cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Addressing gender-based violence in Northern Ghana: the role of communication
Creators: name: Alo, Suzana Aga
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: Gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls is pervasive in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, where one in three females has experienced violence of some kind. This gendered violence stems from multiple factors across the individual, relational, community and societal levels and are associated with many negative health consequences and developmental issues for women and girls. It is suggested that strategic development communication can serve as a tool to empower groups and individuals, and provide alternatives to cultural norms and practices that promulgate gender unequal power relationships. However, lack of gender perspectives poses challenges to the implementation of effective communication strategies and programme activities. This study examines the role of development communication in addressing GBV against women and girls in Northern Ghana through the operations of three case study non-governmental organisations, and a , review of certain print and broadcast media and government activities. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods and a multiple case study approach to achieve its objectives. Data was gathered using focus group discussions, key informant interviews, communication mapping and diagramming techniques, questionnaires, direct observation and document review. The study found evidence of the usage of communication strategies including both media and social oriented methods and tools by the three NGOs in addressing GBV in northern Ghana. However, most communication activities ignored the important role of social change in facilitating community action against GBV. Raising awareness about GBV alone is not enough to tackle the root causes and gender unequal power relationships underpinning GBV against women and girls at multiple levels. Moreover, these communication interventions by NGOs were ad hoc, unsustainable and heavily reliant on the availability of funding thereby limiting a long-term approach and reducing the effectiveness of GBV interventions in Northern Ghana. Policies must be reviewed and implemented to address gender and communication in the fight against GBV and gender inequality in Ghana. Communication strategies must challenge the trend to trivialise gender reportage in the media; with a focus on influencing the general public towards non-acceptance of gender norms practices which perpetuate GBV against women, yet are firmly entrenched in cultural and religious dogmas. In summary, modes of communication and messages must be targeted to the appropriate audience, e.g. radio or community meetings for rural women who need to better understand their human rights, socio-economic empowerment and where to seek redress when abused.
Can Education Be a Barrier to Technology Adoption?
Creators: name: Uematsu, Hiroki
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Uematsu, Hiroki
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Education
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: Off‐farm Labor Supply
subject: Precision Farming
subject: Genetically Modified Crops
subject: Simultaneous Equations Model

description: The objective of this study is to test the widely‐held belief that the effect of education has a positive impact on technology adoption. Using 2006 Agricultural Resource Management Survey "ARMS" data, we estimate a simultaneous equations model to integrate farmers’ labor allocation decision with adoption of GM crops and precision farming. We confirm that the marginal effect of education on technology adoption is significantly larger for large farms for both GM crops and precision farming and it is unexpectedly negative for GM crops at all levels of farm size. These results suggest that formal education can be a barrier to technology adoption, especially for small scale farmers who have higher tendency to work off‐farm.
Determinants of Farm Household Income Diversification in the United States: Evidence from Farm-Level Data
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Erickson, Kenneth W.
name: Harris, James Michael
name: Hallahan, Charles B.
name: Uematsu, Hiroki
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Erickson, Kenneth W.
name: Harris, James Michael
name: Hallahan, Charles B.
name: Uematsu, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Tobit
subject: income diversification
subject: vertical integration
subject: tenure
subject: farm households

description: This study examines the determinants of income diversification of farm households in the United States. Farm households allocate their time between farm and off-farm activities to help stabilized household income (consumption). What characterizes those households who engage in off-farm activities? Is there any pattern over time? Using 1999, 2003 and 2007 farm-level data from the USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), this study estimates intensity of off-farm income (or income diversification). The results show that older operators, full owners, and small farms have higher intensity of off-farm income in total household income. In contrast, dairy farms, vertically coordinated farms and farms located in the Southern and Pacific regions have lower intensity of off-farm income. In other words, household incomes of these farms are less likely to be diversified.
PENERAPAN MANAJEMEN KURIKULUM DALAM MENINGKATKAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN DI SMA DHARMAWANGSA MEDAN
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Dr. Zamakhsyari Lc, M.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education

