cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Work life balance of early childhood teachers: an investigation of the work early childhood teachers do outside of contracted hours
Creators: name: Wang, Jiarong
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Research shows high quality programs, through strengthening children’s learning and developmental outcomes and fostering social participation, lead to long term positive effects on their later productivity. The last decade has seen national reform implemented to professionalise the ECEC workforce and improve children’s outcomes. There is emerging evidence, however, that the rising complexity and demands of educators’ work, including growing pressure of standardisation and accountability requirements, is increasing educators’ workload and impacting their private lives. Based on prior research using time-use diaries to understand Australian educators’ work, this study examines early childhood teachers’ work life balance, for the first time, measuring the hours and work that Australian early childhood teachers do outside of their contracted hours and exploring the factors influencing their provision of the unpaid work. The study consists of two parts: Part one: using the time-use diary to record 18 teachers’ work outside of contracted hours over a week of seven days; Part two: conducting five semi-structured interviews. The findings show that WOCH happened across the participants regardless of their age, location of their service (regional or metro), years of experience, or whether they are employed full time or part time. Their accounts demonstrate that teachers’ work life balance sits in the complex context of segmented yet highly integrated work life domains. Professional and personal lives of educators are indeed intertwined in principle and practice. The findings contribute to debunking social misconceptions perceiving early childhood work as ‘easy and all fun’, revealing the complex and challenging work of Australian ECEC teachers and urging more research to be done to understand the magnitude of WOCH which lies beneath the visible paid ECEC system, as unaccounted, unpaid and invisible labour costs.
Impact of Biofield Energy Treated Herbomineral Formulation on Mouse Dendritic and Splenocyte Cells for Modulation of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines
Creators: name: Gerber, Gary Richard
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Sciences

description: The use of herbomineral formulation in the healthcare sector for different chronic diseases is gaining popularity due to its fewer side effects, high safety profile, and cost effectiveness. A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was formulated, consisting of four essential ingredients viz. herbal root extract (ashwagandha), and minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium). The study aims to evaluate the in vitro effect of Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) on the test formulation using murine dendritic (DCs) and splenocyte cells. The herbomineral formulation was divided into two parts; one was represented as control, while the other part was treated with the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely by eighteen renowned Biofield Energy Healers (The Trivedi Effect®) and defined as the Biofield Treated formulation. The effect of the test formulation on these cells were monitored by an estimation of pro-inflammatory cytokines level such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP-1α), and interleukin (IL-1β) in cell culture supernatants at the non-cytotoxic concentrations of the test formulation using MTT assay. The DCs were treated with the Biofield Energy Treated test formulation at different concentrations (i.e. 1.05 to 1052.5 µg/mL) for 24 hours, and the results showed significant (p≤0.001) suppression of TNF-α levels at all the tested concentrations with a maximum percentage decrease by 43.64% at 5.2 µg/mL concentration in the Biofield Treated formulation as compared with the untreated test formulation. Further, the Biofield Treated formulation also demonstrated inhibition of MIP-1α and IL-1β at a concentration range of 0.0000105 to 10.5 µg/mL in LPS stimulated splenocyte cells. There was a significant (p≤0.001) inhibition of MIP-1α (26.52%) and IL-1β (35.28%) in the Biofield Treated test formulation at concentration 0.000105 µg/mL and 0.0000105 µg/mL, respectively in comparison to the untreated test formulation. Overall, these results suggest that the Biofield Energy Healing based herbomineral formulation (The Trivedi Effect®) significantly down-regulated the tested cytokines expression in DCs and splenocyte cells as compared to the untreated formulation. Therefore, the Biofield Healing based formulation might be useful as a better anti-inflammatory product for many chronic and acute inflammatory disease conditions and autoimmune disorders. The Biofield Energy Treatment based formulation can also be effectively applied in cases of organ transplants, stress management and anti-aging by improving overall health.
