating different strands of evidence and information, and especially in determining the contemporaneity of environmental and archaeological evidence, this paper argues that reconstruction drawings remain an attractive medium with which to convey the results of interdisciplinary research to a larger public.
A Medieval Waterside Settlement Overlooking Esvern Estuary Alluvium Hock Cliff, Fretherne and Saul, Gloucestershire
Creators: name: Allen, J R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 79-98
description: Episodic coastal erosion at Hock Cliff on the inner Severn Estuary has exposed deposits of occupation debris associated with a small, tripartite, embanked enclosure on the cliff top, set among, and partly overlaid by, classical ridgeandjurrow. The debris is preserved in a range of contexts, consisting of stone and ceramic building material, abundant pottery, fuels and food residues, and objects of stone and metal, including a probable fishing-line sinker. Dating chiefly from the 11th and 12th centuries, the pottery suggests that the site was abandoned in the 13th century. The wares are mainly from the Worcester and Gloucester areas but include products from the Malvern and Bristol industries and from the Vale of Glamorgan. That they were traded by water is strongly implied.
Cast Copper Slag Building Blocks on the Severn Estuary Levels, St. Thomas the Apostle, Redwick, Gwent
Creators: name: Allen, J R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 15-25
description: A substantial part of the churchyard wall of St. Thomas the Apostle, Redwick, is capped by triangular coping blocks of cast slag, a byproduct of the 18th to mid-I 9th century coppersmelting industry located in south-west Britain The slags are silica-rich (unreacted flux), glassy to partly crystalline (Jayalite), and contain spheroidal inclusions (prills) of copper-ironsulphur compounds related to the smelting process (chiefly ?chalcocite, Cu2S). A petrographic, mineralogical and chemical comparison of the blocks with slag blocks and waste slag from three other sites (two archaeological) in the Severn Estuary Levels suggests that this widely used, artificial building material is likely to prove very variable in character. More work is needed before it can be said whether the variability is indicative of provenance, technical advances in the industry, or the production of blocks at more than one stage in the elaborate copper-smelting process. The blocks, a high-mass but low-value product, appear to be have been traded chiefly by water.
Literature Review: The Impact of AI-Personalized Tutors on Academic Ability, Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Socialization, and Academic Integrity
Creators: name: Hatcher, Ryan
name: Dr Richard Campbell
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: AI Personalized tutors, academic ability, Self-esteem, Self-efficacy, Socialization, Academic integrity.

description: This review explores the potential benefits and drawbacks of using AI-powered personalized tutoring systems in education. Studies indicate these tutors can adapt to students' individual learning needs and improve academic performance and subject mastery (Zhao, 2023). However, effects on confidence, motivation, social skills, and integrity require further research. Overall, AI tutors represent a promising advancement, but one requiring ongoing examination.
Fatores que influenciam o abandono no ensino superior e iniciativas para a sua prevenção
Creators: name: Ferreira, Filomena
name: Fernandes, Preciosa
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: O abandono no ensino superior tem vindo a ganhar maior visibilidade política e social e tem, igualmente, constituído objeto de reflexão por parte da comunidade científica e das instituições do ensino superior (IES). É no quadro desta problemática que se situa este artigo. Nele se dá conta de resultados de um estudo exploratório realizado na Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (FEP), que envolveu estudantes em risco de abandono do ciclo de estudos de 2010 a 2013 e do ano letivo 2013-2014. Tratou-se de uma investigação qualitativa, que teve como principal objetivo caracterizar e compreender razões/fatores que levam os estudantes a abandonar os seus cursos. Os resultados indicam, na maioria dos casos, que os fatores económicos e académicos constituem as principais razões que levam os estudantes a abandonarem os cursos. No que diz respeito aos apoios/iniciativas institucionais, os dados remetem para a insuficiência dos recursos existentes e, em grande medida, para o desconhecimento institucional do fenómeno.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
Land Claim and Sea Defence Labour Costs of Historic Earth Banks in Hocoene Coastal Lowlands, NW Europe
Creators: name: Allen, J R L
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 127-134
description: Initially seabanks were constructed probably with a wealth creation ideal in mind. Constructing sea banks facilites the transformation of the natural marsh to a landscape that has a higher economic value. This original intention for seabanks is often forgotten and this note highlights the implications of erecting the banks and of the response to geological factors that forces their change as engineered structures, changing from an offensive to a defensive capability.