description: Manajemen kurikulum menjadi hal penting untuk meningkatkan mutu pendidikan pada satuan pendidikan.
Plaquette versus ordinary $d$-wave pairing in the $t'$-Hubbard model on a width 4 cylinder
Creators: name: Chung, Chia-Min
name: Qin, Mingpu
name: Zhang, Shiwei
name: Schollwöck, Ulrich
name: White, Steven R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hubbard model and its extensions are important microscopic models for understanding high- $T_c$ superconductivity in cuprates. In the model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping $t'$ (the $t'$- Hubbard model), pairing is strongly influenced by $t'$ . In particular, a recent study on a width-4 cylinder observed quasi-long-rage superconducting order, associated with a negative $t'$ , which was taken to imply superconductivity in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. In this work we study more carefully pairing in the width-4 $t'$-Hubbard model. We show that in this specific system, the pairing symmetry with $t'<0$ is not the ordinary $d$-wave one would expect in the 2D limit. Instead we observe a so-called plaquette d-wave pairing. The plaquette d-wave exists only on a width-4 cylinder, and so is not representative of the 2D limit. We find that a negative $t'$ suppresses the conventional d-wave, leading to plaquette pairing. In contrast, a different $t''$ coupling acting diagonally on the plaquettes suppresses plaquette pairing, leading to conventional $d$-wave pairing.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Examining the Significance of Saliva and Sweat in Forensic Science
Creators: name: Muskan Jain
name: Bhupal Bhattacharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: 180121 Legal Practice, Lawyering and the Legal Profession
subject: FOS: Law

description: Forensic science plays a very crucial role in establishing the links between the series of evidences and body of facts. This article argues that personal identification is that important concept of forensic science which is responsible for the identification of victim as well as the culprit. After the concept of blood examination as an important body fluid, saliva is emerging as an attention gaining fluid for the forensic scientist. This article aims to study that saliva is a source of wider scope in the medico-legal field and having a vast role in serological testing, crime detection, drug and alcohol abuse, hormone analysis, poisoning cases, unknown animal bites. Sweat has its own unique identification feature as an average square of skin has 650 sweat glands, which is itself a unique identification just like the fingerprints and this number varies from person to person. Saliva and sweat are easy to handle and analysis. Sweat is very hard to find and collect, that is why, it has a limited scope. These two body fluids are alternative and very useful body fluids in the study of forensic science.
Whole-person perspectives on learning in community : meaning and relationships in teaching English as a second language
Creators: name: Kristjánsson, Carolyn R. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Curran argues for a view of learning which goes beyond the learner as a cognitive individual and sees him or her as 'whole person' affectively and interpersonally engaged in a learning community. Freire substantially shares this view. With respect to second language learners, models of second language acquisition based on the individual as opposed to community have been unable to address this view adequately, either conceptually or in analysis of discourse data. This study, conceptualized within a language socialization framework, draws on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) discourse analysis and qualitative research traditions. Using extensive classroom observations and videotapes along with audiotaped interviews, it examines a church-sponsored program aimed at adult ESL immigrants who face the challenge of becoming competent in a new language while grappling with adjustment issues, frequently with limited support. Drawing on Appraisal analysis and linking to Ishiyama's model of self-validation, the study explores how participants engage in the social practice of creating caring community through validating discourse in the language classroom. It examines the ways in which participants understand caring community and probes their theories along with how their perceptions and actions might change as they become invested in this particular learning community. There are three central findings. First, participants construct caring community through discourse, specifically in the form of interpersonal validation in the activities of teaching and learning. Second, participants understand caring community in complementary ways, administrators and teachers as giving of self in service, learners as a source of support and belonging. Third, participants report that engagement in the practice of caring community is instrumental in facilitating cultural adjustment. More generally, the study demonstrates the power of an SFL language socialization approach to illuminate interpersonal and value issues through the analysis of discourse data and shows how they are an integral part of teaching and learning interactions. The analysis of a program by an organization which explicitly recognizes the social practice of creating caring community also provides an example for educators concerned with addressing such issues.
The Multi-faceted Inverted Harmonic Oscillator: Chaos and Complexity
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Arpan
name: Chemissany, Wissam
name: Haque, S. Shajidul
name: Murugan, Jeff
name: Yan, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The harmonic oscillator is the paragon of physical models; conceptually and computationally simple, yet rich enough to teach us about physics on scales that span classical mechanics to quantum field theory. This multifaceted nature extends also to its inverted counterpart, in which the oscillator frequency is analytically continued to pure imaginary values. In this article we probe the inverted harmonic oscillator (IHO) with recently developed quantum chaos diagnostics such as the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) and the circuit complexity. In particular, we study the OTOC for the displacement operator of the IHO with and without a non-Gaussian cubic perturbation to explore genuine and quasi scrambling respectively. In addition, we compute the full quantum Lyapunov spectrum for the inverted oscillator, finding a paired structure among the Lyapunov exponents. We also use the Heisenberg group to compute the complexity for the time evolved displacement operator, which displays chaotic behaviour. Finally, we extended our analysis to N-inverted harmonic oscillators to study the behaviour of complexity at the different timescales encoded in dissipation, scrambling and asymptotic regimes.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in SciPost Physics Core
Does “Convenience Agriculture” Affect Off‐farm Labor Allocation Decisions?
Creators: name: Uematsu, Hiroki
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Chintawar, Sachin
name: Uematsu, Hiroki
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: Chintawar, Sachin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Technology Adoption
subject: Two stage simultaneous Tobit model
subject: GM Crops
subject: Off‐farm labor