Speech and swallowing intervention following oral cancer treatment: A survey of speech-language pathologists in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Blyth, Katrina
name: Stainlay, Hannah
name: McCabe, Patricia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Treatment for oral cancer has debilitating effects on speech and swallowing, however, little is known about current speech-language pathology practice. An online survey of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) was disseminated via emails to speech pathology departments, social media platforms, and professional online forums. Survey questions captured demographics, service delivery, type and timing of speech and swallowing interventions, and influences and barriers to practice. Forty-three SLPs working in Australia (n = 41) and New Zealand (n = 2) completed the survey. SLPs recommended speech and swallowing compensatory strategies significantly more frequently than active intervention. Swallowing outcomes measures were either instrumental (n = 31, 94%) or performance ratings (n = 25, 76%), whereas speech was measured informally with judgements of intelligibility (n = 30, 91%). SLPs used a range of supports for their decision making, particularly expert opinion (n = 81, 38.2%). They reported time and staffing limitations (n = 55, 55%) and a lack of relevant evidence (n = 35, 35%) as the largest barriers to evidence-based service delivery. There is variability amongst SLPs in Australia and New Zealand regarding rehabilitation of speech and swallowing for people with oral cancer. This study highlights the need for evidence-based guidelines outlining best practice for screening processes, active rehabilitation protocols, and valid outcome measures with this population.
Extraction of energy from gravitational waves by laser interferometer detectors
Creators: name: Ma, Yiqiu
name: Blair, David G
name: Zhao, Chunnong
name: Kells, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss the energy interaction between gravitational waves and laser interferom- eter gravitational wave detectors. We show that the widely held view that the laser interferometer gravitational wave detector absorbs no energy from gravitational waves is only valid under the approximation of a frequency-independent optomechanical coupling strength and a pump laser without detuning with respect to the resonance of the interferometer. For a strongly detuned interferometer, the optical-damping dynamics dissipates gravitational wave energy through the interaction between the test masses and the optical field. For a non-detuned interferometer, the frequency-dependence of the optomechanical coupling strength causes a tiny energy dissipation, which is proved to be equivalent to the Doppler friction raised by Braginsky et.al.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
“It’s not often that people want to hear me talk about my life”: Storytelling experiences of people with aphasia in an interdisciplinary songwriting project
Creators: name: Strong, Katie A.
name: Sather, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Storytelling is an integral part of human life, providing opportunities for social closeness, relationship development, and identity exploration. Having aphasia can disrupt the ability to convey stories across a variety of settings. Structured songwriting frameworks may provide people with aphasia an opportunity to successfully engage in this medium for storytelling. Three individuals with aphasia participated in a structured songwriting intervention modified to support individuals with aphasia. Each participant-songwriter co-constructed three songs about their life in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team. Data about the songwriting process were collected via individual semi-structured qualitative interview and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to identify superordinate themes and subthemes. The overarching superordinate theme related to the process itself as a catalyst that occurred as a result of participating in a songwriting intervention modified for individuals with aphasia. Three subthemes were identified: (a) relationship-centred experience, (b) engagement in meaningful activities, and (c) identity exploration. Songwriting may provide meaningful opportunities for people with aphasia to experience the power of sharing stories about themselves. Key components of this experience aligned with the core elements of the positive psychology PERMA (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments) framework. Findings support incorporating storytelling through songwriting into the rehabilitation journey for individuals with aphasia.
Disassembly model for the production of astrophysical strangelets
Creators: name: Biswas, Sayan
name: De, J. N.
name: Joarder, Partha S.
name: Raha, Sibaji
name: Syam, Debapriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Determination of the baryon number (or mass) distribution of the strangelets, that may fragment out of the warm and excited strange quark matter (SQM) ejected in the merger of strange stars (SSs) in compact binary stellar systems of the Galaxy, is attempted by using a statistical disassembly model (SMM). Finite mass of strange quarks is taken into account in the analysis. Strangelet charge and the resulting Coulomb correction are included to get a plausible mass distribution of galactic strangelets at their source.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
D2.6 Report on the performance of the printed components of the tag
Creators: name: Tomáš Syrový
name: Dhuiège, Benjamin
name: Alassane Sidibe
name: López, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Deliverable 2.6 comprises the description of performance improvement of the printed components of the tag as a result of the materials developed in WP1. It covers the results related to task T2.1.2 - Printed antennas development, T2.1.5 - Multipoint control unit (MCU) design and fabrication. It also deals also about task T2.4 - Quality control of the printed materials and devices.
 Regarding Task 2.1.2 and T2.4, the report exposes a summary of the preparation of printed antennas using the selected combination of Ag NP inks. Hence, electrical and mechanical characterization for printed components of demo 1 is presented.
 Key performance parameters of the UHF and UWB antenna have been optimized with several full-wave simulations and partially introduced in previous deliverables (D2.1, D2.2 and D2.3). The design of the antennas compatible with UWL reader is simulated to evaluate the effect of electric and dielectric properties of the selected materials on antenna performance. Once the antenna has been designed, key performance parameters are measured in anechoic chamber to avoid any reflection of electromagnetic waves and reproduce free space conditions as in the simulations.