MHC genotyping from next-generation sequencing: detailed methodology for the gidgee skink, Egernia stokesii
Creators: name: S. K. Pearson
name: T. M. Bradford
name: T. H. Ansari
name: C. M. Bull
name: M. G. Gardner
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Next-generation sequencing has revolutionised molecular ecology. Its key advantages are a more accurate representation of genetic variation made possible by the generation of large volumes of data, more quickly and at a lower price per sequence than traditional sequencing methods. Yet these benefits come with a cost. For example, next-generation sequencing is error prone and requires increased quality control compared with traditional methods. Problems associated with next-generation sequencing may be exacerbated when sequencing gene complexes such as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Although not eliminated, significant progress has been made in addressing some of those problems and there is an increasing literature utilising this technology for studies of the MHC. However, what is generally lacking is detailed documentation of the methods used, and clear reasoning, for each step. Here we document detailed methodology, using an Australian lizard, Egernia stokesii, as a case study, with explanations, for MHC amplification, sequencing and allele identification. This work provides molecular ecologists with a comprehensive guide to follow, particularly when first employing next-generation sequencing techniques similar to those used here. In addition, the E. stokesii MHC genotypes derived from this work provide foundation data for future investigations of the influence of social structure on the MHC.
Advancing knowledge and spearheading social and political transformation: evidence from Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, the December 2023 issue
Creators: name: Minale, Amare Sewnet
name: Bazezew, Arega
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: Based on information obtained from the Ministry of Education, the number of higher education institutions in Ethiopia has significantly increased over the past two decades. Similarly, higher education institutions in Ethiopia have the responsibility of undertaking research and providing community services at national and local levels. This implies that carrying out research and publishing its output in a peer-reviewed journal is one of the criteria for promotion of the academic staff and graduation of PhD students (MOE, 2016). Hence, professors and graduate students should try to publish their work in peer-reviewed and indexed journals. It is also to note that the research output should solve societal problems, instead of gathering dust on library shelves. In this regard, Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences aims to achieve this objective.  
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
direction, relais indispensable entre le dispositif d'accrochage et l'établissement scolaire
Creators: name: Christinat, Chantal Tièche
name: Chambrier, Anne-Françoise De
name: Angelucci, Valérie
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: Le décrochage scolaire est un phénomène processuel et sa prévention requiert de prendre en considération des déterminants internes au système scolaire. Le pilotage des dispositifs d’accrochage, s’il nécessite une certaine subtilité, joue dès lors un rôle considérable, et ce notamment en termes d’alliances éducatives et d’articulations avec les établissements scolaires des élèves pris en charge. Le dispositif d’accrochage sur lequel reposent les présentes analyses a pour particularités de maintenir partiellement intégrés dans leur classe d’origine les élèves en risque de décrochage scolaire et d’être dirigé à la fois par un directeur de secteur socio-éducatif et un directeur de secteur pédagogique. Cette étude1, réalisée à partir de deux entretiens collectifs et d’entretiens individuels auprès des directeurs, vise à comprendre le fonctionnement et le rôle de ce double pilotage. Les résultats montrent que celui-ci est fortement orienté sur les relations avec les établissements afin de rendre le système performant. La gestion et l’organisation à l’interne de l’équipe afin de développer un système compétent relèvent également des rôles mentionnés comme essentiels. Dans une perspective à plus long terme de prévention du décrochage, la direction encourage les réflexions sur les pratiques et les alliances éducatives tout en respectant l’autonomie professionnelle des enseignants.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
Interim Report on the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Redwick 2000-1
Creators: name: Bell, Martin G
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 99-117
description: Excavation of three rectangular buildings of middle Bronze Age date at Redwick is outlined. Each of the buildings had been subject to significant erosion, especially Building 1, floor levels did not survive but the plans of Buildings 2 and 4 were better preserved. The buildings are on slightly raised areas of peat and are partly encircled by slight depressions in which occupation levels were preserved. The floors of the depressions are covered with many bovid and some ovi-caprid footprint-tracks. Human footprint-tracks also occur. The distribution of artifacts and that of footprint-tracks contributes to an understanding of the layout ( eg entrance positions) and possible function of the buildings, some parts of which are thought to have housed animals. Building 2, perhaps Building 4, but not Building 1 produced evidence of human domestic activity but of very small-scale and probably short duration.