description: The objective of this study is to examine the effect of adoption intensity of GM crops on off‐farm labor supply by farm households. Using ARMS data in 2004, 2005 and 2006, we estimate a two stage simultaneous Tobit model and find that adoption intensity of GM crops has a negative impact on off‐farm labor supply by operators and a positive impact on off‐farm labor supply by spouse. This may be due to the comparative advantage of operators and spouses. Our results find that GM crops adoption has different but significant implications on off‐farm labor supply by operators and spouses and underscores the importance of understanding farm households’ decisions to explain behaviors of farm businesses in the United States.
PERAN WALI KELAS
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Rahmat Hidayat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130305 Educational Counselling
subject: Education
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators

description: Peran wali kelas sebagai pembimbing dalam meningkatkan prestasi belajar siswa di SMA Dharmawangsa Medan dilakukan dengan cara: (1) mendampingi siswa dalam setiap permasalahan yang dihadapinya; (2) wali kelas dituntut agar lebih peduli dengan anak didiknya; (3) dalam proses pembelajaran wali kelas harus lebih kreatif dalam menyampaikan pelajaran sehingga siswa dapat dengan mudah memahami pelajaran yan disampaikan; (4) dalam tugasnya sebagai orang tua siswa di sekolah wali kelas harus lebih ekstra dalam memperhatikan dan mengawasi hal-hal yang dapat menghambat proses pembelajaran siswa yang dapat berakibat pada prestasi belajarnya. Berdasarkan Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan akan menjadi bahan informasi dan masukan bagi semua pihak terutama bagi wali kelas di SMA Dharmawangsa Medan dan para siswanya. Diharapkan kepada semua pihak di SMA Dharmawamgsa Medan untuk dapat memperhatikan prestasi belajar siswanya.
A dynamical model for quantum memory channels
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dynamical model for quantum channel is introduced which allows one to pass continuously from the memoryless case to the case in which memory effects are present. The quantum and classical communication rates of the model are defined and explicit expression are provided in some limiting case. In this context we introduce noise attenuation strategies where part of the signals are sacrificed to modify the channel environment. The case of qubit channel with phase damping noise is analyzed in details.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures; minor correction added
The Hubble Constant from Gravitational Lens Time Delays
Creators: name: Schechter, Paul L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Present day estimates of the Hubble constant based on Cepheids and on the cosmic microwave background radiation are uncertain by roughly 10% (on the conservative assumption that the universe may not be PERFECTLY flat). Gravitational lens time delay measurements can produce estimates that are less uncertain, but only if a variety of major difficulties are overcome. These include a paucity of constraints on the lensing potential, the degeneracies associated with mass sheets and the central concentration of the lensing galaxy, multiple lenses, microlensing by stars, and the small variability amplitude typical of most quasars. To date only one lens meets all of these challenges. Several suffer only from the central concentration degeneracy, which may be lifted if one is willing to assume that systems with time delays are either like better constrained systems with non-variable sources, or alternatively, like nearby galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures. To be published in the proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 225: The Impact of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmology, Y. Mellier and G. Meylan, eds
Agricultural Productivity and Anticipated Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Sample Selection Model
Creators: name: Ward, Patrick S.
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
name: Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
name: Ward, Patrick S.
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
name: Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Agricultural Production
subject: Climate Change
subject: Applied Spatial Econometrics
subject: Sample Selection
subject: Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