 In addition, printed layers and in-mould tags are evaluated in terms of bending as well as the moisture protective effect of the tag assembly in a climate chamber test.
 Finally, Task 2.1.5 comprises the development of the Multipoint control unit (MCU) which is being optimized to work at extremely low power.
h_c Production at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Wang, Jian-Xiong
name: Zhang, Hong-Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present the study of the hadroproduction rate of $h_c$ at next-to-leading order in $α_s$ under the nonrelativisitic QCD (NRQCD) factorization framework, using long-distance matrix elements obtained from the fit of $χ_c$ production measurements by LHCb. We consider the problem of NRQCD scale dependence for the first time, and find that, for some experimental conditions, the choice of this scale can substantially affect the final results. Up to this order, color-octet channel still contribute the most part of the production rate.
Biofield Energy Healing Treatment Based Herbomineral Formulation on Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Expression in Murine Dendritic and Splenocyte cells
Creators: name: Rasdan, Karan
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2019
Subjects: Natural Sciences

description: The utilization and demand of self-medication with herbomineral-based formulations have increased day-by-day across the globe over the last decade. A new proprietary herbomineral formulation was prepared with the mixture of minerals (zinc, magnesium, and selenium) and the herbal root extract of ashwagandha. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) on the test herbomineral formulation using murine dendritic cells (DCs) and splenocytes in vitro. The formulation was divided into two parts, one part was control without any Biofield Energy Treatment, while the other part was defined as the Biofield Energy Treated sample, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment remotely from eighteen renowned Biofield Energy Healers. The effect of the Biofield Energy Treated formulation in murine cells was monitored with an estimation of pro-inflammatory cytokines levels such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α), macrophage inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α) and interleukin (IL-1β) in cell culture supernatants along with estimations of non-cytotoxic concentrations of the test formulation by MTT assay. The Biofield Treated formulation showed 114.2%, 122.6%, 141.2%, 127.8%, and 114.1% cell viability at concentrations 1.05, 5.2, 10.5, 25.6, and 51.2 µg/mL, respectively in DCs. Similarly, the Biofield Energy Treated and untreated formulations showed more than 100% cell viability in mice splenocytes at 5 µg/mL. The level of TNF-α in DCs was significantly (p≤0.05) inhibited by 19.21% in the Biofield Treated formulation at concentration 5.2 µg/mL as compared to the untreated test formulation. The level of MIP-1α in LPS induced mice splenocyte cells was reduced by 15.35% in the Biofield Energy Treated formulation at 0.0105 µg/mL as compared to the untreated formulation. Similarly, the level of IL-1β in LPS induced mice splenocyte cells was significantly (p≤0.05) reduced by 31.59% in the Biofield Treated formulation at 1.05 µg/mL as compared to the untreated formulation. Altogether, the results suggest that The Trivedi Effect® (Biofield Energy Healing Treatment) showed significant down-regulation of the tested pro-inflammatory cytokines expression and potentiated the immunosuppressive effect of the treated formulation to modulate the immune system. These data also suggest that the Biofield Treated test formulation can be used for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, stress management and anti-aging by improving overall health.
