cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Saving Children or Blaming Parents – Lessons from Mandated Parenting Classes
Creators: name: Schaefer, Tali
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: What should family law do about divorcing parents? “Teach them a lesson,” a legislative wave sweeping through the United States has answered. As a result of the legislation, growing numbers of divorcing parents are required to attend “parent education programs,” turning these programs from a fad in family courts into an established and mandatory stop on parents’ path to divorce. This legislation mandates informational classes that focus on the harm children suffer as a consequence of divorce and on behaviors parents should change in order to reduce the damage. This Article is the first to analyze the enactment discussions accompanying the legislation and to explore judges’ extensive role in promoting and securing its passage. It demonstrates that despite its child-oriented goals, the legislation is preoccupied with casting a negative judgment on parents’ decision to separate and with blaming parents for the negative effects of divorce. This Article argues that this preoccupation with blaming parents has resulted in laws that do little to help children and much to belittle the tangible negative implications that divorce holds for parents, especially mothers. Doing so, the legislation downplays the role that legal, social and economic forces play in producing the undesired behaviors that classes currently try to eradicate. Moreover, by laying the full responsibility for possible harm to children of divorce in individual parents’ laps, states have also shirked their responsibility for these children.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)
The Generalized Road Coloring Problem and periodic digraphs
Creators: name: Budzban, Greg
name: Feinsilver, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20M20, 05C50

description: A proof of the Generalized Road Coloring Problem, independent of the recent work by Beal and Perrin, is presented, using both semigroup methods and Trakhtman's algorithm. Algebraic properties of periodic, strongly connected digraphs are studied in the semigroup context. An algebraic condition which characterizes periodic, strongly connected digraphs is determined in the context of periodic Markov chains.
description: 16 pages
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE, INTERRUPTED: POLICY SOLUTIONS FOR MID-YEAR MEDICARE ADVANTAGE CONTRACT TERMINATIONS
Creators: name: Greene, Michyla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2025

description:
This project investigates policy solutions to address mid-year contract terminations between providers and Medicare Advantage plans. Research shows providers often terminate contracts due to the administrative burden of prior authorization, high claims denial rates, and delayed payments. These terminations disproportionately affect Black and dual-eligible beneficiaries, leading to care disruptions, confusion, and increased costs for patients and the health system. We examine four policy options and weigh them against the following criteria: impact, equity, affordability, and political feasibility. We conclude by recommending Congress reintroduce an amended version of the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act. The bill would streamline the prior authorization processes that cause the contract terminations as well as collect the relevant data necessary to further address the problem and its consequences.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 10
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 080

description: 1. Änderung der Verwaltungs- und Benutzungsordnung für das College for Social Sciences and Humanities der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, der Technischen Universität Dortmund und der Universität Duisburg-Essen vom 10. April 2025
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund ; 2025, 10
“The secret of the universe” : ether theory and British fiction, 1880-1930
Creators: name: Senzaki, Sierra Miyone
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ether
Physics
Fiction
Science and literature
New materialism
Modernism
Victorian

description: How is the literary imaginary shaped by an understanding of the materiality of the universe? More specifically, if an author believed the universe was composed of a substance called ether, how did that impact the worldviews represented in their fiction? Today “the ether” refers to a mysterious realm into which car keys disappear and where emails languish, but before Einsteinian relativity became accepted in the 1920s, and for at least a decade afterward, the ether was an established scientific concept that formed the backbone of electromagnetics. Electricity, light, and radio were all believed to be waves carried by the luminiferous (or light-bearing) ether. What began as a mechanical explanation for the propagation of light waves ultimately became the hypothesized foundation for myriad phenomena – even, according to late-nineteenth century universal ether theories, matter. In the British literary imaginary, the ether’s role as unifying principle of the physical universe was expanded further: it became the concept through which other forms of connection – media, empire, and Spiritualism – could be represented. This dissertation argues that British authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used the ether to represent and conceptualize continuity in narratives of modernity. In theorizing the role of the ether in literature, this dissertation advances an alternative understanding of literary Modernism that is based in mainstream culture. Traditional understandings of Modernism, grounded in elite, “highbrow” texts, characterize it in terms of formal experimentation that responds to the fragmentation, isolation, and rupture of modernity. I approach Modernism instead by using historicism and new materialism to examine fictional representations of the ether in texts that are mostly popular or middlebrow. These texts characterize the experience of modernity in terms of connection: telecommunication, imperialism, and spiritualist connection with the afterlife are figured in terms of the ethereally connected universe. I uncover an understanding of Modernism founded on continuity rather than discontinuity, and that acknowledges the Victorian and the Modern as two ends of a historical continuum rather than distinctly separate periods. Ultimately, this dissertation reconstructs the atmosphere, both literal and cultural, in which Victorian and Modernist literature circulated.