Mesolithic to Neolithic Coastal Enrionmental Change c. 6500-3500 cal BC
Creators: name: Bell, Martin G
name: Allen, J R L
name: Nayling, Nigel
name: Buckley, Shaun
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 27-53
description: An interim report is presented on research on the ecology of coastal environments and the interplay between natural disturbance factors and human agency in the period c. 6500-3500 cal BC. Fieldwork has involved investigation of the stratigraphic context of submerged forests at Goldcliff East and Redwick. They have been extensively sampled for dendrochronology, pollen and plant macrofossil analysis. Fieldwork has led to the discovery of a new Mesolithic site at Goldcliff East and to the finding of human and animal footprint-tracks nearby.
IGCP 437, Coastal Environmental Change During Sea Level Highstands-Field Meeting Report
Creators: name: Davies, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 135-139
description: In 2002 the Quaternary Research Unit, Bath Spa University College, hosted a field meeting of the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP) Project 437 UK working group. The meeting was devoted to sites within the Severn Estuary and Somerset Level areas. SELRC members organised and hosted the meeting and led many of the field sessions. This note summarises the meeting and provides a field commentary complementary to the detailed site information published by the field leaders within the Field Guide (Haslett 2002).
Walpole Landfill Site, Somerset
Creators: name: Hollinrake, C
name: Hollinrake, N
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 119-125
description: An archaeological evaluation on Pawlett Level comprising 22 trenches with a combined length of almost 3,500 metres recovered evidence for prehistoric settlement on a buried island and recorded and sampled alluvial clays and peat deposits. A large, buried, Lias limestone island sealed by between 1.5 metres and 3.5 metres of alluvial clay was investigated. The soil on the surface of the island survives largely intact and limited investigation of this deposit recovered worked flint flakes, abraded Romano-British pottery sherds, animal bone fragments, fired clay, quartz pebbles and fragments of imported stone. The evaluation was carried out in concert with a programme of environmental work undertaken by a number of specialists. Various deposits within the alluvial clays and the organic peat deposits were investigated through the recovery of bulk and monolith samples. Radiocarbon l4 determinations were obtained from charcoal within the buried soil above the island and from a series of peat bands including basal peat.
A primer on hydrophobic solvation
Creators: name: Beckstein, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 20405 Soft Condensed Matter
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic hallmarks of hydrophobic solvation, i.e. the energetically unfavourable transfer of non-polar molecules into water, are described. For small molecules(lengths<10 Å) these signs are a very large heat capacity and that solvating non-polar molecules in cold water is hindered by entropic effects but by enthalpic effects in hot water. Large solutes are always disfavoured for enthalpic reasons. The microscopic explanation of these phenomena is an area of active research. At a very qualitative level, enthalpic barriers relate to the fact that hydrogen bonds are broken and not compensated for by van der Waals water-solute interactions. Entropic barriers can be explained by the fact that hydrogen bonds can be rearranged without breaking provided that they are formed in a more restricted manner than in neat (unperturbed by a solute) water.
An assessment of road and bridge construction in Simen and Begemider province, 1963-1991
Creators: name: Derso, Tesfamichael Fentie
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: Due to different factors the academic literature places less emphasis on road and bridge construction in Ethiopia. The main objective of this study is to deal with the history of road and bridge construction and their significance for the people of Simen and Begemider province during the monarchy and the Derg regime. The monarchical period was crucial in that old structures were repaired and construction of new ones commenced.  The Derg also constructed many roads and bridges and its rule was considered a golden age in this regard. The study employs a qualitative research method in the sense that primary and secondary sources were exhaustively exploited. Data were collected from key informants who provided relevant information about the issue under investigation through semi-structured interviews. The data collected from informants were cross-checked with abundant archival sources, which were gathered from Central Gondar Archival Center (CGAZA) existing in the form of photographs, design plans and manuscripts. The study identified many roads and bridges that were constructed during the study period. Moreover, the Tekeze River Bridge and many other bridges had been constructed since the restoration of the monarchy in 1941. After it assumed power in 1975, the Derg undertook repair works on the early bridges and began the construction of new ones by giving much attention to road construction. As a result, these roads and bridges played important roles in the socio-economic and political life of the people in the study area and beyond.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
title: Hervé Latapie, "Réduire les traitements des séropos : la nouvelle avancée thérapeutique"
Creators: name: Latapie, Hervé (1959-....)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Dossier contenant une interview de Richard Cross et un texte sur Jacques Leibowitch extrait de "Garçon Magazine", no 40, 2017. 1 fichier (5 pages).