The old nuclear star cluster in the Milky Way: dynamics, mass, statistical parallax, and black hole mass
Creators: name: Chatzopoulos, Sotiris
name: Fritz, Tobias
name: Gerhard, Ortwin
name: Gillessen, Stefan
name: Wegg, Chris
name: Genzel, Reinhard
name: Pfuhl, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive new constraints on the mass, rotation, orbit structure and statistical parallax of the Galactic old nuclear star cluster (NSC) and the mass of the supermassive black hole. We combine star counts and kinematic data from Fritz et al (2014), including 2'500 line-of-sight velocities and 10'000 proper motions. We show that the difference between the proper motion dispersions sigma_l and sigma_b cannot be explained by rotation, but is a consequence of the flattening of the NSC. We fit the surface density distribution of stars in the central 1000" by a spheroidal cluster with scale ~100" and a much larger nuclear disk component. We compute the two-integral distribution function f(E,Lz) for this density model, and add rotation self-consistently. We find that: (i) The orbit structure of the f(E,Lz) gives an excellent match to the observed velocity dispersion profiles as well as the proper motion and line-of-sight velocity histograms, including the double-peak in the v_l-histograms. (ii) This requires an axial ratio of q= 0.73+-0.04 for r<70" consistent with our determination from star counts. (iii) The NSC is approximately described by an isotropic rotator model. (iv) Using the corresponding Jeans equations to fit the proper motion and line-of-sight velocity dispersions, we obtain best estimates for the NSC mass, black hole mass, and distance M*(r<100")=(8.94+-0.31|stat+-0.9|syst)x10^6Msun, Mbh=(3.86+-0.14|stat+-0.4|syst)x10^6Msun, and R0=8.27+-0.09|stat+-0.1|syst kpc, where the systematic errors estimate additional uncertainties in the dynamical modeling. (v) The combination of the cluster dynamics with the S-star orbits around Sgr A* strongly reduces the degeneracy between black hole mass and Galactic centre distance present in previous S-star studies. A joint statistical analysis with the results of Gillessen et al (2009) gives Mbh=(4.23+-0.14)x10^6Msun and R0=8.33+-0.11kpc.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Best values for M*, Mbh and R0 changed within errors due to improved star count model
Hungarocypris
Creators: name: Savatenalinton, Sukonthip
name: Suttajit, Maitree
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Hungarocypris

description: Key to species of Hungarocypris
 1. carapace in dorsal view without compressed anterior and posterior extremities......................... H. gawemulleri
- carapace in dorsal view with compressed anterior and posterior extremities........................................ 2
 2. left valve with posterior notch................................................................ H. asymmetrica
- left valve without posterior notch......................................................................... 3
 3. left valve with serration on postero-ventral part............................................. H. suranareeae n. sp.
- left valve without serration............................................................................. 4
 4. right valve with serrated posterior margin.......................................................... H. serrata
- right valve without serration............................................................................. 5
 5. carapace in lateral view triangular............................................................... H. levigatus
 - carapace in lateral view subquadrate............................................................. H. madaraszi
description: Published as part of Savatenalinton, Sukonthip & Suttajit, Maitree, 2016, A checklist of Recent non-marine ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Thailand, including descriptions of two new species, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 4067 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/270570
Translucent and conductive substrate based on nanocellulose
Creators: name: Depres, Gael
name: Benard, Arnaud
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: MADRAS has developed a substrate based on cellulose nanofibrils films made from renewable resources, mostly wood. It has been optimised up to a transparency of 90%, which is the level needed to substitute most of the current polyester films used currently.
Monte Carlo Null Models for Genomic Data
Creators: name: Ferkingstad, Egil
name: Holden, Lars
name: Sandve, Geir Kjetil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: As increasingly complex hypothesis-testing scenarios are considered in many scientific fields, analytic derivation of null distributions is often out of reach. To the rescue comes Monte Carlo testing, which may appear deceptively simple: as long as you can sample test statistics under the null hypothesis, the $p$-value is just the proportion of sampled test statistics that exceed the observed test statistic. Sampling test statistics is often simple once you have a Monte Carlo null model for your data, and defining some form of randomization procedure is also, in many cases, relatively straightforward. However, there may be several possible choices of a randomization null model for the data and no clear-cut criteria for choosing among them. Obviously, different null models may lead to very different $p$-values, and a very low $p$-value may thus occur due to the inadequacy of the chosen null model. It is preferable to use assumptions about the underlying random data generation process to guide selection of a null model. In many cases, we may order the null models by increasing preservation of the data characteristics, and we argue in this paper that this ordering in most cases gives increasing $p$-values, that is, lower significance. We denote this as the null complexity principle. The principle gives a better understanding of the different null models and may guide in the choice between the different models.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-STS484 in the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Registry Effect on the Thermal Conductivity of Few-Layer Graphene
Creators: name: Jiang, Jin-Wu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform molecular dynamics simulations to study the registry effect on the thermal conductivity of few-layer graphene. The interlayer interaction is described by either the Lennard-Jones potential or the registry-dependent potential. Our calculations show that the thermal conductivity in few-layer graphene from both potentials are close to each other, i.e the registry effect is essentially not important. It is because the thermal transport in few-layer graphene is mainly limited by the interlayer breathing mode, which is insensitive to the registry.
description: Journal of Applied Physics, published
« Pour une ethnozoologie historique des palmipèdes en Europe: la naissance du foie gras moderne (XVIe-XIXe siècles).», Sixièmes journées de la recherche sur les palmipèdes à foie gras. Arcachon 2004, Paris, ITAVI, 2004, pp. 9-12.