Teaching Music Theory through Games. Το Play, Or Not to Play?
Creators: name: Mpoti, Stavroula
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: Games will always be the most convenient means of incorporating pleasure, fantasy and collaboration into the educational process. But what is the right way to do this? Through my experience, I have learned that there are a few things that teachers must have in mind when they want to achieve learning through games, otherwise the results might be different from the expected ones. Below, I present my viewpoints upon my personal experience from the first attempt I had, while trying to incorporate games in my music theory class.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Simulations of tubulin sheet polymers as possible structural intermediates in microtubule assembly
Creators: name: Wu, Zhanghan
name: Wang, Hong-Wei
name: Mu, Weihua
name: Ouyang, Zhongcan
name: Nogales, Eva
name: Xing, Jianhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The microtubule assembly process has been extensively studied, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains poorly understood. The structure of an artificially generated sheet polymer that alternates two types of lateral contacts and that directly converts into microtubules, has been proposed to correspond to the intermediate sheet structure observed during microtubule assembly. We have studied the self-assembly process of GMPCPP tubulins into sheet and microtubule structures using thermodynamic analysis and stochastic simulations. With the novel assumptions that tubulins can laterally interact in two different forms, and allosterically affect neighboring lateral interactions, we can explain existing experimental observations. At low temperature, the allosteric effect results in the observed sheet structure with alternating lateral interactions as the thermodynamically most stable form. At normal microtubule assembly temperature, our work indicates that a class of sheet structures resembling those observed at low temperature is transiently trapped as an intermediate during the assembly process. This work may shed light on the tubulin molecular interactions, and the role of sheet formation during microtubule assembly.
description: 43 pages, 13 figures. Submitted; PLoS ONE 2009
Neutrino Mass Matrices with a Texture Zero and a Vanishing Minor
Creators: name: Dev, S.
name: Verma, Surender
name: Gupta, Shivani
name: Gautam, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implications of the simultaneous existence of a texture zero and a vanishing minor in the neutrino mass matrix. There are thirty six possible texture structures of this type, twenty one of which reduce to two texture zero cases which have, already, been extensively studied. Of the remaining fifteen textures only six are allowed by the current data. We examine the phenomenological implications of the allowed texture structures for Majorana type CP-violating phases, 1-3 mixing angle and Dirac type CP-violating phase. All these possible textures can be generated through the seesaw mechanism and realized in the framework of discrete abelian flavor symmetry. We present the symmetry realization of these texture structures.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Personas as Character Sheets. A Multipurpose Tool When Using Role-Play in Design Education
Creators: name: Lagerstedt, Erik
name: Nalin, Kajsa
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: There are numerous examples of role-playing being adapted and included as a pedagogical technique in teaching, including in higher education. For example, teachers might simulate different scenarios, and role-play different stakeholders and users, in order to create more experiential types of learning environments. Role-playing can also provide an opportunity for students to actively explore, reflect upon and personalise the material that is studied. Similar techniques can be seen in User Experience Design (UXD), where practitioners create personas and scenarios to describe representative and typical users and use-cases. In this report, we propose an alternative use to the more traditional way of using personas and scenarios in academia as well as in industry: as character sheets and role-playing. Instead of being more analytical and descriptive tools in the design process, our role-playing approach invites exploration and personal interaction. Putting such character sheets into action allows the design team to interact with hypothetical, but typical users, thus providing a richer understanding of their context, and facilitating an empathetic understanding of the different stakeholders and their sometimes conflicting interests. This is particularly relevant in an educational context, where students are learning and training to improve as designers.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
What Is Forced Marriage – Towards a Definition of Forced Marriage as a Crime against Humanity