Conformational preferences of heteronuclear Fischer carbene complexes of cymantrene and cyclopentadienyl rhenium tricarbonyl
Creators: name: Roan Fraser
name: Rooyen, Petrus H. Van
name: Marilé Landman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Homo- and heteronuclear bimetallic carbene complexes of group VII transition metals (Mn and Re), with cymantrene or cyclopentadienyl rhenium tricarbonyl as the starting synthon, have been synthesized according to classic Fischer methodology. Crystal structures of the carbene complexes with general formula [RC5H4 M'(CO)2{C(OEt)(C5H4 M(CO)3)}], where M = M′ = Mn, R = H (1), R = Me (2); M = Mn, M′ = Re, R = H (3); M = M′ = Re, R = H (4); and M = Re, M′ = Mn, R = H (5), are reported. A density functional theory (DFT) study was undertaken to determine natural bonding orbitals (NBOs) and conformational as well as isomeric aspects of the binuclear complexes. Application of second-order perturbation theory (SOPT) of the NBO method revealed stabilizing interactions between the methylene C–H bonds and the carbonyl ligands of the carbene metal moiety. Energy calculations in the gas phase of the cis and trans conformations of the Cp rings relative to one another are comparable, with the trans conformation slightly lower in energy. The theoretical findings have also been confirmed with single-crystal X-ray diffraction, and all solid-state structures are found in the trans geometry.
A new end-on (μ1,1) azido bridged [Zn2(L)2(Na)N3]n 1D chain derived from a trinuclear zinc complex: syntheses, crystal structures, photoluminescence properties and DFT study
Creators: name: Saikat Banerjee
name: Saha, Amrita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A bicompartmental N2O4 donor symmetric Schiff base ligand has been deployed to synthesize a trinuclear zinc complex [Zn3(L)2Cl2], which upon treatment with sodium azide produces a new μ1,1-azido-bridged 1-D polymer [Zn2(L)2(Na)N3]n. Both complexes have been characterized using IR, NMR, UV–vis, and X-ray diffraction techniques. In order to have better understanding of electronic transitions of the complexes, a time-dependent DFT study has been performed. Lifetime measurements have also been performed to learn about the stability of excited states of both complexes. The average fluorescence decay lifetime has been found to be 1.42 and 0.59 ns for 1 and 2, respectively. In Hirshfeld surface mapping, X⋯H/H⋯X (X = O, Cl) contacts are found to be only 2.7% of the total surface, which indicates that no significant X⋯H/H⋯X contacts are present in either of the complexes. Unconventional interactions such as C–H⋯π and π⋯π stacking interactions are found in supramolecular architectures of both complexes.
Problems and achievements of the Ethiopian peacekeeping mission in Rwanda
Creators: name: Lewoye, Shimeles
name: Sishagn, Shumet
name: Bezie, Tigab
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: The Transitional Government of Ethiopia deployed a battalion force in Rwanda under the mission of UNAMIR. This force deployed in the south western part of Rwanda successfully accomplished its mission. Beyond the mandate authorized by the Security Council the Ethiopian contingent in Rwanda participated in humanitarian support in their respective sector. However, problems emanating from internal problems of the battalion and the Ministry of National Defense, the situations in Rwanda, and the UN Headquarter and UNAMIR, challenged the performance of the Ethiopian contingent. Therefore, this paper provides a short historical account on problems and challenges of the Ethiopian peacekeeping contingent in Rwanda. Materials from the Ministry of National Defense of Ethiopia and the digital archives of UNO were used in the preparation of this paper. In addition books and articles are used to fill the gaps of the archival materials. Some veterans of the Rwanda mission have also been interviewed.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
The reverberation signatures of accretion disk winds in active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Mangham, S. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: quasars
reverberation
radiative transfer

description: Active Galactic Nuclei are the most luminous objects in the universe; objects that can outshine their host galaxies by orders of magnitude, but are incredibly compact. Some models for AGN describe them as super-massive black holes surrounded by accretion disks of in owing matter and outflowing 'winds' of material. As the central regions of AGN, responsible for the bulk of the emission, are on the scale of light-months whilst AGN are Mly distant, they are unresolvable.