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Anthropology of food
History of food
Rural History
Poultry
Duck
Goose
Foie gras

description: Alors que la filière gras doit faire face à de nouveaux défis, les sciences sociales sont susceptibles de l'aider à les surmonter, en apportant d'autres vues sur son passé, comme, d'ailleurs, sur son actualité. Telle pourrait être la justification, s'il en fallait une, du regard global, de l'oiseau à la table, que nous porterons ici sur la naissance du foie gras moderne en Europe. Quel que puisse être le poids de la tradition antique au XVIe siècle, c'est bien à la suite de la diffusion des nouveautés américaines (le maïs et le canard de Barbarie) que le foie gras actuel naît et se développe, en rencontrant précocement la route de diverses innovations techniques. A le considérer attentivement, ce foie gras, traditionnellement innovant, est un produit éminemment culturel, un condensé d'aventures agronomiques et culinaires: de la Hongrie aux Landes, les oies et les canards ont une histoire qui nous conte en miroir celle d'un pan entier de la civilisation européenne.
Initiating and responding with a wAllah prefaced turn: a study of contemporary Arabic interactional grammar
Creators: name: Alharbi, Eman
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the sequential placements of an Arabic token wAllah at the turn construction unit initial placement, using conversation analysis. Turn-beginnings are a prime location to accomplish sequence orderliness in talk at interaction and a place at which interactants can resist various constrictions previously set upon them. The central question of this study is what linguistic resources are employed by interactants when initiating their actions and further arbitrarily labelling upcoming actions as tentative and performed for a further purpose. The analysis reveals that the token wAllah-prefacing in response to content questions has local interfering interactional activities within a sequence to resist presuppositions and agendas in questions, allowing speakers to push back on the question either partially or completely. When wAllahs are used to preface sequence-initiating turns, the contrast is found to be non-literal, the wAllah-speaker reset the sequential context, effecting transitions in the conversation. The findings emphasized the global interactional role of wAllah to the general ongoing activities, in resetting the sequential context to a more serious discussion (e.g., transition in the course of action and claiming seriousness). Overall, the study demonstrates that turn designs and grammatical structures provide resources for speakers to solve interactional problems. This contributes to a growing, cross-linguistic body or research examining the ways that language structure relates to social action. Although most of the interactional roles in this study have not been discussed in the existing literature, the study explored the use of these wAllahs in Egyptian, Levantine, and Peninsular contemporary spoken Arabic, across both everyday, technology-mediated conversations and radio interviews. Therefore, this study excludes any arguments regarding the contrasts that can be applied to Modern Standard Arabic for future studies.
Revision of the brick wall method for calculating the black hole thermodynamic quantities
Creators: name: Lenz, F.
name: Ohta, K.
name: Yazaki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of the "brick wall model", a novel method is developed to compute the contributions of a scalar field to the thermodynamic quantities of black holes. The relations between (transverse) momenta and frequencies in Rindler space are determined numerically with high accuracy and analytically with an accuracy of better than 10 % and are compared with the corresponding quantities in Minkowski space. In conflict with earlier results, the thermodynamic properties of black holes turn out to be those of a low temperature system. The resulting discrepancy for partition function and entropy by two orders of magnitude is analyzed in detail. In the final part we carry out the analogous studies for scalar fields in de Sitter space and thereby confirm that our method applies also to the important case of spherically symmetric spaces.
description: Emphasis on the exact numerical and approximate analytical evaluations of the thermodynamic quantities in the brick wall model, the vast conflict with the "standard" approximate procedure and applications beyond Rindler space-time
Teachers’ perspectives on the role and scope of practice of speech-language pathologists working to support literacy in the early years of school
Creators: name: Stephenson, Caitlin F.
name: Serry, Tanya A.
name: Snow, Pamela C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the views of teachers in early year levels about the role and scope for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to work on literacy support in schools. Method: Sixty-one teachers from mainstream government schools across Victoria, Australia, completed an anonymous, online survey. Result: Although many respondents reported knowing that SLPs support the literacy learning of some students in their school, they had limited awareness of the scope of speech-language pathology practice in literacy instruction and intervention. Conclusion: Limited awareness of SLPs’ expertise and scope of practice may be leading to missed opportunities for collaborative practices. In order to capitalise on SLPs’ skill set for the benefit of students, the speech-language pathology profession should better promote and raise awareness of the various ways in which SLPs can collaborate within interprofessional literacy teams in schools.