Creators: name: Toy-Cronin, Bridgette A.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: The Special Court for Sierra Leone’s Trial and Appeals Chambers handed down judgments considering, for the first time, forced marriage as a crime against humanity. This Article critiques those decisions against the Appeals Chamber’s stated aim of “enriching the jurisprudence of international criminal law.” This Article argues that there is a need to recognize a crime of forced marriage, but in order to enrich current jurisprudence, it should be limited to only the conferral of the status of marriage and the ongoing effects of that status on the victim. Other crimes that occur within the marriages should not be collapsed into the prosecution of forced marriage; they are separate offenses that need separate recognition. Two contrasting examples of forced marriage are compared: so-called “forced marriages” in a number of African conflicts involving the abduction of women and girls by rebels and forced marriage between 1975 and 1979 in Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia. The African examples are drawn from published research, while a portrait of forced marriage in Cambodia is sketched through stories gathered in field research conducted in Cambodia in 2006, along with some published material. This Article argues that there is a lacuna in the law that requires the recognition of forced marriage as a crime. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (the “ECCC”), established to try Khmer Rouge crimes, has the opportunity to address this crime and to create a record of the fact that forced marriages were traumatic events that deeply affected thousands of Cambodian lives.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 2 (2010)
Quantum (sl_n, \land V_n) link invariant and matrix factorizations
Creators: name: Yonezawa, Yasuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: M. Khovanov and L. Rozansky gave a categorification of the HOMFLY-PT polynomial. This study is a generalization of the Khovanov-Rozansky homology. We define a homology associated to the quantum $(sl_n,\land V_n)$ link invariant, where $\land V_n$ is the set of the fundamental representations of the quantum group of $sl_n$. In the case of a [1,k]-colored link diagram, we prove that its homology is a link invariant. In the case of an [i,j]-colored link diagram, we define a normalized Poincare polynomial of its homology and prove the polynomial is a link invariant.
description: Doctoral thesis (October, Nagoya University)
Insider Makes the Deal Easy. An Online Speaking Class Using a Social Deduction Game
Creators: name: Kaneta, Taku
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: The present study aimed to report a new way to conduct a foreign language speaking class using a social deduction game Insider during the COVID-19 pandemic. Insider is a tabletop party game revolving solely around conversation, and its social deductive elements encourage players to use their L2 communicatively. The primary goal of the study was to develop oral fluency of simple question and it was sufficiently achieved. Also unexpectedly, learner agency and playful creativity were emergent in the class, which indicated a future possibility of game-based, or learning with games language class.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Liberalism, Development, and Gender: Responses to Papers
Creators: name: Nussbaum, Martha C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: I must begin by warmly thanking all the people here at Columbia who made this Symposium possible. I feel immensely honored and grateful for all of the time the participants spent with my work and for their acute criticisms. I shall introduce my specific responses to the papers by saying something about the ways that gender and sexuality figure in my work over the years. Then, I shall move through the papers, grouping them by thematic sections, but considering each separately to some extent, because I really learned so much from each of them.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 1 (2010)
Pedagogical coaching : in what ways does the impact cycle enable teachers to reflect on their practice?
Creators: name: Cooper, Mitchell Geoffrey
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: Pedagogical coaching is an ever-evolving and collaborative approach to professional development for teachers and those in educational settings; however, research continues to consider which approach may be deemed most effective. In this research project, The Impact Cycle (Knight, 2018) as an approach to pedagogical coaching,is both evaluated and facilitated to deem its ability to allow teachers to reflect on their practice. Using a Design-Based Research approach, qualitative data were collected through interviews and classroom observations with a teacher participant before, during and after The Impact Cycle. The data were analysed by considering the current literature regarding pedagogical coaching whilst also comparing and contrasting between the preliminary interviews and post interviews to identify growth, change and reflection. The Impact Cycle had benefits for the teacher participant and his students such as opportunities to formally reflect, modification of his literacy program to increase student engagement and participation and working towards achievable PEERS goals. Potential barriers to success were identified as time restraints and some initial trepidation concerning the use of video recording during the observation stage. These findings indicate that The Impact Cycle is an effective approach to pedagogical coaching, when implemented in such a way that allows teachers to reflect on their practice in collaboration with an impact cycle coach.