 As such, we must turn to other techniques to investigate their properties. Reverberation mapping is commonly used to estimate black hole masses in AGN using the delayed response of broad emission lines in their spectra to fluctuations in the underlying continuum. Velocity-resolved reverberation mapping offers an effective tool for determining the structure and kinematics of the broad-line region (BLR) that emits these lines, including the accretion disk and winds. Much prior work has been performed using simulations of simplified models to generate the response functions associated with a range of basic geometries. However, no model has included both full ionisation and radiative transfer effects, and a complex geometry with rotation and outflow.

 In this thesis, the Monte Carlo radiative transfer and ionisation code Python has been modified for use in reverberation mapping of a range of geometries, from simple to potentially more realistic. Building on prior work, we model the BLR response to the central ionising continuum source taking into account detailed radiative transfer effects and self-consistent calculations of the ionisation state of the disk wind. We find the response functions generated display features that can confound existing analysis, including negative responses. We then test the ability of existing techniques to recover these more complex response functions from simulated observing campaigns.

 In summary, this thesis demonstrates that radiative transfer and ionisation effects are crucial for generating response functions for realistic geometries and kinematics, and highlights the limits of existing techniques to accurately recover physically-motivated response functions.
Between school and work
Creators: name: Tomaszewska-Pe˛Kala, Hanna
name: Marchlik, Paulina
name: Wrona, Anna
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: The article analyses selected measures implemented by sectors of education and social policy in Poland, aimed at tackling the early school leaving (ESL) phenomenon. The data presented is based on an analysis of policy documents, IDIs and FGDs with educational experts, representatives of ministries, local authorities, school staff, regional employment centres and chambers of craft within the RESL.eu project. The starting point for the discussion is the hypothesis that there is a relation between leaving the system of education early, youth unemployment and NEETs rate. While the existence of this relationship is equivocal, as shown by the analysis of existing data, the undertaken policy measures somewhat implicitly assume its presence. Early school leavers are seen as the potential unemployed or at least as people who may have certain difficulties in entering the labour market. This is in contrast with the results of qualitative research, which show that the most common reason for abandoning the school education, according to school principals and teachers, is taking up a job accompanied by the inability to reconcile work and study. Thus, further efforts to develop more flexible alternatives to school-based forms of vocational training and education should be reinforced.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
Royal patronage for indigenous and foreign craftsmanship in the Kingdom of Šäwa (Ethiopia) under Nǝguś Śahlӓ Śǝllase, 1813–1847
Creators: name: Yegifneh, Chalachew
name: Sishagn, Shumet
name: Ayele, Fantahun
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: The study examines the history of royal patronage of indigenous as well as foreign craftsmanship in the kingdom of Šäwa under the rule of King Śahlӓ Śǝllase (r.1813–1847). It also investigates the commitment and support of the King to advance indigenous craft technology. The qualitative method was the main approach utilized, and data was collected using interviews, field observations, and document analysis. The findings show that the kingdom of Šäwa experienced more technological progress than any other part of Ethiopia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The ascendancy of an 'enlightened' regional monarch, Śahlӓ Śǝllase, to the throne was the main reason. To improve the kingdom’s technology, unlike his predecessors, he established royal workshops in the main capitals and residential areas, known for their specialization in craftsmanship. The King was also fond of visiting workshops, and he paid considerable attention to them during his reign. In addition, he was the first Šäwan King, who improved contact with foreigners and foreign powers, resulting in the unprecedented arrival of European travellers, visitors, and artisans. The arrival of foreign artisans created a new environment for economic and technological progress, which the King used to teach his people and advance the kingdom's technology. Workshops such as Säräteña Säffära (a workers village), Royal iron-Works and Yä-barud Mäwqäča (gunpowder foundry), were evidences, which confirmed that the kingdom was making significant technological progress. Thus, the first half of the nineteenth century saw craftsmanship reach its zenith, and King Śahlӓ Śǝllase was a "passionate industrialist" in the kingdom of Šäwa, Ethiopia.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
Education policies concerning early school leaving in Austria
Creators: name: Gitschthaler, Marie
name: Nairz-Wirth, Erna