Nondegeneracy of the Ground State for Nonrelativistic Lee Model
Creators: name: Erman, Fatih
name: Malkoc, Berkin
name: Turgut, Osman Teoman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, we first briefly sketch construction of the nonrelativistic Lee model on Riemannian manifolds, introduced in our previous works. In this approach, the renormalized resolvent of the system is expressed in terms of a well-defined operator, called the principal operator, so as to obtain a finite formulation. Then, we show that the ground state of the nonrelativistic Lee model on a compact Riemannian manifolds is nondegenerate using the explicit expression of the principal operator that we obtained. This is achieved by combining heat kernel methods with positivity improving semi-group approach and then applying these tools directly to the principal operator, rather than the Hamiltonian, without using cut-offs.
description: 16 pages, typos are corrected, abstract and some sentences in the text are improved. Appears in Journal of Mathematical Physics, volume 55, issue 8 (2014)
Effects of oropharyngeal exercises on the swallowing mechanism of older adults: A systematic review
Creators: name: Chua, Denise Mae N.
name: Choi, Yuen-Yu
name: Chan, Karen Man-Kei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Age-related changes to the swallowing mechanism, or presbyphagia, may put older adults at a higher risk for developing diseases and dysphagia. Maintaining swallowing functions could help prevent frailty and facilitate healthy ageing. This review summarises and appraises the effects of oropharyngeal exercises on the swallowing functions of healthy older adults without dysphagia. It is hypothesised that these exercises will strengthen and improve the structures and functions of the normal ageing swallow. This review was reported according to the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Five electronic databases (Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL) and Google Scholar were searched in June 2021. A rerun was done in January 2023. Study selection, data extraction, and quality assessment were done by two independent raters. A total of 23 studies were reviewed. Meta-analysis was not conducted due to the heterogenous training protocols and outcomes. Majority (n = 21) had fair quality due to incomplete reporting. Exercises targeting oral structures were implemented the most (n = 15), followed by variations of the head lift (n = 4), and effortful swallow exercise (n = 1). Others implemented combined or multiapproach exercise studies (n = 3). Apart from surface electromyography findings, statistically significant improvements in oral and pharyngeal phase swallowing outcomes such as increased lingual isometric and swallowing pressures, bite force, muscle thickness, hyolaryngeal excursion, and upper oesophageal sphincter opening diameter were reported in 95% of the studies (n = 22). Collective evidence suggests that strength training for swallowing-related structures leads to increases in structural strength, endurance, and muscle mass. The effects of exercises on overall swallowing efficiency and safety remain unclear. Results should be interpreted with caution due to methodological limitations. Further research should examine the long-term effects of these exercises in preventing frailty and reducing the burden of dysphagia in older adults.
A continuous-time diffusion limit theorem for dynamical decoupling and intrinsic decoherence
Creators: name: Hillier, Robin
name: Arenz, Christian
name: Burgarth, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a few mathematical aspects of random dynamical decoupling, a key tool procedure in quantum information theory. In particular, we place it in the context of discrete stochastic processes, limit theorems and CPT semigroups on matrix algebras. We obtain precise analytical expressions for expectation and variance of the density matrix and fidelity over time in the continuum-time limit depending on the system Lindbladian, which then lead to rough short-time estimates depending only on certain coupling strengths. We prove that dynamical decoupling does not work in the case of intrinsic (i.e., not environment-induced) decoherence, and together with the above-mentioned estimates this yields a novel method of partially identifying intrinsic decoherence.
description: 24 pages. Final published version
Brief History of the Northwestern University Dental School
Creators: name: Sims, Ronald H
Publisher: name: Galter Health Science Library & Learning Center
Year: 2016

description: This article is part of an occasional series prepared by Galter librarians on the history of and highlights about various Northwestern University health education programs and their alumni. Earlier articles were about Northwestern University's medical, woman's medical, and nursing schools, and later- pharmacy school. (This article was original published in the Northwestern Medicine magazine's history blog, August 2014.)
Comparing Conventional and Conversational Search Interaction using Implicit Evaluation Methods
Creators: name: Kaushik, Abhishek
name: Jones, Gareth J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conversational search applications offer the prospect of improved user experience in information seeking via agent support. However, it is not clear how searchers will respond to this mode of engagement, in comparison to a conventional user-driven search interface, such as those found in a standard web search engine. We describe a laboratory-based study directly comparing user behaviour for a conventional search interface (CSI) with that of an agent-mediated multiview conversational search interface (MCSI) which extends the CSI. User reaction and search outcomes of the two interfaces are compared using implicit evaluation using five analysis methods: claiming to have a better search experience in contrast to a corresponding standard search interface.