description: A cereal yield response function is estimated conditional upon environmental and topographical features to detect the effects of spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence in explaining agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for direct and localized spillover effects, we then estimate the effect that projected changes in temperature and precipitation as a result of global climate change will have on agricultural production. We find that the estimated declines found in the climatological literature may overestimate actual declines, and factors such as spatial heterogeneity (i.e., country fixed effects) are profoundly more important to agricultural production.
Embodied geographies of the nation-state : an ethnography of Canada’s response to human smuggling
Creators: name: Mountz, Alison
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis provides a geographical analysis of the response of the Canadian nation-state to human smuggling. I contend that nation-states must be examined in relation to transnational migration and theorized as diverse sets of embodied relationships. As a case study, I conducted an ethnography of the institutional response to the arrival of four boats carrying migrants smuggled from Fujian, China to British Columbia in 1999. I studied the daily work of border enforcement done by civil servants in the federal bureaucracy of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), as well as the roles played by other institutions in the response to the boats. This "ethnography of the state" led me to theorize the nation-state geographically as a network of employees that interact with a variety of institutions in order to enact immigration policy. I also interviewed employees of other institutions involved in the response to human smuggling, including provincial employees, immigration lawyers, service providers, suprastate organizations, refugee advocates, and media workers. The thesis explores crossinstitutional collaboration among them and the resulting decision-making environment in which civil servants design and implement policy. Civil servants practice enforcement according to how and where they "see" human smuggling. My conceptual understanding of state practices relates to these efforts to order transnational migration. Diverse institutional actors negotiate smuggling at a variety of scales. Power relations are visible through discussions of smuggling at some scales, but obscured at others. I "jump scale" through embodiment in order to understand the micro-geographies of the response. This shift in the scale of analysis of the nation-state uncovers different relationships, interests, and negotiations in which state practices are embedded. This approach to geographies of the nation-state considers the time-space relations across which state practices take place, the everyday enactment of policy, the categorization of migrants, and the constitution of borders through governance. I argue that such an approach is key to understanding the relationship between nation-states and smuggled migrants. The findings suggest a re-spatialization of enforcement through which nation-states increasingly practice interception abroad and design stateless: spaces, and in so doing, reconstitute international borders.
Contribution superstring Z' boson on the polarization effects in proton-proton collisions
Creators: name: Muradov, R. Kh.
name: Ahmadov, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the single- and the double- spin asymmetries at the collisions of polarized protons $pp \to (γ*, Z^0,Z')+X within the scope of QCD, electroweak interaction and superstring E_6 theory. The helicity amplitude method is used. Analytical expressions for the single- and the double- spin asymmetries are obtained and their dependence from the transverse momentum of lepton pair is investigated at the three different values of invariant masses of lepton pair. Has been extracted pure contribution coming from superstring Z' boson on the single- and double- spin asymmetries. The obtained results allow to investigate the spin structure of the proton.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, LaTeX2e
Supply Management and Price Ceilings on Production Quota Values: Future or Folly?
Creators: name: Cairns, Alexander P.
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Benett, Nick
name: Cairns, Alexander P.
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Benett, Nick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: milk
subject: quota
subject: policy
subject: risk
subject: supply
subject: management