Oceanic entanglements : race, gender, and fantasies of freedom in narratives of Indian indentured labor
Creators: name: Mishra, Amrita
name: 0000-0001-8257-7484
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Indentured labor
Liberalism
Migration
British Caribbean
Postcolonial fiction

description: Oceanic Entanglements: Race, Gender, and Fantasies of Freedom in Narratives of Indian Indentured Labor examines literary representations of Indian indentured labor alongside the colonial archive. My dissertation proposes that indentured labor in the British Empire—a colonial labor apparatus designed to replace slave labor in the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, among other sugar colonies—is a critical site to examine the fault lines of post-abolition colonial narratives of liberalism. Making use of a theoretical framework that I call “oceanic entanglements,” which seeks out the often-obscured relationships and interdependencies between colonial systems or ideologies, my project unearths how the British Empire manufactured indenture as a voluntary labor force in order to proliferate post-abolitionist narratives of freedom, even as such narratives were predicated on indentured laborers’ unfree conditions. In order to frame indenture as voluntary and therefore fulfilling a fantasy of freedom, I further contend, colonial ideology needed to invent the indentured laborer as a modern liberal subject who has access to choices, and has the ability to consent to indenture. Oceanic Entanglements suggests that the figure of the indentured woman becomes an important site upon which colonial discourse fabricated consent on the level of plantation labor and sexual labor. To explore the workings of the British Empire in generating fantasies of freedom, I read contemporary fiction that reimagines indenture, Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and David Dabydeen’s The Counting House, alongside colonial reports that document Caribbean indentured labor conditions and chronicle debates around the West Indian labor question in the post-abolition moment. The project reads these materials through the “entanglement” between slavery and indenture as two interdependent colonial labor regimes. In addition to examining the colonial production of narratives of freedom, I suggest that this entanglement can help generate interracial solidarities in the postcolonial Caribbean. If the beginnings of indenture prove to be a crucial moment of examination, so does the end of indenture. My project uses Ryhaan Shah’s novel Weaving Waters alongside Indian nationalist political rhetoric around indentured labor in early twentieth-century India to argue that anti-indenture campaigns and the consolidation of Indian nationalist identity are entangled. Through my exploration of entanglements, this dissertation enriches the fields of postcolonial, South Asian, and critical race studies.
Creating Collective Capabilities: Women, Agency and the Politics of Representation
Creators: name: Tripp, Aili Mari
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: In her groundbreaking book, Women and Human Development,’ Martha Nussbaum builds on Amartya Sen’s human capabilities approach, which shifts the focus from “rights” to what people actually can be or do to realize their full human potential. The approach draws on a liberal philosophical framework that emphasizes individual capabilities. This Article explores the strengths and limitations of such an approach in countries that adopt non-liberal collective capability frameworks in relation to women’s rights. This Article argues that the capabilities approach needs to be understood not only as being limited to individual capabilities, but also as encompassing the collective capability to act. Moreover, the process of creating capabilities is intensely political and therefore requires agents and agency. This is not to say that the individual capabilities approach is not important, but that it is insufficient to address the issues surrounding women’s rights. The individual capabilities frame should also include collective capability frames because they are prevalent in the world today; they highlight women’s agency in creating and enhancing their own capabilities; they highlight the structural nature of gendered marginalization within institutions and the ways this impinges on individual collectivities; they emphasize the importance of political solutions to the problem of capability, since ultimately most intractable problems involving power relations can only be resolved through political struggle and accommodation; and they open up alternate ways of conceptualizing competing and conflicting rights, such as cultural versus women’s rights.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 1 (2010)
Anti-amyloid-beta oligomer antibody increases the survival of newborn hippocampal neurons
Creators: name: Coutts, Juliane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: We aimed to investigate the role of cSNK-bearing oligomers in hippocampal neurogenesis disturbances associated with AD and assess the potential of mAb5E3 in mitigating these effects. Aged male and female APPswe/PSEN1ΔE9 AD model mice were treated with mAb5E3 for 6 weeks. The effect of passive immunization on adult hippocampal neurogenesis was determined by quantifying the rate of survival in 4-week-old newborn granule cells by immunohistochemical detection of the DNA marker BrdU. Additionally, we analyzed immediate early gene (IEG) expression to assess changes in dentate network activity in response to spatial learning. Behavioral outcomes were assessed via open field exploration, novel object, and location recognition tasks. We found that mAb5E3 significantly increased the survival of newborn hippocampal neurons. Consistent with the role of newborn neurons in modulating the level of activity in the DG, we found that survival rates were inversely related to IEG expression, such that an increase in neurogenesis was associated with a commensurate decrease in the activity levels within the overall GC population. In the novel object recognition task, we found that mAb5E3-treated mice spent significantly more time exploring the novel object compared to the familiar one. This observed bias exceeding the level expected by chance alone suggests an ability to discriminate previously encountered objects. This study extends the understanding of the role of cSNK-bearing AβOs in AD pathogenesis, providing evidence of their role in AD-related neurogenesis abnormalities. Moreover, our findings further validate the therapeutic potential of mAb5E3, providing additional insight into its mechanism and efficacy.