Positive fragments of coalgebraic logics
Creators: name: Balan, Adriana
name: Kurz, Alexander
name: Velebil, Jiří
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Positive modal logic was introduced in an influential 1995 paper of Dunn as the positive fragment of standard modal logic. His completeness result consists of an axiomatization that derives all modal formulas that are valid on all Kripke frames and are built only from atomic propositions, conjunction, disjunction, box and diamond. In this paper, we provide a coalgebraic analysis of this theorem, which not only gives a conceptual proof based on duality theory, but also generalizes Dunn's result from Kripke frames to coalgebras for weak-pullback preserving functors. To facilitate this analysis we prove a number of category theoretic results on functors on the categories $\mathsf{Set}$ of sets and $\mathsf{Pos}$ of posets: Every functor $\mathsf{Set} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ has a $\mathsf{Pos}$-enriched left Kan extension $\mathsf{Pos} \to \mathsf{Pos}$. Functors arising in this way are said to have a presentation in discrete arities. In the case that $\mathsf{Set} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ is actually $\mathsf{Set}$-valued, we call the corresponding left Kan extension $\mathsf{Pos} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ its posetification. A $\mathsf{Set}$-functor preserves weak pullbacks if and only if its posetification preserves exact squares. A $\mathsf{Pos}$-functor with a presentation in discrete arities preserves surjections. The inclusion $\mathsf{Set} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ is dense. A functor $\mathsf{Pos} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ has a presentation in discrete arities if and only if it preserves coinserters of `truncated nerves of posets'. A functor $\mathsf{Pos} \to \mathsf{Pos}$ is a posetification if and only if it preserves coinserters of truncated nerves of posets and discrete posets. A locally monotone endofunctor of an ordered variety has a presentation by monotone operations and equations if and only if it preserves $\mathsf{Pos}$-enriched sifted colimits.
description: 51 pages; accepted for publication; expanded and improved version of the previous submission. Proposition 4.15 is new; Section 6 was rewritten in view of new results (theorem 6.9, proposition 6.14, paragraphs A-D); references added
Path Factorization Approach to Stochastic Simulations
Creators: name: Athènes, Manuel
name: Bulatov, Vasily V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2; G.3; G.1.3
subject: 05D40, 37A60

description: The computational efficiency of stochastic simulation algorithms is notoriously limited by the kinetic trapping of the simulated trajectories within low energy basins. Here we present a new method that overcomes kinetic trapping while still preserving exact statistics of escape paths from the trapping basins. The method is based on path factorization of the evolution operator and requires no prior knowledge of the underlying energy landscape. The efficiency of the new method is demonstrated in simulations of anomalous diffusion and phase separation in a binary alloy, two stochastic models presenting severe kinetic trapping.
description: 5 pages and 3 figures for the article, plus 5 pages and 4 figures for the supplemental materials
Development of new organic conducting polymeric inks
Creators: name: Syrovy, Tomas
name: Kubac, Lubomir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: MADRAS has performed research on inks based on conductive polymers, one of the most widely used organic-based materials in printed electronics, being poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) the most frequent one, both in research and in practical applications. In the MADRAS project, a PEDOT:PSS conductive polymer ink has been developed and applied either as a hole transport layer or as a transparent conductive layer in the fabrication of organic photodetectors.
A qualitative study of reflective practice in the workplace. Speech-language pathologists have their say
Creators: name: Cook, Kate J.
name: Messick, Cheryl
name: Baylor, Carolyn
name: McAuliffe, Megan J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Engaging in reflective practice (RP) and demonstrating reflective abilities is an essential graduate skill for speech-language pathologists (SLPs), yet limited studies have examined the perspectives of practicing SLPs and how and why they engage in RP. This qualitative study aimed to examine SLPs’ experiences and perspectives of RP in diverse workplaces. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 SLPs working in health, education, or private practice sectors. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Three themes were developed from the data, describing what SLPs use RP for, what SLPs perceive as important in order to engage in RP in the workplace, as well as the barriers they have identified, and how SLPs have observed a change in engaging in RP as they have progressed in their careers. SLPs described that RP is valued in the workplace for supporting client focused care, problem-solving, and lifelong learning. SLPs wanted time to be protected for RP at all stages of their career and valued the relationships with others as contributing positively to RP. Perceptions of and engagement in RP changed in relation to SLPs’ clinical experience. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.