description: Since the inception of supply management in Canada during the 1970s, milk production quota has been used to regulate output and participation in the dairy industry. In recent years, milk quota values have increased dramatically, almost tripling in value since the mid-1980s. This led to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario intervening on the milk production quota exchange on two occasions: first, in November 2006 with a progressive transfer assessment and then in July 2009, replacing the former policy with a firm price ceiling – fixing the unit price of quota at $25,000. These policies represent a significant redistribution of economic benefits within the Ontario dairy community from milk producers approaching retirement and selling their quota to those remaining in the industry. The objective of this study is to first explore the reasons for the increase in production quota values; and second, to assess the welfare and distributional effects of each of the two quota policy schemes. Our results suggest that the increase in quota values were driven by basic economic factors expected to influence asset values and that the efficiency losses from intervention in the quota exchange are non-trivial. We conclude by suggesting there are several alternative policy options that could minimize efficiency losses while moderating the escalation in quota values.
Spontaneous interlayer exciton coherence in quantum Hall bilayers at nu=1 and nu=2: a tutorial
Creators: name: Simon, Steven H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This tutorial paper reviews some of the physics of quantum Hall bilayers with a focus on the case where there is low or zero tunnelling between the two layers. We describe the interlayer coherent states at filling factors nu=1 and nu=2 as exciton condensates and discuss some of the theory associated with these states.
The quantization of exotic states in SU(3) soliton models: A solvable quantum mechanical analog
Creators: name: Cherman, Aleksey
name: Cohen, Thomas D.
name: Nellore, Abhinav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distinction between the rigid rotor and Callan-Klebanov approaches to the quantization of SU(3) solitons is considered in the context of exotic baryons. A numerically tractable quantum mechanical analog system is introduced to test the reliability of the two quantization schemes. We find that in the equivalent of the large N_c limit of QCD, the Callan-Klebanov approach agrees with a numerical solution of the quantum mechanical analog. Rigid rotor quantization generally does not. The implications for exotic baryons are briefly discussed.
description: 8 pages; 3 figures; minor corrections; reference added
POLA BIMBINGAN GURU DALAM MENUMBUHKAN PERCAYA DIRI ANAK BERKEBUTUHAN KHUSUS DI SLB YPAC MEDAN
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Dr. Zamakhsyari Lc, M.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Education
subject: 130305 Educational Counselling

description: Anak berkebutuhan khusus membutuhkan bimbingan yang intens dari guru. Tanpa bimbingan guru, anak berkebutuhan khusus tidak memiliki percaya diri yang optimal
On the Bach and Einstein equations in presence of a field
Creators: name: Anselli, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this paper is to introduce and justify a possible generalization of the classic Bach field equations on a four dimensional smooth manifold $M$ in presence of field $φ$, that in this context is given by a smooth map with source $M$ and target another Riemannian manifold. Those equations are characterized by the vanishing of a two times covariant, symmetric, traceless and conformally invariant tensor field, called $φ$-Bach tensor, that in absence of the field $φ$ reduces to the classic Bach tensor. We provide a variational characterization for $φ$-Bach flat manifolds and we do the same also for harmonic-Einstein manifolds, i.e., solutions of the Einstein field equations with source the conservative field $φ$. We take the opportunity to discuss a generalization of some related topics: the Yamabe problem, the image of the scalar curvature map, warped product solutions and static manifolds.
title: Effectiveness of avatars representing teachers in M-learning in Saudi Arabia higher education
Creators: name: Alowayr, Ali S.
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: The aim of this research has been to investigate how m-learning can be used to complement traditional learning environments in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia. Specific attention has been paid to how engagement and performance in learning can be influenced by the type of avatar representation of the teacher on the mobile device, which might be in the form of video, audio, image, cartoon or simple text. This study enhances the field of knowledge related to m-learning via three main contributions which are described and developed as the thesis progresses. Firstly, the research develops, as an extension to the traditional technology acceptance model (TAM), an educational model, MADE-ME (Multi Avatar Delivery Environment for Mobile Education). This model defines how students can interact with different avatar representations of the teacher to deliver learning content. The model shows the relationships between factors such as engagement, interactive elements, gender, major of study, pedagogical performance, etc. Secondly the research produces a framework MADE-ME (Multi Avatar Delivery Environment for Mobile Education) web-app that enables a range of avatars to represent the teacher in their purpose of delivering interactive learning content via mobile technologies, and which allows students to be tested on how much they have learnt from the content or lesson. Thirdly, a comprehensive case study is undertaken with student groups studying on a compulsory English language module as part of their higher education in Saudi Arabia to determine how they engaged with the mobile content and how effective their learning was to evaluate and to validate the MADE-ME model and app. The data was collected by a mixed methods approach and used REGRESSION and UNIANOVA techniques for analysing the quantitative data from questionnaires, and a thematic approach for analysing qualitative data from open-ended questions. The thesis concludes with recommendations for implementing m-learning in Saudi higher education, limitations of the current study and suggestions for further research.
PERAN WALI KELAS DALAM MENINGKATKAN PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA
Creators: name: Dr. Suhendri, M.A.
name: Rahmat Hidayat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130305 Educational Counselling
subject: Education
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators

description: Peran wali kelas sebagai pembimbing dalam meningkatkan prestasi belajar siswa di SMA Dharmawangsa Medan dilakukan dengan cara: (1) mendampingi siswa dalam setiap permasalahan yang dihadapinya; (2) wali kelas dituntut agar lebih peduli dengan anak didiknya; (3) dalam proses pembelajaran wali kelas harus lebih kreatif dalam menyampaikan pelajaran sehingga siswa dapat dengan mudah memahami pelajaran yan disampaikan; (4) dalam tugasnya sebagai orang tua siswa di sekolah wali kelas harus lebih ekstra dalam memperhatikan dan mengawasi hal-hal yang dapat menghambat proses pembelajaran siswa yang dapat berakibat pada prestasi belajarnya. Berdasarkan Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan akan menjadi bahan informasi dan masukan bagi semua pihak terutama bagi wali kelas di SMA Dharmawangsa Medan dan para siswanya. Diharapkan kepada semua pihak di SMA Dharmawamgsa Medan untuk dapat memperhatikan prestasi belajar siswanya.
Modelling functional food choice and health care impacts: A literature review
Creators: name: Zou, Ning Ning (Helen)
name: Hobbs, Jill E.
name: Zou, Ning Ning (Helen)
name: Hobbs, Jill E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: information asymmetry
subject: stated preference models
subject: protection motivation
subject: functional food

description: The global market for functional foods is estimated to be worth about US$33 billion (Hilliam, 2000). Given the information asymmetry inherent in functional foods, labelling information plays a key role in allowing consumers to make informed choices. Understanding consumer choices with respect to functional foods is an important new area of research. Several potential consumer choice models are available to assess consumer choices for functional food. This paper provides an overview of key consumer research questions, and a review of several different models, including the Stated Preference Choice Model with Discrete Choice Analysis, Dependent Preference Model, and modified Protection Motivation Theory.
A One Loop Problem of the Matrix Big Bang Model
Creators: name: Li, Miao
name: Song, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the one-loop effective action of two D0-branes in the matrix model for a cosmological background, and find vanishing static potential. However, there is a non-vanishing $v^2$ term not predicted in a supergravity calculation. This term is complex and signals an instability of the two D0-brane system, it may also indicate that the matrix model is incorrect.
description: 21 pages, harvmac, v4: version to appear in JHEP
4405: Pte Percy Birch (Silver War Badge and certificate, letter, poem, prayer)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Percy Birch lived at 25, Manor Road in Stourport-on-Severn on the outbreak of the First World War. He joined the 1/7th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment and saw action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and later at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 where he was wounded and honourably discharged from the Army in March 1918. He was awarded a Silver War Badge and certificate along with the 1914/15 Star and British War and Victory medals. The letter/poem/prayer was sent to Percy by his brother-in-law, a priest living in Wales.
Canadian Consumers' Preferences for Food Safety and Agricultural Environment Safety
Creators: name: Veeman, Michele M.
name: Li, Yu
name: Veeman, Michele M.
name: Li, Yu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food safety
subject: environmental risks
subject: risk perceptions
subject: quantitative assessment

description: This project applies statistical models to analyse the relative importance ratings for selected food risk issues given in January 2003 by a representative cross-Canada sample of consumers. Ratings for environmental risks that may be associated with agriculture are also assessed. Results of ordered probit econometric models that analyze the influence of respondent's socio-economic and demographic characteristics on food and environmental risk ratings indicate that these are influenced by gender, age, income, employment and location of residence. Males tended to choose lower risk ratings; residents of Quebec tended to give higher risk ratings to most of the queried food and environmental safety issues. The results suggest that measures of trust in institutions associated with the regulation and marketing of food also influence individuals' risk assessments associated with food and agriculture.
4394: Rfn. Josiah Pickering (Christmas Box, medals, identity discs and documentation).
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Josiah Pickering was born and lived in Stourport-on-Severn where, before the war, he worked in the local tin plate manufacturing industry. He began his military service in November 1914, but was gassed and initially sent home. He later served as a cook, a mess waiter and finally as an officer's batman until he left the Army in January 1919. After the war, he became the landlord of the Rock Tavern in Stourport.
The application of the double window exact state observer for detection of step changes in parameters of continuous systems
Creators: name: Jedrzej, Byrski
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: exact state observers
integral observers
double window observer
fault detection