The Secret Chamber of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Negotiating OutSmart! A Serious Game for Adolescents
Creators: name: Jovicic, Suzana
name: Göbl, Barbara
name: Hristova, Dayana
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: This report explores the challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration underpinning the participatory design of OutSmart! (forthc.) – a serious game developed for and with adolescents to reflect on their social media use. We scrutinize how the process can be organized to manage contradicting tensions between disciplines and methodologies. OutSmart! was the result of three years of research conducted by a social and cultural anthropologist, a cognitive scientist and a computer scientist. The research involved workshops, a survey, interviews and participant observation. The focus of the report lies on the workshops (including discussions and prototyping sessions) with Viennese high school students. First, we discuss interdisciplinary issues and learning processes within our interdisciplinary research team. Second, we present examples of our knowledge co-creation process with students leading to a further renegotiation of our research focus and methodology. These negotiations helped us to critically assess our underlying assumptions and to reflect on our positioning as researchers. At times, the playfulness of the game design approach pushed us beyond the comfort zones of our academic disciplines.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Boaedon (Metopophis) lineatus Pet.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Lamprophiidae
Boaedon
Boaedon lineatus

description: * Uriechis (Metopophis) lineatus Pet.
Goldküste v. H. Dr. Mähly. (3]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 678, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
The natural order : ecologies of social class in medieval British literature
Creators: name: Heide, Melissa Louise
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medieval
subject: Literature
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Social class

description: The Natural Order offers a new framework for the study of economics and ecology in medieval British literature. This study uncovers the mechanisms whereby discourses of social class are expressed through ecopoetics. I argue that new philosophical approaches to the natural world that emerged during the twelfth century “renaissance” come to underwrite the vocabularies and iconographies of social class in creative works of the centuries following the twelfth. Instead of examining this phenomenon exclusively in the well-worn texts of “canonical” late-medieval authors, I consider a range of texts from the patristic and Scholastic commentary traditions to late-medieval British border narratives in order to demonstrate the many ways in which medieval class is understood, explored, and mediated through ecological thought. I argue that in times of increased socioeconomic instability—especially the fourteenth century—medieval works emerged that braided together economic and environmental systems of meaning. The Natural Order traces how nonhuman agencies—animals, wildernesses, and forests—were deeply enmeshed in the daily lives of medieval people and the imaginations of medieval creators.
Realistic quantum manipulation of two-level system fluctuators
Creators: name: Tian, L.