Mentoring & support practices for fnal year medical students during a pandemic – ‘The covid doctors’
Creators: name: Brar, Gurjot
name: HARNEY, SARAH
name: McGarr, Oliver
name: Mc Farland, John
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background Transition from fnal-year medical student to newly graduated doctor is challenging with evidence of associated increased patient mortality and medical errors. Previous work suggests tackling preparedness alone does not‘solve’ this transition. The current focus on mentoring and support provision during this period and is an under-researched area. The COVID-19 pandemic represents a unique disruptive critical incident in which to examine mentoring and support practices, exposing strengths and weaknesses. The perspectives of this cohort and their implications remains an under-researched area. Methods Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine graduate-entry final-year medical students. An inductive latent phenomenological approach explored individual experiences of mentoring and support practices during final-year and transition to professional practice. Results Three major themes emerged: 1) Mentoring & Support; 2) Clinical Exposure; 3) Graduation & Transition. A journey metaphor was used to aid the description of participants’ lived experience of mentoring and support practices during their fnal year. Final year medical students (FYMs) felt under-supported and found practices inadequate. Reduced clinical exposure yielded unpreparedness and regression, potentially impacting future careers. Positive experiences were variable and unstructured. ‘The COVID Doctors’, subtheme provided rich insights into shared narratives and identities amongst participants. Conclusions This study provides qualitative evidence for perceived inadequate mentoring and support provision for fnal year medical students at transition during a critical incident (the COVID-19 pandemic). Several themes using the metaphor of a journey explore the lived experience of this unique cohort determining their perceptions on the delivery of their medical education and their identity as‘covid doctors’. There are several implications for this study in a post-pandemic era and for pandemic-preparedness, both rapidly growing areas of research in medical education. Recommendations include updating contingency plans, balancing clinical exposure with patient safety issues, and providing support to‘bottom-up’ mentoring practices.
Ergodicity conditions for zero-sum games
Creators: name: Akian, Marianne
name: Gaubert, Stéphane
name: Hochart, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47H25

description: A basic question for zero-sum repeated games consists in determining whether the mean payoff per time unit is independent of the initial state. In the special case of "zero-player" games, i.e., of Markov chains equipped with additive functionals, the answer is provided by the mean ergodic theorem. We generalize this result to repeated games. We show that the mean payoff is independent of the initial state for all state-dependent perturbations of the rewards if and only if an ergodicity condition is verified. The latter is characterized by the uniqueness modulo constants of nonlinear harmonic functions (fixed points of the recession function associated to the Shapley operator), or, in the special case of stochastic games with finite action spaces and perfect information, by a reachability condition involving conjugate subsets of states in directed hypergraphs. We show that the ergodicity condition for games only depends on the support of the transition probability, and that it can be checked in polynomial time when the number of states is fixed.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures (v2: minor changes in the structure of the paper, v3: changes in theorem numbering)
Stamp - Standardisierter Datenmanagementplan für die Bildungsforschung
Creators: name: Netscher, Sebastian
name: Schwickerath, Anna
name: Eckert, Simon
name: Favella, Gianpiero
name: Meyermann, Alexia
name: Michaelis, Olaf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Data Management, Domain Data Protocol, Data Management Plan, FAIR Data Principles

description: Researchers are increasingly confronted with requirements to systematically manage their research data. For many, research data management is a challenge. The Stamp is an easy solution to systematically manage data and make it available for re-use, i.e. data sharing. In line with the FAIR Data Principles, it promotes the idea of Open Science. The Stamp was developed within the BMBF-funded project Domain-Data-Protocols for Empirical Educational Research, in a consortium of thirteen research infrastructure institutions in the social sciences or educational research between June 2019 and May 2022. Various stakeholders of the research community were involved in its development in several evaluation phases. This workshop, funded by KonsortSWD, primarily targets researchers, research data management experts, and representatives of funding institutions in the context of educational research and related disciplines. After an introduction to the Stamp, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, and to discuss the Stamp with the group.
La relación entre el oleaje y el viento a partir de observaciones en San Felipe, B. C. /
Creators: name: Larios Castillo, Sergio Ignacio
Publisher: name: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Oleaje||Baja California||San Felipe||Oceanología||Geología||Tésis
subject: GC211 L37 1989

description: Durante 26 días de los meses de mayo y junio de 1984 se llevaron a cabo mediciones de intensidad y dirección del viento y de oleaje, en Punta Machorro, B.C.