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: This paper deals with the key issues of early school leaving and youth unemployment in Europe and takes a look at the causes and consequences of these problems. A summary of relevant early school leaving statistics and research studies which describe the situation in Austria is presented. Measures and initiatives to reduce early school leaving that have been implemented in Austria since the Lisbon 2000 Strategy are discussed along with the questions of whether, and if so which, EU policy documents have influenced Austrian measures to tackle early school leaving. The conclusion critically sums up the following relevant results: although many of the policies recommended by the EU have been implemented in Austria, many preventive measures are also still outstanding. These include, for example, the continued lack of (tertiary level) training for kindergarten teachers and the failure to introduce comprehensive schools. The call for the latter was not met by Austria‘s introduction of so-called new middle schools, a workaround which has not led to a reduction in social inequalities in educational pathways. The supra-company apprenticeship training concept is a positive development, since it reaches some of the country’s early school leavers.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
The Roman Landscape Between Cheptow and Nash and Its Implication for Roman Land Management
Creators: name: Meddens, Frank M
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 1-13
description: The Gwent Levels appear to have been actively drained in Roman times. This paper reviews the use of the levels for pasture and grazing and arable agriculture in the light of recent work along the line of the South East Coastal Strategy Pipeline. The palaeoenvironmental evidence from a number of sites on the Caldicot levels suggests principally a use for pasture whereas arable agriculture appears to be focused on the higher hinterland along the margins. The effectiveness and nature of the Roman sea defences is reviewed and circumstantial evidence allows conclusions to be drawn about the presence of sea walls and their likely engineering characteristics.
The original political legitimacy of the Ethiopian ethnic federal system: from the perspective of multiparty deliberative constitution-making
Creators: name: Getahun, Yohannes Haile
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: This article deals with the political legitimacy of the ethnic federal system of Ethiopia in terms of multiparty federal constitutional designing. It applies the research design of a qualitative interpretive case study which uses theoretical perspectives and empirical data without undermining the contextual particularities of the case under investigation. Theoretical elaborations in conjunction with the annals of constitution-making across mature, fragile, and defunct multi-ethnic and multi-national federations are the literature review aspects of the article. They underline the conceptual and empirical frameworks of the study that multiparty constitution-making is of paramount significance to the foundational original legitimacy of federal systems. Based on that, the article has employed predominantly qualitative data, primary and secondary, and information from the literature and public and official documents related to the making of the Ethiopian Federal Constitution. It is found that the dominance of EPRDF (Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democracy) in the designing of the 1994 Federal Constitution was hardly aligned with multiparty federal constitutional designing. As a result, the ethnic federal system has been challenged for two reasons. First, it is a top-down and exclusive constitutional imposition by primarily EPRDF and its allies, which were less popular, newly organized, and urban-based minor ethnic parties. Relatively popular ethnic and cross-ethnic opposition parties did not take part in the writing ventures of the federal constitutional dispensation. The other reason is a substantive one that the Marxist-Leninist derivatives of EPRDF's revolutionary-democracy envisaged the relegation of, among others, the liberal values of individual rights and democratic citizenship into the ethnic structure of self-determination. That, exemplified by the defunct communist federations, raises questions about the ideological legitimacy of the EPRDF-backed federal order. As a remark, inclusive, open and genuine constitutional dialogues and bargains could redeem the contested origin of the ethnic federal system. That goes in tandem with the democratization process of Ethiopia, which is still controversial.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
A new end-on (μ1,1) azido bridged [Zn2(L)2(Na)N3]n 1D chain derived from a trinuclear zinc complex: Syntheses, crystal structures, photoluminescence properties and DFT study
Creators: name: Saikat Banerjee
name: Saha, Amrita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: A bicompartmental N2O4 donor symmetric Schiff-base ligand has been deployed to synthesize a trinuclear zinc complex [Zn3(L)2Cl2], which upon treatment with sodium azide produces a new μ1,1-azido bridged 1D polymer [Zn2(L)2(Na)N3]n. Both complexes have been characterized using IR, NMR, UV-Vis and X-ray diffraction techniques. In order to have better understanding of electronic transitions of the complexes, a time dependent DFT study has been performed. Lifetime measurements have also been performed to learn about the stability of excited states of both complexes. The average fluorescence decay lifetime has been found to be 1.42 ns and 0.59 ns for 1 and 2, respectively. In Hirshfeld surface mapping X…H/H…X (X = O, Cl) contacts are found to be only 2.7% of the total surface, which indicates that no significant X…H/H…X contacts are present in either of the complexes. Unconventional interactions such as C-H···π and π···π stacking interactions are found in supramolecular architectures of both complexes.