name: Jacobs, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-level system fluctuators in superconducting devices have demonstrated coherent coupling with superconducting qubits. Here, we show that universal quantum logic gates can be realized in these two-level systems solely by tuning a superconducting resonator in which they are imbedded. Because of the large energy separation between the fluctuators, conventional gate schemes in the cavity QED approach that are widely used for solid-state qubits cannot be directly applied to the fluctuators. We study a scheme to perform the gate operations by exploiting the controllability of the superconducting resonator with realistic parameters. Numerical simulation that takes into account the decay of the resonator mode shows that the quantum logic gates can be realized with high fidelity at moderate resonator decay rate. The quantum logic gates can also be realized between fluctuators inside different Josephson junctions that are connected by a superconducting loop. Our scheme can be applied to explore the coupling between two-level system fluctuators and superconducting resonators as well as the coherent properties of the fluctuators.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted
Who Secures Women’s Capabilities in Martha Nussbaum’s Quest for Social Justice
Creators: name: Basu, Amrita
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: Among the many issues that feminists have debated, three stand out for their urgency and significance: the relationship of theory to practice, universalism to particularism, and the transnational to the local and national. Feminism as theory continues to have a complicated and vexed relationship to women’s activism. Even women who engage in struggles that observers might term feminist do not necessarily share feminist identities or participate in women’s movements. Similarly, feminists continue to be troubled by universalism. Although certain forms of universalism are integral to most feminisms, Western feminist universalism has been presumptuous in condemning non-Western practices with scant understanding of the cultural and historical contexts which give them meaning. Feminist movements in the global South have sometimes been undermined by Western funded projects which have narrowed the agendas and constituencies of women’s movements and by hegemonic Western feminists’ appropriation of local discourses. As I elaborate below, I believe that debates about global feminisms have influenced Nussbaum’s work and its reception. I begin by describing the key tenets of the human capabilities approach and show how it represents an advance over human rights. I then place capabilities in the context of women’s movements transnationally. I assess the different ways in which national states and transnational organizations impede and support the recognition of capabilities. I argue that social movements have a critical role to play in determining and realizing capabilities.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 1 (2010)
Learning to Do Fieldwork through Role-Playing. A Class Experiment
Creators: name: Del Sordi, Adele
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: Social scientists use fieldwork research to collect data to understand, observe, and interact with people in their natural settings. Most researchers learn fieldwork methods by doing and find that, however valuable, the publications on the subject are a poor substitute for the actual experience. So how can students and young researchers acquire these skills when limited time, lack of funding or a global pandemic prevent them from reaching the field? The game introduced here proposes to teach fieldwork practices through immersive role-playing. Game participants assume the roles of social scientists and have to complete their research projects by overcoming a series of typical fieldwork challenges, from making the appropriate preparations to finding respondents, from conducting interviews to treating data correctly and facing emergencies. Played for the first time with a group of undergraduate students at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the game constitutes a safe, easy, and cost-effective way to familiarize young researchers with the methods and difficulties of field research.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Let the Magic Circle Bleed. Bridging the Gap Between Games and Reality
Creators: name: Creane, Jessica
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: Games are often intended to draw us so completely into a fictional world that we forget that there is a world outside of the game, however, forgetting ourselves in a game means we must come back to ourselves at the end, begging the question: who were we when we were playing? The conventional wisdom of the magic circle (Huizinga 1949) suggests that we press pause on our real lives when we enter a game space. Identity permeability in games, or bleed, (Stark 2012) suggests that there is no such pause button; that players lend their agency and identity to an in-game role, where that agency and identity is altered by the gameplay such that when the players return to themselves they are in some way changed. Bleed occurs when in-game learning is so effective that players experience that learning across two realities, evoking a shift in world view. This is where educational environments become necessary; providing context and community as players learn to re-think their out-of-game reality based on in-game experiences. In this report, I will outline the relationship between the safety of the magic circle, the illuminating potency of bleed, and the role of educators and facilitators in bridging the gap between games and reality.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
The Allegorical Build. Minecraft and Allegorical Play in Undergraduate Teaching
Creators: name: Wershler, Darren
name: Simon, Bart