description: The presentation shows the application of the theory of the exact state observers in continuous LTI processes with selected structures. The process is described by the input-output model given by n-th order differential equation and the observer enables identification of the place where the abrupt changes in physical parameters occured.
 The observer has a special double window structure and reconstructs the derivatives of the output signal. Detection of the steps in the derivatives of the output indicates where the failure has occurred.
Mass sensitivity of gravimetric satellites
Creators: name: Spero, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency-domain expressions are found for gradiometer and satellite-to-satellite tracking measurements of a point source on the surface of the Earth. The maximum signal-to-noise ratio as a function of noise in the measurement apparatus is computed, and from that the minimum detectable point mass is inferred. A point mass of magnitude M_3=100 Gt gives a signal-to-noise ratio of 3 when a GOCE-like gradiometer passes directly over the mass. On the satellite-to-satellite tracking mission GRACE-FO M_3=1.3 Gt for the microwave instrument and M_3=0.5 Gt for the laser ranging interferometer. The sensitivity of future GRACE-like missions with different orbital parameters and improved accelerometer sensitivity is explored, and the optimum spacecraft separation for detecting point-like sources is found. The future-mission benefit of improving the accelerometer sensitivity for measurement of non-gravitational disturbances is shown by the resulting reduction of M_3 to as small as 7 Mt for 500 km orbital altitude and optimized satellite separation of 900 km.
International Environmental Agreements under Uncertainty: Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?
Creators: name: Finus, Michael
name: Pintassilgo, Pedro
name: Finus, Michael
name: Pintassilgo, Pedro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Transnational Cooperation
subject: Self-enforcing International Environmental Agreements
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Learning

description: Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce uncertainty about the environmental impact of emissions and the cost of reducing them, this conclusion is intriguing. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we analyze whether the result carries over to a more general setting without restriction on the number of players and which considers not only no and full learning but also partial learning. Second, we test whether the conclusion also holds if there is uncertainty about abatement costs instead of uncertainty about the benefits from global abatement. Third, we propose a transfer scheme that mitigates the possible negative effect of learning and which may even transform it into a positive effect.
4422: Pte Albert Arthur Smith
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Albert Smith, a native of Sheffield, served with the 1st Battalion of the Grenadier Guards during the first half of 1915. He died in the care of No. 23 Field Ambulance after the Battle of Festubert on the 15th June, 1915, aged just 22.
Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Composting
Creators: name: Vijayakumar, Dheapika
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2024
Subjects: air permitting
composting
emission factor
SCAQMD Method 25.3
volatile organic compounds

description: The composting process emits volatile organic compounds (VOCs), contributing to local air pollution problems. In the United States, the composting industry must comply with air permitting requirements for emission of criteria air pollutants. The determination of VOC emissions factors (EFs) is of interest to Washington State air permitting authorities. This project measured VOC emissions from green and food waste composting using a small-scale continuously aerated static pile (CASP) system at Washington State University (WSU). The objective was to develop the analysis capability of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Method 25.3 at WSU and compare our results with those from the analytical lab Atmospheric Analysis and Consulting (AAC) in California. The compost piles were divided into 2 Zones: one for positive aeration and the other for negative aeration, both operating simultaneously. Two compost runs, R6 and R7, were conducted with samples collected over several days during the 21-day composting
description: process. Sampling was conducted simultaneously using both AAC kits and WSU Method 25.3 kits and the results between AAC and WSU agreed within ±20%. It was found that the Method 25.3 sampling is harder during cold weather (5C). Continuous VOC mass flux measurement was measured using Proton Transfer- Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS) through the negative aeration duct throughout the entire composting phase. Results showed that 90% of emissions occurred during the first week of composting. The VOC mass flux through the duct was typically 10 to 100 times higher than the mass flux from the pile surface. For the negatively aerated pile, the VOC emission factors were 0.11 lbs VOC/wet ton for R6 and 1.56 lbs VOC/wet ton for R7. The higher emission factor for R7 is attributed to the use of fresh green waste material, especially from compounds such as monoterpenes.
The Polytropic Equation of State of Primordial Gas Clouds
Creators: name: Spaans, Marco
name: Silk, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polytropic equation of state (EOS) of primordial gas clouds with modest enrichment is computed, motivated by the recent observations of very Fe-deficient stars, [Fe/H]~10^{-3.5}-10^{-5}, such as HE 0107-5240 and CS 29498-043. These stars are overabundant, relative to Fe, in C and O. We assume that the observed abundances of species like C, O, Si and Fe are representative of the gas from which the currently observed metal-deficient stars formed. Under this assumption, we find that this primordial metal abundance pattern has profound consequences for the thermal balance and chemical composition of the gas, and hence for the EOS of the parental cloud. The polytopic EOS is soft for low, [O/H]<10^{-3}, oxygen abundances, but stiffens to a polytropic index gamma large than unity for [O/H]>10^{-2} due to the large opacity in the CO and H2O cooling lines. It is further found that a regulating role is played by the presence and temperature of the dust, even when the overall carbon abundance is only [C/H]~10^{-2}. When the dust is warmer than the gas, a region with gamma~1.2 results around a density of ~10^4 cm^{-3}. When the dust is colder than the gas, a region with gamma~0.8 is found for a density of ~10^6 cm^{-3}. Implications for the primordial initial mass function (IMF) as well as the IMF in starburst galaxies, where the metallicity is super-solar, are explored and related to processes that influence the temperature of the ambient dust.
description: Version accepted by ApJ
title: Censorship and female identity in contemporary China
Creators: name: Wang, Ziyao
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2025

description: This dissertation examines how theatre censorship operates in Xi Jinping's China, particularly in feminist theatre. By focusing on interviews with Zhiheshe members, a student organization that performed The Vagina Monologues for over a decade, this research highlights the strategies feminist practitioners adopt to navigate institutional, public, and self-imposed censorship. Drawing on theories of power by Foucault, Butler, and Bourdieu, it explores how censorship not only restricts feminist voices but shapes public discourse on gender and identity. The study fills a gap in literature on contemporary feminist theatre in China, providing insight into the complex dynamics between censorship, gender, and cultural expression in an authoritarian context.
A farm level assessment of the profitability of Entry Level Scheme participation in the Lincolnshire Wolds
Creators: name: Harrison, George R.
name: Jones, James V.H.
name: Harrison, George R.
name: Jones, James V.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Entry Level Scheme
subject: agri-environmental payments
subject: income forgone
subject: partial budgets
subject: profitability.

description: The paper builds on the results of previous studies investigating whether farmers profit by participation in the Entry Level Scheme (ELS). Standard payment levels (derived from points) under ELS are fixed at rates that are expected only to compensate farmers for income foregone and costs incurred. There is no profit element as such. There is therefore no reason to expect participation to be profitable. However farm level examination of the income foregone and costs incurred in previous studies based in other parts of England have shown that this can be achieved. The study is based in the Lincolnshire Wolds, an area dominated by arable farming but with topography and associated natural features that offer some variety in the mix of farming and the measures that can qualify for environmental prescriptions under the scheme. The study concluded that farmers were able to profit by ELS participation but that the extent of this varied according to the type of environmental features on the farm and whether arable land was taken out of production. These conclusions have potential implications for scheme design, farmer uptake and additionality in the use of public funds to acquire environmental benefits.
First Direct Observation of the Dead-Cone Effect
Creators: name: Zardoshti, Nima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first direct measurement of the dead-cone effect at colliders, using iterative jet declustering techniques in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. The procedure exposes the splittings of $\rm{D^{0}}$ mesons in the jet shower, by iteratively declustering the angular ordered C/A tree. The splitting history of the $\rm{D^{0}}$ meson initiated jet is mapped onto the Lund Plane, where appropriate cuts can be made to suppress hadronisation effects. The reported variable is the splitting angle with respect to the $\rm{D^{0}}$ meson axis, which is updated after each splitting. Track-based jet finding, along with the low transverse momentum reach for charged tracks of the ALICE detector, allow for an accurate reconstruction of the splitting angle in the phase-space where the dead-cone effect is expected to be largest. The results are compared to those of inclusive jets, where the dead-cone effect is expected to be negligible.