Early school leaving and beyond
Creators: name: Noel, Clycq
name: Timmerman, Christiane
name: Macedo, Eunice
name: Rocha, Cristina
name: Araújo, Helena C.
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 2001
Creators: name: Taylor, Barbara
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 141-142
description: This note is a relection of the dynamic processes that have happened both within the severn estuary and within the SELRC, it gives details of the three field meetings that were held by the SELRC, the current excavations, details about the AGM, and a description of the content in this volume
title: Carte de vœux ICCARRE envoyée à Cécile Winter
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-2019311113146777
Campomanesia adamantium Peel Extract in Antidiarrheal Activity: The Ability of Inhibition of Heat-Stable Enterotoxin by Polyphenols
Creators: name: Lescano, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 30404 Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Solute-solvent distribution function (gss) for all residues and water (cyan) or gallic acid (red). Molecular view at three stages of simulation,
initial, 50 ns and last frame, showing the increase of phenol concentration at ~1.7 Å and ~2.5 Å for all peptide. The H-bonds were calculated for water and
gallic acid with STa.
Interrogating early school leaving, youth unemployment and NEETs
Creators: name: Ryan, Louise
name: Lörinc, Magdolna
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: In England, early school leaving is not part of the official policy discourse; the focus instead is on reducing youth unemployment and the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). The overall aim of this paper is to examine the key issues at stake in the changing policy landscape relating to education and youth unemployment in England, and to explore the challenges facing young people in the context of localised socio-economic factors. Drawing on the academic literature, official statistics and qualitative data from our fieldwork in two English regions, we explore the differences between the concepts of ESL, NEETs and youth unemployment and interrogate the efficacy of these terms to capture vulnerability patterns in youth transitions. In addition, the paper argues that educational policies and outcomes need to be understood in relation to economic opportunity structures not just nationally but also at regional levels. Our data suggests that although educational attainment has a positive impact on labour market outcomes, it is unlikely that education policy initiatives alone will solve the issue of large-scale youth unemployment.
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
Le Normand, Arrests donnez au Parlement de Rouen en l'année mil six cent cinquante cinq. ADSM 28F04
Creators: name: Normand, Le
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime. 28F04. Acquisition 1879.