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: An ongoing issue in game-based learning is the way in which knowledge might, or might not, transfer between games and the real world. One historically prevalent problem that game-based learning researchers have highlighted is the risk of students simply learning to play the game itself rather than learning the subject matter that the instructor is pairing with the game. In another scenario, a game might instead over-emphasize the subject matter and impose stricter rules, which in turn makes self-actualizing student-driven learning impossible. In this article we present a game-based teaching method where educators can address these issues by collapsing the real and the virtual into one another: the allegorical build. The allegorical build occurs when students use the relationships they have developed to in-game procedures in order to think about a range of other topics outside the game, as defined by the instructor. With reference to student work, personal interviews and other data, this paper describes the process of teaching with the allegorical build and the two techniques that underpin it (infrastructural reflexivity and refamiliarization). The method was tested in the context of a fully flipped pandemic-era version of a course on the history and culture of modernity; our findings show that the allegorical build was effective in creating an open space for collaborative critical thought and reflection on difficult and abstract course material.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
The fall of the house of fame : text, immortality, and the ancient-modern controversy
Creators: name: Hemstreet, Jennifer, 1983-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Alexander Pope
Battle of the books
Classical reception
Fame
The temple of fame

description: This dissertation conducts a study of the reception history of classical Greco-Roman models of literary immortality and examines their declining rhetorical power during the British Long Eighteenth Century. Analyzing a selection of Classical, Early Modern, and Enlightenment works and the intertextual relationships between them, this study argues that ancient models of literary immortality, which for centuries had rested on increasingly unstable rhetorical structures, reached a crisis in the early part of the eighteenth century, with consequences for the later history of both poetry and literary criticism. Chapter I introduces the methods and aims of the study and outlines the topics to be covered. Chapter II presents the longstanding Ancient-Modern controversy as a historical context for understanding the “battle of the books” and adjacent eighteenth-century texts, and examines the inherent paradoxes of the humanist project of revitalizing the ancients, with a focus on Petrarch and his reception of the letters of Cicero. Chapter III considers the “monumental” qualities of Alexander Pope’s Temple of Fame and the poem’s relationship to classical Greek and Roman eternizing poetry. Close-readings of poems by Pindar and Horace illustrate how these poets treated their works as analogous to physical monuments, epitaphs, and other memorial spaces, and how memory is connected with location and intertext. Chapter IV explores the evolution of the concept of fame in parallel with changing conceptions of the self, as well as changing views of language and translation theory, from the ancient world through the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and shows how efforts to capture individual selfhood with greater precision, depth, and vividness were symptomatic of a trend toward viewing the self or soul as essentially incommunicable. This chapter suggests that the outwardly trivial “battle of the books” of the eighteenth century was not concerned merely with the patriarchal status of the ancients or the personal fame of modern poets, but rather signified a critical reevaluation of the viability of text to communicate across changing cultures, languages, and worldviews. Chapter V reviews the conclusions of the foregoing chapters, and looks forward to conceptions of textual eternization after the Enlightenment.
The Ethics of Citizen Science and Knowledge Games. Five Emerging Questions About Games that Support Citizen Science
Creators: name: Schrier, Karen Kat
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: Citizen science games such as Foldit (2008), EteRNA (2010), Eyewire (2012), and StallCatchers (2016) have been increasingly used to produce new knowledge. These games rely on the participation of the public – often amateurs or nonscientists – to help solve large-scale problems by contributing and analyzing information through a game. We can call these games knowledge games, as they enable researchers and the public to work together to produce new knowledge. However, there has been little attention to the ethical and social implications of knowledge games, possibly because they constitute a small proportion of both games and citizen science activity and because their goals are societally beneficial, e.g., cure cancer, halt Alzheimer’s disease. The purpose of this article is to explore and deliberate the ethical complexities of knowledge games. Five key areas of concern emerged from a literature review of related domains: data (How is data collected, managed, analyzed, manipulated, and used?), the game’s context (How does using a game affect knowledge production?), accessibility (Is the game accessible and equitable in participation?), participation dynamics (How are players valued?), and design (How are ethics embedded in the game’s design and what is the impact?). Recommendations and next steps are discussed.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Γ-convergence and stochastic homogenisation of singularly-perturbed elliptic functionals
Creators: name: Bach, Annika
name: Marziani, Roberta
name: Zeppieri, Caterina Ida
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 510

description: Calculus of variations and partial differential equations; 62(7)
Dynamics of a Self-interacting Scalar Field Trapped in the Braneworld for a Wide Variety of Self-interaction Potentials
Creators: name: Leyva, Yoelsy
name: Gonzalez, Dania
name: Gonzalez, Tame
name: Matos, Tonatiuh
name: Quiros, Israel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the dynamical systems tools to study the linear dynamics of a self-interacting scalar field trapped in the braneworld, for a wide variety of self-interaction potentials. We focus on Randall-Sundrum (RS) and on Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) braneworld models exclusively. These models are complementary to each other: while the RS brane produces ultra-violet (UV) corrections to general relativity, the DGP braneworld modifies Einstein's theory at large scales, i. e., produces infra-red (IR) modifications of general relativity. This study of the asymptotic properties of both braneworld models, shows -- in the phase space -- the way the dynamics of a scalar field trapped in the brane departs from standard general relativity behaviour.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures and 5 tables