description: Relation: vignette : https://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/5f95764b
Local acquisition, transportation and emancipation of saves in the far west of Ethiopia: The case of Bela-Shangul from 1898-1935
Creators: name: Abtew, Adinew
name: Sishagn, Shumet
name: Hadera, Aychegirew
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: In the first three decades of the twentieth century, local acquisition and transportation of slaves in the western frontier lands of Ethiopia intensified due to the diversification of actors and destinations of the slaves. Since efforts to introduce ox-drawn plowing in agriculture in the area failed, slaves were locally used to produce gold and ivory. Thus, the area became a major source of slaves for the central government of Ethiopia, which collected wealth in the form of annual tribute and personal gifts. Moreover, varied actors of the slave trade transported slaves from the area to different destinations as tribute and items of trade. These local acquisition and transportation of slaves from this area had economic, social, psychological and legal impact on the enslaved communities of the area. Nevertheless, international law against the slave trade, the British attempts to end the slave trade in the area, the signing of treaties by Ethiopia in the League of Nations and local attempts to abolish slavery and the slave trade could not protect the communities of the borderlands in western Ethiopia. The activity continued in the area even during the Italian occupation. The activities terminated only in the last years of the 1930s when the power of local governors and family members declined. Thus, the main objective of this study was to investigate these developments which did not get the needed attention by scholars. In conducting this research, a qualitative research approach was used and both secondary and primary sources as well as oral data were utilized. Finally, the collected sources were carefully crosschecked and interpreted.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
Education in Flanders
Creators: name: Clycq, Noel
name: Nouwen, Ward
name: Van Caudenberg, Rut
name: Timmerman, Christiane
Publisher: name: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas
Year: 2015

description: Tackling early school leaving is one of the main EU 2020 targets and Flanders – responsible for education policy in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium – fully endorsed these targets. However, educational issues are often heavily politicised in Flanders, and in particular the fundamental restructuring of secondary education is seen as one of the most salient issues. In this paper we study the tensions between a social equity and an economic rationale underlying this debate. A general finding is that the position of Flanders in the PISA rankings is often recuperated by both sides of the ideological spectrum to illustrate the need to maintain Flanders’ top position or to combat the large social achievement gap. This article builds upon the data collection and analysis of the policy analysis and field description work package of the «Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe» (RESL.eu) research project and more in particular draws upon the findings presented in the Country Report of the Belgian (Flemish) partner (Nouwen, Clycq, Braspenningx, & Timmerman, 2014).
description: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, N.º 45 (2015): Educational policies and early school leaving in Europe
The Archaeology of the Wentlooge Level, Investigations Along the Wentlooge Sewers, 1998-9
Creators: name: Yates, Adam
name: Roberts, R
name: Walker, Michael J C
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2017

description: Archaeology in the Severn Estuary, 12, 55-77
description: This report describes the results of the postexcavation programme undertaken following fieldwork on two sewers constructed on theWentlooge Level between Cardiff and Newport, South Wales. Three palaeo-surfaces, typically represented by gleyed clays and peats, were identified; two proved to be of Bronze Age date and a third (which was undated) was of more recent age. Palaeoenvironmental analysis of these deposits, and extrapolation from surfaces discovered elsewhere in the Severn Levels, provides the basis for a broad reconstruction of contemporary coastal and near-shore environments. Associated with one Bronze Age palaeosol was a small encampment, comprising a scatter of burnt stone, charcoal, pottery and animal bone.
The military instrument and its effectiveness in implementing foreign policy objectives: Experimenting with Ethiopia's and Kenya's 2011 operations in Somalia
Creators: name: Yigzaw, Tadie Degie
name: Mengisteab, Kidane
Publisher: name: Ethiopian  Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

description: In the history of politics, states have viewed military intervention as one of their tools for foreign policy. However, many scholars do not agree on the effectiveness of military means in achieving the foreign policy objectives of states. Like other states, Ethiopia and Kenya have used the military as a means of foreign policy and tested their tools in Somalia practically. However, the effectiveness of their foreign policy tool has not been studied. That is why this article's main objective is to analyze the effectiveness of Ethiopian and Kenyan foreign policies that used military interventions to achieve their foreign policy goals in terms of outcomes. In doing so, the article employed a comparative case study methodology. Besides, the "good enough" approach is the proper theoretical lens that is used in this article to comprehend Ethiopia's and Kenya's operational outcomes. The analysis comes to the conclusion that both Kenya's and Ethiopia's military deployments in Somalia largely failed to accomplish their foreign policy goals. Accordingly, the findings reveal that using hard power as a tool of foreign policy without combining soft power is unsuccessful, as revealed by Ethiopia's and Kenya's military engagement in Somalia.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 9 No 2 (2023)
Figure2Hbonds
Creators: name: Lescano, Caroline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 30404 Cheminformatics and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Solute-solvent distribution function (gss) for all residues and water (cyan) or gallic acid (red). Molecular view at three stages of simulation,
initial, 50 ns and last frame, showing the increase of phenol concentration at ~1.7 Å and ~2.5 Å for all peptide. The H-bonds were calculated for water and
gallic acid with STa.