Still in Another Castle. Asking New Questions about Games, Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Staaby, Tobias
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: Research on digital game-based learning has mainly been concerned with exploring questions related to a core set of assumptions: that games, in a general sense, are effective learning tools by virtue of being motivating, engaging, adaptive and allowing for consequence-free failure and playful learning. This article revisits these assumptions and their associated questions in two levels: by subjecting them to parts of the Digital Game-Based Learning-literature problematizing these assumptions, and by contrasting them with a case-study conducted on teachers’ use of, and pedagogical reasoning for, using a commercial entertainment game in a course on ethics. The resulting discussion can be summed up in three main points: 1) that the arguments of game’s effectiveness relating to motivation, engagement, adaptivity and graceful failure should be reconsidered, and in some cases even dismissed, 2) pedagogical tools cannot easily be studied separately from their surrounding context, as implementation of a classroom element can result in widely different learning environments, and 3) if research on Digital Game-Based Learning aims to advance the field of game-based educational practice, then this requires a new set of questions to be asked, giving attention to the situated configurations of games and game elements, teachers, students, curricula and learning goals.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"
Ruination in the Caribbean novel : being at the end of the world
Creators: name: Nelson, Lauren Lollie
name: 0009-0004-6552-0821
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Caribbean literature
Environmental criticism

description: This dissertation examines twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean novels using a postcolonial ecocritical framework. In particular, I use the Jamaican concept of ruination to analyze how the Caribbean novel offers an antihumanist counter-conceptualization of concepts like agency, apocalypse, being, and ruin. I argue that these novels offer new imaginaries for ways of being that challenge the central tenets of humanist discourse and thus recast some of the central concepts that guide our understanding of colonial modernity, namely sovereignty, freedom, revolution, and redress. Because the term indexes the way in which imperial optics misapprehend the generative capacity of unruly Caribbean landscapes, I claim that asking what has been left to ruinate allows us to seek out the leakages, revisions, and sideways movements that have persisted in the aftermath of colonialism. In my usage, ‘ruination’ is one possible pathway out of colonial understandings of being which affects not only our understanding of being-in-the-world, but also how the projected ‘end of the world’ comes to bear on the ecological realities of neocolonialism in the present moment.
Queer Relations: A Reading of Martha Nussbaum on Same-Sex Marriage
Creators: name: Jakobsen, Janet R.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 2010

description: This symposium on the work of Martha Nussbaum as part of the inauguration of the program on Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School provides a chance to reflect on the reasons for a focus on gender and sexuality in the study of the law. After all, one might ask, are questions of gender and sexuality-at least those beyond a few matters like discrimination-not private concerns that should rightfully be beyond the realm of the state and its laws? If we look at public policy over the past half-century, however, gender and sexuality have been central to a range of crucial questions of social policy as they have been enacted in law-from welfare reform to immigration policy to health care-and so it is crucial that this area be taken seriously in the study of law as well. As my way of phrasing this opening indicates, I am not a scholar of law, but rather of social policy and social movements, as these fields are understood within religious studies and through the lens of ethical analysis. I have used the tools of my training in social ethics and the study of religion to consider the role of gender and sexuality in contemporary U.S. policy. Martha Nussbaum’s extensive body of scholarship includes a focus on a range of social policies in conjunction with her explorations of constitutional law. Having written widely on questions of gender, Professor Nussbaum has more recently turned to sexuality as well, and her interest in constitutional law has taken her to a question that continues to roil both public discourse and public policy in the U.S.-same-sex marriage.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19 No. 1 (2010)
Towards an E-class Stimulating Social Interactivity based on Digitized and Gamified Brainstorming
Creators: name: Gobron, Stéphane
name: Barman, Corentin
name: Sadiku, Artan
name: Lince, Xavier
name: Capron-Puozzo, Isabelle
Publisher: name: gamevironments
Year: 2021

description: How do we strengthen the social bond in the case of a situation where we have to conduct a distance-learning course? Since we can no longer do without digital tools, this article proposes to use of digital media where young audiences may wish to actively participate. The idea is to set up an e-class where everyone can contribute and be stimulated. In this context, we propose to set up digital brainstorming, based on the best products on the market and adding gamification attributes. Being careful not to make it a serious game, we developed a gamified online application that allows working out issues creatively and collectively. To study positive or negative impacts of gamification, we organised multiple user-tests comparing professional tools and our proposal. This led to a thinking on the type of gamification assets and when to use them within the creative process.
description: gamevironments, No. 15 (2021): Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning"